Getting a mortgage and then becoming mortgage-free!

Hi all, yes it was a fab weekend. Just about caught up with sleep now!

Had a rather eventful evening today- popped to the gym with the gf and met our friend there. I got into my running stride and hit 4.36km when disaster struck....my headphone felt loose so I took it out only to find the silicone ear bud was lodged in my ear. I jumped off the treadmill and wandered over to gf and friend (who didn't believe me at first), left the gym and went home to parents who tried using tweezers but it was dead painful, so went to local surgery to be told to go to walk in center. Waited there for two hours for the lady to use mahooooosive tweezers to pull the earbud around and eventually out.

She advised the ear will be red and inflamed for a while but shouldn't be any lasting issues. How mortifying :eek:

As it was so late we stopped at subway and used our reward points to get a six inch sub each for free and came home. Other than the point spending it was a NSD. We had pizzas for lunch on wrap bases using leftover salsa, cheese, avocado etc also managed to 'use up' 4 of those white chocolate ferrero rocher (Raffaelos!) as I'm being so frugal :A :rotfl:

Went back into the gym tonight (avoided eye contact with The gym manager that I went to last night but that couldn't give me tweezers for insurance reasons) and did a good workout. Ten minute run, 50 minutes on the stepper & ten minutes on the bike so a little tired now....annoyingly my Fitbit doesn't register the activity on the stepper weirdly so thinks I was inactive when in reality I was sweating like anything!

Took soup and a flatbread from the freezer into work for lunch today and a lone cookie leftover from the weekend. Nipped to Tescos for some eggs for the week, ham and some part bake rolls so only £4 spent instead of the usual budgeted £40, so a £36 saving.
Dinner is freezer stuffs: pizza express mezaluna dish, Linda Macartney cheese plait and the bread rolls and salad stuffs...yum yum yum!

I want to try making my own version of the mezalune dish one evening, but make extra to pop in the freezer for convenience...not sure when I'll get a chance to try the dish...popping it on here as a reminder to me in a few weeks (we both love aubergine and it feels like a way of having comfort food like lasagne but less carbs!)

Small tilly tidies from the joint account made, money put into savings instead of the credit card (whilst it's still 0%!) and from my bills account as won't need my car insurance & MOT money until Sept/Oct so it may as well be in savings getting interest rather than in my bills account with no interest.

Carpet man coming on Friday, and waiting on the quote from the plumber to install the hot water mixer tap as hoping to get both of those ticked off the list this month. House sellers came to fix the front door as we complained about it being so drafty so hopefully be cheaper bills.

We've been debating housing alarms and cameras recently, our friends who've bought the same house are getting the Verisure system which looks all rather swanky but is £350 install and then £44 per month for the security care which sounds a lot to me....I'm saving the John Lewis vouchers to possibly get the Nest cameras but will continue to debate until we have enough funds. I've seen a Panasonic set which is cheaper and I think covers all the things we need. Will continue to think on it and look at cheaper DIY alternatives too....