woah... are those MY finances??

Fmess

Glad you had a great first day

I love pedometers! Mine fell off a few months ago and am yet to find a replacement that I like as much as my old one (which is no longer being made ) I need to do something to lose weight but have no motivation, apart from self loathing atm!

How far is your walk? I think it roughly equates to 1000 steps per 10 minutes walking.

I think a little bit of socialising is a good thing, although I often prefer to stay home (I'm such a loser ) I've signed up to the work Xmas party, it only costs £5 and is a good laugh, plus you never know when a few contacts in other depts will come in handy!

scubaangel

Glad day 1 went well.

The pedometer sounds like a good idea and great that your workplace is encouraging your new healthier attitude from the start - even if they don't know its the start of it.

stewby

hey guys.

Hope you are both keeping well. I actually flaked out shortly after posting. My job is so good that I actually got a good nights sleep for the first time in about 11 months. Nine and a half hours!!
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Anyways, today was SFD #2. I also took my lunch to work.


I had to drive today as I had a course about 12 miles away so I didn't walk as far today. Yesterday was over 9811 steps but today is only 6632. However, I did sit on my behind for three and a half hours in a training session. The walk is about 30 minutes, roughly a mile and a half so pretty far after working for 12 hours.


I can't believe you have not heard anything about your jobs scubaangel. Surely, even if you haven't got them, it is good manners to let you know either way??


Yeah fmess... I have decided to try and be more socially "out there" and try to make friends. Hopefully, things will keep going great and the xmas party will be brilliant. Can't believe I agreed to it on my first day before I have really met everyone.
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clippy_girl

hello, really pleased to hear your new job is going so well very good news on the sleeping as well.

we had a pedometer challenge at work a few years back, we got very competitive and used to do lunch time stair walks to increase our depts total! unfortunately my pedometer drowned itself in the toilet

i went to new zealand in march for 5 weeks for a holiday with a friend. we did an organised tour of both islands and it was fab (hence my debt )

Fmess

Evening,

Thirty minutes is good exercise, well done I didn't walk the dogs today as it rained so much and walking in the rain is no fun. Now I feel guilty

stewby if you don't mind my asking, what's your job? I'm dead impressed you walk home after working 12 hours!

Well done on your 2nd SFD. I nearly had a SFD but then the wheelie bin cleaning man came to the door for the annual payment I'm so upset also that means £26.40 of my food budget gone

I'm trying to think if ideas to make money, any suggestions? My OH had loads of ideas but I morally object to most if them!

scubaangel

Sadly it seems the norm now to just not bother to get in touch at all. But I remain hopeful over the casual one. In the mean time am still looking for other jobs but not alot about that looks appealing.

I'm now feeling quite bad too - its a week since I last went for a run and I put it off today because of the rain too!

Mine was another SFD but then as I haven't set foot out of the front door it might have something to do with it.

Fmess

scubaangel I thought I was safe when I walked in from work, having had a SFD. But I celebrated too early and the wheelie bin man came to the door

I must have a SFD tomorrow!

scubaangel

I get away with these things as Dad pays the household expenses for his house - I merely reside here at the moment

Then again if my Nana isn't out of hospital soon I'm going to be bankrupt from the parking charges £2 for up to 4 hours, but the ward visiting is only an hour long and you have to put the car reg in so you can't even swop tickets around if you don't use it.

stewby

Please don't judge (cause there's enough of it from the papers) but I'm a nurse. I have been qualified since 2006 but have been caring since I was 18 (so 11 years now. wow). I came into the career as I love people and I get that wonderful sense of achievement from caring (either helping people cope with dying or helping people get home after a period of illness). So I am basically on my feet for 11 hours (I get two 30 minute breaks where I can sit down).


I am quite pleased cause not only did I not spend anything, my OH even put £1.00 into the "holiday fund" pot and 60p into the "camperbug" bankie. I was so proud which I know sounds daft.


I am still in love with that house and I really don't know what to do. I know that I can't afford it but the house is just amazing. It is my dream house and if it was all modernised, it would be 100s of 1000s out of our price range. I am thinking about going for a viewing with my dad and my OH and trying to see if it is feasible before approaching the mortgage people to see what I can do. I have never felt like this about a house before.


aw scubaangel. I hope your nana gets well soon. hopefully you will get a job soon and then you can tell her all about it.
hugs.

fmess... you might have to wash your own wheelie bin from now on. that will help you save some extra pennies.


In all seriousness, I am currently doing surveys. (I had signed up to loads of sites but found crowdology is the only one that doesn't chuck me out after a few questions). I have also entered a few competitions and stuff but only for things that I want so holidays and vouchers and stuff. I don't think it would be fair to enter competitions just to sell stuff on or anything. But that is just my opinion.
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Wow... pretty busy night. Hope you guys have a good day tomorrow. Hopefully, I will be reporting sfd #3.

scubaangel

Alot of my friends from school and college went in to nursing, they all say the same, bloomin hard work but rewarding and to ignore the media - then again I've had to say the same to them regarding the military (theyre not all baby killing nutters with an alcohol problem, or Prince Harry).

No point me getting a job to talk to Nana about, she'll just tell me off for leaving the last one or dumping the boyfriend I was with 6 years ago, she still thinks he was the best thing since sliced bread. Still the staff on her ward are lovely, and the physio working with the lady in the bed opposite makes the cost of parking worthwhile just for when he's bending down helping her stand up.

Fmess, I'd say surveys are good too although some take an age to get you to the redemption threshold. But I tend to look at it as a long term thing, and most months will cash out with one or two of them. I do swagbucks and Instagc too, which have surveys, and offers you can complete swagbucks you can cash out to paypal or amazon (there are others but they're the ones I use), insta I go for amazon vouchers.