NST Awesome August

ldee2111

Grateful today for: pre-loved gifts arriving for that day we cannot mention, for getting some things ticked off the work list, for clothes drying outside on the line, for Mum bringing me a chocolate eclair, for receiving £6 from V!ntd sales, and for getting a few more items decluttered and off to the CS.

abundant1972

Good Evening All!

Those pesky aliens 🛸👽 kidnapped me again and only just made it back after 4-days of absence!!! Honest guv!

Rollercoaster few days, emotionally up and down - but finally took the plunge re: work and told manager I want to be redeployed to another service. So effectively resigning but my workplace has an obligation to try and support me to find something else within the Trust because there is the element of my mental health been shot to pieces haha. 

Mixed feelings: Relief... then terror... and currently fearful about the future. However - within all of that - is a sense of calm - that the most important thing now is my health. A fancy well-paid job has not made me happy - quite the contrary... so this is me simplifying my life - handing the stress of it all back to my manager with a bow on top - and saying thanks but no thanks. I'm capable, caring and I will get some kind of job and I will survive - and the things that matter in life - family, friends etc will still be there. 

In anticipation of a pay drop in a few months - I am dropping my debt repayment from £250 per month to just £100 (£50 of both credit cards) until I know what my new income will be. I already have a few hundred stashed aside too and all big bills are already incorporated into my budget. I am going to be fine... <deep breath>

There's clearly something in the air as didn't you just quit your job Icc? Out with the old and all that...

Anyway... things to be grateful for... Definitely your posts on doing the minimum when you have a chronic illness grandmanerd. I wish I had logged in over weekend when I was really flat - I think that would have made me feel brighter. Maybe I need to add logging to MSE as one of my minimums haha. PS: I've been using frozen chopped onions for a few years! Game changing! haha

Today I am grateful for:
1) Supportive colleagues at work from my old team 
2) For music that helps me relax and unwind
3) For the support of my therapist

Only on NSD number 3

On a lighter note - I saw MEG2 at the cinema - and that was a tongue in cheek but action packed film. All good fun. Haven't done that in ages and was great fun with Sister and Nephew. Hoping we can do it again soon. Next up... Barbie haha. 

Have a nice evening folks! 🧡
  

ldee2111

@abundant1972 Definitely Barbie for a bit of real-life relief  🙂 Good for you making the decision on your job. It’ll all work out. 

beanielou

@abundant1972.  Sounds like you made the right decision for you 

f0xh0les

Today was a good day. Made a sad  friend happy again.
The 2good2go bags were utterly disappointing. Soup and a flapjack and a fresh squeezed OJ.  The flapjack was stale- oh well! Will save me wondering in future if they are worth it. Nope! The kids ate it anyway.    Will try a supermarket next time.  You live and learn. 
Still on NSD1

Thrifty_Taylor

Well done on making your decision @abundant1972, I hope it all works out well for you.

Had s little lie in this morning, had been dreams Ng about work. Feeling unsettled as the pupil I've supported the last few years has moved up to secondary school now, so not sure who I'll be put with, plus we have a new, temporary head teacher. Sure it'll all be fine, will try not to worry about it for the next 10 days before we go back.

Pottered about this morning, waiting for folk who turn up late (friend is never on time!), but one sale was collected. Finished covering the first if 6 sofa cushions. Walked to the village after dinner, as we'd ran out of milk. Washed the dishes after tea, then did some weeding for an hour. Watched TV with DH & did a bit more of my rug. 2 loads of washing on the line today (1 load was all my maternity clothes. Youngest is now nearly 15!🤣)

Grateful for a belated anniversary present, the sofa cushion looking good, bargain box of cereal

DrCarrie

Grateful for: Choir pals, jazz at London Bridge, and free fruit a work. 

thriftylass

Good morning,

well done to all the brave decisions made in regards to job changes etc. and I hope it works out as well as you want it too.

Did some painting last night after dinner and then allowed myself an hour in the black whole of y0utube. I will further reduce my subscriptions to just meaningful ones (like a homesteader channel that I love etc). After that I switched my phone off and read till bed. Had a good start to the day and hope it will be an NSD. Not really kept track of it because of the holiday but I guess I'm on 3??

Gratitudes:

Feeling like myself again more and more
Free leftover iced coffee in work
Cuddles with the cats (since we were back especially one is really snuggly)

beanielou

@Thrifty_Taylor.  Our schools go back next week!
My DS does not have a schoolbag yet 

thriftylass

beanielou said:

@Thrifty_Taylor.  Our schools go back next week!
My DS does not have a schoolbag yet 

Oops, better go school shopping too as they start on Tuesday. Not had to go for a year or two as we bought big sizes. DS needed/wanted a blazer for secondary, the lovely woolen one is £100 but he also luckily liked the new budget fire hazard version for £30. If he really wears it I'll look into second hand woolly one. Otherwise we'll just need shirts I think and a skirts and trousers from Asd@. Oh and T-shirts, now they start changing in school again for PE (for about three years it was more like wear whatever you want all day when PE is on). Luckily they don't need any pens or anything to take in and they both use their same school bags for years. Better make a list after all, lol.