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

Cheery_Daff

Hooray! :j Nice to have you Pania :j Wouldn't bother reading back though - entire diary can probably be summarised as: "drank some tea, ate some pancakes, didn't write PhD" :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Yay! I just finished a section as planned! :j :j :rotfl: This bl**dy chapter's been dragging on for WEEKS, the end has been in sight for WEEKS< and I just haven't been able to do it But had a couple of days at work, didn't even take it on the train, just daydreamed and stared outo f the window, and today I've had a really productive day! :T

Have also planned out exactly what needs doing on the final section for tomorrow, gone through my paper copy and written in most of the changes I need to make, where I need to get refs from etc, so all set for another good day tomorrow! :T

(excuse me being pleased with myself, this doesn't happen very often! :rotfl:)

Anyway, so I'm here on my own for much of tonight. The cupboards are looking pretty bare, but I don't want to waste time going to the shop, so I'm going to stick some bread dough in the machine for a pizza base, pick a couple of courgettes and some spinach and rocket and oregano from the garden, mash up a tin of tomatoes, and the last of the wedding cheese and that makes a proper gourmet (and MSE!) feast I think!! :T :T :T

Then I want to start chopping up these branches from the tree we cut down at the weekend - although I don't have any green bags left so it'll have to go in a pile for now :rotfl: But it'll be nice to be outside for a bit. Then a little light life admin (sorting the electoral register thing, deciding on the note taking job then filling a couple of forms in. Then Shred day 21 later (nope, I still haven't started level 3 - tonight is the night though!) :j Then some more cheery sewing, and that should have me ready for an early night! :j :j

Anyone else up to anything exciting tonight??

Happytogetdebtfree

Emmerdale lol :-)

Mags30

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

little light life admin

Life admin....what a fabulous description:D

Cheery_Daff

It *is* a good term, isn't it Mags? :rotfl: An old housemate of mine used to use it, and I adopted it, it's such a good word for all the (usually!) tedious business of answering bureaucratic post, making non-cheery phone calls etc

Just made some pizza dough, and got a lovely tasty pizza (or rather two) in the oven - the tomato sauce has oregano from the garden in, and on the top is yellow courgettes, spinach, red rainbow chard, rocket, two types of cheese, and some walnuts! What was that I said about not having any food in?? :rotfl:

Have also done my taste radar form - only £8.83 :rotfl: But we didn't start til the 18th, there's NO vegetables in there whatsoever (!), and we actually buy a fair bit from the local fruit and veg shop, which doesn't count. Still, it all helps! Hope I've done it right, it's my first time!

BUt now it seems to have gone dark, so I can't get out and do some lopping in the garden! Ah well. Shred calls too - although I haven't eaten the pizza yet and it'll need time to go down - timed that one all wrong didn't I?? :rotfl:

Lemon_Tree

i like the term as well, i think i may just borrow it when i can remember it lol

i've not got much planned, helping OH do his NVQ homework, and just pottering around on the 'puter

well done for getting so much of your PhD done, it feels good to actually achieve something doesn't it.

Happytogetdebtfree

well doonee you xx im tired now :P so early night for me xx

Cheery_Daff

OOh, lucky you having an early night! :j :j

LT, it *is* rather satisfying! :T I aim to do the same tomorrow and get the chapter done, and if I manage it then I'm going to treat myself to Saturday completely OFF, no guilt :j :j

I was going to have an early night too, but Mr Daffs came back before I had chance to Shred :eek: :eek: so I still haven't done it! Redeeming myself (er, slightly) by switching gas and electricity suppliers. Gosh it's baffling! In fact, I think I was busy being baffled on here about it the other night!

I'd like to use the opportunity (a) to drop British Gas, who I'm still cross at for leaving us without heating for 10 weeks last winter (but Who I haven't actually bothered complaining to yet :rotfl:) and (b) to switch to a green supplier, and (c) to save us a bit of cash.

It's like being back at school with lots of maths problems! :rotfl: I'm sitting here surrounded by piles of paper and old bills, scratching my head :rotfl: Thank goodness for internet comparison sites, and also curse them at the same time for giving me more choices than I can deal with! :rotfl:

Mind you - have found a comparison site that ONLY compares green tariffs, and gives you a rating on how green they actually are :j :j Just comparing that to what we're actually paying with NPower - and to be honest there doesn't seem to be that much difference! It's working out somewhere between £33 and £38 for just electric (is that expensive?? There's only two of us!). BUT - I've only got 6 months worth of *actual* bills/meter readings (before that they were all estimated, and all over the place), Feb-August, but I'm assuming the other half of the year will be pretty similar? I guess maybe a little more because of lights being on longer perhaps??

Difficult to know what to do really, keep being distracted by the fact that current direct debit has just been reduced from £137 a month to £87... :eek:

Gas bill's baffling me even more - I've only got actual readings from 5th June to 18th August - before that all estimated, AND there was that whole business of not having any over the winter when we would actually have used the most anyway... They've estimated (based probably on the position of the moon in relation to Saturn or something) that we use 18220kwh a year, which they reckon will cost £653 - so £54 a month :eek: Surely that's absolute tosh???

Happytogetdebtfree

i have zzz attack so i have nothing to suggest except gas and elec is expensive i will catch up tomorrow lol xx

hanb

Cheery, i don't know if it's any help but we pay £28 electric with Eon and £27 gas with British Gas - although i got a gas bill through yesterday saying we're around £130 in credit because we don't have heating on at the moment but it will balance out when winter comes around.

There's 2 of us - my housemate has 2 days of a week and i'm home on weekends so 4/7 days we'd be about during the day.. I can't imagine you'd be too disimilar to that - unless you like to have every light and power tool turned on at once?