Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

beanielou

Be gentle with yourself. 

Watty1

Just caught up. Congrats on job interview.   Hope it ticks your boxes and you tick theirs.

skint_spice

Great news about job interview 🎉

KajiKita

Thanks @beanielou, @Watty1, @skint_spice 😊
Not sure which of the jobs I prefer the look of … Imagine if I ended up with a choice?! 😳🤩🤔😊

Strange day yesterday as it was just meant to be me at home on my own … Got interrupted quite early in the morning by someone from the job centre asking me to come in for my JSA interview. Got that done - quite an eye opener in some ways - one of the ‘commitments’ I had to sign up to was to be prepared to commute up to 90 minutes to work! If you’re working 5 days a week that’s 15 hours of commuting, nearly two days on top of actually working!! 😳 I thought that was quite brutal, incredibly hard in the winter months and tough on fuel or travel costs too …

Didn’t get in the garden as we have that wet, clinging misty rain here atm. It doesn’t look like much but you would be soaked through quite quickly …

Did get my physio exercises (both old and new) and yoga all done yesterday morning. New physio has given me an amazing and easy stretch for my traps - it is so nice to do that I am doing it twice a day! I think that is partly why I slept so much better last night. 

Tree people to take the cherries down below the LV lines are here this morning. They stopped by yesterday afternoon so I was able to have a conversation with them about NOT giving the poor trees a ‘flat top’ parallel to the power lines - looked dreadful last time they did it (3 years ago?). They are going to prune them with a bit more care this time, if they can leave the brash. I have signed a form to this effect. I have also made them a fortifying cuppa! 😉

Once I have had breakfast, wrangled my bed linen (currently in the WM) and done some job searching (to be added to the draft email I have to send to, and then review with my job coach, fortnightly) I will prep for lino cutting in the chapel this morning (£3) followed by tai chi this afternoon (£12 for the month - incredibly cheap) 😊

KK

skint_spice

Sounds like a lovely way to spend the day.

KajiKita

skint_spice said:

Sounds like a lovely way to spend the day.

Going well so far 😊❤️

Never done lino printing before and this was a bit rushed, but I’m very pleased with it. I’ve done a better print on card stock to give to my friend who is properly ‘arty’ as part of her Christmas present 😊 I was aiming to do ivy, but I found it so hard to draw on the lino, plus they are are quite hard shapes to get looking ‘right’ so I just freestyled straight onto the lino! 😂😉



KK

LadyWithAPlan

How cute, liking the style, the colours and I am sure it was quite fun to do

debtfreewannabe321

Love it! I should do more artsy things, am reading your diary back (only another 100 pages to go ) and you do so many creative things! This reminds me I should buy another embroidery kit that I promised myself last month....will do that later once I sit down again

savingholmes

Looks fun on the print.

Don't worry about the '90 min' commute thing. You choose what to apply for and if you are getting interviews and can evidence applying for stuff that's what they want to see.

WelshmansDaughter

The job coach can create person specific commitments so the 90 minute commute can be reduced if the person has acceptable reasons.