Milanns mutterings on this last milestone.

milann

Beat the debt - feel free to copy £1 idea - thats just how I got the idea but can't remember where from!!

taxi73

Hope the tests turn out ok Milann.Seems to be everyone on here is having loads of tests/investigations recently.
I think that it's absolutely awful that you don't get a proper dinner break at work and are very right to be totally peed off.

milann

Had an expensive start to the month - cakes for work cos I'd had a birthday this week - tradition is we do the cake thing the Friday of that week - cost a bomb. Had good intentions of baking some but my get up and go had well and truly gone!!! Plus there are a couple of staff I work closely with who have weird and wonderful allergies so we have got into the habit of taking fruit selection too. I'm happy to eat everyone elses cakes - so only fair I do my bit too I suppose - this money saving lark is getting to me and in danger of making me very tight fisted

Printed off a big shopping list today (when I had too much time on my hands - I made a mega list of everything I have in my kitchen - now I just print it off and cross out what I don't need) went round to Morrisons to do a BIG shop and the place was heaving - no trollies anywhere to be had. Not a chance of me trawling through that lot - so toddled over to Aldi across the road and went in just for what we needed for home made pizza tonight - £56 later!! Buuutttt.... I have got a good bit off my list and a few other bits too. Will adjust list accordingly and finish the rest of the shop one evening when it's not busy.

I was very MSE with my cake boxes yesterday - put cakes on plates so boards didn't get messed up. Brought the boards and plastic boxes home washed them and will use them for my Christmas cakes save buying more boards :money:

DH has just surprised me by offering to make the pizza :T

Milann

taxi73

Good idea on saving the boards...so it was MSE having cakes...
It's hard work trying to be MSE all the time and can be very draining.If I feel a bit down about it I tend to think about the end goal and that can motivate me to carry on.
Well done to your DH offering to make the pizza...good for him.

milann

Been hearing a lot of sirens around and about here all day - then friend phoned me and told me about a terrible incident in flats that back onto my little ave. A 3 year old little girl has been found dead and the mother taken into custody - so sad. Makes you wonder what can drive a person to do such a thing to an innocent child (if that's what happened) Then a couple of people were hovering round the top of the ave - when they came down they had a camera and sound mike in hands and knocked on door at bottom of ave (which backs onto land around these flats) - obviously after gossip and photos from there as police have flats cordonned off. Needless to say they were quickly sent off by householder.

News like this certainly gives a new perspective on life....

Enough doom and gloom though - can't make my mind up yet who should win x-factor.

milann

Overpaid £500 off loan - so pleased about that
2 dd's of £50 each into saving accounts - hopefully the 1st of many
Took dinner to work - would have been nice to have a dinnertime to eat in though :mad: instead of munching through meeting.

2 weeks 4 days till half-term :j - not that I'd count such a thing though

taxi73

They are great overpayments...well done and good savings too.

Sounds like you are looking forward to the holidays..

milann

Yeah - I am really looking forward to a week off at half term. OH says I've only just gone back - but the big summer holiday is now a very distant memory. This first term is always the hardest but this year its a killer. I feel constantly tired - I should have gone out tonight but my get up and go had got up and gone.

At least staying in made it a nsd.

Made a load of breadcrumbs with some bread that would have been thrown (kids bought me a super-duper whizzy blender as part of my birthday pressie)
Might make some salmon and broccoli fishcakes later in the week.

taxi73

They sound really tasty..yum yum.
It's about a month since shool started back ...they've been back 5 weeks here.

milann

Got letter from GP today telling me the bloodtests show I'm anemic and enclosed a prescription for iron tablets - started taking them today so hopefully I'll get my get up and go back again. Got to go back and see after I've had the scan I'm waiting for - glad it turned out to be something as simple as iron tablets.

Had a few nsds this week - so I'm quite happy with that. Not had chance to do any surveys or go on dooyoo - am looking forward to being more like the old me and feeling like doing them again SOON.