Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Thanks everyone - it was such a relief given my family history

MWCx

muddywhitechicken

Personal
* enjoy life
* get to and maintain goal weight
* be nicer to my dad/stop being annoyed with him for no reason other than he's with that woman

Money
* seek financial advice so that I can retire at 55 if I want to
* make a will
* reduce the mortgage to the current value of the S&S ISA taken out to repay it
* review and increase our regular charity donations and/or donate to new charities - Mr MWC spent a lot of time at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and is keen to make a regular donation to SKFF

Work
* be more engaged (I coasted in 2015 )
* co-author a book chapter
* do not allow myself to be dragged down by negative colleagues

Home
* shine my sink
* use our cookbooks - cook 52 new recipes in 2016
* make cheese (never got round to it in 2015)
* no new furniture/home furnishings/kitchen to be bought until we are mortgage-free (I didn't give in to the temptations of the Next home directory!)
* use CP vouchers/TCB to buy paint and freshen up a few rooms

muddywhitechicken

Healthy habits formed in 2015 (albeit sporadic in December): drinking 1L+ water on workdays, body brushing, washing face before bed, walking, smaller portions

Need to try harder in 2016: drinking 1L+ water on non-workdays, looking after my hands (rubber gloves/using hand cream)

New for 2016: earlier to bed, brain training, ???

muddywhitechicken

Lovely Mr MWC is busy batch cooking so I don't starve whilst he's away for 10 days in January :kisses3:

I've done a post-Christmas wine stock-take:

Red = 19
White = 6
Rose = 1
Dessert = 3
Port = 1
Fizz = 6

Total = 36 bottles (I think that is -10 bottles since the pre-Christmas stock-take)

Plans for the rest of the day:

- go for a walk
- pop to the supermarket for a few bits & pieces
- write thank you notes
- potter round the house decluttering as I go

Eggs IN 6
Eggs OUT 0

Karmacat

Those are some great goals, MWC! I actually made cheese once, when the local shop had an offer on 4 pints of milk but its almost cows milk thats available, and it doesn't agree with me.

Lots of bottles there, that could be very jolly

Skinnylatte

What a fab diary, new subscriber

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

:rotfl: BUT that was €12.90 of your own money, therefore, we win!!!

You do indeed :rotfl:.

Glad you got the all clear :T.

Happy New Year to you both :kisses3:.

Great goals there :T.

mortgage_girl

Fantastic news on being given the all clear MWC. :T

Happy New Year!

MGx

muddywhitechicken

We visited my great aunt today

She was on good form, pleased with all her presents (particularly the bottle of lambrini :rotfl:) and is settling into the nursing home well :T We popped along to her bungalow to pick up some clothes/personal belongings and it was very depressing to see how little she has

Any tips on where to buy XS/size 8 petite clothes for a soon-to-be 103 year old please?

HM 10-bean & vegetable chilli, brown rice, 1 tbsp sour cream and 1/2 avocado for dinner - it was delicious, I hope my guts agree!

Eggs IN 3 (before we left at 09:15, I've not been out since we got home at 17:45)
Eggs OUT 4 (egg mayo & watercress sandwiches for lunch)

greent

Glad to hear great aunt is settling in well Is there anything suitable in M&S for her? - they go down to a 6. I know my mum bought her late m-I-l things from there last year (she was in her 90s and weighed 6 1/2 stone, so she must've been a tiny size)
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