Archive for October, 2008
October 30, 2008
· Filed under general stuff · Tagged dr martens, job, nurses, physio, piggies, rumple, uni
I’ve not watched it before. Me and Rumple watched the first episode of the first series on demand last night. It was quite good. Although it did make out that nurses are all unprofessional sex hungry monsters…only some are…not rmn’s of course.
Uni was good again today. I’m really enjoying it despite the workload. We’re lucky in as much as that we have 2 really good module leaders. They are both nice blokes and when it comes to knowledge of mental health and nursing, have brains like planets and loads of interesting anecdotes. I enjoy my classes, and I am actually quite enjoying getting stuck into my assignments (what is wrong with me?)
I have some new Doc Martens. They are glorious, comfortable and delighfully sensible.
The piggies have been little swines (hahaha how punny) this evening. Particularly big and small piggies. Big piggy is going through puberty. Nightmare. Little piggy is strong willed, stubborn and ever such a bit naughty. Nightmare. Middle piggy is well behaved until the other two wind him up. Nightmare.
Rumple is still all broken. He still hasn’t had any physio and he has to go back to the doctor in a month too see if he needs surgery. He phoned the hospital and they said he will still be waiting for a fortnight or so to start physio. He still can’t put any weight on his leg and is going stir crazy being stuck in the house and going no further than the toilet or outside for a ciggy.
On the bright side, he has had a letter from the company that is taking over the one that he has just been laid off from. They say that he is eligible for transfer…yay!!! although, this new company may still have to make redundancies….boo, hiss. Still, all is not lost and things are looking a bit more hopeful than a couple of weeks ago. We will just have to wait and see again.
So thats it for now in my life. The usual ups and downs, but generally okie smokie!
October 21, 2008
· Filed under uni · Tagged assignment, funny, positive, stress levels, uni, work
Today at Uni was hilarious. Stuff that wouldn’t sound funny here atall, but at the time was most amusing. So today I love Uni.
Miss.P was absent. That was poor.
I understand what they want us to do now aswell, workwise. It is finally becoming clear. So I feel much much happier about it all. My stress levels have reduced considerably, now that I know its all do-able. I am a bit daft really, cause I feel the same for the first couple of weeks when we have a new assignment. I keep forgetting. It’s a brilliant feeling when you have typed the last line of the essay and its all done and dusted.
Work phoned me this morning. They still haven’t received my references. After 6 months. Therefore, they have told me that I can’t do any more shifts until its sorted. Do you know what? I actually felt relieved and my first thought was that I can watch x factor with Rumple and the piggies in my pyjamas, and got to bed when I get tired. Bliss.
I think that maybe I shall look for another job. I know that working 1 night shift a week isn’t loads atall, but I am finding that I spend all day Saturday dreading having to go and then all day Sunday and Monday knackered. I don’t do well if I get too tired. I think that I am going to look into getting a job, doing care work, but on a Saturday day, and even one shift in the week. I think it would be better for me at the moment. Just depends on what’s out there really.
Things are feeling and seeming much more positive 
October 19, 2008
· Filed under general stuff · Tagged coffee, fed up, films, flower fairies, interim care order, leg, police, rumple, work
I am at work. I am having a coffee. I really like coffee. It’s weird really because I hated it until about 6 years ago. Maybe I am addicted. I don’t mind.
Anyway..in theory, work was meant to be really quiet tonight. There are no very tiny flower fairies here at the mo, and the mummys and daddys are doing well, so no need to supervise them as closely. I thought I might even get a bit of homework done. It hasn’t worked out like that atall though. One of the mummys took her children out and was meant to be back by 5. She got back after midnight. We had had to report it to the police, seeing as the children are subject to an interim care order. So tonight has been spent talking to the police, settling the family down and logging everything. The children are fine and in bed though so thats the main thing. Little lovelies
Rumple is still much the same. It has been a week since his leg fell apart and he is still not able to put weight on it. He’s getting REALLY fed up. Still no news from the physio. Poor old goat has taken to playing endless games of chess against the laptop, and getting cross when it beats him all the time. We have watched a couple of good films though. One being “Rise of the footsoldier”. By rights, I shouldn’ t have liked it. It’s mainly lots if gratuitous violence and I can’t usually watch those kinds of films. Reservoir dogs made me want to puke and left me slightly traumatised I feel. However, this film was really interesting and very real if that makes any sense. Kind of like the same feeling I had about Trainspotting.
Stuff is still stressy at the mo, but we’re getting there one way and another.
October 13, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged rumple, leg, ligament, physio, keyhole surgery, jinxed
I had a phonecall at 12.50 yesterday. Twas from Rumple. He was getting out of an ambulance at the big shiny hospital after having an accident at football. He was running and went to change direction, and his leg buckled leaving him in a heap on the floor. Turns out that he has knackered the ligaments round his knee and ended up in plaster last night. Today he went to the fracture clinic and they took the plaster off, gave him a big fancy splint and told him that he will be having 6 weeks of Physio. If his leg isn’t back to optimal functioning after that then he is going to have to have keyhole surgery to repair the manky bits.
He is very fed up. He hates sitting about and that is exactly what he has to do at the moment. It has only been a day and already he is thouroughly miserable with it all. He had planned a few little jobs to see us through until he gets something permanent. So now we’re stuffed like big fat turkeys. Dear oh dear.
It feels like this family is jinxed at the moment… 
October 11, 2008
· Filed under general stuff · Tagged big piggy, birthday, friends, horrid, lecturer, pippy, psychology, report, stressful, workload
It has been a horrid week in the Rumple/Marge household. Obviously because of the job business and then numerous other stressful things. I have been very fortunate though in as much as I have some really good support from people who I can talk to at length, and who are very good eggs. I am feeling a bit more positive at the moment and I hope it stays at this level ’cause last week was horrid.
Our workload is ridiculous. It’s do-able…just, but will require much juggling on my behalf. That’s okay. What is not okay however is that the more I read the report guide for our research module, the more confuddled I become. It’s very vague. In recognition of the fact that it is a big project, the lecturer told us that the best way to eat an elephant is one bit at a time. Strange, but okay… however I feel that we have not been provided with a knife and fork to do so..or even a mouth. I am going to get Pippy to have a look at it this morning. What with her being a Psychology student, she knows lots about all this research shennanigans. That and the fact that she has a massive brain.
It’s big piggies birthday today. He’s 11. It’s quite unbelievable really. He’s turning into a proper young man. A really nice one at that
October 4, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged building trade, carpenter, economy, redundancy, rumple, stress vulnerability
Yesterday started off really well. I am now enjoying being back at Uni. I hated the first day back, and spent most of the day moaning! I am back in the swing of things now though. We had a lecture about the Stress vulnerability model. We touched on it briefly last year, but went more in depth with it this time. Twas very interesting.
After the lecture had finished, I phoned Rumple to say hello and ask how his day was going. It wasn’t going well. He’s lost his job
There have been loads of redundancies made across the company over the past couple of months. It was his turn yesterday. Although he hasn’t officially been made redundant yet, he has been laid off, we are quite sure that that is whats going to happen.
I think he was upset about the fact that he has worked really hard for the company, especially when things started to go pearshaped. He was working all the hours to try and get them out of the crap.
On the whole though, he is being pretty positive about it all and doesn’t seem panicked about the fact that he only has two weeks wages due to come in. He has phoned after a couple of jobs and has plans for the next few weeks. He is a brilliant carpenter and usually would be able to walk into another job, but obviously with the economy being as it is at the moment, the building trade is suffering. I am sure it will be fine though. We have been in more doo-doo than this before. As for bills etc. They can’t have what I haven’t got and it’s that simple. No point stressing about it all.
October 1, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged bubble bath, funny, housework, kids, me time, overwhelmed, pippy, uni work
I had a really good day today. Pippy came round and it perked me right up, because we laugh lots about daft stuff. She is a funny old stick.
We discussed my recent feelings of being overwhelmed etc and deduced that it is not atall suprising because I leave no “me” time in my life. I really don’t. It’s either kids, house, uni, or work. They are all extremely importnat things of course, but I really don’t do anything that I do just for fun cause I like it. Thats quite poor really. I at least used to make time to have a bubble bath and read a book. I don’t even do that anymore… a quick shower and back to doing.
Therefore I have decided that Wednesday is going to be my day completely off. Unless I am completely desperate, I’m not going to do any studying on a Wednesday, do the minimum of housework and on the odd occassion, go out and do something fun!
Rumple also suggested this last night. Friday afternoon should be my study time, he stated, seeing as I am at uni till lunchtime and therefore will still be in academic mode. Also the kids are at ma-in-laws on a Friday till seven.
This is all excellent advice that could be the difference between me coping or struggling. It’s advice that I would definitely give to somebody else.
Big piggy has gone away to Wales with the school today until Sunday. I miss him already. Good thing is though that the two littler piggies are already in bed. Rumple is going to football shortly and I have no jobs to do. So I think I will resume my practise of bubbling bath type malarky this very evening.
October 1, 2008
· Filed under general stuff · Tagged big piggy, itchy beard, laughing, moaning, rumple
As highlighted in the post below, I was feeling crappy doo-doo last night. However with lots of nice support from lots of top bananas, I am feeling much brighter this morning.
One such top banana was Rumple. He made me laugh so much last night. Infact he was very good through the whole moaning process. He sat and listened, didn’t look too bored and said the right things at the right time. He also gave me a cuddle which was nice. Following this, we started having a random conversation about itchy beard.
We discussed the fact that we had no idea how the term itchy beard could be linked to telling lies. We also discussed the fact that it seemed to be quite a universal statement. Rumple has lots of family in Bradford and they used to say it aswell.
We also went through variations of itchy beard, such as “chindar” and “chinnybosh”. It doesn’t sound that funny when I write it here, but it made me laugh loads at the time.
