Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

NotNormal

Well it took me a few days, but I have finally reached page 135 :P

Hope work has calmed down for you and enjoy the weekend!

stepuptothepl8

Hope you're having a good w/e lovely lady xx

Levi-

Ditto this, I am missing 2 limbs with my little Liltster and Me&O MIA
are you doing this? x

Westie983

^^ what is this hoovering??

Levi-

Scrubbing floors I think.x

Westie983

Of course

liltdiddylilt

Afternoon guys

Just a quickie pop on. Man I've got a lot of diaries to catch up on!

Notes so you know what has been going on:

Work - nightmare but after hours of meetings, a pile of work has been removed from a colleague who is supposed to work on it, filter it to me and who hasn't done so in the last 5 months. I mention this week on week but have been ignored thus far and just done what I can. This week I came in to find a rocket (Director) wedged firmly behind him and asking me finally what has been going on (I tell them weekly) - upshot is, 9 client files have landed on my desk for me to work on solely with my bosses input. Colleague has had it removed and will be being micro-managed until further notice. I will refer the odd bit of work to him instead. This obviously impacts on me.. and a disaster with a client who is my biggest nightmare/workload - where the client hit 'reply all' on an email I had sent to him, my Director and 2 of his colleagues discussing us in not very pleasant terms and blaming their own errors and issues on us, thinking he was forwarding it to one of the original recipients - resulted in a 2 hour meeting with boss where we drafted a termination of agreement email and sent it just after 5pm Friday, and went through all of the files which are now managed by me, to see what needed to be done and create a plan of action.

Once again I've been thrown under the bus. Again I am dusting myself off and getting on with it much to bosses relief and approval.

Anyway that was done with by half 5 on Friday and I went home and have spent the rest of the time (since Thursday evening) with my mum and dad who have come down. Been very nice to spend tie with them. Had a few days where I have only just scraped 10k steps and yesterday I wasn't even going to manage that so last night I spent just over an hour and managed 10k steps, a further 30 floors climbed (running up from the beach to the cliff top rocky style) and beat all of my targets for the day and then I showered and went to bed.

Jellytot has been poorly with a sickness bug that is going around since Thursday and last night was the first night I have not been awoken by a deluge of sick. She is asleep in bed now though after a walk this morning tired her out. She has been napping each afternoon.

What else to tell you?

Went to the range yesterday and came out with a sewing box that I have repurposed for my painkillers. It has lots of sections and I can put elastic round a button to keep the lid on which stops Jellytot. it has cute Westie dogs on it so that sealed the deal Westie

Also went to tosco and had the most hilarious shop. Mum sat in the car while jelly slept in the back and I went in. I got one of those self scanners you go around with and proceeded to shop. By the time I had got my customary mountains of veg plus meat for yesterday and todays dinners I had got nearly £20 of stuff in there. I carried on and got some fish and it wouldn't scan. Tried and tried, but it wasn't happening so put it in the front. Carried on shopping. Got a giant jar of douwe egberts and some gingerbread syrup and £5 worth of magnum ice creams and some big girls knickers for Jelly, plus countless other things as you do when you're *play* shopping. Got to the checkout with about £50 worth of shopping. Scanned the till and it asked if there was anything I couldn't scan. Yes I said. My fish. It fetched an assistant who tried and tried but it wouldn't scan. So then the machine pipes up, 'You've been selected for a random scan of 5 items in your basket' - Ok she says and scans the magnums. Next for some unthinkable reason she scans the fish that won't scan. It scans and immediately the machine says it isn't on my scanned shopping, you've got to scan it all! She huffs... and proceeds to scan a few items of my shopping from each bag, and then sends me to the till where a colleague scans the barcode and then adds the fish on. I keep a straight face until I get in the car. And then check my receipt. £19.91. Less than half of my shopping was scanned, including £8 worth of syrup and coffee!) - is it any wonder they are losing money??!?!?!?!

Mum had given me £20 towards the shop as well. Effectively cost me NIL. Can I count that as roadkill? :rotfl:

liltdiddylilt

NotNormal wrote: »

Ah-ha! I knew her name was Elliot.

Sorry... I'm still a million miles back catching up and you said her name was Elliot and I got a little over excited because I guess that a bunch of pages before. Not long after the post where she started the new nursery.

You call her Jelly - usually an Ellie nickname. But also 2 or 3 times before you announced her name you said Ellie instead of Jelly. Then the nursery post said she thought she would be a boy so I was like BAM! Elliot.

Sorry again. I am massively hyper right now. I started my own diary on here recently and in an attempt to figure out how else I can bust this debt I've been checking out diaries. You're an inspiration by the way - what you went through with Him is similar to what I went through a couple of months ago with my husband. Unfortunately mine involved me moving miles away from family.

My Nan keeps having surgeries and I'm really worried I'll lose her. I have always been so close to her. I tell her my secrets and ask her for advice. They aren't really sure what's wrong with her this time so she's having multiple tests.

Do you have any advice for making the distance during illness a bit easier? I can't skype because she's terrified of technology. I do ring her, but it's really not the same. I'm looking to make her a little parcel to make her smile. But all that comes to mind is some stationary and stamps because so we can write each other letters. I used to write her little notes to take home all the time, she said they always made her smile and she loved replying. I'm going to include some stamps so she doesn't have to worry about that and I was thinking a pen, I got myself one a while back that was quite cheap and a biro but it looked quite fancy and she loved it so I thought I may send her one of her own. Any ideas what else I could put in?

Sorry again, slightly hijacked the thread...

Ahoy there!

Yes indeed she is an Elliott. A beautiful one we get some funny looks and double-takes, not to mention the 'oh sorry I thought he was a girl!'

Am very sorry to hear about your husband. That must be very hard to deal with. It was the toughest time of my life being so far away from my support network when the going got really tough. I hope you have some good friends around, you will need them!

Also very sad to hear about your Nan. There is nothing so hard as being too far away to do anything. You feel guilty, and useless, and scared, and you doubt yourself and your decision to be too far away.

The way I deal with it - be it my Nanny, Pop, or Mum is to be in contact as much as I can. When I get the chance to go there, I see all of them (not Pop now) as much as I can. We spend quality time together because I can't afford to go often.

My mum has an iPad and I can FaceTime her and do regularly as she misses Jellytot and I so much that it really buoys her up in the worst times seeing me. We also each have those plastic cards with phrases on to remind us we are thinking of each other. Mines in my purse. You can get them in the card factory for 99p or less I think. That would be sure to bring her a smile.

If you are comfortable writing, then by all means get her some notepaper. It doesn't have to cost a fortune. Heck a ruled pad would do! Envelopes are cheap stamps not so much!

If you drop me a PM we can jabber as much as you like hun. Always around (except this week in extenuating circumstances!! :rotfl:) xxx

themarsbargirl

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sashybo

Work stuff sounds a bit pants but at least something is finally being done. I know the feeling of telling your bosses about something that's wrong over & over again and them ignoring it until it smacks them in the face and they turn round and say "But why didn't you tell me?!" and " Why didn't you do something about it?" :mad:

Talk about banging your head off a brick wall! :wall:

:j on the tosco shop. :j

Hope Jelly feels better soon, poor wee lamb.