OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

BookWorm

Morning everyone

Not sure I would fancy travelling round the UK in motorhome much (too many small roads, etc). However I could be persuaded to do such a trip in the US - anyone game?

If you did go Calico - you could do a tour round and visit the rest of us singlies

I'm up early today. Partly enforced as I'm waiting for a delivery but partly because I am meeting someone for lunch and I'm excited. :cool: Sad I know :rotfl:
My lovely week off is coming towards the end. Is it wrong that I've been looking ahead on calender to see when I have the next one??

Have a great day all

BW

if_at_first...

Okay I have a question: Is there anybody on here who likes or maybe even loves their job?


Just to give the rest of us some hope!!!

LavenderBees

if_at_first... wrote: »

Okay I have a question: Is there anybody on here who likes or maybe even loves their job?


Just to give the rest of us some hope!!!

Em....nope! It's simply a means to an end for me, although some days when people are nice (today ) and not horrible (like yesterday ), it's bearable...but mostly...no! It's pretty unbearable, and only watching my rainy day fund increase little by little month on month keeps me getting up each morning and dragging myself in. Sad, that's for sure . But without that rainy day fund I am going to come unstuck one day, so needs must.

BW - would my cats and chooks fit in your wagon for the US trip, please? :rotfl:

Calico rather than uprooting your whole life as tempting as that is, I think the idea of a shorter sabbatical is a great idea. My Mam's social worker disappeared on a 12 mth trip last Autumn. I was well jell :rotfl:.But could you really stand your ex for 6 mths?? :eek:...just saying, is all...

:rotfl:

Hello to all the new playmates, lovely of you to join us. Please try very hard to have more interesting lives than those of us who have been posting for a while....I need some inspiration and motivation :T

Gawd, TFI Friday...2.5 hrs of poo-y work to go. Better get on. Catch yers all later

LB xx

ETA - oh goodness, please don't take offence all you lovely posters, just cos I say I need more motivation and inspiration...hadn't realised how that would sound/read....yo knows I luvs you all....desperately tries to dig self out...

calicocat

if_at_first... wrote: »

Okay I have a question: Is there anybody on here who likes or maybe even loves their job?


Just to give the rest of us some hope!!!

Lol..

It's only the last year I have started dis liking my job, prior to this I loved it most of the time.




LB...if I got sick of him...i'd just go home...simples!. Yet you do have a point, 6 months could well be pushing it in real terms, but to be fair even just fleeing off for 3 would do me right now if that's all I could enjoy. I'll have to see what happens in Feb/March with the whole job thing first. It's not a given I would do it, just the whole concept has rattled my brain and made me question what I am doing. I was looking up vet nurse courses last night. I don't think the whole menopause helps with the brain skipping from one idea to another and feeling restless.

BookWorm

if_at_first... wrote: »

Okay I have a question: Is there anybody on here who likes or maybe even loves their job?


Just to give the rest of us some hope!!!

I'm pretty sure you can guess that my answer is no!

LavenderBees wrote: »

Em....nope! It's simply a means to an end for me, although some days when people are nice (today ) and not horrible (like yesterday ), it's bearable...but mostly...no! It's pretty unbearable, and only watching my rainy day fund increase little by little month on month keeps me getting up each morning and dragging myself in. Sad, that's for sure . But without that rainy day fund I am going to come unstuck one day, so needs must.

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on things too

I would love to have been one of those people who always knew what they wanted to do. I fell into my current industry and now can't see a way out as financially I am stuck

LavenderBees wrote: »

BW - would my cats and chooks fit in your wagon for the US trip, please? :rotfl:

:rotfl: I'm game but think customs may have other ideas :cool:

calicocat

BW.....I have never had any 'plan', or organised career path either, and have somehow fallen into all the various jobs I have had over the years.

I think the problem has been that I just don't have that drive to push me when it comes to that. I have always been born to retire I think...lol....or just hang out, or potter, or play with animals....and now growing herbs etc.


So at the moment I am on the same path as others here....work because we have to, save to have a rainy day fund.....then knowing my luck kick the bucket before I get to have some fun..(which is what's floating around my head right now).


The States most certainly sounds better.....i have always wanted to do a bit of a Thelma and Louise since that film came out, so that's years.

Off to sort food for tonight (round (two).

Enjoy your friday night folks.

cornishchick

if_at_first... wrote: »

Okay I have a question: Is there anybody on here who likes or maybe even loves their job?


Just to give the rest of us some hope!!!

I enjoy the actual work part of my job, supporting adults who have a learning disability be apart of their community and live in their own homes is very rewarding and challenging , it's the paperwork, politics and policies for every thing that stresses me out.. Especially since my promotion., but it's also something I believe passionately in and have worked in this field in one way or another for 15 years, first with young children then adults, I do get to see the difference our role makes to their lives so I think that helps.

On the subject of road trips, I am planing one for next year, my late DH wanted his ashes scattered at at least 5 different points across Britain, we have friends in all those places so, next year myself, some friends and my BIL will be doing a month long trip across the British isles to scatter those ashes and party and remember good times with friends.
Just need to work out if I hire a camper van or do hotels ect along the way? Oh and make sure everyone will be around and not on holiday or working abroad. Some of our friends are right jet setter types lol.

Today I have done some gentle weeding, I ache all over so also sat in the sun and rested,, for medicinal reasons you understand:cool:

mothernerd

Be careful what you wish for. In October I scraped all my money (plus DS3's interest free student overdraft) together to have a much needed damp proof course put in. DS1 had to temporarily come back home (been gone for 5 years) so spent one weekend moving my stuff up to the attic room and his stuff into the room I had vacated (the smallest bedroom was already full of his things which were left from a move earlier last year). The following week was spent packing most of the contents of the living room, kitchen and dining room and taking them up to the attic so the builders could start.

DS1 was going to help with the heavy stuff but disappeared and phoned later to say he had gone to A & E with an abscess and was phoning from hospital 25 miles away as would be having emergency surgery in the morning. So some stuff only made it as far as the landing. Builder had problems with a couple of the radiators so had to turn off the central heating for a week and discovered an underground lake 5' below the floorboards.

At about the time my mr and mrs builder were at the airport setting off for their holiday, a leak in the bathroom brought down half the kitchen ceiling (I hadn't written down the plasterer's phone number so had to wait till the builders returned). The bathroom leak, ceiling repair and some roof repairs took any bits of money I could find (+ Christmas money) so the rotten kitchen base units (had to be thrown in a skip) couldn't be replaced for several months.

The oven died on New Year's Eve. DS2 (who rents my old house) has had three serious illnesses (collapsed at work, one problem finally correctly diagnosed after 8 years - he had to repeat each year of university twice because of this and ended up hospitalised when he should have been taking his final year exams [source of some of my debt]) in the past few months with subsequent money problems for me.

The cat was ill from Christmas onwards (problems on and off for the last three years) and died in her sleep in February. At the same time DS1 was chased by evil debt collectors (for a debt that was nothing to do with him) who were threatening to come round and take all my furniture.

After spending November - February painting the whole of the downstairs and since then tackling the bedrooms (once all DS1's stuff left - another lost weekend plus) to try to get the house up for sale by the end of March, I have spent the last 13/14(?) weeks first of all confined to bed rest and then doing umpteen physiotherapy exercises, not allowed up ladders or to carry anything.

Is that interesting enough? (There is more:eek:). Because I would happily settle for a few weeks when money arrives when it is supposed to and nothing at all goes wrong. I have a lovely job with a wonderful boss (self-employed) but unfortunately don't earn enough atm to keep a church mouse - all sorts of additional skills I need to develop if I just had a bit of time/ space / money. Half my stuff is still packed in boxes in the attic - needed to keep it protected - currently inaccessible as attic stairs are under repair (bottom six missing, then 2 very dodgy ones). DS3 has been up a couple of times but it's very precarious.

mum2one

Winter_Phoenix wrote: »

JKS, I don't think he's being honest at all. I think Byatt is right - he's "rewriting history" to try to make himself out to be the innocent victim/martyr ("I suffered for years! No-one could blame me for leaving after such prolonged misery!") rather than the villain of the story ("I walked out on my partner and kids and now I'm blaming them for everything!"). This is very childish and irresponsible on his part, like a small child who tries to put the blame on someone else when they have broken something. Please don't let him upset you with his mythological version of your time together - please stand back and see his words for what they are, a complete fabrication intended to make him look better, no matter what the cost to everyone else involved.

Playing catch up, but felt such a strong need to say totally agree with the above, it reminded me of my daughters father, - (very messy and a lot of lies), but the "words" that came out when he remembered he was a dad (8 yrs later) it was everyone elses fault bar his (luckly had solicitors letters that said different), they want to hurt, and will hurt with words and rewrite history to suit themselves. He doesn't want to admit that he is/was at fault/part fault - but by saying these things he is making sure if he falls in a mess he comes up smelling of roses. xx

mum2one

calicocat wrote: »

BW.....I have never had any 'plan', or organised career path either, and have somehow fallen into all the various jobs I have had over the years.

I think the problem has been that I just don't have that drive to push me when it comes to that. I have always been born to retire I think...lol....or just hang out, or potter, or play with animals....and now growing herbs etc.


So at the moment I am on the same path as others here....work because we have to, save to have a rainy day fund.....then knowing my luck kick the bucket before I get to have some fun..(which is what's floating around my head right now).


The States most certainly sounds better.....i have always wanted to do a bit of a Thelma and Louise since that film came out, so that's years.

Off to sort food for tonight (round (two).

Enjoy your friday night folks.

Def agree re The States - would love to do route 66, go to las Vegas fly over the strip.... good to have the dreams xx