misscousinitt's MF Diary

misscousinitt

List for today:

Count 50ps
Washing
Washing Up
Cook soups
Usual Saturday Visits
Cook Pork Meatballs with Chipotle Sauce for Tea

Have a great Saturday everyone.

MCI

misscousinitt

Early update today as have loads to do at work and at lunchtime charity-wise.

Soup cooked yesterday - 4 portions of leek, potato and butternut squash (2 ate yesterday). 3-4 portions of lentil and bacon (will add more potatoes next time - but it tastes good - got a portion for lunch today).

50ps counted - £51! £40 to go into the account - but I am not trekking down the town in the snow to pay them in today - hopefully sometime this week.

Pork meatballs cooked on Saturday - portion in the freezer for another time - got the level of spicing right now (1tsp of chipotle paste is spicy enough for us!).

Washing now up to date! Hurray!

Mr T shop done on Friday - £26 (it did include cat food and a couple of bottles of wine to see us to the end of the month); grocery total now at £154/£200.

Tonight's tea is Chicken Tagine (LO Veggie Tagine from the freezer from New Years Eve and a chicken breast I grilled and froze before Christmas).

Happy snowy Monday everyone!

MCI

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

Fancy that... I made leek and potato soup at the weekend too. No squash in ours though - too expensive!!!

misscousinitt

Booked an appointment to go and see that house for sale on Saturday at 10.30am. The agents told me that its chain free! Quite handy considering that we are too!

Going to the cinema tonight to see The Hobbit (booked using voucher we were given for Christmas and still have 0.82p towards our next cinema trip).

So, quick tea tonight of LO Venison & Beef Casserole out of the freezer (LO from new year's eve) and some mash.

Feeling a bit down in the dumps today - my FIL is not well at all (he has a progressive illness), my colleagues are mostly miserable and my parents are a pain in the behind!

Need to pull myself back up by the boot straps - at least DH said our phones will be off tonight as we are going to the flicks...

MCI

Anna_Glypta

misscousinitt wrote: »

Feeling a bit down in the dumps today - my FIL is not well at all (he has a progressive illness), my colleagues are mostly miserable and my parents are a pain in the behind!

Need to pull myself back up by the boot straps - at least DH said our phones will be off tonight as we are going to the flicks...

MCI

Hi MCI

I've been dipping in and out of your diary for a while and thought it was time to say hello.

Maybe it's the 2nd week back at work blues, I'm a bit like that today. Started trawling holiday websites which isn't very MSE! Just feels like the time to have something to look forward to :j I've got a trip to New York on the cards with friends in December but that seems just too long to wait!

Your house viewing sounds like fun - with the end of my mortgage looming in the not too distant future (well next year!) I've been wondering what next - BTL maybe ready for retirement!!!

Hope your FIL improves and I think everyone's parents can be a pain in the behind no matter how old you are!!

Right, I had better do some work that I am actually being paid to do!! Bye for now AG

catshark88

And hello from me too!

Enjoy The Hobbit. I'm hoping to go and see that in a couple of weeks (assuming that it is still on).

Hope the house hunting goes well.

CS

gallygirl

Hope you're feeling a bit brighter and enjoyed The Hobbit .

misscousinitt

Thanks AG, catshark and GG - feeling a bit better today, but my elbow is really aching today and I don't think that's helping with my mood.

The Hobbit was good - a bit slow in parts, but a really beautifully made film, with some laugh out loud moments. DH wasn't overly impressed saying it was 'OK', but I expected that.

No extra spends at the cinema either - not that we usually do, but we had tea at home, so no meal out before hand.

Have got to sort out my fixed rate isa tonight - I think I'm just going to fix it for another year and then see what our situation is then. Don't want to tie it up for any more than that as the interest benefit is not really worth having.

Tonight's tea is chicken traybake - using chicken pieces from the freezer and any oddments of veg I've got kicking about - I know I've got some red onion, a small squash and some carrots - also got some LO fresh herbs that will also get chucked in.

We have broke the back of the working week - Happy Wednesday everyone!

MCI

misscousinitt

Just checked on my fixed rate isa and its matured already! Carp! Maybe I should just leave it where it is for now and try and find another account to stick it in. The best I could get was 2.2% for a year anyway!

Shopping at Herr A tonight on the way home and need to pop into Mr T to get a couple of things for my mum.

FIL has had the doctor out to him again. DH is going down there after work to find out more.

Not sure what we are doing for food tonight - I can always cobble something together out of the freezer after (prawn rissotto or something), or we might go out for a cheap and cheerful - will need to play it by ear and it all depends what time DH gets back from his mum's and what the weather is doing!

MCI

megela

Hiya MCI,

Hope the snow hasn't caused you too many problems this morning. Expected to hit us in the East Mids about lunchtime - although bbc weather says 'light snow' until tomorrow, so hopefully stays that way.

Stay warm,

Megela