Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

My expectations are not high, I know I have to start at the bottom again as although I have kept most of my skills up to date and added more to my skillset, I still have that awkward career break time to get over. To most employers, I am an unknown quantity after being out for so long.

I think that view is becoming outdated. With extended maternity breaks now a right, there is more acceptance of career breaks.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

They just delivered this months pills. First month (of four now) its actually worked how it is meant to. Hurrah, I can finally relax about that.

Otoh, I still have two boxes left from last month. I knew I had missed a few days in the last couple of weeks, but I hadn't realised how many. I am not even sure that i have missed that many days. Anyway, new resolve to not forget to take pills starts tonight. .

Take a marker pen and label the blister pack with the days of the week. It makes it easier to keep track of such things.

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Hugs for everyone
An excuse is never needed for a hug :cool::D

Welcome back Lydia!

Thanks CK :hello:

lostinrates wrote: »

you know I don't need help with the bills. It's just I hate spending it on that sort of thing.

We have heater on for the dogs, in parents bedroom ( when parent is here, though they are off ATM) and a couple floating around which I pretend do not exist.

It's almost over now, what ever happens, it cannot be below zero in say, ten weeks.

So what you are saying is that it's OK for your health to be put at risk, but not for your dogs? :shocked:

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

So what you are saying is that it's OK for your health to be put at risk, but not for your dogs? :shocked:

The dogs have no choice.

I have the wood burner on now and will stick the heater on upstairs soon for this evening.

I'll even pull the spare one out and stick it somewhere downstairs.

Fwiw, the boiler (deleted) is my least favourite thing in the house. With our old carpets that's really saying something.

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

edit: I would choose minor injuries unit if I went anywhere. Would not willingly go to an A&E on a Bank Holiday (((shudder)))

Even on a bank holiday weekend, A&E is usually fine if you go at 8:00 in the morning. Whenever my kids do anything to themselves that might require an X-ray, I try to get them to hang on until the following morning and then go when there won't be a queue. It's great - you get in and seen and X-rayed and seen again and out again, all in less than an hour.

SingleSue wrote: »

I was coming from the other angle...not worked for some time, so all I could expect was a minimum wage job or a more junior position elsewhere.

My expectations are not high, I know I have to start at the bottom again as although I have kept most of my skills up to date and added more to my skillset, I still have that awkward career break time to get over. To most employers, I am an unknown quantity after being out for so long.

That said, I have applied for something which is a new and exciting part of the old sector I worked in...and that is def not minimum wage.

Well, yes, you probably will have to take a position that's a bit junior to where you left off, but there's a world of difference between a few rungs down the ladder, and NMW not really on a ladder that goes anywhere in particular.

I'm excited about the thing you've applied for - whether you get this one or not, applying for it is a step in a very promising direction. Let us NP know how things go, won't you?

Oh, and remember, you thought your circumstances meant that it was impossible you'd ever get a bloke, and that didn't exactly turn out to be accurate. So there's loads of reason to hope that your job prospects are similarly better than they feel like to you.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

The dogs have no choice.

I wasn't suggesting the dogs should have to suffer in arctic temperatures with you!! I totally support you in keeping them warm. I just think you yourself deserve to be at least as warm as the dogs are.

OK, I'm going to stop going on about it now. I don't want you to feel I'm getting at you. I'm just concerned about you, and I don't think I'm the only NP who is.

I have read the rest of your post (about the latest incident with the boiler) but haven't quoted it since you said you might delete it. But we are all hoping that the legal process very rapidly arrives at the point of allowing somebody else to come and do whatever it takes to give your house a functional heating system.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I wasn't suggesting the dogs should have to suffer in arctic temperatures with you!! I totally support you in keeping them warm. I just think you yourself deserve to be at least as warm as the dogs are.

OK, I'm going to stop going on about it now. I don't want you to feel I'm getting at you. I'm just concerned about you, and I don't think I'm the only NP who is.

I have read the rest of your post (about the latest incident with the boiler) but haven't quoted it since you said you might delete it. But we are all hoping that the legal process very rapidly arrives at the point of allowing somebody else to come and do whatever it takes to give your house a functional heating system.

No, no, I knew you were not saying the dogs should freeze, I was just saying they don't make the decisions I do...so anything I suffer is at my own hands,

I think my feeling is I don't mind paying for central heating, when it a. Works in keeping us warm and b does things like warm the fabric of the building. I feel a bit sick running the heaters which take ages to heat the cold house and never get it that warm to make one actually feel warm iykwim, and not in any way that actually starts to warm the fabric of the building, so as soon as they are off the heat bleeds out and it all feels like bailing out a boat with a huge hole in it!

If we hadn't had any heating on at all the house would be MUCH colder.

neverdespairgirl

Hello all nice people.

Life for me has been just a little frantic of late, hence I've been AWOL.

Lovely to "see" you all again!

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Hello all nice people.

Life for me has been just a little frantic of late, hence I've been AWOL.

Lovely to "see" you all again!

Hello, we wonder how you are sometimes!

How are things?

neverdespairgirl

They have been very busy indeed.

My mother was feeling increasingly rotten last summer, and was then diagnosed with cancer. Bit of a shock, she's fit, healthy, never ill, doesn't smoke, eats well, doesn't drink too much, etc.

The initial diagnosis was a terrifying "6-12 months", and then they discovered the underlying cause was a different form of cancer - non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. So she embarked on a nasty course of chemotherapy.

At the end of Feb, she was given the fantastic news that the cancer had cleared, and then she caught shingles, and landed herself back in hospital for another fortnight.

My parents also, while this was going on, sold their London house, which had been on the market for a while. As they didn't know what was going to happen, they decided not to buy another place in London yet, but to move to their pad in Kent, where my sisters live. Sorting out a house which was lived in for 20 years, and bearing in mind that crap expands to fit the space available, this was hard work. The space was 6 beds, 4 baths, boxroom, 4 reception rooms, study, garage, shed, celler, etc. So there was a fair bit to do.

I also started a 3 month trial just after the New Year, which has been pretty hard work, too!

misskool

Best wishes to ndg's mum and hope things are slowly on the up for her.

Today, cleared bed, planted potatoes, cleared bed, dug organic, plant one row if peas. Lots of tea and sitting around too.

Best of all waitrose are doing childhood puddings so I have tapioca coconut with mango to have at some point. But we are out for posh nosh tonight. See you lot tomorrow.

Hope all is well.