Organising, spending, counting, plotting

So, yes, I'm getting a bit nearer organising myself and I'm also finding out just how much money I seem to have to spend in the pursuit of a free holiday. I make some phone calls today and got a few surprise. Like, for instance finding out that calls on the mobile will cost me at least £1.29 a minute and 99p a minute to answer. So nobody will be getting called that way and if anyone does call me, I'll hang up. There's plenty of other ways to communicate, e.g. Skype, so lets talk about that:

And it's free so long as you have the free skype software installed.

I've bought a couple of spare batteries for my laptop to while away the hours on the airplanes, and I don't mean the one I'm going to jump out of. So far I'm still more worried about the 4 flights on big airplanes that I'm going to taking within just 4 days. There's the cramped situation, the having to be in such lose proximity to strange people that I don't know. Right now that's causing me more anxiety than the thing that actually should be worrying me because it really is dangerous. Proper dangerous. And it's not as if I'm not accident prone. And yes, that's a double negative but it's easier to say it that way, less blunt. Then again, the thing that would be most typical of me is to do several stupid dangerous things in a row and have no problem, but then have some kind of weird freak accident whilst doing something relatively innocuous. But that could happen anytime, so no point even worrying about it.

I've spent more money upgrading my insurance to make sure my laptop was covered, which it wasn't, but it is now.

And then there's the credit card. Every transaction cost me an additional 2.75% which is bonkers too. A few weeks ago I applied for an Abbey Zero card, thanks to Martin Lewis and the moneysavingexpert.com, and I was beginning to think my online application hadn't got through, so I had to phone them as well, and it was posted yesterday - but not by first class post, so it's a complete lottery as to whether it gets here on time.