Things can only get better

Sun_Addict

Morning, happy Sunday.

I feel much better this morning. I think I was just exhausted yesterday. Working from home for 2 years has made me forget what hard work it is doing a full time job then coming home and starting again with the housework. It doesn’t help that Mr SA is in the house all day making a mess. 

The kitten has been a pain overnight. I’m sure she doesn’t sleep. She just sits outs the bedroom door all night then comes running in every so often miaowing and waking the dog up. I’m hoping once she’s been spayed she’ll start calming down a bit. She’s desperate to go outside and keeps looking longingly through the patio doors.

Plans for today:

Meal plan for the coming week
Washing/ironing 
Spanish
Make soup for work lunches
Walk the dog
Clean the kitchen and bathroom 
A bit of pamper time for me - face pack, do my nails and a long soak in the bath

Only got a 4 day working week, Monday and Thursday in the office, Tuesday and Wednesday WFH, Friday off. Still don’t know what I’m doing on Friday so haven’t told Mr SA I’m off yet.

It will be NSD 2/12 today.

WinterWarrior

Good morning SA. The thought of you being asked to reapply for the job gives me the rage…why won’t they just go down the shortlist and employ the best of all the applicants. 

The cat I had that was a noisy boisterous nocturnal kitten went on to be a noisy nighttime shouter in her old age 😁 We decided she was probably losing her marbles a bit and thought she had lost everyone, because if you shouted back she settled down 🥰

CRANKY40

Sorry to hear about ypur friend SA. 

Our cat sleeps downstairs with the door shut because she is a bed pest at night. She has a cosy bed and plenty of toys which we can tell she plays with because they're all over the place in the morning. None of us would sleep if she was free range. 

Parkyp

Glad you hear your feeling better today. How do you feel about reapplying for the job.  Applicants ability to do the job haven’t changed in a matter of weeks only thing that will have changed is they can play the system to answer interview questions. Are previous applicants allowed to reapply. 

Does the kitten always go to your room does she not bother with dd. Maybe she just likes to annoy the dog 🤣

Sun_Addict

When we first got the kitten we shut her in the spare room at night, she had everything she needed in there. I’m going to start this up again tonight. She never hassles DD, it’s always me. I think she’s after sleeping where the dog sleeps on the bed but that’s never going to happen. 

Re the job, that particular business stream are having a restructure so it will be the same role but working for a different person hence the re-advertising. Nothing is ever easy or straightforward where I work. 

sashybo

Sorry to hear about your friend SA, it just doesn’t seem fair. 😔

We keep our cats downstairs at night, Old Cat is fine and would just cuddle up and go to sleep beside me but Big Cat is a nuisance and runs about miaowing and jumping off things or attacks our feet if we move them under the duvet. 😂

milann

It is so sad about your friend…..must have come as a shock.
I would definitely set up a bed in the spare room for the kitten…..you have enough things to wake you up without a kitten thrown into the night time mix 😳
I'm not sure what I think about reapplying for the job…..is it worth the stress of the application?

Sun_Addict

Finally used up the out of date split peas and made a batch of soup using some leftover carrots and swede, a bit of a mishmash but it tastes good. I’ve also got a spiced butternut squash stew with herb dumplings cooking in the slow cooker, half for tonight, the other half for tomorrow. That used up a past its best squash and leftover natural yogurt for the dumplings. 

All of DS’s household have tested positive for Covid now. I’m definitely going to take a test before work tomorrow just to rule it out as apparently DGS tested positive last Monday and they were at ours on the Saturday before. I’m meant to be going to a friends of the park across the road meeting tomorrow night so need to make sure I’m not infected. DD has accused me of being a super spreader as I’ve been in close contact so many times with it without actually catching it. 

Scottiedog_3

@Sun_Addict You could simply be immune to it. I have never had flu so I must be immune . It raged all round me at school and I never caught even  a sniff of it. 

foxgloves

Immunity is a weird thing. I never ever had flu, despite working in a front facing community job involving lots of outreach. Then I suddenly had it 3 years running starting at age 50. Never felt so rotten, it completely poleaxed me. Mr F didn't catch it however. He's never had flu to this day & is convinced if he avoided it 3 years running despite living with me, that his immune system is made of nails!
F