Have grasped the nettle..........now to deal with the ensuing rash

Igamogam

Not feeling my best at the moment but managed to get myself into work to say goodbye to the frogs who are leaving...........nice to see them but the micro manager has been doing their worst and taking advantage whilst I have been away:mad: They had even re written all my reports telling me it had taken them a "whole weekend" - "tough !!!!!!" was my response "your choice":mad::mad: In more than 25 years in the job I have never had that happened and the more I think about it the more insulted I feel..............how the hell do you deal with that......productively and effectively??

GRRRRRRR

Igamogam

One good thing about yesterday which I forgot to record..........£7 for a bag of old clothes at 'weigh in' place:) Going back to paying all these little bits and bobs off a nominated CC - had stopped doing it for a while but they add up and I would rather see debt going down rather than it all just landing in in the purse and generally consumed:D

starnac

Oh no! Did you have a dodgy pizza??

:mad: at micro manager. How dare they??!!! That is just plain rude! You don't do something like that! In fact I'm glad it took them a "whole weekend". Serves them right! Shame it didn't take them longer

Igamogam

starnac wrote: »

Oh no! Did you have a dodgy pizza??

:mad: at micro manager. How dare they??!!! That is just plain rude! You don't do something like that! In fact I'm glad it took them a "whole weekend". Serves them right! Shame it didn't take them longer

Pizza only dodgy in a sense that we rarely eat fast/processed food and when we do sometimes we end up with a headache after wards or generally just feeling meh!

I am hoping that there are questions from parents re reports so I will be able to just hand it over as I wasn't the author............unlikely as many of our parents dont care:(

Igamogam

Hadnt realised I had been away from diary for so long - never away from MSE in general for very long;) I have probably got lots to babble about but I am going to catch upon other diaries first and then will settle down to a catch up here:)

Igamogam

Last day before OH returns to work after hols and the weather is miserable here. So its going to be an indoor day with a stop by a food shop - have tired to use up stuff since getting back from hols but I think the weird food combos are now now losing their appeal.

Its the time of year I have another bite of the New Year resolution type thing.............formulating and ruminating and will be back later to hopefully get some thoughts down.

Igamogam

Hmmm - been putting this post off for a few days now.........lots of reasons why: 1)PC been out of action and although I could use lap tap I find typing much quicker on a conventional keyboard and I am definitely not a 'touch pad' sort of person! 2) since returning from 'a week away away from it all' I havent been feeling too well ( more later) 3) been busy trying to catch up with things around house/garden 4) celebrating with an over excited teenager - just how many A* can a person get 4) frequent GP/hospital appts:( ............... I have though been keeping an eye on the financials and making my PADs. In addition I resurrected my spending diary AGAIN. Rearranged the freezer AGAIN. Culled some MSE diaries AGAIN. Looked how better I can menu plan AGAIN. Fallen out with Eb*Y AGAIN - hopefully only temporary as this is really the only way I can realistically make some extra cash and come to the conclusion that 12 months down the line I seem to be no further on debt wise AGAIN :mad:

I have to console myself 'its no worse' considering the spendful year we have had so far

I don't see any huge outlays between now and Christmas - car taxed MOTd and insurance paid for 12 months - havent done a comparison for car insurance - sorry MSE world but I thought £149 for FC and protected NCB was good enough and it saved me hours doing comparisons IMO and as well as trying to save money I am quite keen on finding time at the moment. Extra expense this year has been car related and DD2 Big School Trip. Means my overall debt hasnt decreased significantly but on the up side it hasnt increased - that old habit 'Oh put it all on CC and worry about it later' has gone. Any spends on CC have been paid straight away on top of usual payments so over payments have not been as big as I would have liked..........still, as I said, no increase and that has to be a plus.

Health: been on bit of a roller coaster. The auto immune disorder, well the implications of having it, hit me whilst we were away and I was quite ill - mental strain of coming to terms with it and having to explain to DDs OH and close friends the implications and the realisation I have been 'ill' with this for maybe about 4 years. I also had some physical symptoms I think as a result of the treatment which I am assured will settle down...........'but we wont really know until the next treatment' Oh joy!

I have now of course become an instant expert , as we all are these days on our own conditions thanks to the wonders of the 'Wibley Web' and it is little worrying just how much people out there are suffering - I am thankful that my GP made the connection with all my symptoms and frequent visits to GP - last 2 years I have been a frequent flyer - and made the call with specific blood test and also to my physiotherapist for suggesting that investigating for something systemic rather than just treating the symptoms, would be a good idea - as it was, what we all thought was going to be rampant osteoarthritis was something totally different and far more insidious. I am fortunate as my symptoms are mild as far as I am concerned - crushing exhaustion being the worst for me - but now I know what is probably causing the weird aches and pains, poor concentration,headaches and general mehness etc ( new word for the world of medicine;)) I feel I have more control over it.........does that make sense? I am keeping a health diary now just to monitor things and I have certainly developed a whole new outlook on life....... the universe and everything:D

Hardest thing has been explaining all this to family friends. I don't look/sound/behave any differently.I don't have to give up anything and can carry on as normal - whatever ever that is. I am fortunate in that sense. From what I am reading others have had years of being misdiagnosed and have suffered permanent damage, their lives changing forever. Things haven't changed for me other than monthly trips to practice nurse.......... but what I have is incurable. Treatable but incurable so in that sense left untreated and not monitored it will would eventually contribute to my demise. Of course I have no intentions of it defining the rest of my life but it still has some long term implications. However priorities have changed - I love my job, hard as it is, but it will no longer dominate my life as much as I have let it at tmes. I will of course do what I have to but I will no longer putting in all the extra hours I have in the past.....the micro manager is going to be sooooooo unhappy:rotfl: But my priorities are my health and family now. Some good news on the health front - knee surgery gone well and surgeon reckon I could go another 10 years before I need a replacement as long as I take care of it but as he said it really depends on how fast the arthritis spreads - yes osteoarthritis in knee but nowhere else at moment :j

So that is pretty much the reassessment and re valuation for the 'new year' - being in education I always feel you get a second chance at 'new years' - I need to be more focussed on keeping on the DF rocky road - better at meal plans more selling of stuff, spending diary and keeping up with the budget envelopes and little challenges - only need to find an extra £500 a month and this debt will be gone within 2 years:rotfl::rotfl: On a personal level more me and family time and less work related stuff........only time will tell on at one but I am determined:cool:


Whoa long rambling post which I hope doesn't disappear when I click submit !

Going back to bed now - have a planned a garden day and dont want to miss it!

Igamogam

It did disappear - thank goodness I remembered to copy first!

Igamogam

Brrrrr! Just surfaced for round two of the day and its freezing here - feet still like ice from early morning sojourn on PC -in bed on laptop at mo with hot cup of tea brought by OH who, before he left for a days flying offered to get electric blanket out. Think I will have to wrap up for gardening jobs today:)

DD2 informs me its 18 weeks to Christmas............might set myself a little challenge.Back later with that one

Igamogam

Well good intentions and all that re garden didnt really come to fruition - after I dropped off DD2 at work I put a couple of washes on had a bit of a tidy, got a line of washing out, made a sandwich with the intention of starting in the garden after lunch and the heavens opened - washing in and re hung on ceiling airer, prep for tonight's tea ( HM chicken korma) and it was time to feed down the hill neighbours dogs get DD2 again. Then OH arrived home with tales of the day and an admission he had had a pub lunch:mad: well a roast dinner actually:mad::mad: So I have cut back one small perennial plant which has now finished flowering its heart out in preparation for dividing later as its outgrown its welcome where it is, and that sums up my gardening for the day:( Wanted to get so much done........

Have gone back to my square colouring - new chart drawn up with 100 squares so for each % paid off I will colour in a square.......still working out a challenge and how to get that extra £500 every month. Extreme Eb*ying/surveys???:rotfl: Really want this debt gone or nearly gone in 2 years hence, but not feeling very confident at moment:( Mortgage will be paid in less than a year and that will free up another £250 which will help no end.

Have read a couple of diaries today where people have same level of debt as me and seemed to have really hammered it down and others where the realisation just how much disposable income they will have once their debts are paid, has really spurred them on. Think I spent first 18 months after LBM diddling around with the debt free hammer - seem to have got a firmer grip of it in the last 12 months I would say.

Mmmm DD2 baking twinks........smell is gorgeous. She say she has made 40 - doubt if they will last 24 hours:rotfl: Time to go an sample.