I WILL get there!!

My sister has her sweep today but is refusing to eat fresh pineapple - I'm begging her to avoid curries - having been at the 'business end' many a time, it's the worst advice ever given :rotfl:

I am all 0% at the moment Kitten. Or at least I thought I was. How ridiculous I've been priding myself on how well I've done to get everything on 0% and paying it off so quickly to get a letter from my old bank reminding me of my student overdraft account which is £1600 overdrawn and interest bearing :eek:
A family member who owes me some money from a long time ago (that I was despairing of ever seeing!) called yesterday to say they will be paying me almost that amount back next week so rather than it going off the CCs it will be used to clear my overdraft :mad:
Huge frustration as I was so excited to be able to reduce the figures by quite a substantial amount and bring my DFD forward

Next milestone will be MBNA card paid off....I'm working towards that as a priority at the moment, it just seems so far away

Ooooooh I'm a miserable tinker today - am going to cheer myself up thinking about how my bridesmaid dress (for next Saturday - came around VERY quickly!) fits nicely even though the weight loss isn't as drastic as I'd have hoped....need to stop eating microwave pizzas but they are so cheap and filling

No, it wasn't in my total Kitten - I think I've buried my head in the sand about it for so long I forgot about it :mad:

So nothing off my total because my total wasn't accurate....I'm really angry with myself, and quite ashamed that I managed to FORGET about an almost £2000 debt :eek:

Can't wait for the wedding - time with my original school age friends is very high on my list of things that make me happy

I'm not a midwife anymore - I never actually finished my training, there were some very upsetting things which lead my to change my career path in the second year of training, something I regularly regret. I don't think 18/19 year old me thought about the upsetting side of midwifery, and I certainly didn't react very well to that side of it.

Everything else is going very well All is quiet and very pleasant on the home front. Doing a lot of talking, working on the house and generally making sure we communicate as well as we can. Counselling continues and we have decided to keep that on as long as either of us feel it's necessary, regardless of cost.

I'm so excited for you about the house Kitten, hope the survey comes back quickly and you can get on with the exciting and frustrating exchanging and completing!

Congrats on the mortgage offer Kitten, fingers crossed the survey comes back ASAP!

Well the money arrived in my account and was promptly dispatched to the long forgotten Natwest Student Account, so that's that done....gutting to see that amount of money (2.5 months of payments and overpayments in one hit) not make a blind bit of difference to my DFD, but there's not really a lot I can do about that now, and at least I'll never pay interest on that money again. It had been costing me £40 a month without me even realising :eek:

I opened by sealed tin last night as it was full (5ps and 10ps) was a bit gutted as I'd hoped to have over £50 but it was just under £49 :cool: so that will be paid into the bank on saturday and quickly dispatched to the target CC - every little helps! And I'm sure I can raid OHs jar to round up the the £50 mark

You've had a lot going on Tink! Hope continues to be quiet on the ex front for you.

I'd like to say turning 30 wrecked my memory but it was terrible WAY before that!

I'm so looking forward to the wedding, it will be a lovely day as long as I can find a pair of shoes which won't cripple me after half an hour...