Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

Karmacat

Everybody says that specialist stuff goes well. I have *one* specialist book up there I've mentioned before - the min price currently was £55, so thats what I put it up for - a university-based critical analysis of Babylon 5... see a theme in what I've sold?

Nice quiet day, thanks squizz - its *horrible* outside, can't see the houses opposite me in the little valley I live in, thats when I *know* the weather is really bad. This morning I went to the local village, as opposed to town, posted the freebie audio CD requests (which actually cost £1.34 each!) splurged 60p on some caramel shortbread, and then ... wickedness .... I bought white bread and cows milk cheese! And since I already have (Tesco Value) branstone pickle, I made a cheese and chutney sarnie! This is the nectar of the gods from my teenage years, and every so often the urge is indescribable :rotfl: Oh, plus some potatoes.

I've just been mooching about here - very tired - just ipoints stuff, free gmtv stuff - I now have 195 entries to win £500 of selfridges vouchers on Monday :rotfl: :rotfl: . Well, they give points not money on their scratchcards, and I'm there anyway to put in the entries for the ten grand, so I might as well, and I'm braindead today anyway, so there!!!

I'm getting back late from work still - midnight, to be exact - and not going to bed till 1.30 - and I feel dead most of Saturday, whether its because I'm getting older or because I'm not sleeping well anyway at the moment. I have to get to bed by 1am at the latest, even if I only get back at midnight.

I do go on, don't I.....

hypno06

1.30 :eek: I can't remember the last time I voluntarily stayed up that late!!! (I am often awake at that time, but only because I can't sleep, not because I haven't gone to bed!)

I am not surprised you are brain dead today!

Karmacat

Actually, I need comments like that as a reality check! I'm supposed to know better, and I just don't! Have you had a good day yourself, Hypno?

hypno06

Not too bad - feeling a bit groggy but not in a bad way, just in an "end of the week" way, I think!

The weather is pants here, so I am hoping it is going to ease up for tomorrow - the children have a whole day of skiing ahead of them and I am hoping to get a longer run in at some point of the day.

Karmacat

Morning! I abdicated from mse last night, so didn't see your post there, Hypno - seen from your diary this morning you're going running today while taking DS skiing. Hope you enjoy it! The weather here was *severely* pants yesterday, the soaking I got when I went to the local village was the best weather of the day! This morning, tho, was great - mist in the distance and then it came swooping in and covered *everything*. Sea mist with a rumble of thunder! Its gone now. I must be weird, I quite like mist....

Anyway, today isn't much dfw - I've got 70p on today's scratches, lol, have to wrap pressies to take to my sister so she can take them to my mum's for Christmas, saves me taking them on the train ... washing up, joy of joys ... I need a bog standard matched bet firm, not a big one like paddypower, just a little one ... what's recommended? Anyone know?

Oh, and I have a plan. After the success of seeing that £500 off the mortgage by being focussed on putting all the money into a separate account, I'm setting up a new square system. From now on, the money will still go into a separate account, and will be used to pay down the mortgage every time it gets to £500, but in my head it will be for the rewire and replumb - once it gets to £10k, I'll go ahead with it. Or, if this get structurally serious, rebuilding the side retaining wall at the front, which is leaning and starting to lean quite badly. Either way, from now on, thats the focus - put the dfw money into the mortgage with the intention of reclaiming it for structural work.

redsquirrel80

Sounds like a good plan - I think, brain not really awake yet

The mist and thunder sounds quite exciting! Just wet here...

Karmacat

Well, its Sunday, we're not really *supposed* to be awake yet :rotfl: just off to your diary again to see if you've woken up any more

hypno06

Always plans a plenty with us DFWers! I wonder how many new plans I have made over the past couple of years?! I think I would get bored rigid if I stick to just one plan........!

The weather here is dry at the moment......the rain is saving itself for when I go for my run, I'm sure!

Karmacat

Thats true about the plans, isn't it - and thats a nice way of looking at it, I do get a sense of failure when I don't see something through, like the grocery challenge I just abandoned. But they give us impetus - and certainly, the £10 a month challenge is absolutely brilliant, it keeps on starting up, and each one is short enough/long enough to be meaningful.

Not to do with plans, but *something* to do with planning - I just had to celebrate RIGHT NOW - I've got two Christmas presents bought and wrapped! Never in all my life have I wrapped anything as early as this, I'm dead chuffed.

Off now to fiddle about and make a new squares graph to colour in, before I run out of the house late for the train :rotfl:

boredofbeingathome

I too have started on the Christmas rundown, although not wrapped yet as i have to get in the attic for paper bought last year.