Hospital

Hey,

So just a quick update... I got out of hospital on Tuesday... had my Pacemaker removed! (Will update "About Me" section later once I'm healed up!)

Below is a picture of me High and with not a care in the world!

Candy Creations!

Been a long 2 weeks.... had a few fair shares of ups and downs but not doing to badly and of course me and my girls love carries on stronger than ever before!

I wanted to share with you our latest project... we started making Candy! you see she wants to make something to sell so that hopefully we have new means of saving...

I'll include some photo's below but remember we are quite the way off of selling yet... first I need to get the Honeycomb recipe just right before I commit to selling my recipe, I also must find a way to cook enough so that selling is feasible... right now unless we sold it for about $10 a bag we would hardly make a profit which is the main goal here right?

One day though we'll make enough and we'll see about selling some.. and of course free samples for all my close friends!

Updates & Tribbulations!

Morning!

It's looking like such a fine day over Topsham this morning and looks to be a nice day!

Not many updates to share with you this week except we have Karate today so that will be good as we have been attending the last few weeks! unfortunately we need to break into our savings to afford an outfit but after what happened I believe this is a good enough excuse, I will certainly pay it all back out of Saturday's pay cheque.


Onto some brighter news and something I hoped I'd have waited to share with you but the feeling is so intense I feel everyone who is helping me deserves to know...

When I was a baby my Great Uncle Ken started something called an Investment Trust Fund which is basically like a college savings kind of deal except all money paid in is invested by them and thus there is room to double or even triple your investment when the trust matures, it matures on my 21st Birthday which is coming up soon!

The bad news here is that about 8 years ago it had already matured over 6K! then the economy collapsed and with it his "smart" saving idea wen't down the toilet... of course we will never get back the full amount he paid in but I have been told it will be about £1000 minimum!

This is great news indeed and thanks to this the Paris trip is actually going to happen... so all your donations will go towards treating her more like a princess and will go towards the chance of marrying her there to!

So over the coming months please keep an eye on the Go Fund Me campaign as I will deposit it as soon as it touches my hands! (My 21st is on the 8th of September, you can access gofundme on the right)

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Now to top it all off me and my girl have been talking and with the change of plans over how we are going to tackle this holiday I'm happy to say over the coming week I will update the "The Plan" page so be sure to keep an eye on that... remember you can subscribe on the right of this Journal and I'll send you an email whenever anything is updated or a new post is made!




Stay safe everyone,

Ollie

The Returned & Donations Accepted!

Hello Readers!

So I'd like to start by apologizing for my absence, we had a spot of bother with finances that i had to take care of which after I felt like I needed a break for a few days.

Then the worst happened... my Girl told me how she'd changed her mind about Paris!

She told me how she was scarred about going so far from home when furthest she'd ever gone in her life was Minehead(about 120 miles away) so I had some reassuring to do as well!

So I apologize for not updating the Journal, it has been a rough few weeks but my girl is happy to continue the plans for Paris and I got the finances sorted!

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Now onto the good things eh? We got our Go Fund Me working!

This means that if you'd like to donate ANYTHING to our vacation & wedding you can do so and they even allowed us to put up perks so there is a rewards section included as well!

Check out the image below or the widget to the right to donate!

Updates & A Change of Plans!

Hello Friends,

Just a few updates to share with you on the journey!


Takeaways!

We have worked out that we are given about £80 a week for food as frankly both me and my mother are disabled and cannot cook so we rely on takeaway services.

But we have worked out that if we save that money and me and my girl live off TV Dinners for the remainder of our saving plan we should rack up roughly £8850 which is a whopping £850 above our target... this on top of me saving has allowed us to change our plans somewhat!


Change of Plans:


So I know you have been kept in the dark some on what my plans are just in case my girls decides to have a peek but we both discussed this merrily and have decided to change the plans somewhat and add an extension onto our vacation plans.

We intend to purchase a Hurley 22 later in the year which is a small day sailor or a boat in layman's terms and we plan to sail this across the channel which will already save us about £500 on flights!

We will take this up the canal/river at Le Mavre and sail it into Paris! below is a picture of the boat and of the maps, we will be traveling along the red line from Exmouth to Cherbourg then across to to Le Mavre, we may also be taking a quick stop to look at Omaha Beach or the D-Day landing site!

Capital Exchange Update and Announcement!

A great day today as me and my girl are going for our first Karate lesson. I hope that this will enable us to be better prepared for anything else that may put us in danger and help us both emotionally.

Now onto the Capital Exchange huh?

So from all the custom work I'd done in SL along with my main job at VAW and the Freestyling on my guitar I have made 26,517 Lindens! that is not bad for a months work which I think translates into about £60 ($100) if we keep getting money like this then our trip will definitely be happening!

Now as you may or may not know I have invested all of that into the SL Capital Exchange which yes is a risk but the company I have invested in has a good CEO in charge and has a pretty good chance at bringing in a large return!

The IPO sold them for 1 Linden per share so I brought exactly 26,517 shares which is not to bad! of course they sold pretty quick (within an hour) and then the price rose... if I sell now at... 1.18 per share I would net 31,000 Lindens which is a good 5K profit.. in space of an hour!(tasty huh?)

Now I don't plan to sell any time soon... I will keep hold of them for I imagine about 4 months at which point after dividends are paid enough the price should go up... I'm hoping for a minimum of 6 per share which would net us about 120,000 lindens (£380, $440) not bad right? and of course I'll be collecting monthly dividends as well and I hate to imagine what those will be!

So there you have it an update as promised.... I'm also going to be adding a few pieces of work to my Portfolio so please head on over to "Hire Me!" and take a look! 

Capital Exchange & Money Box!

Fellow Savers,

It has been a glorious week indeed and a lot has happened for me in terms of savings...

So where do I begin? I suppose at the beginning... I have done the fund check thing on the Disney website and it turns out we are looking good at our current saving plan of £80 a month, though in actual fact I plan to put in £120 a month so we should be well over our due... this means this is not just a race but has turned into a race between going broke and going rich... I think we all deserve to pretend to be rich at least once in our lives right? (and vice versa!)

Now onto our top news this morning!

1, Stock Exchange

For those of you in Secondlife who are following this journal and my goals to make 800,000 Lindens (Roughly £2000) within 3 years time will be happy to know the money is not sitting in my account going to waste! for all the money I make I am investing back into SL! into its small companies and into it's economy!

This means that for every linden that goes into it I should make a return on it in due course time... (Yes it IS risky but if you play it smart then when the losing time comes you lose very little) I have chosen to fund a new IPO that is coming to the market on Tuesday... all of my saved funds will go into this as if I calculated correctly in about 8 to 9 months time the return should be over 900% and this means I should make myself a good 200,000 Lindens... granted that is if all goes well but from my own research this company looks like it will rise through the coming months!


2, Money Box

Now onto 2... I know for those of you in the real World not as glamorous as Mr Stock Exchange above BUT I have now gotten myself the money box so now I can finally save all the loose change I accumulate!

Picture of the Money Box, Why yes it does have £3 in it... 

Please also some good and bad news on the "About Her" page... I'd be happy if you all took a look for me.... and for her...

New Journal!

Hey,

I'm starting this Journal so I can not only keep track of all the money I've saved for the proposal and wedding but to share it with the people that are helping make it happen and the casual readers of the internet looking for something to do 5 minutes each day.

Do not fret though she has already said yes, I just feel I cannot accept a yes until I have asked her in such a way that truly warrants a yes (such as her dream vacation) if all goes to plan only then will I accept her agreement and marry her!

I hope to add a gadget to the side of this page to keep track of and display the current saved total, right now there is some stipulation whether or not that should be a text counter that I can manually edit or something like GoFundMe.com so not only I can add to the overall funds but my readers can also contribute if they feel the need to! so please I'll put up a poll on the right... if you could be as kind to vote in it for me?


Now moving on you probably want to know a bit more about me and my girl? take a look at the "About Me" section of this Journal to find out everything you could ever want to know about me, check out "Disclaimer" to find out about my girl...

A word of warning however, she was involved in a very serious... "problem" recently that has take a strain on her... she has been hurt very badly and as asked that for the time being I keep her name and her off of the Journal. Do not panic though I am doubly sure she will want to get involved a bit later when problems here have settled down.....

That is the reason I decided to take her on this vacation...  she needs this as much as I do.