Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Beanie, and glad you are similar to me starnac 😂😂😂

I confess my final prediction was correct, and I did in fact submit at 4.55pm 😂😂😂 We didn't squabble though, Mr Cheery was very calm and helpful and supportive all afternoon 🥰🥰

I can barely move 🙄 3 days of being glued to a chair working late into the evening after twinging my back has done me NO favours at all. Necessary on this occasion, but there we are.

Heading out now for a walk, and maybe a drink. We've missed the cafe, might have to head straight for the pub 😂

joedenise

Heading straight for the pub sounds good Cheery!  Enjoy!

EssexHebridean

Well done for getting it done - and I think you know how resoundingly I’d vote for heading straight to the pub! 😁

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 We had a nice and VERY slow walk round the park, then headed to the pub 😁 i am still very stiff 🙄 3 days of a lot of sitting down has not helped. Looking forward to a weekend of gentle movement to help me ease up 😊

beanielou

Enjoy your weekend 😊

rtandon27

👏👏👏 Well done on polishing off that frog Cheery!

Hope you have a weekend full of restful activity that will help you balance your system out!

KajiKita

Oh bravo on getting the bid FINISHED! And yaay to Mr Cheery for being Team-Bid 😊 (Will he get a mention in the credits at the end of the project somewhere? 😉😂)

Sorry to hear your back is still so painful and stiff. I’m a waker in the night if I’m in pain too. Hoping the weekend will allow you to do things to ease it. Sending hugs x

KK

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all 😊 It's not a big prestigious bid, it's internal money, and annoyingly the change at the last minute means they won't replace any of my other duties, so it's a project I'll have to do on top of everything else  which was NOT my original plan 😡

However, it will mean I can work on an interesting project with another organisation (effectively a part time secondment, although we're not calling it that), it will get me some of other people's time, plus money for travel etc (not exciting travel, just London 😂), catering for events etc.

So the last minute change makes it rather a less attractive proposition as it means I'll have to do it on top of everything else 🙄 But my job does have a degree of flexibility, and a couple of other projects are coming to an end over the next few months, and this is worth squeezing in I think.

They'd best fund it now after all this effort - I'll be very cross if not! (Although I suppose it will make life slightly easier if they don't 😂)

Anyway, rotten nights sleep sadly, although I went to bed early and have only just woke up so I think I've had 8 hours overall, just in quite a disjointed way, and with a good 2 hours of being awake at 3 30am 🙄

Still, at least there are no plans for today other than a leisurely cafe breakfast 😁 which we're not going to get a table for it we don't go very soon!

starnac

Yay to getting the bid in. Hope the outcome is what you want and what will benefit you. 

Cheery_Daff

Thanks starnac 😊 With my longer-term career head on, this is a good opportunity, so fingers crossed. I'll have to be ruthless about saying no to other things though...

Spotted another job the other day... 👀 essentially exactly the same as mine, but somewhere else. I was very annoyed on Thursday and ready to bung an application straight in 😂 

But we talked about it in the pub last night, and I'm not going to. It's very much a sideways step - it would be the same money as we're on a national pay scale (although I'd have to work full time, so would get considerably more of it!). I'd have the advantage of a couple of years of rose tinted specs before I became aware of all the usual office politics nonsense 😂 and I do like a bit of novelty 😂 I know a couple of nice people who work there.

BUT it's considerably further away - 4 hour round trip rather than 2, so very tiresome to do in a day, so it may end up with hotel stays, and of course I'd lose my Fridays off. I'd have to teach, but not the same stuff as now, so that's a considerable chunk of work to get up and running.

So, nice to feel capable, but it's not for now. There are considerable advantages to where I am now, it would have to get a LOT worse before something else outweighed it. It's very convenient working in the same city as most of our friends, dentist etc.

Anyway, in other news. Did a Prolific study last night, the money cleared, but the study wouldn't disappear from the page, so I declined it, because it wouldn't let me opt in again, and it removed me altogether and removed the £2.36 from my account! 😡 and of course there's no record of who the researcher was, so can't contact them, very vexing. Still, up to £15.46 cleared in there, and just tipped over £14 in 1P so hoping for a payout this month (or next month anyway).

Happy wheel is rubbish - on about minus £7 for Sept I think 🙄