Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

scubaangel

I like cola, but it doesnt last long, so I tend to buy it when I know I want to drink some vodka since vodka and coke is more socially acceptable than half a pint of neat vodka!

Whats a lettuce leaf?

I guess I now have to be focussed, it was ok to cruise along in neutral before when I was only paying half of everything, now every penny I can earn can be put to use in minimising my cash outgoings.

If I sit closer I'll not be sat on my comfy sofa....

scubaangel

Sleep is important...I really need to try harder to get in to the habit of going to sleep when I go to bed, and that means taking the laptop back down stairs and keeping it there.

Still this evening while chatting to friends on faceache I have completed four toluna surveys and countless mindnumbing quick polls for a few points each. The current total is around 20,000 points which sounds good until you remember that you need 80,000 for £12 vouchers. Still tonights surveys when they credit will give it a boost, and its one of those sites worth sticking with if you have the patience to use it regularly.

Boosted my days swagbucks earnings to over 300, mainly from SBTV and finally finishing some of the tasks I started before work - think I need to start paying attention to those as they are easy but again boring, but as a way to fill some time they work quite nicely.

Tomorrow/today being my day off I plan to roll out of bed mid morning and download paperwork for the three mystery shops I have booked, check I have the required equipment to complete said shops and then go do them. When I get home again assuming it's not too rainy, or too hot I want to go for a longish run before I write up the shops. If it is wet or hot I'll go for a shorter run when it looks drier/cools down in the evening.

scubaangel

SB target met for the day, mainly due to SBTV and videos on the special offer pages, but will as usual carry on letting SBTV run until I finally log out and head to my pit.

In the meantime my plans for the day were disrupted by being invited in to do an overtime shift this afternoon. Overtime on that shift means free lunch and not too much disruption to the rest of my evening, or at least by the time I'm home and had dinner it'll be cool enough to think about going for a run.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

I like cola, but it doesnt last long, so I tend to buy it when I know I want to drink some vodka since vodka and coke is more socially acceptable than half a pint of neat vodka!

If you stick a little umbrella and straw in it, it's socially acceptable to drink anything.

Except real ale of course. Putting a straw and umbrella in that will get you burned at the stake...

scubaangel wrote: »

Whats a lettuce leaf?

It's that limp green thing that you'll have seen in your burger whilst fishing the gherkin out.

scubaangel wrote: »

If I sit closer I'll not be sat on my comfy sofa....

You can take it with you...

scubaangel wrote: »

Sleep is important...

It is.

scubaangel wrote: »

I really need to try harder to get in to the habit of going to sleep when I go to bed, and that means taking the laptop back down stairs and keeping it there.

It's also more comfortable doing the computer while sitting properly with a proper backrest.

scubaangel wrote: »

In the meantime my plans for the day were disrupted by being invited in to do an overtime shift this afternoon. Overtime on that shift means free lunch and not too much disruption to the rest of my evening, or at least by the time I'm home and had dinner it'll be cool enough to think about going for a run.

Good news all round then.

scubaangel

Ahh but I like the gherkin- but I do tend to fish the rest of the odd greenish stuff out

I do tend to lounge whether it's in bed or on the sofa while I use the laptop, its a bad habit and as I keep being told by one of the physios at work I am setting myself up for trouble later in life.

Went for the run, got out and felt like a bag of spanners so only did a short route but it's still 1.6 miles more than I would have done otherwise. I'll get back to running the longer routes soon, but until I do (and its a simple as reaching the level crossing while it's open....) I'll work on running my short routes without walking - normally the route I did tonight I only need to walk once but given the lack of recent running my head gave up before my legs did and I walked three times, that said I still averaged a 9.42 mile when my typical pace is 10 min miles.

scubaangel

Met todays sb goal thanks to a trusted survey, just finishing off a couple more surveys then am taking myself and my kindle to bed as am up horribly early again tomorrow for a split shift, think I'm going to take my netbook in to work with me so I can get online between shifts and use up the rest of my dongle credit.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

I do tend to lounge whether it's in bed or on the sofa while I use the laptop, its a bad habit and as I keep being told by one of the physios at work I am setting myself up for trouble later in life.

Listen to them, for they know of what they speak. Backpain is something you would not wish on your worst enemy - so much better to head it off at the pass.

scubaangel wrote: »

Went for the run, got out and felt like a bag of spanners

Now normally, people have a craving for a bag of chips - but there you go...

scubaangel wrote: »

that said I still averaged a 9.42 mile when my typical pace is 10 min miles.

:T

scubaangel wrote: »

Met todays sb goal thanks to a trusted survey, just finishing off a couple more surveys then am taking myself and my kindle to bed as am up horribly early again tomorrow for a split shift,

Much rather you than me. I don't even like the concept of a split shift...

scubaangel wrote: »

think I'm going to take my netbook in to work with me so I can get online between shifts and use up the rest of my dongle credit.

And earn BIG (ish) money!

scubaangel

The spanners naturally are to beat myself about the head with if I ever consider running to be a good thing. (and noone ever said I had to be/pretend to be normal right?).

I loathe them but the first half is my 'normal' saturday morning shift, the second half means I get to go for free breakfast mid way through the first shift, then lunch to kill some time between shifts and then get dinner while I work the second.....

Free food + extra money + sitting around work for 4 hours between shifts studying means Saturdays are among my most productive MSE type days!

In happy news I just checked my bank account and I have been paid, this makes me scary happy as it means I have actual numbers to check against my projected out goings for the month, although am still waiting for my revised council tax bill (due to be paid on the 2nd), and the new account details from the gas and 'leccy folks since they couldnt just say 'Oh Miss Angel your account is in credit, we'll take the blokes name off and carry on'....nope we have had to close the account, get the credit refunded (to the joint account) and start over with only my name on it. I also have no clue whats going on with the water people as they said they were posting some paper work which hasnt turned up. And I may have only just realised I've not given the letting agent the new account details for the rent DD - might tell the ex I need to know whats left in the account and transfer what's needed to make up the rent in to the joint account again this month, then worry about the change over.

scubaangel

Got home from work to find that the 'leccy and gas folks have written, so I need to call them next week to set up the new account. Still nothing from the water co or the council so I'll need to chase those up too.
Didn't get too much done during the day but was nice enough to sit out on the patio at work and pretend to be doing some studying.

scubaangel

Today was so quiet at work it was almost unbelieveable!

But I got to sit and watch an entire episode of Oceans while I was on my break, apparently I've never looked so engrossed in something while at work before.....can't imagine why tropical fish might be more interesting to me than mere customers!

Remembered earlier that I had £30 in paypal waiting to be transferred in to the bank so have sent it on its merry way.

Unfortunately I needed to put fuel in the car on my way home tonight so my account is £15 lighter and I'll need to top it right off tomorrrow as I plan to drive 300 or so miles after work to go see my family for a couple of nights, so I really ought to be packing and getting the house in to a vaguely tidy state so I don't walk in when I get home and assume a hurricane has blown through in my absence.

In the meantime I have washing in the machine and have downloaded my shop and scan data and photographed my reciepts. There are times I wonder if I sell too much of my life to too many different people but the thought thankfully passes fairly quickly back in to the dark corners of my mind where it I presume gets caught in the spider webs.