Moving on up! 🏡

Jessy103

Three cleaning jobs done this morning. One load of washing done and went out on the line, which I thought would end up in next doors garden! The cabinet I ordered arrived and was built by DH with my assistance 😅 Then a nice evening just chilling watching TV and a bit of gaming. My setup is all sorted now so I can get back to streaming whenever i want to. Might stream tomorrow afternoon. We've booked the dog field in the morning and then we're having dinner at my parents house.

I was wondering why the council tax hadn't come out of my bank yet, so I found the bill and it turns out the first payment will be taken in May, I will then pay the last one in February when usually you have a break. This is fine, means a bit of extra money this month for some of other bits we still need.

QueenJess

Just catching up on diaries. Congratulations on moving in! I am unsurprised that you are already busy overpaying :)

Jessy103

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Thanks Jess x

Jessy103

It's been a busy week. Office job is meh, really not enjoying it again. It's been very quiet sales wise, a lot of measures have been put in to control spending and several people have left over the past month or so (including useless manager, no great loss there though). It's worrying as I've been at risk of redundancy before and how things are at the moment it is concerning. I did have to turn down another potential cleaning customer this week, another friend of a customer that I already have. I hate saying no, but I just don't have the time right now. I'm thinking about moving into my cleaning more, so I've installed indeed on my phone and I'm keeping an eye out for part time jobs that could give me the guaranteed wage each month and time to do my cleaning as well.

I had to get a new phone this week after mine went kaput, to be fair it was at least 5 years old and quite beaten up! My new one is £30 a month as I'm paying for a new handset as well as the contract but I expect it to last me another 5years+, so I'm fine with it.

The mortgage is currently £190,200.84. I'm hoping to get rid of that £200.84 soon, certainly by the end of the month.

My friend is coming to visit tomorrow, which I'm really looking forward to as I haven't seen her since October! She's a busy career lady and unfortunately, her stepdad recently passed away, so she's had a lot to deal with. I can't wait to see her and for her to see the house 😀

beanielou

Enjoy the time with your friend. Sorry about work. x

Jessy103

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Thanks Beanie x

Jessy103

Had a lovely time with my friend on Sunday. She came with her two dogs, one a great dane and the other weimaraner, so not small dogs, but we had enough room for them, just about 🤣

I did us quiche, salad, potatoes etc for dinner and made way too much so me and DH had it for tea and for tea again last night. Still some salad left 😅

I have an appraisal at work on Thursday with the M.D. so we'll see what happens, i might ask about reducing my hours and see if that would be a possibility.

Cleaning jobs have been going well. Had to help two separate customers set up their new phones, bless them. DH said I should advertise that sort of help as well as cleaning 😂

I've made an overpayment to the mortgage of £100.84, so new balance is £190,100. Still hope to get that £100 paid off by the end of the month🤞

Trying to get five dogs to stay still to take a nice photo is near impossible! 🤣

South_coast

That's a lot of dogs! So exciting that you now have a garden they can play in 🩷

Good luck with your appraisal, no harm in saying you're finding it too much and are thinking about reducing your hours (even if that's not quite the whole truth)

beanielou

You would be amazed at how many people would pay for tech help. x

Merlin's_Beard

The dogs look like they're having an amazing time!