Friday, 31 July 2009

Well it is now empty!

Well today is a very sad day my savings account is now empty all the money I have managed to save over the last 9 months to keep me going throughout uni has all been empted, there is no more money :(

I have 4 weeks to get together £300 otherwise I will miss my loan payment, can not believe my savings has all gone there was nearly 2 grand at the start of last uni year urgh :(

Better get this ebay and paid blogging cash soon, I just need to cover one month as my student loan will kick in October when I go back for year two of uni.

I feel like I have lost that protection I did have...

I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train, but now i know i'm glad i...

Good morning world, okay well I have 15 minutes until it is good afternoon world. Hubby is on an 1 till 8pm shift tonight so he just left and won't be home till 9pm, which is alright because I have so much work to do, I have 23 paid blogging to do (Don't think I am going to do it all today) and 1 survey plus package up all the ebay I have sold this week about 17 parcels and I have another 3 selling which is pretty good going since it has been dead for the last week! Nice to be selling these comics I paid so much for!!!

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My MIL came over earlier this morning to drop off food, flavoured water and sweets, she wanted to see baby Onion and thought he was very cute.  We let the girls out again and Onion has been trying to make sure that he is the boss of these two 1 and half year old females, so he has been biting which they are not impressed about and spend most their time hitting him.

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Oh and this is my hand covered in scratches thanks to Onion and they hurt :(

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Other than the ebay and blogging, I am just going to chill, I am hoping to see my best mate later today but haven't heard from her and I have no money to top up my phone :(



Love this song
"Writer's Block"

I get this writer's block, it comes as quite a shock,
And now i'm stuck between a hard place and the biggest rock,
In my own head consumed. I sit back in my room,
Its like the tapestries of life get tangled in the loom,
I'm like a butterfly, caught in a hurricane,
My pulse is quickening as my heart plays a new refrain

Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane,
On board a bullet train
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came

Sometimes at night i think too much,
About life and love and music and stuff

I'm livin' in the past,
My clocks an hour fast,
Should really go and make a coffee but i can't be arsed,
I've lost my mobile phone,
You'll have to call my home,
On second thoughts just leave a message when you hear the tone,
My grimy windows show the early morning glow,
Another day, another dollar in my one man show,

Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane,
On board a bullet train
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came

I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i came
But now i know i'm glad i came
But now i know i'm glad i came

Thursday, 30 July 2009

Ads, Ads, Ads

Sorry about the increased in ads or paid blogging on the website, I am really trying to make my goal of £300 for september month otherwise there won't be any food or the loan won't get paid, so far I am up to £130 and I have already covered this month (August) so I only need to make £170 in 5 weeks, shouldn't be that hard... right?

Well keep your fingers crossed for me as I carry on with the ads today hopefully we won't have so many once I am up and running, also remembering to check the paid blogging websites always helps... opps!

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

Today has been a little slow for me, I got up well I was woken up by my husband because he was bored and lonely at 7.30am this morning before he went to work, so I laid on the sofa while he complained about work then I fell asleep, woke up at 10.30am, still feeling rubbish.

Now my kitten who has been for the last hour biting and scratching my hands has now finally decided it is nap time, thank goodness, maybe I can get some work done, I have a load of ebay comics to be listed and I really should start packing up the ones I have sold for sending on Saturday.

Okay maybe I am just in a grumpy arsed mood but I am so bored of reading everyone's stupid life quotes, like they are trying to be deep, just makes me think what on earth are you on about, the saying "what are you doing now?" does not mean you have to write you life's secrets...  So far on my facebook feed are have three and they are mainly people I have no interest in, why is it on facebook you just add people you know nothing about and do not really want to know what they are doing right this second, also you get those people who write how great their life is, now that just makes me feel bad, I don't need that on a Thursday morning.  Personally I have managed to find one use for facebook and that is to say bid on my item on ebay and follow my twitter so maybe I can get people buying stuff of those ads...

urgh can't shake this bad mood this morning, I shouldn't really talk to anyone as I will just have ago....

Okay I am going to go and do more tidying... dull...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

What the ....

Oh my god, this has to be the fourth time I have lost the last couple of days, where are my paid blogging, they are all gone!!! ARUGH!!

Now I am going to have lunch then have to re-write these blogs urgh!!
Okay so this is the third time I have written this post and I am getting so annoyed, it was all fine last night and then I guess my new server decided to do what I asked them to do about a week ago and transfer my stuff across and it was all set up last night and now it is all gone! URGH!!!

And now it won’t update my sidebar which is driving me nuts, I had a nice long old post about everything I had been doing and now it is gone!!!!!  I will try again once the website is back to the way I want it, think I have to change passwords… pfft!!!

And this one
This paid blogging is going alright so far, not really sure until I have managed to get some approved, but I am having problems getting PPP to take my blog post because it says that the link isn’t in it and it is, twice! So I am waiting for a reply.

Other than that I’m just setting up my ads, doing the surveys (£5 already yay!) and just trying to join more paid blogging websites, I would idealy like to make £50 a month through all this activity but we shall see as it is early days.

Whoa look at the time already 20 past 11, where has my morning gone!! So far I got up, made the hubby breakfast, did two paid blogging post, two surveys and now I am down to tidying, writting thank you cards for my wedding present (yes two months later ha ha!) and find out where my bank charges refund is!!

Oh and ebay again…

I am going to scream right now!

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Whoa I am having so many problems with wordpress today, tried to upgrade and it died, so now I am re-installing everything again! Rubbish!

As I was saying before me and hubby painted one wall in the bedroom bright blue which I think looks alright but the hubby is unsure about the bright-ness of it but I think it makes a change from the white walls everywhere.

Also we have been painting the stairs black and we have painted every other stair black so we don't ruin the paint by stepping on it and even the cats have worked out which stair should be stepped on and which shouldn't BUT here is the problem, we need to paint the other stairs that are plain black and how will we work out which step on and which not and also how will the cats figure it out.

Onion has been good over the weekend just playing with himself in the office, he had an exciting day on Saturday when we let him out with the girls, they weren't impressed, lots of hissing and hitting and Onion thought it was good old fun and games.

I have managed to get my first PayPerPost and I am very excited about writing this first paid post and I also have 17 more to write with a different company :)
It has been a good day being a housewife is hard work and I don't think most people realise this, I have been up since the wee hours of the morning, my normal day goes as follows:

Get up, make husbands pack lunch, make breakfast for him and me.

Fed the cats, clean out the litter trays

Cuppa tea and relax for 10 minutes (check e-mails, websites, facebook & ebay)

Dishwasher, washing machine, drying the clothes

Wash down the kitchen tops, hover, wash the floors

Then it is around about lunch time, eat lunch and back to computer to do surveys, reviews, ebay, post, fan-sites updating and now paid blogging.

By the time I have done all this, it is home time for hubby, my fan-sites take forever to update as they are so big and so busy at the moment about between 100 to 250 unique hits a day, so once he is home it is feed him, run him a bath and watch telly before bedtime.

I am finding it really busy but I am enjoying the time off before uni starts back up in 8 weeks time :)  I am so excited about year 2 of uni, can not wait to learn more about internet computing, yay!

Oh before I forget I have been watching random BBC programs on Iplayer mostly about pregnancy as I am getting so broody right now, ha ha, my hubby and me were in the park on Saturday morning and we saw loads of little children running around and he turns to me and was like I want to make one of them, and then he was going on about all the activities he wants to do with our children, it was really cute :)

So back to these programs, they are underaged and pregnant these 14 and 13 years old pregnant, one was really cute with her little family with her boyfriend and son and her twin was just like oh look I am pregnant because my sister is.  The other one I am watching today is Pregnancy my big decision where a 14 and 16 year old have decided they want a baby.... oh dear... I don't think I am ready at 23 can't imagine how I would feel at 14, scared like anything.

Okay I'd better fix up this website before hubby getting home in 40 minutes.

Thursday, 23 July 2009

Yay! The delivery is here!

My very first fruit and veg delivery came about two hours ago, and I am so excited by it :)
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Yummy! I am going to make burgers tonight and use some other salad veg from outside that I have been growing :)  Oh and I am going to make my own buns yummy!

Also when I was taking pictures of the comics, they have these funny things on the back, like these:

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What's up with this kid? Creepy!

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Spiderman likes milk

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Spiderman LOVES milk

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Now ALL the marvel characters love milk

So fricking strange! Back to listing...

“One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.”

So I have managed to blog nearly every day this week and I am quite proud of myself, it is a first I tell you that!

Onion is being better today, minus the biting, gonna have to get him a teething ring, tried again last night to do the introduction with the girls, we had hissing again, strange meows and the girls freaking out when Onion tried to jump at them (he's in a cat cage) because he wanted to play.

I feel sorry for Onion, he has to stay in this room, in his pen, normally I let him out if I am in here, sometimes he escapes on his own(!) but I really like for him to be with the girls so they could all play together, just got to wait for the girls to accept him, might take yet another week as they are still not at all impressed but they have worked out that they get treats when Onion is around... Kit was more interested in the treats yesterday and kept tapping me for more.

I've been looking through my pad, I always write a to-do list mainly because I have a memory like a fish (which according to my dylexsia test my memory is shite and I forget so easily) so I have to write it all down, it drives people crazy, when I say "oh shit, I forgot to do that" and then they have ago at me for forgetting this and that.

My pad is full of revision, wedding notes (just shocked myself and found my gift list of what we got!!! I thought I had lost this!), money working outs and what to do today, saying that as well as this list, I have a board next to my computer with things to do.

On today's list is:

  • Call the H Sammuels - done, they still have not got back his ring, it is being re-sized, they say next Tuesday, that will be 2 weeks, he won't be happy when I tell him.

  • Washing Kitchen Floor - been on my list for about a week

  • Clean out Onion's litter tray

  • Hover downstairs

  • Put my clothes away - husband's clothes are growing on the chair in the bedroom!!!

  • Ebay - probably 50 more items need to be listed, might hit 300 listed today

  • Await the fruit and veg delivery



  • Make rolls for burgers tonight


Okay I'd better go and get most this list done and the girls are meowing outside the door so looks like I have to go downstairs for a bit otherwise they feel rejected and Onion is asleep anyway...

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

"For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat."

Onion at the moment is driving me nuts! Some how, I don't know how he did it, he has managed to work out how to escape from his pen, even when I tried to stick it all back together, I went downstairs to have some lunch, came back up stairs, pen still sealed and he was in the cat cage on the other side of the room, still no idea how he did it!  Now he is running around and jumping on everything, which is a pain when I am trying to type and list things on ebay.

Yay! So I have been approved for paid blogging, just awaiting my server transfer and I can start making some extra money, I would like to make like £50 a month from ads, reviews, surveys and paid blogging but as I am just starting out I don't know what I will make.

Ebay listing is going well, I am up to 208 items listed, hopefully get 50 more done this afternoon that's if Onion ever calms down and goes to sleep long enough for me to have some time to pay attention to what I am doing!!!

I really would like to make an extra £500 for my new kitchen, the place that I want to get it from is having a sale and is down to £400!! Which is amazing, wish I could try and get the husband to to agree to a new kitchen, he knows we need one but he is still thinking about it, it is only because I spend most the time in there that I would like one... Mmmm

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

“Sign In Pet Store: "Buy one dog, get one flea”

Okay so I have been dealing with fleas since we got Onion on Sat, had to go to the vets yesterday to get flea treatment for the girls, flea comb for Onion and some special kind of spray which is suppose to calm cats as it feels of a mother cat when she is trying to calm her kittens, works okay so far, still haven't sprayed it when we bring Onion down but will give it ago later tonight.

Still looking for a new host, it is taking forever, but I am slowly being approved for paid blogging so I'd better get this host/server problems worked out today, I think since the lovely Jenn is with Vo Network so I think I am gonna apply for that and I have to work out how to transfer all my old posts across to a new server, which I am pretty sure will be a PAIN in my arse!

I've managed to break down my food bill, which is about £100 to £110 a month because I had to include the cats and household/beauty.

smob_lI joined Abel & Cole which delivery fresh fruit and veg once a week, I've gone with every other week because the hubby doesn't eat veg and hardly any veg so it will just be for me, I am excited about my first delivery on Thursday, I have some nice items in my box,

  • Apples

  • Bananas (Fairtrade)

  • Broad Beans

  • Carrots

  • Clementines

  • Courgettes

  • Green Cabbage

  • New Potatoes


Don't know what I am going to do with cabbage but I am sure I can find a receipe online somewhere and I LOVE courgettes so I am very happy and the hubby said he would eat the apples and clementines, well at least that is some fruit!!

So I spend about £20 to £30 a month from these guys for my fruit & veg box, plus some fresh meat now and then.

Then I have a joy-ful tesco delivery which is normally cat food for a whole month, litter, cat biscults, UHT milk and today I had to get some more cereal and baby wipes to remove make up, it should be able £30 a month.

For beauty, I either order or go into town to get hubby's Dove beauty bars, toothpaste, hair stuff, vitiams and his lynx which is so expensive and I kid not we have about 20 cans of the stuff downstairs but according to him none of them are empty and each one has a little in it but he won't use that up so my bathroom is full of these stupid cans!

And the last main shop I try to do once a month to Lidi our discount stupermarket, and I got a bargin this month, well two! They were selling the brandson bake beans 4 in a pack for £1! So I brought 4 packs, and they had dishwasher tablets about 100 tablets for £5, I like to stock pile, I did the same with toothpaste, beauty bars and handwash as well so I think we will be fine this month.

Other things I did yesterday was ebay posting, sorted out a cattery for our hol, did my passport photos at long last and a few surverys.

Yay! My order with Vo Network as gone through!!! Now just gotta work out how to transfer all the content to the new server... joys!

Sunday, 19 July 2009

Baby Onion

Well we have a new kitten, he is very cute and very small, only 5 weeks old and when we got him, he was hungry, had fleas and worms and was looking dirty.

We took him to the vets and they checked me over, gave him medication for his worms and fleas, and he has  to go in for his injections in like 3/4 weeks.

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He has his own pen upstairs in the office, this is because the girls need to have the run of the house and he will get lost as he is so small, the girls have hissed at him twice but he doesn't seem that bothered, just wants to play with them.

I am hoping to move hosts as I really need the money so I want to do ads and paid blogging just to keep be busy over the next couple of years while I have no money, and I am now working full-time doing ebay, surveys, ads and hopefully paid blogging, also joined a website for writing reviews and two for selling my stock photography images :)  Hope it works.

Okay I am off to see Harry Potter and go to lunch, enjoy your Sunday everyone :)

Friday, 17 July 2009

RESULTS - I PASSED!!!

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OH MY GOD!!!!!!! I PASSED!!

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Tee Hee

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Butterfly feeling..

Not feeling very good at the mo, the stress of result day (which is slowly approaching) on Friday is freaking me out to no end, I really hope I have passed otherwise I'll have to re-takes in Sept, thinking about it right now while typing this my stomache is doing that butterfly feeling...

Other than that haven't done much, went to a boot sale last Sunday and got some lovely oil painting in frames for £1.50 each, they are now in the living room, very proud of them, bargin!  I have been playing sims 3, I like all the maddness in it at the moment, takes away my thoughts on result day...

Can't think right now, my mind is else where, please keep your fingers, toes and everything else crossed for me on Friday, results are at midday and I know the system will probably go down but lucky for me a friend of mine is going in so the pass list will be up and he will text me...

Friday, 3 July 2009

Debt, cheese scones and cars...

Well it has been ages since I last blogged which is pretty bad of me, after the exams a week and half ago, I have been trying to make some extra cash on ebay (if I don't I am pretty much screwed for paying my loan) and while spending all this time on ebay and my own fansites, made me realise about my own debt, I accepted that I made it, which I did, and now I am clearing it off, slowly, but I hit below 5 grand the other week which is amazing since I did owe about er I think it was 9 or 10 grand so I am half way there.

Also I think that with the last couple of years it has been "fashionable" to have a credit card and live be on our own means, so people have been thinking it is alright to keep spending on shit we never use but now with the credit crunch hitting big style in the Uk, we are all like oh shit...

I'm glad I met my husband as he has no debt, lives in his means and guess what has savings, total alien! And I have slowly learned to budget and paid of one credit card so it can't be all that bad.  I wish I could plan meals better, I keep buying food and end up it going out of date. Urgh!!!!!!

I was so amazed by my best mate she always has the correct food in the house for her daughter (I guess having children does that to you) and it bloody amazes me, today for example she was making cheese scones so her daughter could have them for tea with beans and ham (I think?) and some for her and her partner later in the evening! So organized, very jealous!!

Exciting news, I am getting a car finally! And my husband is going to teach me to drive, bloody scary, I have done about 30 hours worth of lessons but that was a long time ago (about 5 years now!) so I thought if I want to save money going to and from uni and to be able to see my friends more then I will have to learn how to drive!!!!!  Hopefully find one in the next week, I am quite excited...

Okay back to cleaning my kitchen and put the covers back on the sofa...