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Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

It's Friday, dark and miserable and I'm knackered. I really want to pull a sickie but I know if i do I will go down with the flu bug that everyone else seems to have and I feel I have been close to all week and then I will not want to have time off when I really am sick to make up (does that make sense?)

I dislike the idea of pulling a sickie.

Checked my diary, did an hour of phone calls and have taken a day of holiday at short notice. Not always possible but today it was , and feels miles better to me than lying.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I dislike the idea of pulling a sickie.

Checked my diary, did an hour of phone calls and have taken a day of holiday at short notice. Not always possible but today it was , and feels miles better to me than lying.

Not everyone is in that position. Employers not being that flexible or willing to be flexible.

I think sometimes sickies are probably 'mental health days'. The less in control one is of ones work schedule the more those mental health days probably come into play tbh.


I think that when one considers the huge morale boost that the extra bank holidays for things like jubilee gave to people one appreciates how important time, rather than extra money, can be.


DH is hoping to have two uninterrupted weeks off over Christmas. This will be almost unprecedented and was only given a tentative go ahead this week. I think he'll sleep through three of them, because all that time seems incredible. :j:j:j

neverdespairgirl

Red wine? No point holding back at this stage.

PasturesNew

I've decided to cancel the viewing on Tuesday .... - I am now 100% convinced it IS a cluster house, not a semi.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Red wine? No point holding back at this stage.

Cannot drink.

I could go outside and roll on the grass though? Get in a scrum with the dawgs.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

DH is hoping to have two uninterrupted weeks off over Christmas. This will be almost unprecedented and was only given a tentative go ahead this week. I think he'll sleep through three of them, because all that time seems incredible. :j:j:j

That'd be fantastic - an unprecedented and probably once in a lifetime opportunity. SEIZE the moment if it's achievable!

Really pleased for you.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

So...I hold a child for a bout two minutes in a supermarket and end up with chocolate on my pale cashmere sloppy jumper.

I've never held a child. Thank you for confirming that my assumptions on the matter are correct.

Generali

hjd wrote: »

Not sure how to share the link, but watch the video shown in this article. Or don't, if you are a bah humbug person.
http://www.bitterwallet.com/westjet-airline-do-christmas-better-than-anybody/70579

It's a great piece of advertising but it also makes me think that Thanksgiving is the better holiday: a meal with family, no gifts given nor expected. No disappointment because you only got the iPhone 8x rather than the 9y.

SingleSue

James is coming home on Suday! He's not home for long though as he wants to be back in Wycombe for New Years eve, apparently our night life here is boring compared to there.

We are leaving at the ungodly hour of 7am on Sunday to pick him up, no long stop, he will literally be jumping into the car when we arrive and then straight back home...well that is the plan, not sure my bladder will play ball much to lovverrrs dismay!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

That'd be fantastic - an unprecedented and probably once in a lifetime opportunity. SEIZE the moment if it's achievable!

Really pleased for you.

I hope its not once in a lifetime, though it feels like it!

We 've talked about what we will do. We cannot go away because of the animals, but our plan involves lots of sleeping (him) lots of other staying in bed (both of us) and lots of just being together all the time:o


We're going to get the timetable for the swimming pool and try taking the dogs to places we haven't been yet (I stick to the same two places when we go out m which is boring for them, but they are relatively level which is easy for me alone)

We feel some guilt because we have not put the painting of downstairs lobby or upstairs corridor on the list:o.

We'll see, but I think he should take at least half as actual do nothing practical time. That's unheard of totally...a week of nothing practical.