Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Karmacat

Ta muchly! I've been exploring that top cupboard - there's a box of candles I've been given, its *huge* - I won't be using any electricity for lighting in the living room for quite a few weeks.

There's also *another* box of books :o:o very few of which have ever been read. What was I thinking? Lots can go on amazon, but there's a couple that will just go to charity shops. This is one, called "Wayward Girls and Wicked Women" - the blurb says "this marvellous collection of stories about bad girls, wicked women and unsatisfactory wives is designed to promote the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. Some of them celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning, all of them are about not being nice". :eek::eek::eek:

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Ta muchly! I've been exploring that top cupboard - there's a box of candles I've been given, its *huge* - I won't be using any electricity for lighting in the living room for quite a few weeks.

There's also *another* box of books :o:o very few of which have ever been read. What was I thinking? Lots can go on amazon, but there's a couple that will just go to charity shops. This is one, called "Wayward Girls and Wicked Women" - the blurb says "this marvellous collection of stories about bad girls, wicked women and unsatisfactory wives is designed to promote the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. Some of them celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning, all of them are about not being nice". :eek::eek::eek:

Was it a blueprint, or a warning..?

Karmacat

I'm sure it was a blueprint :rotfl: Its calling "discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners" the female virtues, after all :rotfl:

I've just found my copy of King Lear that I used for A level - I mean, that was a long time ago! Its really heavily annotated, and of course a really old edition, I won't put that up either.

This is quite fun :eek:

Just found my copy of The Marine Insurance Act 1906 - not a book about it, the actual Act of Parliament. Heavily annotated by me. Good grief, I used to work hard!













And in the bottom of the box.... lots of torn pieces of cardboard. Its a box that my cats used to play with - they'd sit in it, and chew the cardboard flaps to pieces

taxi73

Glad you managed to get out and about yesterday.

Some interesting stuff in that cupboard ....loving the sound of that book..lol

Very MSE finding the candles and very green

Hope you're having a good day x

Karmacat

Yep! Just been reading about your brilliant paying off, Taxi, it wasn't *quite* that good for me, but I'm happy enough with the way things went.

Today, a work day, of course, I've got my little list of things to do - emails, tidying up the stuff disrupted by the top cupboard clearance, and cleaning so that the "public" route through the house is acceptable by the time clients arrive.

The only dfw things are sending my mortgage overpayment total to TallGirl - I stopped actively working on the challenge a while ago, tho now I've found out about borrowing back the money, there's some instant accessmoney I don't need instant access to, and I might park that in the mortgage, hopefully I won't need to call on it. And checking for any mystery shopping - I think one firm might be a bit peeved with me because I cancelled a shop last week, but we'll see.



EDIT - got everything tidied away after unpacking the cupboard yesterday - lots of new space created! The bed in the 2nd bedroom is almost clear, and can be cleared in about 30 seconds - important if I'm going to put the place up for sale

taxi73

That's fantastic progress Karma...I'm really impressed.Empty space is good(as long as you don't fill it with more clutter)
Cleaning also done..you put me to shame...but I'm working on it.(and decluttering blah blah blah)...just not started yet....

Those offset mortgages are great aren't they...especially when an emergency arises.

Karmacat

Thanks Taxi.

I haven't posted today cos I've been having a bit of a wobble - just got a bit panicky - about the money situation, the moving situation, the making-a-new-life situation. Gulp.It can get set off by really little things, which is horrendous, but nowadays its easier to let it be for a little while then give myself a good talking to and get on with things. I'm halfway through the paid work for the day, which is going really well, forging new connections, so now I *have* to get some emails out, I'm working in half an hour or so.

My little freakout means there's been absolutely *nothing* dfw going on so far, not even decluttering. Hey ho.

Off to email world....

redsquirrel80

Have a big hug

Well done for getting on top of the wobble xx

taka

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks Taxi.

I haven't posted today cos I've been having a bit of a wobble - just got a bit panicky - about the money situation, the moving situation, the making-a-new-life situation. Gulp.It can get set off by really little things, which is horrendous, but nowadays its easier to let it be for a little while then give myself a good talking to and get on with things. I'm halfway through the paid work for the day, which is going really well, forging new connections, so now I *have* to get some emails out, I'm working in half an hour or so.

My little freakout means there's been absolutely *nothing* dfw going on so far, not even decluttering. Hey ho.

Off to email world....

((((hugs KC)))) Sometimes just concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other is all we can manage... There is nothing wrong with that. :cool:

Is there something in particular that is troubling you or is it a general not sure what the future will turn out like so worry about the worst case senario type thing?

I have regular freak outs too... my job funding runs out in summer 2011 and I have no idea what I want to do about it! :eek: Decisions, decisions - possibly life changing ones! :eek: It doesn't help that there is less funding in general around in my field thanks to the credit crunch. *where is that rolly eyes smiley when you need him??*

Karmacat

taka wrote: »

((((hugs KC)))) Sometimes just concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other is all we can manage... There is nothing wrong with that. :cool:

Taken me a while to learn that!

Is there something in particular that is troubling you or is it a general not sure what the future will turn out like so worry about the worst case senario type thing?

I have regular freak outs too... my job funding runs out in summer 2011 and I have no idea what I want to do about it! :eek: Decisions, decisions - possibly life changing ones! :eek: It doesn't help that there is less funding in general around in my field thanks to the credit crunch. *where is that rolly eyes smiley when you need him??*

Ouch for you too, Taka. I think there are two things that worry me - one is the financial side - not really about being in debt, its about whether my income can stay "high" enough (insert hollow laugh) to keep up with my commitments - my endowment policy will pay out about two thirds of what it was supposed to, in 2.5 years' time - can I keep going till then? Yes, I can, but at what level? Its sinking in that *ever* claiming benefits, and keeping what I've worked so hard for, would be impossible, because I have an investment property - and when I bought that property, I never, ever imagined I'd need to even *think* about claiming.

Its good writing it out like that, because its all ifs buts and maybes in the fairly distant future. Which is part of the "giving myself a talking to" :j

Yours, OTOH, is summer next year!!! Thats not long, and definitely needs thinking about. There's a *lot* of life changing stuff coming up!

Thanks Squizz, thanks Taka.