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cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Mr Minx dropped me further up the road as I'm cat and chicken sitting for neighbours

I'm sorry, but when I read this I got this vision of you sitting between the cat and the chickens to keep them apart, like a referee

Sounds like things are going (busily) but well. Take care.

cazmanian_minx

*waves feebly from the sofa*

No, I'm not ill, I'm suffering from early-birthday-present-itis! Up here, in the middle of nowhere, we have a young chap who is a former Scotland rugby international who's set up a personal training business. Now, he's based on the far side of Caithness, about a 90 mile round trip, which is too far for me to get to his classes regularly, but last week he posted on his business Facebook page to say he had a few vacancies for online distance training and I asked Mr Minx if he'd pay for a couple of months for my birthday present next month.

Well, we've got started a bit early, I did my first strength workout last night. The only move that was completely new to me was the glutes one and let's just say that stairs are a bit challenging today :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: He says as long as I stick to the program he designs for me, I'll be a 'supple leopard' by the end of it - Mr Minx promptly offered to pay for a year :D:p

Thanks to a glut of proofreading last night and today, my July invoice is already up to £188 and £707.70 landed in my account today for June I also banked over £500 for the beads, but I REALLY need to place a stock order ASAP as I've sold out of loads of stuff :eek: I just didn't get a spare second today. At the moment, I have no proofreading for tomorrow morning and all orders placed up to 5pm have been packed up, so I'm planning to do it first thing tomorrow - hopefully they'll be able to get it on its way the same day.

dawnybabes

If you're bad today, just wait till tomorrow :-)

cazmanian_minx

Actually, today's been fine I'd mostly loosened off by this morning and did my first conditioning workout this evening.

We had a small delivery this evening...



Now, I know Mr Minx isn't the tallest of chaps, but that is an urking big lorry and the picture only shows the end stack - there were three stacks of three metre tree trunks, all of which got offloaded into the field. 25 tonnes of wood, including VAT and delivery, £787.50 - and that should last us about eight years

I thought it was going to be a quiet day, but then I got a couple of short transcription files and eight to proofread and it ended up quite busy after all. I did manage to get my stock order through first thing though, hopefully they managed to get it out today.

The best news of the day though is that I paid a great big £500 chunk off the Barclaycard :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Verbatim

Well done! I'm looking forward to Friday's scores.

dawnybabes

£500 - thats fantastic xx

LAM2011

Gosh you are doing really well - hope they continue to feed you work.

When I look at that lorry - I see cross country jumps we have a few new ones at the yard.

I am competing this weekend so hopefully she will pull it out the bag on the day as we have had a few issues lately which is NOT good for the nerves at my age!

cazmanian_minx

LAM2011 wrote: »

I am competing this weekend so hopefully she will pull it out the bag on the day as we have had a few issues lately which is NOT good for the nerves at my age!

Oooh, good luck. Eventing or show jumping? Fingers crossed she behaves anyway.

Another busy day. A couple of hundred pounds banked for the beads and more proofreading - my invoice for the month is *already* at £244 and there's transcription to add on top of that!

Off into Thurso to meet up with a friend for dinner, she's up checking on a project the company she works for has with one of the engineering companies up here. Mr Minx has given me the voucher he won at work for a local restaurant, but looking at it, it expired on 30th June I am going to see if they'll accept it, we do eat there quite a lot, but managed to lose this down the back of a drawer for several months. Fingers crossed.

LAM2011

Eventing so wish me luck - only doing BE80 but it feels like I have been round Badminton when I have finished. She flies xc - can be a bit 'looky' show jumping but dressage can be tricky - typical TB mare - if she feels like it - she does great - one thing sets her off and thats it 4 mins of hell lol.

cazmanian_minx

Ah, along the lines of 'Enter at working gallop. Slow at X, then spook right.' Fingers crossed she has her sensible head on

After today's proofreading session is added to my proofing and transcription totals, I've made £300 this month ALREADY!! Good thing too, because I finally got the June accounts done for the beads and Sage reckons I've made a loss of £139 I was trying to figure out why on earth that was and then remembered that I was shut on eBay for the first eight days If I'd been trading normally I'd have been in profit, but not by much.

Anyway, I banked £220 from PayPal today and YNAB is looking reasonably healthy. I need another £770 for supplier payments, another £200-ish for the regular monthly bills like BT, the shop software etc. etc. and then something to pay me with because I haven't taken any money out yet this month, but the tax bill for the end of the month is covered and I did the VAT return today and that's covered as well.