Ten minutes from home ...

Man I hate these mornings. You know the ones where you are up and dying to put away the kids bits that they have dumped so that the house is straight so i can plough on with the room of doom knowing that I am up to date on everything.


The sky is blue so I am hoping that I can get the washing dried as the last two days have been horrendous here and i don't want to have to spend money drying stuff... not being stingy just that it is less money spent and more money to get on top of bills. Might be only a few pounds but it all helps. looking ahead towards Christmas I would love to be able to relax knowing everything is in hand.


After the other day if the weather stays like this then we might go for a wander. Trying to keep a NSD as I have a voucher for South Lakes and even though we would take a lunch it would be nice if we get an ice cream.


Off for a brew and do my daily clicks.

Is it really nearly 5pm? Not moaning just today has gone so quick!


A card came from postie today with a notice telling me something was at the post office that the sender had not paid enough postage on. After checking everything we were clueless as to what it could be and asked to see it before parting with the £1.50. Still no wiser so took the gamble and paid. It was something from Sainsbury's to do with DD1 guide badge. So means she has more evidence for another challenge so I suppose it was worth it!


The pine shelves of pending things has a empty tub and another is half empty and although there are other piles in the room, these are either eBay or tubs with finished stuff in for dd's craft stall and are under the window so out of the way. I'm pleased with this as dd2 went back to school today so see it as the start of a new year and has hopefully set the tone.


Should find out tomorrow about hours next week so here's hoping they are enough.

Well the reason why my timetable took longer than usual was that one of my colleagues had a death in the family early yesterday and they needed re doing. Whilst I am grateful for the extra hours my heart goes out to him.

So ebay did go quite well apart from someone living 100 miles away bidding on collect item and not realised until i asked about collection and it looks like my second chance bidder is not interested now. Grrr!


Work was fine today but it will be a longer day tomorrow.


got myself a diary to try and get myself more organised so busy sorting that!

It has been a while since i have been on my diary and today's entry is trying to understand why.


Whenever the bills are coming in thick and fast and you have no money to cover them people always say not to stick your head in the sand and talk about the relief and how it feels like a weight is lifted off your shoulders by talking. But when you have a blip and it happens again the second cry for help makes me felt i was lying about being able to keep up a payment plan.


I do agree with this theory but it is not easy and when something happens [in my case i had no work with my zero hours contract] it is not always easy to see the light at the end of the tunnel and becomes very easy to go back to that dark place and stay there for a while. Some people can easily pull themselves back up, others not. I think i am somewhere in the middle. I would love to have a financial safety net and yes i do try but something always crops up. Mine currently stands at £1 and this is only because you have to have this in your account to keep it open.


Luckily for me my first cheque will clear on Weds and then weekly for the near future but due to the nature of my work I think I will try making half term plans. Projecting budgets way too far in the future is not the way forward to me due to the nature of my work.


I write this as i have received my 'nasty' reminder about my leccy bill, borrowed some money off my sister and am late with the rent. I might not be back until Weds as i can't do anything financially until then but will keep myself busy working on my KD.