Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Karmacat

I do love your phone shenanigans, its true full of admiration for any gadget that can actually reverse whole chunks of input! Imagine if it did that to your YNAB account tho :eek::eek::eek: (I'm sorry I said that, didn't mean to scare you!).

And omigod, T&C on all the millions of accounts we need to set up these days. Who can possibly remember them? I don't even keep them - I hunt them out when I log on to check the balance

Cheery_Daff

Gosh KC, that's a frightening thought!! :eek: Fortunately it's just MSE so we should be ok

3 Carrier bags of books sorted for the charity shop last night :j Couldn't get any further - most of our books belong to Mr Cheery (who never reads anything, but who has dozens of sci fi books, old ladybird books etc, can't imagine he'll want to part with any of them!)

Got some diploma work to do tonight, and a bit of admin for the allotment association, and I won't be home til 7, then have to pop briefly to Slimming World, so I can't imagine there'll be much house stuff done tonight!

Got to be lunchtime by now, surely?!

Karmacat

Your post was 1pm, definitely lunchtime!

3 carrier bags of books is a *lot* in one go, well done you! I feel Mr Cheery's pain on old SF books - I have got rid of a few when the pages were going mouldy but even in my house thats pretty rare

Good luck for SW tonight

Cheery_Daff

I'll need that luck KC, I spent all weekend eating home made scones, and am currently demolishing a double decker :rotfl: :rotfl:

Had the most horrendous toothache after lunch earlier :eek: i'm due a filling on Thursday and it was niggling a bit this morning but obviously jarred it while eating :eek: Spent an entire hour distractedly pacing back and forth to library, shop, kitchen, anything to stop me sitting still :eek:

Fortunately painkillers kicked in eventually nd the rest of afternoon was pretty uneventful :j (and yes i know eating chocolate now won't help! )

Ended up staying an hour late, so will get back at 8, pop in to slimming world to be weighed, and then straight home to eat tea and do diploma stuff. Busy busy today!

Been filling in form ready for supervision next week - going to take a few brave pills and ask (a) if I can apply for the staff coaching scheme to have coaching sessions for a few months as a career development thing, and (b) what else I need to do to be ready to apply for promotion in the autumn :eek:

I think I'm nearly there with the promotion thing, main things are publications (i have 4 in last year, which I *think* qualifies) and bringing in money/running own project - by time submission comes round I'll have two of ky own projects on the go (one probably finished) and have brought in at least £10k and possibly nearer £170k (depending on what counts for the criteria).

Still, feels like a huge thing to ask for though!

Cheery_Daff

Lovely start to my day (NOT)

Ran out of the door to dentist to find fox had strewn someone else's rubbish all down our back way and past our back door (where's that queasy-looking smiley when you need it?!). HAd to abandon it as was late for dentist.

Dentist couldn't make my face go numb :eek: Had 4 injections (for one he had to drill a specially hole into the bone and inject straight into there :eek: ) and I could still feel it - just had to grit my teeth (metaphorically, of course :rotfl ) and let him get on with it. Apparently there was a 'sea of decay' under my tooth - possibly a result of episodes like yesterday's 6-cakes-in-a-day-fest...

Came home and had to pick up all the rubbish out of the back way :eek:

What was even more grim than raking through someone else's old takeaways was what was actually in there - tins, plastic etc that could have perfectly well gone in the recycling bin NEXT to the wheelie bin (but then I suppose if they couldn't even be bothered putting the bag in the wheelie bin they were never going to separate the recycling :rotfl: )

But also half a box of cornflakes! And an ENTIRE CABBAGE with just a tiny black bit at one end that could perfectly easily have been cut off :eek:

I confess I came very close to swiping that one :rotfl: It was still sealed in the wrapper! But even I with my MSE training draw the line somewhere (and there was some bloke fitting windows in the street who kept walking past me :rotfl: )

Good job Mr Cheery's still in bed - no way would he have let that one go to waste :rotfl:

Hoping the day's going to get better from now on!

Cheery_Daff

Right, banks and YNAB done :j :j

Getting rather alarmed at my drifting tendencies... drifting back towards having spent everything in every category and it's only the 17th... :eek:

of course I realise this is MUCH better than having spent everything in the entire bank account by the 17th! :eek: So already one up on the past :j But I need to take a proper look either at how much I'm allocating to categories, or how much I'm spending on rubbish I suspect the latter is to blame...

Mind you, I did go away for a long weekend and didn't allocate any extra - if I stick my saved £2 coins in the bank to cover that then we're pretty much back to normal :j :j Might do that - I do like to use them for treats and the weekend was a lovely treat :j

rtandon27

Morning Prof Daff - hope the mouth is on the mend - sounds really ouchy!!!


I too have drifted from my tracking spreadsheet - but know for a fact that we've stayed in budget as the only spends have been regular bills and groceries! (and an unbudgeted pair of commuting shoes as mine developed holes in the soles - yikes!) There is a nice wodge of dosh in my account from last month's overtime that I've yet to throw at the debts but of course that would involve updating the spreadsheet first!

Cheery_Daff

Prof Daffs indeed :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Get that spreadsheet updated woman!! But really, well done at staying in budget! :j :j Excellent work

Spent ALL DAY doing computer stuff - first work, then allotment stuff, then a load of interesting stuff for diploma. All worthwhile and necessary but really? Goodness me my eyes are turning inside out :eek:

Not any mmore though Now drinking advocaat and sorting through a pile of mouldy old paperwork from the cellar. Mostly mortgage statements - how long are we meant to keep those for, considering the mortgage is actually paid off now and we have a letter stating as much?!

Also - just how ridiculous is the mad leasehold house system? There's two receipts here for ground rent - one for 1997and 1998 together (a total of £1), and another for 1999 (50p), and then a letter saying

Dear Occupier
Reference:ground rent

This years ground rent is due at the end of this month. Can you please forward me your payment as soon as possible. The ground rent for your property is 50p.

There's no receipt for that one, and no sign anyone's asked for it since. We must owe, er, a whole £7.50 by now :eek: :rotfl: I can only assume they can no longer be arsed collecting it!

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...just how ridiculous is the mad leasehold house system? ... a whole £7.50 by now...

Sooooooooo funny! I had no clue how complicated owning property is here in the UK! Still can't quite get my head around how you can own the house but not the land it sits on!

No advocate here but just had a large glass of pomegranate juice! :P (OH has had a whole bottle of extra strong 'grape' juice and has been singing along with the music video channel.)

Just finished all my mandatory training units for work! - such a snore - but they have to be done - tell me what's the point of studying things I already know & do, just to get a certificate to prove that I know them?

Last week had to do a crash course on report generation out of our financial system - head is so full of numbers I found myself counting out loud today!

At least now that both of those are over I can start my more exciting course which is the project management course - I have a year (minus three weeks) to finish it - of course even that one is only being done because I've now got a project to run - which started two months ago! - but at least there is a proper certification at the end of the studying!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, that sounds exciting :j I do love a certificate :rotfl:

I think leasehold is mostly just flats, apart from round here and a few other pockets of the north. Odd system but there you are!

Nice day today :j walked about 4.5 miles over to flute choir, nice morning of tootling then walked into town, where I failed to (a) put my £2 coins in the bank (it was shut), (b) buy my cousin's birthday present (they didn't have what I was looking for), and (c) collect my library book (i'll be going past the library on the bus in a minute but haven't got time to get off as the roofer is coming soon)

Don't know why I bothered!! :rotfl:

Still, at least the sun's shining :j :rotfl: