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An in-between phase
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We can still be friends @foxgloves, I'll take the nice bits of your post and I will also have your beans x2
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Two surveys
Usuals
Lots of build admin including email to brokers who want nearly £700 extra from us. We know we have no choice but to pay it but we agreed I was allowed one email politely telling them they're idiots first, to soothe my feelings. This has turned into several emails where things have got more and more opaque as they keep saying things that are clearly b*llocks, such as 'we wouldn't have provided a reinstatement figure' to which I've been compelled to ask 'then why does it say Reinstatement Cost' on the document we've paid you over two grand for?'
Half wussy situps
Shower and hairwash
Ten minute carpet walk
Prepped cheesy potatoes for dinner
Walk with Mr PIP to local with camra discount to work/admin from pub4 -
PiP the more I read about this while process, the more surreal and disconnected from reality it seems to become … I am mentally flip flopping over here, at a distance! I can’t imagine what it’s like to engage with in person …. 😳
The cheesy potatoes and beer sound like comforting re-sets 😊
KKAs at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
Produce tracker: £243 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1 -
It is as insane as you are feeling @KajiKita but xf*cktons (definitely a number) from several more angles. Thank goodness for booze and carbs.1
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Haha booze and carbs is a good name for a band.
You are doing great, especially given the crap time you have been having of late
I hope you have something decent/or indecent to look forward this weekendIf you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 100/1000
Buffer fund 0/100
Debt Free (again) 25/0720251
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