Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Karmacat

Phew, well, I'm shattered already. Couldn't really do the painting last night, its the last coat and I couldn't see it properly in the gathering gloom/gloaming so thats for today, hopefully.

What I *have* been doing, to get me shattered already, is emptying the bedroom ready for - ta-da! - my new mattress! Its being delivered this morning, and I had to get rid of all the makeshift stuff I've been sleeping on, clean the bedframe thoroughly, clean the carpet, clean me after all that lot you know what its like

I have a fiddly little to-do list, quite a bit of which really does have to get done today, but the main thing will be getting everything straight - something like that affects every room in the house when there isn't much room to spare, so that'll take a while I'm looking forward to that achievement :j

Pippilongstocking

*morning*

plans for the week?

Karmacat

Erm, not sure about the week but we crossposted on plans for the day, I think.

Oh! I only have one piece of work on Wednesday so far, so I'll try and do the sedge thing on Wednesday - I'll have to have a couple of goes at it, I think :rotfl:

redsquirrel80

Ooh a new mattress, very nice!

I'm quite excited by your garden plans, can't wait to hear how you get on with your veg

Pippilongstocking

we did indeed - goodluck with all of that!!

Off to *think* about work

Karmacat

Hi Squizz - the mattress has arrived! It has a winter side and a summer side, no less **KC shines her badge**

I have to turn it top to toe after a couple of months, and turn it over too, come winter or summer. Tres posh :T

With the reorganising thing ... I'm reorganising - just some office trays for paper, but they can go on the desk where the scanner was, and the scanner goes in the bottom one, to be pulled out when I need it, and that frees up space in the bookcase, which is where the trays were before .... you see how my little brain works?

I'm starving now - going to have... something .... to celebrate

Karmacat

Right, had half an hour filling a rubbish bag in the garden, and did the edging painting - I started to infill the big bit with a big brush, and then remembered why I'm doing them separately - it doesn't really work, oops.

Just starting to bring my head around to actual paid work mid-afternoon, and then I remembered: I actually have something dfw to report: I finally got to £10 on b u tli ns bingo, and withdrew successfully *again*. So thats the first tenner to go to my pension pot!

EDIT - don't want to head towards paid work too quickly! So I went to the yahoo currency converter, and checked how much my endowment would be in euros - and it would cover all but about £20k of the French mortgage. Now, there's a penalty of some sort for early repayment, and with such a low interest rate as it currently is, it probably wouldn't be worth paying - but there's a huge level of security in knowing that I now have a way to pay off such a lot of it if need be - I pay off £6k a year anyway, as I was saying, so in two years time when the endowment matures, that'll be another E12k paid off anyway, leaving a gap of only E8k.... little more than another year's mortgage payments. Onwards and upwards! Thats another 3 years of £250 a month, on average, and then thats that!

What a relief.....

hypno06

Happy New Mattress!

And even though the stuff on your "to do" list is mainly small stuff, I bet it makes a big difference

taxi73

sounds great about the mortgage and like you say a relief.
the mattress sounds fantastic I never knew that you could get one with a winter and summer side

se999

Karmacat wrote: »

I have to turn it top to toe after a couple of months, and turn it over too, come winter or summer. Tres posh :T

It's a good time to give mattresses a good vacuum too on both sides, to stop the dust build up that dust mites thrive on.