Horace's Biting the Bullet Diary

Horace

Friday night was spent out at a do - listing to the awful Carla catawauling and playing her music ear bleedingly loud. How I wish I had had the gumption to ask for a doggy bag for the spare dinner that was going (someone didnt turn up) - I could have had a lovely boxed turkey dinner..sigh.

Saturday was spent recovering as my head was ringing and I was feeling quite unwell. Sunday was spent at hubby's house - such a depressing place with rotten window frames and damp. However, we have agreed on an amicable divorce and I get my furniture and belongings back. He even offered me the chest of drawers that we bought together and the blanket box but I said that he could have them, all I wanted was the furniture that is in trust to me but belongs to my family. I feel sad which seems odd but I am also overjoyed - we were married for 25 years and if truth be known we shouldn't really have gotten married at all, I was too cowardly to call it off. The last time he laid a finger on me in the bedroom department was on my 28th birthday (TMI I know:eek:) since then it has all be pretty loveless. Feel bad because he even remembered my birthday this year whereas I completely forgot his due to depression fug.

Suppose, I had better think about getting ready for the interview - I have two buses to get and a bit of walking to do. Weather is dreadful so it will be thick tights - might wear purply ones, a black dress, purply jacket and purply necklace. I will look smart. Or do I wear black jacket and something else entirely? Decisions decisions.

Aesop

did you get post Horace, hope so.

Your choice of outfit sounds lovely. These days it is not all about wearing black and white or a suit, it is about looking smart and presentable.

Good luck with the interview.

beanielou

Hope all went well Horace.

cats_slave

Another one here hoping that the interview went well for you.

Verbatim

How are you and how did it go?

I'm glad to hear that you're divorce will be amicable and that you'll be getting your furniture back.

Horace

Hi all - the interview went well I think, I found out a bit more about the job as well, £16K a year for 40hr week either working 8-4.30 or 9-6pm with 25 days hol of which 5 must be kept for Christmas. They will let me know by Friday although to be honest I am not holding out much hope. I have two things going for me - a huge contact list of businesses who like to book workshops/training courses who need rooms and the fact that I can start immediately.

Managed to get lost too - found the place alright with the help of the bus driver and a kindly person who lived opposite the venue. Getting home was the pits because I cannot see in the dark and somehow found myself walking along a road that I knew or thought I knew. I got on a bus of the right flavour - the bus said Northfield, it turned out it was going to Maypole. I found out after travelling as far as some god forsaken hole called Billesley where I was turfed off the bus and told to wait on the other side of the road for 10 mins. Came home via the chip shop as I was bitterly cold and fanced some chips with 2 cheese & onion fries. (Leftover chips are for lunch).

Today, I went to local post office to be told they had run out of stamps and recorded delivery slips (bad planning I thought although I partly think it is down to their new assistant who is such a lazy mare). I walked up to the doctors to take my prescription in and then headed to the main post office to post a packet - on making my way out of the post office I espied a crisp £20 note lying on the floor. I picked up said note and returned it to the cashier who asked why I was handing it in - some pensioner may have lost it and I didnt feel right keeping it (although it would have been handy to have). I am starting to wonder if I should have kept the thing? Maybe I am too honest...who knows?

louloufox

Hi Horace
I've been following your posts - both on here and on Matrix's and really wish you well for the job.
You have been trying so hard and with all your difficulties really deserve a break.
If this one doesn't come off, I know one will soon because you are so determined to get work.
Best of luck and I will continue reading your posts.

beanielou

Good karma your way for handing in the 20 quid.

chevalier

16k sounds such a small amount for the job you will be doing. on the other hand, nothing sounds a small amount too. I really hope you get the job anyway so that you can have some stability.

I will keep sending positive vibes through the centre of the planet!!!
chev

Horace

Well, I heard via email - checked emails today after not switching on yesterday. I got the knockback at 9.49am on 20 December so they didnt hang about saying no. Oh well, I didnt want to work for them anyway.

The jobcentre phoned me on Tuesday night to ask how I got on with the job at the round table that they sent me for - I explained that I didnt even get an interview and was rejected because they had received over 240 applications. The jobcentre have said that I am doing everything right when it comes to finding work - it is just employers who reject on the slightest thing and no-one knows what that is.

Yesterday, I was having my loo fixed - only I soon discovered the bodgits did a really bodge job which results in me adding to the water of the loo and water immediately pouring out of the back of the loo:mad: It is a good job that I have an empty ice cream tub that I can use to catch the water. They are supposed to be fixing it tomorrow - it seems that they missed out the rubber seal and just used mastic:mad:

I spent the day on the sofa (although I did do some tidying up and washing up - I found my ski hat too). In the afternoon, the postman arrived with a large box which threw me because I wasn't expecting any boxes of any kind. Inside was a christmas card from my mate Sal, a hamper containing 9 luxury mini mincepies with Brandy (they are boozy - Lidl), a mini pannettone christmas pud (again v. boozy), a packet of vegetable crisps, a box of boozy alcoholic chocs, a packet of scottish shortbread fingers, a bottle of chilean red (mini bottle) and a cinnamon scented candle. It seems that she forgot to put in the homemade beetroot chutney and the homemade plum jam as she found these on the side after she had been to the post office.

Nipped out today as I wanted to use the last £1.25 in my purse to go to Aldi to buy some luxury fudge for my dad's present. I went to pick up my prescription too and then it was off to Tatco - I needed a few bits and spent £5.94 - I handed over £6 of LVs and the manager gave me a £1 voucher back and put the 94p through as a miscellaneous Tesco supply item. I wasnt bothered about change which is why I handed over 2 books of LVs. I didn't have to pay the 94p.:cool: I do have £15 to spend in Tatco but will use that in the January sales and stock up with other goodies. I need to go out again tomorrow to pick up my prescription, need to visit marital abode with christmas card and a few bits (he did give me a card for xmas and he remembered my birthday and gave me a very funny card about old age). Next year, I will be able to make my own fudge.

Here's hoping that everyone has a lovely Christmas - even if you are through the centre of the earth and out the other side:D