Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

And yet serialising the tasks would have meant a burned omelette while waiting for the beans to be heated throughly and the food being over cooled by the time the kettle was boiled. Not acceptable outcomes.

No on the whole its outdoors I prefer, the same way I won't join a gym to go run on a tredmill when I can go out and run in the countryside instead, or take myself a packed lunch and go walking when I've got a day off and good weather.

Yes cold cuppas are an unpleasing thing. Unless its iced coffee/ice tea in which case it would be unpleasing for it to be warm.

scubaangel

Todays plans have gone somewhat very wrong.

After nearly an hour wrestling with my printer I got it working to find that the ink ran out while printing the critical document.

This means I now have to go to the shop on my way to work to buy new ink, and sort out the docs tonight after work and hope I don;t get too stuck in traffic and miss the rugby match I plan to watch in the evening.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

And yet serialising the tasks would have meant a burned omelette while waiting for the beans to be heated throughly and the food being over cooled by the time the kettle was boiled. Not acceptable outcomes.

The male way is to deep-fry everything. Including the tea...

scubaangel wrote: »

No on the whole its outdoors I prefer, the same way I won't join a gym to go run on a tredmill when I can go out and run in the countryside instead, or take myself a packed lunch and go walking when I've got a day off and good weather.

What makes you decide between running and walking?

scubaangel wrote: »

Yes cold cuppas are an unpleasing thing. Unless its iced coffee/ice tea in which case it would be unpleasing for it to be warm.

I can't get away with iced coffee/tea. _pale_

Asda sell an iced latte (IIRC) - it's quite nice, but hot water goes into it...

scubaangel

Deep fried tea :eek: Or for that matter deep fried omelette. :eek:

Still I enjoyed the omelette after I zapped it for lunch while everything else was seeming to go wrong.

Usually the weather and how many hours of work I have to fit in, a full day off and no self employed stuff booked and good weather I try to get out walking, if I'm working or the weather is a bit dodgy looking I'll run.

Tonights guests were one of those groups who were a total pain but utterly lovely people who knew they were being a pain as a group and kept apologising for it.

Trying to decide at the moment if I should stick a dark wash in so that I've got clean work trousers tomorrow or just wear tonights again as they havent got anything spilled on them and run the washing machine while I'm out tomorrow.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Deep fried tea :eek: Or for that matter deep fried omelette. :eek:

If people can deep-fry Mars bars - anything goes...

scubaangel wrote: »

Still I enjoyed the omelette after I zapped it for lunch while everything else was seeming to go wrong.

Did you get the ink/do the print?

scubaangel wrote: »

Tonights guests were one of those groups who were a total pain but utterly lovely people who knew they were being a pain as a group and kept apologising for it.

Which obviously is easier than stop being a pain...

Happy to be away from work now then?

scubaangel

True and it can't be quite as horrific as the frozen microwavable omelette we came across at uni - little balls of omlette mixture you put on a plate and zap. Wrong on so many levels.

I have the ink not done the printing yet, currently having a brew and warming up, the down side of turning the heating off when I'm out is its cold when I get home - eventually I'll sort out setting the timer on the system or just turn the heating part off for summer.

It was a case of odd and random dietry requirements we'd not been told about before hand, and a miscommunication among the group about who had booked and for how many which became a problem when we had more guests then we expected.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

True and it can't be quite as horrific as the frozen microwavable omelette we came across at uni - little balls of omlette mixture you put on a plate and zap. Wrong on so many levels.

Not as wrong as actually placing it in your mouth... :eek::eek::eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

I have the ink not done the printing yet, currently having a brew and warming up, the down side of turning the heating off when I'm out is its cold when I get home - eventually I'll sort out setting the timer on the system or just turn the heating part off for summer.

Get the timer done - you know it makes sense. It's quite warm up here - 10C today, 4C tonight.

scubaangel wrote: »

It was a case of odd and random dietry requirements we'd not been told about before hand,

So there was a demand for microwaved omelette balls... :eek::eek::eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

and a miscommunication among the group about who had booked and for how many which became a problem when we had more guests then we expected.

Ah...that's a problem.

Back again tomorrow?

scubaangel

Yup, tomorrow is a fairly big group and a fairly small group, should be ok, just hard work when they're all arriving at the same time. Once I've got the printing done I can update my spreadsheets with the data I'll be emailed in the morning for whichever of the stores I decide I can try to get to after work. The two more remote ones from work will involve fighting the after school traffic but I'd prefer to do the nearest one when I have very little time to get it done on Friday morning before work.

scubaangel

Made a decision this evening and have changed the DD for my main credit card debt to my main bank account so that any extra earnings are going to go back to helping to reduce it instead of paying the minimum payments and treading water with it. Hopefully I'll be less likely to reach for the card to pay for things knowing its coming out of my main account too (I don't use it often but when I do I need to consider it more first!).

scubaangel

The survey company with the broken website have fixed themselves so I've just redeemed for £30 paypal, and to make use of a swagbucks discount I've also requested £25 paypal from them. I've got enough swagbucks to make another request as soon as the next discount is applied for the current team challenge.

Those paypal payments will be the fresh start to my paying down the credit card debt.