Squizz's Fizzy Diary

Karmacat

Hello! I like the hair too - had to go onto facebook straight away, of course

As for increasing the debt repayments - could you put increases in a separate fund for now, so that they're there if you need them for eurostar and whatnot? Life is very good when you have that amount "spare" tho!


EDIT - just seen your last post (I was on facebook!) it looks really good.

redsquirrel80

Life is actually quite good! I'm so not used to having this money spare (remember the £1 a day/ £10 a week budgets?! :eek:).. I do have to remember though that I don't have to spend it all by the end of the month :rotfl:

elantan

it can be hard breaking that habit cant it squizz

Karmacat

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Life is actually quite good! I'm so not used to having this money spare (remember the £1 a day/ £10 a week budgets?! :eek:).. I do have to remember though that I don't have to spend it all by the end of the month :rotfl:

Life is very good :T and I *do* remember those budgets! What a short time ago and how brilliant thats only a memory now :beer::beer::beer:

"Savings" are beckoning.

redsquirrel80

Savings.. oh I have an ISA.. it's got £1 in it :rotfl:

Was just looking at old diaries trying to find one of those scary budgets, not found one yet but I did find a quote I'd posted up a while back..

"In following unfamiliar trails leading to distant goals, we may well pause from time to time and take a backward glance. Courage falters if our best efforts seem to bring us no closer to our objective, and if instead the road becomes rougher and more uncertain as unsuspected obstacles threat to check our progress. But as we look back over the distance that lies between our starting point and our present position, we realise that our striving was not in vain, that we have moved forward in spite of all impediments and have overcome difficulties once considered insuperable."

Karmacat

:beer::beer::beer:

Absolutely wonderful! Certainly worth a re-quote.

redsquirrel80

Oh.. it's not always good re-reading old diaries.. step away from that I think, except to say, in the light of the above quote..

Diary one - SOA spare money £160
Diary two - SOA spare money £300

Definitely progress - and yep El it is hard to get away from the habit of spending everything, especially when you've had times when you really had to spend everything to have the basics.

Is it lunchtime yet?

redsquirrel80

Ahh I've found out what the mystery payrise is - 0.4% payrise backdated to April. So next month's will look slightly less healthy, but still more than it was!

redsquirrel80

Morning! Good weekend - great dinner out on Friday with Mr S's relatives, including a very polite friendly 18 year old boy (his family seems to breed nice kids!). Saturday we went to the farmers market, really busy again, but came back with a good 'haul'. Spent the afternoon mostly in the garden, had got some free flower seeds so I sprinkled them about randomly to see if anything comes up. Also planted a couple of things at the front of the house and did a bit of general tidying. Yesterday the weather was a bit.. unpredictable.. so decided on a lazy day, bought the paper, got home to find half the paper was missing, ran back to the shop in the rain, home again.. read papers, decided to go for a walk while it was sunny, got rained on.. read a bit, and that's about it!

Payday today, so updated sig with new debt figures. Should be fine to have paid off £2000 next payday

Feeling very unmotivated with work this morning, stuff to do but not done any of it yet. Meant to be doing a 'time study' this week to see how much time I spend on different tasks - so far I've spent an hour doing not very much!

Karmacat

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Morning! Good weekend - great dinner out on Friday with Mr S's relatives, including a very polite friendly 18 year old boy (his family seems to breed nice kids!).
That sounds good!
Saturday we went to the farmers market, really busy again, but came back with a good 'haul'. Spent the afternoon mostly in the garden, had got some free flower seeds so I sprinkled them about randomly to see if anything comes up.
I always wonder how you know what to weed in that situation (confused smiley).
Also planted a couple of things at the front of the house and did a bit of general tidying. Yesterday the weather was a bit.. unpredictable.. so decided on a lazy day, bought the paper, got home to find half the paper was missing, ran back to the shop in the rain, home again.. read papers, decided to go for a walk while it was sunny, got rained on.. read a bit, and that's about it!
Thats a lot of rain :eek:

Payday today, so updated sig with new debt figures. Should be fine to have paid off £2000 next payday
Hurray :j:j:j

Feeling very unmotivated with work this morning, stuff to do but not done any of it yet. Meant to be doing a 'time study' this week to see how much time I spend on different tasks - so far I've spent an hour doing not very much!

Uh oh :rotfl:you'll have to translate that for the time study :eek: