Though She Be Crepey, She Is FIERCE!

[QueenQueenie]

Ta Da!

I have been awake since before 5, too - probably the aches and pains of my first gym visit for about six weeks. BTM, do you think you will be able to get your specs back? We usually take two pairs away with us these days as it would be such a disaster if we broke/lost them.

Another busy day here as my friend arrives tomorrow and I need to finish sorting out food (going to stay with her is like going to a country house hotel so I always feel I have to up my game).

Morning Rudy, BTM, NU.

First day of holiday, 05:15 - migraine

Lovely to be here though. DH overjoyed. Every time I see him like this I start thinking we should move here.

BTM your holiday sounds amazing, I've enjoyed reading about it.

Sympathies re: aches NU.

Rudy, you OK?

MI, phew!

Morning early birds . NU - friends like that always panic me - I never feel I can welcome them back in style.

Safe voyage back BTM, and Rudy - what were you doing online at 4 am?

We are up as DH has driven DD1 to the bus station - she's heading back your way Rudy for her summer job. She'll be back in a fortnight as she's doing holiday cover - a block of two weeks and then three weeks onto the beginning of term.

I think I've messed up my Achilles tendon as it's stiff in the mornings and I can feel a lump on it. I don't think I'm starting jogging anytime soon.

Stropps - hope you're having a more relaxed weekend and MI hope you're enjoying your holiday.

x post - Auriga - relaxation migraine? Sometimes when all the stress suddenly is lifted I get this - can't even relax on holiday. Hope it dissipates and that you have a great time.

Glad all travelees have arrived safe if not stressfree!

Herbs I don't both to list all my o levels and grades anymore I just say x of that and x a levels, this degree etc etc..... Never stopped me getting a job.

Here ds went camping with a friend and hates it. Cue major trauma last night with him wanting dp to collect him (homesick). Other mother and I agreed that unless he was/is totally ruining their holiday he would be told to 'tough it out'. - I also pointed out school trips would be off the cards because rescuing him from China would be a no go....... sigh

Work wise I need to move my mental state which is hard and crack on with job application....

Cremo what's happening re you and work?

Stroppy agree with all the lovely crepeys - especially Cremo - you need to disengage.

NU I brought a spare pair and have now fug them out. Thankfully they were from the pound shop, so its no big deal.

We are at Auckland airport killing time till our flight at midnight. I actually feel quite sad to be leaving. Maybe we will have to come back!

In the Mexican wave of crepey hol comings and goings, I'm home.... And the washing machine is on the Fritz ( have never used that expression before, what do you think? ) DH gone to buy soda crystals - he looked it up on MN!

Sorry for crap night Rudy.

NU in facebook world...does your name start with R in RL? I And which Crepey is V?

Sorry about migraine Auriga, hope it's a quick blip.

Welcome home WAF!

BD just don't know about my job until 21st when there is a big meeting with the EM ( elected members) we are at the whim of the DUP. Depending on many factors including whether we will be under new management, I still maybe out of a job. Or not, or moved sideways. Or take VR. Pants altogether.

Auriga, sorry to hear about the migraine. Hope it lifts quickly.

BD - my CV just says '10 o levels, 3 A levels', etc, but these infernal online forms don't let you do that. You have to painstakingly put in everything. And that's before you get to the waffly bollocks stage of writing 5,000 characters on how you 'value diversity' and another 5,000 on 'working effectively'.

Perhaps it's all a cunning ruse to sort the keen from the CBA.

Hmm..crap Herbs...
Although I do recall a long debate with a member of the Civil Service who wasn't sure they could accept my PhD cert as evidence of my degree level worthiness because I couldn't find my degree cert - I did point out a PhD trumps a degree any day.... And they couldn't cope with the fact transcripts didn't exist in my day.....

God Herbs - not even sure I can remember my Olevel grades and definitely not sure where the certificate is. Somewhere at DParents in a very elaborate and incomprehensible filing system .

Same for my employer herbs : the app form requires painstaking detail on everything from cse grades up, plus evidence of same. I have to think my dmum for saving everything through 3 house moves and a robbery. And if you apply internally, they want originals of everything again
And oh fuck for the personal statement. And potentially for me anyway , being interviewed invariably by people I've either been stonkingly pissed with or am related to. I think this is why I shy away from applying for anything.

As I haven't applied for a job for over 11 years, and haven't interviewed for 11 years either, I'm a bit out of touch with what is required. I am hoping to nor have to apply for any new jobs before I hit retirement

Still waiting for our flight at midnight. Am praying it doesn't get delayed!

I don't think I've ever had to show my certificates

I hate competence based interviews, which we use all the bloody time. "Can you tell me about a time when you have..."

Actually, I just hate interviews full stop.

Oh yes, "clear specific examples" Mrs S. Like i know how not to ramble on for hours about shit all.

Crem about interviews!

Definitely, definitely, definitely, agree with taking time after AS to consider best options. There is no need to rush unless you want to change institution/apply for ubercourses. And it is all so complicated with lots of details that need to be absorbed, think through how next will will or won't fit with this etc etc even if everything is on an even keen emotionally.

ds went to Cornwall with mates, and it went very well by the sound of it . No holiday accidents here.

Have a good journey back BTM, lovely hol MI and much power to your elbows Herbs, crem and BD.

I have lost about five messages.... Dodgy wifi.
tilly have a safe trip home. Sorry of GCSE results are playing on your mind. It's all pants.
magi re adult children...yes they can be awful and aren't fobbed off with the possibility of a shopping trip...
hatty if you want to PM me, I have been having treatment for Achilles tendonitis with the same symptoms as you. At last I am improving after a couple of years of swelling, lumps on the back of my ankle and chronic pain.
Mi Gosh! But it sounds like a lovely place. Try to relax and enjoy. I learnt just a day or so ago that ConS and his family did infact MISS their flight, as a result of having to wait over an hour for a shuttle bus from the long stay car park to the check in desk. They were devastated. Poor buggers.
rudy why 4am? Are you ok?
stropps it occurred to me that despite being a goody goody, in the sixth from I regularly bunked school to see a boyfriend that was living in East London. I just stayed on the bus all the way to London E5 instead of getting off at the school stop.....
auriga wish your poor head better.
BD oh dear...hope DS gets over his homesickness and starts to enjoy himself. Like you need more stress.

Job applications. Honestly, you could be Mickey Mouse so long as you've got a wretched certificate and could stretch a time when you escaped being eaten by a cat into an example of how you managed A Difficult Situation at work. Fortitude herbs They'll be lucky to have you....

Lovely breakfast with good friends along the coast sans the utterly revolting DC. Great long walk there and back along the coastal path. It is hot. The sun and sea are lovely. Can forget all the crappy stuff for a bit. . Mindfulness really does help sometimes.

Crem - at least you can ramble on - my mind always goes blank and I look like a rabbit in the headlights.

Thanks Rose - PM coming.

Ahem. Thanks for the holiday wishes, crepeys, but you are a week early. We leave on the 24th. DS is away with GF, but we are still in gloomy Surrey.

What is it with Crepeys and airports at the moment? Glad you got away, MI.

Had a nice day yesterday with DParents; DH and DSM (as the only two fans in the family) had a longstanding arrangement to see "Elvis at the O2", so pushed off to London first thing to coo over The King's gold plated phone and pink Cadillac, and then we all met up afterwards at DSis's for a BBQ. I sank rather a lot of

WAF - there are two Crepeys with first names beginning V - me and Wilbur. But I'm not on FB....

Also one has to find an example of a Difficult Situation At Work where the difficulty is caused by someone else and self-deprecatingly salvaged by oneself, shrug, shucks, only doing my job etc etc. I'm actually quite good at all that kind of bollocks.

We are edging ourselves through the usual first few difficult days of the holiday. And I'm managing a fair bit of writing, which is a relief.

BUGGER ME. I am STILL doing this job application. I thought wine would help, but oddly it seems to be having the opposite effect.

It's for a 17.5hr a week job, paying peanuts, that will probably be cut anyway. I'm giving it another 30 minutes then going to have dinner and stuff my face with chocolate.

Roll on holidays. Though the weather forecast indicates we'll be dodging showers in lovely Lyme Regis.

Oh, Rudy, do come on Friday, sod the dc.