I've just worked out that if we can come up with an extra £250 per month...

Toto

How about doing some proper practice with your son's girlfriend? some scales and the like? Does she have a keyboard? I'd love to come and have a listen if you get this singing job. You know I have the odd contact and could get you some work when you're ready. Failing that, we'll have to get you a demo sorted, I'll round up a few musos who owe me a favour in the new year and we'll do a studio day if you're up for it? I'll use the Osborn Street. London studio which I can borrow for free. I love that studio actually, it's dead retro with its carpet on the walls. And the piano is still in there which queen recorded bohemian rhapsody on we'll have a bit of fun, so get rehearsing

Jacks_xxx

dsljfreeman wrote: »

Hi Jacks,

I was gonna wish you good luck with your challenge, but I don't really think you will need it, I am totally convinced you will do it.

You are always very upbeat and confident in your posts and they are a pleasure to read.

I will be popping in to check up with your progress and give myself some motivation.

Keep up the good work

Laura xx

I think I definitely will do it honey - with fab encouragement like that! :T :A

What a lovely thing to say! :j

I'll definitely take any luck you can send my way as well though.

Have a massive hug from me and I think that of I needed any extra motivation the thought of letting all of you lovely DFW-ers down will be enough to stop me from failing!
Hope so anyway! :eek:

Love Jacks xxx

Jacks_xxx

Toto wrote: »

How about doing some proper practice with your son's girlfriend? some scales and the like? Does she have a keyboard? I'd love to come and have a listen if you get this singing job. You know I have the odd contact and could get you some work when you're ready. Failing that, we'll have to get you a demo sorted, I'll round up a few musos who owe me a favour in the new year and we'll do a studio day if you're up for it? I'll use the Osborn Street. London studio which I can borrow for free. I love that studio actually, it's dead retro with its carpet on the walls. And the piano is still in there which queen recorded bohemian rhapsody on we'll have a bit of fun, so get rehearsing

Oh bless your little heart honeybun! That'd be fab. :T :A :eek: :beer: :j :eek:

I'm not sure if I'm scared or excited about it!

Both I think.

I'm defnitely logging into eBay for now though.

If you see my green light on after 9:24 am - kick my @r$e!

Love Jacks xxx

Karmacat

Hamper......... ebay......... singing.. poss m.b. and bingo (I'm trying too, I'll be watching any results you get and trying to follow suit) but for now......... its 0949, Jacks, and your light is still on! One virtual telling off coming your way now!

skint_spice

Hi Jacks, just caught up with this thread - sounds like you're well on track. Good luck! and I hope your son makes his £50,000 too, it's good he's aiming for something at such a young age.
I love the way that one day you were talking about washing up and now you might be a spangly singer!

In_Search_Of_Me

Jacks you're a star already!! What a lovely offer toto! and bohemian rhapsody...poss one of the best songs of all time! One thing though Jacks you MUST feel able to say when you're having a down day too...noone can be upbeat all the time! Maybe you & toto could release the DFW song & get debt free in no time! God luck with ebay listing...trying to get some energy to do some myself! Love the capsule wardrobe comment - I have one of those too!! Sadly getting a bit tight so must stop eating crap!

Jacks_xxx

Karmacat wrote: »

Hamper......... ebay......... singing.. poss m.b. and bingo (I'm trying too, I'll be watching any results you get and trying to follow suit) but for now......... its 0949, Jacks, and your light is still on! One virtual telling off coming your way now!

I'm just uploading some pics to Auctiva so while that happens I thought I'd nip back for a sec.

Addicted - moi???

Although...in my defence...MSE is my home page so I expect my light comes on every time I open a new window.

Honest.

I'm just trying to hammer the debt with everything possible and from every direction we can think of - cos the thought of having it done and dusted in time for next christmas makes me a bit tearful. (in a good way!)

Love Jacks xxx

Jacks_xxx

skint_spice wrote: »

Hi Jacks, just caught up with this thread - sounds like you're well on track. Good luck! and I hope your son makes his £50,000 too, it's good he's aiming for something at such a young age.
I love the way that one day you were talking about washing up and now you might be a spangly singer!

Ooh I know honey!

I still may end up as the washer upper yet!

Although I have got both of my long spangly dresses out of their vacuum bags ready to steam just in case cos I always try and think positive!

I thought it was probably too much to turn up at the audition looking like Shirley Bassey so I wore my jeans and a floaty (slightly spangly ) top. The other older lady turned up in her stage clothes but all the young things had jeans on so I think I made the right call.

As for my son, we watched a property programme about how much you need to earn to buy a house these days and which areas are the worst for pricing young people out of the market - and round here is definitely one of the worst hit areas.

I don't think he really understood before how your wages dictate what house you can afford to buy and the programme explained it so well I could see him panicking while he was watching it.

Afterwards he worked out that he'd need to buy with someone else AND have a sizeable deposit in order to buy round here as on his current salary he'd only get a mortgage for about £56K and bedsit flats start at £110k+

I'm glad he's trying to be sensible too. His girlfriend wants him to get a nice car and take her on holiday but I hope he'll be able to be a little sensible about pressure liike that.

(He bought her Birthday and Christmas pressies via Quidco! )

Cheers honey!

Love Jacks xxx

Jacks_xxx

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

Jacks you're a star already!! What a lovely offer toto! and bohemian rhapsody...poss one of the best songs of all time! One thing though Jacks you MUST feel able to say when you're having a down day too...noone can be upbeat all the time! Maybe you & toto could release the DFW song & get debt free in no time! God luck with ebay listing...trying to get some energy to do some myself! Love the capsule wardrobe comment - I have one of those too!! Sadly getting a bit tight so must stop eating crap!

I know.... Bohemian Rhapsody huh?

I won't be intimidated much will I? :rolleyes:

As for the capsule wardrobe I feel quite liberated having very few clothes.

I kept reading about how we only wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time so I emptied out one of the wardrobes and everytime I wore and washed something I put it in there.

It didn't take long before I could see what I wore over and over again - and what was just taking up space.

So I rescued my wet suit and a couple of long dresses, really summery stuff that I may only wear for a couple of weeks a year but I still need and a few special occasion things, then I sold the rest on eBay and to a local dress agency.

And then we sold the wardrobe too!

Love Jacks xxx

PS I'll definitely be on here moaning when I'm feeling pooey and demotivated honey, but I really appreciate you saying that. :T

Luckystepho

Sounds like you are going great guns Jacks, imagine how you will feel next December when you're debt free!! :j

I'm trying to motivate myself to ebay some of my junk, sorry, ahem, old treasures but keep getting sidetracked! :rolleyes: