Missy and Roo's living life to the full diary

missymoo81

Right, I've decided. I need to shake up my life a bit. I spend so much of my time sitting on my backside, when my house needs cleaning and money needs saving, debts need paying and assignments need writing..... So my new year will start tomorrow.... I really need to start putting my best foot forward, and not wait for new year to start my resolutions, the time is now! And IF I happen to fall off the wagon in the next 29 days, I will be able to start afresh on the first of January, with the knowledge of what I did wrong and how to rectify it and not to make the same mistakes again

The things I want to change.

I want to look better and therefore feel better
I want a tidy house
I want to have savings stashed for my teacher training
I want to be out of my OD and not have anything on my CC
I want to spend quality time with OH
I want to spend quality time with Roo and the new baby when it arrives
I want an uncluttered, clean house
i want to spend more time on my assignments and get the grades I know I can achieve.

So i need to start the steps to have all of these things, as I went out for a wintery walk this morning with baby Roo I started to think of ways of achieving my goals.

A routine i think is the most important thing thing I can put into practice, and then all of these things should be easy to slot in. But I need a routine I can stick too, not one of my usual, lets try and do a million things in a day.

Roo needs smore of a structure then hopefully I can fit a routine around him. I need to do sme sort of cleaning every day, so that by the end of the week my whole house would have had a good clean. I'm going to have a good look at flylady and see what I can do every day.

I need to spend just a little bit of time every day making myself look half decent instead of looking like a great big mess every day, it shouldn't take long, I just neglect myself and I know I shouldnt. I used to make such an effort.

I need to start saving money and selling things on ebay asap. My plan to save £5 a day is to start making everything from scratch food wise, and the money I save on the shopping, I will save. It doesn't sound like it will amount to much, but it really does, as we have bags and bags of bread flour, thats a saving of nearly £5 a week, changing brands, instead of tesco brown rice, buying tesco value white rice which is a quarter of the price. I'm hoping I can save atleast £50 a month this way. I want to pay off my OD and CC first before I start saving.

I'm thinking if I have more of a routine then the evenings can actually be spent with OH without spending all evening, washing or cooking dinner.

I need to allocate some hours in the evening to my assignments and to clearing up after roo. So that my afternoons can be spent with roo.

hmm just been out for another walk, as roo wouldnt sleep and have been thinking (always dangerous!) I would probably be better to start with with a sort of time table, that can factor in off chance things too, so that I don't fall down with things if I want to go out etc.

Right time to come up with a plan, bear with me! In fact might start a new thread....

missymoo81

right routine at the moment:

wake up anything from 5.30-6.45. make a cup of tea and me and roo will sit in bed and watch tv til
8.45/9ish, when I'll sling any old clothes on, get roo dressed and go down and make me and roo breakfast.

9-9.30ish clear up a couple of bits in the kitchen, maybe put a washload in.

after that I just sort of sit in the lounge playing with Roo adn watching tv, talking to OH on the internet etc until about

10.30 put roo to bed for an hour

Ill maybe make the bed, hang up the washing, think of what to make for lunch, sit down and have a coffee, come on here.

11.30-12.30 play with roo

12.30 make roo lunch and have some myself.

1.00 tidy up lunch things then spend some time playing with roo

2.30ish go for a walk

3.30 try and calm down a very tired roo who wont go to sleep, try in vain to make something for dinner, try and play with roo but hes usually so tired and grumpy hes screaming at this point.

4.30 make roo dinner and me

5.00 feed roo,

5.30 bath roo

6.00 give roo his milk

6.30-7ish free for the evening

which is obviously a lot of time but god knows what I do in this time, it just seems to disappear. It doesnt help that i dont like to sit downstairs on my own, I tend to go upstairs to bed and sit on the internet watching tv, in bed as its cozy and warm, and obviously I fall asleep stupid early:o:mad:.

So that is my day..... god I spend a lot of time sitting around doing nothing! Well running around after roo, that needs to change, god I'm ashamed of myself for not really achieving anything in a day:o!! I do have odd days where I do loads to make up for my laziness, and clean like a mad thing (usually when someone is coming round )

Well im going to sit an analyise my 'free time' and see where i can start to slot in all the things I need to. Any ideas and thoughts are very welcome.

missymoo81

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Choc-addict

Lots of thinking being done by you Missy! Hope you feel a lot clearer in your head of where you want to be and go. I think organisation is key to life....I just haven't quite got it yet!! :rotfl: