the happy little world of miss ktp!

for a short month it sure seems a long day till pay day! thought Feb would be a good month but after all my budgeting i don't have much play money left at all. boo! xxx

Well so far so good mortgage-wise. The grown up meeting went well & I actually understood what we were being told! Miracles do happen! I even find myself looking at property/mortgage/money websites for first time buyers as well as my facebook/twitter/hotmail/yahoo/dimestoresaints/myspace during my daily interweb browse in the mornings, please note the "as well as" not the "instead of!" The next 2 Saturdays we have other meetings lined up and then I’ve got to do my very best to start keeping evenings & weekends free to look at places we want to live! We’re so excited! It all seems to have gone quite quickly so far which I wasn’t expecting (not that that’s a bad thing!) and so we’ve started to look at areas of London we want to live in and what kind of property we want to buy! Eep! Dreading the part when we find somewhere we love and then it goes to another couple through a bidding war but hey lets find a place to love first & who knows, lady luck might be...

Please do! I was sitting having my tea yesterday before jive, reading my book & minding my own business until I started to notice a noise. Normally I wouldn’t be distracted, but the trouble was the noise was of someone eating with their mouth open on the table next to me. For those of you who know me, this drives me up the wall! I tried to ignore it and concentrate on each individual word in my book but it was no use, it was like Chinese water torture, each time I heard him take a bite I waited for the next much. It was vile! I was so close to telling him to close his mouth but I ended up bottling it and had to leave myself! I gave up a seat in the warm-ish to go and stand on a train platform for a bit and read my book there. Probably should have put my headphones on looking back but it was so loud I bet I would have heard it through that! Yuck! ….And rant over! Another development in my growing up – I’ve finally put myself on the electoral roll where I’m living now! Wow I know! Th...

When I first heard this line in a song by Frank Turner I didn’t really think much of it other than it’s a line about growing up. But now I’ve realised this could be my motto for 2010! A lot of my friends are definitely getting married either last year, this year and hopefully for years to come, some have started sorting pension ideas and then we finally come to mortgages, which Adam and I are starting to embark on ourselves. We have out very 1st meeting with a mortgage advisor at the weekend to find out how much we can afford and then eventually the hunt will begin for property that’s bigger than a shoebox that we can afford in London! Living on cloud cuckoo land?! I hope not! It’ll be so exciting to start looking at places we can live in and not have to worry about anyone else, be it family or random flatmates leaving a mess everywhere. The only mess will be our mess and if we don’t want to wash up straight after cooking just in case someone else might need that saucepan then we won...