I don’t confess to being any good at blogging, in fact I’d say I’m terrible at blogging. Below are my reasons why I’m not your typical blogger I’m extremely lazyBoth in writing content and commenting on blogs, joining blogger chats etc I don’t much care for flat-laysI find them boring actually, not always, but I…
When a bank job isn’t a bank job
Yesterday I had an interview for the local eye centre. I’m not looking for a new part-time job and don’t really need a 2nd job right now (other than increased debt payments) but I wanted a bank position where I could work as and when I liked and was local. I applied for the job…
Uni: Placement number 3
So I start my 3rd placement the week starting 27th August for 7 weeks. This will be my 1st private placement. It turns out that they aren’t funny about my wanting to do long days and I won’t be doing any Sundays as they really don’t do anything that day, in fact not much at…
Life: Starting a new job
On July 15th I ending my time on the Emergency Floor to start a new job within theatres (eyes!!). I had been with the Emergency Floor for nearly 4 years and I needed a change, I needed something that would work with my uni. The eye hospital was just that (or so I hope). I…
Life: Trying to balance everything
Sometime it can be hard to balance everything going on in your life, I haven’t gotten it figured out just yet. How do you balance everything? For me I have work + uni + fitness + lazyness Work I have a 23 hour a week contract but only work 19 hours, the missing hours need…
Fitness: Weight update…
The last time I updated my weight on here I was 175 lb or 80.1 kg. As you can see I am now 171.4 lbs. It’s taking it’s time but it is shifting slowly. I don’t want a fast loss because I don’t want loose skin or am I like food too much to really…
Fitness: Getting back at it…
So after declaring that I was giving up the gym for a while, I lasted only a few weeks and I rejoined! When I started back at Anytime Fitness (local to home) and Pure Gym (local to uni). I had the idea that I’d need to different gyms due to my schedule but shortly came…
My time at uni so far….
I have been at uni for 4 months now so feel it’s about time for an update. Our first week there for all induction, info on course + modules + tutors etc, we got down to business the second week. We are only there Monday – Thursday so I have been able to keep my…
That time I took part in SimEx 2018
SIMEX Series is the UK’s largest annual international disaster response exercise. It is an operational (live controlled) field exercise designed to establish a learning environment for players to exercise disaster event response plans, policies and procedures. Player participation comprises of; activate, mobilise, respond operationally on scene, report (internally and externally), implement short and medium-term plans, hand-over, demobilise…
Finances: Tools to help me budget + pay off debt…
YNAB YNAB is a budgeting app/software where you budget to zero each month, ‘every dollar has a job’. There are 4 basic rules that you should follow: Rule 1: Give Every Dollar A Job Rule 2: Embrace Your True Expenses Rule 3: Roll With The Punches Rule 4: Age Your Money For a fully detailed explaination check out YNAB…
