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Life is what you make it .......

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  • startagain_2
    startagain_2 Posts: 2,135 Forumite
    Thanks Wordsmith - As much as I love him, I don't think you realise just what a pain MrT is, and can be.... he would REALLY turn your world upside down!

    I am chuffed - thanks for the kind words, as always.

    SA
    2011 - New year, New start, New me
    [STRIKE]Planning on [/STRIKE] making my dreams a reality
  • savingwannabe
    savingwannabe Posts: 16,619 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    Hooray. Hooray and Hooray!!!!!:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j
    Aiming for a minimal spend 2022
  • RosaBernicia
    RosaBernicia Posts: 4,909 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    ^ What SW said :j:j

    Rosa xx
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
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  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    startagain wrote: »
    I don't think you realise just what a pain MrT is, and can be....

    Just leave him in a locked room with mama cat for half an hour, he'll be a changed man.
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
  • startagain_2
    startagain_2 Posts: 2,135 Forumite
    Wordsmith wrote: »
    Just leave him in a locked room with mama cat for half an hour, he'll be a changed man.


    :laugh: So funny, just thinking about it!
    2011 - New year, New start, New me
    [STRIKE]Planning on [/STRIKE] making my dreams a reality
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    What fantabulous news:j

    I now have visions of MrT being cuffed into submission by Mama Cat:rotfl:

    Work was ok today - I find myself thinking of weddings again and have been writing posts on this new wedding website and doing some research - is it bad to sit surfing the net in the name or research?

    Had to confirm numbers with the the hotel today and was told that as the min number is 10 and I only have 8 people, I will still have to pay for 10:mad: Dunno why they can't be flexible like the other venue I use. Still I shall be tweeting and emailing and badgering - one guy has promised to come yet he hasnt paid and if he turns up on the day then the cost will go up to £11.50 as opposed to £10:D

    Feeling headachy still and I keep going dizzy which isnt pleasant - I have pills to cope with dizzyness but will have to speak to the doctor about them because I have noticed that I have started having violent nightmares again and I am sure it is these tablets.:o
  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    Sticking head out of lurkdom to say I'm soooo pleased for you. :D
    Miggy

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  • dojoman
    dojoman Posts: 12,027 Forumite
    Great news SA :T:T:T Hope it works out for you:D
    :pB&SC No. 298
    Life`s Tragedy is that we get OLD too soon
    and WISE too late!
  • Lula-Hula
    Lula-Hula Posts: 7,868 Forumite
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    Agreed - it's all very exciting,

    well done, you deserve it :D
    xx
  • startagain_2
    startagain_2 Posts: 2,135 Forumite
    Good morning diary....

    I hadn't realised how many people are lurking - come out and post with us, why don't you? Actually, I lurk a bit on a couple of diaries and I always feel like I am intruding - that is probably not the case at all. All are more than welcome here.

    It is pouring with rain, but I don't mind as the garden is desperate for water. A few days without lugging buckets up and down the stairs certainly suits me.

    I toyed with ringing up and organising horse riding for today, I am so glad I didn't. If it is wet and miserable here, it will be 5 times worse up on the Moors. I am staying in the dry. I was very surprised that MrT agreed to go for his early morning walk this morning. Normally, when he spots rain he refuses to put one foot outside of the front door. Let's see if he wants to come and feed the ducks a bit later on.

    I spent hours yesterday afternoon writing the online applications for the two vacancies and then submitting them. I have applied for both as anything is better than what I am doing at the moment. I have expressed a preference for the more complex, better paid one and that is only being advertised internally whereas the other one is open to all, but interviews ae taking place this week. If it happens, it happens. I KNOW I will get something. :) I put the figures through the benefits checker and I get a bit of WTC (more for the lesser paid one) and 35p HB a week .... :rotfl:

    Blimmin' fuming to hear the Govt are increasing the retirement age AGAIN from 65 to 66 in 2018. I am one of the 300,000 ladies in their fifties who will have to work another year after already having had another 5 working years added. I had always assumed that I would retire at 60 to be told a couple of years ago that it would be 65 and now this. I will probably be 70 before I actually draw my State pension, the way this is going. I just see it as moving the goalposts a bit too much. I have spent the last 38 years paying Tax and N.I and now they want another 12. :(

    I have found out this week that I am not alone in complaining about the Fatty family. It seems that at least one of my neighbours has been on to the Council and that is why Mr F has stopped playing with his remote controlled toys in the park next door. like everything they do, it was always at unsocial times and went on for too long, and someone took great exception! Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!

    Not hanging around for too long, but will definitely be back on later today.

    Speak soon

    SA
    2011 - New year, New start, New me
    [STRIKE]Planning on [/STRIKE] making my dreams a reality
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