Go For It - My 2010 Diary of Need!

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Hope your MIL will be ok hun.

ceebeeby

Day 187 Tuesday 6th July

Money Spent - £20 cashback - again (!) and £7.25 in ASDA on carp!!
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 6 M, 0W, 5D
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - piece of cake, 4 biscuits, peach crumble with squirty cream
Week weigh in on a Thursday: (3/35lb)
HL Score: 4/10
Flying Stars: Year total: 89/175 - house gleaming

12 hour work day. Came home - kids had made dinner ... and instead of being yummily grateful I shouted at them because of the mess of the kitchen! That absolutely makes me the worst mother in the land surely. When had calmed down enough to breathe, ran to ASDA and bought sweets as stupid way of saying sorry. Peach crumble made by DD2 was best ever and Taco's made by DD3 - scrummy!

Okay, so have only just finished scouring the cooker top (!) and eventually the flour will all be mopped away (!) and the dishwasher is now on it's 3rd cycle of the day (!) and I'm exhausted - but the sentiment was there!!

Thanks for MIL well wishes. Haven't heard any news today and don't want to do that breathing down the neck thing either.

Have got all 4 kids home in 2 weeks time - what can we do for the week-end that's cheap? Was thinking of doing like a challenge day with loads of random activities (ages range from 22 - 12) and they can score points? Can't think what else to do - all too expensive!

REDMADCURLS

Picnic on the beach/park?

ceebeeby

Day 188 Wednesday 7th July

Money Spent - £42.00 petrol; £3.50 zumba
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 6 M, 0W, 6D
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - piece of cake, crumpets
Week weigh in on a Thursday: (3/35lb)
HL Score: 2/10
Flying Stars: Year total: 89/175 - house gleaming

Typing this up as DD3 paints my toe-nails ... bliss! Need petrol already, have been so good at conserving it this year, but seem to be going through it at a grand rate of knots!! Am not having a good July where spending is concerned - seem to be over with food, over with fuel ... over with going out things! Arghhh - is it time for the kids to go back to school yet???

May have to dramatically modify financial plans for this month at this rate - reduce holiday spends?

Life feels so majorly stressy right now - too fat, too skint, too worried about friends and family, too self indulgent with woes!!!!

Mad Red Curls .. have done beaches / picnics to death and back, and was asked to give that a big swerve? Thanks for thought though, grateful for thinking of ideas x

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Dare I suggest strawberry picking!?! Ask the kids to eat as much as possible without being seen and just buy a small punnet. My DH and his mate only picked the mutant strawberries...there was one shaped like micky mice and a fair few 'rude' ones!:rotfl:

ceebeeby

Day 189 Thursday 8th July

Money Spent - :eek::eek: £24.10 on summer clothes for kids; £28.00 (budgeted) on gift; £4.80 car-park; £20 cash machine (spent the last lot on train fares and dinner out); £9.99 gift for DD birthday
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 6 M, 1W, 0D
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - Revels and Hot Chocolate
Week weigh in on a Thursday: -1 :j(4/35lb)
HL Score: 6/10
Flying Stars: Year total: 89/175 - house gleaming

Had a major spending spree in the city. Met kids and DH after work and we blitzed all the shops and the above tells its own story! Some budgeted, but most not!!!

Thanks for ideas - thinking of doing a challenge day ... hmmm, i.e. start in the morning with various challenges and then keep tabs on score:

• Eat breakfast fastest without using hands (is that too gross)
• Race to the beach
• Most amount of creatures from pools in X amount of time
• 5 minutes each with camera on beach - best picture taken
• Drive into town - give each person an envelope with name of a store and £1 in it, and they've got to buy something very entertaining from their store that will vastly amuse or entertain everyone else within a set period of time
• Go to swimming pool (kids get in free) longest breath holding under water
• Picnic in the park - most bizarre sandwich (make their own in the morning??)
• Need some ideas for the afternoon (fishing; hitting golf balls furthest; fastest ice-cream eater; back garden - snail race)
• Evening - beans on toast eaten with cocktail stick?
• Entertain everyone with the £1 item
• Draw picture that I'll scan into PC and turn into Xmas cards
• Card game
• Monopoly etc.???

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Thanks for ideas - thinking of doing a challenge day ... hmmm, i.e. start in the morning with various challenges and then keep tabs on score:

• Eat breakfast fastest without using hands (is that too gross)
• Race to the beach
• Most amount of creatures from pools in X amount of time
• 5 minutes each with camera on beach - best picture taken
• Drive into town - give each person an envelope with name of a store and £1 in it, and they've got to buy something very entertaining from their store that will vastly amuse or entertain everyone else within a set period of time
• Go to swimming pool (kids get in free) longest breath holding under water
• Picnic in the park - most bizarre sandwich (make their own in the morning??)
• Need some ideas for the afternoon (fishing; hitting golf balls furthest; fastest ice-cream eater; back garden - snail race)
• Evening - beans on toast eaten with cocktail stick?
• Entertain everyone with the £1 item
• Draw picture that I'll scan into PC and turn into Xmas cards
• Card game
• Monopoly etc.???

These sound like fun!

Also do your kids like baking? I used to love making rock cakes with my mum. Decorating big cookies too

ceebeeby

Day 190 Friday 9th July

Money Spent - :j:jNothing!!!
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 6 M, 1W, 1D
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - 5 Revels, but missed most of lunch!
Week weigh in on a Thursday: -1 :j(4/35lb)
HL Score: 6/10
Flying Stars: Year total: 89/175 - house gleaming

Was this the longest work week ever Must have done at least 70 hours!!! No over-time either, public sector cuts :cool:! Anyway, got through it eventually, and seem to have survived it in one piece - few bruises along the way - phewwwww!

Off climbing mountains time again wearing my free boots that are just about falling to pieces now - confessions of a uncontrollable spendaholic, I did try on new boots in sports direct last night, but they didn't have the right size!

Might try new walking shoes instead - give them their first outing!

Yes, kids love baking - okay, fabs - will add that to the list! Failing that I'm gonna drag them up a mountain with me!!!

ceebeeby

Day 191 Saturday 10th July

Money Spent - £28.28 in ASDA for weeks shopping
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 6 M, 1W, 2D
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - WW malt loaf
Week weigh in on a Thursday: -1 :j(4/35lb)
HL Score: 7/10
Flying Stars: Year total: 90/175 - Swished and swiped this weekend only

Changed books at library and got amazing one on mountains - will enjoy reading that! Went and did food shopping in Mr A's, bit early for the amazing bargains, but got some reasonably priced ones anyway.

Has poured incessantly all p.m. so stuck in doors when wanted to be outside ... grrrrrr!

Wrapped BF's birthday prezzy, so hope she likes.

Off out early in the morning up the mountains xx

Nottoobadyet

Fantastic with the climbing! Can I ask where you live that you have mountains so close?