"Simply not solvent!

chevalier

Seaxwyn wrote: »

Chev - that post is spot on, I'm going to save it somewhere to remind myself of the hash I made of freelancing lately. Working in an office is definitely going to be good in that I'll complete five whole paid or billable days each week. I do plan to do an SOA - it won't be hard as I have kept detailed records of all outgoings for the last two and a half years. Sadly it will still be very far from health, with OH's earnings so unreliable (his total income this month: £34). But I will do what I can to get things much better under control.

This weekend was DS's 8th birthday. We had a birthday tea with family on saturday, then a party for 14 kids today, all went well and cost very little.

Hi Seax
I am SO GLAD you took what I said in the right spirit. You know me, I thought it needed saying lol. But I did think I might have to duck though lol!

As for your OH there is nothing more that I can say about this except Tesco's shelfstacking? Even if he did 1 shift a week it would get him more than this a month.....

chev

buddiebabe

Hey Seaxwyn how are you enjoying your job? Have you had any ideas of a title for your new diary?

Moneywise im sure things will get better now you have a fixed income

Buddiebabe x

Seaxwyn

The job is going OK thanks. I'm going there tomorrow and actually looking forward to it. It's a very laid back place to work. I'm hoping things will get better too. No inspiration for a diary title - ideas welcome. I'm waiting to start it when some money has actually come in so I can start on a positive note.

chevalier

glad the job is going well. I can't think of anything funny for a title either, but that is probably due to being full of cold
good luck thinking about it
chev

Double_Trouble

Looking forward to the new diary.

DTxx

kissjenn

How about

• The 8.10 to Waterloo
• Beating My Waterloo
• Meeting My Waterloo Head-on
• Who Ya Gonna Call - Debtbuster
• Changing My Status To Solvent
• Woman With A Plan, Man With A Warning
• Not Older Just Wiser

If you came up with some options you like you could have a vote. And then when you're elected you get expenses and can have a new duck house...cos I know mine is looking shabby :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

When do you get the first bumper wage? Is Mr Seax working?

Seaxwyn

Wow brilliant ideas kissjen. I'm looking forward to the next diary too, too I'll start it on 1 July, when I should have been paid and things look a bit prettier. Plus this diary will then have run for a quarter of a decade, sobering thought..

Payday for the job is the last Friday of the month and the freelance one, which is higher paid, seems to be about 3 weeks after I submit the invoice.

Mr Seax not working much. I think he has some days teaching booked in July but nothing this month. He's frustrating me by seemingly doing nothing in the days when I'm out at work and the kids are at school. Not doing any paid gardening, not putting stuff on ebay, not doing housework. There's nothing I can do, I have tried every approach from sympathetic support to nagging and shouting.

ANyway, life goes on. Lots of nice things happening. The girls and and I are volunteering at a local music festival next month in exchange for free tickets. We're going camping a couple of weekends, and to Italy in August. And my new job is sending me to a conference in Chicago in the autumn, it will be my first time ever in the States (apart from a stopover in Houston once).

hypno06

Apart from the lack of effort from OH, it seems very positive.....I look forward to your new diary.

Roll on payday!!

lucielle

Onwards and upwards.
L

kissjenn

You are much more sanguine than me. I must admit the breaking point for me was alleged househusband driving 10 miles every morning to have a late cooked breakfast with his mother (he was 42!!) at Tesco. Driving back to be home for DS being dropped off at 4pm. Then starting the dishes - his only housework - about 7.30pm so I could make dinner when I arrived back after a 12 hour day.:mad::mad::mad:

It cost me over £50k to dump him and I had to pay him maintenance for a year but it was so worth it. BUT I had no feelings for him whatsoever by then, I was more scared of what me mother would say :eek: