Scuba's Spending and Life in the South Diary

scubaangel

I need to start listing some of the odds again but as I've 9 things on at the moment with no interest in any of it hae been feeling a bit discouraged with it after a really good few weeks.

On the upside I paid some bags of change in to the bank the other day, and have used it to pay bits off my credit cards, so far the OU course cost me £700 and I've managed to pay off just over £20 just from the 'extra' money being split between the cards, so have paid £40 off between the two, on top of the mystery shopping payments which only go on to what was the egg card (as thats where I do the ms spending). So overall feeling quite positive about it, although no doubt when I get the statement I'll stop feeling quite so good about it - even though I'll have known exactly what I owe and the interest will be!

Juat watching The Military Wives Choir singing at the commissioning dinner and cant help giggling to myself at some of the familiar faces - both wives I know who are on it and newly minted 2Lts at the dinner. Thats when I'm not choked up and trying not to cry...gotta get a grip before the pet boy deploys next year

scubaangel

Two more mystery shops done and written up, first set of prospective tenants visited the flat with the agent, I went out for a run to avoid them but annoyingly they must have been running late as they were still here when I got home - coz sweaty and showing off my wobbly legs in my tight running capris was such a good look....along with the fact that the flat looks a right pig sty as I brought a load of boxes home from work with me, not started any actual packing but the boxes are here ready to make a start prob over the weekend when we're both home to try to get it organised.

Still need to send money to the agents for the new place, but am waiting to see if the pet human has any cash - in which case I'll move it all in to the joint account and send it as a lump sum, if not I'll send what I have and leave the pet to deal with the rest over the weekend/next week as he works close to the office.

scubaangel

Another joyous morning of work firmly put behind me, and a nice lazy afternoon ahead - or possibly not since I've just done one mystery shop, so am mid writing it up, need to do a 2 mile run after the greasy food bought on said mystery shop has had time to work deeper in to my digestive system - I nearly brought last nights curry back up when I ran home last night - apparently delaying my dinner break by half an hour is a bad plan! As well as taking the pet who apparently got home around 1am last night out for dinner this evening (another mystery shop).

I also rather desperately at this point need to change the bulb in my headlight since thats two weeks in a row the barrierguards have commented on my slightly lopsided approach to road illumination on my way in to work - and since cars have to be road worthy to be allowed in if I don't deal with it I may start to have some issues next time - although bribery of the cakey variety seems to be working on the *ahem* gents who work in the guardroom I sign the keys in and out of -its only muffled sniggers as I wobble up to the window in my running gear of an evening rather than out and out hilarity, still it amuses me coz they're laughing at me while I'm busy transfering fat cells to them. I work on a principle of fat cells being like energy, can't be created or destroyed just transferred...

scubaangel

All tasks for the day complete...except the run, went for a nice mid afternoon nap instead.

The ms meal was average at best although the service was good, which apparently is all the company care about given the report doesnt even ask about the quality of the food.

Currently thinking about trying to get a few more 99p listings up and running on ebay, but lacking in motivation for it, although I have found a couple more bits I can get on next time they have a free listings weekend (hopefully next weekend given the pattern of the others lately).

Seem to have a house full of boxes at the moment as I brought more home from work earlier, but at least it means we can start packing - ideally over the next three weeks we can start getting things sorted gradually so it's not all at once (esp as the boy will be on exersize for the week we actually take over the new place!).

scubaangel

Was going to list some cds and dvds on ebay but cba so have just musicmagpie'd them instead, but there are some which haven't been recognised prob due to them being exrental discs so will list them on ebay at some point soon.

The boy and I have vaguely agreed that if I pay the deposit for the house he'll cover the first months rent. Means that when we get the deposit back from the flat I get to keep it and replace my savings and make the big extra payment to my credit card (inc the cost of the new lappy which is making the total owed feel horribly inflated just now).

scubaangel

Tomorrows plans have altered slightly to accomodate a last minute mystery shop in the morning, although to be fair the plans were simply lounge around the flat until it's time to go to work...

Actually I dug out my old phone earlier so need to charge it up and make sure I wipe any personal info off it then will sort out where I can get the best price for selling it on, so will make that my one other task of the day. If I can be bothered I'll take myself out for a run too. Hmm could do with a visit to the bank for cash bags too.... thinking about it I think its time to write myself a list and see if I can actually get things accomplished.

• Mystery Shop
• Charge and wipe old handset
• Research best price for recycling said handset
• Run (?)
• Get cash bags
• Remove heap of boxes from car.
• Dig out ood coke from the bottom of the cupboard, get coke zone points and bin the bottles - as we clearly arent going to drink them!

scubaangel

scubaangel wrote: »

• [STRIKE]Mystery Shop[/STRIKE] x2, as got phoned and asked to do another first thing
• Charge and wipe old handset
• Research best price for recycling said handset
• Run (?)
• Get cash bags
• Remove heap of boxes from car.
• Dig out ood coke from the bottom of the cupboard, get coke zone points and bin the bottles - as we clearly arent going to drink them!

The result of the phone call asking me to do a second mystery shop is that I have not managed to get any of the other things on my list done, so will try again tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work!

scubaangel

Erm see that list up there.... it looks no different now to how it did yesterday.

So the new list looks like

• Car showroom ms x9 (planned as 5 tomorrow, 4 on Thursday)
• Charge, wipe, and sell old handset
• Drinks MS on Thursday with a friend
• Get cash bags
• Remove boxes from the car - before going to do car ms'ing
• Deal with ood coke
• Charge netbook ready for ms'ing day out
• Print surveys for ms day out x9

scubaangel

scubaangel wrote: »

[STRIKE]Car showroom ms x9 (planned as 5 tomorrow, 4 on Thursday)
[/STRIKE]Charge, wipe, and sell old handset

• Drinks MS on Thursday with a friend
• Get cash bags
• Remove boxes from the car - before going to do car ms'ing
• Deal with ood coke

[STRIKE]Charge netbook ready for ms'ing day out
[/STRIKE]Print surveys for ms day out x9

OK so I can scrap all of the ms stuff I planned for today...woke up when the boy left for work feeling terrible and spent the rest of the morning bringing up anything I dared to eat or drink.

So tomorrows plan now goes along the lines of desperately hope that I don't feel as rough as I do today, have a tidy up of the flat, bring some more of the boxes up out of the car.

Post the phone and the item sold on ebay which was paid for this evening. While I'm in town I can pop in to one of the many banks on the high street and get some cash bags.

scubaangel

Forgot the cash bags.

But I have posted the ebay item, the phone and the musicmagpie order. I appear to have mislaid my car keys somewhere in the flat too so haven't been able to go get the rest of the boxes out yet, I should probably be tidying up so I can find them but I don't feel like it and despite feeling horrendous yesterday am contemplating going out for a run before it gets dark. First however I'm ploughing through a surprisingly long list of surveys on onepoll in the hope of getting near to payout in the New Year (am at just over £33 so reckon £7 in two months is reasonable).