what a nice month February is (NOT!)
 

Started the month off ok, had a burfday.

Dad went into a nursing home last week and has gone rapidly down hill:(

This morning I found the boiler not working - so no hot water or heating (due to leak from roof above last night flooding it out & soaking all the sparks in it)

and to cap things off, I've just had my redundancy notice today. Fair enough, I knew this could be coming at some point this year, but why does everything happen at once?


Sorry for ramble

C, a trifle chuffed orf today

Hugs.

Hope the payout is good hun.

Sorry to hear that Charlotte, I hope things pick up for you soon!

If its any consolation, I know how you feel.

They say things happen in 3's Charlotte, and by my reckoning that's 3 so you should hopefully have a cracking year from now on (I hope) :)

yeah, hope its all out of the way now.

keep a positive mental attitiude (hard at times, i know) and enjoy life. we're only here once.

you need to share problems/troubles, it really does help and you might find the light at the end of the tunnel from the unlikliest of sources. its always there somewhere.

3's!!!! HA!!! BULL*****!!!!!

:lol:

Sorry Charlotte, I'll do my best to collect all your bad luck :)

[Edited on 15-2-2006 by TP]

All things are meant to be mate, as 1 door closes another will open.
I'm sure you will come out stronger and still smiling.
Thought's about your Dad.

T1

Hmmm...

I know what you mean. Since October I've had a run of problems that have knocked me down flat before I've been able to get up again. Wave after wave of them, and I'm not just talking about lifes ups and downs, I'm talking about serious events.

The last of these was my Dad going downhill fast and dying a week before Christmas. Christmas was truly miserable with only funeral arrangements to make instead of celebrating.

Now, only just 6 weeks after my Dad's funeral I got a panic phone call from my Father-in-Law (who has Parkinson's) to say that my Mother-in-Law was having trouble breathing. I called the ambulance and she was rushed into hospital. She has pneumonia on top of being diabetic, having bad asthma and a history of heart disease.......

That's just the last two....there have been about five or six events before that which I don't want to discuss here.

Things will look up eventually though and you always have friends here to talk to.

Hope everything goes well for your dad.

[Edited on 15-2-2006 by Jools]

Weeksy - compromise agreement is ok, not great, but not bad either - but deffo better than stat redundancy.

Jools, you have been through the mill mate, and understand about other non public issues too, as going through similar too.

Dickie & others, ta for being mates, cheers chaps. Sorry for having a winge tho:(

Hopefully the sun will come out soon for me to get out & enjoy a ride on her majesty:)

Chin up :)


Clint.

When one door closes another always open, be of good cheer.:burn:

Chin up and START YOUR ENGINE Springtime on two wheels, of yes:burn:

Keep positive Charlotte, things will improve shortly. Everything always seems worse when it's winter, as soon a sspring arrives everyone starts to perk up and the black clouds lift.:D See you saturday.

C - I think you need to initiate some group hugs.

Agree with Jon things come in 3s - good and bad.

Best wishes for your Dad though

Sorry to hear that Chazzer, hope your dad improves.

Just think yourself luck you're not me, coz I have a February EVERY month :(

Take care ;)

chin up ...chest out...keep smiling:sing:

Charlotte, Jools, I'm really sorry to hear all this bad news. Keep your chins up (that's just the one chin each - I'm not saying you've got more than one chin .... :o). Things can only get better, that's what I always say, and 'everything happens for a reason' which I find impossible to believe when you're talking about death or serious illness but those things are inevitable, part of life, so we just have to cope with them, however we can.

Look on the bright side, Charlotte, you picked the shortest month to have your worst one :bouncy::bouncy::bouncy: That's was very clever of you - in fact, put it on your CV :eureka: Someone with your timing and insight will be snapped up :D:D

[Edited on 15-2-2006 by Redruth]

Just to echo whats said...i do think bad **** comes in 3's. Lost a mate to suicide in January and something else happened before which Ive blanked out my mind. My GSD dog Jade of 11 years, died on Sunday night so that makes 3 now.....its not the first time in my life this 3 stuff has happened.

Chin up dear.....stay positive

Always look forwards......never back

X

you will be ok Charlotte, - it is just a new chapter in your life, - pma will get you through it, - and there is always somebody else worse off in this world. My bad story of this year: About 3 weeks ago a friend of my wife's was in the swimming pool/gym we use, - most weeks she would leave her 2 young children playing with ours in another area of the club whilst swimming, and she did that this time - Bit of a commotion going on, - staff and paramedics rushing around, - the poor woman (34) had died (suspected heart) whilst swimming, - now if you want a jolt to the real world of what is important in life trying looking 2 children under the age of 10 in the face knowing that they will never see their mother again. It somehow puts a certain perspective on what is really important in this world.

PMA!?!

You're right though, Pre-Menstrual Attitude will get most women through any situation :D

Wish your dad well CK.
Roll with the punches and keep your chin up. (and chest out and back straight and stiff upper lip yada yada yada) - you get the point.
Redundancy - it's their loss as far as I can see.