Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I went into work today, to talk to FogHorn and Battleship about returning to work and also to pick up my personal stuff so it's out of the way of the office move, which will happen Friday.

It turns out that my current sick note actually covers me up to and including Monday 8th December. However - and it's a big however - my sick pay finishes at the end of this month. If I were to take that first week off, I wouldn't be paid for it. Beh. I have to see my doc this week anyway so when I do, I think I'm going to insist that I'm fit enough to go back part time, starting next week. Foghorn and I went to see Occupational Health and apparently I've got an appointment to see them for the 15th (I assume I'll get a letter about it shortly) and they recommend a phased return over a period of four weeks. The good news is, I get paid at a full time rate, even if I'm essentially part time, because it's part of the return to work thing.

I may make some inquiries about what financial assistance I'm entitled to apply for after the statutory sick pay period. There must be something, not everything can be fixed in a neat, tidy time frame. Otherwise, I shall assume I'm going back next week.

( Work ramblings )

*yawns* Spooks tonight, hurrah! Watched The Unit (dear gods, it was lame), and Cold Case (bloody excellent!) earlier and was happy. Now there is food plottings and tea to be drunk!

I got my new sick note from the surgery today *gigglefits* My Doc apparently had a moment because she's signed me off for five weeks! Bwah! That covers me for another 3 weeks from now *glee* Better than I hoped!

In other glee, I actually did proper cooking last night and it didn't suck! I had some chicken pieces to use up so I adapted something I saw Nigella do (all this daytime TV has advantages). I chucked the pieces into a roasting tin with some roughly chopped onion, pepper and small potatoes (all roughly the same sized pieces), threw in 4 cloves of garlic, tossed everything in olive oil, dried thyme, salt and pepper and then roasted it until the chicken was thoroughly cooked. Deee-licious! That's not to say it can't be refined, it can. Next time I'll parboil the potatoes so they roast properly and I'll figure a way to use the juices in the pan better too. I'm thinking maybe de-glazing the tray with some white wine would turn it into a nice sauce. It was pretty tasty as it was, all garlic-y and thyme flavoured :D I also now have left overs enough that tonight and tomorrow's main meals are all sorted *glee*

No Private Practice for me to download today *pout* but I've watched the new episode of Criminal Minds which was the follow up to last week's episode, and very good it was too! New Bones to look forward to this evening on Sky and because we're now in sync with the US, I'll be able to natter about it to jenni411 later when she gets online. Glee!

And now for food and more tea. Gleeeee! :D