Caz counts it down

gallygirl

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:It's the same kind of movement, isn't it?? I have Googled, I'm now officially disappointed that there is no typing banana smiley (or at least not one that I can find!)

Here you go Oh, you said typing, not tiepin . Is this close enough?

cazmanian_minx

Thank you, that will do beautifully

Just finished work for the night, so time to tally up today's typing total (cor, alliteration'r'us!)

33 minutes interview for agency = £15.18
115 minutes for journalist = £76.67 (KERCHING!!!)
About half an hour of stuff for Mr RPC = £5.00 (which reminds me, I need to upload a copy of the client email I sent out, have emailed myself to remind me to do it in the morning)

Total = £96.85

Tomorrow is going to be a very well-deserved day off and hopefully a lie-in as well!

Pollygarter

Newbie here, and loving looking at the debt progress you've made. Early days for me, and just exploring multiple income streams as have always just relied on the one job. I have a bit of spare time and looking to see how to make it work. Does proofreading pay well? I have experience from training days. I've not read all of your postings but guess you do this typing and proofing work from home given your glorious location!

cazmanian_minx

Hi Polly No, the proofreading has been paying me less than minimum wage, so I'm in the process of going back to typing for the same place. It's supposed to pay around £7.50 an hour, but they're basing their calculations on being able to proofread a transcript of an hour's audio, make the necessary corrections and write a feedback report in 20-25 minutes - that's around 15-20 pages of A4 and I just couldn't get fast enough. Whereas the 33 minute interview I typed up yesterday took me about 90 minutes and earned me £15.18, so a much, much better rate! Helps that my typing speed is around 100wpm though.

I've had a lovely afternoon sorting my vegetables out. The following are now out of the cold frame and into the raised beds:

• 12 peas (bush-type, so they should support each other as they grow apparently)
• 6 broad beans
• 40 onions (grown from seed this time, I've never had luck with sets)

The peas and beans have home-made individual mini cloches made from sawn-off soda water bottles, the onions are roughing it, but it's not too windy, so hopefully the gentle breeze will encourage them to thicken up a bit. Also planted:

• 18 seed potatoes (not counting the ones that have sprouted up from the depths of my muck heap :rotfl:)
• Two rows of parsnips
• Two rows of carrots
• One curly kale plant donated by mother-in-law
• One parsley

And finally I started to tackle the strawberry bed. I put in five strawberry plants last year. They loved the manure so much that they forgot about producing fruit and simply put runners out in all directions. I've taken out 13 and repotted them in the bottom bits of the soda water bottle cloches and have barely cleared space in one corner! I think I have 40 or so more to remove, so hopefully friends and neighbours will take a few and then any left over can go to the local plant place - it's a polytunnel on a croft that operates an honesty box system, but people take their surplus plants there too. Last year I got all my seed potatoes and tomato plants from her free, so definitely time to give something back this year.


Still to go in - leeks (just about germinating now, they've been very slow), tomatoes (two types, one for salad, one for sauces, not sprouted yet), Brussels sprouts (not sprouted yet), calabrese (not sprouted yet) and celeriac (Mr Minx thinks he's just spotted the first one in the propagator!). Also got an assortment of salad leaves to sow, but they're going in the garden, so I need to get on with sorting those beds out tomorrow.

brizzledfw

Wow..great veggie and fruit growing plans there.. sounds excellent. We are also trying to make this a real good year for the allotment and the beds at home. Great to also hear how you're coining in the cash from the transcribing Caz

Will try and drop in more often and see how youre doing

Brizzle x

cazmanian_minx

Hello, stranger, nice to see you back!

Three strawberry plants rehomed and another four to be dropped off tomorrow I've had a nice pottering day; the ironing pile has been completely demolished in front of the Blacklist and the Following, 16 orders are packed up ready to go out tomorrow, I've answered all outstanding eBay queries, listed four beads I normally do in packs of 50 as bulk packs of 500 to see if they start selling quicker, caught up on all my transcription invoicing and am now about to start my second-to-last Sunday night proofreading shift.

Mr Minx has also had a productive day, he's patched the sump on the L200 (got to wait for 24 hours before refilling it to see if it's worked), repaired the annexe door, cleaned his car and is now cooking supper

cazmanian_minx

Lots of celeriac sprouted now and I spotted my first calabrese seedling when I closed up the cold frame earlier

Funny sort of day. No work from the agency, so I packed up the remaining orders (25 went in total), did two loads of laundry, took some strawberry plants to a neighbour (that ended up being 45 minutes catching up on the local gossip), had lunch and then wandered back into the office about 2pm to see Mr RPC had been trying to get me on Skype. He asked if I could type something for him tonight if he sent it by 7.30 - of course I can Then I checked my email to find I'd been invited to work with my second Elance client again - a 30 minute file this time, which I whizzed through and had it returned to him 3 hours after he contacted me (and I didn't see his email for an hour and Mr Minx came home while I was doing it!).

Now winding down from an hour's work for Mr RPC by a bit of web browsing and applying for another two transcription jobs on Elance - I logged in to find a message from NEL with another three files for me , which I've accepted, and also applied for one UK-based person wanting a podcast transcribed and one American person wanting 6 hours of meditation videos transcribed. I stand a reasonable chance of getting the first and not much chance of getting the second, but it would be great if I did because $360 would come in handy right now. We'll see.

The nice journalist I was working for last week paid her invoice on Sunday, so I had a fiddle around with YNAB this morning, shuffled money between accounts and came to the conclusion that if I didn't want to take any bead money out, I was going to have to withdraw the Elance money. So I went via PayPal and the exchange rate wasn't great, ($1.53 to the £ versus xe.com showing a wholesale rate of $1.49 to the £) but certainly a lot better than paying £7 on £160.

I still have another journalist invoice and Mr RPC's March invoice due in before the end of the month, but previous experience tells me both of those will be late

Oh, the other thing I got done this afternoon was to get some more stock listed on eBay - I hadn't realised quite how few of the remaining stock of cabochon settings were actually up for sale, so I stock-counted the rings and the earrings and got them all listed. Fingers crossed that brings in some quick cash to get rid of the last of the overdraft by May 1st.

Pollygarter

Thanks for the advice on that. 100wpm is pretty amazing. I can touchtype too, a skill I learned back in the 80s when everyone said why do you want to learn that.. Its been one of the best things I ever did learn of course. But I'm not that speed.

The veg and strawberry talk has me salivating. I think I'm just on the verge of a major life shift which may sort out all my debt issues and allow me to live more simply and cheaply. Made an offer on a much smaller house, but it still has all I need. Its been accepted. It has four raised beds in a little veg patch..yay! Let's hope this all goes ok.

cazmanian_minx

Oooh, good luck with the housebuying, keep us posted

It's been a fairly quiet day today, which is no bad thing. One file typed for NEL, one file typed for Mr RPC, 6 orders taken to the Post Office and the library van turned up, so I now have a MAHOOSIVE pile on my bedside table!

I've been thinking for a while that it might be an idea to get some insurance in case I accidentally type a decimal point in the wrong place on one of Mr RPC's letters and mess someone's investments up, so a few quotes later and Hiscox are covering me for £250,000 professional indemnity insurance for £9 a month. Worth it for the peace of mind I think - it's something the agency recommends all its typists have in place too.

I had a bit of a rush of blood to the head today and listed all the remaining bead shop stock as a job lot for £15,000. Probably won't get a bite, but wouldn't be nice if I did....??

cazmanian_minx

Just logged into Elance quickly to check for new transcription jobs (most of the US ones with sensible budgets are posted in the evening) and found I had not one but two invitations to submit proposals for projects I currently have ten proposals outstanding, if all ten accept I'm probably in trouble but given some of them date back about three weeks, it's unlikely. Hopefully I'll wake up to new work in the morning