Countdown to Freedom

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muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Morning Tilly - you have been busy this morning :T

Master Tilly needs further training - CH in September, excessive loo roll use and now unnecessary stuff :rotfl:

MWCx

Surely does :rotfl:

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning, 37 days and it's a three year party for my diary. Those years have flown past.

What's occurring today?

Mr T and I made it to the gym - hard work but glad we struggled out of bed to go. On mornings when the sky is dark, I feel the bed has Velcro attached

Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast

Mr T finished decorating the walls around 8pm last night. I decided to keep the steaks in twos, so Mr T and DS had rib eye steak, jacket potatoes and roast tomatoes with garlic. I had the same minus the steak but I did dip a slice of bread into the steak pan :rotfl: Mmmmmmmmm

We decided not to go to church today as we want to get some semblance of normality back to the house. I am blitzing the kitchen from top to bottom and interspersing one kitchen job with one garden job to keep me sane.

DS is revising for a exam next week and Mr T is painting skirting boards and doors. Bedroom walls and en-suite are done. The aim is to have DS completely ensconced in his new room by tonight. Tuesday night will find us emptying DS's old room. Rubbing down will be done during gaps in the work schedule. By next Sunday night DD's new bedroom (was hers originally) will be finished, bar a couple of bedside lamps.

Beef casserole is ready for freezing, all boxed up, I just need the masking tape back from Mr T to label the boxes. Butternut squash soup is portioned for work lunches.

Gorgeous joint of pork for dinner - way too big for 3 but will mean I have packs of pork and gravy in the freezer for quick dinners :T

DD is off to a new church today for a look round. We saw her yesterday fairly briefly. She has made chilli, enough for 3-4 meals and eaten one, portioned, bagged and frozen the others. Veggie pasta sauce made and same procedure. I took her some butternut squash soup and that's in the freezer as well. She is cooking from scratch all the time and her shopping bill came to £9.71 . Thanks :money:

Right, DS has just appeared to ask for help with his revision and after that I'm vacuuming, before wiping down all the skirting boards in kitchen, breakfast room and utility. Next job will be potting up some winter pansies for the front. Final horrible job is cleaning the kick boards in the kitchen, then cleaning the cupboard doors. Nice job will be steam cleaning the floor with tea tree.

Bye, Tilly x

greent

Am very impressed with the speed and determination with which you are tackling the decorating in the Tilly household! x

muddywhitechicken

:wave:

Do you ever just slob out in front of the telly?!

MWCx

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

:wave:

Do you ever just slob out in front of the telly?!

MWCx

I've just come upstairs to have a lie down Knackered :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Mr T is finishing off and the bedroom just needs to dry :T

Dogs beds all washed and on the line. They are currently lying underneath the washing just in case anyone should want to run off with their bedding

Pork smells mmmmmmmm.

You're as bad as me anyway :rotfl::p

Tilly x

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

I have definitely missed going to church today but we can look round and see progress in the house.

Mr T has always been one for working and finishing a job with ridiculous timelines. I have many examples of staying up until the early hours as he wanted to get something finished. I'm hoping when we both retire that life can be taken at a more gentle pace. Knowing us will start a business and be flat out again :eek:

The thought of retirement and the practical understanding of what that means is on my mind. I'd have a clean house, loads more veg growing, time with friends, but is that enough? Seeing Mary Berry on the TV in another phase of life made me think today.

Money updates - no major shopping done, two cokes at the theatre, reduced price tickets - a cheap weekend.

Plants are in my pot and look cheery. I still have some geraniums in full flower and can't face pulling them out yet :eek:

Table is laid for dinner although we will be eating later. Mr T and I will walk the hounds soon.

I'm feeling very lazy now which is ridiculous considering how much has been achieved.

Tilly x

Goldiegirl

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

The thought of retirement and the practical understanding of what that means is on my mind. I'd have a clean house, loads more veg growing, time with friends, but is that enough?

I think it's a good place to start from, but I think most people would develop new interests to pass the time, or travel, or take the opportunity to learn something new.


It's nearly 5 years since I stopped working full time and dropped to two days a week.


I genuinely thought I'd have a house as neat as a new pin, and I'd spend my non-working days with my feet up, reading.


It hasn't worked out like that, I sometimes think my house was more tidy when I was full time and I still need more reading time!


But I've been happier as a part time worker, and I should be even happier in a couple of months.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi Goldie, thanks for posting - the next two months will fly by. Being able to wake up and choose what you are doing is extremely attractive to me

I must admit I love reading but rarely find the time. That really would be a luxury I'd relish. In fact I may tuck myself up in bed early occasionally to read. There's nothing stopping me apart from me :eek:

Best wishes Tilly x

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning, just over two weeks to payday

Mortgage paid - £138k - in 7 months we will break the £100k barrier - that will be INCREDIBLE. A 5 figure mortgage :j. I'd better save the celebrating until April. How lovely to start spring with a milestone.

Work is busy and one of the options for our future is not happening which means forced redundancy is more likely. As I've posted before both of the options would mean good news. Who knows what the future holds. I will take each day as it comes and manage. Interestingly I am planning far less in spreadsheets now than ever. Menu plan, annual budget and spending diary - that's it. May seem a lot to some but nothing in comparison to a year or so ago :rotfl:

I'd better make lunch as I'm in the office.

Best wishes Tilly x

edinburgher

Finally caught up with the last 20 pages of your diary

It sounds like you've had an interesting time over the last few months, lovely to see your maternal pride beaming out from t'interweb.

I need to start making some OPs, can't let you overtake me!

Ps. A rare public holiday saw me awake early enough this morning to finally decipher some of your abbreviations. I'm sure that S&P and FB made sense to everyone else, but I'm very pleased to have figured them out :rotfl: