Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Habibiboo wrote: »

:wave:

Well done MWC, bit grot having performance review as soon as you're back but sounds like you aced it!

Shame about the headache though, make sure you drink plenty of water at work!

Hugs!

Thanks Hbbb

Actual review meeting was a bit weird... it would have been over in about 30 seconds but I managed to drag it out for about half an hour :rotfl:

I definitely don't drink enough water and had another headache today. I shall try harder but will probably have to add it as a March resolution!

Karmacat

Congratulations on the great performance review! Yuck to the headache tho - I'm definitely one that needs a lot of water, so I *know* that feeling, its horrible.

Loving the egg count, by the way

muddywhitechicken

Just testing - I've finally added a signature!

Lois_E

Hi MWC. :wave:

Saw you on my diary and thought I'd pop over to yours. Sorry to hear about the headaches. As the others say, drink water, and also get extra sleep, and if you work at a computer get a chair at the right height so you don't get too much tension in your neck muscles. Hope your head is ache-free soon.

muddywhitechicken

Thanks for the tips Lois. It's been ages since I had a workstation assessment so I will check that everything is still in the right place!

Watty1

Nice on the new signature....lovely to see progress like that.

Lomcevak

edinburgher wrote: »

One of our managers used to have a great OOO message reading something along the lines of 'your email won't be read, resend with the title 'IMPORTANT' if you need something done'

On a similar note, one of mine had 'If your email is important, please contact X. If it isn't important, please pause and ask yourself why you sent it to me in the first place'

muddywhitechicken

Lomcevak wrote: »

On a similar note, one of mine had 'If your email is important, please contact X. If it isn't important, please pause and ask yourself why you sent it to me in the first place'

:rotfl:
I'm not important enough to get away with that one unfortunately!

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Thanks for the tips Lois. It's been ages since I had a workstation assessment so I will check that everything is still in the right place!

My screen is now sitting on a textbook

Watty1 wrote: »

Nice on the new signature....lovely to see progress like that.

Thanks Watty
We now own half of our house :T
We're just waiting to find out how much the house 3 doors down sold for in December. I think it was on the market for £260,000 and apparently there was a bidding war! This should be the first house in our row that has sold for more than the stamp duty threshold since we bought in 2008.

Thistlewhistle

Hi MWC,

I was a little disappointed when the house next to mine sold for less than I owe on my mortgage, and their house has an attic bedroom, a nicer kitchen and a gorgeous bathroom.

I'm sure I'm in neg eq!:mad:

however, there's talk of re-opening the old railway line from Colne to Skipton and if that happens, there'll be a direct rail link into Leeds which will hopefully increase my house value as it'll only take about an hour which makes us commuter belt!!!

Here's hoping....but the wheels turn SO slowly.:mad:

T;)

muddywhitechicken

Hi Thistle

That is disappointing

We paid £260,000 for our house in 2008 (was on the market for £275,000), house prices then crashed and a year later one of the neighbouring houses sold for <£228,000 :eek: Prices have been slowly rising but struggling to get over £250,000.

Luckily we were never in negative equity because we made loads of money on our previous house :T