Pollyanna

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Well, there's a Steinway baby grand on ebay for a snip at £22,000
I wonder how much I have in my purse.................


Edit - it's free postage, so that's a few quid saved. Bonus!

ChopinonaBudget

Paid £1.43 off the library fines.
So that's DFW progress then

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Bit fed up with Mum's attitude towards my debts - although she has been amazing at lending me money and not asking for it back (since I explained that I just couldn't do it, and if I tried then I would have to ask to borrow again), I've started repaying at £50 a month, and told her I will be overpaying as much as I can, but she's not really understanding how much my income fluctuates and the impact this has on my overdraft. It's quite frustrating, as I try to explain that the overdraft is high because of lack of summer earnings, and she just sounds really disappointed, but actually it's progress as last year I had to borrow ON TOP of the overdraft to get me through summer. And all the way through till February.



And, I still don't think she understands why I don't have a "little rainy day fund" for when I don't have any money, as her parents always had "a little rainy day pot" for when they didn't have any money. I tried to get her to understand that my "rainy day pot" got raided as the rain never b****y stopped, but she still didn't get it. "But just for pennies, then". "Mum, I raided the pennies for money for bread and bus fares". "Well there you go, then."

Hmmmm.

I don;t think somebody who has never been in debt crisis will ever understand what it's like.

New resolution - give up trying to explain stuff to my Mum. Pay back what I can when I can, and stop stressing about it.

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Good news - I have a new student Starting first week back after half term, so that'll help matters

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Interestingly, my DFD dropped by two months as soon as I inputted my new student into my spreadsheet. It's always nice when that happens

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Is 'inputted' a word? Or should it be 'input'?

Where's a grammar nerd when I need one?

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Tidying took ten minutes in the end I've decided that I will have one day off a week without guilt of not being productive (well, I say "day", up till contact hours with students anyway....."

This week was today.
I have shopped (groceries, nothing exciting) and lazed about a bit.
:T

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Oh and after my rant about my mum, she texted and asked me to remind her to call her back if I phone her during the day as her phone calls are free and mine aren't.
Feel bad now

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I've been paid by BACS for a student due at 4pm. If I do a runner now and leave the country, I'll be £15 up.

Where's the ferry times?

Edit: my autocorrect apparently had me "doing a rubber". My mind is still boggling. It doesn't quite beat the text I sent my Mother that said I had 2 new adult leathers.

Or, in properpianospeak, adult learners...

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I'm bored. I'm going to do some keyboard harmony