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

Karmacat

Sorry to hear about your nan, Cheery I hope it goes well tomorrow, and she can recognise your love for her.

rtandon27

Oh Cheery - so sorry to hear about your nan - sending hugs your way - xox

Cheery_Daff

Thank you lovely lasses :kisses3: No further news today, sister and mum have been in to see her, and I'm going over tomorrow. Spoke to my dad who saw her last night and said she at least seemed settled and not in pain.

In other news...

Had a letter from student loans company - confirming my payment of £4000 ish. Er, fine - except it was supposed to be confirming I'd paid the damn thing off... :eek:

Apparently they only get an update from HMRC once a year so don't know how much has come out of wages unless I ring and tell them - which I have done, and asked for a settlement figure, which I paid immediately over the phone and they said they'd send confirmation and send an immediate stop notice to HMRC/ my employer (can't remember which as whichever it is notifies the other and I can't remember which way round).

So now I have to ring them tomorrow to ask why they didn't do what they said (I suspect they'll say it's impossible without me sending in my payslips - which I happily would have done if they'd asked).

Yawn. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a single competent person working in any financial institution in the country! :mad:

Cheery_Daff

Right. Spoke to Students Loans Company (bizarrely the same person I spoke to before). Apparently I *will* receive a 'paid in full' letter once they've sent the stop notification etc to my employer, who have then sent it to HMRC. Sounds a bit fishy to me, especially when he seemed perplexed that the stop notification had not been requested (er, that was YOU who was supposed to be doing that, you plonker!)

Anyway, he has apparently requested it now, and I need to ring back on Thursday 'to check'. Because I don't have enough stupid financial phone calls to make right now.

Hey ho. Probably about time I had breakfast before I bite someone else's head off

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums :hello:

Bit of an odd weekend here. Went to see my nan yesterday, she wasn't in a good way Glad I went to see her though. And then visited a couple of other family members, and an old school friend - not seen her for ages But with one thing and another it was a long and slightly gloomy day.

Today was better :j Me and Mr Cheery headed cafe-wards (of course) and then pottered round the charity shops in a different town and sat in a park with a cup of tea :j I've done some knitting, made some lentil soup, made some chocolate brownies, and switched the door round on the fridge so I can actually SEE IN THE DAMN THING :j

Also wanted to get some other stuff done tonight (but we'll see)

* hoover upstairs
* dust bedroom
* get rid of dying flowers
* put recycling bins out
* pack bag ready for tomorrow (including swimming kit!)
* cut fingernails

That'll do I think. Already flagging so not even sure I'll get that lot done, never mind anything else!

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and I'm up to £18.51 with Prolific :j Been a bit quiet lately but hopefully I'll get to £20 this week and then can request payout :j :j

Also hoping we'll get a mortgage offer this week :eek: about flipping time :eek: As soon as we've got ours I'll get the estate agent to check everyone else is progressing as planned - daren't ask until ours is sorted out though :rotfl:

EssexHebridean

Meh I've had nothing from Prolific since about 2 surveys mid last week - did get one from the secret survey people though - why it needed me to email them to get it goodness knows but fingers crossed that will have reactivated me for a bit.

Sorry to hear about your Nan but very glad you got to see her - it's hard losing that final link with your parents parents I think.

Starting to sound a bit positive on the house buying front at least - crossing fingers for a mortgage offer appearing and letting everything start moving forwards, now!

Cheery_Daff

Yeah right, so much for progress on the house front - solicitor can't email letter to building society until actual agreements have been drawn up and agreed with the sellers so quite clearly it's not going to be this week. In fact, I can't imagine us even getting a mortgage agreed this side of Christmas at the rate we're going :eek:

Yawn.

If we ever move, I'm not doing ANYTHING remotely financial/bureaucratic for the next two years to give my head a rest! :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Evening team :hello:

Long day today - pretty cheerful but I'm tired and my feet hurt

Bit of spending... but not tooooo bad

£1.20 tea and cookie in W@itrose (tea was free with card :money )
£12 hair cut - my first since last November and it took all of 10 minutes :rotfl: She did that annoying thing that hairdressers always do to me which is comment on how uneven it is, how long it is since it's been cut, and this one annoyed me even more by giving me her card for eyebrow threading :mad: I'm sure she was just being nice/selling but I was in a bad mood and took it as an insult :rotfl:

£1.05 reduced salad and fruit pot thing from M&S - it was a good deal anyway but then for some reason only the salad scanned so I ended up with the fruit free and didn't notice til I'd left - I might have gone back but the bloke on the till had ripped the magazine of the people in front and just hid it from them :eek: (they did notice in the end but weren't bothered - however it didn't make me want to go back and give him an extra 70p for a fruit pot that was out of date today anyway)

Er, that's it I think, not too bad really

No house news - we're having to buy one field with cash in a brown envelope or something so the rest comes under the building society's residential letting limit. Regretting not buying a *normal* house. Of course I know nothing about land values etc, so have just coloured in the field closest to the road (figuring that will be easiest to sell on/rent out if necessary). Sent to solicitor yesterday so he should have sent it to seller's solicitor today - and now we wait (again).

Yawn.

I'm sick of the whole thing

Hey ho. Just stewing up some cooking apples I was given a few weeks ago and have neglected will take them to work tomorrow :j Should probably figure out something for actual lunch too :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Quick Prolific survey this morning for 50p, although bizarrely it's now showing 70p pending, so when that's cleared I'm up to £19.11. Annoyingly there was one for £2.50 yesterday but I was at work and you had to speak out loud so I couldn't do it :rotfl: Hey ho, getting there.

Nothing to report today. Brought lunch and my stewed apple :money: Trying (and failing) to avoid the MacMillan cake sale table :eek: