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  • chevalier
    chevalier Posts: 7,937 Forumite
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    edited 4 January 2011 at 9:33AM
    sorry i missed the drama about the other weekend. hope DS starts to talk to his dad soon. good luck getting the maintenance. lucky you aren't counting on it. good luck with 2011
    chev

    ETA
    OMFG what a twit your EX is. For a start is he even allowed to leave DS with a person who hasn't been checked out ref the child register thingy? total total idiot!!!
    I want a job that is less than an hour driving away from my house! Are you listening universe?
  • groatie_queen
    groatie_queen Posts: 909 Forumite
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    edited 4 January 2011 at 4:06PM
    That 12.275% of your mortgage pot already! Gives you something to build on and I have no doubt all the small amounts you make thru MB etc will all add up over the year.

    Hope the first day back at work has gone as well as possible. We Scots get an extra day at NY, it's back to work tomorrow for me!

    GQ xox
    If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

    -- Brendan Francis

  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,381 Forumite
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    Chev, unfortunately as he is his parent too he has as much right as me to choose who ds is left with :mad: Ridiculous but thats the law :o

    G.Queen - thats a fabulously motivating way of looking at my signature, thankyou !! It will slow right down now for the rest of this month, the mortgage payment makes a big dent in it, but who knows what may turn up along the way :)

    Milly - I hope your first day back tomorrow is better than mine; my line manager isn't in, her daughter is in hospital with meningitis :eek: So it was a rather chaotic stressful first day back and I'm looking forward to my bath and an early night already ;)

    Tomorrow night is ww joining night, I'm pigging out tonight wih some mini eggs then they're off-limits until Easter :D
    Mortgage Total: £50,772/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • Sorry to hear your day was stressful, hope your managers daughter gets better soon.

    Should have had a quiet day to myself tomorrow but boss called to say one of girls ill could I work all day :( oh well think of the overtime:rotfl:

    Hope your dad's ok

    Stressed xxx
    Hoping to stick to the challenge this year!!
    Make £5 a day for 366 started Dec 2019
    YTD £ £ 78.23/£1£1,825
    Cash - £ 48.23 Vouchers - £ 30

    Wombling into 2020 £38.78
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,381 Forumite
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    Thanks Stressed, dads been to his daycentre today, he goes on a tuesday and thursday, but when he came home he's all upset tonight because 'the boss' told him that they don't want part-timers anymore and they've employed a full-time woman who starts next week, so he thinks he's been made redundant :o Its quite a common delusion apparently that they think they go to work still, not sure why he doesn't question that he never gets paid though :)
    Mortgage Total: £50,772/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • dangers
    dangers Posts: 1,457 Forumite
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    My FIL still thinks he's at work and will often ramble about it. He is 'living' around 30 ish years ago we think.
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,381 Forumite
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    Evening all, I had a note yesterday to say a parcel had tried to be delivered and they'd try again today. I stuck a note on the door asking them to leave it if I was out (no-one can see my front door), and when I got in they had left a note saying they can't do that, and I need to go to the depot to collect it, which is about 20 minutes away :mad: We will go tonight as ds saw the note and knows its his mariokart game that he's desperately waiting for, so not a case of being able to rearrange delivery :cool:

    There was another parcel thing too, but that one has gone to the post office, but they close at lunchtime on a wednesday so that one will have to wait until tomorrow too :(

    Today ds has bought home the class stuffed toy, which is given out to the best behaved kid each day (first time ds has got it :o), and they have to write in / stick in photos of what they've done together ... oh how much am I looking forward to ds writing that we went to WW with mummy :o:o:o Hey ho, just so long as theres no cameras when I'm on the scales ;)

    Ds also got a 100% attendance certificate for last term, so is very proud of himself today :)

    I'm really excited about WW tonight, that is pretty sad isn't it? I just am looking forward to having it to focus on again and to boost my general mood again, I know if I stick to it properly that it works and that it doesn't feel like a diet as such, so why why why is it so hard to get the motivation?! :o Right, will report back later once I've been told exactly how much of a heffer I am ;)
    Mortgage Total: £50,772/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • dangers
    dangers Posts: 1,457 Forumite
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    :TYay to ds' achievements today.:T:T:T
  • Well done Ds for being the best child today :j:T:T:j

    Hope ww isn't too bad, maybe weigh with the toy - then you can blame that :rotfl:

    Stressed xxx
    Hoping to stick to the challenge this year!!
    Make £5 a day for 366 started Dec 2019
    YTD £ £ 78.23/£1£1,825
    Cash - £ 48.23 Vouchers - £ 30

    Wombling into 2020 £38.78
  • tigzem
    tigzem Posts: 2,361 Forumite
    You're hardly a heffer BB, far from it!!!

    Well done to DS... fab :j :j

    Did you get my text the other day about arranging a date soon to get together, it's my turn to come to you x
    "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke
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