Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

Almost a day off today, as I had to take my mother-in-law to the hospital for a scan and as it was at 11am we decided to have lunch out afterwards. However, I've still managed to do one and two-thirds more spreadsheet job files (I was going to say just two outstanding now, but I've just checked the place they put them for me to download and there are another two up there now!) and finish NEL's file.

Already got my work for the agency tomorrow, a 44-minute summary and a 33-minute full to do. Going to be a busy day!

DebtFree2012

Enjoy your busy day and think of those pennies

cazmanian_minx

Morning - some early scores on the doors today as I was out early to move the horses before it got too hot (they're on a sectioned off bit next door now, which hasn't been grazed for nearly four weeks - they think I'm the world's best mum right now )

Business
Barclaycard: £1,990.00 / -£1,410.00 +£580.00

Personal
Halifax card: -£4,750.00 / -£4,750.00 no change

Grand total: -£6,740.00 / -£6,160.00 +£580.00

Told you I'd got the bit between my teeth with that Barclaycard Next week won't be as good, because I have to stick £232.73 aside for the eBay fees, but once that's stashed it'll be full steam ahead on the card again.

This week's milestones - smashing through into the £21k paid off bracket and zooming past the 50% of the business card paid off marker

DebtFree2012

That is coming down SO quickly - fabulous!!!!

gallygirl

As is customary....

cazmanian_minx

Quick drive-by posting to say that clever Mr Minx managed to find a second-hand field roller locally for £80 and we were able to get it onto the flat-bed of the pick-up Given the one he was looking at online was over £1,000, this is a huge bargain! All I need to do now is spend some quality time with a pallet, a hammer, a rope and a bag of long nails to make myself a harrow and that's my field maintenance sorted

cazmanian_minx

I'm nearly up to date with the spreadsheet job, just 18 minutes left, which I'm going to do first thing tomorrow. Last week of interviews for that coming up, so hopefully I'll be able to invoice them soon.

Mr Minx has had a happy afternoon towing his new roller around the second field

cazmanian_minx

All the money for the eBay fees bar £1.40 is now allocated in YNAB. Just need £32 for the phone bill and £5 for the business account charges and then everything else can go to the card, though I may need some more jiffy bags at some point this month as well.

The agency has sent me reformatting work for the past couple of days - files that aren't quite up to their standards that they need someone to listen through and correct. It's less well paid, but it's much, much faster to get through, so yesterday I was able to get through the eBay accounts and today I did a whole load of meeting notes for Mr RPC.

Tomorrow's almost a day off - no agency shift, a 17-minute interview to type for the spreadsheet project and something to read through for Mr RPC. So I'm hoping to be able to watch the Budget and then I'm off into town for my first haircut since last July when Mr Minx's barber gave it a trim. I am actually going to a ladies' hairdresser this time - I've let about an inch and a half of roots grow out, so I'm going to ask them to match it as closely as possible and then put some highlights in, with the plan of then growing out a few inches to see what's actually going on under the dye. I got my first grey hairs when I was 14 and they absolutely exploded when I left my first husband. As mid-brown hair with white streaks in it isn't a particularly great look, I've been covering it up for years, but I think it may now have all gone a proper steel grey with silver bits, so after seeing the most amazing picture of the Times fashion editor, Anna Murphy, who is only a couple of years older than I am, I'm going to let it grow for a while and hope very hard that it looks something like this:



In other news, celebrating (if that's the right word on such a sad anniversary) ten years since Mr Minx and I got together today We were both in London on the day of the bombings and just decided life was too short and too precious not to tell each other how we felt.

stepuptothepl8

Hi :hello:
Just wanted to say hi, & you're doing so well! Let me know how your hair looks; I've been going grey since I was 18 & covering it up at home every 6 weeks is expensive!
xx

cazmanian_minx

I've remembered why I avoid hairdressers. Three hours and 45 minutes and they got a bit carried away with the highlights, so I've gone from dark brown to practically blonde and really don't feel like me at the moment! They straightened it as well, hopefully by tomorrow I'll have got some of my curls back after sleeping on it.

Other grumps for today include my laptop only booting up into safe mode (it occasionally hangs on start-up, just before the Windows log-in screen - normally booting into safe mode, shutting down and then re-starting fixes it, but not today, the PC crashing and Barclaycard's website only showing me a blank white screen after I'd logged in. System restore isn't working on the laptop either, because there's a file it needs that seems to be locked by something else, so I've copied everything onto an external hard drive and will do a return to factory settings in the morning (computers and electrical equipment play up left, right and centre when I'm in this kind of mood, so I'm not even going to attempt to fix it tonight!)

I did manage to watch the budget though, one of the more interesting ones in recent years. Tomorrow's papers are going to be interesting!