Building The Burrow!

Pearla*Merle

So, new list of things to get done... at some point...

• Open Etsy shop!
• Get hair cut (desperate now!).
• Plant chilli seeds, and bulbs/seeds after January.
• Clean up balcony.
• Clean innards of washing machine more thoroughly.
• Update store cupboard spreadsheet.
• Have another major declutter session - be flipping ruthless!
• Switch house insurance.
• Cull old credit cards & reapply for new 0%.
• Post everything what needs posting/catch up with friends!
• Meter readings, must get back into habit.
• Buy art fund pass (birthday gift) - but plan when so can make most of it.
• Ponder what to get parents next year (both have big birthdays).
• Organise stash of gifts, work out birthdays/handmade Christmas bits for next year.
• Actually get out to knitting group which has been on my radar for a year!
• As above, but with a some other social/creative groups.
• Read a good portion of my Still To Read books that are languishing on the shelves.
• Plan some potential Adventure Days.
• Make the house a bit more homely.
• Finish inputting Life Folder bits into Bullet Journal (which is working out really well btw!)
• Write up Budgets for next year, start new Spending Diary.
• Write up list of projected expenses next year.
• Plug any potential buys into lovesales/camelcamelcamel for price drop alerts.

PS. cloves + clementine smells divine!

jeanangeo

Don't forget "rest and enjoy the holidays"

apple_muncher

Awesome list! I usually find that my really important lists end up being the exact list of things I don't do, as other things take over!

Set up an Etsy shop is on my list, though. Hmmm, it may be the only item on my list thus far

Dh has just returned after setting off to give blood over two hours ago :eek:. Think he came home via the alcohol aisles, judging by the clinking going on in his rucksack. And now we can eat :j.

Pearla*Merle

Worry ye not jeanangeo - that is most definitely a list for after the holidays and possibly into the spring. :rotfl:

My lists are usually relics of once-held dreams too, Apple. One can but try.

Crazily the only alcohol we've bought for Christmas has been two bottles of beer. (Though we've both received two bottles of wine/bubbly from work each). Neither of us are drinking much at the moment so I think they'll be hanging around the house for an age!

Pearla*Merle

Oh, almost forgot:

:www: MFW Wonderment: picked up turkey from M&S, snaffled some more YS bargains! Mulled wine fruit loaf thing (now chopped up and in freezer to space it out) and some pancakes (oh the shame, I know, but I did say we were being lazy this year and they were only 30p or something ridiculous like that) which I separated with greaseproof paper inbetween and popped into the freezer. Also chopped up leftover tortilla wraps from yesterday's tea and popped them in the freezer (shall properly use as a leftover turkey lunch concoction of some sort post-Christmas).

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: walking around town and not being rained upon! Rare luxury these days!

:heartsmil Burrow Building: deciding not to be bothered about general state of the house and just enjoy Christmas

Pearla*Merle

Worked out the trick to tidying for Christmas - shove everything in precarious piles behind the sofa and cover with blankets. :T :rotfl:

Hoovered and spent some time happily catching up with friends. Mild chilli for tea and treated myself to rice pudding afterwards - saving myself as much as possible for tomorrow (for I have lebkuchen!).

Only thing that's left is to hope we have tiny batteries in a remote control somewhere that we can use in the meat thermometer. :think:

Merry Christmas/happy holidays everyone! :rudolf: :xmastree: :santa2: Hope you have a fun time, even if it means ignoring or escaping mad family members and singing carols to yourself in the bathroom (been there, done that!). Best wishes and much love to everyone! xxx

Pearla*Merle

Early Christmas present to me - finally back under the 13 stone mark, first time in four years! :dance:

Have lost 39 pounds in total since starting using MyFitnessPal (up and down within that over the last three years but still...!) :j

Right, got to put some carrots out for the reindeer...

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Pearla*Merle wrote: »

Early Christmas present to me - finally back under the 13 stone mark, first time in four years! :dance:

Have lost 39 pounds in total since starting using MyFitnessPal (up and down within that over the last three years but still...!) :j

Right, got to put some carrots out for the reindeer...

Well done!


xx

Crumpets

Well done Pearla :T happy Christmas, I hope you and Mr P*M have had a lovely relaxing time. Good luck with your 2016 goals

Pearla*Merle

Thank you both, & belated Merry Christmas & Happy New Years to one and all

Life has been very, very busy and still no sign of giving me a moment's breath. (Apologies for lack of PM etc replies!)

Christmas was lovely, very quiet and strangely tidy with having no other guests who insist on every vegetable possible and several different styles of cooked potato. :rotfl: Mr M & I spent the day marvelling at the clean kitchen and the fact that neither of us had burst into tears at any point. :rotfl:

The rest of the time we've either been out and about (went down to the South West for New Year - fabulous but frantic few days), or back to work (which left me reeling earlier this week, same old story of nonsense and nuisance, I'm just recovering from it now and plotting my next move etc). Finally starting to take the tree down today, oops.

I've forgotten most of my tales from the last week or so, but I shall try and summarise below...

:www: MFW Wonderment: TCB claimed circa £15; 2 for 1 meal deal while out at restaurant - cost £5 for a main, fab! Comps entered; bought a few bits in the sales (major win was a jacket down to £25 from about £100! That's my summer jacket sorted); network railcard bought & already saved on train tickets; lots of birthday bits bought for Mr M in the sales, saved £££s; storecupboard list in the midst of being updated & have been eating loads out of the freezer as it was bursting with yummy things; having a fab time seeing a few shows in Londinium (via Get Into London) with an MSE chum for the princely sum of around £10 a ticket - very chuffed with ourselves, so we are (especially with YS picnic teas!) :T

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: watched a squirrel merrily bounding about in the whippy branches of the trees outside my window the other day, so lovely. Walking along the river and watching it flow by - so many gorgeous colours around the water and the sunlight on the trees (today in fact seemed very springlike. The daffodils are almost out and the sun had a real warmth to it).

:heartsmil Burrow Building: going to embark on KonMari quest soon. House is really starting to feel a lot more liveable as I managed to do some more organising over Christmas.

I'm trying to eradicate all the time consuming not-totally-joy-sparking things as much as possible (mostly I've been focussing on activities and how my time is spent - it's amazing how little things add up and steal your time. And often they sort of creep in i.e. extra time spent tidying stuff you like but actually don't like enough to warrant sorting it out every week; watching or reading things because you feel you need to tick them off but actually - why not just get rid? And lots of general Life Admin that you actually manufacture yourself without realising it...

PS. Best Christmas present ever - Netflix now have a 4K rustic birchwood fire! We actually found it on Christmas Day - so good.

Better pop off, got to get this tree down. Hopefully I'll be back with the plans I've been hatching of late sooner rather than later...

Hope everyone is well! :wave: I've missed you! Hoping to catch up properly soon xxx