Reach for the stars...

niccatw

Yay Southernbelle, you found me

My hair is now slightly longer, the cow's lick is becoming braver every morning and I often look like Wurzel Gummage.

Generally this isn't a problem, but every now and then I take a friend's dog out for an early morning walk... and I never look in the mirror before I go. Now I know that "just out of bed" look isn't how the adverts would have you believe! People look at you funny, but not in fawning admiration!

niccatw

Hmmm, so not a great weekend for NSDs... ended up staying in the pub on Friday. Which meant I stayed over at my friend's to save getting a taxi home... which meant I needed Tango to help with the hangover. And that I eventually cornered him into telling me how much I owe him for tickets he'd bought. So I paid him back half of what I owe him (that's all I had in my purse).

And today I went to buy bread for the soup I was making... and managed to burn! Really! I mean, how does any-one manage to burn a pot of soup?! I ate some anyway! I guess the good thing about sinus problems is your sense of taste isn't that great, so it was ok for me. Doubt I'd want to subject any-one else to it though!

And tomorrow I'm mystery shopping at a supermarket so will get my shopping and that also won't be a NSD. Hmmm, at this rate, 10 is going to be quite a challenge!

niccatw

Need to sort my sleeping pattern out! Am starting to turn night into day! It's very annoying!

Am about to head off to do a mystery shop and ruin what has been a perfectly decent NSD up until now - but I might as well get my groceries while I'm there.

I am also being sent crisps! I less bored of surveys as a result today. Eating crisps in the name of [STRIKE]advertising[/STRIKE] research... oh, if I must! I'm sure it'll be more fun than the time I trialled wax strips!

The results of which mean I will now always pay a professional to get my legs waxed! And I also got £15 off my next waxing visit thanks to MyCityDeals... where would I be without this site!

Still waiting on my internet banking details...

Lula-Hula

Wax strips trial :eek: ouch, you are a very brave girl, I got scared using a trial hair dye - it turned out fab though, cant wait until it hits the shops

niccatw

Some might say brave, others daft :rotfl:
I stopped pretty quickly; messy and completely ineffective if you've dark hair! I told them they couldn't pay me enough to use their wax strips, never mind buy them!

My mystery shop was a bit of a disaster! There was no food left in the place! I take you all got a memo about an impending nuclear holocaust? I seemed to miss that one!

So I came away with crisps and dip, a bounty, a bottle of beer, a pair of leggings (trying to decide whether I declare them on the crazy clothes challenge or whether the mystery shop payment cancels that out!) and a bottle of olive oil!

Just what every girl needs in her store cupboard methinks! Any recipe suggestions welcome .

Other thatn that it's been a bit quiet on the debt-busting front - to be expected on a bank holiday I guess!

Pregnant friend called to say bride has decided she doesn't like bridesmaid dresses for wedding (on Saturday! :eek:) and is changing them. So pregnant friend (who is humungous!) is a little bit stressed! Though we did all wonder when bride was going to freak out - it's not like her to have remained so calm for so long! :rotfl::rotfl:

Thankfully I'm just a friend of a friend so I can do things in the background to help pregnant friend and bride need never find out And, more to the point, I need never hear about it from bride until such a time as she can find it all an amusing story !

So tomorrow I will be mostly driving up and down a motorway near me as pregnant freind's car is playing silly b*ggers and it's hen night time.

niccatw

I am (not very) wide awake! And have decided to bite the bullet and get out of bed - if nothing else, it might sort my sleeping pattern out!

In a bid to help my energy levels for the rest of the day, I was full of good intentions of going to the gym (it's been a few weeks now!). Very happy with my decision, I thought I best check the opening times online - Tuesday morning is the only week day morning thay don't open until 9am! Any other morning and I could have bounced in there at 6.30am! I'm not sure whether that's a lucky break or a disaster waiting to happen (in that I might just fall back asleep and the rest of the day will be a write-off!).

I'm also wondering why my flat-mate doesn't close his bedroom door when he sleeps at night (maybe he's scared of the dark?) as otherwise I could go and make myself some breakfast. However, my kitchen doesn't have a door and I don't know if it'd be too noisy too early on in the morning? Maybe I'll creep about like a mad woman for a bit and see if I can hear stirrings!

Anyhoo...

Last night I got my spending diary up to date!

No really! I did!

And I'm so very sorry - I really should have warned you all to be sitting down for reading this particular entry - up before 6am and completed my spending diary! I didn't even have any spinach for tea last night! And no, I'm not an imposter either (ask me anything you want! I can prove it.).

I don't know what I was making all the fuss about. What a baby! I decided to use the online spending diary, which isn't particularly how I'd like it, but does mean I get the information down quickly and don't sit chewing on the end of my pencil with my tongue hanging out, wondering where I've missed a number or several from! And in theory this should make it easier to budget! I even get pie charts to mull over

I can see, for example, my grocery budget last month was spot on! However, I did put all the food for 'girly night in' into entertainment, along with a few other things, so it was way off! If I put that entertainment total in an SOA, I'd be shot down in flames .

I also have a gazillion and six categories (even allowing for my typos increasing one category into three!) so I may need to sit down and work out what are the most sensible options. I mean, where do you put brown paper and salt for dying clothes? And surely and"odds and sods" column defeats the purpose (I was trying not to have one of those)!

So, just where do you guys put all those weird things you buy in your spending diary (and if you are going to tell me you don't buy weird things, go and sit in the corner! Never? Are you absolutely sure?)

So the spending diary is back on track - and the laborious manual method I was ignoring so diligently has been relaunched as the monthly budget book - so I can see what my spending diary says and if I'm on track... actually, I think I'll take up Moo2's suggestion from a while back (around the time we first realised my relationship with my spending diary was likely to be a volatile one!) and make it a weekly budget book, at least for things like food and entertainment and "house stuff" (who'd have thought I spent so much on "house stuff"? And do rubber gloves, photo frames, dye and a washing line all really count as "house stuff" anyway?).

You can see why I woke up early; these are the things my poor brain has to try and work out!

Any-one want to take bets on how long I will remain 1. civil and 2. awake today?

niccatw

Crikey, I've now read some online Guardian and completed my yoga DVD. I'm about to jump in the shower and make some breakfast! This could be the day to fish that list out!

Before the demon leaves me for some-one more interesting :rotfl:

anonymoose_3

:wave: Have a great Nic, sounds like you've had a productive day so far
I've been at work for nearly 2 hours & spent most of it on here:rotfl:

niccatw

Oh yikes Anonymoose, I [STRIKE]think[/STRIKE] know I'd cry if I had to start that early in the morning!

I have gone on to clean the kitchen, bathroom and living room. I've tidied the bedroom and done a couple of washes (though where I'm going to dry them I've no idea).

I'm currently having a wee lull, cocking an ear to hear how much of a mess my flat-mate is making of my newly cleaned kitchen, wondering why I didn't buy more sweet things at the supermarket yesterday to have with a cuppa...

Then I've a few things to photocopy and post before heading off to collect pregnant friend and take her to a hen night (which I might be gatecrashing in the name of chaperoning) and home again. She stays 40 miles away and the weather is awful so let's home I remain as enthusiastic as this for the rest of the day

Tixy

Hi nic

Have a fun time at the hen party. Has pregnant bridesmaid actually got to get another dress then or is the bride being told 'tough'?

I'm sure you must have something sweet to accompany your cup of tea? You might need the sugar to keep you going. Yesterday when I felt like that I resorted to jam on digestives.