Scuba Shifts North and Debt.

ZTD

So is work still meh then?

Are you working the weekend?

scubaangel

Today work has been quite seriously sub 'meh' feeling 'meh' about it would have been a serious bright spot.

That said I'm shattered - this weekend was the weekend in Yorkshire. The night in the hotel drinking with the bigger group was great fun as usual, albeit a somewhat less lively night out than usual with that group - apparently the night I wasn't there was the busier livlier night.

The other was the function, that was good fun - then again whats not to love about a back to high school themed dinner night which includes space hoppers, hula hoops (not the food variety), dodgems, bouncy castles and two good friends, the husband of one of them and a lot of people who I used to serve coffee to at my old job down south.

Gorgeous drive across the Yorkshire Dales this morning to get to work, am glad I took the Dales route rather than the motorway route as I think that having to concentrate on what I was doing is the only reason I didn't want to fall asleep - getting to bed at 0345 and getting up again at 0845 ready for a two hour drive is never going to feel good!

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Today work has been quite seriously sub 'meh' feeling 'meh' about it would have been a serious bright spot.

:grouphug:

What's been so bad about today?

scubaangel wrote: »

Gorgeous drive across the Yorkshire Dales this morning to get to work, am glad I took the Dales route rather than the motorway route as I think that having to concentrate on what I was doing is the only reason I didn't want to fall asleep - getting to bed at 0345 and getting up again at 0845 ready for a two hour drive is never going to feel good!

Be careful. I mean it. You're in a large, heavy piece of moving machinery. It doesn't take much to do major damage to yourself and others. I know that some days I've needed gamer reflexes to avoid everyone hurtling at me, and that would not have been you today.

Lecture over... :grouphug:

scubaangel

I was being careful, twisty turny country roads that I can't go fast on instead of the motorway where I was risking zoning out. Big cup of coffee before I set off, plenty of water and lucozade while I was driving and at work, and stopped drinking at midnight (caused no end of confusion for my friends). We planned on getting back to the house earlier but the transport got messed up so we'd a much longer wait for it than we wanted.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

I was being careful, twisty turny country roads

Is this the part of the Dales where it's twisty-turny with a severe drop on one side?

scubaangel wrote: »

that I can't go fast on

We obviously drive very differently...

scubaangel wrote: »

instead of the motorway where I was risking zoning out. Big cup of coffee before I set off, plenty of water and lucozade while I was driving and at work, and stopped drinking at midnight (caused no end of confusion for my friends).

That's what happens on a school night...

scubaangel wrote: »

We planned on getting back to the house earlier but the transport got messed up so we'd a much longer wait for it than we wanted.

Well I hope you're catching up on sleep now. Work tomorrow?

scubaangel

Yup work tomorrow.

I don't usually drink a two hour drive from work, much less beyond the pub closing time (although I think I probably would if I got to play on a bouncy castle more often)

No not so many steep drops that I noticed, although being a good little driver I was looking at the road not the scenery.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Yup work tomorrow.

Sleep...sleeeeeepppp...

scubaangel wrote: »

I don't usually drink a two hour drive from work, much less beyond the pub closing time (although I think I probably would if I got to play on a bouncy castle more often)

Bouncy, bouncy...

scubaangel wrote: »

No not so many steep drops that I noticed, although being a good little driver I was looking at the road not the scenery.

You should always be aware of your surroundings. Everything from stupid children wandering along thinking their world starts and ends with their phone, to "if some lunatic comes round that blind bend in the middle of the road - what's Plan B?" Plan B tends not to involve any steep drops...

Fortunately, I've only ever had to invoke Plan B half a dozen times... :rotfl:

scubaangel

I slept,

And woke up with a cold. So now I'm grumpy because I feel horrid without actually being properly ill. But I've been inhaling lemsip at the max allowable rate and hiding out in the office sneezing my head off and am hoping I'll start to feel better by weekend.

Am hoping to hear tomorrow from an agency I spoke to today - they're looking for Christmas temps at a catalogue shopping place, its nearer home and better money than I'm on now and I know a couple of people who've worked for them in the past who've all been offered perm jobs after doing temp work for them. The agency know I'm working at the moment and would have to give notice but have also said that if I'm willing to work my days off the other company could start the training while I was working notice. Hopefully they'll give me an interview and if not the consultant has sent me three other less well paid temp roles to have a look at if the client at this one doesn't want to interview me.

Also a couple of mystery shops booked for my day off next week.

scubaangel

Didn't hear from the agency, ho hum, I shall continue to make the best of my current employment.

HMRC have been rather lovely and refunded me 90% of all the tax I paid from my PAYE work last year which means a chunk coming off one of the credit cards next week when the cheque clears.

Also agreed with Dad how much I'm going to pay him in housekeeping, he's asked for quite a bit less than I anticipated so got that payment set up and the difference between what I expected and what he's asked for will go in to my savings along with the £50 for my car expenses.

scubaangel

HMRC cheque in the bank.

Standing order set up to pay Dad, need to manually pay the first months money but going to do that on Monday so I can confirm that the phone number for the passcodes has been changed properly.

I have however set up the payment from my current account to the 'car' savings, as well the enough to cover the minimum payments in to my other current account. I'll keep making additional payments manually.

I've now found out I've two more 'days out' for work related stuff to deal with next month, makes perfect sense for what I'm told is one of our busiest periods for me to be out of the site for 2 days in a row one week (and one of those is my usual day off so will have to schedule another day off in lieu) and one day each the next two weeks.

Logically once again they think I should be driving to Yorkshire before 9am one morning for the first day out and then home again before driving to the Midlands and back on the second day. I think am going to be going down the booking cheap hotels route again instead.