Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Time certainly flies when you're having fun. Most of DD1s room has had one coat of paint, some has had two and it's looking like a third will be required to cover up the original colour. It's made her room look a whole lot bigger and brighter and much more grown up so she's delighted. Need to get a move on through because DD2 is due back tomorrow and thers no where for her to sleep. Today is going to be a very long day, made even longer by me being awake at silly o'clock with far too much on my mind.

I'm now having mad ideas about repainting the bathroom with it's dark orange walls.....obviously they weren't meant to be dark orange but what came out of the can was nothing like the picture in the brochure.

butler_helen

Morning moo!

Thought I'd swing by and say hi as I'm still reading

Gorgeous stocking btw wish i was as creative.

butler_helen

Have reported your spam above

beanielou

As I have.

moo2moo

Finished painting DD1s room yesterday. Planning to give it a quick wipe down and then shove the furniture back and hang her curtains before attempting to do something with the scene of devestation that is DD2s room after 4 nights with a teenager in residence. DD2 will not be impressed. Mostly because of the smell. How can one child honk so much?

The bath is full of smelly wet fleece. I need to get that washed today, it was starting to turn green, but then it had been in a bucket on the drive for almost a month so that's hardly surprising.

I've applied for more jobs this week. I won't get any of them. That's not me being defeatist. That's me facing reality. If the start salary is stipulated aas minimum wage for a 16 year old and all the questions are geared towards being of school leaving age that's a pretty suble hint that the elderly (those over 21) need not bother to apply. Still it will keep the job centre bods happy. All the other things on offer seem to require a HGV licence or some other highly specialised experience which lesser mortals are unlikely to have.

I got the logging in of on-line banking over and done with. I'm still in the black. Just. That's not going to last long. I have lots of direct debits due out at the beginning of the month but no money scheduled to go in. Fortunately they'll stay within the free overdraft part of my account but it's not going to stay that way forever. Need to figure out if I can ditch any but questioning the wisdom of cancelling pet insurance for a geriatric cat. That's like waving a big red flag and ensuring she spends the next 5 years of her life on medication.

Still on the brightside it's nearly the weekend (although technically every day is a Saturday no I don't have to go to work) finding it hard to give myself a day off or rather not give myself everyday off. There has to be a way of mentally adjusting to this, I just haven't found it yet. I'm enjoying the whole being at home, getting things done thing but finding being at home alone kinda frustrating at the same time.

Todays fun involves the fitting of a new oven seal in the hopes of containing some of the smoke and heat from the oven. A bargain at a mere fiver from Amazon instead of £45 from a pucker supplier. Glad I had gift vouchers in my account to cover it.

After that I feel the need to play with sharp implements and fabric and will start the construction of a pink quilt for DD1s birthday. Will be using stuff that's already here so that expenditure is minimal to non-existant in the hopes of giving her a fabulous birthday gift without upsetting the already precarious financial see-saw any further.

moo2moo

The Job Centre are the only efficient Governement department in existance. After a single partial payment my JSA has been frozen pending a decision as to whether I'm actually entitled to it seeing as how I left voluntarily. Not a surprise, I was expecting it, just not quite this soon. Form fillled in and back in the post. Meanwhile I have to continue undergoing the fortnightly humiliation just in case they decide I can actually have it. Oh deep, deep joy.

Eager_Elephant

moo2moo wrote: »

The Job Centre are the only efficient Governement department in existance. After a single partial payment my JSA has been frozen pending a decision as to whether I'm actually entitled to it seeing as how I left voluntarily. Not a surprise, I was expecting it, just not quite this soon. Form fillled in and back in the post. Meanwhile I have to continue undergoing the fortnightly humiliation just in case they decide I can actually have it. Oh deep, deep joy.

I see this all the time but I am not sure why they waste the time in assessing the claim before asking the relevant question about why you left work because then it would save so much time and paper.

Will keep my fingers crossed

moo2moo

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

I see this all the time but I am not sure why they waste the time in assessing the claim before asking the relevant question about why you left work because then it would save so much time and paper.

Will keep my fingers crossed

It would have made so much more sense to say "aah you left voluntarily.... argue your case before we cough up any cash" but then when do logic and government forms have anything to do with each other?

In the meantime it has spurred me on to actually do something about the Etsy shop and I now have a cunning plan. Actually I have several cunning plans all involving prototypes of possibilities. I also need a shop name. Seems that will be the tricky part. I doubt I'll end up doing mundane or boring, everyone and their dog does that. But coming up with something that says "hey this is different" without screaming "freak! run a mile" isn't as easy as it sounds. Unconventional, Unorthodox, Quintisentially Quirky.Will think some more.

moo2moo

Finally gave in and went shopping. Stocked up on absolute essentials. Avoided anything even remotely frivolous. It's just as well the demonic daughters like value cereals. Even then the bill was way bigger than I'd hoped, but I'm hoping theres almost two weeks worth of food there which isn't all that bad for a £70 shop.

Finally got round to cleaning the oven and attempting to fit the replacement door seal. The clips which hold it in place are about as useful as a chocolate tea pot. The slightest bit of tension and they bent and came out of the fixing hole. Have dismantled the original seal to use the clips from that coupled with some high temperature wonder glue or other from the man cave which should be dry in 3-4 days time.

DD1 is still unpacking her cherished possessions into her room. This is the teenage version of unpacking where everything has been shoved in a cupboard in the bag it left her room in. Still at least that way she's unlikely to notice just how much stuff I've thrown out for quite some time.

The OH is spending more time pottering in the man cave. His new cupboards are finally finished so he's having a major tidy up. The wheelie bin is heaving. Hopefully there will be space for the remaining man tat to depart to the bottom of the garden so that I can finally get to the walls of what was formerly Land Rover Land in order to scrape the mould off them, sand down the remains of the artex and eventually decorate in there. I'm planning to get that done the next time he's away, although that may be overly optimistic.

moo2moo

Spent a large chunk of yesterday filling in form and doing a Countdown style online test that had my heart hammering in my chest. I really need to get out more. Keeping everything crossed that I get an interview as its for a job that would suit me perfectly, it fits round school hours, apart from the Saturday bit but I'm hopeful I can negotiate with the riding school for the demonic daughters to stay there a bit longer. Best of all it comes with shorts. Tis perfect in every way..... well apart from the bit about it being a temporary contract until Christmas but nothings ever completely perfect. I'm skipping round the house. Hadn't quite admited to myself just how bored I am already.