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miggy

Hovel_lady wrote: »

Personally I never give tomatoes to any men of my aquaintance. Cucumbers now, that's entirely different :rotfl:

(sorry, trying to lighten my mood and hi-jacking your diary to do it )

Haha - can't take you anywhere! on the other hand I think I think it would be fun.

miggy

The vet is happy with the GP till Monday (phew) and I think he may be a little better. I am turning into one of those people who always expects the worst, aren't I? I could do with finidng a way to avoidthat - it may make little or no difference to the outcome, but it makes a difference to me.

I'm off into town to buy a nailbrush (having planted up lots of violets and potted on five tiny lemon trees, I discover the nailbrush has gone into hiding. I also have a small amount of food shopping to do and somecakes to bake. Anyone else been watching The Great British Bakeoff? We put it on iplayer... today's fix was macaroons and brandy snaps which has put me off macaroons and made me want to try brandy snaps. We used to buy them years ago - I wonder if you still can?

miggy

I've just got up and am not in work for a couple of days so am doing my usual post-night-bleary-eyed-in-front-of-the-computer.

Surely working nights isn't good for people? I saw a job advert the other day, thought I might look into it, but where did I put it?! A colleague tells me the Job Centre has another advert for work inour field butit's relief work. It isn't that I coudn't do it, but living where I do and not driving limits my options. Part of me wants out of this job (it isn't doing my self-esteem any good - or is that me? - and career-wise I'm going nowhere) but it's a known quantity and I have found myself a fairly safe niche there.

Anyhooo... spent 75p on bread buns this morning so the kids could take some in for lunch (both are terrors for not eating lunch) but they haven't been touched. Need to go into town soon for dinner things and dish washer tablets - I have to remind myself that the 'laziness' of having a dishwasher is suppoed to be cheaper than heating up the water and is better for the environment and best of all it saves DH from wasting an hour a day slaving over the sink. Not that I never do dishes, but whichever of us cooks, the other one did the dishes, and I cook more often than he does.

I seem to be rambling... need a list to get my head together, will edit as I go along as usual:

• shower done
• laundry done
• piano practice may not count as practice but have had a wiz through some of it
• GP to vet this evening done and don't need to go back for 2 days
• prep for homegroup tonight done
• text colleague re shift swap
• sort out another bag of papers

miggy

Miggy's declutter an item or more a day for 46 days till 7th October list:

1. 23rd August pretty Christmas bag, plant label, handful of receipts, broken dried flowers (all rubbish shoved into a bag in a quick tidy!)
2. 24th August a few weeds, plant food bottle, 3 Avon catalogues, finally finished unpacking my suitcase - and DS2 has thrown out a carrier bag's worth of old clothes and donated a bin liner full to charity. :A Cushion cover, video, bag of screwed up wrapping paper, scraps of cloth, few receipts, two mobile phone pockets.
3. 25th August 2 catalogues, carrier bags, receipts, 3 water bottles, 4 books, assorted clothes, forgotten what else.
4. 26th August 3 small bags of flour found to have insects in
5. 27th August Just a few receipts and a carrier bag
6. 28th August Nowt :o:o
7. 29th August 1 pair holey jeans
8. 30th August large woolly jumper now ready to go back to its owner
   
9. 31st August nothing :o:o
   
10. 1st September DVD back to its owner
    
11. 2nd September bag of magazines
12. 3rd September 9 more magazines, stuck various scraps of paper with recipes into my recipes to try scrapbook, 5 part-bottles of pop that had been 'tidied' into the larder and forgotten.
13. 4th September 4 magazines, 2 vases, few bits of paper
14. 5th September zilch :o:o
15. 6th September 3 dead plants
16. 7th September can't remember - junk - was having a frantic pre-guests tidy up!
17. 8th and 9th September papers and more papers
18. 10th September bag of newspapers and carrier bag of carrier bags (both these grow back really quickly)
    
19. 11th September
    

miggy

Hello Hovel Lady - nice to 'see' you! I'm missing having you and Ani to chat to on here !
Did you have the unsupervised omelette then?

Hovel_lady

Personally I think working nights isn't good for people - I could never do it.

Regarding the job, ask yourself this.

If I'm told I have to stay how does it make me feel?
Happy? Sad? Something else?

If I were made redundant tomorrow (with another job to go to) how do I feel?
Happy? Sad? Something else?

Might help you decide what you want to do.
Life's too short for regrets.

A list! Excellant :T

Hovel_lady

miggy wrote: »

Hello Hovel Lady - nice to 'see' you! I'm missing having you and Ani to chat to on here !
Did you have the unsupervised omelette then?

Yes, a unsupervised cheese omelette no less.
How good am I? :T
It's nice to be here x

miggy

Hovel_lady wrote: »

Personally I think working nights isn't good for people - I could never do it.
My colleague who has been doing long-term nights looks a lot olderthan she did a few years ago. :eek: Yes, it's all very well as a hidey-hole for me, but definietly something I should reconsider in the longer term.
Regarding the job, ask yourself this.

If I'm told I have to stay how does it make me feel?
Happy? Sad? Something else?
I'd be angry: I don't like being told what to do! That says a lot about me really. doesn't it? Other than that, I'd feel trapped, which of course comes into the 'unhappy' bracket.

If I were made redundant tomorrow (with another job to go to) how do I feel?
Happy? Sad? Something else?
:D:D Yay me, happy dance! A little bit sad because there are undoubtedly some nice things abut the job, all the 'pluses' I can bring to the clients' lives (I'm a support worker) and some friendly conversations with colleagues, though these are the same colleagues who backbite and so on given the opportunity. It can be a bit toxic.

Might help you decide what you want to do.
Thank you. It does look quite clear when set out like this, doesn't it? I do have a few issues with going into anything new, along the lines of having this job pretty well sussed so I know where the mine fields are, which I wouldn't know with a new job.
Maybe I should go and write a best seller instead.
Life's too short for regrets.

A list! Excellant :T

Ani did you hear that?!

Hovel_lady wrote: »

Yes, a unsupervised cheese omelette no less.
How good am I? :T
It's nice to be here x

Brilliant. Next thing you know it will be an unsupervised omelette with eggs from your own chickens, and after that will you be getting a Hovel Goat and making your own cheese for the omelette?

Just off to update list and put the laundry on, back later.

miggy

Yesterday's spends:
£12.35 - groceries and dishwasher tablets
Today's spends so far: £10 piano lesson

This week will be more expensive than recently as we are having lunch out for our anniversary :j and getting the car MOTed and depending on how it goes, either spending £150+ on essential repairs or getting another car! Also paying the vet if the guinea pig gets signed off later in the week. I'm down to work an extra 5 hours but won't see that pay till next month.

The tail end of Hurricane Katia is still chasing round and as I was walking back from a friend's last night (car being off the road), I picked up some pears that had blown out of someone's garden. In my experience they are never collected by the owner so I felt I could do this, and I left plenty for other people. I could see why the owner isn't bothered as they are rock hard and some are smashed from landing on the pavement, but I fed a smashed one to the animals just now and the GP stuck his nose in the air with a look on his face that said 'Food? FOOD!' and grabbed at it, so it can't be inedible. There are lots of crab apples come down too - but is it worth my collecting any? I know I'll have access to freebie apples from neighbours soon and we don't really 'do' crab apple jelly.

I've decluttered a handful of papers today: must press on with it but I'm off to visit Mum in a while too.

Hovel_lady

Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs miggy :T

Do hope the car passes it's MOT - cheaper than a new car anyway I hope.
How the GP today?

Still very windy here today as well - not quite as bad as yesterday though.
xx