Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

Absolutely no typing work whatsoever today! With the weather so vile, that would normally be an excuse to fire up the woodburner and veg out on the sofa for the afternoon, but instead I've been stock checking the rest of the cabochon settings (pendants, brooches, cufflinks and bangles - did earrings and rings a couple of weeks ago) and have now got everything in that section listed on eBay (apart from a small snagging list of six items which need photographing).

Um, this afternoon's work totals enough to pay the Barclaycard off if it all sells at normal price....:o:o:o:o Really must crack on with doing the rest. Mr Minx is away for the weekend watching the Navy lose at Twickenham so hopefully I can have another couple of good sessions. I've emptied another three cardboard boxes as well - my horribly messy annexe is still horribly messy, but there's space appearing upstairs, so as I work through sections of stock, I can start moving it out of the ground floor area.

WeeMidgie

Hurrah for Mr RPC! It's nice to be appreciated, especially as regards financials.

Good going Caz!

cazmanian_minx

Hooray, I have a file from the agency 51 minutes, more than four speakers, so at the higher rate, and it's nice, clear audio with no-one speaking over anyone else (so far - I'm only ten minutes in).

Good thing too, as the net result of all my hard work eBaying yesterday afternoon has been the grand total of three orders, none of which are for anything I listed. So, state of business YNAB - the eBay fees are covered, the phone bill is covered, the Royal Mail bill needs another £207.49 and I need to put aside £5 for the business bank account fee and probably about £50 for stationery (about to run out of labels). After that, I need at least £500 for me and then the rest can be thrown at the Barclaycard.

Right, back to the typing. Catch you all later

cazmanian_minx

Anyone else still up or is it just me? Can't believe these results coming in from Scotland - have a horrible feeling our MP will go (John Thurso, Lib Dem), which will be a crying shame, he's done a fantastic job.

cazmanian_minx

Yup, he went He actually polled more votes than 2010 when he had a healthy majority, but the Labour vote almost completely defected to SNP.

I just logged into my spreadbetting account to see what the markets were making of the result and couldn't resist a quick up-bet (this is why I should really close the damn thing down, though to be fair it's the first time I've used it in a couple of years) - £10.40 on its way to my bank account

I can do the scores on the doors for you right here and now - no change!

cazmanian_minx

Oh, now that's interesting - I was dropping the post off today and apparently someone was in there yesterday saying that I'd said I'd leave Scotland in the event of an SNP landslide. Now, the *only* place I've said something that could be construed that way anywhere online is here, a few posts up, where I said that neither of us particularly wanted to live in an independent Scotland if the SNP unilaterally declared independence after a Holyrood landslide next year.

So hello local lurker, whoever you are

DebtFree2012

Slight shiver down my spine there!

cazmanian_minx

Goes with living in a sparsely-populated area If someone knows me or knows of me then it's very, very easy to link me to this thread.

Monday morning then, and no file from the agency yet, however I've had a lovely email from NEL who contacted me on Friday to ask if I could finish a file for her as she'd been hit with a migraine. I did the file and she's insisting on paying me for the entire file, even though I only listened through the first 15 minutes (it was speaker IDs, so I needed to learn the voices, and she'd marked a few bits as inaudible, some of which I was able to get) and typed the remaining 12. She should have some more work for me this week, which is great, and Mr RPC is sending me stuff too, though I'm currently stymied with it, because he thought I had access to one of his email inboxes which I don't, so he's trying to sort that out for me.

Currently packing up 30 eBay orders and making a mental list of everything we need/want to spend money on over the next few years. In no particular order:

• Replace roof (c. £14,500)
• Re-gravel driveway (c. £500)
• Sort out third field drainage (c. £1,000)
• Fortnight in Mauritius (c. £3,500)
• Harrow and roller for quad (c. £500)
• Decorate bedroom and living room (c. £500)
• New carpets throughout (c. £1,500)

It's struck me that we've been here seven years next month and we're still living with the previous owner's carpets, curtains and walls in much of the house! We've done the porch, the hall, the dining room and the not-quite-big-enough-for-a-bedroom and painted the walls of the proper spare room (green carpet, red curtains, sunflower yellow walls - something had to give!), but our room, the landing, the kitchen, the living room and the annexe are all as they were when we moved in and the house had been empty for two years before that, so it's all well over ten years old.

cazmanian_minx

Ooof, what a day. 8 minutes for Mr RPC, 56 minutes for the agency, finished off the last 20 minutes of the three files I got from Journalist 1 yesterday, did a 25-minute interview for Journalist 2 and rounded off the day by proofreading/copy-editing the programme for a polo tournament! (The other files were all really, really interesting, but unfortunately I can't tell you about them because it would breach confidentiality agreements!)

The library turned up with a big pile of books for me too. Quite chuffed I managed to get through 11 of the 14 it brought me three weeks ago, hopefully I can catch up before it comes back with another load in three weeks' time (I may have got a little bit carried away ordering stuff - because it's a van and doesn't carry much stock, there are no charges for ordering books from any library in the entire Highlands area).

The new oven arrived as well, which was a surprise - Mr Minx didn't realise until after he'd paid for it that the website he bought it through was fulfilled by AO and it had 'We do not deliver to the Highlands' in large letters in its FAQ, so we were waiting for the inevitable email cancelling the order and notifying us of the refund. But no, it turned up this afternoon with two friendly blokes who carried it into the kitchen for me and it's all fitted and working. You need a pilot's licence to operate the thing, it's got so many settings, but it has a specific one to make pizza bases crispy, which means Mr Minx is going to be a very happy man come the weekend

I have to do a rapid tidy-up in the spare room tomorrow as we have a total stranger coming to stay for the night. Maggie and her dog, Oscar, are cycling 5,000 miles around the UK for charity and someone posted on Mr Minx's work noticeboard to say that they needed a bed in our area tomorrow night, so he offered our spare room. Really looking forward to meeting her, it's an incredible trip to take on at any age, let alone 65! http://dogontour.co.uk/

DebtFree2012

Wow how wonderfully unexpected but lovely re the house guest/s.

Sounds like an interesting day work wise, all be it a tiring one! Busy is good though, the pennies are coming in and even time to read! Any recommendations?