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Time to be completely honest

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  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    Well done Sea on not having a fag ..great news!!!
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Firstly, glad you have had another good day.

    Secondly, big big congrats on being smoke free for three days.

    Thirdly, post in your diary as much as you need. non-dfw things are just as important as dfw things. If other stuff in life makes you feel good or feel down, then it will have a knock on effect to the money side of things, so all is related really.

    Have a good week, and if you don't ask about the MA cost you won't get. you never know!
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
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  • SarahNeedle1872
    SarahNeedle1872 Posts: 6,166 Forumite
    Sea78 wrote: »

    ps - editing - btw not had a fag for 3 days and it's soooo hard but I'm gonna do it!!
    Well done Sea, keep it up!

    sarah x
    'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde
  • Sea78
    Sea78 Posts: 6,185 Forumite
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    Hi all,

    Been good spending wise today - only £1.25 on lunch. Did use the tumble drier tonight, but am running out of clothes as was away this weekend so no washing done and it was pouring down before! Will make up for it tomorrow though :)

    feeling a little down at the mo, not sure why. My anti-d's are the same, but have changed fro a liquid to a pill, so that could be it, or could just be having a bit of a low. Shame as was feeling so fab last week :)

    Need to get selling on Ebay again i think, but have run out of things to sell now really. Need to work out some ways of generating some extra cash, especially now the exam marking has gone.

    I have been thinking about the MA - will ask school and if they are able to pay a decent amount, I think it might be worth going for, but then I suddenly feel guilty that I can't afford to go on a family trip to centre parcs witht he rest of the family that the kids would love, but magically can afford to pay towards doing an MA module? So I will have to carefully look at figures really and see if there is any way I can rasie the extra money. I do have a little bit of jewellery I could sell, but I doubt it'd raise much money. Unfortunately I threw my wedding dress out as it was beyond cleaning and have sold pretty much everything people want! Must get those photos of the mower though. The money for the MA could go off paying debt anyway. oh I don't know. Bloody debt. Might sell a couple of OH's DVDs - he never watches them anyway!

    Need to be creative and inventive, but that part of my brain is switched off today! :)

    I hope everyone is having a good evening

    Sea xxxx
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  • Sea78
    Sea78 Posts: 6,185 Forumite
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    Hi all :hello:

    Hope evreyone is having a good day - very grey here - and it keeps raining! We're off to the library later - Kipper is coming to visit! :) Also going to take in the bags of stuff for the charity shop to get rid (nothing saleable really).

    feeling a little better but still a bit down today, still don't know why so am hoping that getting stuff done will help.

    Been trying to do flylady stuff too as that helped last week.

    Got my SW class tonight. Fingers crossed - I'd like to get my half stone sticker.

    Need to go cook lunch for the kids now - we've been dancing to cbeebies songs :D

    Got another £100 transferred from Paypal so will transfer that into my b-card savings - will have a look and see how much I've got in a min :)

    Sea xxx
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Hi sea! I love Kipper (the dog with the slipper.....kipper, kipper the do-oh-og) :D

    Good luck with the weightloss, come back and let us know how you got on. I'm off to make lunch too - the weightloss thread has made me hungry hahaha!
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
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  • Sea78
    Sea78 Posts: 6,185 Forumite
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    Hi

    Right, after my wobbly days, I feel so much better for everyone's hugs on my thread yesterday :) The kids loved the library time with Kipper and we got to make hedgehogs and ladybirds too.

    I think I need to be more disciplined with stuff at the moment in order to feel more in control and pull myself out of this low. So I'm going to do a few things I've been procrastinating about for ages!

    *I intend to go/contact the gym tonight to ask about the money and claim I've just noticed they've not been taking the money by DD every month. I could leave it but it would play on my mind and I know I'll have to pay it eventually! :)

    *I am going to set the timer and go do something productive in the house in about 5 mins - for 15 mins :)
    *I'm going to go and get some side sucking fish to help me with the green fish tank that was making me smile before it went all green and murky. Will pick DD up first though as she'll love that.
    *Have to go to OH's docs to get prescription (why he can't go to the drs near us is beyond me).
    *Do something for me tonight - maybe bath but I have marking, so if that's all done at a reasonable hour, I'll be able to reward myself! :)

    Realised how much I have been using this diary as a motivational tool, and how much it's been helping me get things sorted in my head too. So sorry - but I think the lists are back, as are more regular postings on my diary! I am trying to ensure that I post more on other threads as well though, as I know some are not so keen on diaries (but mind you, they won't be reading this anyway lol).

    Hope all are having a fab day. Thank you sooooo much to all those who wrote kind things to me yesterday- really helped, a lot more than you realise.

    Sea xxxx
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  • Lucy1982_2
    Lucy1982_2 Posts: 4,611 Forumite
    Well Done Sea!

    Sounds like you are feeling much more postive. I've started listing things as well, gets it all ordered and lovely. Try to make time for yourself. I intend to have a home spa tonight. Using all the products I've bought and hardly use!! Should be able to get a good few uses out of it all.

    Good luck with the Gym, let us know how you get on. I am a sufferer of a green fish tank (not nice) really need to give it a good clean out, might do it tonight if I can be bothered!

    Keep smiling x
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  • Shineyhappy
    Shineyhappy Posts: 1,931 Forumite
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    Hi Sea!

    I am so glad you feel a lot more positive today. We all have bad days I know, but it really sucks to hear other people do to and all you want to do is give them a big hug and all you do is a virtual one, but then virtual is better than nothing I guess!

    Still right now I am am on a quiet beach, sipping cocktails eating a huge slice of carrot and walnut cake, well virtually anyway! Not sitting at my desk trying to look life I havent been surfing the internet all day.

    I too have a long hot soak in the tub as a reward for something and sometimes I treat myself to a candle or two and a cold glass of something and a good book..... bliss
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  • Sea78
    Sea78 Posts: 6,185 Forumite
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    Hi Sea!

    Still right now I am am on a quiet beach, sipping cocktails eating a huge slice of carrot and walnut cake, well virtually anyway! Not sitting at my desk trying to look life I havent been surfing the internet all day.
    /QUOTE]

    :T :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    I've just done a quick 15 mins blitz on the kitchen to try to make it look like I've not spent my time on here all afternoon too :D

    Sea xxx
    CCCS DMP:Feb 07
    Total:£37,016.47 now £0 DEBT FREE FEB 14

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