Claire's art of self-sabotage

Well done, that's a big chunk off! Keep it up and you'll soon be boobalicious!!

Thank you! Sadly got my TOTM back yesterday - I almost lasted a whole week without it! Its back with vengeance today. Little bugger.

I spent all last night looking at boobs as I need to take photos of what I like with me. Its so difficult when you can only find photos of people who are a size 8/10.
 
Ha ha, what a project! You must be all boobed out by now!!! Good luck picking the perfect pair!!
 
Lost 6.1lbs this week!!!! Super chuffed!

Im sure it will be fine. I'm just going to be super excited about it between now and then!!!


Great loss hun well done! x
 
Completely lost the will today. Only been in this job for just over 3 months and I'm starting to suffer from small office syndrome.
 
Feeling pretty **** today. Had a bad week at work. Small office syndrome is no good for me. I worked in one before and I swore I wouldn't do it again. Turns out I did, even though I was unsure of my decision at the time. I've only worked there for 3 months, so it wouldn't look good on my cv to switch just yet.

Also feel like I want a change of career.

So I ate. I ate a bag of fridge raiders. That's 129 calories over my daily limit. Plus I already has a protein meal today.

Fanny
 
Did someone say career change? :)
I have the same problem, well, sort of. Always wanted music but parents didn't let me so I got a psychology degree. Absolutely hated my job. Was having stomach ache every single morning and was feeling ill almost all the time at work. As a psychologist I was probably more depressed than most of my patients. After 2 years I finally quit. Tried quite a few different jobs after that but nothing really made me happy. I'm a dispensing assistant now and it's alright at the moment as I'm good friends with the pharmacist and we have a nice working environment. But the problem is I've been giving half of my earnings to private singing/piano lessons for 12 years already so this year I said that's it, I'm going to do what I've always wanted to do. So I've recently applied chichester uni, BMus performance - and I'm 30 lol! I'll be 34 by the time I graduate but I don't care. I'll be an opera singer&teacher, hopefully a skinny one! :p If I'm not happy at work it just sucks the life out of me. So this is my priority now, money comes second.
 
Oh wow! Fab news on the career change!

I was was looking at open university degrees yesterday. Don't think I can afford to study full time. I live in the most expensive place in the UK outside of London! But it is a very lucrative place to love if you work in oil and gas.

I want to work in oil and gas. So wondering if I should learn engineering or design. Not really sure what that will involve right enough.

i'll look into it later. Had a pretty rubbish day and enjoying lying on the couch at the moment. The OH is asleep and so are the cats. Peace and quiet at its best.
 
Why not? If this is what you want to do then go for it hun :) it's never too late.
Been playing WoW with OH since we woke up lol. Such laziness...
 
Why not? If this is what you want to do then go for it hun :) it's never too late.
Been playing WoW with OH since we woke up lol. Such laziness...

I'm thinking I might just study for my CTA as I'm quite interested in tax (sad as that seems) and I'd probably quite enjoy being a specialist in it. I'll see how much debt my boob job is going to put me in and then I'll arrange to sort out my tax courses. I'll need to sit 4 certificates as a taxation technician before I am eligible to start taking the other 4 papers for the prestigious CTA award. I feel mighty skint just thinking about how much all that will cost.

Had a god awful week at work last week. I used to work for a small chartered accountancy practice in Glasgow and I hated it. There were 7 of us in the firm: owner and son, his cousin, 2 sisters and a girl who'd known everyone for about 17 years. *****y, cliquey, and everyone was set in their ways and if you didnt do it their way it was wrong. Hated it.
Swore I'd never work for a small firm again because I can't be doing with the office sagas. But, here I am, working for a small firm again. There are 12 of us this time. The two partners have known each other since school. One of them has his wife and son working there. There are 3 people who have known each other since the dawn of time and one girl who is determined she is my boss and talks to me like a child. I swear the new office catchphrase is "oh just give that to Claire" when they get stuff they can't be arsed dealing with.

I was off for one day when I went to the 30th party in January and I obviously missed a load of excitement because when I got back to work there was a really bad atmosphere around the place. Turns out 2 of the girls downstairs (who are supposed to run the office I work in) who told one of the partners how annoyed they are with a persons time keeping, and he got hauled into a meeting where they told him people have been talking about him and he cant trust anyone!

Now, my contract states I have to work 36.15 hours a week and I can do that Monday to Friday between 8am-6pm - so technically I dont have to be in first thing and I can leave early if my work is done. However, the "office manager" wants everyone to work 8.45 - 5 mon-fri with no exceptions. Which annoys me.

Anyway, the guy who got the talking to is the only person in the office who I really like working with and he has gone and got himself a new job after all of this. On wednesday I got into the office and there was a full on shouting match going on between him and 3 other women. It was awful. I said to one of them that I felt like just going home and she started on me!

Had enough.
I've only been there for 3 months, so I know that moving on now will look pretty bad on my CV, but I have absolutely had enough. Probably one of the worst career moves I have ever made.


And today, today I took my car in for a service and went into town with the OH while we were waiting. He wanted to go for breakfast and I said I'll certainly come with him and I'll have a coffee while he eats - he didn't want to eat if i wasn't eating. So i felt like I had to or he's starve. We went to Frankie and Bennies because I figured I would have an omlette and not kick myself out of ketosis. So i ordered their cheese, bacon and tomato omlette - but without the tomato. It took them about 20 minutes to serve us, and then he brought us the food and said "hopefully there's no tomato in that" and walked away. Didnt offer to refil my 'unlimited tea' that I had already drank while I was waiting on my order being taken. I cut into the omelette, took one bite and it was absolutely full of chopped tomato. I hate tomato.

So I put my plate at the side of the table, beside my cup that I needed refilled and looked around for the waiter. He had vanished. All the other people serving ignored me. My partner ate all of his breakfast and then a foreign lady came over and asked us if we wanted anything else! I could have hit her! Told her I didn't want anything else because what they brought me originally was the wrong thing and it was disgusting. She said she would get me another one and I told her that would have been nice half an hour ago, but as my partner has now eaten his, I wasnt willing to wait on them and that I wouldn't be paying for it.

So my partner told me I was unnecessarily rude to her as it wasn't her fault. I don't care that it wasn't her fault. She walked passed the table about 5 times and seen that It was untouched and pushed to the edge beside my empty cup. It took her absolutely forever to bring the bill and it was the quickest she could take a card payment and leave.

I am so annoyed at them. Guess the good thing is that I didn't have the calories. But I am still pretty p*ssed off at them.


God, that was a rant! PMSL!!!!
 
Oh dear I'd be pissed off as well I know exactly how you feel... Something similar happened to us once and the place was almost empty, there were only 4 tables to look after. But somehow they had forgotten about us and after the starters we waited for about an hour.. Then my husband had to go and ask where the hell our food was and they were like, sorry there was a problem your order went missing if you give us 15-20 mins we'll get them ready. Wth lol. We ofc didn't pay for the starters&drinks and just left.
And about work, sounds awful hun even reading this my mood has gone down I can't imagine being there 36+ hours a week! I hope you find a better place soon. :(
 
Just saw your headline. Exciting!!! You sound like your mind is made up on the op so I can only wish you good luck. I'm tempted but I think I'm way too scared to go under the knife.
Have a good day.

M x


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Oh dear I'd be pissed off as well I know exactly how you feel... Something similar happened to us once and the place was almost empty, there were only 4 tables to look after. But somehow they had forgotten about us and after the starters we waited for about an hour.. Then my husband had to go and ask where the hell our food was and they were like, sorry there was a problem your order went missing if you give us 15-20 mins we'll get them ready. Wth lol. We ofc didn't pay for the starters&drinks and just left.
And about work, sounds awful hun even reading this my mood has gone down I can't imagine being there 36+ hours a week! I hope you find a better place soon. :(

I wrote F&B an essay of an email about how displeased I am. I'm also debating rewriting my cv and having a look about to see what there is on the job market. Got an 8 hour shift to go to at my second job and I really can't be bothered. 2 - 10 on a Sunday is just rubbish.
 
I wrote F&B an essay of an email about how displeased I am. I'm also debating rewriting my cv and having a look about to see what there is on the job market. Got an 8 hour shift to go to at my second job and I really can't be bothered. 2 - 10 on a Sunday is just rubbish.

I have a 3 hour sunday shift (1-4) which I really don't like but I had to pick between saturday night and sunday noon so I chose sunday.
You never know hun something nice might come up, good luck on your job hunting x
 
Yeah, I'm seriously going to sit down and rewrite my cv. Part of me really thinks I should forget about the boob job and use the money to find my studies. But another part of me just can't face not getting my boob job. I've even embarrassed about them since, well, always. I don't like anyone looking at them, and I've promised them to myself. I don't know if I can break my promise.

i think I'll let my agencies know I'm looking again and resend them my updated cv. Bah. I just want a good job that I can stay at for at least a couple of years. Maybe it's me.

Not drank nearly enough water today. Only 1 litre so far. I need to go buy another litre and get it finished before I leave here tonight. Think I'm going to go for my break.

also just might leave at 9 when the nightshift guy gets in. If anyone brings it up I'll just make up an excuse. Or they can sack me. I'm not bothered! Lol! This is only a pocket money job that I'll pack in once I start studying again. Think I'll quit here in march.
 
Freezing. Absolutely freezing.

I work in a basement and the concrete floor makes my feet cold, and my hands are frozen. Holding onto a curry noodle soup with one hand and a cup of coffee with the other. Obviously I've let both them go for a minute to type this - just incase someone thought I was typing with my nose or anything.

Now that I mention it, my nose is also cold.

I'm cold.
 
I turned down a job 3 months ago because the commute was going to be an hour or more. I really wanted the job, but I decided the travel was too much for me. They offered me more money and to change my hours slightly, but, where the place is, its one of the most difficult places to commute to in Aberdeen and unless i could start at 6am and finish at 2pm, its a nightmare. Its only 13 miles away!

Anyway, I found out today that the person they did hire has left and the job is vacant again. Is it a sign? I've only been in my current job for 3 months, and I'm currently car sharing with my OH because we now work on the same street. If I did even think about taking this other job, he'd need to get a bus to and from work, or buy another car.

I asked him what he though and he said I shouldn't go for it. I did get emailed asking me if I was interested in it.

I don't know. Its a finance supervisor's job. Its £2k more a year than I'm getting just now, which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things I guess. Bah.... I don't know.
 
Hey hun hpe u find sumat where u will enjoy it hun bles ya i kno hw u feel tho tis not nice wokring in a plce wher u dnt enjoy it....hope ur doing orite hun :) xx
 
Reading between the lines I think you are pretty keen on it. Does your OH know how miserable you are? Would you be able to give up your second job more easily then too? When do you have to let them know you are interested?

I'm having a crisis of career tbh! lol! I was all set to register to study as a tax specialist this morning for private practice, now I'm wondering if I should do my management accounting qualification for industry. Or maybe i should go to Brazil to save the turtles?!

I feel quite agitated tonight, stressed, hungry and the whole middle of my body hurts - as if someone has punched my kidneys. I think I'm a bit of a disaster at the moment. Life would seem much easier if I just joined a cult. Maybe I should go to see Je sus in Brisbane.
 
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