InaPickle getting out of a pickle!

taxi73

Good luck with insurance quotes.

emmie26

don't forget quidco when you are looking for insurance quotes, every little helps.

Pickle I'm finding it hard to imagine what you are like I alternate between thinking you are going to be a bit geeky (sorry) with all your foreign language skills to thinking you are some super glam sex and the city type with your shoes fetish and the nail course what is closest to the mark or are you a bit of both just depending on your mood? Just thought I'd share my internal musings with you :rotfl:

InaPickle

emmie26 wrote: »

don't forget quidco when you are looking for insurance quotes, every little helps.

Pickle I'm finding it hard to imagine what you are like I alternate between thinking you are going to be a bit geeky (sorry) with all your foreign language skills to thinking you are some super glam sex and the city type with your shoes fetish and the nail course what is closest to the mark or are you a bit of both just depending on your mood? Just thought I'd share my internal musings with you :rotfl:

The truth is, I'm a bit of both: I guess I'm two parts geek to one part chic! :rotfl: To be fair, I want to be more chic than I am (well, I'm chic in the head, but not always (although mainly) in the presentation!), and I'm a geek all over, but in a nice way - I don't think I'm an obnoxious geek, or the type who thinks people are a bit wrong if they don't know what an auxillary verb is. But I can start if you want me to!

And while we are on the subject, Emmie, what are YOU like? I imagine a lean, beautiful blonde nurse type, and then the other day I had an image of a fairly petite, blondeish, bobbed, glasses-wearing type leading an expedition through the Trafford Centre! :rotfl: I bet I'm about as accurate as you were!

And as for Quidco, it's not a small amount: the company who gave me the cheapest quote give £45 back via Quidco. :eek: Yespleasesirsomemoreplease!

InaPickle

Ok, so it's confession time once more:

Bought three copies of Glamour magazine this week for the £45 worth of Benefit make-up products. I really hope to use them all, and they were such a bargain it seemed a pity not to. I've been really good using up the products I already have thanks to the 'No More Buying Toiletries Until...' challenge, so I didn't consider it such a sin. (I also bought a Dr Feelgood (powder replacement) on Ebay for £6.42 instead of (£20.50) and an aluminium-less deoderant from the Body Shop for £2.50 on a trial instead of £6 as aluminum in deoderant has been something I've been worried about, but I've yet to find one that doesn't contain it and that actually WORKS as work is blummin' hot (no, I'm not a particularly sweaty betty!).

Went to the pub for a few drinks on Saturday night: I had a great time and spent relatively little (less than £10).

Went for a curry last night as a leaving do. The curry house were suspiciously generous with 'free' drinks etc. all night, but the bill was considerably more than it should have been at the end. The !!!!!!!s robbed us blind and we know it and they know it. :mad: By the time a groups of 14 of us badmouth them to everyone we collectively know, they can expect to lose a fair amount of actual/prospective trade.

Today was a day off, as is tomorrow. Have spent the day doing loads of stuff to help mum, getting waxed, editing my CV, writing a cover letter and God knows what else.

I'm off to bed now. I need to get up to do more job/work experience stuff, then nail/music/room tidying/job apps.

Night! x

taxi73

Gosh you were up late Pickle...

RE the deodrants...if you have a health shop..Holland and Barratt in particular sell a range called Dr Organics and they are truly 100% organic and smell lovely and no nasties in them like aluminium,parabens etc etc.

You're a good one helping your Mum...us mums need help sometimes.

InaPickle

taxi73 wrote: »

Gosh you were up late Pickle...

RE the deodrants...if you have a health shop..Holland and Barratt in particular sell a range called Dr Organics and they are truly 100% organic and smell lovely and no nasties in them like aluminium,parabens etc etc.

You're a good one helping your Mum...us mums need help sometimes.

Thanks for the tip! This Body Shop one doesn't have any parabens in either, and it smells citrusy which is nice as you don't often find citrus fragrances in deodorants. I have a sort of PitRok thing which is better than a PR (I have one of those and find it useless).

As for mum, I always help her! She took over dad's business when he died and two and a bit years ago and I've been helping her run the business since then. *Pickle puts on pinstripe trouser suit and reading glasses for the intellectual look and gives a twirl* See?!

taxi73

Oh I see...lol

Pit rock are weird to use..I don't particulary use mine either...

I have the pomegranite one and the aloe vera one from the DR organics range.

emmie26

InaPickle wrote: »

And while we are on the subject, Emmie, what are YOU like? I imagine a lean, beautiful blonde nurse type, and then the other day I had an image of a fairly petite, blondeish, bobbed, glasses-wearing type leading an expedition through the Trafford Centre! :rotfl: I bet I'm about as accurate as you were!

Actually you are not far of the mark I am not really petite, but am blonde slim and occassionally wear glasses if my hayfever is playing up which it was when I went to the trafford centre. Generally I try not to wear my glasses very often cause when I was at school I was an absolute geek, I used to follow my hubby round cause he was one of the popular boys a few years above, but he was never interested because I had deirdre barlow glassess which only served to magnify my monobrow. One day I discovered tweezers and contact lenses and never looked back :rotfl:

Sounds like you are beinf very MSE going for all the bargain so don't feel guily about the spends.

InaPickle

emmie26 wrote: »

One day I discovered tweezers and contact lenses and never looked back :rotfl:

I just need to figure out the boy thing now, and life will be sorted!

emmie26 wrote: »

Sounds like you are beinf very MSE going for all the bargain so don't feel guily about the spends.

I should, though, cos I really don't have the money to be fritttering away. I think I have noticed that I tend to get a bit more free with the cash towards the end of the month, so I need to reign that in, although they were defiinitely bargains, but yet again, maybe I lost my head a bit as how could I have known that the concealer would be the right colour for me? (It's slightly out, but I've not tried it properly so maybe it's less bad than I think).

InaPickle

OK, so I got my wage slip today which shows that I am getting paid a tincy tiny bit more than I had thought I would, but thanks to the car insurance going out this month, things will still be uber-tight, even though I haven't had the chance to do the calculations properly.

I've got most of what I need for the nail course, but I will need a table to work on and insurance before I can start taking on people properly. I think that will come to roughly another £100.

Had a bad day for spends today: must spent a massive *does mental addition* £8.08 :eek: on food at work for breakfast and lunch and a drink. BAD PICKLE! :mad:

Had some more nail course stuff arrive off Ebay: I think one of them might not be quite right, so I will have to pursue it, but everything else I have bought (and there has been a lot) has been great, and, equally important, cheaper than what I could get anywhere else.

I STILL haven't had my tax rebate. Come on, Mr Taxman: you and I both know that if this were the other way round you would have hauled me over the coals before now. I really need that money. You can live without it. I will be ringing you at the first available opportunity, and I will be expecting some serious answers!

I also need to sort out the job situation, although work is much better since the new manager arrived: I don't feel stressed to high heaven at the idea of just going in.

Oh, have managed to bag some free tickets to a musical next weekend. It's one I've never heard of, but should provide a good night out for me and a friend, so I'm happy. How :money:! :cool: