Raquela's Diary

SilkCutSilver

I think I'm beyond help. I've been doing a scarf since November (it was supposed to be my best friend's Christmas gift) and it is about 3 different widths and I keep getting annoyed with it as I keep adding stitches! So frustrating. I keep meaning to bring it with me on the train each week (3 hours to Weymouth and back) but I always worry people in first class will look at me in a - who is that very stange woman in a suit with a laptop knitting on the train?!lol

I did my clicks yesterday on Mutual Points for the first time in AGES and they don't seem to have worked. Something about IE7 does not agree with that site.....

Definitely say something about your job! I read something in a magazine the other day that the recession encourages people to try to hide below the parapet to be less 'noticed' and therefore not risk losing their job but actually the people who are sucessful during a downturn are those who step up and get noticed - you never know, taking the initiative could well lead to something more interesting in the future. Just my little two penneth anyway!

Raquela

I used to knit on the train all the time and no one ever batted an eyelid, so I wouldn't worry! I've seen other people knit on the train too. When I knit on the bus though I get funny looks, bizarre! If you are adding stitches, is your knitting looking holey? It could be that you are accidently winding your thread round the needle before you knitting into the next stitch? I used to do odd things like that in the start too, only way I got round it was to count stitches after every row for a while!

Work actually went quite well today! I actually worked the entire time, and got to see somethings which linked things together and made me see why certain things I am doing are important to the rest of the place.

Money-wise, didn't make my target £1 yesterday, have made it today. Let's see what the end of the month shows! I've listed a few more things on Amazon today, and more to add over the weekend. Also done some of the Gapbuster training and booked in my first two assignments for first week of September!

Oh, and another NSD today :beer:

Raquela

Right, today there will be very little moneysaving (if you ignore the fact I've been on here since I woke up!), because I have a to do list a mile long! I am posting it on here so I am errr more accountable!

[STRIKE]Clean Kitchen [/STRIKE]done!
[STRIKE]Clean Conservatory[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean Living Room[/STRIKE] done!
[STRIKE]Clean Bedroom[/STRIKE]done!
[STRIKE]Clean Bathroom[/STRIKE]done!
[STRIKE]Hoover and mop floors [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Do Laundry sorted and in![/STRIKE] drying in the conservatory (can't dry outside due to the full scale war the spiders and their cobwebs have waged against my washing whirligig line)
[STRIKE]Finish Arise training tantalisingly close![/STRIKE]done!
[STRIKE]List 20 things on Amazon[/STRIKE] done!
[STRIKE]Do free scratches[/STRIKE] only 20p today
Do two click sites one down one to go
Decide what baking to take into work for next week (my b-day!)
Meal plan for next week
Grocery list for next week (if from above two it proves necessary!)
Do my nails (ok, that one can wait til Sunday)
Get hairdye (probably won't happen! - can't see I'll get time to go into town today!)

That probably means I should get off the couch and get up then....

angela110660

Just had a read of your diary and wish you well. Had to laugh at your great long list for today as my hubby (Norfolk boy born and bred) and I were constructing just a list for ourselves for today and tomorrow. Must be the weather??

hypno06

yay to the sunshine - am happily sat in my conservatory, which for once is clean and tidy, while everyone else is still in bed, so am enjoying peace and quiet

angela110660

Grey as a day in February here in south of England and it is raining. just skyped son in Oz and it is 30 degrees and not a cloud in the sky and its not even their summer!!

Raquela

lovely beautiful day here too, just because I have to clean my house! However, I took a plant outside from the conservatory and dumped loads of bits in my outside 'office' (a glorified painted pastel green shed, but if my landlord insists on calling it an office, who am I to complain!), and decided to tackle some of the cobwebs whilst I was out there (a ritual I must complete every few days, but the spiders apparently adore my house), so got to enjoy a bit of it.

Of course now i want to shower because I think I have spiders all over me...!

Raquela

btw, notice how knitting is sadly absent from that list? Woe is me!! First time my sisters hubby will have seen the place though, so got to get it looking lovely for him!

Raquela

I must say cleaning the house is made much easier by the excellent music on Planet Rock today- hope I haven't just jinxed that!

Raquela

Taken a break from cleaning to do my receipts and cash diary. (which should also have been on the to do list as cleaning means getting rid of receipts etc!). Realised that I am at least £100 over what I need til rent and payments go out, probably more, but erred on the safe side, stuck to £100, and paid £100 off my credit card today. New total on that therefore £358 roughly! Be nice if I can find another £100 to chuck at it as well... will see how it goes!

Current debt totals (rounded to nearest £);

Natwest MC £358.00
Natwest OD £1787.00
Cahoot Loan £4092.00
Scary Grad Loan - unchanged.

When next months Cahoot Loan comes out it will fall under £4000 - can't wait!