SunFlower Sorts Her Life Out!

SunFlower

scubaangel wrote: »

Green? I think you mean white and skeletal...which to be fair is appropriate for the time of year

A few months ago I had the same problem - at the last check I've carelessly lost 1stone 5lb, and still nothing fits properly - tis most irritating that I've bought size 12 clothes intending to use them to replace assorted other things to find that some don't fit coz they;re too big, some too small and some just plain weirdly shaped! I have far more unworn with labels clothes than I care to remember sat in my wardrobe at my Dad's house - on my next visit I'll spend another day sorting things and probably managed to throw out 3 things and send 5 to the charity shop like last time.

:rotfl:

I wish I could 'carelessly loose' 1 sotne 5 pounds: I think I found yours by mistake! :rotfl:

Right, onwards and upwards: CV updates, sending to agencies, signing on (_pale_) and Ebaying (As well as college homework, my Super Secret Squirrel Project and tidying my room) are all in order.

Best get my To Do list out. :cool:

Oh, have free tickets to see a new film tonight as well, so I shall be doing that, too.

scubaangel

When I say carelessly I may mean by eating less, more sensibly and taking up running again.....but unlike my sister who is on a permanent diet I've not really worked all that hard at it (swopped my usual walk home from work for a run).

I hate updating my CV, I always remember to do one version and forget the others - I tend to have at least two, one for retail/customer facing work and the other focusing on my administrative experience.

As much as signing on sucks, just think you won't be doing it for long and while you are having to do it, you're entitled to the money.

Enoy the film, I always miss out on the freebies when there are some at my local cinema or they're only valid on nights I can't go.

SunFlower

scubaangel wrote: »

When I say carelessly I may mean by eating less, more sensibly and taking up running again.....but unlike my sister who is on a permanent diet I've not really worked all that hard at it (swopped my usual walk home from work for a run).

Sorry, but that's not careless - that's fully intentionally in my book. Well done, though. It's a sensible and sustainable way to do it.

scubaangel wrote: »

I hate updating my CV, I always remember to do one version and forget the others - I tend to have at least two, one for retail/customer facing work and the other focusing on my administrative experience.

I tend to be quite good at changing them: the only trouble is when you are sending one generic one to an agency and you have to put in as wide a range as possible.

scubaangel wrote: »

As much as signing on sucks, just think you won't be doing it for long and while you are having to do it, you're entitled to the money.

I'm hoping to be sorted out before then: it's just a 'what if' thing. Last time I didn't have a job I lived off my savings out of pride, but they are now non-existent and it nearly broke me financially.

scubaangel wrote: »

Enjoy the film, I always miss out on the freebies when there are some at my local cinema or they're only valid on nights I can't go.

Thanks! It was pretty good: I don't normally get to see the freebies either, but every now and again there is a time when I can sneak one in.

Speaking of which, today's spends:

£2.00 parking
90p drink
£1.10 snack

Total: £4.00

The snack money is naughty, but I had to nip out before dinner (was hoping to get it in before), so I needed something to keep me going.

SunFlower

Spends:

£4.99 bottle of wine (naughty: a treat for completing my first work experience for college as I was bricking it)
60p bar of chocolate to keep me going at college until dinner.

Seeing a pattern emerge here?

scubaangel

You're female....its wine and chocolate they're essential nutrients to us.

SunFlower

scubaangel wrote: »

You're female....its wine and chocolate they're essential nutrients to us.

*Hugs scubaangel hard* I SO like your thinking, madame! :rotfl:

Spends today are £46.06 on petrol. (Yes, I tried to play the 'stop exactly on 0 game' and overshot massively: I'm normally much more exact! )

Potential good news on the 'I want a career and not a job' front: some work may come available for me in a career I would actually like to work in! :j It's all very maybe, no guarantees and day rate at the minute, but it would be a great start if it happened! :j

Right, I have stuff to do to make sure that opportunity becomes a job, so I had better get on it!

scubaangel

See now the job not career thing is where I am at the moment too - trouble is I have no idea what career it could be since I don't have the taste buds for chocolate and wine tasting

SunFlower

scubaangel wrote: »

See now the job not career thing is where I am at the moment too - trouble is I have no idea what career it could be since I don't have the taste buds for chocolate and wine tasting

:rotfl: Well, I'm aiming at what I would vaguely like, and am prepared for a few detours along the way. It seems to be the only way.

Have a think about what areas you would like to work in and what you would have to do to get there. (You can't get tasebud replacement operations yet, can you?! )

SunFlower

I've technically had a No Spend Day (NSD) today: I had a music lesson (£20), but since I had bought a website domain for my music teacher in the week (£23.99), we swapped services for money (although at the time I didn't realise it the price for the domain name was minus VAT so I am technically just under £4 out of pocket as I don't have the guts to ask her for the differenece. I'm sure she would give it and all, but it's a bit of a subject for me. I should stop being so soft.)

I also spent £1.10 on a naughty drink of Coke. Bad SunFlower!

SunFlower

Busy times in the SunFlower patch: wrote 2 articles today (work experience) and spent:

£2 charity donation (seriously, broke as I am, you would have, too)
£1.99 large bottle of Coke to get my shattered backside to the finishing line with the articles.

Hmm...am noticing a pattern with the soft drinks.