I have what today..?

So, got to work this morning. Quite happy doing my registrations when my mobile tells me i have a message. 'Who would be texting me at this time in the morning?' I ask myself. It is 9.10am, most folk are at work so would be emailing me if they wanted a chat... Fecking reminder to tell me my Dietician appointment is today, in 20 mins, not tomorrow as I had thought. I had managed to somehow convince myself that Friday was the 29th of January. Anyhoo, don't panic folks, I made it on time. Dietician took my height and weight and worked out my BMI, suffice to say I was not impressed, infact I would go as far as to say horrified. These things don't sound so bad when you say them yourself, when a medical professional says it, it actually hits home. Anyway, she gave me a diet sheet to fill out so next time she can get a proper idea of what I eat in a typical week. I gave her a basic run down of what I eat every day and all she could say is that I might not be getting enough carbs. I am to start eating more bread, tatters, rice and pasta. If she can't see a way to change my diet to help me lose weight, she wants to put me on xenical. Not ideal, I don't want to poop orange oil by accident everytime I move. Apparently if I don't eat anymore that 3g of fat a day, the oil thing won't happen. I will wait and see what happens. I might suddenly wake up one day 9st again, miracles can happen...



BMI : 28.5

Monday, Monday!

Today I got an email to tell me which area I would be working in when I transfer across the road. Customer Service. Not impressed, especially since I will be on the same floor as my Aunt. I can see it now. I will take a days annual leave and the next thing I know, She will be on the phone to my mum telling her how I wasn't in work that day and how if I took sick leave I would get sacked, etc, etc...
The work itself I am not overly concerned about, LEAN, not bothered, can't be any worse than taking Taxes calls constantly all day every day. Trying to look at the bright side of things. My home life will be a hell of a lot easier, what with the proper flexi and being able to start work at half seven things will be a lot better.

Looking forward to my leaving/ triumphant return do on Friday. Still have not decided if I am going to take a half day or just have an early finish. Will need to decide tomorrow so I can get all my stuff ready for getting moved. That and I also have my dietician appointment on the friday morning, will need to remind my current manager in case he thinks I have done a runner in the morning...

Ok. Done for now. More later.

Whew!

It has been a wee while since my last update so I will bring you up to speed with recent events.

I have got my transfer to Centre One and start back there on the 2nd Feb. My leaving do is on the friday before.
It was my mums 60th birthday today and we went out for lunch, the proper celebration is happening on Saturday.
Finally got to see Repo The Genetic Opera, it is wicked! Well worth a watch if you have not had the chance yet!

I actually thought I had a lot more to write about, it seems not. :(

Anyhoo, will update some more later in the week. I have my Dietician appointment on Friday morning too.

Transfer

Got word today that I am being moved to the EHL (employers helpline) on Monday. Nothing like HMRC to give you plenty of notice...
Anyhoo, it is a start. Still no word on my move to Centre One, but the job journal had 4 AO posts advertised for down there so I have put in an application. It sounds really daft, given I hate my job, but I am really going to miss my team. They are a nice bunch and a good laugh, but hey ho, what would I rather have? A nice team or a job that doesn't make me ill? Hmmmm, difficult choice.

Well, we shall see what happens anyway.

More updates when they come.

Diets

So I've got an appointment with the Dietitian on the 29th of January. Not exactly sure if I am looking forward to it or not. Kind of scared that she will try and put me on a diet that I won't be able to stick to and I will get a bollocking for not trying to help myself. I thought I would be quite happy about getting to see a dietitian, finally some help for my weight issue.

Well, nothing I can do now except go along and see how things go.

Back to work

Yup. First day back at work today. To be fair, it wasn't all that bad. The majority of calls were folk asking about the 11CTC form, most of which had already received the CTC benifit when it came out in 02/03. Had a guy on the phone for half and hour just before home time. He was insistant that WE had got his P11d details wrong back in 05/06 and as such had not paid his liability. I had to point out that it was actually his employer who gave us information on the P11d, not the other way around. And why had he not disputed it back then? "When my employer gave me the P11d, I figured it must be ok and put the amounts from it on my SA return." So why has it taken him two years to realise that the figures might be incorrect and why was he convinced that it was us who got it wrong, not him or his employer, you may ask? Fuck knows!
Like I said, not a bad day, just a few frustrating customers (yes, we call the tax payers customers at HMRC).

Woo Hoo!

Just back from visiting my mum. Got to weigh myself and I am down to 11 stone 5 lbs! that is 10lbs lost since the start of November. I would like to be losing weight a bit quicker but I can't complain, at least I am finally getting my weight down. Another 4lbs and that will be a whole stone!
Only another 40lbs to go! Ooft, nearly 3 stone to go, didn't realise it was quite as much...

Over and done with for another year.

That is it official now. Xmas and New Year are done, I have taken the xmas tree and decorations down now. It is almost a relief to get things back to normal but also a bit depressing since that is me starting all over again. 2009 has begun. Hopefully it is going to be better than 2008 as far as work and money and life in general are concerned. I start back at work tomorrow. I am hoping I will have a nice little email from Bernadette stating that she has put through my transfer request as a reasonable adjustment through DDA, then I can get on with some corporate arse kicking and finally get my move back to Centre One. The email is all I need and I can have my transfer sorted by the end of the week. It is definately right when they say Union Reps have more knowledge on company policy than the management have. Ok, to be fair, I did come across the relevant literature by pure chance because I was looking for it, but then again, the management dealing with my case surely should have been trawling through the guidance also. Just goes to show how "supportive" they are being towards me and my case. I am hoping, when I pull this out of the bag, I will be able to get a big gang of my sick absence discounted due to their incompetancy with the whole thing. I can't quite remember when my transfer request was put in, but it has been quite a while. BTW, the guidance I found states that as soon as my request was put through, because of the circumstances, I should have been moved immediately. Julie found the guidance when she was at work, I bookmarked the link and also sent the link to George, so there is no way they can claim it was not there.

Like I say, all this is counting on the fact that Bernadette will have put in writing that this is the reason why she put me through for a transfer...
Though the longer she leaves it, the harder the arse kicking will be.

Fingers crossed.

Body types.

Ok. I have just discovered that my body type is that of an Ectomorph, one who is very skinny and finds it difficult to gain weight. Now, I have looked online for various diets to get back to the way I was until a year ago but it seems that no one has ever heard of an Ectomorph who had a weight gain and now can't get shot of it. All the diets are showing how to gain weight. Maybe i am being retarded in some way and missing something, but the thing said what were you like as a teen and early twentys to discover what body type you are. I could not gain weight for love nor money up until I was 7 months pregnant with Morgan then after I had her I had major issues getting rid of the baby weight. I finally got shot of it and then got pregnant with Lee. I actually lost weight while pregnant with him and ended up weighing less a week after I had given birth than I had weighed before I got pregnant with him! My really weight problem started when I gained nearly 3 stone in 1.5 months when the Doctor put me on an anti psychotic medication around about May 2008. Ever since then I have really been struggling. Short of lipo and a tummy tuck, I don't know what I can do to make me normal again!


Ok, rant over.

Interwebz

I hate the internet. It has made me spend my hard earned cash. I am now the proud owner of a Play.com account as well as a few clothing internet shop accounts. I have decided i am turning Goth again. The clothes are alot more flattering to my current shape and size so hopefully I will start to dress in a more flattering way. The Kevin Smith method of layering so it looks like you are just wearing a lot of clothes rather than being a fat bastard has not really worked out so well for me, so fingers crossed for my new look. Unfortunately, thinking about it, the last time I wore clothes like this I was a size 6-8 so I will probably spend all my time being miserable as my choice of clothing suited me so much more when hanging off a waif like figure, rather than the Butterball I have become...
Cest la vi.

Ok, it has been a while. Again, I made myself promises that I would update the blog regular, but I have not kept it...

So, it is now the 2nd of January 2009. Hogmanay was nice but quiet. We had my friend from school, Lorna over as well as Gordon (the usual suspect) Henderson. Everyone else who had been invited had other plans or had reasons why they couldn't come over, but it matters not, we had a good laugh anyway!

Xmas was nice. The kids didn't get up until 9am, so we all got a good sleep. Steve and I had been up until 3am helping Santa put the kids presents under the tree, so we appreciated the lie in!
I got lots of nice stuff including £150 from my mum. She had been saving up all year to give me it because she knew it would be the last year where she could afford it, Bless! I till haven't really spent any of my xmas money, nothing has taken my fancy. I would like to get a bottle of that Ghost perfume, but I need to go out and sniff them as there are about 3 different types and only one I like and I can't remember the name...

Oh and I was really ill for 4 days before xmas with that dreadful flu virus thing. My sinuses are still all blocked and I think may be infected. I will get around to going to the doctors at some point.