Changing digs and coming out of my cave... for a wee while atleast :)

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

By a strange coincidence, Mrs E and I just bought 4 pairs of shoes between us :rotfl: That said, with mine coming in at a frugal £19.99/pair, I doubt we'll go bankrupt.

That's only £10 a foot Ed, a positive bargain

ZTD

elantan wrote: »

i must come across as thinking i am better/ more intelligent than these people, i'm not, honest ... was just gobsmacked

It's a case of different strokes for different folks. They see it as normal. You see the risks. They'll be right until they're wrong - then they'll be devastatingly wrong and it'll be far too late to do anything about it.

elantan wrote: »

i dont know if i want to be here :eek::eek:

"Welcome to Wonderland Alice!"

There - does that make it better?

elantan wrote: »

guilty as charged M'lud

But now you know. And that's all you can do really, try your best and learn from mistakes.

ZTD

edinburgher wrote: »

People are funny (peculiar) about pensions. I heard one chappy at work talking about auto enrolment and he was relatively ambivelant about it, as long as it 'didn't go over £150'. No awareness of the fact that if he was paying in £150, he'd end up with something like £350 in his pot, just a strange bit of psychological anchoring on a max contribution.

Best not tell him about inflation...

"A hundred dollars put into a savings account at 6% for 200 years will be worth two million, which, by then, will be worthless."
— Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

Habibiboo

:wave:

Just stopped by to say hi El, hope all's well with you x

Habibiboo

:wave:

Hope all's good with you El! Counting down to uni time? x

edinburgher

How you doing El?

Butti

edinburgher wrote: »

How you doing El?

Yes Reclusive And Busy One step away from the 'Better together if you've got North Sea oil' banners and say hi. :j

(if you've got time to!)

elantan

Hey all,

Sorry I have been MIA, i seemed to have found myself stuck in a vortex of referendum and university.

I got sucked into the referendum and it turns out thinking it finished on the 18th September was in fact a huge mistake, things got even more manic, we basically ate slept and lived independence for several months it was a 24/7 experience often not getting to our beds till after 1 am and back up at 6 am , then when the result came in the focus changed, but if anything intensified. I have finally had to put my foot down with Mr El and say no more, it got to the stage i had one home cooked meal at home in 3 months, not only not good for my waist line but really bad for my bank account and sanity.

I have also been up to my eyes with uni stuff, have done my first placement now and really enjoyed it as well as learned a lot, I have two huge exams in Jan and another in March before going back out to placement.

Anyway, were into December (xmas eve in fact) I have slowed back on indy ref stuff ( thankfully as its mentally draining) I have loads of weight to loose and loads of studying to do, and a mortgage to defeat so i am back for a while, very battered and bruised and emotionally destroyed but I will get there,

In good news though I did pack in the job that has been giving me grief for years, I am now down to one job 0 hours contract but I can work it around my uni so all is good.

Knit_Witch

Yay to Uni going well and to packing in the horrendous job! (are we allowed to know what they said when you handed your notice in?)

elantan

Well they didnt want to let me go so forced me to do some extra shifts, then tried to offer me a different shift contract, then asked me to do relief work ... you know the usual stuff ...

None of which worked, it was time to move on and i have no regrets, the work place however were very shocked by it as i didnt tell them before i left.