Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

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Money back in my account from the old house deposit so has been split between my savings account which is back to the old level (need to look in to swopping to a new annual saver now there actually is some money in there) with the remainder sitting in the current account to cover the difference between this months salary and my outgoings (unpaid holiday - although it was processed wrong so I should get it back next month).

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No progress on reducing the debt, still no idea who supplies electricity to my flat - the landlady thought it was the same company who supplied my old house but they know nothing about the place so shes trying to get hold of the last tenants for me.

Bought some cushions for the sofa, just need to find a rug and some curtains now - one of the women I work with said she might have some old curtains she wants to get rid of so once I get around to measuring up she'll see if shes any which might fit.

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Snow plan has been put in place - ie I've pretty much moved in with the bloke for the weekend. In the process of moving my car from the carpark outside my flat to the carpark here I got yelled at by the neighbour of the man who 'owns' the space I was parked in, now I don't mind being spoken to nicely if I've made a mistake but yelling at me and calling me a selfish irresponsible woman was a little OTT, especially when my letting agent (who also owns my flat and responsible for managing the lease of three others who share the carpark is adament that none of the spaces belong to anyone but are all communal). So apologetic note to the gentleman who thinks I parked in his space with a comment about his rude abusive neighbour, tempted to put a snotogram through the door of the neighbour but while it would be satisfying I don't want to stoop to his level (while being yelled at I smiled blankly, and ignored him).

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Back home again now, actually had a really good weekend inbetween the working parts.....Friday night went up to see the working dogs with him after work, spent a good 40 mins playing with them in the snow, then made snow angels on the normally grassy hillside facing the trainee accomodation blocks - and was accused of being an absolute child by the bloke for it.

Saturday was much the same went up to play with the 'mad bad hounds' spent a couple of hours there while the bloke did the boring chores he's paid to do, took some really cute photos of them but have been banned from posting them since they make said 'mad bad' hounds look ridiculously cute and fuzzy.

Finally have a bill for the new place, £150 estimated for almost 2 months which seems about right if I'd actually been here so have paid it and registered online and will submit the meter readings as soon as the website lets me. Apparently the place is on e7 so am going to do some shopping around tariffs to see whats out there as I've never used e7 before.

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A nice lazy day for me today, spent basically all day snuggled up in my arm chair.

Done a load of washing which despite two spin cycles and 40 mins tumble drying was still dripping when I took it out of the machine so thats hung up to drip over the bath. Needto check on it all shortly to see if its dry enough to be transferred in to the airing cupboard to finish drying before I put another load of washing in.

After cooking my dinner this evening a rearrange of my freezer means I have an empty drawer. I'm going to need to empty it while it gets fixed (at least I hope it'll be fixed). Could do with walking to the shop to get some more milk but don't want to brave the snow and icy footpaths so will keep using the frozen milk cubes for my brews.

I've also tipped out the contents of my 'work change' tin intending to count and bag it up but can't find the coin bags at the moment need to have a rummage in some of the as yet untouched boxes to find them, then work up the enthusiasm to go to the bank before work tomorrow.

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Coins counted and bagged but I forgot to pick them up on my way to work.

Blokey has been and fixed the washing machine, apparently he'll need to check with the landlady if they want to fix or replace the fridge freezer.

Been asked to do a mystery shop this evening so thats dinner sorted, will raid the cupboard for a couple of tins of soup for lunch as the bloke and I went to tesco on my way home from work last night and bought a muchly reduced cheesy wheel loaf.

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Coins deposited in the bank whilst I was in town this afternoon before I did the mystery shop.

I also bought a small fan heater for my bedroom - going to bed last night was horrid as it was so cold in there so I figure popping a heater on for a little while before I go to bed will take the chill out when I dont have a warm bloke to cuddle up to. I also got a new rug for the living room as the current teal one won't really match the new sofa, so have a poppy red one. Both of which were paid for with love2shop vouchers earned from surveys.

In addition I have discovered that thanks to a survey I completed this evening I've hit the magical 1000 points on global test market so have requested they send me a cheque (1000points = $50, which is sent as the sterling equivalent).

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Finally got around to submitting my meter readings for my electric bill, looks like I'm around £20 in credit at the moment, so have left it at that and left it at quarterly billing. Next payment due in April so I can concentrate on doing overtime/surveys/online earning to start rebuilding a cash safety net.

At the moment next months outgoings bills wise are £75 ct, rent, first payment for the as yet undelivered sofa and tv licence. Which is lucky since I've not had much overtime this month and I was worried it'd all be a little bit tight money wise.

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Signed up to a couple of new ms companies over the weekend, have been offered a job with one of them already, a little different to the usual ms work I do as it includes an audit and some merchandising but am looking forward to giving it a go.

Also signed up to use the pool on camp, bought a swimming cossie while I was in town for the day with the bloke on Saturday should be able to pick up my pass and timetable when I'm back at work tomorrow.

Reached redemption threshold on ipsos so have added £10 to my amazon account, currently waiting to see when the monthly bonus is going to be added to my account by Swagbucks as it's usually around this time on the 5th of the month. Mean while I'm still accumulating a few points at a time from sbtv.

Just had emails from quidco letting me know my claims on clicksnap have been approved so thats another £1.50 to be paid in the next run, need to check out what the offers are this time around to see if I'm likely to be buying any of them while I'm out and about.

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Picked up two more mystery shops - one from the second new company I joined the other week. Means while I'm in a near-by town meeting another army girlfriend (we share a mutual friend who says we'll get along like a house on fire....which could be dangerous) we can enjoy a more expensive meal than we were planning and get most of the cost back.

Also have a second job I can do while I'm there if the company will allow me to change the date on it to Saturday afternoon from next Tuesday, have emailed to see if it's possible.