If I were a rich man
Hmmm I don’t know whether I’m happy with that weekend.
On the one hand I did get a well-deserved rest while still getting some paperwork done, but on the other hand there’s still a lot of door need painting, rubbish needed clearing, walls need a knocking-a-downing etc…. etc….
I’m happy though to say that I got my first real lie-in in weeks and I needed that, to celebrate the fact after a very late lie-in I went downstairs ate a hearty breakfast (well lunch) and fell to sleep in front of the TV watching “From Russia with Love”. It was a nice day to stay in bed as when I pulled open the curtains there was my first smattering of snow, not much of it, but just enough to tell me that the weather forecast of “snow on the high grounds” meant, up here.
I’m happy too that I spend all of yesterday with my wonderful daughter and my parents. It was really such a lovely day and Izzi was on song and full of beans, love and mischief. I live for days like that and I hope to have a house where I can share those days, rather than a bit of a buiding site. I did spend some of this time keeping in touch with the fire fitter Gav who was icing his work plastering and grouting the fire. I applaud the work that he’s done and lament the fact that I seem to be one of the few people telling him what a sterling chap he is and what good work he’s done. I got home Saturday evening after dropping off Izzi to find a splendid fireplace and fire that I spent the evening dotting in to see, it really is just as I imagined and intended, Gav has been wonderful.
The day should have involved me moving the new logs to the log store and getting rid of fire fitting related rubble but instead due to my still knackered back I wandered in and out of working all day, doing bits and bobs of paperwork. Mainly though I efforts were targeted at getting some 0% credit purchase cards sorted out for financing the house. As I’m basically stoney broke on financing, the idea of getting all the projects done on this house will have to be done on tic. The idea is that once the work is done I’ll get the house remortgaged for the lofty sum it will be worth and then things might be a bit more manageable. I find applying for cards quite scary, I’ve done this a lot in the past, moving funds from one card to another in my debt ridden days, I didn’t want to have to do this but needs must. I think the quicker I get it done then the quicker the re-mortgage, however I really do know that I’m skating on ice and I find it a very hard thing to do.
In for a penny, I also decided to find out how much money I had left on my previous card and this came in at a measly £340ish, this will allow me to pay for the oil I had delivered the other week and the remaining bit I’ll probably unwisely use to top up the pressies we’ve bought for my daughters coming 4th birthday. I wouldn’t normally have done this but a lot of cash has been coming out of my standard bank account so why not.
I tonight made my first proper meal in the house, so far I’ve had snacky meals pot noodles, cheese and tomato toasties, boiled eggs etc. topping these up with meals at my parents to sustain me through the cold. Tonight though it was steak and not bad at all. The kitchen here though not something that would be used in Masterchef is usable and is only limited by my lack of culinary ability.
While busying myself watching the Chelsea match I started jotting down the costs of things I had yet to do, estimating figures from what I knew or what I guessed. Blow me down but didn’t it come out at £35k and that was being generous. I really am a bit worried now, however I’m in it for the long run, so I should suck it in, batten down those hatches and try to ignore the stress till it’s all done. I just need to get a couple of £10k 0% deals through on top of those measly £4k ones I got today, well one was £4k the other told me they’d be in touch to confirm my address, so hey ho there’s still a long way to go, there’s always WONGA y’know.