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Ding Dong The Tribunal is Over - Now to Start my New Year!


 

If you've been following my blog you would have known that I lost my job at the start of the first lockdown. I couldn't really go into a lot of detail because it was going to tribunal (which I had early January), but now that is over and on Thursday I found out that I'd won!!!!!!!

I have to admit that after the tribunal, when the judge said he would defer his ruling, my confidence in the case slowly went down as the days went on. I was just so desperate to win, I couldn't let someone who'd always gotten their way by bullying, get away with treating people the way I had been treated.  

Once I'd seen the ruling on Thursday, I was shaking for about an hour or more after. So much stress, worry and anxiety had been worth it to know that I was right to fight this and prove that they had been in the wrong. I'm proud of what I have done (feeling pretty Wonder Woman right now!), it's been the toughest thing I've ever had to deal with and I'm so thankful for all the support I received from family and friends. I have to admit, I do get a little smile on my face when I think about their reaction to the ruling.

I may go into a bit more detail about all of it another time, but for the moment I'm still decompressing the whole thing and can't really put into into coherent words what happened, they're just not flowing.  However, now that the whole thing is over I finally feel like I can start my New Year and focus on the things that I want too, without having that niggling thing in the back of my mind to worry and stress about. 

Obviously I want to get back into Personal Styling, that's my main passion and the whole reason I started this blog. There's a course that I've wanted to do for a couple of years now and once my compensation money comes through I'll be booking myself on to it. I'm so excited!

I've also been getting into my reading, initially to take my mind off things, but I definitely want to carry on. Pre-kids I used to read mostly thrillers, but now I'm open to all sorts of books, so if you have any recommendations please send them my way.

Another thing that I've gotten back into recently is painting. You might not know but my background is actually art based. I studied Sculpture at University, but never developed it into any kind of art based career (one of my regrets). I've done the odd painting over the years, but since the kids I've hardly done anything. More recently though I've had a go at watercolours and I'm really enjoying it. Very much out of practice, but as they say, practice makes perfect!

Hope you all have a great week.

Kat x



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