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I generally get about £50 out to spend on odds and ends while I'm there, and then make a point to pay by card at the Manga / Viz stand. And then that's my lot - I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable taking more cash than that, as I know I'd just end up spending it all.
 
So it turns out this is my last week at the M&S I've worked at for over three years now; I'm moving to a smaller store that's slightly further away. Sad to be leaving, but the move will (hopefully) give me more opportunities to start moving up the retail career ladder. After missing out on a promotion at my current store back in June, it has felt like I've just been spinning my wheels there ever since, so I'm looking forward to a new challenge now. :)
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
Not that I want to make you feel even worse, Grav, but in future you should use UP for visual novels. They have Saya for about £16 and School Days for about £27 :-/
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I forgot to check how much Visual Novels cost before I went to MCM, in fact I wasn't expecting them to appear at all. My brain turned off when I bought them. My only defense to this whole issue was that it's the first time I've been to MCM and any other convention, I knew cash was the answer to everything but in this case I f'kd up.

And when I got back I checked Rightstuf and pretty much I raged.

The next time I go to MCM I think I'll stick to Anime Limited, NIS Europe, Otaku UK, United Publications, Viz Media and my local Sheffield Space Centre for any purchases.
 
Hello Cheekies :)

I'm so close to getting more time on here with you! I got my PC login access on Monday (turns out my manager had it since the 21st....). Sadly I don't have full drive access so I'm still needing to use someone elses access atm, hence my not fully being able to come back on here more frequently just yet.

Royal Mail have emailed me back confirming the screenshot stating "complete" off the FB seller of my B & the B dress wasn't delivery confirmation and it's something to do with confirming to her that she can post! So therefore if she doesn't raise a lost item thing this weekend (15 days after due date is Halloween), I'm going to raise a case on Paypal for my £15.62 back. I bet in the past this has happened to the odd other person and they've just left it but sorry, I'm not throwing £15.62 away and letting someone have it for nothing!

I've had no time for anime. I think that's cause I still cant find Mushishi or Shuffle yet though. I'm attempting to take up running. the Womens Health Mag website has a "how to start running" plan so I did day 1 of that yesterday. It's 2 mins running then 2 mins walking. That's 1 set and I need to do 7 of those. That's for week 1 and it's 4 times a week. I did 6 sets as by then my neuroma was hurting too much. I hope that doesn't keep happening but 6 sets is better than no sets I guess. I really want to run in the large park near me but it's too dark after work now so I found a tiny little one 5 mins away so I'm doing "circuits" around that. I reeeeally hope I stick with it, at least until my fitness is built up.

Pandora and Lawrence, you both feeling better now?

How is everyone?
 
Speaking of running, I really want to get back into it too - I managed to keep it up for about six weeks or so last year during the summer, but it fell by the wayside. I felt good doing it, but it always felt difficult just giving up that 30 mins of my Saturday morning I could be doing something else. After a week at work, I always just feel like slobbing out over the weekend and basically just doing nothing (except watching anime) for two days.
 
I've had some kind of plague. I'm largely over it now expect I'm still coughing like an asthmatic donkey in a smoky room. Only managed 4 lengths at the swimming pool on Monday because of it which was depressing. The sauna helped my breathing a lot though.
 
-Danielle- said:
Pandora and Lawrence, you both feeling better now?
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Aww, thanks for asking lovely! Yeah, been feeling a bit better about it all, keeping busy and just of the opinion what's meant for me won't pass me by. In this instance :lol:

Looking forward to having you back on here Danielle, miss your chat! Hope you get everything sorted with your dress, what a mess having to chase everyone over it >.< Is getting your money back the best you can hope for now?

In the middle of cleaning Tiree's cage. How can one bunny cause so much mess? I think she's in some sort of rebellious stage. She's been eating the wallpaper and everything!
 
st_owly said:
I've had some kind of plague. I'm largely over it now expect I'm still coughing like an asthmatic donkey in a smoky room. Only managed 4 lengths at the swimming pool on Monday because of it which was depressing. The sauna helped my breathing a lot though.
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I've had the plague for a couple days now, I think I've slowly turned the corner as my hearing is coming back (my heart beating sounds like a drum inside my head). It's like my head is underwater with a few echos in my ears

I hope I can have enough energy to go to the gym tomorrow night
 
Yeah with it getting so dark, I have limited option of where and when I can run from mon-fri. I reeeeally don't want to run on the main road and it was too dark last night to go to my little park. I'll be so upset if I can only fit running on on the weekends but at least I can do it at my big park then. My legs still ache from that one run, but I like that :3

Well I've realised the woman is basically getting all hear stuff from China then selling it on for a bit more money. So I therefore bought the dress from AliExpress for £6. Hoping it arrives eventually lol. Just hoping I get that dosh back from her now.

Hope you get fully better soon Owly! You too Kite! (send my love to the Neo-ers please, I still can't find full time yet).

I'd love to pick up swimming again. My nearest is a 10 min bus away (providing on traffic) and the only time I'd want to go is 8 or 9am when its the old biddies hehe so it's the effort as Lutga said of making myself go there when I can be doing something else. I'll keep with the running and see.

My little puppy Charlie is great with his sleeping and eating. He's still bitey but I'm sure that's age. He's not improving with potty training though :( He'll poo on the poopy pads but he's peeing all over mine and my Mums rugs instead of the pee pad. We're cleaning our yard on the weekend of anything he could eat so we're hoping to make him gesture to us when he wants to go out back to pee/poo or go out front for a walk to do so but I don't know how to go about it/start. I really need him trained on this before it's too late/he's too old :(
 
I think the local pool has increased the number of lanes available during the lunchtime "lane swimming" session to 3, which is good, allowing for swimmers who want to do lengths the chance to spread out into Elite, Fast & Medium, with the slow swimmers in the rest of the pool.

No energy tonight, but I will force myself to go tomorrow night.
 
I have no idea how many my local have. Now I'm on permanent 8-4 shift, I'd of loved to be able to go at 5 till the bf gets home at 6 but it's some swimming class for kids at 5 and then general swim at 6 and I know me, I wouldn't go then at all. So swimmings bust bar the weekends :(

I ran for all of 10 mins last night. My Mum outdid me :( It's my damn Mortons Neuroma. I have one on my right foot and I'm sure I'm getting one on my left although chances of one on both feet are like 1000:1 but wahey, I might of beaten the odds for it -_- I hope not but boy did my left toes hurt before my right. The cold won't help. I guess I was hoping too much to be able to run. I was really enjoying the idea too :(
 
-Danielle- said:
I ran for all of 10 mins last night. My Mum outdid me :( It's my damn Mortons Neuroma. I have one on my right foot and I'm sure I'm getting one on my left although chances of one on both feet are like 1000:1 but wahey, I might of beaten the odds for it -_- I hope not but boy did my left toes hurt before my right. The cold won't help. I guess I was hoping too much to be able to run. I was really enjoying the idea too :(
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Don't know if it's any good to you but an American friend of mine watches films and games online & offline whilst riding an exercise bike. Dunno how that'd affect your foot but I don't see it being worse than running and you might be able to wear some rigid footwear with it.
 
So i've been having a pretty stressful couple of weeks with work and finishing my exams for adwords, and work decides to play things to how they want. I got a call from them this morning: "Hey, just to let you know that your interview for the supervisor position will be on thursday". Oh, okay, cool.
Catch is, i didn't apply. So now i've got an interview waiting for me at the tail end of the week for a job i was still on the fence for, then i'm being pressured by work, home and everything else to look into the Team Manager job(Supervisor is Tier 3, Team Manager is Tier 2) for the shop as well. Okay, i get it, their desperate. But this is going overboard isn't it? I don't even want to be tied down here anymore than i need to, especially with my adwords/digital marketing stuff all set to go as of thursday. Between a rock and a hard place much? =/ So yeah, i'm a bit lost with it all, no idea which way to turn, especially with the amount of pressure i'm getting from all sides with it all. Blah
 
I hate how some of these so called friends in my life have made me an introvert.

Forced myself out last night with 3 others to see fireworks. I did enjoy it but yeah, still think I would of liked being in bed watching V for Vendetta instead. I get such anxiety thinking of social situations with these "friends" now. I'm not that way with work so I know it's just them. Albeit I didn't go for 1 night out with girls from work but neither did some of the girls and I felt uuuuuuugly at the time, that was all.

Still haven't got my Berserk iPhone case from the US. USPS sites last tracking info was that it's been collected from a PO in Miami. The status still says in transit and ebays due date was 04/11 (as the last possible date). Duno what to do now =/
 
Well, my situation has taken a strange turn! My friend came back home a few days ago...for good. It seems she just wasn't coping. I knew things were hard, but since I last posted I literally heard nothing from her. So, it was a bit of a surprise when her boyfriend suddenly told me she was coming home.

Unsure where this leaves everything. Obviously I'm worried about her, and I'm meeting up with her to talk about everything tomorrow, but is it a bit selfish of me to feel worried about myself now? It seems my decision has been made for me (and it was what I always wanted, to be able to stay home and still have her by me. I know I'm so selfish!) but I feel oddly left in the lurch? I feel terrible. I'm so happy to have her home, but of course I never wanted this and these circumstances.

I'm such a silly worrier.
 
Sooooo I failed my theory for the 6th time. Yes 6th time! I pass all of them at home and IDK what happens when I go in, and this seems to be me with exams in general, back in a-levels, I done 5 mock papers in front of the teacher for Maths, got A's in them, come exam I got a flipping D, my heart is racing a mile a minute in exams, do you guys think I should see someone? 'cuz at this rate it's not looking good, I still have year 2 and 3 uni exams and then after that I got the professional accounting exams. Although I did pass Y1 first time and quite well actually, but that was down to it being a more relaxed environment and not feeling like a exam at all.
 
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