Horace's Biting the Bullet Diary

Horace

Hello stranger. Thanks for the tip about the Hospice (my favourite chatity and the shop in Rubery is where I deposit my possessions and get chatted up:rotfl:). Sorry to hear about your OH being made redundant - let me know what he is looking for and I will keep my ear to the ground.

Just had a little rant - I rang Virgin (gawd their customer service team are dreadful), I spoke to an American girl who really was obtuse and really frustrating. I said that I was moving and was told that I would be charged £30 to move, I said that I wanted some prices for services but she couldnt really give them and told me to speak to someone else in customer services - I am afraid that I lost the will to live being on hold. I then had the bright idea of contacting a chap called Steve who had visited my flat sometime ago - he is arranging to move everything and that the phone will have evening calls as well as weekend calls that are free, the broadband speed will be faster and I will be charged £27.35 for 6 months and then £37.35 after that which is less than I pay now for BB, TV and free weekend calls.:eek: Dealing with him is so much better and I know that I will be without services for a week because I have booked an installation for 7 July between 8am and 1pm. Why can't all their staff be like him - polite, informative and co-operative?

Horace

Breathe Horace Breathe...be calm don't get ratty.

Last Friday I was advised to contact the potential employer with some additional details about my training (this is what my advisor at R*mploy had been told) so I set about redoing and resubmitting my CV. It turns out that this is not what they wanted at all instead wanting a complete and comprehensive work history going back to the time I left college. I have done my best but literally cannot remember everything that I did and certainly not for the time that I was temping because I must have had over 400 assignments in the space of 2 years:eek:

I am having a bad day - I missed my catchup with my advisor at R*mploy too which was supposed to take place today, I need to make another appointment when I am in there tomorrow morning. I can do without all this to-ing and fro-ing this week. I still have my applications to do including two jobs from last week and two she told me about.

I think I will have some hazelnut choccie and a mug of coffee...and breathe and relax....

Horace

Feeling a tad sick - my tummy is jumping like a frog. I was out last night at a meeting, the dinner was nice (roast pork with trimmings), however the dessert was not so, it was a lemony gloopy thing which was probably far too rich because as soon as I had finished eating it I started to feel unwell. This morning I feel as though I have been hit by a steamroller as my head is fuzzy, I am sniffy and my stomach is not very happy:( I have rung Remploy to say that I don't feel well enough to attend - I don't want to be standing around waiting for buses as today I feel as though I should not venture far from the loo:(

I still have lots to do including two applications that need to be submitted via email before 5pm tomorrow.

Right now i feel as though I am unravelling with the amount of stuff I have to do before 30 June. I promise that when I am in my new home I will not have clutter and I will do house work every week.

beanielou

Hope you feel better soon.

Horace

In my quest to become debt free, I have today paid my visa card off in full to the tune of £414.83:j I tried to put some money into my cash isa but got the message to say that £1000 would exceed the amount for this tax year - the isa has nothing in it. When I get my next instalment from ex then I will open an isa elsewhere. To finally be free of that card is a relief. Now I need to continue to work on the Amex card and clear that (I have some breathing space until August with that one).

I know that I will need about £400 in cash to pay the removal men.

beanielou

Yah to another debt gone :j
Is that just Amex and he who will not be named left then?

Horace

Just Amex left as he who will not be named is not getting any more money out of me because I cancelled the order for breach of contract. He passed off an istock image as an original piece of work for which he charged me a bespoke price (£250 plus VAT) instead of £6.05 for the cost of the image. I only discovered this when a local firm started using the same image so a bit of research later and a whole host of firms in the UK and abroad are using the same image so it certainly wasn't bespoke and therefore unusable.

I have erected a packing box and am now putting books in it but I think it is too heavy so I may leave the books to them next week because even with about 20 books in I cannot lift the box myself:( Time to erect another box and put lighter stuff in like clothes and shoes. I need more parcel tape too.

First though I will have some coffee and a sit down before starting again.

In an attempt to reduce the amount of food in the freezer - two chicken breasts are defrosting, I will cook them up later and serve one hot with veg and the other will be sliced for sandwiches.

beanielou

Excellent on one left :j

Horace

I have packed my shoes into a box and sealed it up (sensibly I have left out one pair of heels, a pair of sandals and the boots that I am currently wearing - everything else is in the box:D I am packing slowly - I feel a bit worn out so may go and have a nap in a mo or at least a sit down with coffee in front of the goggle box.

It is odd looking at my bookcase as the shelves are virtually empty although I still have some hardbacked books to pack away and a few more paperbacks. I have just realised that I still have my Bonjourno Italia books from when I was studying both O and A level at the same time (I just didnt take the exams).

I seem to have lots of rubbish bags filled with rubbish though which I have yet to take down to the bin.

Must also sort stuff to go onto freegle.

beanielou

You are d oing so well.