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MG - The Matrix Re-wired

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  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    Hope you are feeling better Dora - first week back is always a kicker isn't it?

    Don't keep us in suspense TMIF - tell us where and let us get good and jealous!!! No holidays on the MFinThree pipeline - so please let us live vicarously - pretty, pretty, please :D

    Gemmzie - anything we can help with? Just shout out and you know we will rally.

    I have got a few hours left before the boys come home - so I am back to the re-designing of my life. I now have solid, compelling and exciting stuff to play with for the next few months.

    Woop woop!!!:j

    MG
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • jc2703
    jc2703 Posts: 1,780 Forumite
    Hiya jc -well done - way to go first week on SW. :T

    I hop on the scales in the morning so fingers crossed.

    MG

    I actually started back in November...but didn't have any scales and bought some on boxing day with Christmas money :D Although I don't know my starting weight I knew what my heaviest weight was previously and I was deinitely heavier than that so I 'feel' like I've probably lost around 2 stone altogether. I have a lot to lose so it's probably the equivalent of a 'more normal' sized person losing a couple of pounds!

    I have a big birthday and my two siblings get married this year (not to each other obviously.....that would be a whole Jeremy Kyle!) so it was time for action!
    Climbing back on the OS wagon after a short vacation to Recklessness
    Quit Smoking 08/06/09
  • tellmeitsfriday
    tellmeitsfriday Posts: 2,331 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2012 at 9:43AM
    I'm going to Malta - yay :)

    http://!!!!!!!.com/7ztmp8b

    Hmm quite a big link made much shorter thanks to tiny url :)

    Excited :-D

    (The !!!! are tiny url (no spaces) pesky filter!)
  • natsplatnat
    natsplatnat Posts: 3,033 Forumite
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    Ooooh TMIF - it looks lush! Have a fabtastic time!
    start = Wed 19th Nov 2008 £21,225
    end = Mon 28th Sept 2015 DEBT FREE!
    I love a good plan - it may not work.... but I love a good plan!
  • troglodyte
    troglodyte Posts: 712 Forumite
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    Yay! Have a good time TMIF! Went to the same hotel just over a year ago, the outdoor swimming pool was great (though chilly in November - but practically unused and loved being able to swim and look at the view!) and for a complete contrast the indoor pool was hot! Loved Malta for all its interesting history and its fantastic cake shops!
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    That looks so lovely hon - and I just a teensy bit jealous. My dream holidays are on their way - just the matter of 100 teeny challenges between here and there:D

    Way to go Jc - in your honour I have hopped on the scales to check where I am one week in ................... 5lbs off :j.

    But trust me I have quite a way to go but I have the bit between my teeth as I am desperate to turn my stash of 50p skirt bits into a grown up sexy wardrobe (thanks to some steering from Souk)

    Hell I used to throw up sets in high heels - how come I now live in jeans and boots??? No way am I gonna get that dinner date wth Gabriel Byrne feeling / looking like this :D Yes BoB he made it onto my goals for his year again:o

    Off to be productive before my littlies come home

    MG
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • tellmeitsfriday
    tellmeitsfriday Posts: 2,331 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2012 at 10:25AM
    It's good to know that you've been there Trog... v excited :)

    Booked my parking last night, and just need to scrabble together a few ££ to convert to €... at least the rate is good at the moment. It's 1.2/£1 which is the highest it's been for ages (See I can get it back to money saving in a flash ;) )

    Does anyone have any plans for today? I should scrape the sealant from around my bath - seeing as I can afford to replace bathroom, I might as well make it look nice.

    (I didn't mean to make anyone jealous - was just sharing ma news... sorry x)
  • ClootiesMum
    ClootiesMum Posts: 1,606 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2012 at 10:30AM
    Jealous TMIF - jealous. Can't get into the link but have a great time. Never been to Malta although we did consider it once & spoke to the only person we knew that had been on holiday there - reply was -hated it don't go - so we didn't. We asked his Mum later why it was so bad and - the pavements were too high & the bingo was p**h. So glad we didn't go then ** insert roll eyes smiley here **

    So stay away from the bingo & watch them kerbs

    We'll be going away in Feb for a week - cheap 'n' cheerful one with DH's payments from over Christmas - again not very MSE but we love being other places....... - still looking though

    Today - will be a potter & TADA day as DH is off tomorrow & looks like he has the start of the flu (but has gone in to work). TMIF - I'll do your sealant scraping if you clean my living room window of doggy snot smears.....

    Have a good one folks
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  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    I'm jealous - but in a motivated , get-off-my-bahookie kind of way. Nothing wrong with a little of the green -eyed monster if you turn it positive IMO.

    MG
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • TMIF - I'll do your sealant scraping if you clean my living room window of doggy snot smears.....

    Deal - I'll be there about 10pm OK :)
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