I’ve not been able to commit myself to much writing lately, because 3 weeks ago I GOT A JOB. I wasn’t sure I wanted a job and now I’m doing it I’m even less so. But… The people I work with are OK, and I could do the job standing on my head.
It does fill my time though and I work 30 hours when 16 would have been enough. I managed to make cake at the weekend so that we had a treat in our lunch boxes. Luckily Dave is a great help, and makes our lunch (bait) every day. Now that I work outside of the house. I have to make some effort to look presentable and I find that takes me most of the morning, besides which most of my new income is spent on clothes, (as I lived in jeans and T’s for years) and make up. What a treat it is to buy lovely make up.
I’m trying to maintain my frugal lifestyle and getting word of mouth recommendations for make up etc, and all of the clothes I have bought for work have been from ebay. I am strictly sticking to my packed lunch every day even though I can smell lovely bacon sarnies from the sandwich van which is parked right outside out building. It takes me about 7 minutes to drive to work, but a couple of days last week I got DH to drop me off in the mornings and I walked home. It is a really pleasant walk, by the map it is about 3 miles, but I can’t find sat nav (GPS) for walking and find it impossible to read a map, so I went round the houses a bit and it took me 90 minutes to get home.
I would have walked today but I went to the boot sale yesterday. The temperature was 21oC, and although I put SPF 15 on, and was only out for 2 hours, I managed to get seriously sunburnt. So today I feel all stiff and brought the car.
I have Friday off this week, ‘cos I’m going to visit my 2 youngest in their boarding school, for the weekend we get to camp and hang out with our kids, I always find it a really relaxed, chill out time and looking forward to it very much.
