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Mid-Week Blues - *****Daily Chat Thread 16 Sep*****

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  • jacs76
    jacs76 Posts: 2,140 Forumite
    tigzem wrote: »
    Just had a call from Mum, Nan is being moved to HDU, she has now started to respond a little to the meds, but wasn't responding at all earlier. Lots of family are there with her... benefits of a large family, they all pull together x
    Glad to hear it x
  • Better get the washing in and make the bed.
  • tenmah
    tenmah Posts: 2,209 Forumite
    Just read through and had loads of comments to make, but can't remember them all now!

    Sammy - can't believe the woman went mad at you after you had worked your socks off to do it.

    Luc - sorry to hear about the job especially when they seemed to infer it was yours.

    Ames - you posted about offending someone - hope you are ok?
    OD [STRIKE] £2600 [/STRIKE] £0 :j Loan [STRIKE]£9500.00[/STRIKE] £0 :j Car [STRIKE]£3150[/STRIKE] £0 :j Moving Costs [STRIKE]£1300[/STRIKE] £0 :j Savings £1150 :j

    Everytime I hear the 'dirty' word Exercise, I wash my mouth out with chocolate!
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    right better get changed into super lightweight clothes, take off all jewelery and have a wee before slimming world. Have a cracking headache but think thats dehydration so must take a drink with me for the meeting!

    Catch you all later
    xx
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    To the person who asked.... SFE = (evil yet completely incompetent) Student Finance England, who are meant to sort all student finance out for all new students, and 2nd/3rd/4th year students.

    They are completely useless as they've LOST an id form and change of circumstances form I sent in two months ago, but have managed to receive AND process the financial dec form I sent in at the beginning of August sometime. Am also waiting on DSA (which they also sort out) and they are about as useful as a chocolate teapot in a teashop (or a handbag at a football match)

    So, I am highly annoyed, had to resend forms they probably won't see til end of month, and knowing my luck they've found the old forms and will process them. Stupid bunch of useless eejits
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
    ** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
    **SPC 2012 #1498 -£152 and 1499 ***
    I do it all because I'm scared.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,507 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Oh sally I hope yopur job is ok.

    Bookie~Keep smiling hun xx

    DS has had the pencil lead cut out.
    Well done to GP as it was right down to the bone & took a lot of manoovering.
    Luc~Do u have anything that would do for a girl?
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,507 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Tigzem~Hope things continue on the up & up.
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,507 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Why is the month too long for my money???
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Hello all, oh dear there are a few glum faces today. :grouphug:

    NONE of you are a pain in the bum (that would be my domain...with my endless relationship traumas :o), we are all here to support each other, and it doesn't matter if you are in a position to need that support, or give that support, you are all equally as valued and welcomed as the next person.

    EVEN if you need ongoing and lengthy support - because some problems don't just go away overnight.

    So there.

    Anyway, I am feeling quite okay today. As long as I don't think about 'him'. Although am worried about a familiar presence in my life, who doesn't seem to have taken the hint.

    Don't shout at me please...I am never going back there again.....NEVER. :o
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
  • Toto
    Toto Posts: 6,680 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    elfen wrote: »
    To the person who asked.... SFE = (evil yet completely incompetent) Student Finance England, who are meant to sort all student finance out for all new students, and 2nd/3rd/4th year students.

    They are completely useless as they've LOST an id form and change of circumstances form I sent in two months ago, but have managed to receive AND process the financial dec form I sent in at the beginning of August sometime. Am also waiting on DSA (which they also sort out) and they are about as useful as a chocolate teapot in a teashop (or a handbag at a football match)

    So, I am highly annoyed, had to resend forms they probably won't see til end of month, and knowing my luck they've found the old forms and will process them. Stupid bunch of useless eejits


    I'm not going near student loans this time around. I would be allowed 2.5k a year I think but I think they should give you that as stress money... for having to deal with them :)
    :A
    :A
    "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" - Albert Einstein
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