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chevalier

pania wrote: »

hiya chev!!! hope you are doing ok? if you need a lodger just yell and i'll be there like a shot! will even hand deliver a pair of jeans and a shred dvd for you x

well my landlady does want to rent out the sleep out in our back garden for 3 or 4 months! it is a 1 bedroom housette thing in the back garden, but has kitchen bathroom and laundry area, so is quite big. Shall I find out how much she wants for it?

LOL

i have sent you a pm ref your kind offer.

And :eek::eek::eek:about the pay cut, holy crap how do they expect people to survive after taking THAT MUCH money off them......

chev

pania

thanks taxi. I do agree and it isn't a decision that is going to be taken lightly or made over night. it is a research work in progress and if it is 99% a viable option then I will look at it seriously. if not then employment it will be!!

chev, go on then... just for a chuckle.. ;-) would love to come back over for a while. damn you money!! why cant we go back to paying with peppercorns!! you have a pm right back!

at work currently, i know i keep promising an update and i will update when i get home from work. promise!!!

hypno06

Morning.......!

pania

Morning you!!! :d

taxi73

Afternoon P..I'm sure you'll look into everything and wish you wellwhatever you decide to do.

pania

afternoon taxi!!! how was your weekend away? xx

pania

ok, so. lets have a full little uppy datey, this time whilst i'm sober not whilst nissed as a pewt as i think i put it so, eleven days since payday and the world looks a little like this...
To start with the grocery budget is going good!! like, very good. I have just been to tesco and spent £23 but that does include shampoo and conditioner and hair colour (had a little disaster last week and need to go lighter!!) shampoo and conditioner was on 2 for £6 a saving of £1.86 off the full price and £1.50 off the price of the hair colour! :D the rest was made up from fresh and fridge goods with as many deals as i could find (veggie oxo 2 boxes for £1.50, healthy living sandwich wraps, special offer for £1!!.:money:..buying loose tomatoes instead of pre packaged.. worked out much cheaper!:money: and, my own personal favourite deal, new covent garden wild mushroom soup reduced to £1.50, the same price as that gloopy horrid leek and potato soup of last week!!:T) so that leaves me with £14 for fresh stuff until the 25th. I have meal planned to within an inch of my life and am confident that what with the massive big quorn bolognese batch cook i've just done (:p smugness.... it is mine!!) that has provided 5 meals to be frozen, all the stuff in the freezer and in the cupboard i am confident that i'm not going to bust my budget!!

nights out budget of £60 was blown totally within the first week!!:o I went over to see the lovely hypno and the wee hypnettes on their weeks holiday and had a night out at bella italia. £11... and a diet busting mushroom risotto and bottle of beer...:beer: then, as i had to go down to kent on sunday D came down to me and we had a lovely day and a half together friday night. As he had made the effort to come down and paid for the hotel i thought it only fair that I paid for dinner. we ended up at a lovely country hotel that i had never been to before and when we looked at the price list we both pulled exactly this face :eek: hair and all. D bless him went for the cheapest thing on the menu, and i for the cheapest (there was only 1) vegetarian dish on the menu but all told it cost £34.75!!:eek: couple that with the £6 drinks i'd bought earlier in the evening it left the evening out budget looking very very sad indeed. that is bad news as it is still a very long way til payday with fun only either at D's expense or out of my weekly spending budget...

This weekend was meant to be my best friends memorial weekend. It will be his 40th birthday on sunday and wednesday marks the first anniversary of his death. for some reason his family have decided to have it as a family only affair which I am gutted about. the other people who loved him will miss out but i know on sunday i will wish him a happy birthday in my own way:A. so, i now have a long weekend off work and am planning provided the weather is good to cycle the 80 miles from holyhead to chester along the newly built cyclepath. We will have an overnight stop in llandudno (thanks D) so will use my £20 spending money from this week towards that. I think i have worked out that this budding relationship is singlely the most expensive drain on my finances!!!:o last weeks spends came in £6 under budget :T

Dads birthday sunday, and his birthday came in £10 under budget so that got transferred across to the fuel fund which stood at £100, minus £40 today to take me back to a full tank again so everything is balancing right now and looking good.
I have £30 from dog sitting on sunday and £22 for trading in an old mobile phone. that will be used to pay my entry fee into the edinburgh marathon, one of my 12 challenges for next year.

I'm worried i am waffling now, so will shut up for fear of boring everyone.. :rotfl:

hypno06

Waffle away!!!!

Are you still coming to do the half marathon at the end of the month?

pania

oooooh yes!!!! that would be £32 down the dran if not!!! i like waffling plenty more where that came from!!

hypno06

Hurrah!! You are welcome to stay at mine on the Saturday night if you want, although we will have to be good and have nothing other than orange juice to drink, in preparation!