Moving Panto Money

So, once more it's been a while since I last blogged on here... reason being? Well, for a start I have no reliable internet at home at the moment as I have disconnected the NTL account (I can still recieve incomming calls tho...)... I currently use the internet through a neighbors un secured wireless network connection. Shhh... don't tell him!

Only problem with this though is that it's not all that reliable and I have to sit with the laptop in the bedroom window for it to work well... not all that good! So all I've really been using it for is checking my email on an evening and listening to BBC 7 repeats on the internet!

As well as that it's also been the Collegians Panto over the last week or so and as such I've been a little bit tied up over the past two weekends and every evening. This years panto wasn't as good as normal - and it was far too long! Both acts were around the hour long mark, so we were lucky if we managed to get out of the town hall most nights!

Then, as if that wasn't a hectic enough schedule, what with work and the panto, I've spent all my free time (probably the time I should have been sleeping or catching up with my paperwork mountain..) I've been packing my stuff up in order to move back in with the parents... I'd say more about this but the aftermath of the last post regarding this has suggested that this probably isn't the best place to say such things... even if this is my diary!

I'm pretty much moved now, well, most of the stuff is up at the parents now anyway as I've been picking Robert up for the panto ever night. As I was going up to parents to pick him up it seemed a good idea to take a boot load of stuff with me at the same time. I'm going to spend some time this evening moving stuff back as well. All being well I should be moved and sorted by the end of the week. Probably going to spend an evening or two sorting stuff out at parents properly before I move for real so that things are just so...

The house looks looks like a bomb has hit it at the moment as I have bits and pieces all over - I tidied up before I started packing to make it easier but now I have piles of stuff here there an everywhere as I've been sorting through all the stuff that I've not used since I moved and throwing a lot away... it's a good job I have access to the skip at work.... I'd have probably filled the bin a number of times over by now with the ammount of stuff I've thrown away!

It actually felt quite good to throw a lot of the stuff away - I think I've picked up my dads habit of hoarding stuff "just in case" - or maybe it's something to do with Scouting? Saving stuff that might come in useful at some point. Problem is when you do find a need for what you've saved you can never find the "safe place" it was stored in!

Once everything is out of the house that belongs to me I'm going to absolutely blitz the house and give iy a real good clean so that Katie can have a fresh start... well... that and the parents want the Vaccum back... and it would be unfair to leave a house that needed a good vac and take the vaccume with me!

So what are my thoughts on moving back in with the parents? Well... I'm not particularly happy to be doing it, it's probably going to be a bit hard as I'm so used to the freedom that having my own place (which I sort of have had for the last 3 or four months really). On the other hand though I'm actually looking on the upside of things here - it's going to save me a hell of a lot of money so that I can begin to sort my finances out and get a stable financial platform so I can think about getting myself a house of my own somewhere... thought I'm not all that sure I can get a mortgage on my salary :( As well as the savings I'm going to make the board and half payment for all the appliances and bits and pieces we bought for the house will help a lot to get me back on track. I'm just glad that this months wage (payday on Friday!) has the overtime that was missed out on last pay day as well as all the overtime from the show week! This last couple of weeks has been really tight - it's Ok getting paid early for Christmas (we got paid on the 19th) but it makes it a long time between getting paid! That and blasted bank charges as well have made this month especially tight! I'm just glad I have people I can call on when things get tight (thank you Robert for lending me money!).

While I think it could be a bit of a shock moving back home it shouldn't be all that bad as I now have the car so don't spend as much time in and around the house as I used to do. I know I'm going to have to live to some tighter house rules than before I moved out but it should make things easier for me. Especially with the finance side of things - I'm not paying as much board as I was with Katie - and I won't have to worry about buying food and things ontop. I'll even get real meals and be able to cook proerly again. Cooking for one is not as much fun or as easy a cooking for five!

I think after this week I'm going to need a break... fortunately the parents are going up to Gearstones again for the weekend... depending on whether or not Matthew has another pot put on when he goes in on Wednesday I may be called upon to give Matthew a lift up on Friday (if he doesn't get a pot)... even if I don't need to give him a lift I'll still go up for the weekend and hopefully this time the weather will be suitable for walking in so I can get some "me" time!

As well as that, this week should see the Guinness Fridge being delivered to me so woo!


Anyhow... I've avoided doing any real work for a while now so I suppose I ought to get back and do some real work...

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Current Mood - Feel like s**t to be honest.... not enough sleep, too much work over weekend!
Current Music - radio 1 in the background on one side, some lesson or other on the other side!
Current Drink - black coffee!