Learning to walk before I run

rtandon27

edinburgher said:

I share your pain @rtandon27 - I'm also managed by a micromanager!

I take comfort in knowing it's not just me! - I also played a couple of online scratch and wins yesterday and made back twice what I paid to play, so withdrew it and my sin tax took care of itself!  atm all in, I've only spent 30p this month on wishful thinking which is a bargain given the cost of everything else these days 🤣🤣🤣

edinburgher

Organised to speak to a mortgage broker to start the ball rolling on a remortgage today. Except I was 3 weeks early, so I didn't 🤦🏻‍♂️

KajiKita

edinburgher said:

Organised to speak to a mortgage broker to start the ball rolling on a remortgage today. Except I was 3 weeks early, so I didn't 🤦🏻‍♂️

I call that keen!!! 😂😂😂👏

KK

Suffolk_lass

Too early, as in, the appointment is in 3 weeks time, or three weeks too early to be able to move?

I hope I was never that micromanager. I liked to fully understand things (still do) but did not feel I needed to manage beyond ensuring my staff knew what to do and knew enough about the subject matter to resolve issues and brief me and seniors as needed

edinburgher

@Suffolk_lass - the latter - I can just about manage my diary

Work is oddly quiet today, I'm feeling a bit bored, truth be told. Perhaps time for some job hunting before hitting some overdue work admin this afternoon?

• £1.65 OPed
• c. £1 from small surveys on Prolific
• £2 from a Y Live survey (couldn't help myself)
• Remembered the £2 SIPP payment (£2.50+ after tax relief) I owed myself from last weekend

edinburgher

Still not feeling this week, there is very little time off as a parent! Stressed and crabbit.

Financially and practically, things have remained productive:

• £93.53 OPed this morning 
• £61.68 paid into my SIPP (I believe this will be worth IRO £92.52 after tax relief is applied this year and next). 8% gross of my overtime from Tuesday comings pay and a wee lottery sin tax
• S&S ISA topped up a couple of times. Dividend pot has now passed £500 and I received my first dividends this week. That £1 will make all the difference
• Up to 4 hours of overtime this week, I may do another hour or two today
• I have started painting the stained section of our kitchen ceiling. Two and a bit coats of Zinsser BIN have very much faded (although not completely disappeared) the marks and I'm going to start painting at 1
• Most school uniform purchased for DD1
• Cat taken to vet for her usual jags and a new course of prescription flea treatment ordered

This month has been ridiculously expensive because of the holidays. We will pass £1,000 for groceries, I suspect that a wodge of holiday costs have made their way into there because of the staycation.

edinburgher

It turns out "very much faded" doesn't cover it. Cue an hour's walk in the ******* rain to get another can 

edinburgher

Job done and while it might not be a good'un, it's a "good enough" un I am exhausted, made a mess and got soaked. I kept my cool tho, and we had a household repair that was spotted, fixed and redecorated after in less than a week. That would have taken us *months* in the olden days. Feeling pretty

earthgirl2

Well done Ed! On the school holidays, my two are 13 and 15 and really for the past year or two have been pretty self sufficient in the holidays with activities - sometimes they need a lift to something. But really it gets easier and cheaper, although the food bill keeps rising! 

beanielou

It does get easier & then they will be gone & you will miss them. Take it from someone who knows.