Caz counts it down

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Definitely getting there CM.

cazmanian_minx

Ha, remember I was all chuffed at saving money because we decided not to buy Foo Fighters tickets? Well, Mr Minx's OTHER favourite band, AC/DC, is playing Hampden Park, Glasgow, five days after the FF concert and he's never seen them live.... That's the rest of his Christmas present sorted then, tickets go on sale next Wednesday and the gig is two days before his birthday, so I can do travel and accommodation for his birthday present.

We had another power cut yesterday, off from about 3pm to around 10.30 after a distribution pole caught fire 7 miles away and knocked out several villages. Good thing I didn't say yes to the extra proofreading work I was offered in the afternoon, as I'd have let them down completely.

cazmanian_minx

Got through tonight's proofreading shift with only one brief powercut, result

gallygirl

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

Wahooooo where are the dancing bananas?

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

No more dancing bananas until it starts with a £9

Not entirely sure I agree with you Caz, but it is your thread so I'd better abide by it

cazmanian_minx

Love the dancing Santas, GG, thank you!!

Not a lot to report today, only 30 orders to post and a very rude eBay message from someone threatening me with negative feedback if I didn't refund him for his missing order (what was really annoying is that the message he was replying to was asking him whether he wanted a refund or a replacement). Unfortunately eBay says that it didn't count as feedback extortion or any other reportable offence, so I just had to seethe.

I did manage to get through a really tough workout this evening, which is about the only thing I've had a sense of achievement about today. This is what today's programmed workout was:

Activation
10 x lunges
10 x Changeover
10 x Back Extension
2 Rounds

Skill
5 Overhead Squat, 5s pause
5 Drop Snatch
10 x Overhead pogo hops (balls of feet)
3 Rounds

Conditioning
EMOM x 32
1 - 6-10 Burpee
2 - 10-15 x Sit up
3 - 10-12 HR Push Up
4 - 30s Static Sprint

and I was doing it on the rug in front of the log burner, so I was running with sweat by the time I finished - it almost wasn't worth taking my t-shirt off when I got in the shower!

Operation Closedown is starting slowly - I'm working through the charms section to start with.

cazmanian_minx

Well, good news and bad news today. The good news was that my lovely farrier said that he had so little to do to Merlin's that he refused to take any money off me at all! The bad news was that a £132 order to the Netherlands has gone missing (posted in October and the buyer very kindly waited six weeks before even contacting me about it to make sure it really wasn't going to arrive) and I had to put a refund through for it, so no bead money banked at all today.

Getting a bit nervous about cashflow in the forthcoming months, but I guess I've only got two more outstanding stock invoices to pay and they total less than £1,000, so it's just day-to-day running costs now as I wind things down.

Chrysalis1976

Oh no that's not good with the missing orders, any way to trace them at all?

Your exercise sounds good although I am being very lazy (too much work) and no running at all so feeling very out of condition. Once the xmas hols start I promise to get back into it!

C x

cazmanian_minx

I think the shop has already closed itself - four orders to go today And to think I was worried about getting everything packed and posted before taking the car into town for its service and MOT!

dawnybabes

Not good :-(

cazmanian_minx

Well, we're not going to AC/DC either. Just before the tickets went on sale, the 'prices' link went live and I discovered that they were £70 a seat plus 10% booking fee - so it would have been £154 for two tickets, plus transport to Glasgow, plus a hotel, plus kennels, plus horse sitting. I phoned Mr Minx at work and we decided that given there was only likely to be one original band member on stage, we'd rather have some extra in the Mauritian cocktail fund! That does mean that I now need to find him a Christmas present - he said, helpfully, that he did see something last week that made him think, 'Damn, if I wasn't getting AC/DC tickets for Christmas I could have asked for that,' but now he can't remember what it was!

Anyway, it was obviously the right decision, because the car failed its MOT Two corroded brake pipes need replacing, plus a minor problem with the handbrake - they didn't have time to do the brake pipes today, so they rang me up and said that it would save me money if they didn't do the service today after all and instead I re-booked it for another day within the cheaper partial re-test fee period. I trust these guys, they've never seen me wrong yet, and they didn't ask for any payment today, saying we'd settle it all up at the end, so it's going back on Tuesday. It'll be about £130 for the service, whatever the MOT plus re-test costs and then a bit extra on top for the brake pipes. Good thing I've got £300 budgeted for it, though I was hoping not to need it all.

Looking on the bright side, they caught me before I'd settled into the Park Hotel for my Christmas lunch, so all I spent today was £5.50 on a bucket of hot chocolate and a slice of tray bake plus £6 on a pair of jeans from the charity shop. I found a pair of my favourite Oasis Scarlets Older ones, the label's different and the material's a bit thinner, but they're only going to be used for mucking out in. I tried on some Calvin Klein's (£6.50) which were a bit too big and some lovely Levis (£5.75) which were on a size 10 hanger but really, really tight - I could only just get them on and done up, which was initially disappointing, but when I was taking them off I saw the label and it said Size 4! They must have been bought in America, that's roughly a UK 8 and the last time I was anywhere near that size I was about a stone lighter than I currently am - I must have packed on some serious muscle in the last five months