greent's mfw journey

Moneyfordreams

I hope DD gets well soon 

newgirly

How frightening for her and you all, hopefully she should be reassured now and it will pass fairly quickly for her. In these times it’s not surprising I guess, everything is a bit upside down  ☹️

Congratulations on your silver anniversary 😊

South_coast

Hope DD is OK x

Hazelnutty

Thinking of you and your DD, greent x

greent

Thank you all for your anniversary congratulations - and even more so for your wishes for DD - she is good - it's as though a diagnosis of 'probably stress' has helped de-stress her - chest pain has reduced to just upon waking and palpitations are very infrequent now. She's even managed a session on the cross trainer at home and then an hour and quarter at the gym doing various cardio things - ok, probably not at the intensity she was doing before, but still good and with no ill-effects whatsoever She's also fot an extension on her dissertation by a week agreed, as she didn't touch it when she was bad.

Other news here.... youngest greent child (DS3) has started secondary school yesterday - DH and I walked most of the way with him yesterday morning and then he met a friend a couple of hundred yards from the school gates. DD and I then walked up to meet him yesterday afternoon - he seemed to have a good day, although he is the only child from his primary in his class - and the only one from his primary not to be in a class with at least 2 others He chose to go to this school specifically so he would be with friends   Still, he will survive - my other 3 didn't go to school with classmates and they all manage/d

DS2 has gone back to school today - thankfully a very short week at only 2 days, as him getting up at 6.30am was rather a shock to his system!   Back into Y10.... let's see how that goes

Got an email this morning from PSB to say I'd won a prize - only £25, but it's way more than that batch of money invested (£7k back in June or July) would have earned in interest! Just transferred another £1K across and will do another £1250 when I get the money arrive back from a credit card with a credit balance (yet more holiday refunds... - still have an insurance claim in which will hopefully get looked at (and agreed!) this month) for around £700) It means our holiday funds are still separate from 'normal' money (so I can kind of forget about them )

Weight loss has stalled - but as it was our anniversary and my best friend's 50th last week and there were meals out and sweet things I'm not surprised. Ideally I want 2.5lb off this week to drop into the next stone bracket... that would be fab   That will make me the lightest I'll have been in over 4 1/2 years... and even then I think I only got there for around a week or two maximum! Properly down into the next stone bracket is probably more like 6 or 7 years... ooof!

Anyway, as the house is nice and quiet (2 at school, 1 at uni, DD still asleep, DH in the real office (as opposed to home office) I'm going to attack my kitchen - I am massively behind on housework! Not sure when I last mopped the kitchen floor......

South_coast

Ooh, you know how to have a good time 🤣! 

Glad DD is improving, probably a good thing for her to learn about not pushing herself too hard at this age while it's easier for her to recover

newgirly

Well done on the weight loss greent 🙂

greent

Kitchen got blitzed (mostly) on Thurs - but my plans for more blitzing elsewhere on Fri were turned upside down when DD found out late Thurs afternoon that she has a job interview next Weds... the girl lives in jeans/ vest tops/ hoodies/ converse and has no respectable clothes! - cue a trip to town on Fri morning - very hard shopping for someone with not many shops around, she has no idea what she likes, what size she is and you can't try anything on..... things bought in N3xt & Debnums and then brought home to try on - jacket was fab, skirts and trousers too tight. 1 top dismissed (high neckline - as in choker style - looked great but she found it uncomfortable - and 1 top was just about ok. Another dash in the afternoon to change trousers and skirts in Debnums (left the n3xt stuff for another day as she didn't like it as much), buy a top in Pr1mark and then pop in to Sainz and get a lovely cornflower blue top from there. New skirt ok, New trousers too short.... Pr1mark top a disaster but Sainz top a massive hit. Another trip in yesterday morning to change length of trousers, return Pr1mark top and get another of the Sainz tops in a different colour. Phew! I hate clothes shopping (or any shopping, really), as does DD (we are a disappointment to my mother in that respect, as she loves retail therapy!) but she now has a lovely matching skirt/ jacket/ trousers combo and 2 lovely tops. Oh - and we bought a sensible black handbag - she has lots of student bags and some party/ wedding bags and I have a couple of going out/ wedding bags and a battered every day bag and a gorgeous plum-purple sensible bag for work (which she could have borrowed if necessary) She has a pair of flat  'proper' shoes in great nick which look good with the suit, so she's sorted. Finally she's booked a hair appt - she last had it cut in early Summer 2019 for her graduation! (We're both very low maintenance as well!!)

DS1 coming back home today for a couple of weeks - he has several appointments to attend here and uni hasn't started yet.

Both DS2 and DS3 had a good start to school

And I hit the next stone down in weight this morning - whoop! Ok - only a 1lb into that bracket, but that's still a big success! Will count if properly if it shows the same tomorrow (I record Mondays' weight)

apple_muncher

Cor, I'm exhausted just reading this! I'm another one who loathes clothes shopping, so I feel the pain!

f0xh0les

Congratulations on the next stone down!