Well, its been a busy week. Being made redundant seems to be pretty hectic. Tuesday I had an admin day and spent the whole day on the phone or the computer sorting stuff out for work and some stuff for the future.
The Camper van estimates are coming in thick and fast but we keep coming back to the "Highway Camper" offer and no-one else seems to be able to beat it. Rudolf is the guy we have been communicating with and he always answers all our questions quickly and the feedback had been great from previous customers. So at the moment it looks like we'll be going with him. When we have the Visa we will book which is likely to be early the New Year. Excited....
Good news is that I rang the Tax Office about my £2000 underpayment for 2011 and it turns out I have almost paid it already as they have been taking it out since last April! BOOM! Great surprise but it does explain why I have been feeling a bit short most of this year and just thought it was due to the extra pension contributions I have been paying. Result!
Wednesday we had a couple of redundancy related meetings in Birmingham. One about Out-placement Support and we are probably going to take advantage of the "re-focusing" stuff which helps you to work out what you really want to do and what motivates and fulfils you. This should help us decide what we might want to do when we get back from the USA. We also had a financial awareness session and it was reassuring that we have already covered most stuff with a few minor exceptions such as topping up our state pension if we will fall short of the 30 years of contributions needed for full eligibility and making sure we do a Tax Return on the 6th of April.
On Thursday evening we had a appointment at the Apple shop in Solihull who, after we increased our memory space, upgraded our Mac Book for us to the new Lion operating system. We are going to book in for some workshops about how to get the most our of your Mac as we have been working with PCs for so long we don't really know how to move around the Mac and do the same things that we do on the PC.
Also last week I sorted out all my evening dresses from the loft most of which cost a small fortune and have been worn once or at most twice. They are all now on EBay and if they sell we will have a few more dollars in the pot. I'll know by Wednesday how much they have gone for (if at all). Fingers crossed.
Saturday night we spent with some very old friends and had a lovely evening. We have managed to catch up with more people these last few weeks than we have for ages. Its shocking how when you are totally focused on work you let the important things slide............no longer.....
So, its Sunday now and we are cleaning a tidying up a bit to show the house in the best light when the Letting Agents call tomorrow. We have a few booked in and are interested to find out what they think we might be able to get in rent. Lots of questions to ask about the whole process so by end of play tomorrow we should have some answers.
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