MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Horace

Afternoon peeps - I have new hair - this morning I went to the local college to their new hairdressing salon. I was expecting to pay £32 to have my hair cut and coloured but instead I was charged £28.80 and given a loyalty card so if I attend 5x I get 15% off and if I attend 10x I get a free treatment. Picked up a price list for mum too together with a senior citizens price list - she could get her hair cut and coloured for £18:D

Nipped to Aldi as well - I went for toilet rolls and came home with onions, sugar, lemon juice, baps, a garden bag and an anti slip mat to go in the bath (the bag and the mat are for my new home). I did not come home with toilet rolls:( Later in the month I plan to get some summer bulbs from Aldi too so that I will at least have some flowers for the garden which will hopefully come back year after year.

Igamogam

Well friend came up with the goods over a coffee in her lunch break - went through CV and job/person spec and as she said they would be mad not to grab you with 2 hands! Sometimes I cant see the woods for the trees........................ feeling more positive but there is still a niggle at the back of my mind as I have been here before with this lot and they are notorious for appointing those they already know.................. however I am not going to let that bother me. Friend has offered to check over application when I have done it just to make sure I am not under selling myself

OK off to make biscotti a la MG for a gathering of friends tonight - its acheap night out in IYSWIM! Contribution cheese drinks and nibbles at someones house - we are all ( well nearly all) skint and cant afford to go out but need to get together for a natter!

Memory_Girl

MG here - clean and - well clean:D

I'd show you a photo of my progress today - but actually with the second coat on it looks exactly the same from a distance as yesterday.

Looked in my fruit bowl and decided to make some more Grapefruit,lemon and lime marmalade (the gorgeous one I made just before Christmas) so the house is smelling wonderful. Love my pressure cooker for stuff like this.

Which reminds me - Vanilla Extract tutorial - now that MrF as found all my posts I will throw that back up on the blog.

Its getting a bit chilly up here though.

MG

greenbee

Igamogam - one of the things that came up at a workshop recently was to think of the words that other people use to describe you (in a professional context) when creating your responses. I looked at my linkedin recommendations and came up with a list that included stuff like 'organised :rotfl::rotfl:, knowledgeable, committed, trustworthy, proactive, energetic, enthusiastic, succesful, team player, team builder, developer' etc, as well as some good stuff around what I'd achieved.

NONE of those words are ones I have used about myself in my CV. And they should be. And they will be when I get round to updating both it and linkedin...

Firewalker

greenbee wrote: »

Marru - enjoy London, and when you get back, I need your advice as I have a work trip to Helsinki coming up at the end of the month...

So far this year I am booked for... Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich (three times.... March, April and May... doesn't say much about their organisation!), Lisbon, London, Sofia, Athens and Lubljana... Most of them day trips. But I get 2 days in Helsinki, and as it is a Monday start have the possibility of part of the weekend as well. Sofia is at the end of May, and sadly between Lubljana and Athens (lets hope there are flights!) so I won't get any sightseeing time....

Best time to go to Sofia.

Firewalker

greenbee

Firewalker wrote: »

Best time to go to Sofia.

Firewalker

Good to know... and it looks like it'll be at either the beginning or end of the week after all, so I'll want suggestions for sightseeing

Apparently Lubljana is being reorganised and we might be going to Cyprus... hopefully they'll make their minds up!

clairewop

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Hww lovely - a jolly to the Big Smoke - have fun hon!

Claire - has the dentist given you mouthwash to help?

Mum has just said that L**l has got unwaxed lemons on offer this week - trying to decide whether a jar of lemon marmalade or a jar of preserved lemons will be on the cards this weekend? Well a girl has got to have some luxuries in life however fugal LOL

MG

No he put some paste stuff on my gum and tooth to ease the sensitivity, and told me to brush my gums he never prescribed anything

Marru

greenbee wrote: »

Marru - enjoy London, and when you get back, I need your advice as I have a work trip to Helsinki coming up at the end of the month...

Happy to help but I have been over here for so long that everything might have changed. Any chance for you smuggling me in your suitcase? I need to go there to open a bank account and only can do that in person.

Good trip to London, should get new passport for DD in couple of weeks. But none of the three dress agencies didn't want my dress. Any ideas where I could borrow a dummy so that I can get a good picture for fleabay?

Need to go sort out DD (we are only just back)...

Memory_Girl

Up an at 'em!

Dressed in my old clothes ready to sand the bedroom for the second time. Towel is laid out in the bathroom so that I can come straight down and into the shower.

It's the Farmers market today - and as my shopping list came to £9 odds yesterday I think I may have a wander over and see what is in season. I have a craving for sauerkraut so if there are cabbages I may have one to make a vat.

Apart from that - well snow is forecast so a pot of soup is on the horizon before I go and retrieve my boys from their Gran's............... oh and deal with the 9 lemons I got from Lidl yesterday. Lemon marmalade, Persian spiced lemons and Preserved lemons, so need to buy a bag of sugar and get some jars from underneath the stairs.

Time to get going

MG

greenbee

Enjoy the sanding MG. I have enough problems organising and clearing up after workmen, without actually doing the work myself! I'm just sterling myself to schedule the last of the floor, which of course needs to happen when I'm really busy. But I need it over and done with!

Today I need to work out savoury pancake recipes for Tuesday and get the ingredients so I can prepare. There will between 6 and 10 of us, and I want to try to use store cupboard ingredients where possible. How many different things can I make with tinned tomatoes and lentils