Pay off mortgage and start having fun!

Goldiegirl

I feel your pain about your iPad.

I've got an iPad mini, and I'd be lost without it.

Regarding doing smileys on the laptop. I right click on the smiley, and then copy and paste it.

gallygirl

newgirly wrote: »

Some good news today is after sulkily chucking the broken iPad in the car and leaving it there in the heat all day ready to take to the apple shop, ds2 got in the back and switched it on and it works again.

Maybe it was just frozen?





I'll get me coat

lulabelle1

Fab - perhaps it will survive after all!!

newgirly

gallygirl wrote: »

Maybe it was just frozen?

:rotfl:


It is dds birthday today, we have had a nice lunch out at the pan Asian buffet together but only managed 2x plates each, not the 6 each we were trying for! Followed by family over for cake and then a DVD with dd and ds2. Dh and ds1 are at wembly stadium watching eminem tonight (free tickets from a school friend for his birthday treat :eek:)

The budget is now at £31 until next Thursday and I've not put petrol in for two weeks , oops it may take a few weeks to build it back up to a full tank again.

I'm really enjoying this £100 a week challenge at the moment, when the kids break up it will go to £120 pw but I still need some easy cheap snack recipes to fill them up , otherwise it will be a six week diet of toast.

Off to the film comic con tomorrow and praying we get into the Sherlock talk with the writers and a mock up of the apartment , there will be tears if we can't get in!

Alchemilla

That sounds exciting.
Following our purcase of a £6 sandwich toaster, the kids fav food is now empty toasted sandwiches. !!!!!

newgirly

Ha ha love empty toasted sarnies ! My ds2 has empty rolls for packed lunch at school

Film comic con was a disaster, we got there a bit early and found a massive queue of thousands snaking around one side of earls court, we stood for 2 and a half hours in the heat, got back round to the front and then realised the queue didn't go in the front doors, doh it went up the other side the same distance (never been in that entrance only ever the front so didnt check!) so another 2and a half hours to go :eek: we had a group vote and left as we couldn't take anymore and it was so hot.

There were no staff outside and not even a taped off area so the queue had a few people pushing in too. Very frustrating. Anyway we went to 221b Baker Street instead but the museum had a big queue so we just went in the shop next door and took a few photos, then onto the Disney store in Oxford street and bought dd an Alice In wonderland doll to make up for missing the film thing.

edinburgher

Ah well, it was quality time together (albeit in a queue) if nothing else

Ps. Your comment re. plate numbers at the buffet makes me laugh. I once went to our local equivalent (China Buffet King) and a rather chunky man was collecting two plates of food at a time, while ordering two pints to go with it. Before you ask, his pal was ordering his own food :rotfl:

He'd had 6+ plates and 4 pints by the time we left after 3 each :eek:

newgirly

Nothing like getting your money's worth Ed, sounds very Mse :beer:

It's Monday again, why does it come around so quickly? Before I started working for dh, he suggested I do two days a week but I said if possible 3 would be better. It's really a job for 2x part timers (or one full obviously) I am sharing with a lovely lady in her mid seventies who will leave in the next couple of years.

I was having a moan at dh that working was cutting into my free time to do fun stuff ( joking of course !) and he said as long as you train a new part timer up he doesn't mind how many days I do (if any) Which got me thinking, if we cleared the mortgage in the 7 yr 10 month term we have left I could cut my days down to one or two.

The mortgage is £1700 pm and my wages are £800 pm so I could give up, but I like working there I just would love en extra day to do stuff around the house or cooking/sewing etc.

Anyway I'm taking that idea and using it for inspiration as I don't feel like work today, it's one more step to mf and more time

newgirly

£10 in petrol yesterday and now only £11 left until Thursday and a pretty empty fridge, so I'm going to try and work through the freezer. Today will be a frozen chicken cooked in the slow cooker, I know you are not supposed to do that but as it's on low all day it falls off the bone, so pretty safe I think (hope!)

I had an attempt at making some soft white baps last night, but instead I made dark brown hand grenades :rotfl: round to the bakers it is then this morning!

Also did a couple of portions of tomato and chilli butter beans so will take that in for lunch at work today, the less money I have the more everything seems to revolve around food and what we will eat. I've been spending a while on approved foods as well. they seem to have a pretty good selection at the moment so I might do an order out of next weeks food money

newgirly

Busy last few days again , last night we went out for an unplanned
dinner with dh's parents as it was his dads 70th. We bought him a voucher for x2 to go to a hotel in Central London which used to be a courthouse, for champagne cocktails the a movie screening in their small cinema of a retro film (choose from a different one very week), he seemed pleased and it was only £32 via a discount site and plus cashback :money:

It's the twins birthdays next week , ds2 wants a sofa for his bedroom and they have sold out at the big blue and yellow store, as it's at the very cheap end of the budget and needed next week it could be a problem! Ds1 will have cash towards his football season ticket again, I just need to get a few little presses to open, it's so much easier to buy for dd though, boys are much trickier.

I have booked our hols for next year, we are going to centerparcs in Sherwood Forest for a week, we were booking a 1 and a 3 bed as the 4 beds were £5600 :eek: when I rang up though I was told if I enter 8 adults instead of 5 adults 2x kids you get more choices, so the price reduced down to just over 2k for a basic , a massive difference we are sharing with my parents, we have done it before but won't have for a few years, I'm sure it will be fine though plus dad likes to cook so I can be a bit lazier :beer: we have gone for the posher villa at £2500 as we have to have separate bathrooms for my parents , so deposit paid and I'm paying the rest off at £100 pm. It's a lot but I wanted to do something special as dd and I have big birthdays next year.

Off to make tea now after a very long night and not a lot of sleep due to a massive thunder storm and having to have all the scardy cats (and dog) up in our bedroom last night.