I am in meltdown. I gave my landlord notice to quit and now my guarantor for the rent on the new place has JUST PULLED OUT. The move was supposed to be in 10 days, My only other option was to get my dad or someone to stump up £2000. My Dad can't do it, cos he loaned Payne the money for his motorbike. My savings are boned and I'm supposed to be doing research for a job interview tomorrow, my first in over 3 years. I really hope my landlord will take back my notice to quit. I am in tears and cannot focus on the wine, beer and whiskey research I NEED to do to nail this interview.
My dad and I will be meeting tonight to see if there is another option. it's all kinds of fucked up.
Shit pixie that sucks. :( hang in there
Damn. Why did the garantor pull out? Doesn't that kind of thing require a contract?
I'm sorry, Pix. Wish I could help. I'd offer my couch if you weren't so far away.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 15, 2012, 12:48:28 PM
Damn. Why did the garantor pull out? Doesn't that kind of thing require a contract?
We were about to go sign the paperwork and then she pulled out. Apparently her mum thought it was a bad plan.
The only consolation is that I haven't paid any fees or anything yet, and may be able to rescind my notice to quit, thus restoring my status quo. Which may fuck Payne and his housemates over. This would especially apply to Matt, who may have to quit his horticulture course if he has to move back to his parents.
Ok, UPDATE! Me, Payne and the guys I was going to move in with are looking at a new place tomorrow, before the interview. I've txted my landlord letting him know the score.
I now know more about scotch single malts than i did. (I'm a fan of the Speyside, Island and Highland types, myself, and am not keen on the 1 Islay I've tried) I know what beers to pair with food to a certain extent, and I know that European wines are by region, New World by grape. Wine is my weakest point, but I know that beer and food pairing-wise, a dark beer is akin to a red wine for food, and paler akin to white, and with both wine and beers, if in doubt go for region of the food and match to something from that region. . IPA's and lagers are good for spicy food, such as curries and chilli, and often superior choices to wines in this respect, porters and stouts are good for red meat and chocolate desserts, Stout goes excellently with oysters.
Add to this my customer services and general kitchen experience in cleaning and basic prepration, willingness to be flexible and I feel that what I don't know I can improve with experience and research. I've mostly just typed this out from memory so it will stick for the interview. My suit is hung up, I'm about to have a shower after I have a ciggy and a cup of chai. I think I am as prepared as I am going to be.
Quote from: Pixie on February 15, 2012, 08:33:35 PM
Ok, UPDATE! Me, Payne and the guys I was going to move in with are looking at a new place tomorrow, before the interview. I've txted my landlord letting him know the score.
I now know more about scotch single malts than i did. (I'm a fan of the Speyside, Island and Highland types, myself, and am not keen on the 1 Islay I've tried) I know what beers to pair with food to a certain extent, and I know that European wines are by region, New World by grape. Wine is my weakest point, but I know that beer and food pairing-wise, a dark beer is akin to a red wine for food, and paler akin to white, and with both wine and beers, if in doubt go for region of the food and match to something from that region. . IPA's and lagers are good for spicy food, such as curries and chilli, and often superior choices to wines in this respect, porters and stouts are good for red meat and chocolate desserts, Stout goes excellently with oysters.
Add to this my customer services and general kitchen experience in cleaning and basic prepration, willingness to be flexible and I feel that what I don't know I can improve with experience and research. I've mostly just typed this out from memory so it will stick for the interview. My suit is hung up, I'm about to have a shower after I have a ciggy and a cup of chai. I think I am as prepared as I am going to be.
Best of luck to you!
ooof, sounds shitty and awfulbad. I hope it works out, Pixie! It would be so cool if you two spags lovebirds found a place together.
Good luck pixie!
Good luck Pix!
I hope shit gets sorted, Pixie!
Quote from: Nigel on February 16, 2012, 02:59:35 AM
I hope shit gets sorted, Pixie!
Hell if I get either the job or the new house imma be in a better place mentally than I was yesterday.
Heh, My landlord just called and has offered me a viewing of a place that is £225 a month each, for 3 people. The other brilliantly located place was snapped up faster than a very fast thing. I am all made up in my suit and blue suede heels and ready to kick ass and take names.
Good luck, Pix.
Quote from: Pixie on February 16, 2012, 01:43:34 PM
Heh, My landlord just called and has offered me a viewing of a place that is £225 a month each, for 3 people. The other brilliantly located place was snapped up faster than a very fast thing. I am all made up in my suit and blue suede heels and ready to kick ass and take names.
Awesome on both counts, kick ass!
Quote from: Pixie on February 16, 2012, 01:43:34 PM
Heh, My landlord just called and has offered me a viewing of a place that is £225 a month each, for 3 people. The other brilliantly located place was snapped up faster than a very fast thing. I am all made up in my suit and blue suede heels and ready to kick ass and take names.
GO GET 'EM!
Speysides are pretty nice...but how can you not like Islays? Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg might be a little...peaty, I'll concede, but Bunnahabhain, Bowmore and Bruichladdich are much less so.
Quote from: Cain on February 17, 2012, 07:57:49 AM
Speysides are pretty nice...but how can you not like Islays? Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg might be a little...peaty, I'll concede, but Bunnahabhain, Bowmore and Bruichladdich are much less so.
I said I disliked the one Islay I tried, which was Laphroaig. The southern Islays are apparently better, but I do not know them.
And it looks like we have tentatively found a house. Win.
I tried laphroaig for the first time last week. I was surprised by the taste of it and peaty kinda nails it on the head. I havent decided whether i like it or dislike it (i tend to go for either irish imports or cheap nasty shit from kentucky depending on what my goal is) but i would try it again.
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 02:26:38 PM
And it looks like we have tentatively found a house. Win.
Yay!
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 02:26:38 PM
And it looks like we have tentatively found a house. Win.
RESULT!
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PM
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
Awesome, Pixie!
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PM
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
Do we have an emote that represents the sentiment, "THAT IS SO FUCKING WIN!" ?
Awesome!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 17, 2012, 05:03:24 PM
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PM
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
Do we have an emote that represents the sentiment, "THAT IS SO FUCKING WIN!" ?
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Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PM
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
GO PIX GO!!
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PM
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
Way to go, kiddo. :)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 17, 2012, 05:03:24 PM
Quote from: Pixie on February 17, 2012, 05:00:23 PM
Ok, so I walk into the place where they are holding the Open Day for the Co-Op. Apart from the interviewers, I am the sharpest dressed motherfucker in the room. I spend a good while filling out all their stuff and paperwork. I mention that I would have been along earlier in the day, I just had to go look at a house, and the guy said he was house-hunting too. I recommended he go for Gumtree and avoid letting agents if at all possible, cos they gouge you for money. The interview went very well. I wasn't flustered like yesterday, I kicked ass and took names in this one, and I reckon I have a good chance of getting some work. When he asked me about my weaknesses, I said I was maybe too chatty, but he said that's not a weakness cos it builds customer rapport. Now to go sort out a new place to live! It is a good day to be Pixie.
Do we have an emote that represents the sentiment, "THAT IS SO FUCKING WIN!" ?
:hit: :holyman: :hammer: :jihaad: :noodledance: :awesome:
:aaa::1fap:
The closer place to where I am now fell through, and I have to take a place sight unseen, from my current landlord. That will be fixed and in place on Monday, and i have ANOTHER person call me in for interview. :D My deposit from this place has been transferred over to the new place, so I have less of an outlay!
Good for you!
The day before I put my deposit down on the new place there was a shooting literally 2 minutes walk from the flat! I just got back from an interview with a brand new place opened that serves Mexican food (burritos, tacos, quesadillia ect) kinda in a Subway set up. it was a nice informal interview and I got there all suited and booted before the interviewer was there, I was early by 20 minutes. The interviewer had forgot my CV. It was a pleasant chat type of interview, focusing on experience and she even had a little bit of a moan about the glitches of opening a new business, which got me to show off some food hygiene knowledge. I even got a free cup of tea. She has a dozen or so other people to interview this week and will let me know next week if I have got the job or not. I think it went well, and they are used to employing students, so they don't mind me having Tuesday nights off for D&D, or having to fit in with bus timetables.
I am starting to love my grey trouser suit and bright blue suede heels. They look the business.
Quote from: Pixie on February 21, 2012, 12:28:21 PM
The day before I put my deposit down on the new place there was a shooting literally 2 minutes walk from the flat!
Welcome to Tucson, Pix!
I am st
Quote from: Pixie on February 21, 2012, 12:28:21 PM
arting to love my grey trouser suit and bright blue suede heels. They look the business.
Pix IS the business.
Lucky girl. The murder in the apartment building in CT happened three days AFTER I moved in...
Quote from: Luna on February 21, 2012, 03:53:22 PM
Lucky girl. The murder in the apartment building in CT happened three days AFTER I moved in...
The first time I lived away from my mum, a guy was murdered across the road... 2 days before I moved in.
No-one was killed, fortunately. I just took a look at the outside of the new place and it looks like it's a little cramped, and is on the upper floor which means it's going to be a bit of a bitch to get furniture into.
It's short notice and a stupid cheap rent. I mean SERIOUSLY cheap. Which is nice. It might be the only nice thing about the place, tbh.
Wait what what what
Did you say it's a place that serves Mexican food?
MEXICAN FOOD?
I am trying to imagine this.
Quote from: Nigel on February 21, 2012, 05:01:04 PM
Wait what what what
Did you say it's a place that serves Mexican food?
MEXICAN FOOD?
I am trying to imagine this.
Yea, It's a vague appropriation of Tex Mex snacks and the like. Not as nice as the Southwestern US Real Deal made by mom and pop places, or made by Real Mexicans, just pale assed white English students, and because of the rarity factor in this city, nay, in this country, it's expensive, and smaller portions than you would get in Arizona. for instance three tacos is like £3.65. whereas in 2003 I used to snag the same in AZ for $2 max.
But a job is a job.
ENGLISH MEXICAN FOOD
My brain is very happy right now.
Quote from: Nigel on February 21, 2012, 05:32:59 PM
ENGLISH MEXICAN FOOD
My brain is very happy right now.
Yea, it's getting a lot bigger in this country, apparently.
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
:vom:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
I think that's called "a haggis".
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
DO WANT!!!!!!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
I would totally eat the hell out of a haggis burrito. Maybe if we do another DoD I'll make some.
Also, Nigel, haggis is Tasty As Fuck.
Quote from: Pixie on February 21, 2012, 06:33:41 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
I would totally eat the hell out of a haggis burrito. Maybe if we do another DoD I'll make some.
Also, Nigel, haggis is Tasty As Fuck.
I like haggis.
But LIVER DOES NOT GO IN BURRITOS. NO NO NO NONONONONO
Nigel youll probably get a kick out of this- theres a chinese restaurant in my dads rural hometown in county galway. Its staffed entirely by white kids with brogues. :lulz: i guess kinda like pf changs if it were a hole in the wall restaurant.
Quote from: Twid, not Billy. on February 21, 2012, 07:02:27 PM
Nigel youll probably get a kick out of this- theres a chinese restaurant in my dads rural hometown in county galway. Its staffed entirely by white kids with brogues. :lulz: i guess kinda like pf changs if it were a hole in the wall restaurant.
OH MY GOD. :lulz:
Also, my intestines literally just clenched up in fear. Totally involuntary biological reaction to the juxtaposition of "Galway" and "Chinese restaurant".
Its true. We are better known for our ponies street musicians and stray dogs than for our culinary finesse.
...dear god that just made some horrible implications. "Ill have some pony fried rice with busker lo mein and some dog fingers please." "oh shoor the numboor foiv, yeah?"
:vom:
Quote from: Pixie on February 21, 2012, 06:33:41 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
I would totally eat the hell out of a haggis burrito. Maybe if we do another DoD I'll make some.
Also, Nigel, haggis is Tasty As Fuck.
about 50% of the Indian takeaway joints in scotland now offer Haggis Pakora as a starter. FTR - it sucks hairy fat man ass
Haggis fritters? :x
The PD Diet ITT. "We'll put you off your feed!"
Quote from: Pixie on February 21, 2012, 06:33:41 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
I would totally eat the hell out of a haggis burrito. Maybe if we do another DoD I'll make some.
YOU'RE ON! :banana: YUM
I only ever had a haggis pie at the first DoD. It was pretty good.
Quote from: Pixie on February 21, 2012, 06:33:41 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. :argh!:
I would totally eat the hell out of a haggis burrito. Maybe if we do another DoD I'll make some.
Also, Nigel, haggis is Tasty As Fuck.
I made haggis once, but I will not do it again. Cleaning out a sheep's stomach is probably the filthiest thing I ever did for food.
I don't think it's considered proper manners to discuss haggis production.
Quote from: Luna on February 22, 2012, 07:06:39 PM
The PD Diet ITT. "We'll put you off your feed!"
The Payne Diet: "IT'S ALL IN YER HEID."