NST March: Marching to a different beat

Morning freezing in this office today.:(

Hope everyone is still upbeat and survived the beast from the east.

Thinks looking up today.

Plumber may come and look at my oven tomorrow.:D

My electric shower which kept dripping after turned it off yesterday, then went to much heavier drips by the evening. However after a shower this am stopped dripping. Was trying to find an isolation valve last night to turn it off but it must be in loft, under my insulation which is double what was needed I put all the leftover roll down. Didn't fancy jumping up there off a ladder yesterday after a couple of glasses of wine. Hoping it stays off and I don't need a new shower.:cool:

Appointment made with Dr's for anaemia, have to cancel my hair appt though only time they could fit me in.

Bag (half full) and picture left out for charity collection today. Starting my de-cluttering month.:)

Took all my used batteries to Lidlee.

Yesterday ended up paying for lunch out:eek:. To be fair bf always pays and was throwing money at me but just felt bit better paying my way for a change. Plus saved money by not going to Manchester for my gig last week.:)

Abundant - Hope you find a better way to socialize. Had to laugh yesterday bf bit of a loner, extremely shy with new people, came up with that I am probably the only normal person he talks to:rotfl:I actually find that quite disturbing.:( There is a lot of lonely people about.


Budgets

SFD 3/18 including today.
Food £20/£100
Going out £33/£100
Petrol 0/£40
House repairs 0/£100 - newly added for cooker/ new taps?/ washing machine problems- under estimated I think but will try and make do with some until April.
Hair/ make up £0/£50
Bdays £0/£60
Fitness - won the weekend fitbit challenge with my dd and her friends. Fit old bird:D

Onwards and upwards off to update my debt totals.:)

Thanks archwaysaver tummy is rumbling away here. Will have to give it a go. Get ingredients on my next spendy day ;-)

Worked extra hours today - received a text at 7.20am to say someone was poorly and could I work extra . As I was there all day I had lunch provided :j - and will have more money in pay at end of month :j

• · for the plodders: 15 NSDs 3/15 so far... Another one today
• · Set your budgets before the challenge starts
  * Food - 67.27/420 -
  * Fuel (me) 0/65
  * School 0/25
  * Social 0/50
  * Clothes 0/75
  * Gifts 0/75 (includes Mothering Sunday and several bdays and maybe some prep for DS1's bday in April)
  * Toiletries 3.98/10
• · Be generous !!! Do not forget to give to your choice of charity. - monthly DD. Will also donate to foodbank/ animal foodbank collection at supermarket
• · [FONT=&quot]Pay towards your debt first! .[/FONT] 'General' CCs always paid off in full. Car and min pyments to 0% CCs paid by DD. Extra monies then go to OH's 0% CC - £65 extra so far

Today I am thankful for:
* extra hours - although not for colleague being ill
* lovely colleagues
* OH doing school runs, enabling last minute extra hours

NSD today 3/18
Not feeling to great, so was off work today. Told the agency I would not be going in tomorrow either. Chesty and felt weak. Coughing throughout the day.
Just took it very easy today. Took painkillers, steamed and put root ginger into hot water.
The people doing my Mum's gravestone phoned today saying if I paid off the balance over the phone they can put the gravestone in tomorrow afternoon as they are going to be there tomorrow. Already received the paper copy of the invoice today as well. Am not counting that as a spend as I am using the money my Mum left me. I am sure that my Mum helped me out today with the phone call and not going out to post the cheque off. I know this may seem strange to people, but it means something to me.
Grateful for:
Rest I got today.
Getting the gravestone sorting. Got it done before Mother's Day and St Patrick's Day.
My friend's result from the hospital saying it is something else(which is treatable with antibiotics) and not the C word.

A NSD. A bit difficult as any 'wrong' movement has made me yelp and you don't know which movements are wrong until you do them. Read something in my current novel about stopping to look around before decidng where you are going. Think I need a bit of this (although part of me thinks if I slow down any more the snails will overtake me).

Just need to get back into a basic 'life is simple' mindset. Sleep, eat, breathe, walk. Get up, get washed (I have had a bath, early on and am wearing a clean nightdress - I may have clean clothes but they aren't dry), get dressed, make something to eat. The crisis (feeling overwhelmed) article I read recently started with getting dressed, working out what to eat today, putting on a load of washing (presumably so you have clean clothes/ deals with some of the mess/ making a start on the chores with little imput from self) then when you have tiime to sit down and plan for the week ahead.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

For today I am grateful for hot baths, for painkillers, for having a plan (only half a plan but I have somewhere to start).