I went out!

On Saturday 17th November 2007 I, Firt Time Mum, went out without husband and child. I did it! It was only around the corner, for two halves of lager, with my sister - but that's not the point. I was out. It felt really strange getting ready to go out after Elizabeth went to bed, instead of getting ready for bed myself. The concept of finding clothes to wear and putting make-up on in the evening have been totally alien to me for well over a year. When my sister arrived at the door and asked if I was wearing heels I felt my age though!

We had a lovely time nursing our halves of lager in a really old manny type pub that thankfully wasn't too far from home. We chatted about this and that, then came home. Husband was still up watching a film, Elizabeth had slept soundly, all was well.

That little outing was at the end of husband's week off - a week in which he came to clinic with us for her final weigh-in of her first 12 months, he came swimming with us, and we visited friends and family and went out shopping in the Bullring! We also looked in numerous furniture shops with a view to investing in a new sofa, but just as we had chosen the perfect one we talked ourselves out of it as it really doesn't seem sensible to buy anything when things are so uncertain about my job and I have no income at all at the moment.

He went back to work yesterday, leaving one very clingy Elizabeth around my legs yesterday. Still waking up at night but after her star has been handed back to her she tends to get back to sleep quite quickly and it is just the early waking that remains a problem however that is better than it was - now around 6.30am so I suppose I should be grateful.

I've just heard from my union legal advisor that the legal department have looked into my case and think I have a case so a claim is being lodged with the Employment Tribunal in Birmingham today. My work will then have 28 days to reply. In the meantime I've got my hearing date for the grievance appeal set for December 12th, so that will be nice(!).

Just emailed two editors from the Shropshire Star pleading with them to let me write an article for them, and been writing reviews for a new review website - Qype (quality or hype?). Done 12 so far, plenty more to do!

Elizabeth is still asleep, so I'm back on the internet to see if I can see any other ways to make money.