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Doing too much
Posted Mar 16, 2002
At the moment I am doing too much. I moved into my flat last week, and it looks fab. But I will have to move out again in a couple of months for a month or so while they deal with the cracks in the walls, so I cannot unpack and get on with it.
w/c 4th March I was in France
8th / 9th / 10th I moved
w/c 11th March I was in the UK and Austria
w/c 18th I will be in Munich
w/c 25th I will be in Munich
When will I get the chance to sit down and catch up with myself.
Sorry to winge and moan, I like the travel, and it is well paid. But I need a little R&R at the moment
B
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Finally Moving
Posted Feb 28, 2002
Some of you may have noticed a brief and excited journal here in October saying that I was buying a flat....
.... well, we exchanged contracts yesterday, and I move in on the 10th of March. Not quite 6 months later...
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Back in Harness
Posted Jan 13, 2002
For anyone who is interested, I am working again.
The last time I worked was July, and the last time I was paid for it was April. Mind you, this is not as desperate as it sounds; I had savings, credit cards, and money from the house I owned with my ex and my mother's estate to live on. Oh, and fresh air. The break did me good, and I managed to sort out a mass of accumulated admin and rubbish, like getting a divorce, and kicking off the process of buying a flat.
2001 was not my favourite year, 2000 was not great either, 1999 sucked, and 1998 had to be the worst of the lot. In fact I hadn't had much sunshine since 1995. Don't be sorry for me, many people have had much much worse.
Anyway, I have a 6 month contract, which is pretty dull so far, but it pays the bills and involves European travel. Two out of three ain't bad.
But I am perforce offline far more than I used to be. In itself this is no bad thing either.
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Money makes the world go round...
Posted Jan 3, 2002
... and makes my head spin.
I came out of my marriage with a lot of debts, and some cash from the house; my mother died last year, so I also had some cash come in from her. Well I have finally - bar a couple of transfers that will take about a week - cleared all my debts. And you'd think I'd be feeling wonderful.
But - contrary creature that I am - I'm not feeling wonderful at all. I am not sure what I am feeling. Bewildered and spacey, but not wonderful. I really liked having all that cash slooshing around my bank account. I knew it was for clearing the debts and not for spending. But it was so cool to see it there on a cashpoint if I did a balance enquiry. It's not there now.
Like I said I should be feeling great, and it is ungrateful of me not to. (Thanks, Mum. Thanks Dad. Thanks the former Mr Ben.)
Maybe the key here is finally - the debts go back to 1997, and I had got used to them. It took over a year to get the money from the house, it took 10 months to get the money from my mother's estate. So today has taken a long time coming.
Strange, eh?
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If you have all the time in the world, ask a lawyer
Posted Dec 11, 2001
My flat is still in the conveyancing-hinterland. I am actually pretty cool about this, because I would rather move after Christmas anyway. I have almost no furniture, and am not looking forward to the first 2 months of living there with bean bags and a camp bed.
My previous best guess was an exchange of contracts before Christmas, and a move in the New Year, but it looks as if it will be exchange and completion in January.
Just in time for the Sales! Yipee!
Ben
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