Friday Five!

Pleased that you'll get a little extra income ksand.  I know how scary it is when the savings starts to drop (I blame YOU maternity leave)!

Have you tried Biofreeze before?  They sell it at Boots and I swear it works miracles on muscle issues.

<sigh>

That's what's hard with us.  My husband is always trying to put ON weight.  Ugh.

Mine likes to think he's putting on weight but I envy him because he can eat SO much and gain so little!

Happy Friday 

1.) Work , that is all  

2.) Off to China on Monday for work, for 2 weeks. I just got back Tuesday from the US, so jet lag central. 

3.)  Facebook deleted a post of mine and now won't let me post on my wall. It wasn't an offensive post or anything or against terms and conditions. Miffed. 

4.) Had my school reunion when I was in the US and it was really great. I had such a fun time.  Can't believe it as I was far, far, far from cool.  When your high school legacy is that I was always: 'warm, friendly, musical, sweet, nice' , well that's pretty good, isn't it?   

5.) Gardening, cycling, sleeping,  and doing some dreaded clothing shopping this weekend.   

Ah, yes - the western side of the UK has had lovely weather recently... on days that the west had 22-24 degrees and barely a cloud in the sky, here in the East, we had grey cloud and highs of 14 degrees (last week we had one day where the overnight min was 12.8 degrees and the daytime high was 14.6 degrees)!

One side or the other has to take the moisture in off the sea, I guess.

Not in the next few months, no - this one was an urgent tour that needed filling ASAP, so I volunteered (also the Falklands pays the most, because you work about 70 hours a week and can claim the overtime).

Okay, that does sound better.... just work as much as you can handle, rack up the overtime and the income, and you can access the internet during those overnight shifts.

How slow is slow?  We get ~4.6Mbps down, and 0.6Mbps up where we live.  Is it slower than that?

... and doing some dreaded clothing shopping this weekend.   

You have my sympathies.  I need clothes, but I don't like the process of getting from needing to having.

Happy Friday 

3.)  Facebook deleted a post of mine and now won't let me post on my wall. It wasn't an offensive post or anything or against terms and conditions. Miffed. 

Uhhh ohh! What T&Cs did you breech!?" haha

  When your high school legacy is that I was always: 'warm, friendly, musical, sweet, nice' , well that's pretty good, isn't it?   

That's awesome! 

Uhhh ohh! What T&Cs did you breech!?" haha

I haven't a scooby 

How slow is slow?  We get ~4.6Mbps down, and 0.6Mbps up where we live.  Is it slower than that?

Much slower than that. Maybe 1 Mbps download speed at most and about 350 kbps upload. It's like old-school, dial-up speed.

It's so slow that it once took me 5 days to download a photo my mum sent me by email (it kept stopping partway through loading it), and over 25 minutes just to get my Facebook page to load. It does works better if I just use the text version of sites and turn off the graphics in my browser though (less to download). I have been able to download video and music files before while using the free internet on a night shift, but it can take several hours to download a 150-200MB file.

When I was last there, some of the girls in the office kept using the WiFi during the day, when it wasn't free, and at the end of one month our boss got a bill for £1,800 (on top of the £200-odd monthly internet fee)! They had gone 17 GB over our allowance for the month (which was 18 GB).

Much slower than that. Maybe 1 Mbps download speed at most and about 350 kbps upload. It's like old-school, dial-up speed.

I will stop complaining about mine.  You're going back to that voluntarily?  That must be some mighty mighty overtime pay. 

When I was last there, some of the girls in the office kept using the WiFi during the day, when it wasn't free, and at the end of one month our boss got a bill for £1,800 (on top of the £200-odd monthly internet fee)! They had gone 17 GB over our allowance for the month (which was 18 GB).

Oh, wow... I would faint.  Who paid for it?

1. Wishing my notice period at work was over! I do need the income, but it's a bit blah right now. Trying to write and test reports with insane test data that makes no sense, while the environment is coming down for 4 days, before a massive release and process change. Really should've given myself a full week off between jobs.

2. I'm hangry. I know why, but it's not something easily remedied. My stomach is messed up and not digesting things well again, leading to being starving/dizzy from reactive hypoglycaemia shortly after eating. Gotta get back on a low carb low fiber diet to solve that. I hate needing a special diet when having to cook for 2 and figure out how to have food for lunch the next day. When my husband would visit or I'd visit it was temporary to eat "normal food" and a nice treat but it's not sustainable for me.

3. I did at least buy myself nice glass lunch containers so I can work on getting into a routine before I have to start bringing lunch every day again.

4. I'm still very homesick. Which is weird because I didn't particularly like home, but it had everything I needed and here really doesn't. I know it'll just take time and I haven't given it enough. I do need to find a bungalow for our next place though. Stairs are extremely painful atm and I miss my one story house with a driveway and small yard. The stress of not knowing if I'll be able to have a parking spot if I leave is probably the biggest frustration of this house. Multiple houses have 2 cars for their family and its unassigned parking. 

5. We started watching iZombie last week as one of our after dinner shows. It's adorable and I'm glad my husband likes it! (and that the guts aren't too realistic)

I will stop complaining about mine.  You're going back to that voluntarily?  That must be some mighty mighty overtime pay. 

Well, it's only for 2 months this time . Plus, you're working, sleeping and socialising so much that there's not that much time to go online anyway.

In terms of the money, it is certainly an incentive, because I earn about double my normal salary while I'm there, and my room and board is paid for by work. When I was renting I just moved out of my UK house while I was away and put my things in storage, so I could save almost my entire salary... I did 8 months overseas (5 in the Falklands and 3 in Ascension) in 2013/2014 and came home with enough for a house deposit.

Of course, now that I've bought a house, I have mortgage/insurance/bills to pay while I'm away, so I can't save as much as I used to be able to, but it's still more than when I'm in the UK.

Oh, wow... I would faint.  Who paid for it?

The boss did!

I suggested to him that perhaps people hadn't turned off their automatic updates on their phones/laptops/tablets, and that was why we had used to much data (which happened to a colleague in Ascension... when she arrived, she had 4GB left of her 6GB monthly allowance and she used it all up in 2 days because her laptop was set to automatically update and kept downloading them). Not sure if that was actually the case, or if they were just deliberately ignoring the warning not to use the internet, but he seemed to accept that reason.

My husband loves nutrition and non-nutrition, so I try to strike a balance.  We eat good food, but then we use bad ingredients like butter and butter.  And creme fraiche.  And butter.  And cheeeeeeeeeese!  And butter.

Butter, cheese and crème fraiche are nearly carb-free!  They're good for you!

Butter, cheese and crème fraiche are nearly carb-free!  They're good for you!

I keep trying to convince my husband of that, but he doesn't seem to believe me.   

1.  Shite day at work.  Our systems and the supposed tech 'helpdesk'...HA! Help??...are beyond the pale.

2.  However, now I am home, and OH is home (for a change) and we are drinking our way through a 20-litre barrel of strong, pale, sweet perry, and I'm feeling lots better.

3.  No plans for the weekend apart from laundry and maybe a trip to the cowp.

4.  The gull chicks on the rooftops around here are getting braver... dangerously so.  2 dead chicks on the pavement the last 2 mornings. 

5.  The pretty patterned sheet & duvet cover set I ordered from LaRedoute (60% off sale!)  arrived today, so the denim blue duvet cover with the egg yolk stains, and the white fitted sheet with the tea stains are OOT the door!  (my old flat had no heating, so we used to eat in bed a lot...OH is very messy.)

4.  The gull chicks on the rooftops around here are getting braver... dangerously so.  2 dead chicks on the pavement the last 2 mornings. 

Oh no!   
Ours are far behind, still in the nest but I get so nervous when they are at the wandering stage.