Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Numberplate man has come back nearly a week later and pretty much matched my original very cheeky offer.

I shouldn't, and I won't, but I'll definitely regret not doing it later down the line.

 

Getting a big wad of money and having to use it to clear debt. Feels good not to be in debt, but feels meh having no money to splurge irresponsibly on more toys.

 

near doubling of car insurance to 850 ......despite barely doing any miles and having a perfect driving record.

 

Cars in for its MOT, have a feeling I'm going to be furiously bent over and screwed.

soon as I arrive : sorry we can’t do it today and your 30 minutes late.

showed them them my booking, oh we will do it now, great start!

passed.

 

On that interaction alone, I'd refuse to use them again. Even if it meant an hour out of the way going somewhere else.

 

5 weeks tomorrow since my kitty died and for spilt seconds most days I still think I hear her pottering about somewhere in the house.

 

The family doggo (lives at my parents') is now 12, which means he's now old and is living on borrowed time (though the record for his breed is 25).

I don't want to think about what it's going to be like when that time comes around, especially my dearest mother, who actually panics if the garden back gate is ever accidentally left open.

 

Old never seems old enough, our girl was 18 and we were hoping she'd at least hit 20. Feisty little bugger, the only survivor of a premature litter so she did do damned well.

Still, it's always too soon but I guess that's the life of a pet and a pet owner.

With your mum, when the doggo does sadly go, some people manage well getting another pet pretty soonish. I mean, I'm not one of those people but for some it works.

Or just trundle on with the loss of a mate and wait, which is what we'll do. We have friends who couldn't handle it and never got a pet after losing their first which is also understandable.

Yeah, after we move again we'll think about another cat. Hard though it is I'd rather an older cat that just needs a place to chill.

Hope your doggo around is for a good while yet.

 

Working out what some of the differences between showers are, tempted to just go for a like for like to ease but would like to upgrade slightly if possible but seeing models with vastly different L/min at the same power, both cheap and expensive isn't making it clear what's actually going to be better.

 

Our eldest died in summer last year, and I still occasionally find myself wondering where she is.

 

Some friends of mine had advance warning that their rescue doggo was going (cancer), so they immediately adopted a youngling for the elder doggo to train up.

 

I didn't think I'd miss shovelling poop.

Yeah, that's works for some people. There's not a wrong way to deal with it tbh, sounded like a smart move on their part for them.

 

Get yourself another cat, you know it makes sense!

 

Ah we will do at some point.

Going to get a house move done first but then yeah I'll be able to take another kitty on. Still too soon for me anyway.

 

We didn't just get another kitten quickly because we like to have a cat around, it was also to stop the dog getting too used to the idea of being the only pet, which might have caused problems if we had waited much longer.

Although they generally get on well, the cat is now big enough, to be able to intimidate the dog into giving up his bed, just by standing close and giving him a hard stare!

 

This could end up going one of two ways, so I’m putting it here for now…

Put in an offer on a flat yesterday.

It ticks all our boxes, and more: within our modest budget, decent size, relatively close to city centre, off-street parking, not-insane management fees/ground rent/etc, and it also has a garage.

The seller is happy with our offer, but they haven’t accepted it yet. They’ve cancelled further viewings but someone already had a second viewing booked for later this afternoon, and the seller wants to give them the opportunity to also make an offer. Fair enough from their point of view I suppose, but it’s frustrating for us.

We do have some wiggle room, and I am willing to go over asking price. The fact that it has a garage makes it exceptionally good value for the market in Cardiff and it’s a huge selling point for me. However, I am not interested in a back-and-forth bidding war, it’s a hard limit and I am not going over it. If someone wants to out-bid me then so be it: I’m walking away and finding the next viewing.

This waiting sucks. Hopefully we should know where we stand by the morning.

 

So were we, then along came Smokey and Bandit, 2 Maine **** kittens, ended up with 4 months in the other house, and now 5 days in the new one. They've settled in very quickly.

 

Yep. Outbid by the other party, I thought this might happen.

Well, I’ll send my final offer this evening and that’s that.