Scuba's Spending and Life in the South Diary

scubaangel

Easy if I have it I don't want it! Hence bringing them all home when we took them off the shelf at work.

Apparently he took the hint yesterday and ordered the shopping online so this morning we had a couple of crates of food delivered.

scubaangel

Been worrying a bit this evening about my sister as she lives in Ealing - right next to the tube station, but she just text me and told me off for being paranoid...apparently the trashed tesco and burning shopping centre is quite good fun!

I do worry that we're really related at times.

scubaangel

Little bit annoyed tonight, was out mystery shopping today and while the shop itself went fabulously well there was an error which means I'm going to be down a fair chunk of my planned spends for this week until it is 'unallocated' and refunded which from experience means I'm going to be missing the cash from my bank account for up to a week. Grrrr. On the upside the fairly expensive mystery shop I did a couple of weeks ago should be paid in a couple of days so I ought to be able to use that to offset the missing money until its back in my account where it belongs.
Got a couple of other shops I need to write up but my mojo is gone for today so I'll do them tomorrow morning instead. I also need to go to Waterstones and our letting agent on the way to work. Waterstones for this weeks 99p book.

The l.a because they claim that we need to change the batteries in our carbon monoxide alarm after an inspection a couple of days ago but other than a few bleeps randomly this morning which must have stopped while I was out this afternoon, it doesn't actually seem to need fresh batteries and besides that we changed them less than 4 weeks ago when it was beeping regularly as it should when it needs batteries. So we're wondering if it might be faulty or have a loose wire in the battery connector which got moved when they went to test it.

scubaangel

The money I transferred from paypal arrived in my account today so have paid it off the credit card, but because of a couple of small purchases recently it only keeps me at the current date for clearing it, although again once some more of my mystery shops are paid I can pay off a few more small chunks which will start bringing the date closer again.

Also got my rota for the close down period, which is a little bit sucky as I just realised it means 4 weeks of no overtime on the other hand I spend 2 weeks of it on holiday (although only planning to be away from home for part of the time) , so when I get back we should be straight back to 'normal' which am hoping is going to mean picking up a semi regular saturday shift again - although tbh I might ask while I'm working in there over the close down if they can just rota me on for it as a casual so I can at least know with more than a couple of days in advance if they might want me for a morning or evening shift.

I'm doing a fairly nice sounding morning/lunchtime shift there this saturday, and have picked up a food mystery shop for afterwards, along with a coffee job, so should finish, drive home, launch myself from my car on to a train do the coffee, throw myself at a train home again and order the food....if I get organised I can order the food while I'm on the train as its a delivery and I'll be both hungry and grumpy by the time I get home.

Sigh best go keep mr s company now as I have two ms to get done tomorrow morning before work and it feels like ages since I had to be up before mid morning!

scubaangel

Late night greasy chicken job done and written up, and right now I almost wish I was one of those women who can make themselves throw up as I feel really really rough from eating so much so late!

Weird afternoon at work, customers who I've got to know quite well are leaving and chances are I'll only ever see one or two of them again, slightly disappointed that I didn't get chance to say goodbye to a couple of them who I haven't seen in a week or so - fingers crossed I'll see them tomorrow instead. Trouble is this end of term evening always leaves me feeling a bit carpy that I don't have any direction in my life yet, these are people who've spent 12 months at the site working their backsides off to get to this date when they leave us and go off to do a job very few people could do/would want to do, and thats ignoring the 12ish months they spend getting accepted on to the course in the first place!

In other news Mr S is off back to his old Bn in 4 weeks time and knows his job and that he's going to be spending alot of time away from home training himself - I can't wait, peace and quiet......

scubaangel

Didn't see any of the customers I kinda wanted to today which was a shame but roll on 4 weeks time and a whole new set of customers to get to know arrive.

Finally reached £50 on yougov this evening so have requested a cheque - only taken me around 4 years. Having had a quick scan round of my other survey sites I reckon I'm a couple of days away from reddeming a voucher on toluna, although I'm still waiting on vouchers from last year and early this year from them after they apparently sent them to the wrong address, also up to £22 on one poll and $23.55 on surveyhead, which I really do need to start doing daily again. My swagbucks have reached 490 so am back to doing all I can to bump them up to get to £5 amazon redemption level.

pennywisepoundstupid

Sounds like your doing really well with the surveys.

scubaangel

Most of the sites I haven't checked but I'd almost forgotten about surveyhead, last year I was quite religious about checking it daily so earned a fair bit but I've been lazy with it since I moved in with mr s so haven't earned much in months, only need $1.45 to cash out and given it can take almost 2 months from finishing the survey to credit and then another 6-8 weeks for payment in to paypal I should try to get back in to the habit of visiting daily.

Bought a skirt this afternoon which I want for my holiday, at the moment I can't do it up and they didn't have the size up in stock so am going to have to start paying more attention to my eating habits again as I've let it slide lately and have put a couple of lbs back on after a few weeks of staying the same.

scubaangel

Thinking about it I think I do need to do a roundup of all the survey co's I'm a member of to see where I am and if any are worth dropping. So here goes...

One Poll £22/£40
Toluna 72/80000 = £15 amazon or l2s voucher
SurveyHead $23.55/$25 - cash to paypal
Globaltestmarket 485/1000 = $50
OpinionWorld /1000 = £10 cash to paypal (usually)
mingle
mysurveypanel 300/575 =£5 paypal or 550 = £5 amazon
myvoice 1681/2000 = £20 gift voucher
valued opinions £1.15/£10 = gift voucher
yougov 0/5000 = £50 cheque, cashed out yesterday (13/8/11)
Panelbase £7.75/£10 = payment by BACS
springboard £14.50/£30
mindmover 845/2000 = £20 bacs
crowdology 2.88/£4 = cash to paypal
rewarded opinions 1550/2000 = £20 cheque

Just reached the redepmtion level for toluna so requested a voucher, now for the 2 or 3 month wait for it to turn up!

scubaangel

Checked the lesser used bank account this morning, my car insurance dd has finally been taken, as has the cheque I wrote to pay for some jewellery last week, so whats left is earmarked for turning in to euros at some point this week.

In my meanderings around the assorted survey sites I'm a member of I came across a bingo site I joined for cash back which still had a small balance on it, played it out and didn't win but I've requested they delete my account now, and rediscovered bingoport, which is probably going to be a good way to kill a couple of hours while I wait for mr s to work out why i'm now getting pee'd off at him for not having started cooking dinner.....he's been home all day!