In the last hour, I've gone...

... from cold when I woke up to hot when I had lunch to just right before I shaved me pits which made me cold then I turned on the shower and got naked, which made me hot so I turned the shower to warm and got in. 

I, predictably, got cold very quickly but couldn't see the shower dial thing without my glasses so I quickly washed my hair 'til it squeaked then washed my body, turned the shower off, dried myself, put my glasses back on and got out and dressed which, you guess correctly, made me hot.

I came in here and left the door open to cool me down but I'm cold again now!

Can't win!  :-(

My money again

I’ve just checked my bank balance again and I’ve got £505.82 in there. Take off £104 for the PPC and £201 for my credit cards leaves me with just over £300 for June and £404 in July which adds up to £704 so far, right?  I just need to find another £95 from my other account and I’m sorted!  Yay!  Then I need to save up another £600 for the insurance, warranty and breakdown cover in August and September and that’s it for 3 years!  Yay!

Screw you, spending addiction!

That's all I'm buying now!

I've just renewed my PPC for another year but that's it now until I get the chair... I'd planned to get it so it's not an unexpected expense or anything and it's only once a year so it's no big deal but I'd forgotten about it until I read a forum message about it!  Oops!

Just need to...

Just need to not spend anything in June and I can definitely get the Aries chair in July!  Yay!

I can't remember if I've said what my monthly outgoings are, but I'll have £500 to play with after all my direct debits come out and the chair is only £799 so and the policies for the chair are £600 every 3 years but I'm £582 in credit at the bank after being paid today, take off £400 for direct debits just for May then it's only £250 a month from June onwards for my credit cards and I get £750 every 4 weeks in benefits so I'll be able to get the chair in July and the policies in August which will give me the freedom and independence I crave after more than a decade!

Just need to deny my spending addiction the desire to spend unnecessarily now!

Nightmare on N Street!

The plumber came this morning, literally 10 or 15 minutes after Steve's carer left and agreed to do it this afternoon.

So far, so good.

He came back this afternoon with the new toilet and cistern and set about removing the broken one from our bathroom.

Groove and cooly.

He then discovered that the cistern wasn't in the box.

That's when things started going wrong for the 3 of us!

The plumber went to get a replacement.

The poor man checked everything was in the box before he left the shop this time - everything seemed fine so he came back.

He was about to install it when he found a hair-line crack so he came and showed me and Steve and the plumber said it was just a cosmetic crack nothing that affected the stability of it or anything.

Steve and I both agreed that as long as it was just cosmetic then that was fine and the plumber said that it might just clean off after he'd put it in.

The poor plumber is definitely fitting it now so hopefully we'll be able to empty our bladders soon!  lol

Poor man!

Scratch that, the poor plumber has had to go back again because the cistern didn't fit on the toilet... the holes were about half an inch out!  He's going to try getting a slightly more expensive one this time... third time lucky!

Just what we didn't need!

Steve's broken the bottom of the cistern but I can almost guarantee M will blame me.  Again.

The plumber who fitted our new emersion heater is going to come over later and fit a whole new toilet.  Again.

Maybe I'm wrong, but M seems to blame me for things that are in no way my fault, constantly!  It's like she gets her bitchy head on as soon as she see's me or talks to me... like she saves it all up for me?

So unfair!  :-(

Baths

Just got out of the bath and I'm wide awake now!

I'm thinking that just plain water wakes me up so would be good in mornings and bubble baths are better in the evening 'cos they relax me.

Just need to find an invigorating shower gel to use in the mornings now!

So tired!

I'm absolutely knackered even though I took a Pro Plus pill this morning before I came downstairs and I've taken all my supplements too!

Should I have a bath or not?  I'm sorely tempted by a lovely, relaxing bubble bath but don't want to fall asleep and drown!  The washing machine is on too so maybe that's using all the hot water?

What do you reckon I should do?

Just finished calling the 6 cards and...

... I don't owe anything on any of my store cards - all 3 cards have been paid off and closed!  Yay!

That means my monthly outgoings are now £201 instead of £400 last night!  I is so proud of myself now!

It means that I can put £400 a month aside for the wheelchair and policies and still have £150 a month to play with starting next month!

I was thinking of putting £250 aside each month but I've almost doubled that now!

I've got a huge grin on my face now and I won't have to tighten my belt quite so much any more this year!

Woohoo!  :-D

That's 2 paid off... yay me!

When I moved to Gloucester, I had 3 store  cards and 3 credit cards.

I've just been told that I've paid off a second store card so I've only got 3 credit cards and a single, one and only, store card to pay off now!

Yay!