Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

Piquant_2

moo2moo wrote: »

A 201K treadle is high on my wishlist. Just have to figure out where to put it.

Oh my, just read this as a sewing machine costing £201, 000 :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Then realised you were talking about the model number You were talking about the model number, weren't you??

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

Oh my, just read this as a sewing machine costing £201, 000 :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Then realised you were talking about the model number You were talking about the model number, weren't you??

Sorry, forgot to mention I'd won the Eurobillions Lottery last week. It completely slipped my mind.... In my alternate universe it is unfortunately the model number. The things I could do with a gazillion squids.

Meanwhile OHs on again, off again, on again, off again course is back on. The powers that be claim they paid for his place earlier today. When I see the reciept I'll believe it..... and if I do it pushes Moo's early retirement plans up a notch and means I'll be handing in my letter of resignation sooner rather than later. Many frugal thoughts are required as I've recently begun spending money like water, although thats down to being really really really cheesed off at work.

moo2moo

Whinge of the day......

1 - DD2 has installed Moshi Monsters and some other kiddie drivel onto the PC without asking and has thusly installed a virus on the PC as well as a gazillion pop-ups on every page and has managed to do something so that despite the delete browsing button claiming to work it clearly is not. Will be placing her in the blender when she finally wakes up.

2- Work.... work and far too much work. The job that I am required to achieve each week requires three people working a combined total of 66 hours, or at least it did until the building was made bigger several years ago, now it needs more hours and ideally another set of hands. Attempting to achieve this in 42 hours is almost impossible and in 38 even more so and yet thats what I'm being expected to do and thats precicesly why I'm very pi55ed orf. The boss hasn't got round to advertising for a replacement. Even if he did do that this week it would be at least another month before someone was employed and checked and actually started. All in all I've had enough and to top it off I have a repetative strain injury to my wrist which is really very hurty Need to check my contract as I suspect I have to give two months notice but I plan on being out of there by late June.

Whinge over.

Postitive thoughts are now in action. Whilst its not great I know the school meals service are short of relief cover. Once I've handed my notice in I'll give the lady in charge a call and let her know I'm available and hope that I pick up some work that way. Even a few days each week would suit me fine. It helps that I've worked with her before

beanielou

Eeek to the RSI.

RosaBernicia

Well a doctor's cert signing you off sick for the RSI should speed up their recruitment process no end.

Can't they get agency temps?


Rosa xx

moo2moo

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Well a doctor's cert signing you off sick for the RSI should speed up their recruitment process no end.

Can't they get agency temps?

Rosa xx

Docotor??????? noooooooo

Temps would be great, but if I'm not there then theres no one there to supervise them.

Have a meeting with the boss this morning to discuss our options. That's going to be fun. Not entirely convinced things are going to go well.

Piquant_2

The meeting can't go badly, you've already decided to move on. Therefore you hold the aces.

Sorry about the moshi monsters, whatever they are. Definitely sound serious though.

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

The meeting can't go badly, you've already decided to move on. Therefore you hold the aces.

Sorry about the moshi monsters, whatever they are. Definitely sound serious though.

As it turns out it didn't go at all. Bah. Now really really cheesed off and more determined than ever to say so long, and thanks for all the fish. The OH has his sensible head on and keeps pointing out that its far easier to get a job when you already have one.... well yes.... and equally that I'll be really cheesed off if stuck in a hot school kitchen every day... again I can agree ... but I need some form of financial independence to appease my guilty concience when I splurge frivolously on things. More importantly I know I'll go nuts if I transform into a slummy mummy when the highlight of my day is the Jeremy Kyle Show.

Still my plans for the OHs absence are currently:
- Paint the hall, stairs and landing
- Paint our room and the kids rooms
- Paint the bathroom
- Hang the pictures that are cluttering the landing on the walls
- Gut the house from top to bottom lobbing out more tat.
- Get the damp proof sorted and the big room downstairs replastered
- Decorate that
- Then in the evenings I want to spin.... and spin some more
- I also have a few ideas about making fabric drawstring bags to sell on Etsy. Call them project bags and they retail for £15 a time.
-The veggie patch beckons... no excuses there.

I'm thinking that should keep me out of mischief for quite some time.

RosaBernicia

Piq has a very good point there.

Would financial independence via Etsy be more appealing than a school kitchen? Maybe a bit less sociable in the beginning, but you'd need to sell at fairs etc in the longer term so you'd meet a network of crafty people. In the what they do sense, not what they are iyswim.


Rosa xx

moo2moo

and once again the OHs on again off again course is destined to be off again.This time because there aren't enough people booked on it to run it. It's currently in that will they run it won't they run it limbo. At this rate he'll be off to the US in the autumn to do it as we'd expected.

This means I'll be seeing out the summer term at work which will give me a bit of breathing room seeing as how I haven't pinned my boss down for long enough to hand in my resignation. Just as well really. Another two months of work is another four figures in the emergency fund which is a tad depleted after yesterdays visit to Wonderwool which was far far better than I'd expected. Was beginning to think I'd run out of time to see everything despite arriving earlier than expected and spending almost seven hours there. I spent under a hundred pounds which is rather shocking. Retrained? Moi? Heck no. I bought everything I wanted and then some and then some more and then because I had money burning a hole in my pocket I bought a bit more too. The prices were simply too good not to. On average I paid 10% of the original retail price just because stuff was a bit tangled up and generally less than pristine. Bargain of the day was a 70g skein of of cobweb Alpacca for £2 because it was the end of the run and has 2 knots somewhere within its 1000m length. It's 100g equivalent was retailing at an eye watering £48. For that I'll quite happily put up with a couple of knots. Problem is I can't get any of it in the cupboard, let alone shut the door