June 2010, 80 payments to go............

CathT

Hope all goes well with moving back. I get confused with your properties! Does this mean a long commute into work each day? I think rewarding yourself for stages of weight loss is a fab idea. I have done the odd diet in the past and always find that first shop when full of motivation costs a fortune!

tootallulah

Hi Cath and MW nice to see you and thanks for the encouragement. Cath, I have a small flat in London where I also work and I have a house outside Newark, in theory in the summer I could commute from Newark (an hour and ten minutes into Kings Cross) I have colleagues in Kent who travel longer, I know I won't like it in winter but on the long days it would be good to spend more time in the garden etc.

Also I have been in my London flat 20 years I don't really want to live in this area anymore so every now and then I toy with selling up in London, paying down my mortgage and looking for a central London bedsit later in the year. It may all turn out to be pie in the sky so we shall see. It would be joyful not to have to travel far between work and home if I could get a bed sit. I might just be a bit bored and when I get back in my house this flat will stop annoying me.

Today I bought coffee £2.10, vegetables and bread £5.98

tootallulah

I will definitely do kitchen photographs when it is looking especially scrummy.

tootallulah

Onions, low fat yogurt, apricots, chicken £8.36.

I am going to work out next months repayment today, goodness January is a tortuously long month.

I am going to the funeral of a much loved uncle on Friday, he has suffered from Alzheimers for a number of years and has been in a care home for the last year. Sad but not sorry covers how I feel. Perversely it will be nice to see my extended family, even in these circumstances.

I will nip into my house whilst I am in the north and chivvy on the decorator.

tootallulah

I went to my house yesterday and the lovely duck egg bluey/greeny colour in the hall, stairs landing turns out to be closer to the electric blue of 1960s public toilets.........."did you mean it to be this blue?" from my Mother obviously had to have the answer "yes". Never mind everything else is looking good for moving back.

CathT

Hope yesterday went ok.

Maybe you will get used to the blue and accessories can tone it down!

museumworker

Hope the funeral went ok, glad to hear everything is looking ok for looking back. Oh no to the blue - do you think you'll paint over it or just leave it?

Know what you mean about it being a long month. I have £10 left for my personal spends for the rest of the month :eek:!

tootallulah

Thanks for asking, it was a real celebration of his life, he was a devout man so it felt right and appropriate, lots of laughing as well as tears. Lovely to see all of my remaining aunts and uncles and many of my cousins.

It is really not a good colour but I will have to learn to love it for a while, it needs loads of pictures covering it up.

I am still sticking to my diet and will be weighed next Friday after two weeks. I seem to be eating loads so I do hope that I have lost some weight. I have written everything down so it should be a loss of at least 4lbs, we shall see.

Today I am going to work out next months payments and see where everything is.

tootallulah

And another thing about endless January, there are still 3 week-ends until I get paid (including this one). I have £100 in pound coins to see me through, there better not be any emergencies.

New news, Malaysia may be the end of March instead of July, more time to recoup the spends over the rest of the year, or just not doable? Needs some proper thinking. The friends I am going with have business to settle and need to go earlier. I do love the Malaysian coast, spas etc, etc, but it will be £1200 plus £500 spending money. A plus is it would be more in July............................. But these friends are the best traveling companions and I will really enjoy being with them. You know me I am going just not sure how yet, or if work will agree.

MW, fettle means really deep cleaning to proper standards, it may be a northern word or one made up by my grandmother!

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Hey there
well done on sticking to WW I need to call a halt to the xmas junk eating now so will be watching your thread to see how its going for you!
sorry to hear about your uncle but glad funeral was also a celebration of his life
eek on the blue - it is paint-over-able?? I got confused too about whether you live there and commute into london ?
Malaysia sounds lovely- to be honest for that price and relaxation, great company I would go!! ... could you do something like ebay/amazon or some mystery shopping towards the spending money so that at least you could maybe save a bit that way!
good luck on working out the spends/payments!