Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

scubaangel

Still alive.

Not job hunting.:j

Not triathlon training :beer:

Job offer was recieved last week I have three weeks left in my current job and start the new one in 4.

Triathlon happened on Sunday - 1.52 minutes of forcing myself to not give up around Dorney Lake.

Next up is a 1500m open water swim on Sunday morning.

Still poor.

scubaangel

And back after a work related hiatus.

Loving the new job but as I'm mainly working late/evening shifts I'm not home all that often now, I tend to go to the male's house after work and generally stay there until I have to head back to work again - I'm getting more books out of my to read pile that way.....

Equally on the nights we stay at mine I've been getting back in to doing surveys.

Not been doing anywhere near enough training for the tri's but still managed another PB at the one two weeks ago, and am getting ready to do the London Tri this Saturday. Still hoping to fit another one in later in the year - probably September, ideally I'll be the Reading Tri again.

scubaangel

London Tri done. Not a stellar time but I'm happy enough with it, 1.56.36. both transitions were slow due to the size of the venue, and my run was actually a minute quicker than the run I did when I got my PB earlier this month.

Work is still going well, they're trusting me with smaller functions now, which is still quite scary as I'm reasonably convinced that I'm forgetting things most of the evening but so far the guests I've looked after have seemed to go away happy.

Slowly getting back in to things like review writing on Ciao, as well as the surveys. No where near getting payouts on anything but the numbers of unread emails are reducing rapidly!

scubaangel

I ran a trail 10k last night, Hard As Snails 2.0, was a really nice evening for a gentle run.

Pity HAS is not gentle! I did the 5k version last month and hated it because the entire run was up and down the same hill in the woods, a friend who did the 10k on the other hand called it one of the prettiest runs she'd ever done, so I thought I'd give it a go this time out. Some of the views at the top of the hill were lovely, pity about the hill climbs to get there!

Had a weird moment at the start, saw a guy I went on a date with and drunkenly slept with years ago when I lived in this area before, all I could think was wow he's aged horribly and then hope he didn't see me since I didn't much want to speak to him. Thankfully he either didn't see me or chose to ignore me.

Got next weeks work rota through and they've given me a week holiday so when I go in to work tomorrow I need to call HR to try and sort out my self service access to request the holiday and then I need to decide if I'm going to go home and see my family or stay here and annoy the bloke.

Going home would be useful as I want to collect some books, and take up some of the signed ones from goodreads to clear some space on my bookshelf. I've also not been back since Christmas, and think I should occasionally show my face. The downside is that it would mean driving there and thats time and money when I'm trying to stop spending so much.

scubaangel

Just discovered that swagbucks have a sale on paypal redemptions so have ordered £100 a week earlier than I expected to.

Finished a couple of surveys on valued opinions too which inches me closer to cashing out there, nothing else I've qualified for today but feels good to be working towards it again - my amazon account is feeling a little barren and there are a few things I've added to my wishlist lately.

scubaangel

And arrived in the north west safely.

So far since arriving I've filled a binbag with clothes to take to a charity shop at some point while I'm here and I've managed to fit the books on to my bookcases, definitely need to attempt to ziffit some of them ones I had to move to do so though!

I've got a few books to take back home with me too, the bloke requested I grab my copies of the Hitchikers Guide series whilst I'm here and I wanted my Julian Stockwin books as I picked some of the newer ones up in a charity shop a few months ago so want to start reading them again in order (although I also want to do a full re-read of the Discworld books too so it'll be a while before I get to them.)

Planning to go for a run tomorrow if its not too rainy - I'll either do my normal reservoir loop or if I'm feeling good on the run I might do two of the three making it closer to an 8 mile run.

pennywisepoundstupid

All sounding good Scuba, hope your well.

scubaangel wrote: »

Planning to go for a run tomorrow if its not too rainy .

:rotfl:Your back in the north, of course it is raining:D.

scubaangel

I am Penny, little bit regretting the "small" vodka's I had last night when I couldn't sleep though.

Even stranger is that despite being home in the north I can see blue sky and white fluffy clouds......I'm staying indoors until I'm sure it's not a hallucination caused by old vodka.:rotfl:

scubaangel

Not a hallucination...just wonderfully changable Northern weather, got alternately rained on and boiled by the sun during my 40 minute run.

Since I've got home I've ordered £5 paypal from qoas, earned 45p on onepoll and am about to go for a shower before embarking on a venture in to pureprofile where I seem to have plenty of profile updates to do for a few pence a time.

Annoyingly swagbucks seems to have killed their watch playlists so it's unlikely I'll hit either taget there today, but I have ordered a new cheap andriod phone to use for the video apps as I'm down to two working on my old iphone. The phone I've ordered as an Alcatel Pop 4, for £55 on tesco payg, I used £48 of clubcard vouchers so it's cost me about £8.

scubaangel

Picked up the phone today after spending most of the day with my Mum.

Currently trying to get the assorted swagbucks, and perk apps loaded up and connected to my accounts.

Will explore other andriod apps I can use on it later.