Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

Brie

Love the kitten pics - they are obviously very comfortable in their new home.  

Pleased that Mr KK is having good quality bonding time with his dad.  

I like the idea of sand painting and am sure it's a great way to meditate.  I know for me that bashing the bike frame might be more therapeutic but then again I always enjoyed chopping wood too.  

KajiKita

Thanks Watty and Brie 😊

Interesting day today ….

Slept like a rock - best night’s sleep in a long time - thank goodness. 

Got into work early after a lovely drive in where I could appreciate beauty again and finished preparing slides for an ops review that I only got the data for Friday pm 🙄

Intense meeting with two of my team about what my boss was raving about on Friday - they got the urgency and my suggested strategy and we have an agreed plan. 

Shared plan with boss in my weekly 1:1 (he seemed pleased) and then I started talking about all the little details he minced me over on Friday and how I was going to tackle them. He started saying that some of them weren’t important, not to worry - I was like WTA ….? (I managed to contain this response !) and said he had been ‘passionate’ about them (polite euphemism 🙄) so as I was doing a full revision of a task I could incorporate those details. We then went our separate ways, early, but on good terms. 

Created template for a ‘quick and dirty’ solution to boss issue, sent to colleague for doc control, received back, circulated to team members from the morning meeting. 

Started tackling a quality issue that has reached the attention of the top of our division (2 levels above my boss) - I was hoping one of my team would be back to do that today after three weeks away, but they are sick so couldn’t come into work… Supplier visit booked for tomorrow morning as a result. 

Spoke to one of the team about why they aren’t included in the bonus (all to do with grading and they aren’t at the right level - bonuses have been applied Willy nilly in the past, but now we are working to the global rule) - they’d embarrassed themselves in the morning by going straight at my boss about it - vigorous Teutonic logic and rules (think really quite Vulcan) were the response and my team member got emotional - continued Vulcan response. By the time I spoke to my team member they were very subdued about it ….

No time for walk at lunchtime - straight into Ops review. Went okay. No questions for me. Boss took something of a pummelling I thought. 

One hour session on women in engineering - looks constructive - have signed up for more info. 

Quick squint at tomorrow’s calendar and planned my day. 

Drove beyond home to collect new car - 🤞 pleeeease let it be okay and not a duff one! 😉😊 Mr KK seems to like it ❤️ Managed to reverse it into the drive first time without incident 🥳
Mr KK had major vent about his sister being flaky in supporting their mum … I get it but he needs to think his approach thorough as there is still a way to go before we are done with all of this. Made some suggestions. 

We cleaned litter trays together - ending up with ‘his n hers’ scoops - mine pink (new one), his blue (old one) and had a laugh over the bin about it - whatever gets us through I suppose 😉🤷‍♀️❤️ Fed cats. 
Cooked dinner. 

Replied to my father’s latest fell walking email - a record 9 images describing the route in this one ….! 😳😂

Done, mostly. Need to shuffle monies around this evening as my credit card is CREAKING! after buying the car and do food for tomorrow. 

Apologies for the brain dump. 

KK

KajiKita

Monies moved from savings to cover work AMEX whilst I continue to wrestle with the system … (submitted 4 times now). 

Monies moved from three separate savings accounts to cover the car payment. Short of £315 as that is coming from my ISA and hasn’t appeared in my current account yet. When it does, that will get the car paid off the CC. 

My savings are looking sad …. Ah well. 

Cancelled the old car insurance policy. £50 admin fee 😩 so £191 to come back to me. 

Breakfast and snacks done but defeated by full lunch prep so have pulled together some picky bits that are vaguely healthy. 

DONE! 😊

KK

beanielou

A better day than you thought then 

KajiKita

beanielou said:

A better day than you thought then 

Yes 😊
Shattered now though. 

Watching cat wrestling! 😂😂

KK

skint_spice

But do you feel more confident driving the new car? That you will be less likely to be phoning rescue services regularly? Peace of mind is worth it.

KajiKita

skint_spice said:

But do you feel more confident driving the new car? That you will be less likely to be phoning rescue services regularly? Peace of mind is worth it.

TBH, because the fault on my old car was intermittent I will feel more confident after a few weeks. One thing I am already aware of is how much better the suspension is. We have a lot of rough roads around here. I really think my old car was worn out and not a great build quality to start with (Italian - in my experience in manufacturing, everything mechanical from Italy is ‘lightly’ built). I’m hoping that a more comfortable ride will make the commute less exhausting. 

KK 

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like a right load of nonsense going on at work! Boss sounds very vexing, demand things that then don't really matter 🙄 Glad you have the new car though, and his m hers poop scoops 😂

LadyWithAPlan

KajiKita said:

- went through all recipes I have as well as my summarised recipes index list of what recipes are stored where this evening and cooked butter bean lemon mash for the first time in years this evening to sub for the frozen chips …..

- cat chips - not done … my head is mush - this can wait until the weekend. 

KK

? Cat chips? Is this some new famous cuisine I missed out on ?? 

Sorry to Hear re your FIL and MIL - everyone deals with grief in different ways so the SIl may be hiding as she doesn’t want to deal with the full consequences of your FIL end of life period
- good Mr KK having open honest chats 

You are dealing super well but give yourself time as well 

loving all these cute pics of dogs and cats .. @beanielou those beds are brilliant! 

@CCW007 too cute ! 

Watty1

Glad the cats are providing light relief in a really busy and somewhat vexing time.