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

DedicatedDFW

Hi All,

Cheery what fab news on paying off the mortgage :j:T:j - i would say your takeaway was to celebrate and was still not too expensive at that

Ooh your car - i *think* its similar to your last one as we both have/had the same car

My mane is due to be tamed next week and i can never understand why they try and hold a conversation with the loudest hairdryer ever blowing in your ear :rotfl: - or why they feel the need to wash half of your make up off as well :eek: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - Hopefully i'll look more groomed though :cool:

Hope you're having a lovely weekend

Cheery_Daff

Hello you lovely lot :hello:

I'd planned an 11 mile run today but I'm feeling rather woozy and wobbly and headachey and like I'd rather be asleep, so I thought I'd have a catch up in here instead

Yesterday was rather spendy At least it felt like it was

Drove to a little village for an amble. Car making odd juddery noise on way, so stopped to check wheel nuts were tight. Spent 20 minutes trying to find the lever to open the bonnet, which wasn't where it said it was in the book

Opened bonnet, retrieved the jack, then spent another 5 minutes trying to figure out how to get the hub caps off.

Did that - then it turns out 1 bolt on every wheel is some kind of weird anti-theft thing which you can't undo with the jack.

Tried to undo spare wheel cage thing from under car to check if there was another tool in there, decided against it - then managed to sheer off the !!!!in bolt holding the cage up by tightening it up too much :eek: Quite clearly I have superhuman strength as I did exactly the same with the old car :rotfl: :rotfl:

Spare wheel now inside car, cage held up with silk dressing gown cord (previously holding Mr Cheery's trousers up as his belt had broken that morning). Car booked into garage for tracking (and bolt fixing) on Wednesday. Not impressed...

Anyway...

£2
£1.70 amaretto and lemon cheesecake ice cream Well needed and well worth it
£2.50 belt (for me, poor Mr Cheery still hasn't got one)
£10 fancy posh dressing gown thing
£2 book

Hmm - that's all I can remember, but I'm pretty sure it seemed more spendy than that... This is what you get for not writing it down!! :eek:

NSD so far today :j :j Got to pop out for porridge etc but that's food so doesn't count

Cheery_Daff

Well, I made it - another NSD! :j :j :j

(ooh, darn, actually I didn't!! Went out with food budget money and bought myself a Twirl So 65p for that )

Ah well - so close

This week...

Mon - work all day so just £23 on travel, slimming world in eve, so £5 on cereal bars
Tues - fieldwork all day, maybe cuppa on train, donation at evening meeting
Wed - working at home so MIGHT manage NSD Although new car is back at the garage (yawn yawn yawnity yawn) so £30 for tracking, and maybe another £10 for the bolt I broke off )
Thurs - Work so £23 on travel, nowt in the evening
Fri - long run that I didn't do today then out for lunch with a pal Definitely not a NSD
Saturday - family visit - car already full of diesel so might manage NSD :j
Sunday - can't remember, but should be low spends if not NSD.

Paid on Friday :j :j Can't wait - got myself all in a bit of a muddle having too many accounts and things going in and out of different ones - some things are swapped over, some not and it's rather confusing Looking forward to totting up this month's spends from here and starting afresh! :j

Have a happy week all

Cheery_Daff

walking to work this morning I realised I was wearing a new coat that I bought yesterday and forgot to write about

Twas only £5 in charity shop though :j :j And it's very nice

Definitely not a NSD here today - I haven't brought any lunch! :eek:

Karmacat

Ooh, it sounds confusing! Though all still very low spendies - and very enjoyable, apart from the tracking, what a pain. Sounds a good week ahead, and lots of fun. Good luck at the weigh in

Cheery_Daff

Thanks kc

£3.95 on lunch today :blink: quorn chilli and rice - i would have had soup but it was tomato (bleurgh!) and anyway this was much more filling That'll teach me to stop being idle and take lunch with me!!

Had the dreaded 'balance below £30' text from bank this morning :eek: just had time to do some shuffling before work. Got over £50 of expenses owed this month so not toooo bad. Still closer than i'd like, but i'll forgive myself since we're still juggling bank accounts and i'm not entirely sure what's going from where which time!

Payday on friday :j :j i do enjoy smoothing out the spreadsheets

can't imagine weigh in will be too successful, i've had takeaway and pizza and garlic bread and SO much cake this week, and skipped two of my three runs, oh dear! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Yay to being paid on Friday

And good luck with the weigh in.

Cheery_Daff

Well I put ON 1.5lbs... :rotfl: But it was well deserved this week :rotfl: Ah well.

£5.40 spent on cereal bars

Got to decide what I'm going to do (I seem to have this conversation every time I start a new MSE diary! :rotfl: ). Been hovering around this weight, give or take 2lbs, since the end of October. Overall I've lost about 1.5 stone, which I'm REALLY pleased with, and only have about 5lbs left to go (until this week it was only 3.5! :rotfl: )

Part of me SO much wants to get those last few off. Part of me has got quite idle about the whole thing, and it's rather costing a fortune...

However - I'm staying pretty much where I am, which is good - without this would I just start completely stuffing my face again?? (if past experience is anything to go by, probably yes )

Hmm. Might pay upfront for ONE more 6 week block, then see. That'll take me to mid April. Got to be able to lose 5lbs in 6 weeks, surely! (well, you'd think, but I've been saying that for several months now...)

Ah well, onwards and downwards! Need to give myself a boot up the backside clearly

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Why is the target figure the figure it is, if you see what I mean, Cheery? It sounds like your body is very happy where it is ... whats your sense of it?

Pippilongstocking

^^^^^^^ was just thinking the same. xx

Sounds like we're never happy eh - when I get under a certain target I'm cross cos I'm not at the next one......

Hope the sun shines for you today