this is the rose - done with ordinary paper and pva'd - it's come out well. Might just get the grungepaper though to have a go with that and grunge it up and sparkle it up - so so scrumptious.

Awful week

Well - was with HER - hate her more everyday I have to work with her.

Heard from big job - no interview - gutted, but know that I wouldn't have liked the hours anyway. They said they'll keep my name on file - but don't they always say that anyway?

Korin heard from DM too - no interview, no job. She is gutted too - she is so desperate for a job, wish something would come along for her too.

K & O at her moms for a week - hope she wants to come home? - home being here with K.

My ear infection cleared but I now have a large boil right by my R nipple - it is SO SO painful.

Heard from doctors and more blood tests - with boils and ear infections it worries me that it might be diabetes. Although it can be diet controlled - I hope, so will have to knuckle down. Wated to lose some weight before interview on Tuesday..........................Got to turn trousers up and have bought a new cardigan too to look a bit smarter - I hope.

Real tired tonight.

Grungepaper Roses - everyone is doing it doing it doing it - cutting out six petal flower templates and grunging it grunging it !

I just looked at how much I have spent on craft stuff over the last month - THIS has to stop. I have gone from spending virtually NOTHING to spend spend spend again, little 'wins' on ebay can easily mount up to £20 - £25 a week with P&P - two trips to Hobbycraft another £25. Metal paints £10.................and I went absolutely crazy on the MM metal toppers - it really has to stop. I know I earn, but at this rate I'll get us back into the red.

SO - didn't buy the grungepaper at £6 for a 12x12 piece - was very tempted. HAVE though painted PVA onto paper and cut out flowers and made the rose and the petals stay put. IF I can I shall add a pic - it's not the best rose ! - but if I grunge it up with tim's alcohol inks - or sparkle it up with cosmic shimmers - I think they'll LOOK OK - I probably won't make anymore now ! Tee Hee.

bloody hell, just realised it's 11 pm again.

Goodnight.

Had an ear infection all week - couldn't wait to finish work on Thursday

I felt so bad. THEN I had to go to Cupronickel to give keys over and take meter readings etc. Couldn't do the water - it's hidden outside somewhere ! - We gotta go back on Sunday morning to check this...........................I can't believe how quickly 6 months has whipped by. B UT I didn't think 8 months ago that we would be where we are today. I am a lot calmer.

Just wish I could find another job - and the job is better pay. Haven't heard from the big one that I wanted to hear from - that would have been MARVELLOUS.

Korin hasn't heard from DM either - and she is pretty depressed about it all. Keir and Olivia came over yesterday, it was nice to see them - they had tea and then we took them home again.

I did a bit of crafting today - but my ear is too bad to do much, want to sleep all the time. I did manage to clear out the little cupboard in the hall too and I was pleased about that. We need a set of shelving in there so it'll sort the stuff of the floor - but everything needs sorting really. Gotta start on the 'middle lounge' tomorrow after getting water reading at cupronickel and going shopping and doing bills and paperwork etc. Weeks just mingle into months.

REALLY want to lose a stone now - and quickly.

Very very tired again tonight, so better get to bed.

Goodnight.

Cupronickel is now CLEAN - it took me 2.5 hours on Saturday and 3 hours on Sunday - to clean carpets, and clean the floors downstairs and windows and fridge and freezer and cooker and utility etc. I shouldn;t have left it so mucky (it wasn't really) but I want our £850 refunded if we can.

We hand back on Thursday 18th - a week early, but we really need the deposit back - IF we can. I can't see why not though.

Keir and Olivia are thinking of moving, I don't blame them because that flat is just so so cold. Spring is on it's way though, so it's not too much of a rush. Just glad they're thinking of moving providing they can afford it.

We are praying that Key will get some bonus, but we don't know. BIG changes again at his work. It is a worry. BUT I think he'll do OK with his new boss - hope so anyway.

Not talking about my work anymore - just getting on, but I have a heavy heart every day.

Tired and worn out. Have a reflexology treatment tonight. Hope it goes OK at Hannahs.

It's mighty cold outside, the ice was real thick on windscreen this morning.

Ah well...............................getting on, cook tea and get over to do this treatment. Korin waiting for news on Drayton Manor Job. I really pray that she gets it and it'll give her something to go out and do and pay for her insurance on a car when she passes her driving test.

applying for jobs left right and centre

My crafting space as it is now - it's about 5' at the bottom of my bed - would like it - eventually all done up with the storage boxes from Ikea that everyone has, but can't afford it at the moment.

I don't want to leave - but I know that she will make no signs of retiring even though she is 66 this year (I think), she says she loves the job, yet she is so so miserable. Vile today, sneakey over changing her time without officially sorting it - Oh how I hate her.





Anyway, It'd be nice to get a new job and move on from her. My job is nice, I kinda like the people I work with and I am upset that she has made my life so unbearable at work and is my immediate cow-orker......................so I've got to leave, IF I CAN. I could take it as constructive dismissal, but I don't want to, I have had enough. I am tired of using up all my energy trying to stay strong when she's around. Oh how I would hate to be her. I suppose I should feel sorry for her. BUT I DON'T because I hate her so much.





Well, have a lot of scrapping to do...................don't know if I fancy doing it - a treatment straight from work tomorrow - SHE isn't in - YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE. It is so nice when she isn't in.





and then tomorrow I might scrap.





Shed coming tomorrow so will take some pic's - maybe scrap-a-shed.





Tee Hee.

In real life this is much more shiney and sparkly - used stickles, it's a belt buckle off DD's belt - 5"x4" and I shall use it for a mini album cover. ME thinks.

AND 2 ATC's I made today - tonight ! - for swaps on UKS. Want to get my Grey 'inchies' done tomorrow night and sent this weekend, then I think I am going to go crazy and do loads of swapping on PW and COC and UKS - I hope if I can keep up the momentum again.

(this is in a soft voice and quiet cos I said I wouldn't mention HER - but she's been vile and sickly nice this week - STILL hate her).