Hi all, haven't been on for a couple of days.
Spends...
£1.00 on a bet which won't come in as I've backed my own team but I'll win £13 if it does.
£15.75 Home Bargains, £24.65 Tesco and £17.20 at Morrisons this morning bringing my weekly grocery shop to £57.60 and I also got rabbit food, budgie food and bubble bath in that.
This leaves me £65.36 in my grocery budget to go shopping with next Friday, but as the following week is school holiday week I won't need to buy much in the way of packed lunch stuff as there's only DH needing a pack-up next week.
Personal/family spends is £89.33 remaining with 12 days to get through until payday although I need to hold as much of this back as I can because my road tax of £124 is due at the end of October. I will have £52 to add to this because I am STILL waiting for Post Office credit card tor refund me the erroneous payment I made to them. I waited two full weeks and rang them yesterday and they admitted a cock up had been made and they are going to 'rush' it through for me.
Petrol Budget has only a worrying £11.53 left in it. DH is making noises that he has a lot of works mileage to do next week so I'll probably have to borrow from my personal spends budget to pay for that but his boss is very good at paying back the mileage quickly.
I had my interview on Thursday and they had shortlisted ten but on Thursday two blobbed so they interviewed 8 in total. Unbeknown to me one of my colleagues had also applied so she was interviewed too. From the questions although the job title is 'supervisor' they seemed to want someone with a lot of HR experience. My gut feeling after I'd calmed down was that I hadn't been successful but I'm disappointed as although I didn't really want 'the job', the money would have been nice and I'd even let my imagination run away with me and was planning a holiday for next summer. I think I will write a letter and ask if there's any chance of a pay increase as I have had increased responsibility since I started compared to everyone else, yet everyone else got the same 1% payrise.
My old, old, line manager contacted me (Public Sector) to say that for the first time in three years their department had been granted permission to advertise externally and lo and behold on Wednesday the job was online. He told me unfortunately their department doesn't have any say in the shortlisting, it is all done by HQ who don't know me, and don't know what a hard worker I was so I needed to make my competencies as good as possible to score highly. I still have my competencies from when I worked there so I copied & pasted them in, however, I am worrying now in case they are not good enough as to me, the three they wanted are the weakest examples I had. I submitted the application form on Wednesday night but I'm regretting not holding off for a couple of days now to see if I could tweak them, and once the form has been submitted there is no going back. I have regretted the decision I made to leave every single day and even ignored my gut decision at the time which kept screaming at me to stay.
Need to find MOT certificate to see exactly when MOT is due. Car is 13 years old so I am sure it will fail but depends how much it'll cost to put right. I think it's mid-November so I could always just off-road it for a couple of weeks and get it done on 30th November.
God, that was very long wasn't it.