The Adventures of a Debt Defying Diva

sassychick2014

Hi Rainbow!

That all sounds like a good day yesterday so you should be chuffed with yourself.

How's the cleaning/tv viewing going? Well I hope. Just a short pop in today as I'm running late on everything so have a good day! x

RainbowBridgeReturns

Hi Sassy,

Things are progressing well here, but I was in danger of doing too much cleaning and not enough TV viewing so I have taken a couple of things off my list. I have to be balanced lol x

sassychick2014

That made me chuckle! Like your thinking x

RainbowBridgeReturns

Good morning world.

Another day, another dollar. I completed my list and the house is gradually beginning to take shape. I have a kitchen full of cooker parts and toxic fumes now, so today I have the unenviable task of:-

1. Rubbing Mr Muscle off with a brillo pad and reassembling the various parts !!! Lucky Mr Muscle.

2. Going through my Nationw*de statement and transferring any DD's to new bank account before I close the account down permanently.

3. Finding a home for all the dry washing which has morphed into an enormous pile in the dining room, while sticking on ANOTHER couple of loads.

Today I am grateful for my whirligig dryer. Seeing my washing waft gently in the spring sunshine, instead of steaming on my radiators lifted my spirits. Unfortunately, I had to observe it through manky windows, so now begins the quarterly task of gently persuading (aka nagging) DH into washing all my windows, inside and out. Wish me luck!, but it his job, it was part of the verbal pre-nup!

in_need_of_direction

I just lol ed at no 1 and all poor hubbie gets is to clean the windows! It is amazing how much washing drying in fresh air lifts spirits.

sassychick2014

hehe, loved Mr Muscle comment! Have a fun day with that x

RainbowBridgeReturns

Thanks for your comments they made me laugh!

Unfortunately, I did not enjoy the pleasures of Mr Muscle yesterday, or tackle Mount Drying Monster, but I did sort out the Direct Debits.

In my defence (i'm a master at making excuses .......) I was overly ambitious. Thursday is my longest day at work and that was followed by a trip to the dentist with DS and then a parents meeting at the school, over the new curriculum, which went well over time. It turned into a major bun fight, with unhappy parents shaking their fists at the dumb-founded headmaster. Budget cuts have meant that a lot of the kids are unable to finish options that they have started ..... It has affected DS but I think I have found a workaround, for him, which I will present to the headmaster at some point.

Today is a new today though! The first day of the rest of my life lol!

I WILL:-

- Tackle yesterday's two jobs
- Place a Waitrose order online using my £20.00 off code
- Attend a Pilates class
- Squeeze in a mystery shop to a computer store

Friday is re-cap day, and in reality it has been a very good week. The sun has shone, the washing has gone down, I have not overindulged in good food or wine, exercise is on plan and my budgets have been stuck to. The emergency fund is on track for £250.00. I proclaim myself Saint Rainbowbridgereturns !!!!!

I am grateful that I now have a halo to polish, along with everything else!

in_need_of_direction

Well done. This is just for you:A

RainbowBridgeReturns

Good morning world. Well 12.07 is only just the afternoon, and who is counting. It is time to start another SaturDIVA day.

My cooker is gleaming and my washing mountain has morphed into drawers, so I have had a lazy morning to celebrate!

I have also decided that the tasks for today will be delegated. They have both agreed to the following, without much persuasion:-

1. DH - inside and outside windows, and all the glass inside the house, and we have a lot of it !!

2. DS - Hoover and tidy his room and change his bed.

3. DS - Hoover the stairs and landing.

We have DH father and young step mother coming for tea tonight, and DH has reminded me that we promised them an Indian take away, and I agreed to pay half, while he forks out the rest (I must have been tipsy at the time). We have a wonderful Indian near us, but it is not cheap, so we will have no change of £50.00 !! I think that the grocery budget can accommodate £25.00, but I may need to be inventive at month end. Any way they are good company, and there will be very little washing or fussing so I am not complaining too much.

Off to do all 20 nails (dark purple today) and supervise the men folk. C'est la vie.

RainbowBridgeReturns

It is so energising to get up, early in the morning, to sunshine rather than darkness. Spring is marching forward, but I mustn't wish my life away, even though my favourite time of year is approaching, the time when the trees are in blossom. This is one of my favourite poems:-

"Loveliest of Trees"

LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

I had some very good news yesterday. Dear mum has got the attendance allowance that we applied for. They have awarded her the highest rate of £79.15 a week and have already paid £316.00 in to her bank account. This will make a big difference to her life and she is absolutely thrilled.

I send mum money, each month, and give her any extra that she needs to keep solvent, or replace appliances etc. and that worked out at nearly £1,500.00 over the last year. We have agreed that this will now stop as she will have enough money to live comfortably on, and the money I was sending to her, will be diverted into my emergency fund, which should build up much quicker. This award opens up doors for a number of other grants and credits that she will be entitled to, so I will look into that for her today.

DH and DS completed their tasks, so they have halo's to polish too, and I can now see the world in glorious high definition through the windows!

Tasks for today:-

1. Look into extra pension credit/grants for downstairs toilet and disability parking ticket for mum.

2. 30 minutes on the exercise bike.

3. Sort out one cupboard in my bedroom.

Today I am very grateful and relieved that mum has got attendance allowance.