Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

Hello Friday and hello scores on the doors! You're going to like these

Business
Overdraft: -£-7,120.00 / -£6,970.00 +£150.00

Business total: -£7,120.00 / -£6,970.00 +£150.00

Personal
Nationwide card: -£1,050.00 / £0.00 +£1,050.00
Halifax card: -£5,430.00 / -£5,370.00 +£60.00

Personal total: -£6,480.00 / -£5,370.00 +£1,110.00

Grand total: -£13,600.00 / -£12,340.00 +£1,260.00

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Remember my goal was to get under £12,000 by the end of the year? I might just do it by the end of the month :beer:

In less happy news, Mr Minx rang the Sky people to find out if they had their dish delivery and was told they hadn't put one aside for me, every dish that had come in was spoken for and they didn't know when they were going to get more. So much for trying to shop local One has been ordered from Amazon at half the price and hopefully will be here tomorrow.

DebtFree2012

Wahooooooooooo congratulations. Goodbye Natoionwide card!!!!

Any plans for the weekend ?

cazmanian_minx

Work and workouts I think! I have a pretty large backlog on my to-do list, I've got a workout and some yoga to do on Saturday and an hour's run on Sunday, plus some shovelling to catch up on in the field and since I closed the gate to the top field this morning (the boys have broken through into the remaining bit of fresh grass five nights out of the last seven now, they managed to untie a reef knot this morning, so I've given up and let them into it!) I need to get some of last year's muck heap spread over it as soon as possible, before the grass gets too long to make it easy.

TizerCat

Well done Caz on this weeks scores on the doors excellent work! :T:T:T

LOL what naughty monkeys your ponios are..sound a lot like mine. Mine have been moved to the winter grazing too!

TC x

cazmanian_minx

Bit of a rollercoaster so far today. We went to the garage this morning to collect Mr Minx's truck. They'd taken it out for a test drive and stuck it back up on the ramp afterwards and no oil leak, so were cautiously optimistic they'd fixed the problem. We left my car parked in Thurso and took the truck to Wick, sniffing for oil every few minutes - got a bit of a heart-stopping moment when there was suddenly an absolutely reek of smelly engine, then realised we'd driven past the ploughing competition and a field of vintage tractors :rotfl: So we pulled up in Tesco's car park, jumped out, sniffed - uh-oh...and sure enough, when we looked underneath, there was oil dripping slowly out :(

So we had a depressed slouch around Tesco followed by a depressed lunch at the Norseman, because the garage had said that if that didn't fix it, they were out of options and it was going to have to go to the Nissan dealership in Inverness and we were probably looking at a four-figure bill. We drove back to Thurso to collect my car from outside the garage and saw they were still there (normally they'd have been shut for about 2 hours by that point, but because they'd squeezed Mr Minx's truck in, they were a bit behind and were catching up). We stuck our heads round the door to let them know that it hadn't worked and they said, 'How strange - bring it in and stick it on the ramp.' When they raised it, they found that the seal they'd replaced was dry as a bone, no leak at all - the leak was now coming from a different part of the diff!!

We've left it there, they're going to replace the other seal (in fact, Mr Minx is seriously considering ringing them on Monday and just asking them to replace ALL the remaining seals!) and hopefully that should fix the problem considerably more cheaply than a whole new diff supplied and fitted by Nissan

No other news apart from it's wet and miserable and I am about to de-badger my hair for the first time in nearly five months. Let's see how much of the annexe bathroom I cover in dye this time....

cazmanian_minx

Miracle of miracles, the annexe bathroom survived and I seem to have managed to cover all the grey bits

We slept in a bit this morning. I have no idea how my small cocker spaniel managed 11.5 hours without having an accident of any description on the living room carpet, but I am far more grateful to her than she could ever possibly imagine!! Today I have:

• Shovelled five barrowloads of manure off the fields (on top of yesterday's four - joys of a new patch of grass!)
• Demolished the ironing pile
• Been for an hour's run
• Downloaded the new version of Tradebox so I can get my accounts up to date and get the VAT return done tomorrow.
• Taken advantage of one of my UK suppliers offering a 10% discount this weekend.
• Sniped an eBay auction and got myself some Oasis Scarlet jeans for £4 plus £4 postage (about £45 new - I don't see any point in buying brand news ones to muck out in, but a secondhand pair will last me about five times as long as a cheap, thin pair from Tesco)
• Done a five-hour proofreading shift

I have to confess, I got so exasperated with the agency's proprietary transcription software this evening (it kept telling me that it couldn't load a 100MB .wav file because it was only 515kb in size) that I put my usual transcription software onto this laptop and also downloaded another free programme to trial it - need to reboot before it'll work, so that's a job for tomorrow. The agency's software is brilliant when it works (far better than anything else I've used, to be fair), but occasionally it throws a strop and it really needs Word 2007 or newer to get the best out of it (I'm on 2000).


Not quite sure where this weekend - or, indeed, October - has gone. Bead sales are down, but talking to some fellow eBay sellers, it seems that everyone's having a quiet period. I think the nice weather means that no-one's really realised how close Christmas is yet!

TizerCat

Well done on the jeans Caz absolute bargain! Bet the ponies will be impressed new hair and posh jeans :-D

Hope your having a rest after such a busy weekend!

TC x

DebtFree2012

Productive weekend there Caz though a b00dy nuisance about the truck! I hope they manage to fix it.

Great news on the jeans too - I agree, new is not the way forward esp for mucking out!

I must get something done about my hair too, leaving the colour for now but it's been well over a year, maybe 18 months since I had it trimmed and it's getting down to my behind now!

cazmanian_minx

It's Monday, right? They all seem to be blending into one at the moment.

Orders packed, proofreading done and I found some time this afternoon to do the VAT return as well.

The dog and I had a bit of a falling out this afternoon. She'll sometimes take herself off into next door's field while I'm mucking out, so I didn't take too much notice when she went out of eye-shot until I heard excited screaming from the direction of the beach along with a pheasant honking. Went down, opened our back gate, called her, she came back, we walked back up the hill, I went back to my shovelling...ten minutes later, more excited screaming from the beach. Only this time it took me quarter of an hour of calling her before she recovered from her temporary deafness and came back :mad: She got frog-marched back up the hill on a lead and I haven't really been speaking to her this evening, but she seems to have trodden on something that's irritated her paws This happened in the spring and we were sufficiently scared to book her an out of hours vet visit, this evening though I've just been dipping them in cold water (bicarb didn't do anything, so it's obviously not nettles this time) and after about 45 minutes she's finally settled down a bit and stopped licking them and scrabbling at the carpet. Poor girl

Pippilongstocking

Poor lass.

And, yup monday but almost done.

Hope she's OK.