Pollyanna

Heffi1

Ha Ha, it is funny when it is pointed out that you use a phrase or particular thing a lot, that you start to notice and become quite concerned about the over use, keep it up, they make me chuckle as it is something I would do.

I have someone I know who uses 'absolutely' all the time and sounds so insincere and in her case it is really annoying, I pointed it out to a colleague and they said how they found it annloying too, the woman who does it is not aware of it at all, but we all groan inwardly when she does it and a small chuckle goes round the room.

ChopinonaBudget

hahaha I know exactly what you mean!!
With me, I'm acutely aware I overgesticulate, especially when I'm teaching. I think it gives the impression I'm bonkers. I didn't write that on my CV

ChopinonaBudget

Goodness, I've already spent £10 at tesco (cookery ingredients, milk, bread yeast etc etc), written a sh***y letter to daughter's teacher about how No, I'm most definitely not buying her a 4gb memory pen with 2 days notice, I don't have a car, I work full time, and quite frankly I've ordered a reasonably priced one from eBay so she can wait for that. And in future, I need a week's notice for school equipment. Idiot teacher. She's pregnant, give her 15 years, she'll work out why that request p*****d off all the parents, especially the ones without money.
Have plans to finish hand written letter to job-beg (15th draft) (at least), pick up prescription for xanthan gum (weird stuff, makes bread work), buy MORE Tupperware (big enough for soup lesson!)

AND teach, deposit yesterday's takings, transfer money over, and hopefully get out for a drink with friends tonight (half a pint, £1.70, even on a month like this I can afford that!)

And it's so far only 8.30am.....:eek:

flowerofscotland

ChopinonaBudget wrote: »

Goodness, I've already spent £10 at tesco (cookery ingredients, milk, bread yeast etc etc), written a sh***y letter to daughter's teacher about how No, I'm most definitely not buying her a 4gb memory pen with 2 days notice, I don't have a car, I work full time, and quite frankly I've ordered a reasonably priced one from eBay so she can wait for that. And in future, I need a week's notice for school equipment. Idiot teacher. She's pregnant, give her 15 years, she'll work out why that request p*****d off all the parents, especially the ones without money.
Have plans to finish hand written letter to job-beg (15th draft) (at least), pick up prescription for xanthan gum (weird stuff, makes bread work), buy MORE Tupperware (big enough for soup lesson!)

AND teach, deposit yesterday's takings, transfer money over, and hopefully get out for a drink with friends tonight (half a pint, £1.70, even on a month like this I can afford that!)

And it's so far only 8.30am.....:eek:

Your diary is very inspiring and also very entertaining. You can write - have you ever sent in anything to newspapers or magazines for payment? IMHO you have an interesting story to tell about your struggles with everyday life due to your daughter's condition. Just a thought - feel free to ignore.

ChopinonaBudget

Aw thank you Flower, that's very sweet of you . I love that my diary is inspiring to you! I doubt that anybody would actually pay to read my ramblings though, as much as that would be great to make some cash out of the words that fall out of my brain!

Bad news - Student previously booked in for an hour a week downgraded to half an hour

Good news - I have new student for half an hour a week

Like my daughter's chemistry homework, my financial protons and elecrons have equalled out to give me neutrons

Bad news - I got turned down for the Sainsburys credit card

Good news - I don't shop in Sainsburys, they're too expensive, so to them

Bad news - I spent £7.50 on tupperware for soup cookery lesson. ouch.

Good news - Expensive tupperware is guaranteed liquid leak proof, so soup will get home in one piece after lengthy 1 hour bus journey, I then have free meal for dinner.

Good news - I'm going out tonght for beer :beer:

Allow me to repeat that bit (I'm ignoring the voice of my High School english teacher "A BIT is something that goes in a HORSE'S mouth!" God bless you and your Oxford commas, Mrs Wait)

I'm going out tonight for beer :beer:

Marvellous!!!!

ChopinonaBudget

Beer was marvellous, company was fantastic, a rather lovely few hours for the cost of not really very much at all. (we're dead cheap, us)
I chattted to a friend of mine about her new DMP, it looks like she can finally get a handle on her crippling repayments :T As long as the CCCS are as good as the reputation that precedes them, she should be ok.

We spent an hour or so last week looking through my soa, and going through all my figures (well, I'll discount the bu**ered up maths, the basic soa is still functioning!), she went home and did her own soa in preparation for the cccs application, I hope our time spent around my excel spreadsheets helped in some small way.

Good news - I get my timetable tomorrow for my Saturday teaching, will know in the next week or so if I've got any new students

More good news - Hollyoaks Later is on tv. It is absolutley HILARIOUS! The acting is just as bad but it's now in soft focus with wobblecam, channel 4's entire blood budget, and my daughter loudly complaining about it and even more loudly imitating the cast.
House of joy, this

ChopinonaBudget

I sent off that hand written letter and CV last night after spending £3.60 on 4 large envelope stamps. Really, post office, that's legalised theft. It'll be an interesting wait now to hear back, bearing in mind there was no actually job! I have two more to do over the next week... One to the other posh private school (private schools have a habit of hiring their own peripatetic music teachers, state schools tend to use music services), and on to the other music service in the area that didn't offer me work a week ago.

Interesting conversations yesterday: buying stamps at tesco - me "goodness, £3.60? That's a rip-off!" Fresh faced young cashier - "yes, flipping post office and their inflation" Me - looking quizzically "no, not inflation, rip-off" fresh faced young cashier - "isn't that the same thing?" Me - rendered fairly speechless. Pay for stamps. Leave.

Health food shop - Me "I need gluten free poppy seeds" (foods get contaminated in the factory, any health shop work should know this as they deal with people with allergies all the time) (I'm not going into details of how coeliac disease is actually autoimmune not allergy here) (but it is) (but you treat it like an allergy) Snotty Australian health food shop worker - "you do know poppy seeds don't contain gluten?" Me, resisting the urge to say what I really think, uncontrollably stares at her, before forcing myself to open my mouth and reply "yes I do know that" she offers me two brands of poppy seeds, neither of which she can check for contamination, so I stop her incessant rambling, tell her I'll buy something online, and leave, muttering.

Me to young piano student - this is a flat, do you know what a flat is?
Young piano student - "it's something people live in, like an apartment"

That one made my day!

I'll get my finalised timetable today so will know about extra students soon....
Spendy September is nearly at an end, I can see the light at the end of the proverbial

ChopinonaBudget

I am now very very very bored I am being awfully well behaved and writing out my 2nd CV, it's rather easier this time as I only really need to amend yesterday's to personalise it to the individual school, rather than doing it from scratch like I did with the original one!

So.....

I'm keeping myself occupied by temporarily adjusting my SOA based on the laughable idea that I might actually get an extraordinarily well paid job out of this...

Ready?

I could pay off all my debts in a year and buy a car

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

That's funny

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Right ho, back to the grindstone,
toodles

ChopinonaBudget

I am such in idiot!:o

I got the date wrong for the deadline for ABRSM exam entries, I had another week, which meant that I needn't have subbed £60 to a student I only see fortnightly and I was too disorganised to tell her money was required urgently at her last lesson as the deadline appeared to sneak up on me. Now I know how it snuck. It didnt!
ABRSM get me like this every year, they send round emails warning you DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY!!!!! but then its only if you bother reading them (I don't) that you realise it's the postal deadline, the online deadline gives you an extra week.
Every year I do this! You'd think after 15 years in this game I'd have worked out their emails by now wouldn't you?

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£60 down till next week now. Oops
Idiot

On the plus side, I've finished the second covering letter for a speculative job enquiry, and on the basis of that, even I would hire me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ChopinonaBudget

OH MY GOD!
I think I just got myself a 0% balance transfer credit card with Natwest!!!!!!

I applied on a whim, figured I'd give it one last shot for six months before letting my credit file recover from the Sainsburys debacle and I think I've been accepted!!! They gave me £4450 for a balance transfer!!!!

The only reason I'm not 100% is I have no confirmation email, which id just abit weird, so I'm going to phone and double check, but I signed everything online, and it said the usual congrtaulations and all that stuff!

Sooooooooooooo...

if this is real and I'm not imagining things, then Barclaycard and their 20% APR can go ****** themselves up the ***** in the nearest ***** with a **********************************

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