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Lurker1972

fornightly humiliation over, got lots of books from library so have even more distractions now!

Paid £2 to park for 3hours, only used 2 so gave ticket to someone else - that was good deed of the day

already feels like its been a long day, think will have a break & soak up some rays in the garden for half an hour before knuckling down

Lurker1972

oops, seems that half an hour turned into half a day!!!:o

still, sunshine is good for you & yesterday was a hard day so ...nope, not making any excuses. I wanted a lazy day so had one.

Except now I feel guilty & need to do something useful, early tea & housework I think...Once I get that book finished......

Normal job searching service to resume tomorrow, between drs, lunch with friends & blood donoring session......

Lurker1972

ok, lunch got cancelled and replaced with brekkie out with OH @ Mr Morrisons, very nice...until he decided to chck out the special offers & £19 later we left!!!
oh well, we did get some buy one get one frees...plus some bits that Mr Tesco doesnt sell....

So ist now early afternoon & I'm getting nowhere! fast!

Agency called with potential temp job but am not expecting to hear back from them so won't even mention it to OH or folks, don't want to get their hopes up!

Have moved this months allowance from Redundancy Account so that should hit current account around normal payday - will be quite nice to feel like a normal person for a day & play with spreadsheets !!

Right, thats enough for now, application calling......

The_Golden_Goose

Hullo!

How did the application filling in go?

I, personally, am having a bit of a rough week. Perhaps next week will be better.

Lurker1972

hi GG, welcome to rough week mark 2!! wonder if its related to being what should have been payday???

Applications - in a word - CARP!!!

takes me too long to do one application (about 3 days) and no I'm not trying to be a rocket scientist, just a little admin job please

Back to Work session with Job Centre made me want to thump them (or if I was so inclined, top myself) so patronising and ridiculous - like I need help to work out if I'd be better at work than on JSA? !!!!!!!!!!! i like to THINK I can earn more than £64.30 a week!!!!!

Trying to turn anger into motivation .....

Things a little tense with OH here too, PMT monster is about so am snappy and unapproachable!

hey ho.....back to the applications....

Lurker1972

yesterday disappeared with very little achieved - finished an application but now need OH to print up the envelope before hand delivering it - I'm scared I'll jam the printer if I ty it unsupervised!!

Had chap round to quote for cavity wall insulation & increasing the loft insulation - had put by £500 of lump sum to pay for it....£298 for both so said yes please & paid the deposit, that should be done within 5 weeks & is as good as reason as any to get the loft sorted.

Very tempting to go & blow the £202 left over, but I'm not going to.......yet

washing is ready to go out, then am off to brave the Saturday masses @ Mr T, aiming to spend NO MORE than £30.......should be do-able, I have my list, meal plan uses whats in the cupboards.....no extras allowed especially as I've gained the few lbs I'd lost last week!!!! not good, more willpower required!

Lurker1972

woo hoo mission accomplished - spent £26.90!!! and that incuded some beer for him (£4) & 2 tshirts for me (£5)

pity theres nothing to eat in the house!

Lurker1972

have lost most of today due to excrutiating period pains, complete with sickness & panic attack - nice!!

BUT, have posted job application and am about to start on another online jobby.

Have remembered to pay mortgage (after 10 years of salary deductions, its now on task list!! won't DD it until they make me) & feel fairly in control of pennies, if not the £s

& thats reminded me, its time to join a challenge...July NSD here i come......

not sure how many to aim for.....but then again, I'm at home most days & can't spend there.....

The_Golden_Goose

Lovely Lurker where are you???

Amazing how being at home really helps with the NSDs. Most of my days are NSDs and the only thing I tend to buy the most is petrol.

Keep on top of the mortgage repayments! By that I mean remembering to pay them! So easy to forget.

Keep up the good work. Our Lord and Saviour Martin Lewis would no doubt commend your excellent efforts!

Lurker1972

The_Golden_Goose wrote: »

Lovely Lurker where are you???

i was thinking the same about you Mrs GG, & then spotted you'd updated your diary plus a couple of 100 others!!!

have done 2 more applications today, but the complete lack of interest in me doesnt keep me hopeful.
I was orginally applying for jobs that were similar basic money to last job, but in real terms meant £10k pay cut (I loved overtime!!). Now I'm looking at 50% cut, which is bl**dy scary, but has to be better than being patronised by job centre morons

Race for Life is tomorrow (am walking, too bloomin hot to try to run, not that I would) & the first 4 days of July will be SPEND days (eek)....job papers (Wed & Thurs), plus day out with mate on Thurdsay, then meeting another friend for coffee on Friday & then its off to see Take That @ Wembley...woohooooooooo, we have plans to eat before we get there though, keep costs as low as poss...hmmmm maybe 15 NSD was a bit ambitious for a challenge virgin!

ages ago I was inspired by a challenge on here to use up all body lotions etc that were sat in the cupboard before buying any more (this was probably in 2007). In all honesty, I'm not a body lotion person until it gets near bikini time & for about 2 weeks after a holiday in an attempt to maintain the pink tan......so I'd manage a couple of days here & there....& then more body lotion would appear in the form of Xmas or birthday presents....ANYWAY, I'd got through some of the half used ones so it was working...slowly. I began the challenge again on the 24th April (day after the big R hit) since I had the time & I have used up a big tub of sanctuary (7/10), something that was part of Xmas pack smelt like strawberry (6/10), a clarins firming lotion (9/10) & am now wading through 1 of 2 huge bottles of Dove (Dad bought them for Mum cos on offer @ 50p, being discontinued, she didn't like to passed them on to me) & quite frankly its getting about 3 out of 10 because it smells nice! it very watery, so doesnt go on nicely & skin is dry & flaky.
I can't decide whether to carry on with it, or give up, not be green or MSE & chuck it out.......I have at least 2 other sanctuary ones to use so it wouldn't cost me anything........

ooo what a ramble!!