Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

While the rest of the country basks in spring sunshine, it's so cold, wet and windy up here that we've put the heating back on and are tucked up in the living room with the woodburner going full blast (yes, I've been reading Gallygirl's diary, and decided I need to up the ante in my smiley use )

I've ordered another year's worth of contact lenses - £77 from Vision Direct with 10% cashback to come from Quidco. Good thing I've given it a bit of lead time (the pair I'm wearing at the moment are okay until the end of the month), as they're out of stock and are going to take a week (plus Easter, I suspect) to arrive.

The window installer is starting at 9am tomorrow. I've got tea and coffee but I forgot to pick up any biscuits yesterday. I could make some shortbread this afternoon, but I'm five days off the sugar now and I know that if I'm baking I'll end up eating some of the biscuit dough and that'll be it, straight back off the wagon!

Sales this weekend are looking utterly dire. Not sure what I'm going to do about this - I suspect it's to do with the enormous search boost that free P&P items get on eBay now and my current business model just doesn't work for free P&P. Yes, I could add the £1 P&P onto all my item prices and go 'free postage', but that loses me all the customers who'll buy 10-20 items at 99p - £1.50 on one order and they're the most profitable ones.

I'm thinking about leaving prices as they are and doing a free postage offer over the Easter weekend. Yes, it'll cost me a bit, but if eBay sales jump then it gives me an answer.

JustAboutThere

The proposed garden sounds great - once the wind dies down.

Am slowly catching up on diaries.

Only a other few episodes of Season 2 of The Following - I finally started watching after I'd taped about six episodes. Was that ever a depressing afternoon ploughing through them.

At least it was interesting. Which is more than be said of today's viewing: The Matrix trilogy. I'd taped them weeks ago. I saw the original film when it was released and never 'got it', so I thought I'd give it another attempt. Nope. Still means absolutely nothing, but now I've watched the 2nd (and still don't understand it), I'm thinking I may as well watch the third and get it over with.

Think I'll pull out the knitting to focus on.

cazmanian_minx

I feel your pain, my ex-husband was very into the Matrix trilogy. I did like the first one and actually understood it, but the second two just lost me :think:

I'm quite behind on my Sky+ viewing - usually I catch up during the day while I'm working and Mr Minx has free rein with the remote control at evenings and weekends, but now I've got the transcription work coming in, I have a lot less time! The only thing I'm up to date with is The Valleys As far as I can work out (I can't interrupt the football to check!), I have one The Following, two The Blacklist, two Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., two Person of Interest, two XIII and three True Detective to watch. Oh, and last week's Masterchef, but Mr Minx likes that too, so we're catching up on that this evening.

I'm sure there's something starting on Thursday that I want to record as well, but I can't remember what it was.

****beetles off to Sky website*****

Ah, Intelligence, that was it - 9pm Sky 1. Also looking forward to Penny Dreadful when it starts.

brizzledfw

wow..that's quite a list. Altho borrowed series 1 of Breaking Bad yesterday so hopefully can catch up a little and join you all in the twenty first century :rotfl:

Sorry re the raised beds not being started this weekend...but all sounding very hopeful. Well done. I will check out that seed company too..like to support the smaller folk and I am woefully behind on the veggies this year..shocking:o

Pippilongstocking

To say the weather is less than clement would be kind.

I worked, I got very wet, I retreated to an afternoon bath and then telly/woodburner and insideness.

Garden will wait - great stuff on the shop.

Must catch up on GG too!

JustAboutThere

Finished the end of The Matrix Trilogy. Nope. Definitely didn't like it.

On the plus side, I got a few row of knitting done.

cazmanian_minx

Weekend sales were dire - I only banked £160, though to be fair I spent £73 from the PayPal account on jiffy bags, but still, £233 is what I'd expect for a weekday, not Friday, Saturday and Sunday combined.

Fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow.

Pippilongstocking

Fingers crossed indeed.

Wasn't the weather actually (I hate to use the word) pleasant today.

I nearly needed a lie down as I strolled up to work after dropping van at mot place and thought thank goodness I wasn't attempting a 2 mile walk the day before I'd have been blown into the sea.

How's the hoss?

DebtFree2012

Hi caz, just catching up. Hope the sales pick up for you.


What came of your thoughts on "where do I want to be in life job wise?"


DF

cazmanian_minx

£180 banked this morning with another £333 working its way through the credit card processing system

The weather does seem to be unexpectedly good at the moment, which is a relief as I have two nice men here replacing all the windows. We're keeping two of the old windows to make cold frames with Finn is fine, thank you - once these things explode, they generally sort themselves out as long as the hole doesn't get infected. If I have time to get the fencing set up, they can come up to the top two fields this afternoon, which will make me VERY popular (until they work out that that means they get more work as it's just through the gate to next door's school instead of having to drag them up from the beach-level field!)

Nothing really came of those thoughts, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up I'd really like to live off my investment income, the problem is that you need to have some investments first :rotfl: It's days like yesterday that I have to tell myself very firmly to step AWAY from the spread betting account. I'm in profit with my spread betting in the years since that account was opened for me - I don't use it at the moment except for my free birthday bet every August - and the one rule I've always had with it is that I don't use it when my emotions are on the boil.