OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

Horace

I have a bedside lamp, I have to switch it on when I get up in the night because I cannot see in the dark. I have even fallen asleep with it on. I might actually leave the light on tonight because I know I am going to have nightmares all because of one stupid friend on Facebook who shared a video that played as soon as it appeared on my timeline, it contained scenes of a graphic and violent nature that I did not want to see. So what was seen cannot be unseen (I reported said video but according to Facebook it complies with their code of conduct - yet when I read the same code it doesn't). The friend got a dressing down from me on her public wall. Now I am afraid to go to sleep because I keep seeing the same image playing across my brain.

I was a bit naughty tonight - I went to the local pizza place and treated myself to a pizza. I suppose I could have made one but it would have cost me more in time, ingredients and gas plus I didn't want the bother of washing up. My local pizza place does an 8 inch pizza for £2.99 so I tend to have cheese & tomato with a topping of spicy beef and onion. I thoroughly enjoyed it.:D To be honest I don't get many treats and felt today that I deserved one. If I hear one more complaint about the music festival that was on last weekend I swear I will scream.

Need to get petrol, do housework, washing, ironing and maybe a bit of gardening. Need to find the passbook for the building society too.

springdreams

dibuzz wrote: »

I'm lucky with light bulbs, I have a son tall enough to change them without standing on anything.

I'm fortunate to be tall enough to change them myself without having to stand on anything, except for the florescent tubes in the kitchen

I find it very difficult to sleep with any lights on. Fortunately, even though I wear glasses, I can see a bit in the dark, and ensure that my path to the bathroom has no obstacles that I can trip over or stub my toes on, so I don't turn on a light if a visit to the bathroom is needed by me during the night. My DS on the other hand cannot sleep without a small light on. Fortunately I cannot see his bedroom from my bedroom, so his light does not disturb me. When we stay in a hotel or caravan though it is a bit of a battle as he would prefer a light to stay on, but I insist on having them all off otherwise I cannot sleep at all.

ellie99

springdreams wrote: »

I find it very difficult to sleep with any lights on. Fortunately, even though I wear glasses, I can see a bit in the dark, and ensure that my path to the bathroom has no obstacles that I can trip over or stub my toes on, so I don't turn on a light if a visit to the bathroom is needed by me during the night. My DS on the other hand cannot sleep without a small light on. Fortunately I cannot see his bedroom from my bedroom, so his light does not disturb me. When we stay in a hotel or caravan though it is a bit of a battle as he would prefer a light to stay on, but I insist on having them all off otherwise I cannot sleep at all.

Isn't it funny how we all like different things?

The decision was taken from me last night because I fell asleep too quickly! so the light was on all night until I woke just after 4am. Couldn't get back to sleep then so read until alarm went off at half 5. Will just have to hope that having the light on isn't doing my brain lasting damage, I need all the brain cells I have left

Off to work today, and then I plan to have a couple of days away, with no family problems to deal with. Of course now we have mobile phones, it's too easy for them to phone me with the latest problem!
I really want a bit of peace and relaxation.

JustKeepSwimming_2

Well I've had a week back at work, & haven't really found the time to come back here & catch up, so I think my posts will be few & far between until half term....

Work is mad as we've new people to train who've replaced really experienced people, & we we're short staffed before :eek: So I've gone from having my hours cut by a full day (at my request as I was too knacked) to having to work on my day off & having to start over an hour earlier for some days too I spent most of the summer planning what to do on my long anticipated days off & I won't be having one off for ages....

Lovely to hear about your Dad Mum2one & I hope the medical side of things gets easier now hes at home. I remember how exhausted my 2 were when they started high school, so I feel for you DD. Our new Y7's are still cute after their first week - they still look smart & happy, but give them a few weeks & they start looking like zombies as its such a huge change for them.

WP - you should be writing scripts for something like "Yes Minister" :rotfl:. I'd love to be so tactful but I fear it isn't going to happen now.

Horace - I loved the freedom of being self employed, but I was mindful of the insecurity & probably worked too much for some time as I thought I'd better get the work while I could. The best time was when I combined being employed & self-employed.

grousescot wrote: »

....I've found it's so easy being on your own (no kids or pets here) to just mooch about and not really achieve anything in time outside of work. Then when work rolls round again it seems like you were only just there ten minutes ago. I'm determined to do de-mooch my life as much as I can as it can't be doing me any good....

Grousescot - I love your idea of de-mooching so I may borrow it if you don't mind? Although not this w/e as all I feel capable of is mooching :rotfl: Good luck with the kitchen project & the OU course - I keep thinking I'd like to do something at night school, but the evening courses have been cut so much in my area that there isn't a lot I fancy doing, or the classes I do fancy are at venues where there is hardly any public transport to. I keep forgetting to check out the OU; although I know I'm the kind of person who really needs the discipline of going to a weekly class otherwise I'd never quite get around to doing the studying

3forholidays wrote: »

Edited to add - I was so glad when I went to college and discovered that there were no final exams to achieve my HND just continuous assessment as that style of assessment suits me better.

BTEC type courses are so much better for me too, for the above reasons. I did some day release courses aeons ago while I was working f/t & loved the mixture of work & study even though the college day was very long (9 - 6.30 + almost a 3 hour round trip to college). Its a shame more employers don't offer this type of training.

MummyBobble wrote: »

We have absolutely no routine as yet!

Don't you just love not having routines though? My inner brat stamps her foot at the school/work routines :rotfl: , but then I'd love to be on holiday for the rest of my life (with full salary of course). I know routines work, but I find the thought that I know what most days will be like from now until July a bit depressing. I'm guessing that DD & DS will cause enough disruption to keep life interesting

Possibly one of the hardest things about being a singly is not coming home to someone to moan at about your day. As a positive we don't have to listen to another half moaning about theirs :rotfl:.

Oh yes, this is a HUGE benefit :j

I'm lucky to still have DD and DS at home to distract me. A while ago I'd been at a meeting and didn't get in until after 9. DS announced "You need to look in the kitchen". My immediate thought was, oh lordy, what's he done? He'd actually done me some cheese and crackers and poured me a glass of wine:j.

Aw bless, I'll have to crack on with training mine to do that. I just come home to a pile of plates that can't be put in the dishwasher because it's "full of clean stuff". DD looked at me in genuine amazement when I suggested she could empty it & put away the clean stuff before filling it with more dirty dishes - she really isn't good at seeing the bigger picture yet :rotfl:

Regarding lights at bedtime - I need total darkness to get off to sleep & find the early morning light wakes me up within minutes of dawn. If the kids leave any light on it'll wake me up :mad: so I often have a flight mask on (but then I get too hot). I think my optician told me that kids shouldn't sleep with lights on as it delays part of their eyesight development, but most of that conversation went over my head....

Have a lovely w/e all :T

calicocat

Hellooooo folks.

Still here, just had a busy few days off.

I have been up to check on the 'girls' whilst LB is on her jollies. They were fine, began chatting on as soon as they could hear me coming. They now have sweetcorn and melon plus the usual worms to run around for....bonus is I got two eggs.....yay.

I have been in the sea again, however, it's getting colder now, so that may be my last time in unless I got a wet suit. It was fab, just floating about on the waves on my board....totally relaxing as well as a bit of exercise.

I got sick of everything being a mess in dining room, so for now have hung new curtains and pictures and mirror, spray painted some other stuff to match new colour scheme...and it's all up and kind of done. this way if need be I don't get a quick coat of white on it to freshen it up soon it doesn't really matter as looks more organised.

I have also dug a big hole and have done a bit of trench composting, which seems like a good idea to be doing.

Yesterday thank god I didn't have to travel a few hundred miles to let a friends dogs out, so had time to potter a bit and re-pot some plants up.


I am a real short-azz......so need ladders to put bulbs in, I always find doing it a real pain in the azz. I'm another one that can't sleep with light, I now have blackout curtain liners too as I find it really hard to sleep during the day.

Back to work tonight....Yukk.......and full time hours..!! This is diabolical..!!.....lol. However, I will see how it goes so can rake in as much money as I can whilst the unit still stands, pay more off mortgage, so that what happens next I have more choice over.


I had the onesie on for a couple of hours the other day as cold, plan is to try and not put heating on for as long as possible this year to save more money to shove onto mortgage. I think the autumn may be on it's way.....although swimming in the north sea in September isn't bad going thinking about it.

Right, off to get some sleep hopefully, enjoy your weekend everyone.

moneyistooshorttomention

WP's Crash Course in Tact and Diplomacy due to be put into action shortly..arrangements all made to do so. Thanks again for that.

Have been hugely reassured to find that I have "big guns" up my sleeve in case that I hadn't even realised I've got. I just bumble around making friends with whoever seems like a nice person regardless in all innocence...but have already had one heck of a helpful bit of advice that I think should "solve things neatly" forever more and shove dictator back into their box and even padlock the lid so to say. They may (do) have this hugely forceful will, but strong will alone has often got them what they want in the past, but strong will isn't actually a physical thing that can have a physical effect, so I'm mentally decorating the box with candy stripes on in case it comes to having to bring on the "big guns". The fact that I know that I have them in reserve if need be should help me feel confident enough to get through this sweetly I hope.

BookWorm

Morning everyone

Slept for almost 12 hours :eek: so guess I was more tired than I thought!
Emotional day for me as it's 3 year anniversary of losing a very good friend to cancer. Not a day goes by I don't think of them though.

BW

Horace

Afternoon peeps.

(one day I will learn how to do multiple quotes in posts).

I stayed up as long as humanly possible last night but when I started nodding at the tv then I knew it was time to go to bed. I slept surprisingly well considering.

I haven't done any chores yet (lazy) but another neighbour came round (he lives with his wife and one son - the other moved out earlier this year, on the other side of me to the old couple) this morning with a bag of windfall cooking apples from his mum's (he asked her if I could have some and she agreed - I have never met her). I need to cut bits off them but they will be great for a pie (I can use grandma's deep pie plate and only have a pastry lid).

Anyway, can't hang about here - must crack on, I need to go shopping for food and petrol.

Have a great day all.

moneyistooshorttomention

BookWorm wrote: »

Morning everyone

Slept for almost 12 hours :eek: so guess I was more tired than I thought!
Emotional day for me as it's 3 year anniversary of losing a very good friend to cancer. Not a day goes by I don't think of them though.

BW

Good friends are rare indeed and worth regarding more highly than diamonds imo.

They are precious and I would choose several really "good friends" over huge amounts of money any day of the week. It would be lovely to have both of course, but a genuine "good friend" is worth their weight in gold. I've made another "good friend" of that calibre recently and have duly told them how much I appreciate them being in my life and got the same in return:D.

I am sorry to hear yours is no longer physically present, but I'm sure they are watching out for you (because that is what that level of friends does and will always help if they can). My sympathies with you today and cherish the memories of when they were physically "here" ((( )))

BookWorm

Thanks MITSM - much appreciated