What made you happy today?

VickiA said:
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I currently work in a preschool but I used to have two roles with the one preschool but back at the beginning of September I was made redundant from one role and had my hours cut on the other. I knew I’d be ok being at home for most of the week (I only work 3 hours a week) until Christmas but knew come January I’d go a bit stir crazy - Right as predicted, January 7th when both my girls went back to school, it happened! I also happened to find said dream job (PA to headteacher) on the same day. I promptly applied and have the interview next week! Even if I don’t get the job it feels so good to have a bit of purpose again just in searching of a job! - other than being a wife and mother - but I miss something that is mine, something to keep my brain going!
 
Unblocking mine and my neighbours drain outside myself, instead of paying a drainage person hundreds of pound to come out an unblock it for me. I'm learning everything myself, apart from anything to do with gas or high voltage electrics obviously.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Unblocking mine and my neighbours drain outside myself, instead of paying a drainage person hundreds of pound to come out an unblock it for me. I'm learning everything myself, apart from anything to do with gas or high voltage electrics obviously.
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Thats ace- well done you! I too like to get stuck in until I had a rather unfortunate drilling incident just before Christmas (I'm still here to tell the tale but I'm now banned from DIY for the forseeable 😂).
 
My kids had the day off school (random Swiss holiday for carnival) so I decided to drag everyone to Bern - the capital city.
Bern is really beautiful, but the highlight for me was finally seeing the baby eater - it's a really famous fountain and I have never seen it.
The kids were deeply unimpressed, and it is pretty gruesome, but it is one of those things I just wanted to be able to say I had visited.
And now I can!
 
Darcey15 said:
Thats ace- well done you! I too like to get stuck in until I had a rather unfortunate drilling incident just before Christmas (I'm still here to tell the tale but I'm now banned from DIY for the forseeable 😂).
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Sounds bad lol, I have had a few jobs backfire on me and had to get my dad or work mate out to help me, then just learn how they do things, youtube is a life saver aswell. You should have seen how much backed up water came bursting out the pipe down the manhole, it was like months worth of water backed up and the pressure just released. So satisfying, but very smelly.

The job that backfired on me was trying to save my old car from being scrapped, it just needed two rusty bolts removing and replacing, would have cost me £10 pounds, garage wanted around £400 for how much time it would take to do, so I tried myself as a last resort, I ended up Sheering the bolts, and had to get rid of the car in the end. Was gutted because I loved the car( old yaris) wish I never tried, but you don't know until you have a go
 
VickiA said:
stuff of nightmares....
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I know - the kids (who are fairly robust teenagers) were horrified that such a thing would be standing in a central location the capital city.
But I am still glad I have seen it.
Fingers crossed for no nightmares tonight!
 
Swissgreys said:
I know - the kids (who are fairly robust teenagers) were horrified that such a thing would be standing in a central location the capital city.
But I am still glad I have seen it.
Fingers crossed for no nightmares tonight!
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If I have nightmares I know who to blame...
 
Piggies&buns said:
I currently work in a preschool but I used to have two roles with the one preschool but back at the beginning of September I was made redundant from one role and had my hours cut on the other. I knew I’d be ok being at home for most of the week (I only work 3 hours a week) until Christmas but knew come January I’d go a bit stir crazy - Right as predicted, January 7th when both my girls went back to school, it happened! I also happened to find said dream job (PA to headteacher) on the same day. I promptly applied and have the interview next week! Even if I don’t get the job it feels so good to have a bit of purpose again just in searching of a job! - other than being a wife and mother - but I miss something that is mine, something to keep my brain going!
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Hope the interview goes well.
Holding you in my thoughts
 
Being told that my ridiculously high agency release fee is the only thing preventing me from getting my dream job at the nursery I've been working at. Still no dream job for me but it's better than being told it's because I have the wrong qualifications or that they just don't like me.
 
Snow ploughs made me happy today.
I have a real fascination for snow management in both urban areas and ski resorts.
It is a topic I never gave any thought to until I moved to Switzerland and saw the huge impact that snow has on our daily lives in an alpine environment.
But I am rambling - I love snow ploughs and today there were lots of them out and about which made me happy.
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Siikibam said:
I finished work at 10 instead of midnight today! 😁 and tomorrow I’m finishing at 11. And I’m going in to my daughter’s class to help in the morning 💃
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I help in my youngest daughter’s school once a week. I help and listen to the children read. I love it!
 
Piggies&buns said:
I help in my youngest daughter’s school once a week. I help and listen to the children read. I love it!
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I used to do that too! It's lovely at the end of the year the children can read fluently when at the beginning of the year they were struggling to read. It made me feel really good that I had helped with an essential life skill.
 
Siikibam said:
I finished work at 10 instead of midnight today! 😁 and tomorrow I’m finishing at 11. And I’m going in to my daughter’s class to help in the morning 💃
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I'm sure my husband piggy daddy can sympathise, he's a teaching assistant for autistic children by day then a care worker for eldery and disabled people in the evenings! Very long days doing 9-3 in school then 7-9 out in the community but he loves both jobs so much he doesnt want to pick just one, and the care work job is very useful in the school holidays :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
I'm sure my husband piggy daddy can sympathise, he's a teaching assistant for autistic children by day then a care worker for eldery and disabled people in the evenings! Very long days doing 9-3 in school then 7-9 out in the community but he loves both jobs so much he doesnt want to pick just one, and the care work job is very useful in the school holidays :)
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That sounds very full on. But it’s good if he loves both jobs.

So today I helped at one table with maths and topic work. I heard one girl (the only girl!) on that table call out that she wants me to help on theirs, as the teacher was telling me where to go. She said she wishes I would help them forever 😍 made my heart melt and my day. The second was seeing my youngest put her hand up to answer questions.
 
I've spent the morning working 1:1 with a dyslexic child doing our spellings and writing and trying a different way to do things, he has written more than I have ever seen him do and just a couple of little things have made a difference, I could have cried, so proud of him.
 
Today I'm happy that could work from home and catch up with lots of boring household stuff, I have dyed my hair, done 2 loads of hooman laundry, run the dishwasher, cooked a beetroot and cashew nut curry... and as a bonus Amazon coincidentally delivered my monthly subscribe and save order today so we have paper bedding for the piggy hayroom, 3 haycubes, a carrot cottage, and a hide'n'hay tunnel for the next month :)
Plus it was sunny and dry enough to hang some towel laundry on the washing line for a few hours and I saw a cute little wren in my garden and seem to have some daffodils growing :)
All little things but nice!
 
Today my happy thing is spending the afternoon with one of my closest friends. She is having a tough time with one thing and another so it was really lovely to catch up with her, have a good laugh and help her forget her troubles for a few hours. We’ve even organised a meal out together for next week - both hubby’s dont yet know that us mums are off duty for an evening but yay to a girls night out!
 
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