New year, New me (finally)

thrifty_fifty

Paid £1 off Virgin card, couldn't afford it technically, but I'm hoping some ebay sales will top me up next week. Can't believe I'm actually scared about not taking my purse with me to work all week next week. No comfort blanket. Eeek!

Getting so impatient for payday, I want to get this lot moving again. Just read the debt free thread aswell. Can't wait until I can post on there.

Keep on running.

thrifty_fifty

Some more digging done at the allotment. Darn rabbits keep munching the tops off the onions-as long as they leave what is under the ground thats fine by me.

A couple of things listed on ebay, lots more to do. Will list a couple more things on there and then go for a soak in the bath. Mmmmm.

thrifty_fifty

Ooops my bad. OH just found the remains of what I thought was his dead cactus plant in the compost slops bin. Honestly, the things have sat there for over a year, and he hasn't bothered with them. I kept asking him to repot the live ones. Today the urge to do something about it overtook me and I removed it from the pot with the BBQ tongs (so as not to get spiked by the rather evil looking one next to it. The thing was a stick, it hadn't got any leaves and was just brown. Dead I thought.

Typically the minute it is taken away, it is the centre of his universe. I've had that for 15 years, this and that. Honestly it is like living a small child sometimes. It has been at his parents unwatered for the last 7 years, and I could take bets that if they hadn't brought them down, he wouldn't even have remembered he had them. Honestly!

So now I'm banned from touching anything of his, even the clearly dead plant in the spare room, which he basically treats like some kind of teenage retreat (computer games permanently on, curtains drawn and light on, crap all around him.

I despair honestly I do.

thrifty_fifty

Bet I get points for the earliest post today?

Sleeping pattern is all out again since the cold snap. The bed is at exactly the same height as the window, and because they are old sash ones you get a constant stream of cold air through them. Rest of me freezing, feet boiling hot. Grr. Plus I sat on the bed with the intention of reading last night and fell asleep at 9.30.

Hhhmmm what to do?

Annoyingly the itchy skin is back with a vengeance. I thought it had gone, but really it was just because I was taking antihistemines for my hayfever every day. Left them at work this weekend, and I have been scratching like crazy.The really weird thing is my skin isn't dry, I just itch, then scratch and then where I've scratched comes up like stinging nettle rash. For once I can't wait to get to work to get my hands on those antihistemines.

Yay 4.02, now what can I do for another 2 hours? Hmmm.

Maybe watch a bit of snog, marry, avoid.

I have to say apart from watching that show, and in respect to cutting back on this DFW journey, I'm not wearing as much makeup, just some moisturiser and a slick of lipbalm these days.

thrifty_fifty

Bloomin dawn chorus.

If I could have anything in the world right now what would it be?

To be debt free, have a modest, mortgage free house, a pot of savings, and so be able to see some of the worlds sights, nothing extravagant, but something like the 1 month antarctic cruise, just to see some different scenery.


Ahhh, bliss.

Anyway here we are, monday morning. Today I will probably eat lots of chocolate, get angry with annoying cause of all my stress at work person, because I have to go to work to pay these debts and then get a mortgage and then pay that debt and then retire.

Sorry that was rather cynical of me, but don't work and the need for money just get on your boobs sometimes? I think I need to suppress my inner travelling hippy before 8.30

thrifty_fifty

Ok,

I'm really struggling today. Yet another one of my pairs of choos on ebay in my size that I sold (you know the story so I won't repeat it). I was thinking that I might like to slowly try and get them back. This pair I was thinking of the other day because I don't have any flat Jimmys (boo hoo I hear you cry). Anyway here they are.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220601138220&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

ADR today. The paperwork was really positive, but then I slipped in the really angry bit about cause of all my stress. Forwarded it to my boss yesterday, and haven't heard back, so they clearly don't know what to do with me. I guess I'll get the results today.

I'm not going to pretend like everything is alright when it clearly isn't. Gutted that the office manager job says in small print, for internal candidates only-as if to rub it in that I had to leave. Anyway the job that I did the test for, some pages back is back was advertised again yesterday, it's like fate or something. Slightly scared though as I'm going to have to blag it a bit, and either someone in that department left, or the person who got it last time, didn't make their probationary period. I don't want to find myself out of a job, but I can't stay where I am for fear of that can I?

I think it just scares me as they nearly got me fired in my other job. If I didn't have this lot lurking over my head then it wouldn't be so bad. I guess that answers my question about the shoes, but I just wanted a bit of the old me back.

Oh what to do.

I guess it will all be clear after the ADR.

thrifty_fifty

I resisted, and also resisted bargain £225 shoes reduced to £15 in TK Maxx today. I got right to the queue, before stepping out of it again and placing the item back on the shelf.

Today has to go down on record as thee most !!!!!st day ever. Not only was my relationship with my Head fragile, but manager has made it a whole lot worse by emailing about it, and getting it all wrong, wrong dates, wrong issue.

Thanks, thanks a lot.
Good one, way to go.

Today I was spendy and worshipped at the alter of M&S cheesy poofs, and granola square.
:mad:

thrifty_fifty

Well it seems that someone up there is looking over me and making me change for the better, whether I like it or not.

Had my assessment today at OCC health, and everything came up great apart from my cholesterol and waist measurement (86 cms/ 33 inches, so I need to lose 6 inches, to get back into the good books). Cholesterol should be under 5, mine's 5.2.

So it seems my final vice of frittering away my cash on snack items is at an end. Are there no pleasures left? Apparently there is one-alchohol. I have low blood pressure, so at least I don't have to give up the vino.

downgrading my phone contract in July to that Orange £5 a month one. I send about 6 texts a month, and can't get very good reception around here, so that will be £10 a month saved. Plus no snacking, no buying clothes, or toiletries, and I should be there.

I'll be a debt free, skinny minny in ooohh, about august 2011 (I'm hoping for May, but then I need to get together £500 for that bloomin brooch, and £670 for my OU course)

Only my alchohol vice to give up and I could show them a thing or two in the convents (I wonder if they secretly have jimmys on under their habits?)

Hmmmm

maxp_2

thrifty_fifty wrote: »

Ooops my bad. OH just found the remains of what I thought was his dead cactus plant in the compost slops bin. Honestly, the things have sat there for over a year, and he hasn't bothered with them. I kept asking him to repot the live ones. Today the urge to do something about it overtook me and I removed it from the pot with the BBQ tongs (so as not to get spiked by the rather evil looking one next to it. The thing was a stick, it hadn't got any leaves and was just brown. Dead I thought.

Typically the minute it is taken away, it is the centre of his universe. I've had that for 15 years, this and that. Honestly it is like living a small child sometimes. It has been at his parents unwatered for the last 7 years, and I could take bets that if they hadn't brought them down, he wouldn't even have remembered he had them. Honestly!

So now I'm banned from touching anything of his, even the clearly dead plant in the spare room, which he basically treats like some kind of teenage retreat (computer games permanently on, curtains drawn and light on, crap all around him.

I despair honestly I do.

I've read a bit of the start and now the end, is this the same OH you moved in with to the cottage after breaking up with original b/f who sounds nasty as they can be?

Great read and good luck on the journey

Shoe_Gal

thrifty_fifty wrote: »

Only my alchohol vice to give up and I could show them a thing or two in the convents (I wonder if they secretly have jimmys on under their habits?)

Hmmmm

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I love that thought