Sunday. 22nd. Here's the turkey roast from last week.
Monday. 23rd. Took forever to get to sleep then awake at 4 for an hour with hurty. And it was so cold in the house I put a jumper on! Super tired all day. Picked something new to clean and worked on that at work. Made up some tomatoey mince and salad for dinner and blogged last week.
Tuesday. Took quite a while to get to sleep but then mostly slept ok. More cleaning. Music after work and leftover turkey for dinner. I setup a simlink to fool iTunes into backing up my phone to my D: drive, and backed up the new phone (and moved the backup of the old phone across too).
Wednesday. Cleaning. Also figured out how to replace a certificate on one of our appliances, and updated doco for it. Watched Onward in the evening which was sweet and magical, enjoyed it.
Thursday. Slept ok. Did a bit of house stuff in the morning. Did some organising of crap the rest of the day. Realised, due to covid, I don't even have a complete set of circulation coins from 2019-2022, cause I just don't spend cash anymore.
There may have been a lamb roast for dinner. Not Un-Australian. Although if it were we could live in a land of lamb forever! haha.
Friday. Spent like All. Day. going through finances - downloading statements and sorting tax and crap. Watched the first episode of season 3 of The Crown.
Saturday. Checking receipts off against credit card statements. Which took like All. Day. Had to fight with booking.com and paypal.com and tripadvisor/viator dumbness. Terrible web interfaces and they make it so damned difficult to find details on transations. Paypal by default only shows you 90 days of past transactions. To see more you have to click on the Date button (it's not obvious you even can) to choose dates. Wtih Tripadvisor I booked three tours in Rome. One on paypal and the other two just credit card direct. Well at least the paypal one sent me their own email which had a reference number I could cross reference. But the ones on credit card had literally nothing. No email confirmations. No invoices of any sort. So I have two entries on my credit card, both for the same amount, but no idea which one is which. Why is that a problem, since they're the same value? BECAUSE THEY WERE DIFFERENT PRICES ON THEIR WEBSITE!!. They've totally ripped me off for one of the tours. I WOULD NEVER BOOK ANYTHING THROUGH TRIPADVISOR AGAIN!!! It didn't help that I was having a bad eye day too. Screen was out of focus all day. I couldn't even do music for very long because I kept missing notes because I couldn't see where they were.
For dinner we had a Luv-a-Duck Peking Duck kit. omfg it was epic amazing! I scoffed half of them (sorry sweetie! haha).
In the evening we started on season 4 of Death in Paradise. We had stop watching this series a few years ago when the buttplugs at Netflix pulled it. So we're watching it on Prime now instead. Then watched the first episode of A Spy Among Friends. Which was funny after seeing another of the Cambridge Four (Five) in The Crown the other night. Maybe that was Stu's inspiration for watching this series.
Sunday. Pretty much the whole day consolidating receipts for our holiday last year. Today's drama was with booking.com. There were five hotels that didn't charge me directly, but charged through booking.com. But booking.com only emailed me about one of them when they were about to take the money off the credit card. The other four were a mystery. And there's nowhere on their site that gives you invoices or anything actually useful. You have the "estimate" in the booking, but that's not exact. Two of the hotels actually gave me printed invoices, but they didn't line up with what I was charged either. So I basically had to guess which one was which based on the prior guesstimate. Fricken hopeless. I also strained a muscle in my back helping the sweetie move the bed to vacuum behind it. I don't think seriously, but I think it's going to hurt tomorrow. I washed towels today and hung them out under cover. But with rain on and off all day and Oh The Humidity they didn't dry. And we got a whole bag full of new guppies!! Music then cooked all the food for dinner.
So really a blerf longgg weekend dealing with finance crap. I really need to be better organised and do it a bit more piecemeal so it doesn't take up an entire long weekend to catch up. Sigh.
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