I’ve done it again; it’s too late in the night to go to sleep as I know I’ll never manage to wake up in time for work. So instead I’ll be awake all night, thinking about how good it would be for the boy to be in my bed with me, just for a cuddle.
Insomnia, die.
I’m not exactly proud of the fact I’ve run out of money less than two weeks after I got paid. I know exactly how I’ve done it…making a big purchase on the spot and not putting money aside for it. It was worth it though, it was all the things that I needed for my bedroom from Ikea and the paint. So I have a gorgeous bedroom again and no money.
So I’m sitting here with 16 days to go until I get paid again and all I have to my name is £40 in a savings account I can’t touch, £30 in my PayPal account that’s not linked to a bank and £15 worth of stuff to be returned to the shops at the weekend because they don’t fit.
Not a happy situation to be in really, is it? I had no option but to get a loan for the first time in my life. Although since I have a really bad credit history that I’m working on correcting I don’t have a good chance of being approved for a loan over a long period of time so I decided to check out some Pay Day Loans, and ended up going with one for £150 which I’ll pay back automatically on pay day. Plus I’m only paying £25 on top of the £150 loan, and it only took 5 minutes to apply and be approved. The money’s on it’s way to my bank account right now and it’s going to pay for my transport and pay off two bills due to come out my account at the start of next week. When I get paid in a fortnight I think I will have to give the boyfriend £100 to keep a hold for me so that I don’t spend it though…
It’s killing me to do this, but I have to. Since I’ve re-decorated my bedroom I’ve got no space whatsoever to store my excess books. Plus I could do with the cash. So I’ve decided to sell off some of my old books…
I’ll be continually adding books to this post over the course of the next few days, so keep checking back. Postage and packing covers materials and cost of posting the items to you via Royal Mail. Check with me first if you’re outside the UK, either via Skype (ashes-from-stars) or email (melissa(a)ashesfromstars.com.
Today has been the craziest day off that I’ve had in a long while, even though I slept in this morning since I don’t often have the chance for a bit of a lie-in.
When I woke up this morning my grandmother was already here (she comes up every Tuesday and Friday) and was ironing all my clothes that I’d washed the other night. I asked her to stop it and I’d finish off putting them away but she wouldn’t listen to me, I swear she likes ironing clothes. She does it all the time even though me and my mum tell her not to bother. She’d also brushed all the downstairs floors and washed the windows. I know I’m lucky that she likes coming up to clean our house, although I do feel slightly guilty about it all.
I guess she doesn’t have much else to do since my grandfather died 4 years ago of a sudden cardiac arrest, she likes coming up to visit us or her sister rather than sitting in the house on her own. I barely have time to see her due to work commitments but I like spending every other Tuesday with her, even if we’re just sitting watching TV together.
Anyway, today we gutted the house before 2pm. Tidied up properly, washed floors and windows, cleaned mirrors, dusted…the whole she-bang. I was exhausted by the end of it mind you as the most cleaning I do these days in mainly in the shop.
Speaking (typing?) of cardiac arrests, I didn’t realise that it was one of the biggest killers in Scotland. I suppose our bad diets has something to do with it, it scares me how many people die so suddenly of a heart attack. When I was researching my mum’s new heart medication I found out some staggering facts - 900 people a day in the States suffer from a SCA and that in Scotland, since the smoking ban was introduced, cases of SCA have fallen by 17%. Maybe there is something to this stopping smoking lark?
