Face Meets palm, and the two fingered salute to EDF

So I have a prepayment meter for paying my electricity. I had this installed about a year ago as I was concerned about falling into debt when my Access course started and my salary fell by about £1000 per month. So anyway the last year has been uneventful with this electric meter. Until a month ago when my key for topping up started to develop problems registering. I duly notified EDF who said quite nicely they would send me a new one out within the week. Four weeks and ten calls later the key still hasn't arrived. And this morning my last top up for electricity has run out and the key has finally given up the ghost and wont register in the top up machines or my meter. This means that I have no electricity i cant use the emergency function as the key is not working and EDFs response well send someone Thursday. Unless I pay the £30 call out charge today! I tried explaining to them that I don't get paid until Friday and they are the ones in error as they still have not sent me the requested key. Two fingered salute is due to EDF I say!!

Conversational Woes

So I had some interesting conversations today.

The first one goes like this


JM: Hey nice boss am I going to get the dementia course training, because all other happy care staff at big scary mansion care home seem to be on the course except me.

Nice Boss: I'm sorry JM I didn't order enough booklets for all the staff at big scary mansion residential home, you and the housekeeper are the only ones not on the course yet.

JM but nice boss I am a care assistant at big scary mansion and deserve to be on the course with all the others. .

Nice boss Well you're going to university in January JM and you should get a lot of dementia training in the mental health course.

JM: Um not necessarily and even if I do I might not get it for another two or three years . And Id like to learn  how to deal with the new residents you're bringing in now.

HMM ever feel like you're banging your head against a brick wall.  The situation at big scary mansion is really annoying me now. I started there two years ago and even though I was promised training, its never really happened. The induction pack that every new employee has to complete was finished and handed in in may 2009, to date its never been marked and handed back. I got so fed up of waiting 9 months to start my NVQ2 witch never started that I dragged myself back to college and got an Access to Higher Education Diploma in Health Studies and it seems because I'm willing to train myself then I don't get the paid for company training.
Its not as though I'm even asking for the earth just training which allows me to do my job properly.

Rant over lol

so my email address got a little sick

I had to change my email address today, some person or viral program has decided that my email address is the perfect place to be sending out adverts for Viagra or such other sexually enhancing drugs, to whoever wanders by my inbox.  Its sad really that Canadian pharmacy Internet fraudsters cannot get any business without hijacking my UK inbox and contacts list. Anyhow the boss couldn't stop laughing today when i told her about the spam especially when I detailed the part where this spam has been to sent to everyone in my contacts list, especially my friends at church. Who were not amused.

Oh well maybe they need a little bit of fun lol.

Just Me

First Post

This is my blog I suppose, I'm not writing it for anyone else really I just find that to get on in my life I need to write things down. I used to keep diaries but going through the expense of  buying a new notebook(it has to be a pretty girly thick thing with a nice matching pen.) only for the diary to fall by the wayside after a few months

Anyway its important for me to write things down and record them as they happen so thats what I will be be doing here. Recording my way through life as a mental health nursing student.
Well that's it for now folks Happy Sunday :)