PigginSkint's DFW Diary

PigginSkint

Some good news at least - OH has an audition in London tomorrow for an advert. I hope he gets it - that would definitely help the family finances. It is being filmed on Thursday so we should know fairly quickly whether he has got it - an added bonus.

He is also working on Wednesday so that will be some more money.

Typically he has not yet let looked at the jobs pages in the Guardian but he did make dinner tonight! Must be grateful for small mercies I suppose!

bubbles0169

hi good news about audition hope it goes well but couldnt help but notice this

PigginSkint wrote: »

He probably could, but would he?!

Thanks for your good wishes!

if hes not bothered about lookin for work in that line then he needs to look for another occupation one with security, knowing your going to be working x amount of hours and that you will get regular income
surely if he wants to act he will look for jobs
if he doesnt, replace the guardian online address with fish4jobs!;)

PigginSkint

bubbles0169 wrote: »

hi good news about audition hope it goes well but couldnt help but notice this

if hes not bothered about lookin for work in that line then he needs to look for another occupation one with security, knowing your going to be working x amount of hours and that you will get regular income
surely if he wants to act he will look for jobs
if he doesnt, replace the guardian online address with fish4jobs!;)

I will probably do what I did last night with some other things - I will find them and then save them in Favourites on the lap top. No excuse then!

I have been having a good look at the jobseeking forum, followed the links to what I thought would be useful sites and saved them in Favourites. Just need to do that with guardian, fish4jobs and any others I can think of. Just need to get my thinking cap on!

embarrassed_about_my_debt

Do you have a local regional newspaper? They normally have the majority of local jobs in

PigginSkint

Hi All

Right, I am going to try and make this post a moaning-about-OH-free-zone!

At the weekend (at my request) DS had a really good sort out of his book case, because I am sure pretty much all of the books he has ever owned were on there (he is now 13!). He has managed to sort out 3 Avon delivery boxes full of books he no longer wants. So the next job is sort through them and see which ones could be sold, which ones I could keep to give away as birthday and Christmas presents, which ones can go to the charity shop and which ones to just chuck. I suppose the difference between ones I can sell and ones that will go to the charity shop will be how much I can sell them for on Amazon – if the going price is 1p there is not a lot of point listing them!

Also at the weekend I gave OH a job to do which he has actually started to do! We have a large bookcase downstairs – I use the bottom shelf for my Avon stuff and on the next shelf up is a basket in which I put all OH’s work-related things that he leaves lying around, in the hope that he will actually go through it and work out what he wants to keep and what can go. Needless to say this basket was overflowing because that particular job had not been done. So on Sunday afternoon I handed him the basket, plugged the shredder in and put it right next to him and invited him to get started, which he did! He would have continued but he had to go and see his Mum – he took her Avon delivery to her for me. He has not yet finished this job but I can’t complain because it was me who was hogging the sofa last night (using the laptop) so he wasn’t actually sat by the basket.

OH is auditioning for an ad today (fingers very tightly crossed) so won’t be back until late (he has to wait for an off-peak train). I gave him sandwiches and a flask of coffee to take with him so, as I told him, he doesn’t need to use the Egg card for anything other than travel expenses. I am not going to make any other comment about that as I did say that I wouldn’t moan about OH in this post (plenty of time for that later!!!).

This afternoon I am going to get stuck into doing some stuff for my review. I have done the work that needed urgently doing today so I can get on with it – everything else that needs doing can wait until after Thursday afternoon. Unless, that is, I manage to get everything done for my review that I need to do.

Suppose I had better get on with it – bye all!!

PigginSkint

embarrassed_about_my_debt wrote: »

Do you have a local regional newspaper? They normally have the majority of local jobs in

Yes we do. The local (weekly) one for our town we buy every week and I always look in there for jobs. There is also another one which is an evening one based in the city that we are nearest to. That one has lots of jobs in on a Thursday so I plan to make sure he starts getting that one. Last night I also saved in Favourites JobCentre Plus (is that the right name?).

I am doing all I can to push him in the right direction. I do feel slightly resentful that I have to do all this for him ,otherwise I just know that it wouldn't get done. I do sometimes wonder how many children I have actually got!!

bubbles0169

PigginSkint wrote: »

I do sometimes wonder how many children I have actually got!!

i must admit i had thought of asking you the same thing:rotfl:

bubbles0169

PigginSkint wrote: »

Hi All

Right, I am going to try and make this post a moaning-about-OH-free-zone!

Needless to say this basket was overflowing because that particular job had not been done.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
i think ive got too much time on my hands
actually im just not utilising
cue screaming DS x

PigginSkint

bubbles0169 wrote: »

i must admit i had thought of asking you the same thing:rotfl:

I thought I would get in first and say it myself!! lol!!

PigginSkint

bubbles0169 wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
i think ive got too much time on my hands
actually im just not utilising
cue screaming DS x

I know! I know! that was a bit too close to moaning wasn't it?!