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niccatw

Butti wrote: »

Don't be saying that Maty. She could be passing me on the A74 as I head to Glasgow!:rotfl:

You go for it but have a think Nic of who else may want a lodger!

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Who else may want a lodger??? It's be one helluva commute from the North West.

But hey, if you need a let in Glasgow, I konw just the place. It has one lovely articulate, house-trained lodger here already... :rotfl:

All the easy bits of the application are done. I need to double check some dates and addresses and they seem to be asking for four references :eek: , two from your last two employers, so can't send it until I hear from my old boss. I have emailed them to say that the application is ready to go and that I am just waiting to hear from one reference (and to surrepstitiously check they really do need four references if you are currently in employment. It was a bit unclear but now wouldn't be the time to admit to being stupid!) I neglected to mention the dreaded lurgy has held me hostage for the last three days and my thumping head is not conducive to writing a fabulous here's why I want your job section. The one I have needs tweaked substantially to meet this one.

Anyhoo, it seems to be a while since I talked about money! Is that just an unwritten January rule? I'm covering a day shift at second job on Saturday so Sunday is my allocated sort out the new budget day. Though really need to phone a few places to check the current totals. I'm guessing I ought to do that before Sunday!

This week I have bought a discounted diary and calendar online, taking advantage of free postage offered and today I got a fair bit of the veggie whoopsies from Sainbugs too. I contemplated medicine for my hacking cough but that stuff is so expensive and horrible! So I took the 19p paracetamol instead! I think I'll take them with a cuppa and minstrels. Much better medicine I reckon!

MrsMoo2U

niccatw wrote: »

I found my calling on life on my holibags. It is to sit on the top of a boat and look out to the horizon, watching the sunset!

You don't even notice there is any-one else on the boat!

And this from a girl who is in awe of the sea and just a little bit terrifed of being out of her depth in water and just a little bit phobic of fish! (ok, ok, so make those little bits lots!)Right this is just getting beyond a joke because I could have written that. I think you are my doppelganger!

Heading out for a friend's birthday tonight - no rest for the wicked! I'll get around to sorting out some piccies soon.

I hope you are all well and didn't miss me too much!

Butti wrote: »

Welcome home



I hate to tell you this, but I think you'll find nobody will pay you to do that

Erm....... my friend in Mexico gets paid to do just that. He also offered to pay me to do it (and a few other things but not what you are thinking :eek: However - see my response to Nic's revelations re being terrified when out of my depth. I dont think that a whale watching tour guide would suit me although I agree with Nic, I get lost in my own little world when out there.


Glad that you had a good holiday and good luck with the application. As for the lodger, you can get another one later if you decide that you like the money too much to be without!. Get the application out of the way then decide. You might have to keep him sweet to see if he fancies renting the flat from you and taking in his own lodger to help him pay the rent:rotfl:

niccatw

Hahaha MrsMoo, I think we must have known each other onthis earth before this life!

Boss sent me home sick today. She had popped over to "talk". Yes, another one of them! Sent back to occy health for my time keeping. ANd having to have another three way discussion with boss and supervisor. I know the same thing is going on between boss, supervisor and another staff member (boss and supervisor aren't aware I know that) so I know it's not me, but bl00dy hell, it sure feels like it sometimes! I told her it had been going on too long and I was tired of fighting it now. I told her about the Fife interview and down South. Perhaps not the wisest, but she needs to be one of my references so she needs to know.

She wasn't hugely supportive of the Fife job but was of the job down South. Actually that's unfair, as when I say unsupportive, I actually just mean she was honest about what she would put in a reference. I don't have service management experience and and I'm not in a position yet where she can say they are developing becasue we only have just set up areas of work that would develop my skills in that area.

Hence me wondering if I should go to that interview. Spoke to mum last night and her view is why would I put myself through that for a job I don't want. She didn't feel wanting interview experience was enough of a reason.

Eventually fb and I are just about speaking and my photos are up! Yay! I have discovered that, despite my fears, I must be a bit of a water baby, becasue the ones of the sea really calm me down! MrsMoo, I wonder what happened to us in that previous life?!! :rotfl:

Right, I think I'm going to phone the companies I need to to get my most recent totals...

ETA: I should probably make it clear that boss sent me home sick because of my stinking cold and hacking cough. The issues are separate. But when I was looking through my diary hunting for something - therey're the same old issues I've been wittering on about since I started bending your ears! :$

niccatw

Right... current totals:

NRock £1,379.14 (I've just made a £300 payment to this but I won't include it in the calculations as there are adjustments to interest to be made and they are sending out a statement.)

HFC £857.65 (at current payment, not due to finish until July 2013. They are sending out a statement.)

SLC1 £232.06 (two more payments to go and it will be gone!)

SLC2 £1,806.13 (the one that comes straight of my salary)

Barclaycard £1,322.60 (the legs!)

Others £2035 (People not corporations - who have repeatedly refused to take it back until I have paid the corporations)

So my current level of debt is £7,682.58. In 2011 I paid of the grand total of £11,655.44. However, I did add £2047.60 to the current total when I decided to go for the IPL. But as we know, I didn't make that decision lightly and I haven't regretted it since, so I'm more than happy!

Phew! I wonder if I can be bothered to do my budget now! Probably not!

Happytogetdebtfree

Well done on the new total addings, sorry about work been a pain eugh?!? Hope it's sorted soon my love big hugs. X

MrsMoo2U

Nic, I do think we are kind of "soul mates" in the sense we have so much in common. I know exactly what happened to me with regards my fear, hence I can work on it. I love the sea, I respect the sea and I find that when I am out whale watching with my friend in Mexico (which I seriously need to do this year so how can I get the money together) I am completely at peace, calm, in control of my world, happy, joyful, mindful and all the wonderful verbs that exist. However the ocean/sea terrifies me, it can change in an instant and take you away so I completely respect it and in awe of it. One day I will tell you my stories about my attempts to overcome my fears by going out to sea. There are several and, despite my traumatic encounters, my friends find my telling of them hilarious...... to the point that one says that i should do a stand up routine about them.

Fantastic figures there Nic. Just think that if you can manage the same again this year you will be able to do VSO next year because you should have about £4K savings on those figures. Maybe an argument to grin and bear the lodger a bit longer?

Off to look at your piccies.

niccatw

MrsMoo2U wrote: »

Nic, I do think we are kind of "soul mates" in the sense we have so much in common. I know exactly what happened to me with regards my fear, hence I can work on it. I love the sea, I respect the sea and I find that when I am out whale watching with my friend in Mexico (which I seriously need to do this year so how can I get the money together) I am completely at peace, calm, in control of my world, happy, joyful, mindful and all the wonderful verbs that exist. However the ocean/sea terrifies me, it can change in an instant and take you away so I completely respect it and in awe of it.* One day I will tell you my stories about my attempts to overcome my fears by going out to sea. There are several and, despite my traumatic encounters, my friends find my telling of them hilarious...... to the point that one says that i should do a stand up routine about them.

Fantastic figures there Nic. Just think that if you can manage the same again this year you will be able to do VSO next year because you should have about £4K savings on those figures. Maybe an argument to grin and bear the lodger a bit longer?

Off to look at your piccies.

**Spooky x-filesesque music music* Are you in me head MrsMoo??? (Only I haven't been whale watching in Mexico, but happy to get a whalebank and start saving to come along! )

MrsMoo2U

Oh now that could be fun. My friend runs discoverpacific tours but has been struggling to do everything himself, hence 4 years ago I was on the verge of moving there and helping out. However I suddenly realised that, as much as I love the ocean there, I love the seasons too much to leave them behind. It is quite astonishing how, when faced with the ability to live out your dream, your mind suddenly kicks in and makes you really think about what it is about your life that you love and what you can live without. My friend is now a Realtor (estate agent to you and me) and runs the tours occasionally passing most of his work off to his friend who runs another company. If I were to go out there though my friend would definitely take me out and not pass me over. He is the best natural tour guide I have ever been able to go out with.

niccatw

MrsMoo2U wrote: »

Oh now that could be fun. My friend runs discoverpacific tours but has been struggling to do everything himself, hence 4 years ago I was on the verge of moving there and helping out. However I suddenly realised that, as much as I love the ocean there, I love the seasons too much to leave them behind. It is quite astonishing how, when faced with the ability to live out your dream, your mind suddenly kicks in and makes you really think about what it is about your life that you love and what you can live without. My friend is now a Realtor (estate agent to you and me) and runs the tours occasionally passing most of his work off to his friend who runs another company. If I were to go out there though my friend would definitely take me out and not pass me over. He is the best natural tour guide I have ever been able to go out with.

That's what I'm currently doing! On the assumption I will be offered a post for a job I've still not applied for! :rotfl: (I've to all the professional manger on Monday.) I'm noticing all the things I love about my current job, all the things I'd have to leave behind, thinking of the practicalities and expense... none of it will stop me applying because it is an opportunity that cannot be missed.

But isn't it funny we never take the time to reflect on the things we love about our lives because we're often being bogged down by the things that driving us to distraction. Or maybe we don't realise we love them until we think; how would you feel if you couldn't do this any more?

I think of all the work we put in to the conference and I wonder if I want to walk away from a tiny, little fledgling Scottish network that needs more people behind it to stand alone; I wonder if I want to leave the day centre I have been in the last few days, struggling to adopt a new approach but really excited by it and by my being there encouraging them...

That's not to say those things wouldn't be there in any new post. But I like to finish what I start if I possibly can (procrastination not withstanding!) and I'd rather not desert people who are actively seeking my support.

Any-one want a moral conscience? Free to a good home. In good working order...

Enough philisophical meanderings! What I actually came on to say is I've reached a new level in my MSEness! Today I nipped in to not just any supermarket for my lunch. Which clearly isn't MSE but I think fate dragged me there for GIANT cous cous...

And. A lot of reduced stuff. So I also popped into my basket a few butternut squash samosas, a handful of chana dhals, a handful of green lentil thingybobs, potatoes, peppers and some spring rolls. All of which were £1 or less. Most were 80p.

When I got to self service, I beeped through one of the spring roll packets. £2.49. No! Clearly I had picked up a normal priced spring roll packet. Once upon a Nicca, I would have just beeped it through at that price anyway. Not any more. I brazenly held the exorbitant spring rolls to account, by waving them in the air until the lovely sales assistant came over and I declared I didn't want the ones at full price. Just the reduced ones thank you very much.

And I don't even know or care if any-one around was looking at me with incredulity. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So, the freezer is quite well stocked (for me anyway). Next trick is to remember there is food in there and take it out and eat it!

I was also back at docs this week. Finally getting that ear infection seen to! I have also had that evil, horrid cold that is going round too. Woe is me. Eventually I got them to take bloods to rule out any physiological cause for such excessive tiredness. I suspect it's actually related to sinusitis but we will at least now know my blood count, whether my thyroid function is ok and whether I an anaemic or not, whenever the results come through.

I also noticed my visits to the doc are back to my normal pre-being off sick self; I wait until I have a longish list of ailments I need seen to and I head there and reel them off. Does every-one do that? You have 9 minutes.... go!

Right, off to juggle the bank accounts around as my pay should have gone in by now...

psychopathbabble

Hope your ear feels betters soon Nic, I'm currently nursing one and the pain is doing my head in! Hope your bloods either figure it out or come back ok.

Well done for the shopping

As for the work... that is your call, but I hate making decisions so feel your pain! x