Renovations and Repayments.

March Targets:

Total Grocery Spend: £175/>£450. Doing very well with this.
Surplus Money: £750/£750. We're on track with this.
Going to bed at a reasonable time: 15/31.
Meditation: 15/31.
One new recipe per week: 2/4. Need to come up with something for next week. Any suggestions? Maman, yours are usually good.
Read three books: 0/3. Hardly finding any time to read.
3 Things for Saturday: 1. Try to have a relaxing day, 2. Find three things to smile about, 3. Do the negative thoughts meditation again.

3 Things for Friday: 1. Get up and ready for school / work without rushing around, This went well today. 2. Find three things to smile about, 1. Son has decided he wants to swap the LR Defender for a Ferrari Testarossa when he is 17 (saw one the other day). I told him he better forget having a life, get working at my cousin's everyday for the next 11 years and become best friends with my parents. He said a red Spitfire would do instead. :rotfl:, 2. Met my wife for lunch, 3. I didn't feel bad telling my son I won't just give him anything he wants, did tell him an 80's Ferrari shows questionable taste at best though. :rotfl: 3. Switch off for an hour - relax.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Turned into a 10 hour day of being out of the house.

March Targets:

Total Grocery Spend: £175/>£450. Doing very well with this.
Surplus Money: £750/£750. We're on track with this.
Going to bed at a reasonable time: 15/31. Failed miserably yesterday.
Meditation: 16/31.
One new recipe per week: 2/4. Need to come up with something for next week. Any suggestions? Maman, yours are usually good.
Read three books: 0/3. Hardly finding any time to read.
3 Things for Sunday: 1. Try to have a relaxing day, 2. Find three things to smile about, 3. Do the negative thoughts meditation again.

Not had a good day, today. Been feeling very negative about the house and about my life in general.

newgirly wrote: »

He has a good eye for cars Alex, 80's is the new 60's isn't it?

:rotfl: I'm not a big fan of 80's cars, to be honest.

March Targets:

Total Grocery Spend: £175/>£450. NEED to go food shopping tomorrow.
Surplus Money: £750/£750. We're on track with this.
Going to bed at a reasonable time: 16/31. Managed to go to bed at a sensible time but couldn't sleep.
Meditation: 17/31.
One new recipe per week: 3/4.
Read three books: 0/3. Hardly finding any time to read.
3 Things for Monday: 1. Go food shopping, 2. Find three things to smile about, 3. Do the negative thoughts meditation again.

3 Things for Sunday: 1. Try to have a relaxing day, This just doesn't seem to be happening at the moment.2. Find three things to smile about, 1. Enjoyed a drive out, 2. Dog refusing to give my wife the ball before dropping it by my feet, 3. Managed to make an excellent dinner from things left over in the fridge.3. Do the negative thoughts meditation again Going to do this before I go to bed.

Saw my brother-in-law and his family today. Wife's brother was not very nice to her (they used to be very close) and she's been very upset since. To cut a long story short, my wife confided in him around Christmas and he didn't like her actions which led to my son and I temporarily leaving. I can see him going back to not liking me very much after telling him it was our choice to give the marriage another go and that is a choice I am so far pleased I made. He likes to interfere in other people's lives and tell them what (he believes) is the "right" thing to do. Wife has been struggling with guilt from some of her past actions recently and this has really knocked her down.

We did manage to talk about the bathroom project this evening, though and I am coming around to Mrs K's way of thinking as it would be nice to have some of the more modern features, thinking practically. Our target is to have the job completed this summer.

newgirly wrote: »

Please read your march targets Alex, you have reason to feel pleased about those

I would expect nothing less from you Alex, I'm just sad you have gone through your teenage years not lusting after a nice juicy Capri or a golf gti convertible, or a fiesta xr2i :rotfl::rotfl:

Thanks, NG. I am pleased with the March targets, in general.

:rotfl: I don't mind Capris but wouldn't part with money for one. My son seems to be getting his taste in cars from my wife. We met at a classic car show, I turned up in the GT6, she had a BMW E30 325i. Being young and stupid, she won dinner in a street race ... am quite surprised to this day that she waited for me, to be honest. :rotfl: She keeps talking about getting either an E30 325i Mtec2 in red, an E36 M3 coupe in techno violet purple or a Z4M... our son seems to like all of the above. :eek: I'd rather go for the delinquent's choice of the 60's: a Jaguar Mk.2 3.8 MOD.

:rotfl: She also likes old British cars and enjoys driving them. These days she drives the GT6 more than I do. I'll admit I have enjoyed driving the BMWs she's had over the years, it's just the image I don't like. Everyone wants to race you (or they did 7-10 years ago) and the police are far too interested. I recall drifting an MGB around a roundabout during my misspent youth and getting a thumbs up from a policeman... doing that in a BMW would have probably led to losing my licence. :rotfl: Mrs K could get away with it. Last BMW we sold was a Z3 2.8i which was great fun, would recommend, especially to someone not too mechanically minded and with a garage space awaiting.

I think the 2.0ltr is a 4 cylinder. I'll ask Mrs K and report back. 6 cylinder BMW engines are lovely, if you've not had a car with a BMW 6 pot from the 90s-00s I'd definitely recommend it.