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  • RosaBernicia
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    ZTD wrote: »
    The vacuum stuff is good, provided you don't need the stuff in a hurry. It gets awfully wrinkled.

    :( may not be such a great idea then. Not much point carefully putting away posh winter coats if it's going to result in dry cleaning bills... might just sort out material to cover current boxes instead.

    ZTD wrote: »
    So come on...detail... ;)

    Maybe later - that would need musing.

    ZTD wrote: »
    You know what he's like by now - surely.

    Yeah, I can't say it was a great surprise. Apparently even walking 200 yards for 15 minutes is too much effort. Still, I don't actually care - will be focusing on people I do have something in common with - and really will just never make plans around him again. He also let down another friend and I was quite taken aback at the abruptness of the message on the friend's FB wall - the word 'sorry' is not included.


    Have liberated a few summer things from the underbed boxes and am a bit taken aback at the number of polka dot dresses I already seem to have :rotfl: (interestingly, one of them is from the fab dress co I thought I'd newly discovered - they must sell to the boutique in town that I now have to avoid because I rarely leave without a new dress :o). Also found a couple of good pairs of wide leg trousers I'd forgotten I had, so the main things I think I need for summer are shoes/ sandals and I want a lightweight red coat. Am trying to only take out and iron the things I actually still like, on the principle that the rest can then be ebayed :rotfl:. I've hung onto stuff that I don't actually wear for a few years now and I think it's time I did some editing.


    Right, bedtime, ready for all the nonsense tomorrow - but I will only be suffering 7.5 hours of nonsense and then escaping.

    'Night

    Rosa xx
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  • kerri_gt
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    Rosa, personally I'd avoid the vacuum bags if you can - I got some but over time they lost their vacuum and everying started puffing up again (bedding) plus, I kinda think it's ok for bedding, but if it's clothes going into it, then unless you have really zero storage, it prob means you have too many clothes (not you personally, that was the 'you' in general) I'd think a covered box / case would be better if poss, then you don't have to faff re-vacuuming everything when you want to get something out.
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    :( may not be such a great idea then. Not much point carefully putting away posh winter coats if it's going to result in dry cleaning bills... might just sort out material to cover current boxes instead.

    That would definitately be a plan A. Plan B may be to get a bag later and actually try it.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Maybe later - that would need musing.

    Sounds like it would turn into a twinkly musing... ;)
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Yeah, I can't say it was a great surprise. Apparently even walking 200 yards for 15 minutes is too much effort.

    Yeah. Two hundred whole yards. That's over a tenth of a mile! A tenth!

    Do you know how long that is?! That's round about 200 yards!!!
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Still, I don't actually care - will be focusing on people I do have something in common with - and really will just never make plans around him again. He also let down another friend and I was quite taken aback at the abruptness of the message on the friend's FB wall - the word 'sorry' is not included.

    He left the message, or she did?
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Have liberated a few summer things from the underbed boxes and am a bit taken aback at the number of polka dot dresses I already seem to have :rotfl: (interestingly, one of them is from the fab dress co I thought I'd newly discovered - they must sell to the boutique in town that I now have to avoid because I rarely leave without a new dress :o).

    Avoidence is good...
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Also found a couple of good pairs of wide leg trousers I'd forgotten I had,

    You'd forgotton you had wide legs?
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    so the main things I think I need for summer are shoes/ sandals and I want a lightweight red coat. Am trying to only take out and iron the things I actually still like, on the principle that the rest can then be ebayed :rotfl:. I've hung onto stuff that I don't actually wear for a few years now and I think it's time I did some editing.

    Indeedy.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Right, bedtime, ready for all the nonsense tomorrow - but I will only be suffering 7.5 hours of nonsense and then escaping.

    :T
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    'Night

    Hope it was a good one...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • RosaBernicia
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    Pffffft :mad:.

    I got up early and went into work an hour early this morning.

    Now I should probably explain exactly how rare that is - it's, oooh, about as likely as putting sugar in your coffee and finding that a small passing random cyclone helpfully stirs it for you before swooping off leaving 'have a nice day' written in a trail of sugar crystals across your desk. I hardly ever get up on time, never mind early, mainly because I always wind up doing stuff and never getting to bed on time. So this was an Event. Even more so because I woke up feeling fab despite not sleeping much, and managed a cup of tea, breakfast, and taking lunch in before STILL getting to work an hour early. Crikey, it's quiet there at 8.30.

    My motivation for this was that I'd get to come home at 4.30 and have time for allotment digging before project reading and a bubble bath. Did this happen? Did it fk. I left at 5.30 having spent the day juggling umpteen bits and knowing it simply isn't possible to get everything done without giving up at least one of my evenings this week. It took 45 minutes just from switching off the laptop to actually exit the office, by the time I'd listened to one person's latest personal saga, shown another how to write a paper I thought somebody else had already discussed with them and been waylaid by a third. My manager is on leave the whole week, not just today which I knew, and the only free day I had and needed to use for preparation has been shafted by a full day management training course which apparently I have to go to - woulda been helpful if they'd made it clear in the advance warning that this was a full day, not a two hour session - so I basically have to spend tomorrow night on the laptop. Plus of course I have no admin which though not remotely my fault, is getting me moaned at by the rest of the team. I am NOT HAPPY. I'm actually so bl**dy upset I am seriously considering just refusing to do the prep and stuff the fact that it won't be ready for the meeting, which is unheard of. Then again, nobody else appears to have done anything for this meeting as it appears the entire world has been on holiday for the last fortnight.

    I had just managed to have not even a week off and feel like I had a life again, and as soon as I get into work I find I'm enabling other people to have a life instead. Again. It probably didn't help that a colleague called me over to ask about someone I used to know in a previous job, who will now be vaguely involved with us... it's one of those 'could have been' situations that never really got anywhere, but I didn't really need reminding of the lack of changes in my life since compared to his.

    I did go to the allotment when I got back as I was too cross to do anything else - so stamping on a spade and cursing weeds was quite therapeutic. Have also had my bath and am about to sort out tea and some reading, but am not darn well touching the laptop because IT'S JUST NOT FAIR.

    Have to be out early tomorrow as am in the city all day, but should be back at a reasonable time. Will try and think of something to compensate for extra work IF I decide to do it - and I will be taking all my extra hours back first thing next week.

    See, had enough. Worm turned, mouse roared, etc. Am fed up of being taken advantage of, especially as it's not even by competent people who I can learn from. The place is such a mess at the minute even I can't convince myself that continuing to do things right will be noticed.,

    :mad::mad:

    *stomps off to sulk*

    :o Sorry, I do know this rant must be getting v boring by now. Am not quite sure how I've managed to ignore all this for so long but guess at least now it is getting aired and sorted :rotfl:

    Oh and I managed to finish my miniscule square of allotment and plant something in it, so progress has been achieved. Going to try and pop over every other day even if I only dig another tiny piece!


    Rosa xx
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
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  • RosaBernicia
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Sounds like it would turn into a twinkly musing... ;)

    Maybe. Saving thinking about this for a proper thinking through what I want to do - and when am sparkly not cross.


    ZTD wrote: »
    He left the message, or she did?
    He did. It's even more abrupt than the text I got. The response is surprisingly polite but then I suppose so was mine, it just didn't seem worth starting rudeness when it's easier to ignore him. Mind you, I didn't volunteer to reschedule :D


    Rosa xx
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    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Pffffft :mad:.

    I got up early and went into work an hour early this morning.

    Now I should probably explain exactly how rare that is - it's, oooh, about as likely as putting sugar in your coffee and finding that a small passing random cyclone helpfully stirs it for you before swooping off leaving 'have a nice day' written in a trail of sugar crystals across your desk.

    Nope...can't say I've had that one.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I hardly ever get up on time, never mind early, mainly because I always wind up doing stuff and never getting to bed on time. So this was an Event. Even more so because I woke up feeling fab despite not sleeping much, and managed a cup of tea, breakfast, and taking lunch in before STILL getting to work an hour early.

    :T:T:T:T
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Crikey, it's quiet there at 8.30.

    All the bears with sore heads are at home.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    My motivation for this was that I'd get to come home at 4.30 and have time for allotment digging before project reading and a bubble bath. Did this happen? Did it fk. I left at 5.30 having spent the day juggling umpteen bits and knowing it simply isn't possible to get everything done without giving up at least one of my evenings this week. It took 45 minutes just from switching off the laptop to actually exit the office, by the time I'd listened to one person's latest personal saga,

    I take it that it's not entertaining enough to be worth the listening?
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    shown another how to write a paper I thought somebody else had already discussed with them and been waylaid by a third. My manager is on leave the whole week, not just today which I knew, and the only free day I had and needed to use for preparation has been shafted by a full day management training course which apparently I have to go to - woulda been helpful if they'd made it clear in the advance warning that this was a full day, not a two hour session - so I basically have to spend tomorrow night on the laptop. Plus of course I have no admin which though not remotely my fault, is getting me moaned at by the rest of the team. I am NOT HAPPY.

    :grouphug:
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I'm actually so bl**dy upset I am seriously considering just refusing to do the prep and stuff the fact that it won't be ready for the meeting, which is unheard of. Then again, nobody else appears to have done anything for this meeting as it appears the entire world has been on holiday for the last fortnight.

    And then again, you're good enough to just wing it.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I had just managed to have not even a week off and feel like I had a life again, and as soon as I get into work I find I'm enabling other people to have a life instead. Again. It probably didn't help that a colleague called me over to ask about someone I used to know in a previous job, who will now be vaguely involved with us... it's one of those 'could have been' situations that never really got anywhere, but I didn't really need reminding of the lack of changes in my life since compared to his.

    These things are for a reason. It was probably so a better opportunity could knock.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I did go to the allotment when I got back as I was too cross to do anything else - so stamping on a spade and cursing weeds was quite therapeutic. Have also had my bath and am about to sort out tea and some reading, but am not darn well touching the laptop because IT'S JUST NOT FAIR.

    :grouphug:
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Have to be out early tomorrow as am in the city all day, but should be back at a reasonable time. Will try and think of something to compensate for extra work IF I decide to do it - and I will be taking all my extra hours back first thing next week.

    See, had enough. Worm turned, mouse roared, etc. Am fed up of being taken advantage of, especially as it's not even by competent people who I can learn from.

    Yes, that is a real bind.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    The place is such a mess at the minute even I can't convince myself that continuing to do things right will be noticed.,

    It won't. It's just propping up idiots.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    :mad::mad:

    *stomps off to sulk*

    :grouphug:
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    :o Sorry, I do know this rant must be getting v boring by now. Am not quite sure how I've managed to ignore all this for so long but guess at least now it is getting aired and sorted :rotfl:

    It is indeed.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Oh and I managed to finish my miniscule square of allotment and plant something in it, so progress has been achieved. Going to try and pop over every other day even if I only dig another tiny piece!

    A journey of a thousand miles is completed a step at a time.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Maybe.

    No maybes. Opportunity knocks, but rarely twice.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Saving thinking about this for a proper thinking through what I want to do - and when am sparkly not cross.

    :T
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    He did. It's even more abrupt than the text I got. The response is surprisingly polite but then I suppose so was mine, it just didn't seem worth starting rudeness when it's easier to ignore him. Mind you, I didn't volunteer to reschedule :D

    Volunteer to reschedule a train up where he thinks the sun shines out of...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • RosaBernicia
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    ZTD wrote: »
    I take it that it's not entertaining enough to be worth the listening?

    Nope. If I didn't know that it was a consistent back story that's been going on for months, I'd suspect EastEnders highlights. But the poor lass really is just having a rotten time. I would normally be rather more sympathetic but I do try not to take my own issues to the office so it gets a bit frustrating to hear so much about someone else's. On the other hand, it's my own fault for listening sympathetically at the beginning instead of just brushing it off and rushing away. Guess I can't have it both ways.

    ZTD wrote: »
    :grouphug:

    Thank yoooouu :A :kisses3: much appreciated

    ZTD wrote: »
    And then again, you're good enough to just wing it.

    Which may be the decision. I'll see how I feel tomorrow and whether I think the opportunity to impress makes up for the extra time.

    ZTD wrote: »
    These things are for a reason. It was probably so a better opportunity could knock.

    Yes, there were several reasons... been waiting a while for that better opportunity though *considers laying chocolate trail to door, then realises this may not be the most effective lure for men. Trail of discarded stockings etc probably not right impression either... hmm, there must be something*

    ZTD wrote: »
    No maybes. Opportunity knocks, but rarely twice.

    I suspect that's what today's little reminder was designed to tell me. I suspect I missed some cues on that one and didn't take it seriously when it was actually meant seriously... so must try not to do that again.

    ZTD wrote: »
    Volunteer to reschedule a train up where he thinks the sun shines out of...

    Oh, he can just get knotted, simple as. Won't be contacting him and won't schedule anything around him again.


    Have also realised that the shivering, sniffling and general Have Cold ness is probably not helping grumpiness level. So should probably take self off to bed with furry hot wheat bag (ask Kerri DFW, Z, before you go there) and tissues soaked in essential oils, and let's see if I can manage to wake up happy again.

    Oh and on little happy notes, my skin is bizarrely clear, maybe the stress hormones have finally dropped; the trousers I found yesterday pull off without undoing them, so I think I must have lost weight since last summer; and it's pole class tomorrow. :)


    goodnight
    Rosa xx
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Nope. If I didn't know that it was a consistent back story that's been going on for months, I'd suspect EastEnders highlights. But the poor lass really is just having a rotten time. I would normally be rather more sympathetic but I do try not to take my own issues to the office so it gets a bit frustrating to hear so much about someone else's.

    Be calm. Sometimes they're genuine, sometimes they're not.

    I won't even attempt to deterrmine which is which from this distance.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    On the other hand, it's my own fault for listening sympathetically at the beginning instead of just brushing it off and rushing away. Guess I can't have it both ways.

    Never EVER call it as a fault for listening sympathetically. It's hard. I truly know that, but it's hard to sit and judge that someone is genuine and someone is not. It's shitty, and I know it's shitty that you must judge the true from the untrue.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Thank yoooouu :A :kisses3: much appreciated

    Don't lead on idiots like me like that. Did explain about my toothache? In vino veritas and all that...
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Which may be the decision. I'll see how I feel tomorrow and whether I think the opportunity to impress makes up for the extra time.

    You've been in your position for enought time to realise that abject failure is soon forgotton. Carpe diem.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Yes, there were several reasons... been waiting a while for that better opportunity though *considers laying chocolate trail to door, then realises this may not be the most effective lure for men.

    I don't know - talk to me about it... ;)
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Trail of discarded stockings etc probably not right impression either... hmm, there must be something*

    That's cool.. I can deal with that. However, you probably can't...
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    I suspect that's what today's little reminder was designed to tell me. I suspect I missed some cues on that one and didn't take it seriously when it was actually meant seriously... so must try not to do that again.

    Back to that phrase: Carpe diem - sieze the fish... ;)
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Oh, he can just get knotted, simple as. Won't be contacting him and won't schedule anything around him again.

    Use him for whatever he's usfule (usfule? Get out of here!!!) for - it's on your terms now - not his.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Have also realised that the shivering, sniffling and general Have Cold ness is probably not helping grumpiness level. So should probably take self off to bed with furry hot wheat bag (ask Kerri DFW, Z, before you go there)

    Now, now - would I mock the afflicted? Take plenty of Vit C and zinc?
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    and tissues soaked in essential oils, and let's see if I can manage to wake up happy again.

    You do that, or I'll spank your butt... and people who know me wouldn't doubt that....
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Oh and on little happy notes, my skin is bizarrely clear, maybe the stress hormones have finally dropped; the trousers I found yesterday pull off without undoing them,

    OK, you've talked me into you... ;)
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    so I think I must have lost weight since last summer; and it's pole class tomorrow. :)

    :T
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    goodnight

    Have a good one.And don't be *too* offended... ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • RosaBernicia
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Never EVER call it as a fault for listening sympathetically. It's hard.

    You're right, it's always better than erring on the suspicious side.

    ZTD wrote: »
    Don't lead on idiots like me like that. Did explain about my toothache? In vino veritas and all that...

    You explained about your toothache and the brandy solution on Nora's thread, and I felt bad for moaning to you when you were in a worse state! Hope your tooth is better and your head's not suffering :)

    ZTD wrote: »
    Back to that phrase: Carpe diem - sieze the fish... ;)

    It's not really a fish that I'm after :rotfl: but point taken.

    ZTD wrote: »
    OK, you've talked me into you... ;)

    Hm, maybe I should show my face back at the Clothes Challenge rather than discussing today's purchases while you're on the brandy :rotfl:


    Rosa xx
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    You're right, it's always better than erring on the suspicious side.

    You can always decide later you were wrong and ditch them into the nearest river, where once you've dismissed someone, that's it. Even if they do nominally forgive you, things will never be the same.
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    You explained about your toothache and the brandy solution on Nora's thread, and I felt bad for moaning to you when you were in a worse state!

    Well the brandy appeared to have worked, and I appear to have pickled something to such a degree, that it hasn't hurt anywhere near as much today.

    I'm quite shocked how good the speeling and grandma came out, given I was typing with one finger and squinting at the screen with one eye. :eek:
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Hope your tooth is better and your head's not suffering :)

    Head's fine - the rest of me is a touch fragile...
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    It's not really a fish that I'm after :rotfl: but point taken.

    You're going fishing are you not? Getting one out of the sea - are you not? ;)
    RosaBernicia wrote: »
    Hm, maybe I should show my face back at the Clothes Challenge rather than discussing today's purchases while you're on the brandy :rotfl:

    Go on...be a devil... ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
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