Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

:eek: Looks like you can get one much cheaper than that

Loo seats

We've got a wooden one and will probably replace with similar although I now quite fancy a silver sparkly one :rotfl:

rtandon27

I'm leaning towards the duckies but we have dolphin tiles so might be a bit much!:rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: Yes, the bathroom would rather start to look like Sea World! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Nowt much to report today. I've had a right old week of grumpy face-stuffing so was surprised to only gain 1lb at Slimming World :rotfl: Still - Could Do Better :rotfl:

Can't remember whether I said but my mini plastering experiment was a success and I now have TILES on the back of the sink! :j :j :j This is SO exciting

Just watched a very informative grouting video (I know how to party on a Tuesday night :rotfl: ) and now off to grout my 8 tiles :rotfl: :rotfl: Very excited about this

Also bought some paint to retouch the shower tiles so I might have a go at that too while I'm in there (in the bathroom, I mean, not while I'm actually all wet and soapy in the shower!) :rotfl:

starnac

Cheery I must say your tiling looks fab. You've done an excellent job!! Well done.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks I'm quite proud of myself :rotfl:

Next job is painting the shower tiles - I have the paint now and no excuse! (except I think it's already been done in *hammered* metal paint and I've bought smooth so I might need to swap it...)

Cheery_Daff

Bleurgh.

Got a rotten toothache this morning - seems to go all the way through my ear and up into the side of my eye :eek: Blaming all the cake and chocolate I ate yesterday but if it's still like this in a day or two then back to the dentist for me. Poor dentist, bet he's sick of the sight of me!

To cheer myself up I've been playing around with the Salary Calculator :j :j

It looks like I might be going up to full time for a few weeks this year :eek: Nothing guaranteed yet, and likely to be a max of about 12 weeks, probably less, but if I do it means my monthly wages will go up by £319 :j :j That's nearly an extra £1000 to throw in the patchwork fund if that happens :j :j

Also June is yearly increment time :j and the next point on my scale is omitted meaning I'll leap the equivalent of 2 :j On the actual salary scale it looks like a leap of over £2k a year :eek: but obviously that's not take home pay, and I also only work 4 days a week, but even so, it's an extra £67 a month for me, which is NOT to be sniffed at at all :money: :j

I am SO grateful for this site and all its good advice and support from you lovely folks in the forum - in the past if I was contemplating £67 a month pay rise I might have just spent it without barely noticing, or had to put it all towards something necessary that I would have struggled without.

Now I can throw it all at the Patchwork Fund and we're a few small steps nearer either a new house or giving up work :j :j And that feels *good* :j :j

(there. that distracted me from faceache for a few minutes!! :rotfl: )

starnac

Boo to face/tooth ache!! That's horrible. I very rarely get toothache but I get a lot of ear infections and I feel the pain from that in the same way - all down the side of my face. You have my sympathies.

Yay to increment time and double :j :j to jumping 2 points. Like you said, the raise you should get is just small enough that pre MSE it would disappear so easily month by month but after MSE, it's big enough to be a decent overpayment/savings. I think it's at times like these that we realise how far we've come since "the olden days" (pre MSE) :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Tis indeed Starnac, what a long way indeed. And I'm still learning - YNAB has revealed SO many holes in my budget and I've saved LOADs since I started using that in November!

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums :hello:

Two money related things to report this evening

First of all I accidentally saved £2.30 on train fare this morning - i was SO late i had to run straight onto the train without buying a ticket (not a problem on my route) but fir the first time EVER there was no guard! :eek: Bought a single on the way home - still £18.60 rather than the usual £20.90. Not decided what to do with the spare yet :rotfl:

(2) got a renewal notice for my driving licence photocard - have i really been driving 10 years?! :eek: £14 if i pay online and they can use my passport photo - except I think I got them both in the same year so passport may have run out already, not used it for yonks! Ah well, if it has it just means I need some passport photos doing - not had any done since, well, for 10 years :rotfl: :rotfl:

Nowt else to report today! Except the usual - cycled all four bits of the trip to work, leftovers for lunch etc :j

Hope you're all good

starnac

Wow! Not much difference between a single and a return is there?? :eek: Please promise me that you will remember your MSE ways and not fritter the extra away :rotfl:

DH had his renewal for his driving licence last year. I wonder if mine is due soon? I know my passport needs doing 2016. So does DD's as she only gets a 5 year one. Both boys had new ones last year so they are okay. I paid the extra at the post office for them to check the forms and I still got a letter back saying I hadn't included everything! They sent me a letter to take to the PO to get a refund of the "check and send" fee though so it wasn't too bad.

Good luck having passport photos done. I'm sure they brought in the new rules just so that everybody looks awful in them! :rotfl: