Debt Free by 40 Debt Diary

oakdale_minx

No problem BL and SS!!

Spent £40 on a batch of contact lenses. Which I needed.

Spent £13 on a silver and amber ring. Which I didn't need. Whoops....

Skint-gall

Hi just spent an hour and a half reading through all your posts from start to finish. You have given me some great ideas on how to maximise my income and set a target date for becoming debt free. Like you my debt and eating habits seem to follow cycles and I want to break the cycle for good. I have spoken to my nurse/ Gp about how I feel about different things in my life inlcuding the money issues and I have also been prescribed Prozac. I have taken it for about ten days now. It is starting to help.
Keep posting!

oakdale_minx

Strange old day.

Dragon features called me in and told me that I have to either take tomorrow and Friday off sick, or work from home (I have server access through dial up from home). I said I didn't want to go off sick. She said I was pale and that work was only get busier over the next 2-3 months (we have just started a big public consultation) and that she was worried about me. I said 'are you??? I must have sounded very surprised because she looked a bit taken aback and said 'yes, of course I am'.

So, I am working from home tomorrow. Of course, I don't trust her as far as I can throw her, so she will be getting an email from me at 8 tomorrow to let her know I'm on the network. :rolleyes:

Got home to find a letter from the court.

The court have put a stay on both my Abbey claims and I've applied for them both to be lifted. Other people in this situation have just had the stays lifted and then given a court date....oh, not, not me. The Judge has ordered a hearing on 24 November! :eek:

the odd thing is that I applied to the court on 9 October for one stay to be lifted (my £700 claim) and then I applied on 19 October for the stay on my second claim to be lifted (my £3800 claim)

And the hearing is about my second claim - the big one!!!!!! :j

I phoned the court concerned that i hadn't heard about them in the correct order and was told the other one was still with the District Judge.

So, off to court I go again! And, the Abbey have to attend as well. If I can at least get the stay lifted I can get a court date and then Abbey are just paying out.

Day 3 on the Prozac. Feel no different other than a bit tired. Woke inthe night with a thumping headach which I still had at 10 this morning, but that could just be how I slept. :rolleyes:

Still have a lumpy neck.

oakdale_minx

forgot to say skint-gal - thankyou for your post (hope I didn't bore you too much). We sound really similar. We can do it!!!!

ZTD

oakdale_minx wrote:

Strange old day.

Dragon features called me in and told me that I have to either take tomorrow and Friday off sick, or work from home (I have server access through dial up from home). I said I didn't want to go off sick. She said I was pale and that work was only get busier over the next 2-3 months (we have just started a big public consultation) and that she was worried about me. I said 'are you??? I must have sounded very surprised because she looked a bit taken aback and said 'yes, of course I am'.

Hmm. This sounds like someone has been talking about you. How many people know you're on Prozac?

Sounds like she does as well now.

oakdale_minx wrote:

So, I am working from home tomorrow. Of course, I don't trust her as far as I can throw her, so she will be getting an email from me at 8 tomorrow to let her know I'm on the network. :rolleyes:

Stick in the email that home-working was at her insistence.

Prevents "forgetfulness".

oakdale_minx

Nobody at all knows about the prozac except you guys. She knows I am on the antibiotics but nothing more. I did wonder if somebody had said something. Another manager from a different department tried to get me to have Thursday and Friday off sick, but she is an ally and can't stand my boss, but I did wonder......

Didn't even get as far as telling my OH. Told him on Monday I had been to the Doc's . He seemed surprised and asked why (although if he had been around at the weekend he would have konwn!).

I said that since Friday my neck had become swollen and stiff and the doctor had said I had a viral infection and I was run down. 'Run down?????' he said sarcastically.........decided not to say what the other box of tablets in the bag were for.......

Certainly will do ZTD, she is not to be trusted.

Bunnyinthelights

O_M,
You take care of yourself!
A pumpkin pie will help to build up your stregth, lol
Bunny
ps
Did you get the recipe?

oakdale_minx

I certainly did Bunny - yummy, yummy,thankyou!! Popped into Somerfield and bought some evaporated milk, maple syrup and golden syrup earlier and so have everything I need to make pie, cookies, cheesecake.......

Pumpkin party at my place!

Bunnyinthelights

Can I come PUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEASSEEEEEEEEEE?
Bunny x

oakdale_minx

You certainly can!