Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Cheery_Daff

<waves to Fay> didn't see you there! :j :j

What on earth are you contemplating about all that nonsensical waffling I wrote yesterday??? :eek: Am I going to have to read it again myself so I can understand your sensible comments?? :rotfl:

Lemon_Tree

i think we're spending christmas at OH's family this year and i'm not really looking forward to it. I know it's not going to happen unless i make all the plans but it's hard to do the plans when you don't actually want to go. I'm from a family of planners so i know my mum is going to ask pretty soon what we're doing but his family couldn't plan a drunken party in a beer factory. (language moderated to get through the moderators )

Cheery_Daff

Good luck LT. I found my family got over it very quickly when I announced i wasn't going home for Christmas as we were going on holiday instead... And now after 4 Christmasses of that, they don't even expect me home. We do Christmas in January instead

makeup

I'm having my family over for Xmas this year for the first time ever.

I normally like Christmas but it is never as relaxing as I hope.

I'm either at my parents or my sisters and so I spend a lot of time helping with all the cooking and the prep work. Last year I was really fed up as I was in the kitchen all day on Xmas Eve and then I went into the lounge and my sister was sitting on the sofa with her husband (she was BF'ing my niece so she had a good excuse) but I wanted to be sat on the sofa watching Christmassy films. *looks for petulant stamping of foot icon*

I'm hoping that as I'm in control this year, I can plan things out and make good use of my freezer and get a lot done in advance. Also as my kitchen is in my living room at least if you are in the kitchen you aren't left out of things.

Cheery_Daff

Morning all!

Sounds like it'll be good for you to be in control of Christmas Makeup! And how lovely to spend it in your new flat! :T

Cheery_Daff

Right then, a small money update... Been ferretting round in the online bank today, and found some cheery additions!!

£10 from quidco for free lovefilm trial :j My first ever quidco payment! :j :j
£92.18 refund from insurance company (after they'd taken 10% +£50 cancellation fee. Rather annoyingly the didn't tell me on the phone if I cancelled then reinstated with them with a different car within 2 months, they'd refund the cancellation fee... But never mind, other one had 2 months free anyway)
25p validation thing from paypal :rotfl:

I've got this week plus 2 more weeks to budget for this month. I've got enough or 4 more days train fare to work :j And also got £84 left. Plenty of food in, so everything is pretty cheery!

I'm also due some transcribing money on the 24th (not sure how much), and I'll be paid on 31st, so everything's cheery!

I've transferred the insurance money to the savings account. I'm also due £150 refund frmo the road tax, which I'll add to that pot too. I'm going to keep £100 out for the MOT (due in Nov) and the rest will go towards paying back Mr Daffs :j

So altogether, feel quite positive about financial things at the mo! (reasonably anyway!)



(oh, and I bought some red stripey shoes for £2 this morning, and a fb brown swirly sheet for cutting up and sewing with for another £2 in a charity shop this morning :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Bleurgh! Stuck in grumpy frustrated PhD nonsense again this afternoon Don't seem to have done anything today other than wandered idly to the shops and drunk tea. Which is a perfectly nice and lovely existence - but not one with only 18 weeks left to finish a PHD! Pah!

Maybe I need to count down 100 days like the government?? :rotfl: Wonder when that would take me to??

Cheery_Daff

26th November :eek: :eek: :eek:

Actually, that's not a bad goal - gives me about 3 weeks after that for last minute tidying up and messing around and printing and binding etc etc...

So, here goes then - 100 days...

And I'm in work for 28 of them :eek: (actually, is that all??? That's only 4 weeks :rotfl:)

So that leaves me with <counts fingers> 72 days. Hmm. Somehow that feels less than counting it in weeks, and perhaps more likely to make me make the best use of each day??

(or perhaps it's all just a time wasting exercise - I'm not far off working out how many hours there are left!! :rotfl:)

Hmm, maybe I need a 100 days countdown chart to cross off?? (or is that otherwise known as a calendar??)

Perhaps it's best to just get on with it and stop counting days and inventing silly deadlines?? :rotfl:

Anyway the only chapter I've actually manage to finish the first round of revisions on is chapter 4, so there's still chapters 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9 to go :eek: plus a whole round of the entire thing again making it all fit together,if we're not counting the days I've got to work - that leaves me about 9 days a chapter, and that's not leaving any time (other than the spare 3 weeks) to go round it all again :eek:

Gosh that worked - if the object was to scare myself silly! :eek: :eek: :eek:

More tea I think :coffee:

Cheery_Daff

Woo hoo! Day 15 of Shred done :j :j :j :j

All good, although far too much tea drunk, so lots of sloshing going on! :rotfl: No great and exciting weight/inch loss to report - in fact I haven't measured this week after last week's cake extravagances think I undid all my good work of the first week so I'm going to do tomorrow and Friday, then I've got a friend staying and a wedding to go to on Saturday, then I'll do it Sunday, and then just carry on as normal, and see where we are after that...

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Right then, a small money update... Been ferretting round in the online bank today, and found some cheery additions!!

£10 from quidco for free lovefilm trial :j My first ever quidco payment! :j :j
£92.18 refund from insurance company (after they'd taken 10% +£50 cancellation fee. Rather annoyingly the didn't tell me on the phone if I cancelled then reinstated with them with a different car within 2 months, they'd refund the cancellation fee... But never mind, other one had 2 months free anyway)
25p validation thing from paypal :rotfl:

I've got this week plus 2 more weeks to budget for this month. I've got enough or 4 more days train fare to work :j And also got £84 left. Plenty of food in, so everything is pretty cheery!

I'm also due some transcribing money on the 24th (not sure how much), and I'll be paid on 31st, so everything's cheery!

I've transferred the insurance money to the savings account. I'm also due £150 refund frmo the road tax, which I'll add to that pot too. I'm going to keep £100 out for the MOT (due in Nov) and the rest will go towards paying back Mr Daffs :j

So altogether, feel quite positive about financial things at the mo! (reasonably anyway!)



(oh, and I bought some red stripey shoes for £2 this morning, and a fb brown swirly sheet for cutting up and sewing with for another £2 in a charity shop this morning :j :j

Thats great news on the money front!!!

Especially good stripey shoe action!

Loving the 100 days thing, although its very scary that its so soon.:eek: