PigginSkint's DFW Diary

PigginSkint

I have been updating some figures. It's been a bit of a long process because I don't have Excel on my laptop and all my spreadsheets are in Excel - I update them at work normally. I do email them to myself though and I have a program on my laptop which allows me to view them, but not make any changes to them. In order to do updates at home I have to use Works (not as good but not bad) - which I will email to myself at work and update my main spreadsheets.

Anyway, so much for the rambling!! I have now updated my totals for my 'Make a payment a day challenge' and it has gone up from £204.28 to £322.03

PigginSkint

Hi All

I am going to be a bit quiet at the moment because yesterday morning the laptop died! We are looking into various options - my brother knows someone who does repairs, we have a PC which is not currently linked up to the internet so we are going to see if that is a viable option and, I suppose, we are going to have to consider buying a new one!

I am currently in our local library doing this update but from Wednesday I will be back at work so I will be able to do quick updates from there.

I feel like my right arm has been cut off - I use the laptop for so much!!

Hope to speak to you all soon!

inkedelephant

I rely on my laptop so much. Use the time to catch up with things like reading, learning new reciepes or something. I found it quite a liberating time but at the sametime it was very difficult.

PigginSkint

inkedelephant wrote: »

I rely on my laptop so much. Use the time to catch up with things like reading, learning new reciepes or something. I found it quite a liberating time but at the sametime it was very difficult.

Thanks! I have even been doing some housework! Plus I have been doing some cross stitch which I haven't done for ages. Feels very odd though!

(Over at my Dad's at the moment which has enabled me to catch up with MSE - albeit very briefly!)

PigginSkint

Hi All

Just saying a quick hello! Still no internet at home so I am doing this update at the library. I have only got 5 minutes left because I used nearly all of my allotted hour to do my Avon order.

Back at work tomorrow so I should be able to update from there - hooray!

Off to the post office now to post a parcel - sold another book through Avon. Yippee! One of my highest priced items so I am very pleased!

Hope to get a good night's sleep tonight - have not been sleeping well and so I am very tired!

Better finish for now

Bye all!!

PigginSkint

Hi All

Just a quick update as I have loads of work to do!

Last night I managed to successfully connect the PC at home to the internet – I installed the modem and it connected to the internet straight away. We now have internet access at home again – woohoo!

Last night I mainly spent downloading and installing the free anti-virus software and a firewall so that OH could get online to do this Betterware order as that was yesterday’s priority.

My Avon delivery came yesterday so I spent a large part of the evening bagging it all up ready to deliver tonight and I also put my books out last night.

I did another very important job last night – I phoned the tax credits people to arrange to pay my biggie overpayment in monthly instalments over the next 12 months. I planned to wait until after about the 10th of the month because I have requested that the DD payment go out of my account on or about the 6th of the month – meaning I won’t have to start paying it back until January. I had a very nice surprise (can’t really understand why) but my first payment will actually be 6th February instead – which will definitely be better for the old cashflow situation as the long hard slog of January (nearly 6 weeks between paydays – eek!) will be out of the way by then! While I was on the phone, I asked them if they would chase up my new claim form for me – I phoned well over a month ago and they said then that it would be out within 10 days, but still no sign of it! She said that she would get one posted out to me.

So all in all, yesterday was a very productive evening!

Better get on with some work now but will probably update again later – from home, yippee!!!!

hypno06

Glad to see you are back and fully wired up!

embarrassed_about_my_debt

Nice to see you back piggin! Been missing your updates :j

PigginSkint

Thanks Hypno and eamd!

Too tired to update last night and in any case it was 8:00pm before I stopped running around! I suspect tonight will be much the same!

Work is busy busy busy, but I am making good progress (not bad considering I was off sick for 3 weeks!) and I have managed to crack the 2 biggest and most important jobs that needed doing. I am just trying to get as much done this week as possible, then I can enjoy my break without fretting too much about things that need doing!

The plan for tonight (after I have left here) is, in this order:

• Go to Aldi on the way home to buy more Christmas booze (I plan to buy something every evening this week so that I don't have to lug too much home at once)
• Do Avon deliveries that I didn't manage to do last night
• At the same time collect books back in
• Get Avon books ready to go back out tomorrow
• Cook dinner
• Collapse on sofa with cat
• Write Christmas cards for people at work
• Wrap some more Christmas presents (I have been amazing myself this year by wrapping as I go along)
• Collapse in bed! (Luckily I am now sleeping much better - slept very badly when I was ill - so hope for a good night's sleep tonight)

Right, better get on with some more work.

Bye for now!

PigginSkint

I knew it was too good to be true. OH came up to bed at about 2:00am last night – I was asleep but aware of him coming in the room so I asked him if he was all right. Now, he could have said yes and let me sleep, but did he? No – he informed me that the PC is now not working properly and there was now a blue screen. My first thought was ‘Oh no, the blue screen of death!’. So there we have it, 2 computers now kaput!

So I think we are left with 2 difficult choices (1) buy a new computer (prob laptop), or (2) swallow my pride and talk to my Ex – he works for a company that sells and mends computers. He can probably at least tell me whether either is worth mending.

Feeling a bit glum today as you can probably imagine!

Well I did all my Avon jobs last night and as it was about 9:30 when I finished that, I didn’t get round to writing any Christmas cards or wrapping Christmas presents. I have brought a pack of cards in with me today so if I get a minute (i.e. if my supervisor goes off for a while!) I might write a few while I am here.

I am feeling very tired today – probably something to do with being woken up at 2:00am – so I don’t think I will stay late today. And I certainly don’t intend to stay late tomorrow either, as it is my last day at work before Christmas. It means I will be just under a hour down on my flexi but, to be quite honest, I would much rather be at home with my son! Besides, an hour is nothing - I can easily make that up when we come back to work in January.

Tonight’s plan of action is as follows:

· Put Avon books back out
· Try to collect last few books that I couldn’t get last night
· Try to do last couple of deliveries
· Write cards and post those that need to be posted
· Wrap up Secret Santa present (and others if I feel inclined!)
· Collapse on sofa with cat!
· Early night!

Anyway, I suppose I had better get on with some work.

Bye all!!