New me New start, Pania's positive Progress!

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duchy

Just saw this and thought of you straight away. Something to apply for next Christmas perhaps

"Elves

It’s not top of many people’s dream jobs, but a new academy has opened in Finland to train Santa’s elves. This is a genuine story. Finland claims ownership of the home of the “real” Father Christmas, and now you can apply to work sorting letters, working with tourists, and packing gifts. However, it’s no walk in the park. To graduate as an elf with an official certificate, you need to learn survival skills, be hot on customer service and story telling, be competent in languages, and have a good knowledge of wildlife.
Jobs in the elf industry are strongly contested, with Lapland having a higher than average rate of unemployment, and a local economy that relies heavily on Santa related tourism. Around 500,000 tourists visit the area every year which has average winter temperatures of minus 10 to minus 15 degrees Celsius.
The elves are also trained in how to deflect difficult questions about Santa and inconsistencies in his legend. One piece of information you might not know which comes straight from the elf’s mouth is that the reason the elves working in Lapland are actually quite tall rather than little people is that they have to be able to see above the plentiful snow. I admit I didn’t know that, although now I do, it makes perfect sense.
If that sounds like your dream job, send your application in to Lapland and good luck".

Sorry to hi-jack your diary Pania by leaving messages for someone else on it!
I hope you are OK yourself today. It's lovely that you had some quality time with DP the other day. It's obvious how much you love him.

take care
Imp x

embarrassed_about_my_debt

congrats on the new diary! beng positive really helps, havent had a chance to read it all yet, cant believe how big it is and its just over a month old :eek:

Just started my first diary yesterday, to hopefully help me get my debt down. Feel alot better for having started :j

pania

Hi embarrassed and welcome to the pages!!! I can't believe how big it is either! I'm quite flattered that people pop in to be honest, just hope it's cos theres no where else to go!! he he, good luck if you decide to read all the exploits and shenanigans, probably quite boring really!!
You will get that debt down in no time at all hon if you stick around here, good luck hon and i'll pop into your diary asap..
... But first I MUST take a wander into town to buy some printer paper aaannnnddddd.... Holds breath.... am going to post chrimbo cards for first time in about 3 years!! woooooo!!! xxx

embarrassed_about_my_debt

please do pop in, although nothing really interesting yet lol.

Just set myself my first target, to get rid of my Abbey card by the end of April. Looking forward to peoples tips and support :j

Will try and get through all of your diary but might take me a while!:rotfl:

ZTD

pania wrote: »

Hope the move went well Z, was it a bigger move, smaller move, away from home move or just a "sod it i fancy a new gaff" kinda move? hope that you are settling in well and that box you are using as a tea table will be unpacked soon!:D

It was a "despite you having filled in a form saying you want to stay on, the landlord only wanted it to be let for six months and nobody said anything as you wouldn't have touched the property with a barge pole and that would have meant no money" kind of move...

OTOH, the landlord and family have moved back, and they're going to have problems. The doors don't close, the paintwork is cheap and shoddy, it's very small, and although he has two small girls (it's only a 2 bedder) it has a wood-burning stove. I've burnt myself a number of times on it - and I'm careful - so God knows what it going to happen to them.

pania

ooooooh, one of THOSE kinda moves. Thats not good. Hope you've found something Bigger, Nicer, Better painted, door closing and without a human burning stove which means you can give the keys back to the landlord and chortle at their misfortune at loosing such a good tennant (sp?) all i can say is they'd better have given your deposit back!!!!!

pania

Well guys, I am sat here on my first night home alone of three while Oh goes to his consecutive christmas doo's. feeling a bit in the dumps to be honest, I wanna play!!!!
But here is the plan to keep me cheery. I have a bottle of incredibly dodgy rose wine in the fridge and am popping to canary wharf to see my old work buddies then on to bluewater (get paid tomorrow thus christmas shopping!) so this is the plan for the evening,

Sit here and do some work so i don't feel so guilty about sneaking off tomorrow.
Open said bottle of vino and attack the housework big stylee while listening to cheesy christmas songs on music tv.
By the way, has anyone any idea why classic FM TV has been removed from the sky music channels? call me sad, call me mad that at my delicate age(ish) I love listening to classical music! but it has gone, total, finito and i've no idea why, and all those chrimbo carols and concerts are being denied me GAAAHHHHH!!!!:eek: :rotfl:

right come on P back to work for half hour then FUNTIME!!!!:D

Lemon_Tree

managed to survive work without collapsing in a heap of tears, well not in front of the office anyway. Sent my boss an email (she's off today) much 'easier' to tell her what's going on that way.

Got our forms to fill in for our jobs, turned out they didn't change my grade just the ones of 5 others in the department so fun all the way.

looks like we won't get back dated rise till Feb but at least we'll get it which is a bonus.

can't wait to hear how your OH survived 3 nights out on £4, even i would find that hard and i don't drink!

ZTD

pania wrote: »

ooooooh, one of THOSE kinda moves. Thats not good.

It was a pain in the bot end...

pania wrote: »

Hope you've found something Bigger, Nicer, Better painted, door closing and without a human burning stove

I liked the stove - nothing like watching real flames. This one has a gas fire that's neither use nor ornament. Burning yourself is an occupational hazard - but nothing to worry about.

pania wrote: »

which means you can give the keys back to the landlord and chortle at their misfortune at loosing such a good tennant (sp?) all i can say is they'd better have given your deposit back!!!!!

They say they are - I await the cheque with a fair amount of cynicism... :rolleyes:

Lemon_Tree

pania you need to empty some stuff from your pm box lol have you been very talkative?