Breaking Through, Travelling On

mizmir

Your thread gets crazier by the minute Karma!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
And hats off to being so positive amid the shingles nastiness - you are a brave woman! :cool:

Karmacat

Miz, I love crazy and although I'm rubbish at it myself, I totally appreciate extracting the michael, as they say, even from 'orrible stuff like shingles, when the friends are trusted as they are on here :beer:

I've also come on to make some finance notes (ignore this bit, its boring):
Just opening the post of the last few days … and its future finances that are the issue:

• my professional organisation run a register, completely separate from the accreditation programme but entirely dependent upon it. Nobody consults this register, I can't tell its published anywhere, and enrolment in it has always been dependent on re-accrediting. But now it isn't, sigh ... it doesn't mean anything to be on it, but if you're not on it ... well, I don't know what the consequences might be, actually. I don't have to legally belong to the organisation, let alone jump through its reacrreditation hoops, let alone its administrative hoops. But since I only want to work just over another two years, its not worth rocking the boat.
• a letter from the people that take the bookings for my apartment – do I want to continue the arrangement? It was for 9 years from 2005 … so I need to check out the terms. Thats going to be a lot of work, I'm not up for it yet, but they want an answer by 15 March.
• also in the post is an update on last year's ISA – bonus rate has run out. I'm not going to do anything till the new tax year, when I'll open an isa that will take transfers, none of the ones I've got open right now do. Just a note for the future – I'm understanding now why transfers are so inportant!

DedicatedDFW

Good luck with that list KC - i am sorry i don't think i'll be much help but do hope you are getting enough rest and feeling as well as you can x

Karmacat

Not to worry DD, I put those notes on here because they're pernickety stuff that needs a fair bit of research. At the moment, I'm aiming at working full tilt again from Monday, tho Monday is proving to be fairly busy in RL, so my diary says.

One bit I *can* do today, after I've cleared the cookies that will up the prices, is to book a trip to see my mum - trying to do it before Easter, it would've cost £90 and more, afterwards, its down to £40 all in, so guess which I'm going for

Also *must* go into the town centre and do the banking, I've got several cheques, as well as cash, wafting about

Fair amount of tidying has just gone on - especially necessary since I managed to repot the chives last night, into four new pots :j had a little chat with them and explained that they were going to have safe and lovely lives outside in a few months, but for now they were going to stay warm and cosy inside the house, till their roots are nice and strong

Can I bear to phone the builder? Hope so ... I'm not going to push on phone work (which I find loathsome in general - to my ISP in particular, wireless connection still on the blink) until I feel better.

I prefer chatting to my chives :j

mizmir

You're sounding busy in spite of the shingles - hope it is easing off for you. Well done on the cut price trip - definitely the way to go.

How are the chives doing?

Karmacat

Hiya :hello:

Made me smile to ask about the chives they're very well thank you, sitting in a low-light room to let their tootsies grow into the potting compost without any more stress.

Came on here for a rant bleeping Sainsbo (RANT ALERT) - every few months I do a humongous order of stock goods, that qualifies for free delivery - its a lot of money, but its just store cupboard, and it saves me a humongous amount of time and energy, especially with the free delivery. Just now, though, the website's playing up, I kept saving my basket and it said it had done it, and it hadn't ... even had to rebook the delivery :eek: Rang customer services (at least its an 0800 number) who both contributed to the problem and solved the problem. Unless they give me a massive discount voucher to use, I won't be going back to the website, little things have been happening with it, but this could have wasted hours of my time, I'm not prepared to let that happen again. I left "zero quality" feedback on their survey system, we'll see if they really do phone back - they say they improve services, I'll see what they do for *me* before I waste more time in helping them.

And breathe ... okay, rant over :rotfl:

Karmacat

In other news I have:
- chatted to the chives
- booked my trip from the south coast to Merseyside and back, total £41.
- done a supermarket order (see above, oops).
- done loads of scanning and sorting of papers.
- listed another book on Amazon - put it £1 above the minimum, and its just sold! My word! Okay, so the universe is telling me there's good stuff out there still, and I appreciate that, I really do.

Right. Lunch, and the post office. :kisses3:

DedicatedDFW

Hey KC,

Hows this weekend going for you ?

Yesterday sounded really productive - and that was by lunchtime! :T

I am really enjoying seeing the blue skys outside and the space inside today Kitchen declutter is plodding on

Karmacat

Hi hun! The rest of Friday, I did loads of scanning and decluttering of paperwork - and get this, I even prepared the plastic folders in the arch file for *next* year's tax papers :rotfl: sometimes its been June before I've done that :rotfl:

I should have been on my Reiki day yesterday, but it was cancelled because of illness still, if I try to find a bright side, Saturday was the first day I hadn't had side effects from the antiviral meds, so I hadn't caught up on my sleep - did that this morning

Transport in my neck of the woods was really knackered yesterday, to give it its technical term Rail Replacement Buses bleeping everywhere - so I went to a small market town, instead of the big conurbation on the coast, I went to Homebase to use a gift voucher given me for bad service last Christmas. Got what I could - wellies!!!, a rosemary plant, and 3 big pillar candles - and guess what, the gift voucher software is playing up, and they can't put it through. B*gger. I was not pleased. I was as displeased as its possible to be, especially as I'd checked when I went into the shop whether it was valid - they all knew the system was down, they could have, you know, mentioned it. Complaint system duly noted.

Anyway, today, I've done a few bits in the garden - and yes, chatted to the chives also chatted to the rosemary, which I bought for cash yesterday, its a nice one, and I wanted to rescue it from its fate of being stuck in Homebase :rotfl: It looks dire outside, and its windy, so I'm not going out, even tho I've recovered from yesterday's shenanigans.

Normal service resumed tomorrow, and I hope everyone has had a good weekend - mine hasn't been bad, not really, I'm only wingeing - and I have a teensy tiny bottle of wine sitting in the kitchen that I may need to open

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...Rail Replacement Buses bleeping everywhere...

Boo to RRB's!!! We had 1.5 weeks of it with the floods! - It was such a pain taking 1 hour for a 10 minute rail jouney to get to the nearest town!

How nice that you got to go to a small market town to have a mouche around.

(...and you are not the only one who talks to your herbs - my sage plant is now a great huge bush because it gets lots of chatting to!)