Debt Free by 40 Debt Diary

tw1nklestar

pleased your meeting has lifted ur spirits :beer: - been watching ur diary but dont tend to say alot but my heart went out to u :j

oakdale_minx

It's a six month secondment, but she has no job to go back to and we have to have someone in the post, so it will be difficult to get rid of her unless she messes up. She isn't in this morning, so I feel a bit more relaxed!

I've passed my latest AQA review which I'm happy about.

I've got a week (aaarrggh!) until my next MA essay is due in. Gulp!

I'm a bit of a softie. IMS phoned me yesterday and asked me to do a mystery shop. I said yes. So I'm doing three this weekend! But, I'm not going to agree to anymore, it's just not worth it -even more so when you don't get paid when you are supposed to!

Ordered a pair of shoes for work as mine are getting tatty. £16.99, but I won't have to pay for them until the end of September so I'll make sure I earn it with AQA next month.

I got a huge can of hair mousse in the post yesterday as a result of filling in an online questionnaire a few weeks ago. I'm well chuffed. I've now got enough shampoo and hair mousse to last months and months!

Going with my ex at lunchtime to take the dog to the vet (he lives with my ex, but I still see him to take him for walks at weekends and sad as it is, he is my little boy)

He needs his booster jabs, but he has a lump at the bottom of his rib cage. He has had it a little while, I used to think it was some kind of muscle definition but we're going to ask about it. I'm not thinking anything other than it being a cyst or fatty tissue lump. He is a very fit, very healthy, muscular five year old springer. I'm not going to allow myself to think anything worse than a cyst.

oakdale_minx

It's a cyst and a fatty lump - hurrah!!!!!! I knew it would be, but it lurks in the back of your head however positive you try to be.

My half of the boosters was £20.

Gapbuster have paid me - £24, which is the fee for both jobs, so I'm happy about that.

Boss wasn't in, but called me and gave me the third degree about why our IT systems were so poor a couple of years ago. I don't work in IT, I only use the server space for our intranet and space used to be tight before they bought a new server - is that so difficult to understand?

I came off the phone shaking.

A colleague said - just leave - I replied I'll be in a cardboard box!!

It did make me think though. Once my unsecured debt is paid off through AQA and refunded bank charges (I'm predicting that will all be done by November) , I could maybe afford to drop a tiny bit in salary and top it upwith AQA in the afternoons, in other words - leave.

Maybe I should start looking for something else. And maybe in another area,work wise. I've worked in PR and then web design for 15 years, I must have some transferable skills??!!

My back is the problem, I work from home in the afternoons because of a spinal cord injury 5 years ago.

So, ideally my new job would be in Poole, 30 hours a week (8am - 2pm) around the £24,000 pro-rata mark..........hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm might be a bit of a fantasy!!!

ZTD

oakdale_minx wrote:

Boss wasn't in, but called me and gave me the third degree about why our IT systems were so poor a couple of years ago. I don't work in IT, I only use the server space for our intranet and space used to be tight before they bought a new server - is that so difficult to understand?

Phone IT, say that your boss (give his name + user id) has said that their systems were all shiite, and could they please possibly have a word with him (lay it on).

When his emails don't go, his print-outs don't and he has less space to work with than a fish's thong - then he'll understand how good it actually was.

oakdale_minx

Our IT is so strapped for money it is unbelievable. They do their best with poorly paid overworked staff and a network which I often think is held together with string and sellotape.

I know what will happen in my handover meeting. I will say 'Ihave done a,b,c,d,e,f and g as you asked' and she will say 'but you haven't done h'.


You did make me laugh though ZTD - my boss is a womand (think stern, half glasses). She would suit a fishes thong, might lessen her rudeness!)

ZTD

oakdale_minx wrote:

Our IT is so strapped for money it is unbelievable. They do their best with poorly paid overworked staff and a network which I often think is held together with string and sellotape.

Oh don't worry about that. Most networks are.

When the one person who knows how it's put together leaves - then panic.

oakdale_minx wrote:

You did make me laugh though ZTD - my boss is a womand (think stern, half glasses). She would suit a fishes thong, might lessen her rudeness!)

IT can make your whole day miserable without trying. Imagine how good a day she'd have after they got motivated.

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Hang in there OM!

Glad HR are on your side. Good luck with job hunting, if that's what you decide to do.

oakdale_minx

I was right!!!

I went through (quickly counting on my pad) 14 things I have tied up. I said I hadn't been able to do one thing (not time sensitive or urgent) and she sighed dramatically and said 'well, as soon as you are back make that your priority'. I could have said 'I've done everything except alphabetically file my rubbish' and I would have been told with a dramatic rolling of the eyes to do it as soon as I came back.

Still nothing from Citicards. I think I am going to get a judgement by default. The Sunday deadline rolls to Monday, which rolls to Tuesday because of the bank holiday. Although, you never know, there may be a cheque for £300 + waiting for me when I get home!

My first Abbey claim is reaching a deadline also. Their solicitors have until the 28th to file theirs so I guess I'll be hearing something on that very soon.

I can file my capital one claim this weekend I think. I need to check my dates, but I'm pretty sure it is today or tomorrow I can go for it with them.

oakdale_minx

Hit my £660 Friday target. Next target is £70 over Sat/Sun/Mon.

tesco vouchers arrived - hurrah! £38 worth. I've had a look through the deals brochure, but there isn't anything else Ireally want.

I've got £250 worth already which I need to send off to get my £1000 worth of MFI vouchers, so I can either spend the £38 on shopping, keep until Christmas for the shopping or see if there is a birthday present or christmas present I can use some/all of it for. I thought about using some for a magazine subscription perhaps as a present?

Had a minor panic. Parked the car on the road rather than the driveaway when I got home. looked out of the window and there is water under the car.

And I have a very dodgy radiator. Panicking , laying onthe path,after pouring a litre of water in the radiator, but nothing leaked out.

About 30 feet up the road, the tarmac has sprung a leak, and it seems that it has now sprung another one right under my car!!!

I could just see all this month's AQA money going on a replacement car next month, but, I'm pretty sure it is a leaky road rather than a leaky car!

gallygirl

Give yourself a break OM - use the vouchers on yourself as a treat. You keep slogging away at work, then on AQA, plus mystery shopping, you'll burn yourself out if you're not careful.

1. 1 bottle of favourite wine.
2. 1 bottle of favourite bubble bath.
3. The rest on clothes, including another pair of shoes.

Go on, be a devil!!!!!:j :j :j