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Breaking Through, Travelling On

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  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,196 Forumite
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    Gosh KC, what a palaver! :eek: Hope you do get something good out of this before it turns into more of a fiasco than it's worth!
  • edinburgher
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    So you have no interest in romancing an air force general? Is it because he's American? :rotfl:
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 6,861 Forumite
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    loving the idea of you romancing an air force general :rotfl: (or whoever haha)
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • Karmacat
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    Aren't I cruel :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: yes, totally because he's American.

    I feel sorry for the real guy - there's pictures, normal everyday facebook-type pictures, it must be horrible! But yes, its the "whoever" that concerns me :p

    I've done practically nothing today, and absolutely nothing since I last posted - been watching Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle ... I'll do a bit more this evening. Hopefully I'll catch up on myself, because I have a bit of paid work every day for the rest of the week (and a GP appointment next week ... we'll see).

    That premium bond's looking better and better - the elance thing, I'm 100% verified and profiled, plus tested in the top 10% in English :D and I'll look at jobs to actually *apply* tomorrow maybe - there's a lot of people in my shoes, newbies with no elance experience, so it might take a while, but if I keep throwing my hat in the ring, I don't see why it shouldn't work (I might have to lower my hourly rate a bit ;) ).
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • greent
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    Karmacat wrote: »

    I'm still resolutely doing absolutely nothing :D though I do have to put a new duvet cover on - the big question of the evening is whether I swap to a summerweight duvet or not :D


    I was just debating the same thing myself this morning:D (bed will be stripped tomorrow if weather is nice) - between that and the superking size throw over the bed (and being a female of a certain age!) it get's rather toasty at times! But I always miss the weight when I change to a Summer duvet :(
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  • Karmacat
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    :hello: at greent, what did you decide about the duvet? This afternoon I'd have said summer, but its v chilly again now - I've stayed with the winter weight. I usually change much earlier in the year, but this year because of the mould I've had the windows open much earlier, so I can take the winter weight just fine :)

    Know what you mean about missing the weight tho! Since I'm now beyond a certain age, the toastiness is fine with me :p).

    In other news ... turned out I had some paid work today too :o so thats good financially :j and I finally did the blog post. Thats all I've done :o
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Morning :hello:

    The house is in a slight amount of chaos today, after running about setting things up for unexpected client :o and I need to be able to have two people sit down in the living room (which is currently my photographic studio for things I'm selling :D ) as me and my business partner are *finally* having a meeting :j:j:j in other words, we'll sit here with cups of tea and tell each other we're wonderful and we *both* deserve the million pound premium bond :p

    Otherwise, its the awful to-do list thats sitting on my phone ...
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Firegirl
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    A lot can be solved over a cup of tea!!!
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  • Karmacat
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    How true, Firegirl :) and we did, too - I got his Skype id, we caught up on finances and plans, as well as health tips :D he's even more paranoid than me, so he's an absolute fount of information :j and sensibleness too, it has to be said.

    I'm going to do 15 minutes looking at elance jobs, and maybe, just maybe, apply for one ... interesting times we live in!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Alchemilla
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    Whats elance?
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