I WILL get there!!

kirtsypoos

That's a good idea Kitten, I'm big on celebrating milestones even if it's just with my favourite chocolate bar....probably why I also need to lose weight :rotfl:

All being well I should hit the halfway point at the end of June and it's OHs birthday beginning of July so perhaps we can have a double celebration and go to our favourite restaurant for a nice meal. His parents are arriving from New Zealand the week after his birthday too so that will be lovely...some great things to look forward to.

kirtsypoos

Well I'm packing tonight ready for my trip to Venice - we are going down to London to stay at the airport on Thursday and flying out early Friday morning. I'm still utterly thrown by such a fantastic, generous gift! I know that the money I've allocated as spending money could go on my debt, but for the sake of £150 (all I'm allowing - I hope it's not too expensive!!) this is the sort of experience I won't be able to recreate, and I want to enjoy it.
For once my spending money is actually my cash rather than Mr CreditCards!

OH has managed to give me his man-flu though, so I'm dosing up to try and get rid of it before we go!

I've been interviewing at work today and had 7 booked in, 4 of whom didn't turn up and didn't call to let me know they weren't coming. I find it so frustrating. There are people desperate for jobs out there and I could have allocated those interview spaces to people who were actually interested in the position!

TheMillions

Well done for your further progress, hope you have a lovely trip to Venice X

kirtsypoos

Thanks TheMillions!

I'm so not ready! Leaving this afternoon and I still haven't finished packing! Must get a move on but first have some invoicing to get done for work in case they have a massive stress - I'm off work for a whole 3 days and the boss has already tried to get me to take my work phone away :rotfl:

Orange_Ena

kirtsypoos wrote: »

Thanks TheMillions!

I'm so not ready! Leaving this afternoon and I still haven't finished packing! Must get a move on but first have some invoicing to get done for work in case they have a massive stress - I'm off work for a whole 3 days and the boss has already tried to get me to take my work phone away :rotfl:

Haha your boss is hilarious....proper funny fella. Take your phone away with you? Yeah course!! Who needs holidays?! :rotfl:

Hope you have an amazing time

Tinkerbelle2000

Hope you have a brilliant time Kirsty and that you've left that work phone at home.

Make lots of memories and have lots of fun.

Take care.

Tink xx

crazy_cat_lady

Hope you're enjoying the break Kirsty.

kirtsypoos

Well I'm back! Venice was everything I ever imagined and so much more (including much more expensive!)

I had an absolutely fantastic time and spending time with two of my best friends was lovely. We saw all the sights we wanted to, took trips out to the other islands (including cemetery island, I have a morbid fascination with places like that) drank quite a lot of prosecco, ate a few pizzas and wore masks out and about as we were there for the last weekend of carnivale.
I didn't have to take my acid medication even with all the alcohol and rich food!

Then I got home. I got back after 1am this morning and the house is a mess - OH was away in London over the weekend but has had a few days to at least tidy up after himself. He had bought a box of my favourite chocolates but was too tired to empty the bins, hoover or clean the bathroom and it got me a bit upset this morning (probably just overtired, I'll feel better when I have time to clean later and a bit of a rest)

I am really starting to question my work though. I woke up this morning with a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach and had to have my acid medication immediately - that tells me a lot of my acid problems are stress related and I'm a bit sick of it. I've been feeling like it for a while but if I want to tackle my debt I can't afford to take a lower paid job at the moment.

I'm sat at my desk having the closest thing I get to a lunchbreak (still answering emails, phones and the boss' incessant questions whilst trying to update on here and stuff a ryvita in my mouth!) and having serious walking out thoughts - I just don't want to be here, and that's a dangerous slope for me mentally, and financially usually.

Something has to give, and at the moment it feels like it's my sanity.

crazy_cat_lady

It can't be your sanity. You sound like I feel - holding everything together for everyone at the expense of your own wellbeing.
You need to be assertive and discuss the stresses of work with your boss. Not fair that their stress is pushed onto you.
Really pleased that you had a good time on holiday though :D:D

kirtsypoos

Thanks ccl - I woke up this morning feeling a bit brighter but knowing I can't go on like this. Went straight into my boss this morning and let him know what was going on. He has agreed to try and lay off the constant requests for 'just 5 minutes' which take an hour and leave me with piles of work I don't actually get to! I'm not feeling 100% about it all, but we will see how it goes. Not having my work phone at home has helped but it's just not enough.
I'm going to give it a few months and then make a decision about whether I need to look for something else.

Having a bit of a money/debt dilemma that we have been going back and forth about for a few weeks now - I feel stupid for even saying this but we are saving for things to be done in the house at the same time as paying off debt - we have worked out that we will have enough for two of the bigger things to be done by October but were trying to think of ways to save more so we can get them done before OHs parents arrive from New Zealand in July....at which point I got an offer from a CC I've paid down - 0% on a money transfer for 12 months. We could get the work done over the Spring and still have it paid off by October so wouldn't be paying interest, but would pay a £30 fee.
It would be no different for the money to go straight to the card rather than to savings as it does now and it sounds like a good idea - I'm not against planned debt per se - eventually we will probably need to get a low interest loan to do the kitchen and boiler and I'm comfortable as long as we can afford the payments....I'm just having a massive stress at the thought of my total going up, even if it's planned. Argh! So difficult!
I don't want to make the wrong decision but I do feel like this is different to the debt I already have - it's for the house, it's planned and we can afford to pay it with what we are already putting to one side....I just really love that my total is in the 16's now and I don't want to put it back into the 17's....