greent's mfw journey

littlegreenpeas

Well done at being in the 20`s
Lgp

earthgirl

Glad the new job for mr G is going so well, and well done on the massive progress. Keep us updated!

greent

Thanks, everyone - it's a good feeling! Next target is daily interest under £2 - may even achieve that by end of June, fingers crossed

Well after the past 4 days being very wet, today is dry - I can't say that it's exactly warm... and there are grey-ish clouds... but it's dry - so 2 loads of washing are out on the line and another is just about to go in the w/m. Am hoping this half term break will be mainly dry as I need to catch up on washing - which includes changing all the beds (put off due to bad weather - I hate having overflowing laundry baskets in the bathrooms)


DH, DD, DS1 and DS2 are currently at the cinema watching the latest X Men movie - not really my 'thing' so am glad Mr Gt has taken them. DS3 and I are at home - I'm pottering with housework and he's busy playing with some of his new toys and drawing lots of Angry Birds..... His bedroom needs a good sort this week - room needs to be found for the new things, so some old stuff will be exiting quietly.... DS1's wardrobe looks like it needs an overhaul - he keeps coming down in tshirts which are too small (3 so far this week) and has gone out today in a hoody which only just fits - so I have been looking at the Superdry store on ebay Pesky growing teenagers!!!;):p:rotfl:


DH and I have also been growing - not in a good way:eek: His diabetic monitoring review this week wasn't good, either - so we have resolved to walk on an evening after dinner as a start - we live right by a lovely canal path, so we have no real excuses... I've currently got a large pan of mixed veggies in the oven (courgette, carrot, tomatoes, red onion, 3 colours of pepper and garlic) to get tossed into couscous later and serve with salad and pork loins. And mixed berries and yogurt for pud.... we have had far too much cake of late! - the children can eat it (and the ice cream) but DH and I should be better - we can't do moderation!!!


Tiny OPs dripping into mtge acct from ebay at the mo (£5 here, £10 there - that sort of thing) All going in the right direction Should have a bit more next month from nearly new sale of children's stuff, too. Although money is going out at a rate of knots at the mo, too - car repairs, school trips, summer meal with WI, friends birthdays, new dishwasher etc. Still, it's all do-able, I guess


Made a bad purchase from App Foods, though, so am annoyed with myself. I don't often order from there, anyway, but they sent me a free delivery code so I picked up some bits n pieces - including Zero Noodles, which I'd heard a lot about. I thought I could have them as a quick lunch whilst everyone else is out - they are disgusting - I can cope with the weird appearance and texture (bouncy, to say the least!) but they have a fishy odour which isn't masked by sauce - and that just makes my stomach heave... so they went into the bin Waste of money, but I'm not hanging onto stuff just in case. I couldn't donate to food bank as they were OOD.


DH has heard a whisper at work that they may ask him to step up for the boss who is leaving. He works for a govt dept - so it is not at all commercially focussed and there are large £££ savings required. This will mean more £££ for us if it's the case - and will be good for Mr Gt, as he is frustrated by the lack of commerciality at the mo - and would do well getting his teeth into there. PLus as he's there on a short term contract he doesn't need to be bothered by office politics


oooh - way back last year I posted about DH having an interview for a job in Saudi... they've come back with essentially a job offer for a 6 month contract, possibly extending to longer. He has the offer of an all expenses trip out there for several days to see what he thinks of it. He thinks that he doesn't really want it, but we're both in agreement that he should probably go out there for the trip to make his mind up properly - talk to expats out there and get their views, see what accommodation would be like etc. Jobs are like buses, clearly......! :rotfl:

greent

Well the day ended up being quite nice in the end - all 3 loads of washing dried on the line:T - just need to iron all of it now.....:eek:


Children all enjoyed the film - they were aaaaages - it's over 2 hours long! And wasn't too bad - had a family ticket for entry (so a small discount) and took drinks and aldi popcorn/ leftover party sweets in with them


So stuffed from huge amount of roasted veggies at dinner tonight thatI haven't even contemplated anything else - yeay! Had a brief stroll along the canal path with DH and DS3 - doesn't really count as exercise, though - DS3 is so small that we don't get very far/ go at any speed with him in tow. He loved it though and then had great fun splashing in the bath after DH is sorting out his iTunes playlist and Iwill make a cup of tea in a moment before retiring to sofa with a good book


Days like today are good - feeling blessed

Goldiegirl

It's a good idea to get a walk into the daily routine.

In 2011 I had a bit of a problem - a clump of my hair fell out ( I think I was stressed at work at the time). I went to the docs and got steroid cream to put on the bald patch and it fortunately grew back ok. But to help things along, I made sure I was eating well, and getting exercise. I was getting a walk at least five days a week.


It really did help with my general well being, and I was feeling the benefit.

Trouble is, with the poor summer of 2012, I wasn't able to get out much, so I stopped, and haven't really picked it up again.

As you know from my own diary, I've got a bit of a health issue at present, so I really must start walking again, just to be in better shape to deal with anything I need to.

You've given me a nudge in the right direction...... If the weather isn't bad tomorrow I'm going to drag mr Goldie out for a good walk

The job offer sounds interesting, it'd do no harm for Mr Green to investigate

greent

Well we didn't go for a walk after dinner tonight (oops - but we have been busy today and I didn't stop until about 8.30, when I realised DS3 should have gone to bed before then!!).


We've had a lovely sunny day today here DH spent the day mainly putting up new skirting boards in the downstairs loo (dry day needed - cutting long boards with circular saw thingy - lots of dust - best done outside on the drive!! I got another 2 loads of washing dry And decided to totally sort the kitchen. It's still unfinished (have been doing it in between other stuff) but what I have done involved emptying drawers/ cupboards completely, checking out whether I wanted to keep the stuff in there, cleaning it, putting the required stuff away (after cleaning inside of drawer/ cupboard), cleaning outside of said drawer/ cupboard (grr for Shaker styling!!! ) and so on. I decluttered a wok (we had 2 and never used the one) a Chinese dinner set and serving bowls (can't remember when we last used it - 6 or more years ago, I'd guess), a pizza wheel (useless), a cheese board and matching knife, random 'bits' from who knows what, bits from DS1's bed(!!), 2 HUGE mugs, a broken plastic sieve, a harmonica, sterilising tablets, some grotty envelopes and the dregs from a bottle of peri peri bbq sauce (BB 06/10) and Reggae Reggae sauce (BB 05/2009). :oOh, and a free onion sauce from App Foods which was about 2 years OOD and which we'll never use. I also threw away some unused star anise (they were a gift received when we lived in our first home - we moved from there in 1996!!:eek:) and some powdered ginger dating from about 1992.......:o I even stripped the basil plant of it's crispy leaves A bag of risotto rice was found and moved for using later in the week (I'm thinking mushroom and spinach ), along with a beer bread mix... I had that as a gift... will possibly eat that with ratatouille - it makes quite a rough/ 'peasant' style loaf from memory. Am looking to finish it (the kitchen) off tomorrow, hopefully - although I also have plans for giving DS2 and DS3s rooms a tidy.


Hope the weather hasn't been too awful for many of you x

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Well done on being sub £30k. The total will go down really quickly now. Your kitchen sounds like mine except that my oh would want to keep all of those things!
Enjoy half term,

Squirrel x

Welshlassie

Morning greent - sub £30k is amazing, great going.

Great job, ours needs doing but I'm not allowed anywhere near the kitchen in our house, that DH's domain (unless i'm emptying the dishwasher or washing up that is), but he's a hoarder so it could really do with a clear out. Hopefully he'll do it at some point.

Hope you make progress with the kids bedrooms (we've just done ours)

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning Greent, sounds like a good time was had clearing the kitchen. I love doing jobs like that

Don't we all accumulate a load of stuff though - it feels like such a responsibility. Are you eb@ying, CS, tipping?

Have a good week with the kids. Hope you have better weather than us.

Tilly x

Habibiboo

:wave:

Sounds like a busy old week there already GreenT!

Good news about Mr G's options, hope it all works out the way you'd want it to! x