Horace's Biting the Bullet Diary

bast

Horace you are still out there still trying and doing brilliantly...Just try to look calm.. love this quote by Michael Caine Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Take care try to keep smiling... x

Horace

Had a fairly good sleep last night and woke up at 8.15am.

I have made a plan for today as to what I am going to do - complete 6 application forms, distribute minutes that are typed already and prepare a flyer that needs to be done for charity auction on 18 October. Need to plan what to eat too - had the remainder of my spam last night but it had a slightly funny taste and today I have been a bit gippy so it was probably on the turn_pale_

Someone else offered me a lift to Abersoch today but it would mean me driving over to Yardley and that would be a waste of petrol. I have said that I am not going as I have made other plans. I don't really want to hang around with a bunch of people who are already looking down their noses at me. Dunno why I bothered with them in the first place to be truthful because they just aren't my kind of people - I know I needed to get out of the house after twerp did the dirty on me back in January but I am not like these people, I am not a boozer nor will I ever be a boozer.

I am still worried about money but they can't have what I haven't got. I am also wondering if that job I went for and was interviewed for are ever going to contact me - I rang them last week because I was advised that I would hear on 17 August as they didnt call I phoned them on 18th to be told that they had still been interviewing on 17th and that no decision had been made as yet. It really is frustrating to leave people hanging on waiting.:mad:

Horace

The plan has not worked so well, I keep being distracted and have no inclination. What I have done today is phone Office Angels again and have been told their consultants are in meetings, and that the email containing my CV has been deleted so it has all been sent again - why are these people such incompetent buffoons?:mad:

I have been responding to emails and have been working on a flyer for the charity auction.. I know that I need to crack on with stuff e.g. application forms, and sending my bank statements to amex. Dreaded getting the post this morning, however, I had to laugh because I received a statement from Lloyds TSB (I closed their bank account last year) I wonder if I dare say to the cowbag at Lloyds to whom I spoke yesterday that I do have an account with them still?:rotfl:

I need to send some letters off too but as yet havent done them.

I am feeling really lazy today...sigh.

bast

Unfortunately Horace the problem with agencies is that at the moment they have a lot of people on their books.. Just keep ringing, show them your wonderful enthusiasm.. hang in there... At least with the other job interview its just that they yet havent made a decision.. So you are still in the running !!! I certainly dont think anyone could call you lazy...:)x

Millie2008_2

Echo, you are the polar opposite of lazy.

are you free Sunday afternoon for ponycuddles and foraging? (and poo picking---joke!) xx

Horace

I confess I was lazy this afternoon and spent time on facebook playing games - mainly I was a witch zapping monsters by playing puzzles. There is nothing like mindless fun every now and again.

Lunch today was a slice of bread with the remainder of my beef paste (not that there was much left) so I delicately smeared the paste onto the bread and cut the bread into quarters to make it look as though there was more than there actually was:rotfl: Had a tin of soup tonight (chunky beef) and then as I fancied something sweet (have now had the last of my chocolate (even licked the crumbs off the wrapper), I remembered the big tin of value broken grapefruit bits that mum got me from Asda about 3 years' ago - well, half the tin has been eaten..yum. I wouldnt have said that the grapefruit bits were broken either - most of them were fairly whole segments. Talking of food I found some eggs in the fridge - their use by date was June:eek: I won't be eating them:eek: Things get lost in the fridge because I shove boxes of eye drops in there and things get shoved to the back and missed:(

Yes Millie I am free on Sunday afternoon for pony cuddling, foraging and shifting horse poo (not that I need any horsepoo as I only have a balcony although it may be good to drop on stinky catwoman's head:rotfl:). Foraging will be more fun than being bossed about at Abersoch. Had to smile though because the guy that offered me a lift from Yardley also offered to sub me a tenner but I declined and said that I wasnt in a position to pay it back and thanked him for thinking about me (it turns out that there is a blackberry patch behind his factory in Erdington but I am not going there to pick the ruddy things).

I may have won a necklace on twitter tonight - I am always winning things on there having won 2 x tickets to a seminar in London worth over £100 each (gave to a friend), 6 restaurant pillar candles of varying sizes and colours and now this fused glass necklace because I retweeted someone:cool:

I think that no news is good news about the music festival job although it is frustrating having to wait. Agencies suck. I may ask the lads at the cafe in brum that I like to frequent if they have a job going sweeping floors, making sarnies and frothing the milk. I dare not do silver service waitressing anymore not since I tripped when carrying yorkshire puds which went flying and one landed on some posh woman's bouffant hair (I didnt say anything nor did I retrieve it:rotfl:). Oh those were the days:rotfl:

Tomorrow will be a work day. I have bills to pay - my virgin bill is due so I may just pay it late. Hopefully my housing benefit cheque will arrive. I even thought about applying for JSA too as that is considerably more than working tax credit, it means telling the HMRC that I have ceased trading though and I don't consider that I have ceased just yet just put things on hold.

Millie2008_2

you know, sometimes you need an afternoon doing something mindless like zapping monsters, my excuse is that my brain needs the downtime...or something I think I win the World's Worst Waitress though, as when I worked for OH's Mum (when they were really desparate, her words), whilst most of the people were lovely, I was sooo intolerant to those who weren't. After a loooooong tough shift, one of the latter accused me of pouring cream down her dress and for once I hadn't, but she was really evil about her and I'd had enough. So I snapped and called her a "lying b*tch"... not sure I was asked to waitress again after that. Oops.

Yay for Sunday! I shall pick you up. Ponycarer extrodinaire is having the afternoon off, so you can forage while I muck out and faff around, then we can eat cake and drink tea and put the world to rights!

Horace

Foraging and eating cake sounds like fun to me:j Far better to spend an afternoon doing that than being around drunken buffoons. I have sorted out two tubs for foraged food (including the big lunchbox that twerp left behind). Tis funny how he left stuff behind that I either got rid of through the charity shop (clothes that didnt really fit any more plus the silk dress I wore once but it made my boobs fall out:o). I re-discovered a set of 19th century chinese mother of pearl gaming chips that I can get rid of - might sell them through the auctions as I am likely to get more for them. I have an antique lamp to sell too that came via my aunt, it is just sitting there not doing anything. Twerp left his horror films too and clothes (some of which I have acquired for myself and others which are being used as dusters). I still have the portable dvd player, the microwave, the printer, the 1920's trolly that I am using as a tv stand (these are things I use and I am not getting rid of them).

In other news today, I may be appearing on a famous australian photographer's blog site. Peter Lik is a photographer I was told about before I went to Oz and I spent some time in his gallery in Cairns before leaving with two of his photographs (or rather they were shipped home). He has a section on his site called My Peter Lik Story so I dared to submit something - after some light editing, my story will appear together with a picture of me:cool: Infamous at last!:rotfl:

I am revisiting the applications I meant to do yesterday and re-reading the job descriptions to ensure that I really want to apply (no point in applying for something if I am going to really hate it). Hopefully the postman will bring my HB cheque today and that can go in the bank - I need milk too. The cheque will reduce my overdraft as currently £477 o/d and I have a £500 o/d as standard:(

I need to sort out bank statements for amex too and they will be sent off today along with more creditor letters.

Fingers crossed that I get to hear about the music festival job today - they are cutting it extremely fine especially as the thing takes place in October:eek:

Horace

Is feeling rather gleeful this afternoon, received HB cheque so went and put it in the bank, managed to withdraw £10 from the bank for food. As I wandered past my favourite butcher I noticed that he was selling 2lb bags of bacon bits for £1.40 and large eggs for 99p a half dozen - needless to say a little idea sprung into my mind - I have a pastry case, eggs n bacon make a nice quiche (just hope it fits in Mosky as have just remembered the oven no longer works:mad:). Then I ventured into Morrisons and came out with a loaf of crusty bread for 90p a ltr of cravendale for £1, a small lump of cheese for £1.40, 4 x mini jars of tiptree jam (4 for a £1), a large onion for 25p and (naughty Horace)..a pack of 4 kitkat chunky bars for £1. After spends today, I still have money left for petrol:j

Why are bin bags so expensive? I need some but I refuse to pay that ridiculous price for them..methinks I shall have to either reuse the bags, use less, create less waste or use plastic shopping bags. I don't even have any bin bags in my camping supplies bag.

Horace

I am flaming angry this afternoon - I had a nap after lunch and in fact have only just come back to the computer. As I was heading back to the office, my phone rang and it was the girl that I withdrew from mentoring, I told her not to contact me again (I was assured by the chamber that she wouldn't contact me again) and put the phone down on her. I keep getting text messages from her too:mad: I have emailed the chamber and told them that if she continues to harrass me then I shall have no alternative but to seek legal action to prevent her from contacting me or coming anywhere near me. I wish I had never offered to mentor anyone and certainly wouldnt have if I thought I was going to get this grief - grief that I can do without!:mad:

I have just checked my online banking and today I am £435 over drawn as my working tax credit must have gone in early. I have just printed off my statements for Amex too and will be scanning them and emailing them across - I had their default notice today which I have been told to ignore. I also discovered today that my life insurance did not go out this month due a fault at the providers' end so I shall be getting double come out in September:mad: I am not prepared to let this policy go as it is due to pay out when I am 55 and I have been paying into it since I was 25. I am 50 this year so it will pay out soon.