Inconvenient Annoyances

My IA: I was offered a job last Thursday and was informed that HR would be in contact with me to arrange everything, but they were still deciding on the exact start date of the position (4th or 11th of Oct.). It's now been a week and I've still not heard anything. I don't think they're the sort of company that would retract a job offer without letting me know, but I'm wondering how long I should let it go before contacting HR. 

It's been a week -- get on to them right away.

I broke down & put the heating on...it's only Sept 24th! 

I somehow missed the memo that the boxes of brownie mix here suck.  I needed something quick to make as a birthday surprise for my dad while hubs got him out of the house for an hour. So I bought this box of brownie mix to throw together since I couldn't afford all of the ingredients to make anything else. The stupid brownies are flat as a pancake! It looks terrible and I'm so annoyed. I guess it's the thought that counts, but still... I was looking forward to some delicious brownies, not some weird flat wannabe brownies. 

I broke down & put the heating on...it's only Sept 24th! 

I refuse to do this. So DD & I are in long sleeves and jeans with socks on and I'm wrapped in my favorite purple blanket...DD always wraps herself in her 'freddie' as she calls it so we're twins today  ...but I still feel like cr@p.

I broke down & put the heating on...it's only Sept 24th! 

Me too!  I wore a sweater, a scarf, and a hoodie to walk to the Tesco near mine and was freezing. But, at least it's cozy in here.

J- Maybe they'll still taste yummy? Fingers crossed.

I somehow missed the memo that the boxes of brownie mix here suck.  I needed something quick to make as a birthday surprise for my dad while hubs got him out of the house for an hour. So I bought this box of brownie mix to throw together since I couldn't afford all of the ingredients to make anything else. The stupid brownies are flat as a pancake! It looks terrible and I'm so annoyed. I guess it's the thought that counts, but still... I was looking forward to some delicious brownies, not some weird flat wannabe brownies. 

Got any vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup?  If you do, you can crumble up the brownies (large crumbles) and put on top of ice cream. Tasty!

Steph

I broke down & put the heating on...it's only Sept 24th! 

Oh I had to do that weeks ago in the north pole! 

My IA: It's been raining. Again. It was not supposed today.  At least its not going straight like the past 48 hours.

DH just sent me a text that his boss is showing off his new Porsche to the lads in the office. People are free to do what they want with their money, but it does rub me the wrong way when my husband's contract is ending in December with no new position in sight. Clearly the Celtic Tiger is still living in this guy's backyard!

Rushed thru work today and went to Nantwich Food Festival with DH. Wasn't that great. Most of the stalls were empty and people were tidying up to go. It started at 10am, we couldn't believe that they weren't still going at only 3ish or 4! Oh well. It was nice spending time with DH, anyway!

It's been a week -- get on to them right away.

I ended up calling them. Turns out they sent my contract to the wrong address. At least I have it now! 

My IA: It's been raining. Again. It was not supposed today.  At least its not going straight like the past 48 hours.

PB: DH says you have lots of rain then lots of snow and you look forward to summer which is May ;-)

PB: DH says you have lots of rain then lots of snow and you look forward to summer which is May ;-)

Indeed- May's not that nice here- However, there's two days in August that make up our summer  

'They' reckon the public will have extra amounts of depression this year, as we had no summer.  So its just been pretty grey and September has been nothing but rain.  Normally is just grey and dull (dreich) but its actually been raining quite hard this month!

Um, I'm like that & I don't even have MS.  

This maes me feel a bit more normal so thanks.

and thanks to everyone else. We're getting there slowly but surely...

I'm going through an emotional rollercoaster now that my parents have left. I wanted to be happy (DH was thrilled... lol) and we got to go back to sleep in our own bed at long last, and that's all great... plus we got letters from the redundancy payment office and all of that is finally sorted and things are really looking up for us now. But that fight I had with my mom last weekend was terrible, and I feel horrible about it, even though it wasn't exactly my fault -- she was ignoring my stepson all weekend when he was trying so hard to be nice and I was so proud of him for being sweet but so disappointed in her for taking so little interest in him after making a big deal out of meeting him, so I had a dig at her about not going to the park with him when he asked her to, but then she blew up at me like tenfold and set off a chain of events that I couldn't even go into if I wanted to and then I ended up saying horrible things to her that I didn't really mean. I apologized, but all she said was "It's no big deal" and then everything went back to "normal." I guess I just wish for once that she would have also apologized for her part in things and had a heart to heart with me or something, and I tried to mention it a few times and get conversations going and she just ignored me. But I let it go and we had a great week after that. And DSS was with us for a few hours yesterday and she actually interacted with him and stuff. And then she cried at the airport this morning and was hugging me so tight, and I didn't cry then, but now I feel like I want to cry. I suddenly feel so depressed and don't know exactly why - like if its because they have left and I will miss them, or because they came and it was a bit turbulent and I'm disappointed about the huge fight that I will always remember now, or because it's all over, or what. I hate feeling like this when I should be feeling positive about all the good news and excited about starting work on Monday, which is what I expected to feel.  Sorry for rambling. Guess I just needed to get it off my chest. 

My IA today:

I still don't have the contract for my new job - I start 3 weeks on Monday and was intending on handing in my 2 weeks notice yesterday, so I could finish work on the 8th and have a week to get organised. However, I don't want to give notice before I've signed the contract, so I'm kind of stuck in limbo at the moment, waiting to be able to leave - I'm in the middle of securing a place to live in Exeter as well, but until I've got the contract, I'm hesitant to commit to anything definite in that area too (I'm hoping I'll get it early next week though and that it will be a few days before I have to pay the deposit and first month's rent, which would be good because I won't quite have enough money until pay day on Tuesday) .