Caz counts it down

Brightspark87

Hi Caz well done on the long tape - I hope it pays well! x

cazmanian_minx

Sadly no, they only pay 29p a minute for summarising, but every little helps I suppose! Today I've done an 83-minute interview for 50p a minute, beautifully clear audio and a slow speaker, so I was able to whip through it really fast NEL has asked if I can do 4 x 60 minute interviews by the end of the month for 75p a minute (yes, of course I can!), journalist 1 has a celeb interview coming over for me and I've got a 51-minute file for the agency tomorrow.

What else? Took the horses for a walk round the village with Mr Minx tonight, which was nice, and I was particularly glad he was with us (I'd been going to take them on my own) when we went round the loop in the road and saw that there was the most enormous bull lying down in one of the fields. Both horses slammed on the brakes, grew several inches and started snorting, but after a bit of time standing there and looking at it, they were persuaded to go past.

I've also finally started tidying up the annexe a bit - I've managed to get a lot of stock shifted upstairs and it's looking better already. Mum's got to sleep in there first week of August, so I have about two weeks to get it presentable!

cazmanian_minx

51-minute file done, 25-minute file done for NEL with two longer ones from her in the queue to work through tomorrow and over the weekend

Farrier visit for the boys today who, in his usual lovely way, refused to take the full amount off me. We were a little concerned by Merlin, who was clearly uncomfortable lifting his right hind above a certain height. Hopefully he's just pulled a muscle going on high alert at the bull yesterday and will be fine in a day or so - he certainly trotted away sound when we went down to the shelters after the rain started!

I've got to take the car into the garage tomorrow afternoon. There's a rattling sound whenever I start it or turn it off, I'm pretty certain it's the exhaust coming loose. Mr Minx has had a look underneath it and prodded all the relevant parts and reckons nothing's going to drop off imminently, but I'd rather get it checked and sorted out.

cazmanian_minx

Anybody know what happened to this morning? Anyone? Bueller? (That shows my age!)

Scores on the doors, anyway:


Business
Barclaycard: £1,210.00 / -£1,050.00 +£160.00

Personal
Halifax card: -£4,700.00 / -£4,700.00 no change

Grand total: -£5,910.00 / -£5,750.00 +£160.00

Better than expected, given what a rubbish week it was for eBay sales. However, I have a £280 Royal Mail bill due on 5th August and only £30 YNABbed against it, so next week's takings will be all allocated to that and the next eBay bill, which is due five days later.

So far today I've done a 46-minute celeb interview for Journalist 1, three short bits of work for Mr RPC (which got interrupted by a fledgeling dunnock zooming in through the open door of the annexe - unfortunately the dog beat me to it and although it seemed undamaged and perked up a bit after I dripped some water into its beak and let it rest in my hands, it sadly expired when I took it back outside ), phoned the medical centre to get an appointment to see the nurse (the annoying lump on the ball of my foot I got after the half marathon back in March has gone from being annoying to slightly ouch to making me limp, so time to stop messing about hopefully with Germolene and get it looked at!) and am now going to pack up my orders and take the car into town, along with the five bags from the spare room for the SSPCA and Cancer Research.

Have a good weekend everyone

DebtFree2012

Have a lovely weekend Caz. Hope you get the foot sorted! Shame about the fledgeling but good news for +160

cazmanian_minx

The lump has turned out to be a CORN! I'm horrified, I thought only old people got corns!! Nothing they can give me for it at the surgery, so I shall have to pick something up when I'm next in town, though they sent me away with some adhesive stuff to cut out a corn plaster from to take the pressure off and some paint-on stuff for my manky toenail.

55 minutes done for NEL today, along with 20 minutes of stuff for Mr RPC who is back from holiday. Other than that, not really sure where today has gone! Orders, obviously, though not that many of them, and then a few incoming phone calls - one of which was about that house we have our eye on, we can have a viewing tomorrow morning So Mr Minx is taking the morning off work and will then drive me into town afterwards to pick up my car, which has been fixed - hopefully not too expensively!

DebtFree2012

Glad you know what it is but at least is isnlt what I thought you'd put - that you had a piece of corn in your foot - ie under the skin and the skin had grown around it. That would have been worse and I know people it's happened to

How exciting about the viewing - I hope it's fabulous for you!

sugarcube84

Love the Germolene comment, I'm a big fan of doing that and hoping everything goes away!!

cazmanian_minx

Viewing interesting, reply to an email I sent my solicitor about it last week even more interesting Let's say that the whole thing is not without issues, all of which are resolvable, but this is, as Sir Humphrey would say, a courageous step to be taking! However, faint heart never won fair house and all of that.

DebtFree2012

That's exactly how I am feeling - I had a bit of a panic on this morning but a swift chat with DH sorted that out. Enjoy