A Life of Crime and Chocolate

Strange week. Covering the lessons for a 'sick' teacher. Really enjoyed it. Why strange? I've been asked to consider deferring my retirement to stay at the school. Now in a quandary . . . dunno what to do.

heyjude said:

My cold appears to be strep in disguise.

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Aww. I really hope you feel better.


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To be honest, today kind of sucked. Not as much as other days so far, but...ugh. I would suggest relaxing but I doubt that will help.

Congratulations no matter what you decide, Shakes. That's quite a compliment.

Feel better, Jude!

Aww HJ, that sucks. Hope you feel better soon.
Have you tried echinacia? It's a herbal thing, it helps your immune system fight things like the common cold etc, i find it really reduces the length of time I'm out for the count when I'm overcome with a cold or flu.

Just spent the past three hours putting together a power point on GPS units (still not done) when really I would have rather been writing.

C'est la vie.

Meh. I think I'm going to go to bed soon. I'm honestly kind of tired. I also still feel just a little sick.

After writing 1000 words this morning, paying bills and doing some early christmas shopping, I'm going to order pizza and sit back with my 4 legged BFF (Freya) and watch DVDs.

Hows everyone elses day/night been?

French Maiden said:

After writing 1000 words this morning, paying bills and doing some early christmas shopping, I'm going to order pizza and sit back with my 4 legged BFF (Freya) and watch DVDs.

Hows everyone elses day/night been?

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Mine has only just started. I took some painkillers for cramps and back pain this morning and they knocked me right out, but it was a very nice sleep.

Got up though to find my hotmail account has been hacked and is spamming people, including my boss, who is mad at me because she doesn't understand that it wasn't me sending her emails. At least she's only my boss for another couple of weeks...

And yesterday we finally got confirmation that the cats can go on the flight. So just waiting now for the money for the removal people to transfer from my UK to my Czech bank account, and I'll be much happier when that appears as I'm really scared there's been a mistake and it's gone astray, but then that's us nearly ready to go.

Shakesbear said:

Strange week. Covering the lessons for a 'sick' teacher. Really enjoyed it. Why strange? I've been asked to consider deferring my retirement to stay at the school. Now in a quandary . . . dunno what to do.

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Congrats, Shakes. I think it's wonderful that you can decide exactly what you want to do. Have they given you plenty of time to think about it?

Silver-Midnight said:

Meh. I think I'm going to go to bed soon. I'm honestly kind of tired. I also still feel just a little sick.

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Aw. Hope you and HJ feel better soonest.

So, I might get something done...

Don't know that it'll be writing.

And whether it gets done or not will depend on whether or not a friend decides to take me storm chasing.

So, I'll either have fun, or I'll get something done.

GailD said:

Aw. Hope you and HJ feel better soonest.

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Thanks.

So did not get anything productive done today, and we didn't get the storms either. Bummer.

I'd say that tomorrow will be different, but there's a stage production of Wizard of Oz I want to go to.

Well I had quite the scare. My 81 yr old mom had a stroke Thursday night. Totally out of it, yesterday somewhat better. Today she was talking and asked for paper so she could write. Amazing.

HistorySleuth said:

Well I had quite the scare. My 81 yr old mom had a stroke Thursday night. Totally out of it, yesterday somewhat better. Today she was talking and asked for paper so she could write. Amazing.

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Oh, how awful! Great to hear she's improving, though - I hope she continues making rapid progress.

HS - that must have been so scary. Glad to hear there's been improvement and hope it continues. Hugs.

HistorySleuth said:

Well I had quite the scare. My 81 yr old mom had a stroke Thursday night. Totally out of it, yesterday somewhat better. Today she was talking and asked for paper so she could write. Amazing.

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Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this. The fact that she's asking for pen and paper shows she's doing really well. I hope she continues to show improvments.

HS - I'm glad that your mother is doing better, and I hope that she continues to improve. -hugs-

HJ hope you are feeling better.

HS hope your mum gets well.

heyjude said:

What do you WANT to do, Shakes?

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JMC2009 said:

Congratulations no matter what you decide, Shakes. That's quite a compliment.
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GailD said:

Congrats, Shakes. I think it's wonderful that you can decide exactly what you want to do. Have they given you plenty of time to think about it?

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Since posting things became clearer for me. The situation is not a pleasant one but it would be inappropriate, from a professional and possibly legal aspect, for me to explain fully what is going on. There is a meeting tomorrow, Monday, morning between managers and the colleague who has created the situation and the outcome of that will decide what I do. I will tell the head that I will defer retirement if it would help to resolve the situation. It would mean, possibly, me baby sitting a colleague, which I would not be comfortable with. I would do it though as it would give her some breathing space and ensure the pupils were taught adequately. Anyway . . .

I had a lovely day out yesterday, lunch with a friend then we went to a very upmarket craft fair. I got a new hand bag, black suede and slinky.

Yay for new bags.
I need a new one. I've got a Guess bag, I got it thinking you pay for quality, right? Wrong.
Havn't had it 4 months and already the stitching is coming undone.

Good question HJ! After I had taught at the school for one day they asked if I would do until the week after half term. By Friday and four days of teaching they were talking end of term - that is a week before Christmas. At the moment I am booked in until Wednesday. I am expensive to hire! Until the meeting tomorrow I honestly do not know what is going to happen.

HJ hope you start to feel better soon. Not nice being in quarantine.

History, sorry to head about your mom, but I'm glad she's feeling better!

Shakes, I'm sorry that the situation isn't as positive as it first sounded. :-(. Hopefully it works out.

I'm off to see the Wizard today, but hopefully I can get something done this morning and evening. If I don't ill have to skip my writers group tomorrow, but seeing how they've sorta made me mad, I'm not feeling that there'd be much of a loss.