Let's start with a bit of humour shall we.
Well for what it's worth I'm back. The past month or so has been a bit of a sod. A return to full time work meant that I had to create a schedule and have some organisation in my life, something that I'm not fond of at the best of times. I did it, but I was left without any time to myself. Or at least it seemed that way and I didn't particularly like it.
Then I made the mistake of getting involved, rather than just doing what I was paid to do and suggested an idea to create more passing trade. "Great idea" they said "Go for it. It's your project"
A week later, last Wednesday to be exact, we were all made redundant.
OOPS
So here I am, back where I was enjoying a relaxed but productive frugal existence. I have some rice wine and rice wine vinegar on the go, my house is once again spotless, made a new bed for one of the dogs, installed a new telephone line into the craft room so that I can move the computer upstairs, made 3 litres of Chicken stock and 2 bowls of soup to freeze, enjoyed a couple of hours of trudging through the snow with my doggies (they are happy this has happened :)) and here I sit at half past 3 in the afternoon trying to decide what to do next.
Being back at work full time made me think about the future and the fact that if I do accept full time employment in the future it will be for a non profit company. The upside to the redundancy is that the company I was working for have offered me free training courses for the Assessors Award and also for Petals training, a course which I was actually booked onto and had to cancel due to starting work with them.
I can now get back to volunteering at the community base and I have also volunteered to help out if possible with the local Soldiers Off The Streets venue.
I also need to contact the tutor at the dress making course to see if it's still possible to enrol.
I am still looking for a log burning fire or stove. I nearly gave in and went around the shops looking to buy one but my eagerness was stopped in its tracks when I saw the prices that were charging. HAHAHAHA £400 for a mini log burning fire? What are they on for god's sake?
So it's back to freecycle and word of mouth for me mi dear.
I will be spending a few hours catching up with all your blogs over the next week, so don't yell at me if I ask a dumb question because I missed what's been happening in your life, hee hee
Welcome back! I love the chinese sayings, i was laughing reading them out to my husband, he was laughing at my chinese accent!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you back Christine, you certainly sound like your old self again!
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Welcome back Christine. Rice wine and rice wine vinegar on the go? That sounds intriguing!
ReplyDeleteWai com bac. Su pa poh ting.
ReplyDeleteLoo fra Mum
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