Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

Fag_ash_lil

Hi fresian

All very quiet on the fresian front ..... Hope that you are ok ?
Just thought i'd pop by and leave you a " moo egg " just incase you never had enough CHOCCY for Easter !

terri x

pointypenguin

:hello:Howdy F_F

I have just caught up on your thread I was a few pages behind.

I am glad you enjoyed your holiday. I must say after a long weekend I am dreading getting back to work it will only take about 30 minutes at work for me to forget I have had any time off.

I see you have started your challenge thread good luck with that I hope it goes well. If anyone can do it, I am sure you can do it.:j:j

mooomin

Fag_ash_lil wrote: »

Hi fresian

All very quiet on the fresian front ..... Hope that you are ok ?
Just thought i'd pop by and leave you a " moo egg " just incase you never had enough CHOCCY for Easter !

terri x

Om nom nom nom. *burp*

Thanks for the egg!!

Yes, things have been quite quiet here in Fresian Towers, but I have had a lot going on. We got back from our holibags and I had to try and make the house habitable again (I can't wait until we can afford like without a lodger!) and do many housish tasks.

We went to the seaside yesterday and out and about today visiting friends, so I've been making the most of my time off to be honest. Booooo to going back to work though :mad:

On the bright side though, myself and t'other half have had a bit of an epiphany this week. As you know, we went Up North for our holibags, and I think we have now realised that city life isn't for us any more. I love Edinburgh, and always will, but I want to live somewhere with a nicer slower pace of life, where the cats can romp about in their dotage and where we can be happy. I want to grow my own veg and have chickens (Hidden from the cats, of course. Like secret ninja chickens) We don't know how we're going to do it yet, but it will come and hopefully in the next couple of years.

If we can get some money behind us and pay off our debts sooner, we can move all the quicker. I now have some real incentive to get debt-free and be happier. In my little decrepit country cottage

pointypenguin

I have been a city girl all my life but I too agree the big smoke no longer holds much for me, I would love to live in a little stone cottage with an open fire where I can grow veg and have no nieghbours. Hopefully a few more years and this dream will hopefully be a reality.:D

5*shopaholic

i come from leeds originally and now live in lincoln
when people ask if i miss leeds i can quite honestly say no
i miss all my friends and fsmily (its not that far away to visit them or them visit me)
but lincoln is such a lovely chilled out place to live
it is such a different slower pace x
:cool::cool:

tomtombeanie

ah, perhaps we are all harbouring secret dreams to move out and away! i'm not in a city anymore, just a big town - but i too want to end up somewhere out of the way - i also like the idea of a stone cottage with no neighbours! (but not a decrepit one - would like a newly built one that looks old, so no creepy corners or cobwebby cupboards!) some day...

mooomin

Evening all!

I'm succeeding and failing in equal measures at the moment I think :rolleyes:

I am doing badly on my Flylady tasks (That is, I have done hee-haw this week, oops) but am doing well in other areas...

I'm on target to be well within budget for the Grocery Challenge. I do want to get a lot of tinned goods before we have to give our friends their car back at the weekend, but I am going to send t'other half with a list and some Asda vouchers so it costs us nothing but we get what we need!

Having bought the blooming thing in January, I have finally started using my slow cooker. Last night we had lamb shoulder, which wandered lazily off the bone and was YUMMY. Tonight we had leftover lamb, again cooked in the slow cooker, but in a tomato, sweetcorn and herb [strike]sauce[/strike] soupish type affair. I don't know what I was trying to make but it was really tasty, filling and cheap.

T'other half thanked me for all my efforts today too, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! He likes not having to cook All he has to do is check the kitchen when I'm at work and make sure the house isn't on fire. I'm still too new to slow cooking not to worry about that!!

I don't have a lot to report to be honest. The Debt Free Birthday Club is going great guns, which is really nice to see. It's nice to be part of a group wanting to achieve something. Like PAD but with less nekkid men on Sundays

I'm going to run now - I bought The Wire Season 1 on DVD the other day as I had a £5 voucher from BingoPort, so got it for £9.98 on Amazon, and I LOVE IT and want to watch more!! I will be buying Season 2 after payday, definitely. I have more to watch tonight as we're only up to Episode 5. I just need to prise t'other half away from Warcraft....this could take some time.

Take care.

f_f

Silaqui

I bought a slow cooker the other day! They were in Tesco for £9.97 so I went for it, my mum has one and I love stuff done in there. The only problem is, because it's only cheap it doesn't have a timer on it and I'm usually out the house for about 9 hours from 7 till half 4/5. Most of the recipes seems to say leave it on high for 6 hours - I'm wondering whether 9 hours on low would be ok?
Might have to ask on the OS board!

Glad things are all ok with you xx

Lurker1972

'I don't have a lot to report to be honest. The Debt Free Birthday Club is going great guns, which is really nice to see. It's nice to be part of a group wanting to achieve something. Like PAD but with less nekkid men on Sundays'

Shouldn't there be more nekkid men on Sundays??

Major fan of this diary, only wish I could be half as focussed..am getting there!

mooomin

Silaqui - if my cooker has a time I haven't found it yet

I have three settings - low, medium and high and I put both meals I have made so far in it on medium while I'm at work, so you're looking at from 8am (After which make-up must go on) to about half five. It seems to have been ok so far. I don't think anything only requiring 4-5 hours of slow cooking would work for me as I'm out all day...