MONEY! ENDLESS MONEY!

[beccatoria]

DUDE.

I RETURNED MY TAX THINGY TO THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE I QUIT MY JOB A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF THE TAX YEAR AND FIGURED THAT THEY PROBABLY OWED ME ABOUT £300.

SO THEY WERE PRANNITS AND I SPENT MONTHS CHASING THEM AND BEING TOLD I HAD TO FILL OUT DIFFERENT FORMS AND GETTING CONFUSED.

AND FINALLY, TODAY, I GET MY CHEQUE.

FOR £1,381. THIS IS APPROXIMATELY $2,700.

WTF?!

MONEY! ENDLESS MONEY!

I mean everything on looks...vaguely right (not that I really understand taxes) and basically it looks like they were taxing me at the wrong rate for eighteen months. o.O

But the point is, I just got nearly a grand and a half of FREE MONEY.

I'm torn between the desire to be responsible, use it to pay off 90% of my overdraft so I can go to S. Korea almost debt free (which would be nice since at part of the reason we were going to go there was to help get rid of lingering college debts), and the desire to take some of it and go SHOPPING. I'm not even a shopping-spree-a-holic. There's nothing I even want right now.

I just.

MONEY. THIS IS MORE MONEY THAN I'VE EVER BEEN GIVEN IN A CHEQUE BEFORE. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS HAPPENED. *FLAIL*

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

YAY MONEY!!1!!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

OMGYAY MONEY!!1!!1!

*goes to disneyland*

[asta77.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEE!!!!

Well, I say compromise. Treat yourself to something you don't really need, but want and put the rest towards your debt and travel expenses.

Btw, I am still working on The Thing, but it's been a crazy last few days and now I've entered the PMS zone. :/

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that's probably what I will do, though the thing is, I don't really know what it is I'd even like as a frivolous I-Have-Money-Treat... I'm sure I'll think of something, even if it's just going to the cinema and getting expensive hotdogs and things. XD

I am glad to hear you are working on The Thing, I would have emailed you if I hadn't heard anything by next week sometime. But don't worry about hurrying - I only just finished My Thing (which should be up later today, stupid aspect ratio source material issues and taking twice as long as usual to edit because I decided to try and be clever about timings), and I haven't even started on the final Prelinger Thing, so basically...that boils down to 1) I'm glad you haven't forgotten about it and 2) no need to apologise, it's not like I'm going anywhere (for a while!)

Also ::hugs:: re: PMS zone. :(

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Um, don't a recall a lament about the no frills BSG box sets you own? One could buy the US versions. Just a thought...

I hope to make progress on The Thing before next week! What happened was I had all these other things I've been meaning to get to and I finally decided that, OK, I'm going to work on accomplishing those things so I won't have them to stress about any longer and then I can work on The Thing. ;) The awesome thing is that in addressing the other things some cool things happened! :)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

You did! And actually I've already considered that, but since I only just bought the inferior UK versions of the S3 box set I would feel a little frivolous immediately buying other sets. Though a larger reason not to is that I'd have to buy a region free DVD player which, while not expensive, isn't something I want to lug to South Korea.

But I do have an idea! Yesterday I found out a friend is coming to stay for a week in a few weeks' time, so I think I might put a chunk of the cash aside for a Grand Day Out Somewhere. I think I like that idea. But we'll see what she has to say on the subject...

Re: the Thing! YAY! And hooray for Other Things that make Cool Things happen. And Things.

Regarding my own schedule, some stuff has been pushed around, so I'll probably be working on the Prelinger Thing this weekend and early next week, but then hopefully we can get to the Hilarious Thing later next week? Hope that's all right? But also send me stuff whenever you're ready because it's not like I can't MULTITASK! (Well okay, I'm not great at that, but I also have the attention span of a goldfish, so many things at once = good).

[asta77.livejournal.com]

I won't get to work on The Thing until at least Saturday afternoon so no worries. Btw, I *love* the new vid. It's your best work yet and it makes me think The Thing could be AWESOME. :) I'll try to leave you detailed feedback at some point, my brain is fried at the moment, but I wanted to let you know I saw it.

And A Grand Day Out sounds...grand!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

YAY! I'm so glad you like it! I agree that it has my best editing so far, so it's nice to get confirmation on that. Anyway, I look forward to detailed feedback if you have the time to get around to it, but thanks for letting me know you watched and enjoyed it.

Now I just have to hope that I can do as well with the Thing which, if you hadn't gathered from my recent post, I'm looking forward to! (Though I hope it's clear the post is in the spirit of bouncy boredness rather than bugging you specifically - there really is no hurry except my own meanderingly short attention span... :p)

[asta77.livejournal.com]

I totally understood your last post. :) I'm bummed because I would love to be working on fun things and I keep getting sidetracked with not-so-fun things. Right now I feel compelled to catch up on 'Who' since apparently something HUGE happened last night. After that, I hope to work on The Thing. :D

[i_kender]

Hooray! WoOT! Excellent!

The same thing happened to me once, I was completely flabbergasted!! Spend a little bit on something nice, use to rest to suckerpunch your debts. Awesome!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

YES! FLABBERGASTED, THAT IS THE WORD I NEED!

My plan is mostly to suckerpunch the debts, yes, though I'd like to spend a little on "something nice", I really have no idea what because I'm moving countries in less than two months so buying things seems somewhat redundant. Eh, I'm sure I can think of something! :D

[jo-lasalle.livejournal.com]

Wow, congrats! What a nice surprise! (Also, love your tags. *g*) I hope you'll enjoy whatever you end up doing with it!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

And I'm glad you appreciate my tags...to be honest, as you can see, it makes it rather hard to find things, but it's also endlessly entertaining when I'm bored and wonder, "what was that post about?!"

[madenglishbloke.livejournal.com]

a couple of years ago, i received a cheque for around £1400 due to accidentally paying one of my cards off several years previously (i was actually convinced i still owed them a couple of hundred! YAY for actually opening one of my statements for once!).
so, as you can imagine, i paid off the last of my debts, had some fun, and bought myself a new laptop (the original plan being to buy one for my mum - but i found one that **i** wanted, so she ended up with my old one! **g**)
(well, i SAY old one - it was only 6 months old... **blush**)

mind you, when i first started working, 20 years back, i was on emergency tax for a few months - after 3, maybe 4 months, i got a £300 rebate in my wage packet - this was actually a fair bit more than i had actually paid, but what the hell, it got spent!
somehow, they kept on giving me that rebate every month for the next 3 months!
as you can imagine, my memories from that time are exceedingly sketchy!!
hell, my liver STILL hasnt recovered :D

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Haha! Awesome. I would say, "I wish someone would accidentally give me three hundred quid for three months," but that would seem ungrateful since I just got MORE THAN THAT! XD

But yeah, your story about the laptop sounds as awesome as mine! Hooray for unexpected money!

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!!!

I agree with the sensible plans of something shiny (DVD set? Computer accessory? Bookses for reading in Korea? Okay, clearly I am getting vicarious about your windfall now...) and putting the rest toward debt. HURRAH FOR TAX'S FAVOURABLE STUPIDITY.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

INDEED! HAD TAX NOT BEEN STUPID I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SLOWLY SPENT ALL THIS GLORIOUS MONEY AT THE TIME BUT NOW I GET IT IN A BIG WADGE OF CASH!

And I'm thinking about putting the money towards a Grand Day Out when my friend comes to stay, though normally I'd totally be up for DVD sets and books and computer things, I'm just trying not to acquire more material stuff before I leave...

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

An excellent point, that. Intangible goodies can be harder to arrange! I bet there could be travel-related shiny things, though.

(I downloaded your vid this morning but I can't watch it yet because I'm at work! I am looking forward to it though. \o/

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

*FLAILS WITH YOU*

I am awaiting our big ol' house cheque. There are so many stores that keep calling to me in my sleep!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

*hopes your cheque arrives soon*

MONEY! SHOPS! DREAM!SHOPPING! :P