Making the future happen - museumworker's MFW diary Pt 2

macgirl

Sounds like a lovely trip.
I had a bugaboo (first edition, so a bit heavier I think?) and loved it, especially for the first few months when used as a pram. Once they were bigger I bought a buggy as they are easier to put up with one hand, but not as comfy as the bugaboo for days out. Well done for getting a bargain :T

Peonie

Hello, have just found your new diary and have caught up. I'm looking forward to reading your new diary.

newgirly

Hi MW, just been catching up with your diary. Glad you had an enjoyable trip to paris and a happy new year to you, sounds like it will be another busy one!

museumworker

Today I:
* Made £400 OP to mortgage from lodger (OP mortgage)
* Ordered second hand book on managing budgets, one of my AMA activities (AMA), £7 from personal account
* Last night we took down the tree, put decorations away and hovered up all the blinking needles (home in control).
* Agreed work would pay the £240 AMA professional review fee from training budget (finance and AMA) :j!

Tonight I will:
[STRIKE]* do my welsh homework (um, not sure which priority this falls under, although I may and try and incorporate it into my AMA plan!)[/STRIKE]
* Unpack my case (home in control)
* Put away clean washing (home in control)
[STRIKE]* Spend time with OH (relationships)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]* Ask DD if she wants to play a game (relationships)
* Update my signature to show new 2012 targets (finance-y stuff)[/STRIKE]

Lodger has said she’ll probably move out in the next month or two, to be closer to work. We’ll miss having her around, but will obviously keep in touch. It will have an impact on OPs, but I was kind of thinking she might move out before the baby came anyway, so didn’t incorporate it into the annual target. It was never meant to be a forever thing, we just made the best of it financially whilst we could. It does also mean we will definitely have our room back before the new arrival, so having people over to stay and somewhere for OH to crash if he can’t sleep will be a god send.

On other news, our fridge/freezer is getting even more temperamental and frozen up, so the new freezer might need to get sorted by the end of the month.

museumworker

OH just misfuelled the blinking car! £60 of petrol and £140 call out + VAT to sort it out!! oh, and £20 worth of petrol!

Looking at a solodiesel device to ensure won't happen again, about £50.

Courgette

Oh, what a pain! Well done on everything else though :j

Do you think you'll need to fuel device thingy? Do you think just the pain of paying out will serve as a reminder enough? I'm amazed I've never done it actually!

SJ1

Oh no!! That is such a nightmare. We have two cars one petrol, one diesel and it is my nightmare that I will do that... Why is it that cars are always expensive, it doesn't seem to matter what you do, you end up paying through the nose!

SJ

P.S. Loving your diary, I may also steal your monthly aims idea - really like this way of tackling things!!

earthgirl

Sorry to hear about the car, must be a pregnacy thing.. I think I made lots of mistakes like that when pregnant. Well done on everything else, your Paris trip sounded ace!

Lixi_2

Hi Museumworker

Just popping in to say hi as I am catching up with a few diaries and have subscribed! I saw from the pregger threads that we are really close in due dates. How exciting. :j

I feel for you on the mis-fuelling! I always have to think at the petrol station and we only ever have had diesels

L xx

macgirl

Ouch - shame it was such an expensive amount of fuel before he realised :eek:

On a positive, nice OP so far this year :T it sounds like the lodger moving out is perfectly timed too. Loving "Home in Control" I dream of that one :rotfl: