Reach for the stars...

MatyMoo

I love Les Mis, been about four times Also have the 10th Anniversary concert on Video and the original cast recording on CD. Fab, fab,fab show :j:j:j

I love going to the theatre, professional or amatuer, in town or out. Much more my thing than concerts although I did enjoy going to see Take That

Good to hear Mr S is still on the scene Psycho :T

Lots of great advice on here Nicca. Lets hope that you can use it to talk work in to either giving you study leave or letting you drop the course without having to re-pay the fee's. Whatever is best for you...... But you passed the exam so that says something :T

niccatw

Trying this from my phone at work. It's way to fiddly for me though! And I'm not sure how to get to a new paragraph! I'm being subjected to watching 'Take Me Out' at second job. It's hideous! I might need to take the dog for a walk! Have a fun evening all.

niccatw

£8.65 to RBS loan...

Went to vist my friend today. I've not seen her since October. She's not changed much but baby is now pulling himself to his feet and generally being a wee cutie with a charming, little boy mischievous smile.

We stopped en route to get said friend a birthday pressie - a massive spotty piggy bank! I want one too! Though the two of us that bought it did have a discussion on how sensible it was to spend £25 on a piggy bank, however massive, for saving.

I wonder how many £s it can hold... (there was only one spotty one left or I'd be severely tempted to go and get myself one too!) I reckon it'd easily hold £300!

We also got a bunch of cup cakes! Mmmmmmm! (Though I did feel sick from the icing. Way too much sugar! But oh soo tasty!)

It's been a lovely Sunday but now I must go hang the washing up and get to my bed!

(My friend and I also discussed how impossible it is to get out of bed early to go to the gym or for a swim. We mooted getting up early once a week to make it less of a drag... but I've been telling myself I'll get up early for the last three years and it's never happened yet! Maybe one day!)

Butti

niccatw wrote: »

Though the two of us that bought it did have a discussion on how sensible it was to spend £25 on a piggy bank, however massive, for saving.

Hmmm. About as sensible as booking a weekend in Amsterdam on my credit card

B

niccatw

Butti wrote: »

Hmmm. About as sensible as booking a weekend in Amsterdam on my credit card

B

Oopsy! When you are gallavanting the streets of Amsterdam, just imagine me on your shoulder waggling my finger at you asking if you really need it! :rotfl:

Not that I'm jealous or anything... :whistle:

Boss is back tomorrow so hoping to grab her before or after a departmental meeting tomorrow about study time. I didn't phone the professortoday again. Partly because I am a big scaredy cat and kept putting it off and partly because I figure I need to let the boss know I phoned him to find out my options, including quitting, and give her the chance to sort out study-time before I call him again.

Deep breathes Niccatw, deep breathes! Must ask boss for meeting! Even if she can't do it tomorrow. (Actually even if she can't do it tomorrow, we have another return to work meeting this month, so she'll probably find time in her diary more easily than she sometimes does!)

Got an email today to say I'm getting a cheque for £12.15 for my old phone! :j I wasn't even sure it was working properly so I'm chuffed at that! Every little helps.

And I got my 21st NSD of the month! That's the highest I've ever achieved! I'm aiming for 17 in February.

I also tried the clever technique of hopping onto the crazy clothes challenge right about the time the bright blue halter neck top I was watching on ebay was ending. :T I never bought the top. I didn't win the top! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Have I mentioned that my current obsession is with "getting my colours done", by which I mean I want some-one to tell me what colours suit my white-blue Scottish skin, dark hair and blue eyes without making me look ill! My logic behind this is that, if I do this, then I'll only buy clothes that actually suit me so I won't be wasting money on hideous wardrobe malfunctions!

I'm not totally stupid though and I have figured out that beige is awful on me. You'd never even notice me against a magnolia wall if it weren't for the hair! And bright blues must be good because that's what every-one tells me.

But other than that I'm pretty clueless. I keep hearing peopl talk about yellow sking tones or bluey ones or peachy ones... I haven't the foggiest what they are on about!

Never fear though, if I ignore the obsession long enough, another one will come along in it's place! :rotfl:

niccatw

My computer is doing bizarre things! Tonight I had to restore the sytem to an earlier point in time to get it to work. I travelled back in time 3 days.

Everything I did on here yesterday does now seem to have disappeared.

I have obviously discovered time travel. Excepet the clock and date in the corner is telling me it's actually now! And I'm still in today. At least for the 80 minutes. :rotfl:

All I wanted to do online was pay the repairs charge for the factors. (It wasn't for water) The common windows cleaned. It was the pricely sum of £2.04 each (which actually makes it a pretty hefty £6 per window!). And I can't pay it online as you can only pay £5 and above that way. I'll bet you £2.04 + costs that I receive a letter warning me of further action if I haven't paid it in 2 weeks! But I don't have a cheque book, so I'm not sure what other options I have.

I'm actually a bit annoyed I couldn't pay because now I am trying to keep my NSD intact! If I'd have paid it, I would have also bought a new laptop battery on ebay and probably a cute wee top (which I think might be a bit girly for me but I thought it would be good for work) and maybe that cardi on La Redoute... as well as some bulk buy cleaning stuff. And some bits and pieces at the supermarket.

But I've been doing the NSD challenge far too long now to lose an NSD without making sure I cram everything else I possibly need into it! :rotfl: So I'll need to make a list, find out how I pay and pick my day!



Oops! The pic's a bit bigger that I thought! I don't know if it's actually the top or the colour that I like! (Actually, I know I like the colour! I don't know if it's blurring my judgement though. Or if I'm telling myself I shouldn't like it because if I get it, I'll need to declare in on the crazy clothes challenge and it's only just turned February! )

I paid another £1.46 to the RBS loan the other day. :rotfl: It's not cleared yet. The D/D will have come off today too; that's £288.05.

I also think I've about £30 in my paypal which I should transfer over to it too. I might leave it where it is until I make more money though.

:idea: I could use the paypal money for the ebay stuff, that way it'd be neutral money (certainly in terms of the clothes challenge as the money is from ebay clothes sales). Am I clutching at justification staws here... ?

The car leading company called today. My new car will be delivered on 11th. :j But also It's £100 more a month off my salary. Which would have had to happen whether I'd got a lease car or a nearly new car, given what I currently pay, but still.

On the plus side, I get a shiny new car! And in true girly fashion, I'm quite excited to find out whether I actually opted for the dark metallic red or the dark metallic grey! I can't remeber which I put (I kept changing my mind, so it might depend on what they could actually read on the form!!!)

I am also wondering whether there is enough deisel in the current car to get me to that date. I suspect not! And I will also have to find a valet to polish it up beautifully! Probably best leave that until the day before, given the beautiful weather we are having here in sunny Glasgow!!!

(Still avoiding speaking to the boss! I'm a big scaredy cat! I'm out an about most of tomorrow, so I have written in my diary in BIG LETTERS to email her first thing asking for a meeting about it. That way, it's done but I can run away, do my stuff and pretend all I want, but at least I can't keep putting it off!)

Yikes, I'm away to check my windows will hold for the night! (Rain and wind battering off them! In case you hadn't realised, my tongue was very firmly in my cheek when I juxtaposed sunny and Glasgow! Call it artistic license.) :rotfl:

Butti

niccatw wrote: »

But I've been doing the NSD challenge far too long now to lose an NSD without making sure I cram everything else I possibly need into it! :rotfl: So I'll need to make a list, find out how I pay and pick my day!



:rotfl:

It's a nice top. Have you had your colours analysed - is it your colour?

I can relate to the cramming on an NSD. I need to get back into the NSD habit and out for the habit of alternating between worrying about running out of money and booking weekends in Amsterdam.

B

niccatw

I've had my colours analysed by my colleague's comments but no-one who might be qualified to know such things! :rotfl: That's the colour (above) I get most compliments from - and the most exclamations of "oh I never noticed you had blue eyes". (When your hair is as dark as mine, people assume you have brown eyes.) So I figured it must suit me. It's closely followed by bright reds.

I insist on wearing mostly purples and hot pinks and turquoise. But figured, now I've decluttered my wardrobe, it'd be handy to know what suits me so I'm not spending money on stuff I then never wear (honest guv'. It's not an excuse to buy more clothes willy nilly ).

Today was a spendy day! £1 for a library book from the British library (for work stuff). £2.04 for the housing association repairs (paid it into my bank in the end). So I niped into the supermarket for "bits and pieces". 2 of the major supermarkets I have now tried do not seem to stock balsamic vinegar . (I wasn't up for trying "white balsamic condiment" which was all I could find in this particular supermarket). The only other things I needed were diary free marg and fruit. So I'm not entirely sure how the socks, crisps and chocolate fell into the basket. The bagels and quickie microwaveable rice I did consciously pick up as fastfood dinner as I've only been in half an hour and need to go out again. £18 just like that.

Which is why I stopped nipping in without my list! Never mind! Veggie box arrived so I need to figure out what to do with the wee collection of aubergines I appear to be collecting!

I also put mt second job cheque and recycled old phone chequ into the bank. £439.76 and £12.15 respectively.

And I decided against £40odd for a new laptop battery as I generally have this one plugged in and it rarely leaves the house so I'm sure I'll cope.

I was looking at what I needed cleaning wise, but I only really need vinegar for cleaning stuff and it doesn't seem worth putting an order in just for that. I do need witchazel, but I reckon 2l might be a tad excessive for my needs! I mean, I know I get spots, but come on! :rotfl:

Anyhoo, best shoot as I'm supposed to be where I'm going in 4 minutes and I was suppoesed to leave at half past! I'm thinking the wind is in my favour this evening though and my wee car won't actually need to use the engine if I just face it the right way; we'll be blown there in no time!

Happy Thursday!

(Butti, start a piggy bank for Ansterdamn spend and stopping giving yourself a hard time about it; it's done now. And come and join us all on the NSD thread. We'll have you addicted to NSDs in no time at all.)

Chow!

Jesthar

*Sneaks silently in to the thread and then...*

BOO!!!

Yes, I know it's been a while! But then again, someone did say (and I quote!):

niccatw wrote: »

Jesthar, enjoy Les Mis! It'll be fabulous! And next time I see you here, I want to know that, not only have you scrubbed the kitchen floor, you have also filed 7 sheets of paper in your lovely new filing cabinet! *waggles finger menacingly and tries to supress a sneaky smile*

Well, how were you to know that I tend to take that kind of order - er - seriously... So, I now have a clean kitchen floor (well, a clean whole-of-the-downstairs-floor, actually), and a couple of suspension files in order and in the cabinet - plenty more paperwork to go, though!

Le Mis was indeed fabulous! We were on the very front row of the stalls at the left hand side, close enough to the stage to touch, and the performance was excellent. I hadn't spoiled if for myself by reading up on the specifics of the plot, so it really was a voyage of discovery seeing how all the many songs I knew of fit together plot-wise. Éponine was my favourite of the singers, she'd definitely got the edge over Cosette voice-wise (in my opinion anyway ). Valjean was very well played and sung, and oh, the Th!nardiers! :rotfl: And Grantaire reminded me very much of a blond haired, younger and more slimly built Meatloaf...

Currently wondering whether or not to treat myself to some nail varnishes, they've got three for two on Boots No.7 Stay Perfect, which is great stuff... Definitely need a good top coat as well, though, or I always mangle the finish inadvertantly!

Butti

niccatw wrote: »

(Butti, start a piggy bank for Ansterdamn spend and stopping giving yourself a hard time about it; it's done now. And come and join us all on the NSD thread. We'll have you addicted to NSDs in no time at all.)

Chow!

I have done. Thanks for that - having my first NSD today!
I think you are probably winter or autumn. When we go down to Mike's in May :question: I shall bring some colours, or the next time I am in Paisley -which will probably also be May (Beer Festival!)

B