In best meercat voice:
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You aren’t what you own
July 23rd, 2009My immediate family have always been amazed at my ability to live quite happily on very little income – in fact the most miserable I ever was was when I tried to keep 2 jobs going to garner more disposable income. I know this as recently I’ve been culling old posts from this blog and 5 years ago I was miserable, stressed, run down and incredibly overworked and as a result developed ME/CFS.
Worries about the future
February 11th, 2009
I have the opportunity to progress onto the third year of a Bachelor of science honours degree next year.
However, I’m not sure if I will get the funding to do so because of my wasted year on the BA(hons) popular music and recording degree at Salford university in 2001.
Getting ahead of myself
January 16th, 2008Seems I should check my paperwork more carefully, I’m still fully hosted right up until june YEY!
*grin*
Being an adult
January 5th, 2008I said to Stef on new years eve that I’d not made any resolutions this year, but as I sat down to write this post I realised that I lied.
Freecycle funny
June 9th, 2007I know I’ve mentioned freecycle before, it’s a website where people post items they’re giving away on a first come first served basis. I’m a member of the manchester board and in this mornings digest there was a corker of a wanted ad: Read the rest of this entry »
Paypal protects you my ARSE!
April 18th, 2007Grand National
April 14th, 2007I WON!!!
*grin* so yah boo sucks to daddy dearest (his response to my text by the way was “No-one likes a big head” *snicker*)
I curse my father!
April 14th, 2007He rang up the other day with a couple of ‘tips’ for the grand national, I don’t gamble as a rule (i’m too poor) but he lives for it, horses are his lifesblood – if he could I swear he’d own a string of racehorses. Anyhow, now I feel like I have to lay on a bet or 2, this feeling has been exacerbated by the arrival of Ian coming to drag Stef up to the bookies.
This being so I’ve thrown a whole £7 between 3 horses (all £1.25 each way bets, man I’m such a risk taker LOL) I picked one by myself : ‘Silver Birch’ just on the name (I love those trees, my favourites after the lovely willow) the other 2 were the hot picks my daddy dearest urged me to bet on ‘Idle talk’ and ‘monkerhostin’ then Ian piped up and told me to pick one of the 100/1ers and he’d stick on a bet in my name, obviously I had to choose ‘knowhere’ had to be at 100/1 with a name like that didn’t it?.
Blurb
April 3rd, 2007I went to the doctors this morning to get something to help me sleep, he’s given me a months worth of Phenargan (not liking the look of the possible side effects though)
Back to work?
March 30th, 2007Don’t make me laugh!
The government are apparently eager to get all of us malingerers off incapacity benefit and back on the work force – at least that’s the story..
Moving on up..
March 27th, 2007Sadly not in the ‘home’ sense of the word but I have taken the slightly scary first step of looking for work.
Dirty weekend in Durham
January 22nd, 2007Well, not really a dirty weekend, but it sounds good *grin*
One of Stef’s friends got married on Saturday, we had to go really – he made Stef do a reading at the wedding (which he got through in magnificent style despite his qualms about using the word ‘foibles’ *chuckle*) When we tried to book a room at the hotel where the wedding was being held there seemed to be none available so we booked a cottage in West Aukland instead:
More eBay nonesense..
January 22nd, 2007I’ve had to escalate the paypal dispute to claim status.
I’m seriously wondering if it’s worth all the hassle – it’s even causing rows between me and Stef now and that’s pissed me off more than anything else. I think I’ll be laying off eBay for quite some time now – I just can’t afford this kind of stress.
Latest on the ebay fiasco
January 17th, 2007okies, here’s what I sent to the paypal resolution centre about 2 minutes ago:
I requested confirmation of shipping from the seller as I’d had no correspondnace and they were no longer registered on ebay. I gave them a little more leeway after they emailed me to apologise and state that a job offer over christmas had delayed things.
That’s just extracting the urine!
January 17th, 2007Before you read any more of the saga you probably need to go here.
Happy dancy joy and goodness!
January 12th, 2007*grin*
I’m a happy bunny.
Not only did I get a really good nights sleep last night (I even slept through him downstairs according to Stef) But I’ve just spent 4 hours wandering round the Trafford center with Nic, I’ve been in every womens clothes shop there and tried on several dresses and had an absolute laugh doing it – yes me the girl who HATES clothes shopping!
Ricky Gervais
January 11th, 2007I’m not sure if those of you over the pond are aware of who this guy is, over here he’s basically an ‘A’ list celeb these days.
It’s not fair!
January 11th, 2007I’m beginning to think someone somewhere doesn’t want me to start making these watch sets for ebay.
I’ve given up on eBay itself as my watch face supplier and I’ve tried 4 different websites this morning – 2 of them didn’t ship to the uk (and they only tell you this once you get to the checkout *sniff* all that wasted time) 1 was asking such an extortionate amount for shipping it just wasn’t worth it – and the other wouldn’t process my payment..
Arse.
January 8th, 2007I’ve had my first bad eBay experience and it smarts.
I ordered a load of 4mm bicone crystals just before christmas and asked that they not be shipped until the new year, I only started worrying when the transaction disappeared from ‘my ebay’ without notice.
Ciao baby!
December 18th, 2006MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I’ve actually found a site that gives you money for writing things. seriously, you just write a review about practically anything and they pay you for it – and if people read, rate and comment on the review.. so much tha better, more mulah for you.
Beady things
December 12th, 2006I’ve been toying with the idea for some time now of trying to sell some of my creations on Ebay since there’s really nothing else I can do to raise money and fund my hobby, this has led to me also thinking of ways to link my website and make it do something useful as opposed to just sit there.
Benefits update
November 30th, 2006I’m actually half thankful that this benefit screw up has happened.
OK, because I have no paperwork covering the dates they claim I owe from that could prove I do not owe the money, I have to suck it up and pay it. However,after speaking to the welfare rights people it appears I can at least get the sum they take from me each fortnight significantly reduced.
I hate our government
November 27th, 2006HATE them. REALLY really really hate them.
Has anybody else received a letter stating they owe X amount to the DWP from sometime 6-10 years ago?
I wouldn’t mind but if they told me AT THE TIME that I owed them money it would’ve been paid.I always pay my debts which is why I was so sure this was some kind of daft mistake or a scam. I even checked the number on the net before calling in case it was a phone scam. Apparently it’s down to ‘overpayments of benefit – and they’re taking it off me from next week – no warning, no explanations – I had to call them up to find out what this debt was they were pillaging my account for, well to be truthful they’re not even pillaging my account, they’re taking it straight from my incapacity benefit before I receive it so It’s not like I can refuse to pay it or at least put it off for verification purposes.
Gits, the lot of ‘em
October 2nd, 2005Well, it’s official.
I’ve just checked my finances and I’m skint – again.
At the end of October I need to pay my dentist over £300 for badly needed work on my teeth (all cheer, I’m finally getting it sorted) I also have to worry about Christmas and a few other financial commitments.
I’m a winner baybee!
August 31st, 2005Well – I’m an official salford resident, I have a doctor and a dentist and I’m not looking forward to either initial examination *sigh*
On the plus side it can’t possibly be as bad as the gastroscopy I’m having tomorrow at Crumpsall. Still – they’ll be sedating me so at least I’ll get some decent sleep finally *grin* ahh… Sleep…
Nah, bit worried because my gag reflex can kick in just by a good tooth scrubbing, having a flexible hose shoved down my throat is not really a procedure designed to bring me comfort and joy.
Ah well, could be worse I guess, they could be going in through my stomach.
joy de vivre or some such
March 3rd, 2005Finances, gotta love ‘em.
My sick pay was £66 short this month, I’ve finally managed to get through to someone who can tell me why.
It appears that I was supposed to be informed over 2 weeks ago that I need to start claiming incapacity as they are no longer able to pay me. Great.
So they stopped paying me on the 24th of february but it’s taken me chasing them up about this shortfall to find out, I’ve had no letter, phone call – Nothing – my immediate boss has no clue, he’s the one that chased up the number I needed to call, as far as he is concerned I’m still on the books and they’re due to come out for another home visit soon. Nice organisation there Barclays.
stuff to do
February 3rd, 2004Karaoke competition tonight. hmmm… still dont know what i want to sing, never a good thing – after all preperation is the key *grin*
Thats the problem with knowing and liking too many songs, im a good singer, not fantastic – nowhere near as good as i used to be, but i have a good sense of rhythm, decent pitch and a lot of power… shame about the control and the range though lol so far its looking likely that i’ll end up doing good ol’ “Mustang Sally” but then again… if i hadnt have already sung total eclipse of the heart there last week… decisions decisions decisions…
Please forgive me Matt.
January 24th, 2004I am an awful person.
my mates birthday today, i was supposed to spend the evening with him, chilling, feeding and watching a dvd (he’s 29 today, poor lad thinks he’s getting old and doesnt want to go out LOL) sadly, im having to let him down.
I recieved a telephone call from the delightful L offering me a shift at the uni – WORK!!!
i eagerly grasped at the offered hours like a drunk would the last glass of gin in the known universe, only to realise after hanging up the phone what this would do to the aforementioned plans.
Arse.
Still, he’s a forgiving sort is our M. Besides, the housemate should be home before i leave so im sure that, boys being boys, they’ll end up on the x-box or something…