Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

scubaangel

This washing machine is driving me nuts.....got a pile of towels in but the door won't open googling suggests this may be due to it still having some water in the bottom of the drum so have stuck it on a rinse cycle with a 10 min dry cycle afterwards in the hope that I'll be able to get the door open and then check the filter and drain at the bottom.

scubaangel

Managed to get the towels out of the machine and another load in and out with a third in at the moment. Fingers are still crossed over getting this one out.

Keep thinking about going unpacking some of the suitcases in to my wardrobes but it just seems like lots of effort and I'm in lazy mode at the moment so will get round to it eventually.

scubaangel

A few things have made it in to my wardrobes, mainly things which came out of the washer and were dry this morning, but its all a good start right.:)

Am most likely staying with the bloke tonight so won't get anything done tonight, but have a mystery shop tomorrow lunchtime so will be home get that written up and do some more sorting then.

scubaangel

Some more small bits and pieces unpacked, mainly again things from the washing machine in to the wardrobe not got near to dealing with the suitcases.

scubaangel

Another mystery shop done and written up.

Need to go to the old house to check for post before work today, and put out a rubbish bag (along with a bag of boxes for recycling from here since my bin is full again). Typically the old lettings agents have asked me to be at the place tomorrow between 9 and 5 so they can do a midterm inspection - I've emailed back asking why its a mid term inspection when I'm leaving and why they want to do it on the one day I've said I'm completely unavailable of course I've had no response from them with it being the weekend.

scubaangel

Christmas shopping started

Aunt's pressie ordered.
Mums pressie bought and in the box designated for stuff to wrap.
Step Dads pressie ordered.
Dad's pressie needs ordering after I speak to my sister to confirm its the right one.
Sisters pressie will be ordered tomorrow evening when my credit card isn't in the car.
Grandmother - another one am stuck over am hoping inspiration will strike soon.
Bloke....not a flippin clue what to get him, need to do some thinking/subtle digging.
Secret Santa for work, I drew the name of one of the girls I like but have nothing at all in common with so am a little stuck but reckon I can go a little bit cheeky with it as shes given some slightly risque secret santa pressies in the past.

Will have a mooch around town tomorrow to see if I can get the remaining pressies organised while I'm doing a mystery shop and hoovering up the quidco check ins.

scubaangel

Well I did the mystery shop and got the check in's but utterly failed as far as pressies went, which means I now need a shopping trip quite urgently to get my works secret santa gift.

Got my new places coucil tax bill today too - £400 to take me to the end of March, will be calling them tomorrow to see about spreading it over three payments not two - although I might just pay the first installment this week to get it dealt with as I have the money in my account.

Also just recieved £100 in to my paypal account from swagbucks, this as expected makes me rather happy as it can be paid off the credit card to cover the expected christmas spends to come.

scubaangel

No real progress of any kind this morning, spent last night with the bloke as his room is warm and tidy and has somewhere for me to sit which isnt the floor or on a footstool....

Making full use of his internet this morning to meet the daily swagbucks target and have taken a foresty survey so looking forward to getting the payment for that tomorrow. Slowly but surely working my way closer to the payment thresholds on globaltestmarket and onepoll, still a fair way from payout on both of them but the numbers in the 'to earn' column of my spreadsheet are getting smaller.

scubaangel

Money from paypal is in the bank already, very chuffed, so it's been dispatched to reduce the credit card balance.

I think this evening the bloke is trying to get (keep?) me drunk - I came in to his room after work to find a pint of wine waiting on the desk next to my laptop, and on his way out to deal with the squarking noises from his radio (I swear it wasnt actual speaking, but he was talking back at the noise so it must have been) made me a hot chocolate which has the distinct aroma and taste of a very large quantity of Baileys. Ahh well should get him back in about 30 mins if I havent been and throttled his new neighbour who is surprisingly noisy given the thickness of the walls.

ZTD

Perhaps he has a reason why?