A couple of weeks ago Himself got a phone call from the agency that placed him in the contract that didn't last. He is now working for another financial institution and is loving it. It's the happiest I've seen him at work in many a long year. This contract is until the end of the year but there is a possibility of another one which will go until the middle of 2017. Fingers crossed.
I have been dealing with an employment provider under my Centrelink newstart. It is awful. Just horrible. I feel like I'm being punished for something. I haven't worked for so long and the last time I did was in my nursing capacity which I can no longer do as I have let my registration go. I keep trying to explain to the silly woman that I have no current job references and my skills are nursing based. She tells me I have "transferable skills" but can't tell me what they are or how to transfer them!
Because I have a bachelor degree I am ineligible for government retraining! Now that Himself is working he suggested that we pay for me to retrain so I am going to do a course in pathology collection. My nursing will help and it gets me back into a sort of clinical field. Fingers crossed I find local part time work when the course is complete and I never ever ever have to deal with that terrible employment place again. Even if I do have to go back onto newstart I will make sure I get a different provider. That place is the pits.
We are still waiting for my parents' estates to be finally settled. The Australian side of things is pretty much done but we are now waiting for the Hong Kong side to get finalised. We have given up on the UK. It will be nice to close that chapter. I am amazed at how much I miss my mother given that we didn't have the best of relationships.
Himself gave me a Samsung Gearfit for my birthday. (like a fitbit). It is sort of helping me move more but I really do need to take myself in hand and address the weight and health things. Two gets married in February and I would like to be a couple of dress sizes smaller by then.
We have someone coming to install drawers in the pantry this afternoon so I'd better go and clear things out.
Til later ....
