MIT's penultimate diary

millionaire_in_training

Evening folks. Went back to slimming club after 3 weeks and gained a whopping 8lbs !!!!!! that's like I ate a baby :eek:. I know I comfort eat ut that's ridiculous. So I am back and will be bypassing Easter and getting my self sorted. I want another 2 stone off by end of June so I need to get started. There's 13 weeks so if I lose 2 lbs a week then I will just about manage it.

Other news. My last words leaving here this morning were 'right boy get out that bed and get the bins up and put out the recycling. You'll be dead meat tonight if you don't' Well guess what ??? Text at 8.30 to tell me he missed the bin men and that I hadn't put the recycling into bags so it didn't get done either. Then I got a frantic call to tell me he thought he had left the front door open :eek:. Not just unlocked but WIDE open :eek:. Now I was miles away with no car so had to make calls to see if I could get a neighbour to check for me. I ended up getting the wee woman across the road ( who has dementia) but who thankfully knows me very well , to check for me and it was locked. So he is on a plug ban, grounded, early bed and had to do his room. He tried to give me attitude and I told him for each cheeky comment I would add on a day to his punishment. That put his gas at a peep :rotfl:. So a nice quiet evening has been had by all and hopefully he has learned a lesson. I clash chronically with DS :eek: It's never been like that with DD and it does my head in. Anyway all sorted now but I reckon my workmates were a bit shocked earlier at me screeching down the phone at him. They were having bets before I left on what I was going to do to him :rotfl:. I had to facebook my final decision to let them know and they were all winding me up about how scary I was :rotfl:.

Got paid today which is 4 days early :mad:. Trying to ignore that small fact. I haven't touched it other than to pay back the £200 I borrowed from my stash.Hopefully I can keep my frugality going. I'm doing quite well so far this week. I have only spent essential money.

I stop tomorrow for 4 days and I cannot wait. Am working on Saturday morning and I have a 50th birthday on Friday night which my friend in Edinburgh is hopefully coming through for. So another nice weekend in front of me. Take care folks xx

Skint_but_Optimistic

Sounds like a lovely weekend ahead. Its nice your pay wasnt late, my child support is late due to easter and my bills have had to be paid early, cue borrowing off DH!!

I clash madly with DD2. DD1 and I are similiar beasts. I will probably be driven to fisticuffs with DS, hes a crackerjack!

please-let-me-be-lucky

millionaire_in_training wrote: »

Evening folks. Went back to slimming club after 3 weeks and gained a whopping 8lbs !!!!!! that's like I ate a baby :eek:.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't laugh but that tickled me . Seriously though, sorry to hear of your gain. I know what you mean about comfort eating, I was absolutely awful yesterday. After 10 weeks on the straight and narrow I unleashed the beast and even had a McDonalds!! :eek: It's a real eye opener how fast things can slide due to stress. I'm back on it again today though. Race you to the 2 stone off by June?

Hope your DS behaves himself today also Xx

millionaire_in_training

You're on PLMBL ( she says hiding the easter egg incase the webcam comes on ) I'll race you. I need to get this under control again. I cannot shake this virus and am knackered and am comfort eating. Not ill as such but defo not sparking on all cylinders.

SBO my DD just refuses to argue with me. She just stands and lets me rant then walks away when I run out of steam. DS has not learnt that trick yet :rotfl:

I'm watching a programme about kids with tourettes. How devastating it is for them. I have laughed in the past about tourettes but I never will again. Such a wee shame.

Off for 4 days except for wee cleaning job on Saturday . So happy. So am I going to relax? Nah !! I've started stripping the kitchen :eek:. I absolutely hated the paper that was in it as soon as it went up and I can stand it no more. I want walls and no paper so I will strip it with DD and we will see what state the walls are in. If it needs lined then we will sort it out and I want a sunny yellow to cheer the room right up. I got some match pots tonight so I will decide tomorrow. DD has been warned that it has to be done over the weekend and had better not be sitting for weeks. I'll help her and we'll rope DS in as well ( hmm maybe not)

So I am going to look for nice sunny, cheap accessories

millionaire_in_training

Hi folks. Hope you are all having a nice wee 4 days off.

DD and I started stripping the kitchen today. I am seriously doubting that we will get it done over the weekend as quite a bit to do. Never mind it'll look much better when it is done. I have tidied out and cleaned a couple of cupboards and got rid of any out of date food from them. My ingredients cupboard looks awesome, I could sit and just look at it :rotfl:.

A couple of my cousins are heading out tonight to see a band and have invited me along. I am in 2 minds.

millionaire_in_training

Hi folks. Hope you are all having a nice wee 4 days off.

DD and I started stripping the kitchen today. I am seriously doubting that we will get it done over the weekend as quite a bit to do. Never mind it'll look much better when it is done. I have tidied out and cleaned a couple of cupboards and got rid of any out of date food from them. My ingredients cupboard looks awesome, I could sit and just look at it :rotfl:.

A couple of my cousins are heading out tonight to see a band and have invited me along. I am in 2 minds. My party is tomorrow night and not tonight as I thought so I could go and take car so it doesn't cost much OR I could stay home. Hmm put like that I really should get my backside in gear and make the effort :cool:,

I bought a cute bunting for my kitchen, 2 herb buckets and 6 cushions for my chairs. I need a pic but want one of the 3 of us so I could use that. I could buy yellow t-shirts for us all and we'll match the kitchen :rotfl:. So I best go get a shower and sort myself out. Take care xx

millionaire_in_training

Afternoon folks. Well it turned out that the band is tonight as well so I didn't go out after all last night. Am going out tonight though and really looking forward to it. Shouldn't be too expensive either so that's a big plus. DD will run us in and come back for us and it is a bowling club so cheap drink .

The cleaning woman we work for has asked us to clean both houses next week and paid us today for all the work so I paid £87.50 straight off of Tesco cc. happy face but also sad face as it would be lovely to just blow it for once. In saying that if I wasn't using the money for debt then I wouldn't even be there so I better just stick with .

Things are getting very exciting money wise for me. I will be in the 9's at some point in next week or so :eek:. That just seems like nothing in comparison to my starting point. Also by June Tesco will be gone and so will my loan . By October RBS will be gone and then I will just have 2 cc's and I just find that all rather amazing to be honest. I just hope I can keep up with this rate Life is pretty good just now and I hope it continues to be so. Now if only I could get £200k in lottery tonight and I could buy the lovely wee semi detached house I have fallen in love with. I drove past it today and DS said 'aww Mum not again' :rotfl:. Well we have got to have dreams and aspirations or there is just no point is there !!

Am away to try and do something with myself for tonight. Catch you later xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Hope you have a fab night Xx

millionaire_in_training

I had a great night.Not too much to drink so I am feeling fine today. My friend's Grandson was with us and he is only 5 and totally adorable. They are just so full of life at that age. I have 2 sloth teenagers in my house :rotfl:. I don't see this particular friend that often as she moved to the East coast but we are in touch on phone every couple of days and we get on really well. It was a really cheap night as well as I only spent about £15. DD took us in and collected us so no taxi costs.

She also half stripped the kitchen whilst we were out. She wants money to go out tonight and I told her I would give her some so long as the kitchen was stripped :cool:. We all get what we want that way . Looks like kitchen needs lined before I can paint it which is a total pain in the backside. I am really really fighting the urge to go and get the money and just replace it to be honest as I am desperate. I reckon for a new bathroom and kitchen I would be about £8k and it would cost me about £70 per month onto my mortgage so it is really really tempting.If I then took that off of my snowball it would mean 3 extra months for repaying my debt but that is nothing and I would have a new kitchen.

I could either do it that way or renew my loan when it finishes in June and pay it off over 5 years again. Arrgghh my head is going to explode thinking about it as you have no idea how much I bloody hate my kitchen and I get so so angry that people who have never done any work EVER in their lives, who have never EVER paid their own rent or council tax have got nicer bloody kitchens than me. My friends daughter has never worked and 1 child is with my friend and her other child is with her after 6 months of being in care. She was doing drugs but hey ho she has just had a new kitchen and bathroom fitted all free gratis courtesy of the British tax payer i.e bloody me!!!! Oh I feel better now :rotfl:. It makes me angry. I do understand that people are in circumstances whereby they can't work ( my Mum couldn't work due to ill health from her early 40's) but many many people could easily work and choose not to and that is what rips my knitting :mad:.

So decisions to be made and I am sure I will make the right one for us. I'll have a chat with the kids and see what they want to do and maybe get a couple of quotes.

TBH I am talking through a hole in my head as I really need heating and gutters first so it's probably never going to happen. Really really getting me down. I'm a wee bit in 'poor me' mode just now and need to shake myself out of it. I look around me at all the people I know and they appear to have it all. Nice homes, lovely husbands, good lifestyles etc etc and her am I. Sh*tty house, in a sh*tty area, an ex who is a blight on this earth, and debt debt and more debt and I cannot work any harder than I am to get myself out of it. I reckon I should go back to bed and get up again in a better frame of mind. But instead I will get dressed and head to Morrisons as my Brother and his Wife are coming for dinner and I need some things. Have a lovely day everyone xx

millionaire_in_training

Just looked at my snowball and I am just 1 wee page away from being debt free so I am just going to stop moaning and get my head down and get on with it *sigh*