Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita

Oh, the pancake was lush! 😊 Finished off the scrag end of my jar of HM piccalilli with it and had a brew with it, followed by another one in the sofa, as the first one was so good.

Really ought to go do more of something now ….

KK

Tescodealqueen

Feel your pain about the rain. Had my hair cut Yesterday, they spent a good half hour drying and styling it, went to Aldi then loading the car the heavens opened and my hair was literally plastered to my head in about 30 seconds! So pleased you have cancelled your German prime. I used to pay for my sons phone and he inadvertently signed up to some text thing and it got to £92.00 worth before I caught it and managed to stop the charges. Angry doesn’t come into it

KajiKita

I have an announcement 😊
I have achieved two significant steps forward today:

1. I have paid off my credit card for the month WITHOUT touching my pay, for the first time (key YNAB concept). This took £749 from my savings. However, I then looked at my commitments for the month for where my pay needs to go and I had £1,400 spare in my current account. I diverted £1,000 from my current account across to my savings and ….

<drumroll> ….

2. OPd £404.81 to leave my current account at a tidy £2500.

If I have my sums correct, it looks reasonable to me that I will be able to OP £400 pcm going forwards even with building up my savings. 

Beyond excited! 😊❤️🎉🎊🥳

KK

Suffolk_lass

That is awesome! Well done.

Tescodealqueen

Got to love YNAB

KajiKita

I’ve just found out that my Uncle Robert has died. Yesterday morning. I was only thinking about him last night ….
Apparently my aunt has lost my number …. The lady I have been texting daily for c. 3 months now … I had an email from a far distant member of the family and it doesn’t sound like my dad knows so I am the one who has to tell him. I have tried to, but he’s in a meeting so we have an appointment for a call at 7.30pm tonight. You couldn’t make it up! 🙄

With the debacle that is communication in my family I am not 100% convinced that Mr KK and I will get to find out when his funeral is …. That would gut both of us.

So relieved that his suffering is done. He had struggled on long enough. It’s good to think of him back with his brother and sister and my grandpa. ❤️

KK

KajiKita

Conversation with my dad done. Mr KK was listening in on the call and thought he sounded very shocked. 

My aunt rang before (made me late for the call with my dad) - she sounds surprisingly upbeat and future focused (thank goodness). I think seeing her husband like that for so long, even she realised that he had zero quality of life and no chance of recovery. She told me a lovely story about how he had two other girlfriends when she first met him - he was such a lovely guy that doesn’t surprise me. The one fell in live with a friend of his and the other my aunt warned off 😉

Having that conversation with my aunt enabled me to tell my dad a bit more of what had happened, that he passed without distress etc. 

My dad is a very formal and dry old stick but I could hear a tremor in his voice when he told my mother in an aside to her. It really shouldn’t have been me telling him, but in a way I was glad it was me - we could wryly smile together at the eccentricities of the communication process. He thanked me at the end of the conversation. I said I couldn’t say my pleasure(!) but that I was glad that he now knew and wasn’t going to find out some other random way. He agreed. We’ve *absolutely* agreed to share ANY and all intelligence related to the funeral!!! 😉

KK

redofromstart

Oh so much sympathy and empathy from me. Hope you do get to go and say your farewells 

SandyShores

I was just about to scroll down and say well done on your YNAB success, but then saw your posts about your uncle.  Sending good wishes Kajikita x

KajiKita

Thanks Redo, Sandy. I have moved from feeling numb to relieved and very, very tired. Been quite a day ….

KK x