"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Morning :hello: Well, not a bad dfw day yesterday:

- renewed address update online.
- took care of the volunteering thing.
- researched (finally!!!) how to clean polycarbonate sinks.
- did a bit of research on mattresses
- tidied up, I'm not kidding, 500 emails in my main email address.
- went a walk in the hour before it got dark, and got a great urban foraging haul - lots of edged carpet samples (i.e. they won't fray) which will be perfect *between* plants, as I don't have enough bark for the whole garden - and even better, lots of tiny "manufactured stone" samples - little squares, about three inches to a side, they're going to be beautiful little features in the slate or the pebbles :j
- finished off all the "Travel" section of my accounts - not the declaration, the work of finding out when I travelled where, and how I paid - and I was pretty ingenious at that last year, so it took a while! I'm chuffed :j

Today, I'm actually working *outside* the house, so not on here at all, really. There is a discount mattress store that I pass, so I'll investigate - I'm not expecting too much, but it'll be good to check.

Hope everyone has a good day :hello:

Cheery_Daff

Well done KC! :T :T Excellent news on the urban foraging

MatyMoo

You are fair whizzing through those accounts KC :T

Karmacat

Thanks both! I'm back a bit earlier than I thought, which is nice - its funny about the accounts, now I don't have a metaphorical accountant hanging over my shoulder, I feel much freer. And I feel freer in this house in general, of course

My poor business partner thought I'd gone under the metaphorical bus - he had the time of our meeting wrong (it was the same as last time! It was! But he hadn't written it down like that...) and there was a worried call on the answerphone when I got home - its also my bad for not carrying my mobile with me, oops.

Anyway, he forgave me , we had our meeting, I scooted back here for the banking, and zoomed through Iceland - no more Quorn offers in Iceland! Still, even their bog standard price is good compared to Sainsbo, so I bought a couple of packets. And their frozen veg have gone up by 10%, as opposed to 30% at Sainsbo, tho they've done it in a sneakier way - pack size is down from 1kg to 900g but as I say, still cheaper.

I'm still warming up - it suddenly gets *very* cold in the late afternoon at the mo, so no more foraging for me today - just a bit of accounts work :money::money::money:

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

My poor business partner thought I'd gone under the metaphorical bus -

Is that the one which runs to time?

Karmacat wrote: »

he had the time of our meeting wrong (it was the same as last time! It was! But he hadn't written it down like that...) and there was a worried call on the answerphone when I got home - its also my bad for not carrying my mobile with me, oops.

Tut! Should carry your mobile in case you get run down by a metaphorical bus...

Karmacat wrote: »

Anyway, he forgave me , we had our meeting, I scooted back here for the banking, and zoomed through Iceland - no more Quorn offers in Iceland! Still, even their bog standard price is good compared to Sainsbo, so I bought a couple of packets. And their frozen veg have gone up by 10%, as opposed to 30% at Sainsbo, tho they've done it in a sneakier way - pack size is down from 1kg to 900g but as I say, still cheaper.

So it has gone up by 11% then...

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm still warming up - it suddenly gets *very* cold in the late afternoon at the mo,

That'll be that winter thing - are you all prepared?

Karmacat wrote: »

so no more foraging for me today - just a bit of accounts work :money::money::money:

You get going with that calculator then.

redsquirrel80

Great progress indeed.. hooray for Quorn bargains and carpet foraging

Lula-Hula

Wow, you have been busy,

I love the sound of the stone chips & hurray for urban foraging, I'm forever hauling stuff out of the skip at work, much to boss's amusement & delight.

I may well 'borrow' your selection of things to do, sounds far more fun than my usual 'task list'

Have a lovely Wednesday
xx

Karmacat

Ooh, Lula, what kind of stuff do you get out of a work skip? Between doing that and checking the front gardens for cats to stroke I'm sure I look like a burglar .... but since I don't actually have any stolen goods on the premises, I'm pretty sure I'm safe

Up very early *again* - I actually quite like it, but it does mean I'm shattered by about 9pm, which isn't the best for my prospective local social life. Will have to re-watch How To Marry A Millionaire, with Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.

Today - emails, and oh yes, 3 hours of paid work. Before that, I'm going to hop outside to take photos to adorn the blog, now I've mastered uploading to a blog, if not to here There's a master plan in there somewhere, but heaven knows where it is

Keeping_Motivated

When I read how much pleasure you get from cats I get a feeling that I 'so' want you to have one of your own again...do you mind me being nosey and asking why you haven't committed to another furry house mate/friend?

Karmacat

:o:o I decided against it way back, because the idea was that after I'd bought the 2nd house and done up the one I was living in and got to grips with investing, I'd be travelling away regularly, and it wouldn't be right for me. I know people say that cats are independent, etc etc etc, but as you say, I get a lot of pleasure out of stroking them and saying hello to them and whatnot (a record yesterday - 8 in less than 100m, and one of them was outside my front door) and the two cats I have had, I turned them into complete homebodies :j

The plan is still travel. I can't afford to travel, but nor can I afford the proper maintenance of a cat - talking to Wol about guinea pigs, and my own prior experience, convinces me of that.

I'll get cats when I can no longer travel in the meantime, probably next year when I really *am* sorted, I'll volunteer at a cat charity thats fairly local.

Thanks for asking!