Bright light, bright light!!

The_Dragon

brilliant news Nora!

RosaBernicia

Woohoooo to new job :j:beer:

Sleep well and givvus update soon


Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Sleep well and givvus update soon

Updates all round... ;)

Knitting_Nora

Morning all.

Thank you for all your lovely wishes. Today is the end of week two, and though it's been very chaotic I'm still enjoying being part of something again.... and having an obvious way to distinguish between weekdays and weekends!

So this morning I checked out my bank balance and immediately reached for the chocolate orange as I've fallen into some very bad habits...:eek: it's even been a while since I checked my bank balance!!

It's all sort-able provided I get a grip now, rather than a year or so down the line. So I've spent the morning looking over my spends etc and given myself a stern talking to. As ever, it's not the big spends which get me - it's the 'little' ones which add up to bit me on the bum! The Kindle one went something like this:

Me: "No mini-Nora, you can't keep buying Kindle books just because it's easy and you don't see cash going back and forth..."

Mini-Nora: "but I like this author and I wanna read the next book NOW! *stomps mini-feet*

Me: "Yes sweetie, I know - but you love other authors too... and you like finding new authors...there are plenty of free books available for the Kindle..."

Mini-Nora: "but new stories are less than a fiver...and it's not as much fun if you aren't paying for the books....it's not proper shopping...nononononononononono!!"

Me: "Enough now, young lady - I'm tired of this sort of behaviour. If you can't stick to the rules, then we're putting the Kindle away - you've still got plenty of unread books in your bookcase"

Mini-Nora: "If you do that, I'm calling childline...and I'm gonna hold my breath until I die...and then you'll be sorry..."

Me: "Ok, kiddo. Childline's a freephone number, so fill your boots. And you'll make a nice addition to the compost for the veggie patch..."

I mean, it's really not rocket science is it!!

Anyway, I thought to myself, I know just where to go to regain those good habits, and pick up a few more besides..... and here I am.

After the Kindle, comes the food. I have lots of food around the house and in the freezer - but it's all stuff which needs something fresh/else added in order to make a meal...and I have chocolate and wine in the fridge right now, and nothing else :rotfl:

So I'm taking a couple of 'one pot and freeze it all' type cookbooks into work this evening to go through and make up a shopping list. We have access to microwaves at work, so that's good. And I've also dusted off the thermos flask....

Dinner today will have to come from the canteen though - but I have the money, and it's subsidised (the canteen that is!).

Oh, and ebay! List on, don't buy off.....list on, don't buy off...list on...

Incidentally, those of you reading that in Mr Miaggi's voice, and imagining a 'wax on, wax off' move, have just shown your age!

No insertion fees this weekend, and I have a pile of [STRIKE]rubbish[/STRIKE] very useful things which need to be released back into the wild.... So that, and nipping up a ladder to clear the gutters, is apparently my weekend booked.

Oh, and before I forget - those interesting stairs.... tread depth of 4 inches, incline well over 45 degrees, just a tad illegal, I'm sure!!. And no landing at the top - so to get from one bedroom to the other, you had to hang onto the wall between them and sort of swing yourself round...

Righto, best get on...

Have a good 'un.

Nora.x

Igamogam

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

After the Kindle, comes the food. I have lots of food around the house and in the freezer - but it's all stuff which needs something fresh/else added in order to make a meal...and I have chocolate and wine in the fridge right now, and nothing else :rotfl:


Oh, and before I forget - those interesting stairs.... tread depth of 4 inches, incline well over 45 degrees, just a tad illegal, I'm sure!!. And no landing at the top - so to get from one bedroom to the other, you had to hang onto the wall between them and sort of swing yourself round...

*delurk*

Congrats on job.:beer:

That sounds like a well stocked fridge:)

Sounds like my stairs.........old houses cant beat them:D

The_Dragon

sounds like a house we went to look at when were were buying 5 years ago, I had to go up and down sideways :eek: and I am on crutches! :eek::eek::eek: (we decided against that house :rotfl:)

scubaangel

Sorry Nora the fridge sounds perfect to me too. What else are you meant to keep in them?

ZTD

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Morning all.

hmmm...not quite for me...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Thank you for all your lovely wishes. Today is the end of week two, and though it's been very chaotic I'm still enjoying being part of something again.... and having an obvious way to distinguish between weekdays and weekends!

Easy to tell: Daytime television is worse during the week.

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

So this morning I checked out my bank balance and immediately reached for the chocolate orange as I've fallen into some very bad habits...:eek: it's even been a while since I checked my bank balance!!

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

It's all sort-able provided I get a grip now, rather than a year or so down the line. So I've spent the morning looking over my spends etc and given myself a stern talking to. As ever, it's not the big spends which get me - it's the 'little' ones which add up to bit me on the bum! The Kindle one went something like this:

Me: "No mini-Nora, you can't keep buying Kindle books just because it's easy and you don't see cash going back and forth..."

Mini-Nora: "but I like this author and I wanna read the next book NOW! *stomps mini-feet*

Me: "Yes sweetie, I know - but you love other authors too... and you like finding new authors...there are plenty of free books available for the Kindle..."

Mini-Nora: "but new stories are less than a fiver...and it's not as much fun if you aren't paying for the books....it's not proper shopping...nononononononononono!!"

Me: "Enough now, young lady - I'm tired of this sort of behaviour. If you can't stick to the rules, then we're putting the Kindle away - you've still got plenty of unread books in your bookcase"

Mini-Nora: "If you do that, I'm calling childline...and I'm gonna hold my breath until I die...and then you'll be sorry..."

Me: "Ok, kiddo. Childline's a freephone number, so fill your boots. And you'll make a nice addition to the compost for the veggie patch..."

I take it that the "I'll thweam and thweam until I'm thwick!" didn't work either...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

I mean, it's really not rocket science is it!!

Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest.

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Anyway, I thought to myself, I know just where to go to regain those good habits, and pick up a few more besides..... and here I am.

Yes...we'll lead you astray...just not financially...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

After the Kindle, comes the food. I have lots of food around the house and in the freezer - but it's all stuff which needs something fresh/else added in order to make a meal...and I have chocolate and wine in the fridge right now, and nothing else :rotfl:

I'm shocked. No beer. Don't you want visitors?

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Oh, and ebay! List on, don't buy off.....list on, don't buy off...list on...

Incidentally, those of you reading that in Mr Miaggi's voice, and imagining a 'wax on, wax off' move, have just shown your age!

I didn't... :A

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Oh, and before I forget - those interesting stairs.... tread depth of 4 inches, incline well over 45 degrees, just a tad illegal, I'm sure!!.

Sounds more like a collapsed wall... :eek:

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

And no landing at the top - so to get from one bedroom to the other, you had to hang onto the wall between them and sort of swing yourself round...

Good practice should you ever find yourself on a sailing ship...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Righto, best get on...

Have a good 'un.

You too! :wave:

Knitting_Nora

scubaangel wrote: »

Sorry Nora the fridge sounds perfect to me too. What else are you meant to keep in them?

Butter, Scuba...I've discovered that really all you need is a loaf of bread, butter and possibly an onion....that makes everything in the cupboards work well.

The icecream and chocolate, of course, work well together or on their own.

Well, I've decided to move. Found a lovely little place earlier this week - about a third of the size of the place I'm renting at the moment, as I really don't need a mansion! 10 minutes from work (rather than 40), and 10 minutes in the other direction from most of my friends...expecting to save a serious amount on petrol!

Sent in my application, did the *waits with baited breath* thing - you know how it goes...you fully expect to pass muster, but because it's out of your hands there's still that gremlin-potential! But I heard yesterday that everything is fine, so I'm off later this morning to show evidence of savings (as my job is on a temp contract until they decide they love me) and put down my deposit. Move date looks like the 24th November... around here, it really isn't nearly Christmas unless I'm moving house...

On a slight aside, does it annoy the heck out of anyone else that you do all your banking and bills etc on line, and try and been nice and green, then bloomin' letting agents and such like demand 6 months hard copy evidence of the sort of thing you can only show on-line?! Grrr...:mad:

Back to the present... so this morning I have to retrieve the house deposit from the various places I have it squirreled away. Yes, it would have been better to have done this earlier in the week but there you have a small insight into my organisational abilities!:o;)

Over the weekend I want to sit down and work out a basic SOA for the new place as not only will it be a bit different, I'm using the move as a good milestone to really work harder on my budgeting habits...much food will be batch cooked and frozen! Of course, it's also time to get the boxes back out and start packing. One of the many fab things about being a glass crafter is that I usually have plenty of bubble wrap around!

Righto, best get on... have a good'un all!

Nora.x

Uniscots97

Good luck with the house move Nora. Sorry not been about much the commute I'm doing now doesn't give me much time in the evening as I'm home later but need to go to bed much earlier and get up at the crack of dawn! Sounds like you've been busy! I love the Kindle book buying conversation.