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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    **sneaks on whilst drawing breath at work.........**

    hope everyone is ok!!

    ** gets back to mountain of papers**
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • mizmir
    mizmir Posts: 3,710 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Glad you've got a chance to work. Good luck!
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    Thanks Seaxwyn....hope you're ok and having a good weekend x
  • Just a note to let you all know that I take heart from reading your dialogues - you are such a lovely bunch of people. :A
    Debt free by 22 January 2009 - thanks to an unexpected inheritance - take heart - it DOES HAPPEN!
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    A-ha! You're struggling with overwork too - its so important to find some sort of balance, isn't it.... not doing too badly this morning - I've got my newly arrived DVDs of Stargate Season 10 playing on the tv (paid for entirely by vouchers from surveys!) while I mooch about for a little while on here, sitting in my new Ikea armchair on my new ebay table. Just about to change around the train tickets I bought to take account of the trip to the Centre for Alternative Technology before I come home from my mum's.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • chevalier
    chevalier Posts: 7,937 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    will try and think of something constructive to say in the morning, but my brain is fried at the moment. but good luck with sorting it all
    chev
    I want a job that is less than an hour driving away from my house! Are you listening universe?
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    How you doin', Seaxwyn?
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Seaxwyn
    Seaxwyn Posts: 4,896 Forumite
    I'm fine thanks!

    I thought I was facing a period with not much work and got all excited about spending time planning for marketing myself etc etc then ker-blam, four jobs land in my inbox.

    I've been putting a lot of effort into networking and it's already paying off with offers of work - but it's also been fun. I do feel positive about my work at the moment. There are lots of pluses, the minus side is working at home on my own so much of the time, so I need to find ways of adding in more human contact.

    OH is on good form, he's been decluttering the shed, gardening for a neighbour for £12.50 an hour, and doing really well on sticking to a food budget :A Last month we spent £265 on food - minuscule for us.

    Moneywise, nothing is happening. I don't expect to save anything for tax this month, as OH probably won't be paid by the college (but I'm not blaming him). I hope that he will get paid decent amounts in October, November and December, and that we can save some of that.
    Total debt: 1 January 2007 £[strike]49,387.79[/strike] 1 January 2012 £[STRIKE]19,312.85[/STRIKE] 1 August 2012 £11,517.62



  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Fab news on the work coming in, and good news too about OH's bits and bobs coming together!
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    Great news on the new jobs and your OH pulling his weight xtake care x
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