Breaking Through, Travelling On

rtandon27

Welcome back dearest Karma!

So glad to hear you well on the way to full health!

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beanielou

Excellent health news

Karmacat

Hi all :j

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Thanks for the tip about there being a U3A online:T. I'll be having a look at that although it defeats the object of getting out and meeting people.

My nearest town is 7 miles away but it is very small and there seems to be so little going on there, definitely no U3A. There's the local Am Dram theatre group but someone I used to work with tried it and said it was very cliquey so she dropped out after a few visits. There isn't even a book/reading group which I'd really love. I used to do occasional evening classes there in days gone by but the local council seems to have cut right back on non-vocational courses now. The only ones they have on offer this year are ones I've already done:(

I sound a real Moaning Minnie, I'm sorry:o. Having a bad day one way or another. I didn't mean to dampen the upbeat vibe of this thread:o

CBC, we walk each other through the bad times ... just think of Gally walking me through the anti-mould measures! And after my arthritis op, it was a year before I could simply sit up in bed without a struggle. We all have bad times and bad days, I'm sorry yours are happening right now

As far as classes are concerned, maybe you could repeat one? There's always more to learn, more to practise. Or you could start a reading group of your own? You have a lot of energy, CBC, you're prepared to do stuff, I bet you could do that, even if you want someone else to lead the discussion.

A word on U3A though - 80% of what I've seen is daytime, which suits me - I still haven't been out in the evening yet, except last week when my brother drove us to Southport to see if we could see the Blackpool lights switch on across the bay (answer: not really, in the rain! ).

rtandon27 wrote: »

Welcome back dearest Karma!

So glad to hear you well on the way to full health!

:j:j:j:j:j

Thank you RT! I'm absolutely sure that on current form I'll be able to do our thing together :j:j:j

Today is a dental appointment, yikes (but should be fine) plus banking the last cheque ever for work - for my last session ever, weirdly plus a few emails and more getting-the-prunings-into-the-bin. Though yesterday's efforts finally uncovered the compost bin :beer: which had been mothballed below a 6 - 7 foot overhang of boundary hedge from next door :o:o mea maxima culpa.

Checking on a few more diaries now :T

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Karmacat

Dental appointment was indeed fine, thank heavens - and I kept on at him to make my appointments six monthly, not annually. He's agreed. I told him the (true) horror story - at the May wedding, someone thought I had a dead tooth at the front of my mouth. I didn't - it was coffee staining! - but he took the point :eek:

Refund of £1.70 from Sainsbo - two of the six tins in their multipack baked beans were really badly dented. I let a single one go, to be honest, but two is too many, it's not fair. They were really easy to deal with, and a freefone number to boot. Can't say better than that.

Spending Diary (see below )
£2 2 x 3m birthday wrapping paper.
£1 next year's diary from Poundland, pink and sparkly :rotfl:
£1 liquid soap bottle - the bottle on the wall has died, I just want the squeezy thing
£19.70 NHS dental check up.
£1.70 nice M&S jam as a thank you for the neighbour who looked out for the house while I was away.

£25.40 TOTAL

Karmacat

Lightbulb went off today, and some ideas crystallised. For ages, I've been getting by with “I'll do as much as I can” or “I'll save as much as I can”. Reading MvM's very precise forward planning has got me back into that mode, so I'm going to do two things:

• a spending diary on here for everything except the monthly supermarket shop. I'll include the total of the s'market shop, but not bother with the nitty gritty.
• I have a cash target to aim for! I'll still work at vouchers, money off etc, but the cash target is directly related to the pension: by the time my state pension kicks in (December 2020) I want to have earned £25,000 in cash.

I chose that figure because at a SWR of 4%, thats a thousand pounds a year. Whether I'll use it like that, I don't know, but I'll have the choice, won't I! That money is all cash earnings, that's the only stipulation to be included in the self-challenge:

• all online sales (Amazon, ebay, facebook, gumtree, whatever)
• kindle book(s) (two copies of my one and only sold this month, plus a copy was lent out via kindle unlimited and someone read all of it). I can do much better with some promotion.
• cat sitting - my niece checked out prices for house sitting/cat sitting - £200 a week in SE England!
• advertising.
• Amazon associates commission, and any other relevant affiliates I can find.
• design sales, when I get the cat ones up and running.
• financial wheezes that earn me money – bonuses for this that and the other, for instance.

Of course, I hope the kindle career takes off like crazy and I earn that sort of money every couple of months, and its not impossible, but it is unlikely.

Karmacat

Spending update
20.86 split ticket to Merseyside for Christmas, including £1 insurance
14.89 the rest of the split ticket - doesn't include insurance, gulp.

35.75 TOTAL instead of £66.50
7.00 bus ticket to see my sister.

£42.75 day's TOTAL

Printing out the Statement of Intent up there so I always have it available

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Firegirl

Looks like you've been busy KC- I need to take a leaf out of your book!

earthgirl

So pleased about the health news and love the positvity! Go KC!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Brilliant news re your health
Looks like you are loving retirement :T:T:T

Tilly xxx

Karmacat

Thanks all! I really *am* loving retirement - the things I'm doing at home are similar to what I've always done, in some ways (though I'm doing thorough cleaning/tidying/decluttering, as opposed to getting by :rotfl:) but I don't have to "save" my energy for other people's needs. That's the best way I can put it

This is my first full week at home after regaining such a lot of my health, and I'm not quite ready to trip the light fantastic just yet :rotfl: there's a lot of life admin and financial admin and just ordinary cleaning to catch up on. But I'm not going to focus on that entirely, I'm going to make space for some fun too

One booking this week, on Sunday: a games evening the first one for a long time as they were cancelled when my friend was ill with cancer. Going to be very odd with three of us, though sometimes her daughter may come along too. Thats a way ahead though, and for now I'll stick with today, back for a ta-da list later on.

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