The Great Unwashed... the End

After just under a year of (welcome) unemployment, I started looking around in September. In the last couple of weeks I've been informed that both the applications I'd made since had been successful (including tests, interviews, etc...) pending background checks.

It seems I'll be rejoining the working masses soon!
It's strange. One of the two jobs (the one I will accept), is something I'm pretty sure I'll love and I'm quite keen to start. On the other hand, I've throughly enjoyed my time off and I'll miss having all this time to do things I like whenever I like, seeing friends, going for walks, reading, listening to music, eating properly and generally not being stressed out.
Hopefully the company I'll be working for is much better than my previous one, and that will keep the stress at bay :)

Today I was supposed to go to their head office to bring them various documents they need to see to progress the recruitment. As I was getting ready to go out, I grabbed a drink out of the fridge to take with me. As I was putting it in my bag I thought: hmmmm, strange... this doesn't feel very cold.

Then it dawned on me. On Monday I had guys from the council round to do an electrical safety test. After they left I kept finding stuff unplugged (they'd had to unplug everything to check the sockets) up until I went to bed, when I couldn't turn on the bedside lamp.
It never occurred to me to go around the flat checking everything was plugged in... and of course the fridge was also unplugged, as I realised this morning. I didn't notice before because I have a super-duper fridge freezer that keeps its temperature for ages even when switched off, provided the door isn't opened. I'd opened it a few times to take milk or food out but usually I only open a tiny bit, stick my hand in and retrieve it holding the item I wanted, without even looking in. Also, the internal light not always comes on so it didn't register when it didn't light up these past few days. And thankfully I had never opened the freezer since Monday.

Still, it was 3 days so I really panicked and called the council in despair. I explained the situation and that I had a couple of hundred pounds worth of food in the freezer that I didn't dare open and WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!!!
A few minutes later the two electricians that were here on Monday sheepishly turned up at my door to check. They were really apologetic and opened the freezer to check the damage. To my relief, most stuff was still frozen. The only things that had defrosted were those in the first drawer. Everything else was fine. Even the things that had defrosted were still extremely cold. We all heaved a sigh of relief, even though one of the guys got his hand covered in what seemed like blood. It was the juice from the defrosted forest fruits that had run all over the place :)))
Thanks Mr Bosch, I knew I was getting a good deal when I bought your appliances over ten years ago!

I am now busy cooking 2 1/2 kilos of salmon, a few bags of mixed seafood and some meat so I can freeze it again before it spoils - and dinner tonight? Forest fruits, of course!

Of course I had to call my future employer to explain the situation and ask them if it was ok for me to go tomorrow with all the paperwork, instead of today. I bet they're already regretting their choice :D :D :D