MIT's penultimate diary

millionaire_in_training

SBO good idea. I have a few pennies saved and also 50p's in a terramundi but I am saving them until December as it's DS's 16th birthday then and I want to treat him to a meal out or something and December is always a tight month. I reckon I have about £40 so far.

Well today has been a write off for me as my IBS has been horrific. I've been eating healthily and exercising so I have no reason to be ill but OMG I have been. I got about 3 hours sleep last night and although I managed to stay in work it was awful and I couldn't wait to get home. I went straight to bed when I came in at 5pm and am just about feeling a bit better now. I phoned for my blood results today but they are not back yet so I am no further forward. Anyway I'm sure I'll be fine tomorrow. Well I hope I am as I have been bloody miserable today. Never mind it is always good for the diet as I am so seedy and in so much pain I can hardly eat anything . There's always a positive !!

Spends wise I have been not too bad. Spent £23 on a gift for my best friends birthday tomorrow, £1 on a raffle ticket, £5 for flowers for a colleagues 50th birthday and £5 bonus ball in work. Hopefully my only other spend this week will be DD's slimming club money as I have promised to pay it leading up to her holiday to encourage her to lose a few pounds before she heads off to Florida for 3 weeks. Lucky girl

I watched the hunger games on netflix for free as I have access to my brother's account and it was an excellent film. I am just going to settle down now and try and get a good night's sleep and hopefully be back to normal in the morning

kittycatfan

Hi mit sorry to hear youve been ill with ibs , are the blood tests checking for celiacs or anything like that as most people think they have ibs but its really the fact they cant eat gluten or dairy ?

princesst84

Hope you are feeling better today x

Skint_but_Optimistic

Bless you hope you are feeling a bit better now. x

millionaire_in_training

Back to normal today . Been very very careful with what I ate though and doing okay. Bloods were for coeliac disease and results not back yet. Never mind. No moaning today as I am fine .

Went to pics with 2 friends tonight. Was only £3 and a nice wee night out. Saw the Big Wedding which was okay but nothing to write home about. No other spends today so hopefully I am getting back into money saving. I even did a menu this week and am sort of sticking to it. I have given myself £250 for grocery shopping this month and I am going to try really hard to stick to it.

Am introducing DD to quidco tonight as she is stepping into the adult world and getting her own phone contract :eek:. Scary stuff . I also phoned up and got her a card on my CC for heading to Florida. She will pay off anything she spends and I have told her she has a £500 limit. She will not use it unless she has an emergency or there is an absolute, cannot live without purchase she needs :rotfl:. I will feel much better knowing she has a safety net since she is on the other side of the world.

The other £300 from CSA is in my account now so all is well in finance world for a wee while

Skint_but_Optimistic

Well thats good news, am hoping mine comes in tomorrow!

millionaire_in_training

Fingers crossed for you SBO. My first actual payment is to be paid by ex on 16th June and should then be £51 per week but I reckon I have no chance. They'll probably need to go for a wage arrestment. We'll see .

Today's spends are £2.40 on baked potato, £1.98 on strawberries, £4.95 on slimming world for DD as I took out a 12 week plan and £3.40 for SW bars. Not too bad but could still be better. I'm working on it. So I got 5lbs off of the 7 I put on last week . Have been peeing all week so I reckon loads of it was fluid ( apologies for TMI :rotfl:) Another 2.5lbs to get back to my lowest. I want to lose about 9lbs over next 3 weeks so I am under the next stone and then try and get another half stone off whist DD is in America on hols. Well that's the plan anyway :cool:

Paid a wee extra £24 off of tesco but a long way to go to reach my monthly target. I have slipped back by a month on my snowball and I don't want to get any worse than that because by hook or by crook I want to get debt free next year xxx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Wow well done! 5lbs is 5lbs, who cares if it's wee or fat

Skint_but_Optimistic

Lol unless you are now a dried up husk, of course!

debt free is where we need to be.

That rhymes!!

millionaire_in_training

You're a poet, and you didnt know it ( that rhymes too :rotfl:)

I feel like a dried up old husk. I am going to be 48 :eek::eek::eek: in 12 days. How the F did that happen? I'm sure I'm only about 26 :mad:.

I went to ASDA tonight and accidentally spent £79.93 :eek:. This is where all my money goes. I only have £102 in my budget left for food until 30th June :rotfl:. Hmmm that might be tricky. BUT I will do my best. I have no digs coming in this month from DD as I told her not to pay them due to going on her hols.

Am on strike tomorrow but the sun is shining and I am happy to lose a day's pay to just get time and enjoy it,

DS started his new school today and he loved it. Long may it last.

I think I have become too moneysaving for my own good. Last night I told DD to put on the potatoes for the dinner. It was a wee pack of jersey royals and I said to her just to wash them and put the whole pack on for us. When I got home she had 2 large pots of potatoes on and had used a whole bag of maris piper potatoes. It was only for the 2 of us :eek:. After having a blue fit at her for her stupidity I put them to the side as they were only par boiled. Tonight when we came in I made DD peel them and then I dry roasted them anything except for toss them out . Tasted nice though :rotfl:. I think my kids think I am nuts :cool: