Caz counts it down

brizzledfw

Take care Caz..v sorry to hear about MIL's confusion..stressful.

Loving the sheep pics tho.. I love lamb (and mutton )) :rotfl:)

DebtFree2012

That's great re the extra Mr RPC hours Caz, is it definitely regular? Great stuff!

cazmanian_minx

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

That's great re the extra Mr RPC hours Caz, is it definitely regular? Great stuff!

Well, as regular as anything ever is with Mr RPC, he can be a bit chaotic sometimes But yes, I was catching up with my invoicing this afternoon (for him, I write down all the stuff I work on in my work diary with the timings and then transfer it to a spreadsheet) and it's over £400 this month for him at the moment (normally he's around the £200-£240 mark). Basically after just over a year of working for him, he trusts me to get on with what needs getting on with and I set my own hours according to how long I think what he/his two managers have asked me to get done is going to take.

I can't believe it's only Wednesday; I seem to have worked enough hours this week for it to be Friday twice over. The last file in the project was finished and sent back. I've invoiced just over £200 for the whole thing and they've said there might be another project for me next month Journalist #1 got in touch with a more urgent file than the last one I had outstanding, so I did that one last night and have done 2/3rds of the other one. Also got in touch with NEL today to say that I was available for work again (I had to bale out half way through a file I was doing for her with MIL crisis, which I felt awful about, but she couldn't have been nicer about it), so there may be some trickling through from her.

Anyway, after working 6am until 10pm yesterday and 6am until 7.30pm today, I am awarding myself a few hours off tomorrow to go and learn some more sheep stuff up at Joyce's - she's sorting her ewes for the tup and has asked if I want to go over. She's in the final four of the first ever Scottish Sheep Farm of the Year award and the judges were visiting today, so I'm looking forward to hearing all about how it went.

DebtFree2012

How exciting - do tell us the updates if you can re the sheep/Joyce.

All sounding amazingly psotive on the work front, long may it last as I keep saying. I also hear you re the only Wednesday comment. Same here.

Have fun today.

cazmanian_minx

A nice afternoon in the sheep shed with lots of gossip

Am slightly annoyed with a certain mobile phone company today. Mr RPC likes to work via WhatsApp and my old HTC Wildfire choked on the most recent update on Tuesday, after which WhatsApp promptly warned me that it would stop working in 13 days if I didn't update it. So thought this was just the reason/excuse I needed to get myself a shiny new phone - I've been eyeing up the ones with WiFi Calling for a while (we have no mobile signal here, which is why I've hung onto the old HTC - it works with the old Orange Signal Boost system, so I can make calls through the broadband).

I placed the order on Tuesday night and when I hadn't heard anything today, I rang them. Because it's an expensive handset, they had to do some anti-fraud checks - fair enough. I failed the first one, the AVS check (this is where your address is checked against the billing address for your card), because AVS checks don't like houses that have both a name and a number, so they carried on to the second one. This is based on your credit report and asks various questions about your credit history, so I was fairly confident I'd fly through it as I'm pretty on top of things. Nope, failed that too, and now they have to flag it with CIFAS as a potential fraud against my credit record I checked the answers I'd given them against Noddle afterwards - turns out that the Halifax card is updating about three months behind the actual balance, which moved it from one band to another in the multiple choice answers they gave me.

I can still have a phone from them, but I have to go to the nearest store with ID, so firstly that's a 6 hour, 220-mile round trip, and secondly I won't get my £65 cashback Really, really annoying.

On a happier note, the electricity bill arrived today and despite a cold summer and having the direct debit lowered in March, we're £385 in credit with them, nearly £100 ahead of where we were this time last year.

Verbatim

Really annoying about the phone Especially the cashback.

cazmanian_minx

Phone company can go and swivel, I've managed to get the WhatsApp update to install Admittedly by taking all the apps that can't be moved to the SD card back to factory settings, but it's on there, so I'm okay for a bit longer.

I've been having a quiet Sunday afternoon of invoicing and, very cheerily, am owed a grand total of £1,479.37. Now off to clean the house.

Verbatim

Good grand total and totals in your signature! All looking good.

DebtFree2012

Only £4,600 to go - positively pennies, in comparison to mine Great going!

cazmanian_minx

It's actually £4,550 now, I haven't got round to updating it for October! Will try and do it later...