Hi all :)
Just another week here although it's technically half term - less of the DCs' usual activities but more playdates (not here, I'm not up to hosting 
). Oddly though they are wearing their old school uniform today - because they're playing Harry Potter. o It being half term does mean I don't feel so bad about not being able to do much work with them - we will still do a bit of arty crafty stuff and reading, but today and tomorrow I'm finishing the editing work (we are staying at mum's tonight to meet with the author tomorrow, as she lives in my home town) so the DCs will be left to play! The exciting thing is, the author has already started her next book, and I think she wants me to get started on the typing/editing of it straight away. :)
So. DH is working his notice period - kind of wish he wasn't, as I could really do with him being home, but I know it's better financially this way as they'll have to pay him 3 weeks of annual leave as well as another month's wages. They may even pay him the extra owed hours, which I'm surprised at, but I guess they can't afford to let him have time off because his store is utterly screwed without him (hence him building up so many hours in the first place). HAHAHA. :o But if they find some mug manager who is willing to take on that store, with all its faulty systems, then maybe he will be able to take time off earlier. It's ended up quite good timing though as the week after his notice finishes, we have that little trip away. So no matter what he will have a little much deserved break.
DH phoned me from work to tell me this, and honestly I can already hear the change in him. Normally when I speak to him when he's there, he sounds so utterly miserable and stressed. In that sense, I know we've done the right thing. Even if it's terrifying. I think going off sick may have been better in the sense of buying us more time :( but I can see his view that it would look even worse to a prospective new employer, as it'd look like he's going off sick so they can't invite him to a disciplinary etc... so. It's done. Just have to deal with it. He's weighed it all up, I trust him.
Spends for Sunday:
£5.75 bus fares
£153 DSD's bus pass
£5 pound shop
£5 Giffgaff (DH's goodybag hadn't gone through either)
Got my occ health phonecall later today and am psyching myself up to be brutally honest. I know they will ask me if I see myself going back at all. I'm going to have to say that no, I don't anymore. :( I think I'll make notes that I can look at while I'm speaking to them, so that I can properly explain the specific ways in which the illness has progressed, and the effect that has on me doing any manual handling type stuff (including at home). I'm hoping that if dad arrives in time I can pop into work on the way to mum's, so I can explain this in person rather than have my boss hear it from Occ H IYSWIM. EEEK :( need to charge my phone too I just realised.
Should probably get out of bed now. Not going to be easy today 
but loads to sort out.