Not adding up

I have been struggling to keep the joint bank account under control for some time now, and tonight, in a moment of clarity, I suddenly realised why. We have two credit cards with one provider and my understanding was that we were paying a minimum payment on one, and a capped £500 on the other. Tonight I’ve realised we’re actually paying £500 on both. Both, however, have the same reference on our bank account rather than referring to the different products they pay off, and go out at subtly different dates, thus creating maximum confusion. It appears that I changed the amount on one sometime in July-ish – that would be round about the time that I was struggling to get through the days, and kept forgetting my own name. Hm 🙁

It has really not been a good year. In so many different ways. To redeem me a little I discovered today that one of my pupils, who didn’t used to like reading, now reads for pleasure at home. I can’t be all bad as a teacher then 😀