Redundancy came & I made a list!

Redundancy came knocking 7 weeks ago and it's not as bad as you might think. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be working and earning a living than spending my days chasing my dole payment and traipsing all over Dublin like a tourist on a 48 hour visit trying to squeeze in all the sights from O' Connell Street to Dun Laoghire to Dundrum, just to get rent allowance. ( I think I'll save those rantings for another day ). However when I'm not chasing my social welfare payments I'm doing all those things that I never had time to do in the past. What I do most nights is create a list of things to do - it reduces the temptation of turning on the telly and getting sucked into Jeremy Kyle and the twosome over on ITV's This Morning Phil and Fern.

Items that have appeared on the list to date

• Contact the bank (let them know that my credit card payments are being reduced)
• Cancel gym membership - can't believe there are no public gyms in this city.
• Train the dog to sit, lie down, roll over, chase her tail, get up, get down and only eat treats when i tell her too
• Bake Cakes - and by god have I baked. Upside down pineapple cake, Guiness Choclate cake, Blueberry muffins, and pavlova. I'm thinking I'll bake a carrot cake next.
• Cook the majority of the meals - my partner works from home so for the past year or so I had dinner cooked for me most nights, now it was time to pay back the favour
• Have dinner partys - sitting in is the new going out! I'm having great fun trying new recepies on our friends and it's cheap.
• Shop at LIDL - it's so much cheaper.
• Re-upholster kitchen dining chairs - I couldn't believe how easy it was
• Go to the beach - been going every other day - it's great I'd recommend it
• Get back to writing hence the blog (i'm not in the right frame of mind to continue with my book)
• Laugh (at my revenge), everytime I get the feeling of having been made a fool of by my previous, unethical boss. *note to self* send her some cake and maybe even a link to this blog!

So redundancy hasn't been too bad apart from losing some financial freedoms. I'm really happy. I no longer work in a stressed environment where you didn't know if the boss was lying to you or being manipulative and all those things that were at the bottom of the list are now at the top.