and Breathe…….. hang on didn’t I see that on someone else’s blog? think I may have, oh well quite catchy!

I am currently working myself harder than any boss ever could and getting sick of the continuous stream of telemarketing calls.  I feel fully justified to swear at them all as I now know from experience it will bring a little something extra to their day.  Saying that I just can’t bring myself to do it so I have once again spent the day telling people that I don’t really live here which is pretty difficult as I don’t lie, as a rule, and detest people who do.  They made me do it Miss!........

I am also wishing that I hadn’t, in all my glory last week, updated my CV with my mobile phone number this has to be one of the stupidest (out of the many stupid) things I have done recently as it seems there are plenty of telemarketing companies out there who are just crying out for my skills in harassment.  Maybe I should just tell them I have lost my selling people crap they don’t need mojo as I told my boss the other week.  A couple of my friends came to visit me this week and my kitchen turned into a recruitment drive, CV’s flying all over the place I think I have started an avalanche……..

Sorry that is just my alter ego telling me to get back to work........ later x

Sure I have seen this somewhere before.....

Oh yes that was on my computer yesterday, I knew it had been trying to tell me something!

Onwards and Upwards......

Right well yesterday I sort of chickened out on the whole leaving work thing.  I had set my mind to it around the 2am mark but come 9am started panicking and went in anyway, to be fair I sort of wish I hadn't bothered.

My heart just isn't in it anymore!  Question - can your heart ever be in that sort of job?  (urm, nope!)  The only reason I have tolerated it for so long is because the hours are good, fit in with the kids school and the money wasn't too bad for a part time job either.  Most of the people who work there have options though and generally walk out after a few months but then they have us mums (and some dad's, before I get into trouble.... not really though!) by the short and curly's.  We need them and they like it, so we seem to hang on in there until the death! 

I gave them 1 year and 3 months of my life, I swear they should be grateful for that, if it hadn't of been for the wonderful friends I have met there I wouldn't have made it that long, although there has to come a time when having a chat with your mates isn't the only reason you go to work.  If they'd have known surely they would have sacked me ages ago, or so you would have thought, although I have been putting that particular ball in their court for ages and they haven't bitten, so I had to jump! and here we are.  Now if you think what I have said about my job applies to every job, seriously you haven't tried telesales.  It is a whole new world of smashing your head into a wall whilst losing the will to live........

I always found it quite a shock when people decided to listen to what I had to say and spent the entire call wondering, why? (sometimes I drifted off completely into dream world and would often wonder what the hell I had just said, I could have booked them a holiday to Africa for all I knew)  Were these people who chose to listen bored with their lives? was no one available to chat on facebook? surely there had to be some explanation.  Some, and this is my particular favourite would pretend to be interested for five minutes listen to what I had to say (believing in some way that they were actually wasting 'my' time, the irony kills me!) and at the end of the call swear or sometimes laugh at me and then slam the phone down.

So the wheels have been in motion for some time and I either step up to the mark and make a leap of faith now or forget the whole damn thing because it is beginning to sound like a pipe dream.

360 Project, take 2

My Shiny New Fridge.

Georges gingerbread house which I promised her I'd take a picture of and we are currently chowing down on now all the Christmas chocolate has dried up.

My Dexter Dog

My favourite sign in the kitchen that Georgie made me.

Still got to catch up but happy I have finally made an inroad although it doesn't bode well for me actually making it to 360 but hey ho, I can but try.  I will add more tomorrow but this is all I have right now as I really need to start getting tea ready and cracking on with my website.

360 Project

Started behind and things didn't really get much better from there as I have been so busy and not had much time to sort the pictures out.  Unfortunately they are in no particular order and probably won't mean much to anyone other than me when I come to look back at them in the future, as although life is super interesting at the moment it hasn't involved the going out interesting just the hanging around the house type stuff.

Note to self: stop referring to yourself as busy as it is getting boring!......

and so for the pictures.......

Numero Uno - Broken Fridge on Christmas Day = Nightmare

New Years eve spent hama beading with my Georgie for her friend Eve but we decided we liked it so much we decided to keep it so will have to find something else for her.

New Years Day spent rearranging my kitchen to make it look nice for the new fridge!  The shelves were a complete tip, should definately have done a before and after but didn't think too much about it at the time, so you just get an after, just wanted to shift all the clutter more than anything and now there is a big patch to varnish on the floor where the fridge sat and the walls need a lick of paint.  This year is going to be a busy one!

My new bedroom shelves, I love them so much.......  shame I can't get any sleep in there though!

The rest of New Years day was spent with various members of the family shouting at the addict-a-ball.  It is a nightmare, far worse than the Rubicks cube because you can't take the stickers off and pretend that you are a genius!  If you have a short temper don't invest in one but if you want to keep your man/kids out of your hair and drive them insane, for hours on end it is hilarious

My living room shelves just because I love them and am in a shelf showing off mood.  Pretty bloody sad I know, but hell you were warned in advance!

Up in the Air

Right well 2011 not got off to the start I had originally planned although it is still looking pretty good. I was supposed to be going to work today but I had a bit of a breakthrough on the business front yesterday and I need to start taking some risks, namely my job. So I have decided to get out of bed rather than lying around pondering at 3am, which isn't helpful, and just crack on with it (starting with blog!.......obviously!). I am beginning to think that maybe it isn't insomnia I suffer from but more that I have just lost the ability to sleep. Anyhow on the business front I am currently dipping my toes in trying to be everywhere at once but figure it isn't going to work unless I give it my all it may be a struggle financially but surely that was always going to be the case so here goes nothing pretty much!.......

Feeling a little guilty about my 360 project although I have taken my pictures I will have to load them separately as I haven't quite worked out how to connect my word 10 doc's pictures directly onto the blog and at this moment on top of everything else I simply don't have the time to spend worrying about it. In fact this is the first time I have done it directly through word so no idea how it is going to pan out.

The last few days have been pretty bizarre got stuck at Tesco's on Saturday night. In all my infinite wisdom I decided not to take my handbag and just my phone. My phone is brand new has all my contact numbers on and is fully charged so 'what could possibly go wrong?', leaving my bag at home well that is definitely a first but it is getting a little stupid heavy as I have gone from the extreme of carrying my life around on my shoulder to now actually throwing random things in that I find lying around in a bid to neaten the house up of clutter (we shall see how long that resolution lasts, I do however believe the habit I have just created of throwing even more rubbish into my bag than could ever be necessary is probably here to stay)

I decided that leaving everyone at home watching Harry Hill or whatever it is they watch on a Saturday night, while I went shopping was the best option all around. The idea of faffing around Tesco with George swinging off the trolley with the whole freezer shop to buy wasn't my idea of fun, or hers to be honest I did ask her if she wanted to come but it seems the novelty of shopping with Mum wore off some time ago, no matter how many sweets you may get in return there can be no fair swap for the hell hole that is our local Tesco and so I ventured off alone.

Leisurely walking around the aisles feeling quite calm, completely ignoring the bedlam that is Saturday night Tesco with my music in my ears, yep still working, phone is piping out music so things are good anyhow long story short……… after a good hour or so of shopping, time to get him to come to pay and take me home. My phone has now decided it doesn't want to ring people anymore it wants to be more of a music player and social networking outlet and so the handbag turns out to be an umbrella moment as I don't even have 20p in my pocket. When was the last time you needed a pay phone? Do they even have them anymore? Granted I have become pretty ignorant with age but I can't remember the last time I saw one so I decided to revert back to that ancient art of telepathy and spent a good 10 minutes willing him to call me.

Another £20 later (I really need to work on this throwing stuff into handbags/baskets/trolleys habit as I fear it is kind of getting out of hand) and so I thought I would just ask one of my many Facebook friends to call him. This was great in theory but rather than feeling sorry for myself for another 10 minutes at my lack of friends I just had to accept that I don't actually give out my telephone number out due to the fear I have of it ending up in some junk mail listing where I will get bombarded with calls 24/7. You wouldn't believe the extremes companies go to get your numbers, I do however as junk mail is paying for my Saturday night shopping trip and also pays ours bills and yes on top of that I am also one of those people who harasses people daily on the telephone, for this I apologise and feel it is the least I could do to leave my job immediately without notice whilst hanging my head in shame!...... although to be fair I have taken quite a bit of abuse from you lot over the last 15 years, this can also be translated into months but not only does it feel like years this is also equivalent to the amount of time it has taken from my valuable life, a bit like smoking but so much worse for your health!

Anyhow, I can hear birdsong for the third day running so it's time to post a few pictures as originally planned and then onto my business. Onwards and upwards……….

 

 

Been uber organised today; booked onto the writing and web design course, rang the Physiotherapist for Thomas both which I have been meaning to do for ages.  This is all due to the new to do list on my homepage which I feel inclined to add to daily (not sure how long this will last.......I give it a week at most!).  Luckily for me I am not struggling for things to be added to the list I am more concerned about computer storage space for the amount of things I actually have to do!  I am pleasantly surprised though at how good I feel great each time I strike through something which in turn encourages me to add more to the list.  It really is the small things in life, you know!.......

Anyhow I have heard about this project 365 which I like a lot, even if my camera is pants along with my photography skills.  So I am going full circle with my very own project 360 + 5 what with me being a late starter.  Just off to take some pictures of my last five days lucky I can remember that far back (for a change) which again surprised me!

Here we are three days into the New Year had a fabulous time with the kids letting off party poppers and dancing around the living room and spent New Years day cleaning the house (of party poppers!) and changing everything around.  It never quite feels as if anything has been done unless you give the furniture a bit of a shuffle around! 

Anyhow I now have the top of the shelving unit from my kitchen dresser on the chest of drawers in my bedroom with all my books on.  Cream furniture was definitely the way forward, it looks fab.  I am so happy it feels like my old room back when I was a 15……. not that I actually had book shelves, more clothes strewn around than anything else (mmm, maybe this isn’t the image I want to portray for my website best leave that type of honesty to my private blog!....) 

When the shelves were in the kitchen they were full of random junk, paperwork, keys and the odd toy here and there.  Now my bedroom is my own personal space again, it looks amazing and the kitchen is free from junk so we are all winners.

Note to self never unscrew the Gaggia to refill the coffee when it has just heated up……. mini explosion and I am covered in coffee………

Still waiting for the Fridge Freezer to arrive on Friday, which coincides with payday although this is great news for stocking up when it arrives It’s not so good for the here and now as we are absolutely broke and there are two hungry children to feed.   So I have decided to use my time and money wisely pick up all the staples; pasta, potato’s, etc.    Time to revert back to a bit of the traditional home cookery I used to do rather than all the fancy stuff which although I love isn’t always the cheapest.  I need to dust of all the old recipes anyway ready for the site and so off to the shops for some onions!.........