Lois_E begins a long MFW journey

gallygirl · 2 February 2014 at 10:30PM

:j Lois, welcome back :j.

PS - my spreadsheet STILL doesn't show a zero balance

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Lois_E · 2 February 2014 at 10:40PM

gallygirl wrote: »

:j Lois, welcome back :j.

PS - my spreadsheet STILL doesn't show a zero balance .

Gally, I've told you before. It's a bug in excel. You need to complain to Microsoft because there's nothing I can do about it.

Secret_Saving_Squirrel · 2 February 2014 at 10:43PM

Hello,

Nice to have you back, hope all is well

Squirrel

gallygirl · 2 February 2014 at 10:51PM

Lois_E wrote: »

Gally, I've told you before. It's a bug in excel. You need to complain to Microsoft because there's nothing I can do about it.

Really? Does that mean my mortgage balance is actually zero?

:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:

PARTY!!!!!!!!

Lois_E · 2 February 2014 at 11:22PM

Catching up on a few diaries but am never going to be able to read everything. Can anybody tell me what are the really important things that I need to know about the last five months? Has anybody paid off their mortgage, got pregnant, moved jobs, found a new partner, etc?

Edit: Just read a bit of Alchemilla's diary and have been reminded of the five things to be grateful for, so here are mine for tonight:
1) Lovely warm welcome coming back here

2) Getting financial spreadsheet nearly back up to date again
3) Sunshine this morning
4) Nice warm house in recent cold wet windy weather
5) DS and DD going out for a walk with friends this afternoon and leaving me to have the house to myself for a while

norfolkdream · 3 February 2014 at 12:43AM

Hi Lois,
I look like a newbie but I am an oldie in disguise, I used to read your diary regularly and you've left messages on old one before, so popping in to say Hi, glad you are ok and back on the wagon

It feels weird chatting to people on here again and some not having a clue who I am haha. Never mind, I am starting it all from scratch again.

Hope we can both keep up with our threads this year. I did fall off the wagon as well as I felt it took up a lot of my time but its nice to chat and share with people having the same goals.

Lois_E · 3 February 2014 at 12:49AM

Thanks norfolkdream and welcome back to my diary. I've just been reading your new diary - sorry I can't help with ideas about West Norfolk but I've never been there, but just don't buy one of those cliff top houses that's about to fall into the sea.

I am useless at working out who people are. Assuming I'm not the reason for your change of username, do drop me a PM so I know who you are, unless your stalker was so bad as to make you feel you need total anonymity just to be sure. I promise not to say anything that will give you away.

And now I am going to stop catching up on 5 months' worth of MFW diaries and go and get everything ready for tomorrow morning, and then get some sleep.

Lois_E · 3 February 2014 at 2:16PM

Hmm. E.on have paid £184.25 into my old current account that I don't use any more. I get my energy from F1rst Utilities, and before them I used to get it from 3DF. I think I had some dealings with E.on years ago, but I've no idea how many years. So why are they giving me money?

Edit - looked it up. I switched from E.on to 3DF in August 2009!!