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Macgirl's "Stop Procrastinating and Get on with it" Diary

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  • macgirl
    macgirl Posts: 5,091 Forumite
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    Hi Rupe! Hope you're having a good weekend. Yep, "everything's fine" is a regular response in my house too, must keep chipping away though....it will be worth it!

    I'm also getting hassled for the computer, so they can watch Cbbc online as well as on TV - simultaneously!

    £7 is not so bad, we've spent too much this weekend, but it is a rarity. I made popcorn to take to the cinema and brought a bottle of water too - so tried to save where I could.

    I had planned to do my pile of ironing this afternoon, but if I don't start the day busy and revved up, it's difficult to get going - so Easter Egg and laptop it it :D
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Easter Egg and laptop sounds pretty good to me!
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • chops22
    chops22 Posts: 650 Forumite
    Hm my husband likes looking at my spreadsheets, he agrees with absolutely everything I have on them and this is a fabulous help.

    The fact he then ignores said spreadsheets and if not watched like a hawk spends money on rubbish that we neither needed or budgeted for..............well thats another story!!
    LBM Total: £33356 15/11/09 :eek: £6085.63 paid
    Pay off 10% by March 2010 (3336) yes!!!:j
    Pay 19k by Dec 2010 19000/5732.39 30.12%
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  • se999
    se999 Posts: 2,409 Forumite
    edited 5 April 2010 at 5:46PM
    macgirl wrote: »
    It was a bit grim in places, but ultimately I feel loads better. We have decided to get a cheap tent and take the kids camping as opposed to my parent's place which would still be £1500 for flights and a car - or Center Parcs which would be about £800.

    A couple of years ago we had out best holiday ever with the boys, OK they were adult, but it was brilliant once you get into it. Make sure you've got good torches, and not too far from the toilet block helps. Ask around family and friends, people might lend you a tent or give you one they don't use.

    My boys had already done camping with friends, we were the newbies when planning it :o Well not by the time we'd met them, we'd had 2 weeks up the east coast of Scotland, and down the West before meeting them.

    One thing about camping is obvious when you've done it, you get up when the sun comes up, and go to sleep when it goes down, unless you have all the fancy hookup's for mega tents and tvs.

    I think cold hits just before dawn, so have extra layers handy, to throw on quickly.

    Where are you going?

    Edit, just realised your children are young, so it's definitely up when the sun comes up!!
  • macgirl
    macgirl Posts: 5,091 Forumite
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    edited 5 April 2010 at 6:20PM
    hypno06 wrote: »
    Easter Egg and laptop sounds pretty good to me!

    I've demolished 95% of my Extra Special Asda one (voted best in the Observer Food Monthly :D) I now feel sick as a dog_pale_
    chops22 wrote: »
    Hm my husband likes looking at my spreadsheets, he agrees with absolutely everything I have on them and this is a fabulous help.

    The fact he then ignores said spreadsheets and if not watched like a hawk spends money on rubbish that we neither needed or budgeted for..............well thats another story!!

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • kissjenn
    kissjenn Posts: 2,358 Forumite
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    Mac,

    What DVD are you using to get such great results. I'd like something I can do in shortish bursts to build up stamina and tone up some of the blubbery bits.

    Thanks
    KJ
    :A Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust :A
  • macgirl
    macgirl Posts: 5,091 Forumite
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    se999 wrote: »

    One thing about camping is obvious when you've done it, you get up when the sun comes up, and go to sleep when it goes down, unless you have all the fancy hookup's for mega tents and tvs.

    I think cold hits just before dawn, so have extra layers handy, to throw on quickly.

    Where are you going?

    Don't know where we will go yet. Abersoch in Wales is on the shortlist though.

    I've only slept in tents a couple of times, mainly at festivals. We had friends that were really into it and always said it can be as comfortable as you like. Needless to say we went with them and it was great until we were sitting outside a pub one night. It was getting a bit cold and I remember thinking "I'm looking forward to getting back to the tent to warm up"

    MISTAKE

    When we unzipped the tent and stepped into our "bedroom" we were still OUTSIDE! :eek: So to me it feels less like fun and more like endurance.

    However, it's about the kids now. My MiL says it's great for them as they are up and running around straight away.
    We almost bought a tent last year, then I had a friend recalling tales of waking up at the bottom of a mud slide after a night of heavy rainfall. So I thought again and talked DH out of it.

    Think I'm going off the idea again..........Travelodge anyone?! :D
  • macgirl
    macgirl Posts: 5,091 Forumite
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    kissjenn wrote: »
    Mac,

    What DVD are you using to get such great results. I'd like something I can do in shortish bursts to build up stamina and tone up some of the blubbery bits.

    Thanks
    KJ

    Well, without wanting to sound like a cracked record (I've been peddling my wares over on Ms Fresian's thread this morning)......

    It's a combination of my favourite calorie counting DIET WEBSITE, running and - as I am Apple shaped (complete with people congratulating me on my - non-existant - pregnancy :o) ABS EXERCISE DVD (that I picked up in a sainsburys for £3.97). All the 10 minutes Solutions series look very good though.

    I still have a long way to go, but for the first time in years, I've maintained motivation and that is half the battle. Good Luck with it :)
  • se999
    se999 Posts: 2,409 Forumite
    Do try it in the back garden with an odd weekend night to see how comfortable it is etc.., and make sure you can put the tent up and down easily. But it can be idyllic, but you have to be able to take the rough with the smooth.

    We used a few camping & caravan club sites last time we camped and they were brill, for nicely hygienic shower blocks and places for cleaning cutlery. When camping I use paper plates, but use plastic plates under as a support, so washing up is minised, but you still have something firm to eat off.

    My festival experiences didn't enhamour me of camping, but the recent experiences did :D
  • macgirl
    macgirl Posts: 5,091 Forumite
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    :rotfl: Our back garden isn't even big enough to pitch a tent Se! :o

    All the talk of showerblocks etc, really does put me off :( Perhaps DH is right, I am too high maintenance for camping.....
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