misscousinitt's MF Diary

misscousinitt

Birthday present bought for Dad - used one of my M&S vouchers, so theoretically half price! Other half is budgeted for anyway.

My other £10 voucher I was given as a present, so will definately be spending it on me - but I suspect that it will go on a Dine in for £10 at some point.

Building up my shopping list for when I get paid and my mealplan for March is nearly complete.

Carrying on a theme - 5 things I am grateful for today:

1. Charity meeting was short last night and got home at 9pm to share some QT with DH.
2. Printer Cartridges have arrived! (What an exiting life I lead).
3. Very grateful to all my MFW friends for all the tips, tricks and support.
4. Boss is out for most of the day - so no one breathing down my neck!
5. Squeezed the cost of my extra lunchtime snack from the £10 M&S voucher I spent at lunchtome!

Tonights tea is Basa Fillets, Roasted Veggies, Cous Cous and probably some sort of pesto/tomato sauce.

Hope everyone is well.

MCI

misscousinitt

Wow...been so busy, I nearly forgot to update.

Got notification of my dividend today - I am shocked, you could have knocked me over with a feather...there will be a good portion going into the deposit fund once the cheque has been deposited and cleared.

I don't earn alot really - but this year as we have had a bonus and a large dividend, so there is a chance I may have to fill in a tax return!!! It will be for a negligable amount of tax in the grand scheme of things - but I will have to check this out.

As I forgot to get the lamb chops out of the freezer for dinner tonight, I think I we are going to go out for dinner to celebrate. Why not!

MCI

misscousinitt

:j:j:jUnder the tax threshold:j:j:j

MCI

Lois_E

Enjoy your meal out! _party_

misscousinitt

Lois_E wrote: »

Enjoy your meal out! _party_

Was lovely thanks Lois - posh pub grub and a couple of glasses of vino blanco - delish...

MCI

Froggy-G

Yeah! :j Congrats on the dividends! Well deserved!

misscousinitt

Froggy-G wrote: »

Yeah! :j Congrats on the dividends! Well deserved!

Thanks Froggy - at least this is happy money - I felt sad when I had my inheritance - I feel really excited about this lump and how it will help us.

MCI

misscousinitt

So, I've done the money shuffle:

Total of £415 gone into the Deposit Fund:

£300 old mortgage and OP payments
£23 saved from insurances
£17 from grocery underspend
£75 from bank account sweep

Popped into Mr T this morning on the way in as they have got some really good deals on cat food at the moment and I didn't want to miss out (knowing my luck there would be none left by the time I get there tomorrow evening).

So, picked up a pack of 44 pouches for £9, some different pouches that were on 2 boxes for £6 and 2 x 2kg bags of cat biscuits for £6 - ok, so I spent £21 on catfood (usually spend between £18 and £20 anyway), but I've got loads and won't have to buy so much next month!

Herr A shop tonight - haven't done my shopping list yet :eek:

Been really busy again today getting reports ready for a meeting we have at 3pm. 2 down, one to go (if I can get it finished).

Tonight's tea will be the lamb chops planned for last night (I remembered to get them out this morning). I think I might sprinkle them with greek style spices and use up my block of feta with the roast potatoes.

Hope everyone is having a good Thursday...just one day to go till the weekend.

I'm off to update my signature and crack on with my last report.

MCI

misscousinitt

Happy Friday Everyone!

£27 spent at Herr A last night. Mr T shop planned (shopping list done!) tonight and need to fill up with petrol. Going to go to a Mr T nearer to work that has a petrol station, so going to do my shopping, get the 5p off voucher for fuel, then go and redeem it!

£50 in deposit fund today from DH regular saving and £60 from £co.

Why is it that everything happens at the beginning of the month and therefore a glut of signature updates?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Going to pay my cheque in today, so once that's cleared I will be able to top up savings, deposit fund and have a spend!

Tonight's tea is: Pizza, Wedges, Garlic Bread, HM Dip and Salad - cheaper than a takeaway, but less time in the kitchen means more QT with DH.

Wishing everyone a great weekend.

MCI

Froggy-G

misscousinitt wrote: »

Happy Friday Everyone!

£27 spent at Herr A last night. Mr T shop planned (shopping list done!) tonight and need to fill up with petrol. Going to go to a Mr T nearer to work that has a petrol station, so going to do my shopping, get the 5p off voucher for fuel, then go and redeem it!

£50 in deposit fund today from DH regular saving and £60 from £co.

Why is it that everything happens at the beginning of the month and therefore a glut of signature updates?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Going to pay my cheque in today, so once that's cleared I will be able to top up savings, deposit fund and have a spend!

Tonight's tea is: Pizza, Wedges, Garlic Bread, HM Dip and Salad - cheaper than a takeaway, but less time in the kitchen means more QT with DH.

Wishing everyone a great weekend.

MCI

Happy Friday & have a great weekend MCI!

Froggy