Enjoying the Sunshine whilst Saving for the Rainy Day

jwil

Great news about your Dad, hope you get similar results for your Mum and Sister. What a horrible time!

slm6002

As others have said its great news about your dad and fingers crossed for your mum and sister. You will get to the 10k soon - we all have our ups and downs when under stress

debtfreewannabe321

Hello!

Test results for mum came back ok, they have given her some tablets (can't remember what for, nothing serious though) and hope that will do the trick. If not then more tests, but all is looking good there. My sister is still suffering with her head but she's hoping it's all to do with her fibromalgyia rather than anything more serious. Dad will be operated on next week (he gets the day next Monday and has to be ready to go in short notice from Monday onwards I think). My shoulder is still in agony from the tendonitis I had weeks ago too but i've just sort of forgotten about me in the midst of it all....have been sleeping so badly though because every time I roll on to it I wake up in pain!


Anyway the health updates are out of the way! Money wise i'm still struggling, not least because every single child needs something paying for or something new for school (last week alone....2 school trips sprung on me that had to be paid by Friday- £35. New school trainers for ds1- £25, DD started Rainbows and I need to pay termly....you get the drift!!!!!)

I also am desperately wanting to go and buy some new fencing for our garden. We can still see through the bamboo that the neighbours put up and their son is constantly at the fence ....I am not cruel enough to stop my kids talking to hers but I heard her make a comment the other day and I assumed from it that she is logging every conversation taking place between them :eek: ( I kid you not) so I think a thicker fence and less visual contact would just be best. They could still talk but I don't think they will bother so much. Talking of them since the sun has been out they've been loud and when I say LOUD I mean just that. Out in the garden (as are we when we can) but shouting so loudly that we can't even enjoy sitting out there. They tipped their paddling pool (huge 6ft one) out and flooded my garden yesterday (tipped it out straight at the fence as they thought we were all out) DH had left his kit on the patio for work today and it was soaked. I couldn't get to it to move it quick enough I couldn't have lifted it anyway though as it weighs a tonne but I swept what i could back under the fence :mad: they were not bothered in the slightest. I hate them. Honestly I don't know of anyone else that has bugged me this much in a very long time!

My homestart visits are going ok, i'm not sure i'm being much help to be honest. She has her home under control and the areas where I maybe could help she's not open to suggestion so it's hard, but I guess that's part and parcel of doing it.

Weather is fab at the mo, who's enjoying it?? I certainly am :cool: and my washing is drying super quick and for the first time in ages I can see the bottom of my washing basket :T

Anyway i'm going to pop off now and hang the wash out that has just finished and see if I can catch up with some of you

Skint_but_Optimistic

Your neighbour is a rank old trout.

The weather is amazing. Hope thats not "Summer" finished when it breaks on Wednesday!

grannyx2

^^^ :rotfl: couldn't have put it better myself

Glad to hear family aren't as worryingly poorly as you imagined. Hope all goes well with dad next week.

Look after you

Granny x

slm6002

Good news about family's health issues but don't forget to get back to the drs yourself and see if there is anything they can do for your shoulder. You wont be any help if your poorly too (sorry sound like my mother lol). Long may this lovely weather continue. Hopefully nasty neighbors will go away on hols and leave you to have a quiet time in the garden. My kids have just befriended the girl next door. Was hoping they wouldn't as know we will never get rid of her out of the garden now. Oh well keeps them amused maybe?

please-let-me-be-lucky

Skint_but_Optimistic wrote: »

Your neighbour is a rank old trout!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Love it!! So true too Xx

JustAboutThere

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

They tipped their paddling pool (huge 6ft one) out and flooded my garden yesterday (tipped it out straight at the fence as they thought we were all out) DH had left his kit on the patio for work today and it was soaked. I couldn't get to it to move it quick enough I couldn't have lifted it anyway though as it weighs a tonne but I swept what i could back under the fence :mad: they were not bothered in the slightest.

I hope you logged this incident.

Take care.

debtfreewannabe321

Couldn't have put it better myself Skint :rotfl: She happened to bump into me 3 times today (well not literally I'd be locked up by now if that had happened :rotfl::rotfl:) First time I looked the other way, just so happened there was a window i was walking past and could see her looking at me with daggers and her nose in the air. Oh dear. Whatever. I was in my garden reading a book when she came home to her hubby waiting outside and I could hear her saying "you'll never guess who was looking at me earlier, yeh 'er again, i've had enuf" (what a liar huh) Second time, I was going to the shops and she was walking out of the road with her dog (more on that poor thing later) and she stood in the middle of the road to stop me going around her safely, sigh. Just ignored her and waited she couldn't stay there forever could she! Third time happened to be after I'd finished the shop and she was walking back into the street (grr was hoping to avoid her) she blatantly stood at the end of the road until i'd gone in the garden :rotfl: She is SUCH a child I don't know whether to scream, laugh or put her on the naughty step! I just hung out the washing and could hear her from our garden ....she was at someone else's house opposite and at least 100m away and I could hear everything she was shouting/saying. Is there NO escaping her !

Back to the dog. I might have mentioned it had some sort of bandage / cast on it's leg well it's off now but the dog won't use it's leg and hops around on 3 instead?! I feel so so sorry for it but have had my hands tied and just have to sit by watching it. It's clearly in pain as everytime the poorly foot hits the floor you can hear it wince I really despise that woman next door more than anyone i've ever known. EVER. grr.

I've been shopping today and spend £59. No meat no dinners all veg, salad, fruit and cupboard & fridge items :eek: My DS1 must be having a growth spurt as he just cleans my cupboards and fridges out in days !!! He had his GCSE yesterday and said it went ok, he has the other part to it next month so I hope that one goes well too then that's him done until next summer. I think I was more worried about it than he was!

My (nice) neighbour is a cleaner with a company that work on the army camp, she's given me an application and i'm going to sound like a right snob now but I filled it out and then nearly cried I just thought, i've done 3 years of uni and struggled the entire time I was there to get a good grade and then all for this....a cleaning job where all you have to do is remember your name and which block you should be scrubbing Beggars shouldn't be choosers and if I want money I should work for it, I just hate cleaning and really can't motivate myself to give it back to her. She'll ask for it later so I need to either give it to her or think of a good excuse for having filled it out and now not wanting to do it. I want to save but I just feel I can do better, just wish my self esteem was a little better and I believed in myself more, maybe then I might attract something better. Hmmmmm.

Oh and I need to think up several recipes before tomorrow as i've left my HS healthy eating thing to the last minute so if anyone can think of any good meals where beans (assuming it's baked beans) are the main meal or tuna (can only think of tuna, pasta, sweetcorn ) then please help Also need to think of a main meal consisting of tinned food (as most food banks give out tinned/dried food stuff to families) .......done all the simple ones and now super stuck on these!

Hope everyone is well, I got sidetracked yesterday and didn't get to catch up with you all xx

debtfreewannabe321

JustAboutThere wrote: »

I hope you logged this incident.

Take care.

I took pictures. I feel awful doing this but they have made me out to be some sort of monster so I thought to myself that I need to do this even if it comes to just defending myself when she accuses me of something else!