Carry on Questing

Lula-Hula

Lexxi wrote: »

I love clean sheets, unfortunately so does the dog so they're never clean for long and he smells extra bad this week

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* note to self - do not attempt to substitute boyfriend with a dog *

Shoe_Gal

Lula-Hula wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

* note to self - do not attempt to substitute boyfriend with a dog *

for many, many reasons

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lexxi

You could always train them...

Lula-Hula

Lets just get this bit over with ... I have (as expected) regained the 2lbs lost :mad:.

I have also completed the weekend's washing mountain, been to the allomtent to do weeding & gathering of free carrots, courgettes & apples & sopent yet more money in the co op. I am getting seriously addicted to that shop . More bargainous goodies; bunch of bananas reduced to 75p, more about-to-go-out-of-date frubes for 99p, pack of ham for £1 & bar of galaxy for £1.

I cant remember exactly what I've spent on groceries & what was miscellanea but altogether I have £8.83p left in my purse so that is what we shall live on for the rest of the week. I am going to try not to buy anything else & really properly eke out what we have ... but as I have a jar of bolognese sauce I might need to buy some quorn mince to make up another meal.

I have enough stuff for DDs packed lunches. she doesnt require much eg drink, frube, roll, crackers or sandwich & piece of fruit & has a carton of milk at playtime too. We have tried so many times to include a treat like crisps or a biscuit but then the crackers or sandwich doesnt get eaten so she accepts that it makes me moany so is happy to have her junk fix when she gets home :rolleyes:.

In the food store we have a couple of large baking potatoes, a couple of tins of beans, a tin of sweetcorn, a couple of eggs, 2 portions of the chicken strips, about 4 meals worth of pasta/rice, 2 jars of pasta sauce ( as well as the bolognese) some ham, a decent amount of cheese, frozen fries, quorn chunks, frozen peas, fresh carrots, 3 kiwis, apples, bananas, onions, shallots & garlic, plenty of buttery stuff, chocolate petit filous (yum), 3 boxes of cereals, a loaf of bread, 5 cup a soups, some apple juice & 2 pints of milk.

We can live like kings

And of course, there are more carrots, potatoes, skinny leeks, chard - whatever that is , spring onions, peppers, mini aubergines, apples & fennel at the allotment :j.

Not to mention that one of us could easily live for a week on their fat reserves .

Just need to work out how much I can pay to CCs this week & then I'll be back on track again. apart from the DDs birthdays there shouldnt be any more expense for a week or two ...

bye for now

xx

Shoe_Gal

Hi Lula

Good luck with ekeing (sp?) out the money - l'm in that situation too - and it's ages until payday :eek:

Lula-Hula

After an eternity of nasty cheap Tatco instant I am finally sipping on a mug of lovely fairtrade ground stuff . I'm not just being self indulgent; the grounds will be fab for my compost bin too .

That is the most important news of the day ... but I have also paid another £30 off CC1, which isnt that impressive as the interest that's gone on is more than that so in fact the debt has risen slightly, but only for this week. It's my fault as I thought the payment I made last week would count towards Octobers minimum due - WRONG, they hadnt actually calculated that bill yet so annoyingly it's already counted for last month :mad:. I could end up in trouble as I also have £65 to pay to CC2 in the next week & over £200 worth of direct debits to exit my account :eek:. I can forsee me having to transfer CB back into my current account just to get everything paid :rolleyes:.

I have no idea how much work I will have this week, just hope it's better than the last 2. Fortunately once my DDs birthdays are passed, I only have 2 more cheap family ones to provide. As for Christmas, not a big deal as none of the adults in our family swap gifts so it should be manageable.

It should be a very firm NSD today too ...

Lexxi

Hope the NSD went well and wishing you lots more!!
We're ekeing out too, we head away next week so I only bought 3 weeks worth of food to save some money, we get back at ridiculous AM so figuring we won't be hungry till a decent time.
Can you put the chicken with the pasta sauce Lula, to save you shopping? Makes a totally new meal and you might be able to consider it healthy!

Lula-Hula

Hello Lexxi & all,

I hope you'll be suitably impressed to hear that I have just completed my second NSD in a row .

Yesterday I had shed loads of work & didnt finish until after 8 so we had a very quick throw-some-pasta-in-pan-then-a-jar-of-sauce-&-grated-cheese-on-top meal. Today was ham & cheese on toast followed by bananas. Tomorrow DD is going to Bessfriends for tea so I'll probably have a jacket potato with sweetcorn, courgette & cheese as DD not a fan of jacket potatoes :rolleyes:.

This morning I went to pick up aunt & grandmother & whisk them out for coffee & cake which was very MSE as I didnt have to pay but very bad for the diet as I was ordered to have a pastry . I thought I was going to have to pay for car parking but the machine spat the ticket out at me & let me leave the car park without paying so :j. I dont need to buy anything tomorrow either so that should be another NSD & now think I was just being panicky about not having enough food/money for the week. In fact, the only thing that has run out is my Pink Elephant but it wont do me any harm to go without for a few days _pale_.

I have a few school expenses to pay for; £2 for a science workshop, £15.50 for the pantomime & £27 for after school club but as I kept up with the hobbies/clubs fund I already have this covered . The good news is that in year 5 apparently the children all get to learn to play an instrument for free & borrow it for practice for the whole year :j. The not quite so good news is that DD has decided that she wants to learn the trumpet :eek:. The other choices were clarinet or recorder & as she's already done recorder, that wasnt an option & try as I might to encourage her with the clarinet, she's determined that it's going to be the trumpet. Her thinking is that if she gets used to a brass instrument then I will allow her to start saxophone. Either that or the fact that the trumpet demonstration included playing the Simpsons theme tune ... :rolleyes:

I forsee a whole herd of Pink Elephants coming to stay here :rotfl:

Wol2

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Hi Lula

Loving your diary entries....and well done on the NSD's.

Ahem - not sure if this is good news or not - the nearest thing to a saxophone is a clarinet as both are reed instruments. No point therefore in playing trumpet if ultimately she wants to play sax later......completely different techniques are involved..so she has to start with clarinet (just like my nephew who has the same aspirations) ;)

Hugs Hun...keep at it...you're doing brilliantly :T:T

Horace

You're doing well with your questing - I wish I could say the same - I am so de-motivated at the moment and as a result I am having to get up ridiculously early (7am) to finish off my cleaning and tidying ready for the visit from the Access to Work man...please, please, please..buy me a new desk, a new laptop and some up to date zoomtext:cool:

Chard...well I think it is those funny little leaves that you get in bagged salad with red stalks that tastes a bit beetrooty. In larger varieties you remove the leaves from the stalks - cook the stalks and then treat the leaves like spinach..blimey I am starting to sound like a cook - note to self must stop watching cookery programmes:rotfl:

It has turned chilly tonight and I have had to drag out my other primarni slippers (they look like they're made from sheepskin) as they are super warm and its a case of wearing bedsocks tonight for the first time in months, in fact I may even wear my primarni jimjams too:eek:

S'pose I had better think about going to bed if I have to get up early - I also have two bags of rubbish to chuck out and find a home for some cross cut shredded paper which I understand makes nice guineapig bedding:D

I did a bit of woodwork today too by fixing my 50p wooden chair (it and its partner cost me 50p at a jumble sale a few years' ago), the stretcher had slipped out of its hole on the front leg and was therefore a bit unstable so I got some wood glue and smeared it on the bit that is supposed to go into the leg and hit it several times with a hammer - voila fixed and on the cheap too.

Its a busy day tomorrow what with the man and a trip to the spa (not to participate in treatments or lounging in the outdoor plunge pool with the warm smell of cow muck drifting over the wall) but a meeting with the spa co-ordinator as I hoping she will part with a voucher and some literature so that I can promote them a bit at this stupid wedding fair (see...I am getting bored with it already:rolleyes:).