Caz counts it down

brizzledfw

Hi Caz..hope you have a great summer! Sorry haven't been popping by..RL has been full on but think of you often..not getting to your fair country for holiday this year but hopefully next

so so glad 'you're in the money' !

cazmanian_minx

Hello, hello - sorry for being AWOL for a few days, but it's been fab to have my family here

Scores first!

Business
Barclaycard: £1,020.00 / -£970.00 +£50.00

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

Grand total: -£5,720.00 / -£5,670.00 +£50.00

Down into three figures for the business debt It would have been more, but I had to put aside a couple of hundred for the eBay bill, which goes out on Monday. I should start blitzing it again next week.

So, there's a bit of progress on the house front. Basically, we have sorted the financing issue out and will be able to borrow the money privately at base rate plus 3%. The final hurdle now is the legals - our solicitor is part-time, so we'll email her and the seller's solicitor over the weekend to ask them to start talking to each other. As long as there's nothing unresolvable lurking in the paperwork, we're full steam ahead!

So with that in mind, I'd better get back to work Typing up a celeb interview for Journalist #1 today, have a few orders to pack and post and then any leftover time is going to be spent sorting out Mr RPC's accounts.

DebtFree2012

How FANTASTIC - I do, do, do hope it happens for you. We may be starting our next chapters together How lovely.

So come on, pics of the annexe now family has gone

Have a lovely weekend xx

Verbatim

Yes. Piccies please Caz.

cazmanian_minx

Okay, some before and afters, hopefully from roughly the same angles!



















Not done yet, but definitely a massive improvement!

DebtFree2012

A huge improvement, absolutely. Well done you and great pics for before and after

Verbatim

Much better!

cazmanian_minx

Had a fairly lazy Saturday after the usual trip into town. Sunday was a massive laundry, ironing and mucking out catch-up.

Today's been one of those busy-doing-nothing days. Only 8 orders to go, packed and posted and then spent most of the cash on some more jiffy bags. Wrapped and posted Mum's birthday present, stock checked and listed all amber and amethyst cabochons and then settled down to edit a short story I wrote years ago - the copyright has reverted to me, so I'm trying to lengthen it a bit to put on Amazon Kindle. (It was only 2,000 words in its original form, apparently Amazon doesn't particularly like anything under 2,500.) I'm most of the way there, I've got to the stage now where I really need to print it off and scribble on it.

cazmanian_minx

76-minute file for the agency and some work for Mr RPC today, along with another 9 orders to go. All business bills for August are now covered and eBay money is now being funnelled into September's YNAB.

Mr Minx's travel has come through for September and I don't know who he's been chatting up in the travel office, but they've put us in a lovely hotel in London for the one night we have there! I've been able to book my travel now too, and the train prices have almost doubled, so I'm going to EasyJet it both ways - it's cheaper and it means that when I get back to Inverness late at night I don't have to get from the airport to the town centre to get my car.

So, travel booked, animal sitting booked, all I need to do now is find us a really nice hotel for the three nights in Vienna between Mr Minx's conference ending and us flying home. Any recommendations?

AlexLK

No recommendations but I hope you have a nice time in Vienna. I'm not jealous, not one little bit... :rotfl: