I'd booked the whole week off for a decent break and really needed it because life has been hectic recently. On Tuesday I was incredibly lazy. Husband was working and son was studying for exams. I sat on the sofa and watched back to back Sandra Bullock films, the cheesier the better.
Wednesday I actually got off my backside and did some boring chores that needed to be done, but still took it reasonably easy.
Then Thursday was the big day. I'd received money from my parents and from my brother. The idea was that I'd wander around Brighton and find a new piece of artwork. I knew this would bore son rigid, but husband agreed to come with me, it's not his sort of thing, but it was important to have his opinion. He'll be living with the picture as well afterall.
It was actually quite pleasant, I'll be honest most of the things we found that we liked were not quite within the budget I was anticipating spending. In fact we found one absolutely stunning painting. It would have caused chaos if we'd purchased it because it was huge and we'd have had to shuffle around all the pictures in our house just to fit it in. Fortunately it was £5,500 and so way outside what we were thinking of spending anyway.
In the end I settled for an ink of West Pier in Brighton, which is now a wreck. That's shown in the photograph. I know the photo doesn't do it justice, but actually in 'real life' it looks far better. It also fits in well with my plan to de-clutter the house. If anything new comes in it's going to have cleaner lines. Obviously it will jar with what we have already, but such is life.
We got home and I continued with my cheesy film run and over the course of my birthday I managed to watch all 3 of the Pitch Perfect films. The rest of my family were very tolerant. Given that there's so much testosterone in my house I rarely get a chance to watch cheesy 'girl' films, so I wasn't going to give up the opportunity.
In the evening we did my normal birthday treat and as a family headed for the Gingerman restaurant. As ever this was delish.
Back home husband and I watched a bit of telly, I had some ginger cake for my birthday (delivered to me with a sparkling cannon) and that was it. Another birthday over and done with. My family treated me like a queen.
Oh and in case you care other presents included a cool picture of a 'Brighton Marmite Pot' (hard to describe, but I like it a lot), A garden gnome dressed as a bumblebee!!!!, some socks telling me I'm old and a poo shaped stress toy. What's not to love! (well apart from the socks).
Fortunately knowing what my family are like with presents, I bought myself a gold bracelet, so at least one person in my life likes to spoil me. The fact that is ME is a story for another day.
Today is the day after and I'm in a living hell. I'm trying to shut down my company. If I do start a company again it will have a different name and a different focus. The last one is so 4 years ago and I didn't start it proper anyway because I ended up moving to the job that I now do. There are many days I wish I had stuck with it, but my decision was based on the value of working for the company I do. In many ways I could never regret that.
About a week ago I tried to do this and the government site locked me out saying it had cancelled my account. To continue I needed a new activation code for corporation tax. I asked for this and it told me it would take a week. I waited a week it turned up - I now have so many codes and details to try to get into my government account I am totally confused. It's basically locked me out and I can't even get in. All I need to do is to login and cancel the company - that actual activity will take around 10 minutes. So far I've been trying to login to do this for 3 hours.
I rang the helpline - it cut me off 6 times without speaking to anybody, I then tried different options just to get to speak to anybody - I ended up being cut off another 3 times. I've now been holding for 15 minutes. At least I may actually get to speak with somebody this time.
If this doesn't work I'm just going to have to write to them. It's absolutely nuts. I'm SO STRESSED IT'S NOT TRUE!!!! I'm currently pulling on all my resilience reserves. I need to get this done today because it's only open Monday to Friday and I'm usually working during those hours. So I'm watching the clock, the dog is begging for a walk, but I'm sticking with it.
This will be my post for the next week. There's not much else going on between now and Sunday. I also think I may need to just stay away from the computer for a few days after this debarcle!
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