Stolen from thesmallhobbit

I am participating in this Pay it Forward initiative: the first five people who comment on this entry with "I'm in" will receive a surprise from me at some point in this calendar year. Anything from a book, a ticket, something home grown or made, a postcard, absolutely any surprise. There will be no warning and when the mood takes me ( Read more... )

I was looking at house prices as research for the new job, when I stumbled across a place for rent and it would be perfect for me. It's on the same street, so perfect for work and hassle free moving. It's a one bed room flat not a studio, and has a double bed. It also has a full kitchen not just hot plates like a lot of places in my price range. In ( Read more... )

I've completed my first week of the new job, so far its going well but I'm still in the classroom. I've not done any actual work as of yet. We're starting to get into the more complex nitty gritty insurance stuff now. I still have another week of classroom based training, but I'm both looking forward to and terrified of getting on the phones for ( Read more... )

I'm trying to teach myself spelling and grammar in preparation for the new job, where it is likely that some writing will be required, and because I'd like to start writing fan fiction again.

This stuff is HARD there are so many different rules and exceptions and no one ever told be this stuff in school. Until yesterday it was a complete mystery ( Read more... )

Oh. I fixed my computer. I didn't know it was broken. I thought my internet was just really slow, but it turns out it was malware slowing things down. I noticed my web sites all seemed to connect to my tools looked this up, with no really helpful results but the suggestion it was malware, crossed my fingers and deleted any registry entries ( Read more... )

I have just watched obsessive cleaners, I am off work tomorrow, and my home is a serious mess. Do you see where this is going? Yes I'm having vague thoughts that maybe I should do an early spring clean. At the very least it might be nice to have a clean clutter free bedroom. I'll probably just watch TV all day then be mad at myself for wasting the ( Read more... )

Oh my god, that was one epic interview over 2hrs long and that included a 30min a written exam with maths and spelling tests. Some how I passed the written test. I've no idea how since spelling and maths were included but I did. I do not know yet how I did on the face to face interview. That was also challenging,  lots of what would you do if .. ( Read more... )

Ten points to you if you can correctly identify the quote in today's title ( Read more... )

Do you know what? I think I might be excited about the future, I mean the long term future not an exciting event. I might be genuinely  looking forwards to life, that's new and completely unexpected. I've pretty much just been enduring life up till now just getting though it.

The resolutions I made every year even the recent ones were all about ways ( Read more... )

I have done it. I have joined Reed online found an advert for a NHS Direct health advisor and applied. For good measure I also joined and applied via another agency. I opted only to make minor changes to my CV and tweak my cover letter a little towards the job in the end. If I apply for a job with a detailed list of skills/requirements I will do a ( Read more... )