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A very happy birthday to you!
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Fortune_Smiles wrote: »A very happy birthday to you!
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Thank you, Fortune! :j x
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I'm
Happy to report the birthday didn't cost too much! Couple of quid in the arcades, £8 on desserts and main meal top-ups in Prezzo, and £20 in the creperie for lunch
And I have a brand spanking new bright orange DAB radio for the kitchen / garden to keep me occupied whilst I cook, garden, wash up etc Happy bunny!
Helped a friend / colleague out with tax return yesterday and realised that I really do think I know enough to not need an accountant now (especially as my business is dead simple and only brings in £12k gross) so that's a £480 year saving formalised in my head
Lost a student yesterday
bit sad actually; family friend and they can't afford it. I can't afford to keep the space open though, or run at a discount. I've just cleared my waiting list and I'm anticipating a small influx of enquiries come September.. So I should fill that slot and the other 2 left pretty quickly (hopefully!)
My bank account is still overdrawn, but I'm still being brave and leaving the tax credits in the ISA. This time of year is also ouchy... I'm used to seeing my money go close to the wire. I'll withdraw it if it looks really painful.
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And I've been a bit of an idiot and got my days off the wrong way round today (that'll teach me to not look in my diary...)
So I'm having a nearly day off today then working at the laptop tomorrow (I'm borrowing a high spec laptop to edit my student concert, so I can't re-organise). Arghh!
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Incidentally, I love those little debt free badges people are um wearing! They weren't here last time I was posting. I want one! :rotfl:
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Spent all day on the borrowed laptop, trying to get the hang of Adobe Premier Pro in a very short time span! Sorted it out (amongst arguing with GP surgery about gluten free prescriptions and replying to 20 odd work emails), I've got Friday to finish off. I reckon it should be enough
Now where can I find a spare several thousand poundages to buy myself a copy of this rather interesting piece of software?
Sorted out meal plan for next week: off the too of my head I think we've got 5 meals designed completely from stores A happy DFW meal plan! I need to make up a £15 overspend and this will help enormously.
Im getting so organised with food now it's getting ridiculous... Neither of us drink milk at the moment (I drink a lot of soy milk in winter for cups of tea and porridge but nothing in summer) so instead of wasting 95% of a bottle of semi skimmed when I make mash, my daughter remembered a box of tiny ziplock food bags in the cupboard that we can decant a pint bottle into in 10 individual portions and then freeze. Very DFW
And I'm freezing bread rolls in multipacks and breaking off individual ones to defrost rather than defrosting the lot then throwing them when I only manage to eat half of them.
Next good news...
The first water bill in the new house has come through... I'm £75 in credit so the bill is dropped to £18.50 a month :beer:
All of which means....
That crappy little mouldy 2 bed hell hole that I was previously living in worked out only slightly cheaper than the much larger house I'm in now
Old house... paying £600 rent, £40 water (rates, landlord wouldn't install a shower so there was no way I was going on a meter), £40 electric (partly my fault, partly an unbelievably awful electric cooker that took ... I'm not kidding... 90 minutes on 240 Celsius to cook oven chips), £80 gas to heat a damp open plan house with an electric fan in the roof that pushed cold air INTO the house under the guise of pulling damp air out.
New house... 3 bed, semi, not damp, literally twice the size, £725 rent, £18 water, £36 gas, £24 electric. New rental is a massively better environment (physically, mentally, and for work).
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ChopinonaBudget wrote: »Spent all day on the borrowed laptop, trying to get the hang of Adobe Premier Pro in a very short time span! Sorted it out (amongst arguing with GP surgery about gluten free prescriptions and replying to 20 odd work emails), I've got Friday to finish off. I reckon it should be enough
Now where can I find a spare several thousand poundages to buy myself a copy of this rather interesting piece of software?
There are other options for educational licenses - https://creative.adobe.com/plans?store_code=gb - but it's still not cheap.ChopinonaBudget wrote: »Im getting so organised with food now it's getting ridiculous... Neither of us drink milk at the moment (I drink a lot of soy milk in winter for cups of tea and porridge but nothing in summer) so instead of wasting 95% of a bottle of semi skimmed when I make mash, my daughter remembered a box of tiny ziplock food bags in the cupboard that we can decant a pint bottle into in 10 individual portions and then freeze. Very DFW
Ice cube trays. You heard it here...
ChopinonaBudget wrote: »New house... 3 bed, semi, not damp, literally twice the size, £725 rent, £18 water, £36 gas, £24 electric. New rental is a massively better environment (physically, mentally, and for work).
Sometimes, you've just got to spend that little bit extra to get a whole new world."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
There are other options for educational licenses - https://creative.adobe.com/plans?store_code=gb - but it's still not cheap.
thank you sadly, I have other, more urgent tech requirements before I splash out on even an edu copy of this...
Ice cube trays. You heard it here...
Brilliant!
Sometimes, you've just got to spend that little bit extra to get a whole new world.
You most definitely do! Even if an extremely large quantity of the initial spending came from a very generous Mum who was desperate to see us out of an asthma inducing hovel!
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ChopinonaBudget wrote: »You most definitely do! Even if an extremely large quantity of the initial spending came from a very generous Mum who was desperate to see us out of an asthma inducing hovel!
I can see her point of view."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0
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