fuck
By
crispyduck (Thu Aug 11, 2005 at 03:15:55 AM EST) (
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Not in a good place right now.
- Cycling holiday in Netherlands has been cancelled, thanks to SO's employers denying his holiday request for stupid-ass reasons. Nothing was actually booked, but that was my week in between jobs. So we're having a bank holiday weekend break instead, and I'm going to try to start my new job that week.
- Lost my wallet a couple of weeks ago. Fell out of my pocket while I was cycling. Couldn't have been more than a minute before I noticed - it was gone by the time I retraced my steps. No sign of it as yet, and it even had a note in it with my phone number. Lost faith in humanity.
- Start of july, underestimated my own ability to find a new job and decided to renew annual rail season ticket, despite the fact I had just started looking for a new job outside of London. I had done the maths, and things seemed to add up either way... only I failed to factor in the whole refund mechanism and the fact that it takes the train companies two fucking months to pull their fingers out of their arses and actually refund the money. So I owe my company a large outstanding balance on my loan, which will be > my final pay. So, my final pay will be zero, and they will send me the refund when it comes through, minus outstanding balance.
- When I did this, the accounts lady advised me to hand in my ticket asap so as to get refunded asap. Kicking myself in the fucking teeth over that one now - I now have to buy tickets for my seven remaining days of work. Dailies at peak time are about £25, and about half that off peak. Weeklies are £60-70. Today I'm getting a daily and travelling off peak, will get in stupidly late but don't care. I'm working late anyway, as I'm meeting people quite late to go here. I know I'm broke but nothing's going to stop me eating nice food.
- I know things will get better once I change jobs and get the refund through and everything, but right now I feel like I've just taken a huge kicking in the financial bollocks.
- So in place of the holiday at the end of this month, we're going to try to extend the trip to Spain we already had booked for end of October. My parents just got a house out there so the whole family's going out there for a few days. We're now going to try and add a few days on the end of that so we have some time to ourselves. Should've done that in the first place but I got all excited, booked the few days with Ryanair (same flights as my family had got), decided the next day that perhaps we should have a few extra days, and why the fuck are we flying from Stansted that's fucking miles away... and tried to cancel. Ryanair are a bunch of cunts - despite the fact that I'd only booked the previous day, and the flight was five months away, they just said "sorry we don't do refunds". Didn't even try to help. I fucking hate unhelpful shits of companies like that. I think we're just going to ignore the return flights and buy some cheap-ass tickets home for a few days later.
I'm not fucking thinking anything through rationally right now.
