Helllo Again

Friday 16 March 2012

Helllo Again

I am terribly neglectful of my blog these days!!! London was lovely - even found a few bargains in a chazza Shop for Weeny and I! naughty but fun- mooched around Trafalgar square , Russell Square and Clapham Common and popped into Covent Garden for a look at the buskers and street entertainers. Weeny happy. The shops are obscene!!! I did remark to Biggles that I like some Karen Millen pieces and LK Bennet. He said I would have to sell everything to wear KM or LK.. I said ha ha I do own LK Bennet shoes and a Karen Millen dress I just did' nt own them first snigger!

This weekend we are staying at home - B is in London revising for an exam on Monday. He is unmotivated and a bit grumpy with the whole state of revision affairs.I pondered visiting Scotland but I need new tyres which have to wait to the end of the month.

So tomorrow we will be swimming car booting and gardening and generally catching up on all the bits that need to be done before the working week. No dates for five days yet and nothing from any unis. I have had to change referee for the podiatry application as I have not heard from them in over a week and time is critical for this already late application.

For the next few months I will have car bills then it will be MOT time. Hopefully the MOT will be fine as I will have had so much work done on the sodding thing. Car tax not due till later in the year I believe.

Tyres, shock thing - April Service in May then MOT in June. I can't afford to do them all at the same time. Not when the brakes cost me $180 Ahhhhhh

Weeny is all obsessed by Disney - visiting it. I hope to one day but we shall have to wait and see. Will report back faithfully in the state of the car boot sale!

The hunt for the dress to wear to the wedding is ongoing... sigh.. if I find nothing appropriate I will wear my black dress with pearls and gloves and look all fifties and just a bit like a mourner.

And we need haircuts = pooo! I have no time at work so no cheap college salon cuts.

Watching Barry Squatter and the Skanky Mallows for the millionth time .... I know its a 12a but she adores Doctor Who which I think can be far scarier! And she says stupify at the telly when a bad dude comes on. OK Shes been asleep for a while but .... gotta watch the bit where the elf karks it.

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Anonymous16 March 2012 at 15:25
Aw, I cried when Dobbie bought it!
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Eeek17 March 2012 at 07:35
I was aww poor dobbie the first time but by the 50th.....sigh... my friends children shout ex smelly armpits at the telly which I find very funny. I am so sad!!!!
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Why do I Blog!

Well primarily for me its a cathartic get it off my chest / a means to organise thoughts / to take stock. A journal that in 2012 has an interactive ' Dear diary' that is vast.

I don't write to share wisdom. Have very little of that. I don't claim to have an aspirational lifestyle of any kind. I dont write for it to be read even. If it is and my mad mixed up life interests people, makes them laugh, is a bit of a soap opera, whatever then that's great. Blogging - a bit of an affirmation of real life life choices maybe....

Sometimes my blog brings order and reflection to the real world. Sometimes Blogland folks share pearls of wisdom which is very very cool! :-)

I ve gained a great deal from reading other peoples blogs. Different ways of life are always interesting. I don't get involved in giveaways or stuff like that. I think its lovely though. Am pants at choosing gifts and it would give me no end of nightmares.

I read blogs before I blogged. Some people share so much and through reading I have learnt a great deal.Practical and otherwise.The tips are fantastic for frugal stuff. As are the stories of strangers lives. INSPIRATIONAL and all wonderfully different.

I m a bit of a roller coaster girl up and down. The blog keeps me more train like. Also an outlet for the negative stuff. A bit like wind. And by that I mean the gaseous stuff. BETTER OUT THAN IN. My blog is then a load of old fart.....this amuses me greatly.

Thanks Dave!!!

Once upon a time the end was in sight and financial freedom from my little debt of under 5k was nearly within my grasp! December 2012 if not before with the benefits of frugality however our friend Dave had other plans!!!!

I was made redundant from my job with a pish package I took what I could find till a full time position. Finally taking a 10k salary drop.

In 2009 I invested in property buying my house with a 15% deposit. n 2011 after three years of home owning and negative equity to the tune of 12k I have finally sold and now have jack bloody buggery shite. What smarts is that I gave up time with my small child in favour of seeking security for us. If only I had done the opposite....... rented, claimed top up benefits and saved my hard earned cash .... quality of life for me and weeny girl for three years would have been be better and we would have a cash sum in the bank and no debt.

You play frugal, play independent, watch your consumption, don't do frivalous sofas or new cars, no nights out at the pub type debt just what you have to! After a double whammy from the government - house market slump and Local Authority redundancy compounded by rural living what is a single mum supposed to do???? = Suck it up, Keep smiling, and use a brush instead of a hoover.