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

Cheery_Daff

:hello:

thank you for kind thoughts and pancakes :kisses2: I haven't vanished off the face of the earth, i promise, just had an internet free day on sunday and been dashing arou d the cou try for work since then with an unreliable internet connection, spending money willy nilly and forgetting all about it, oh dear!!

Sunday £2 meeting donation, £7ish unnecessary food
Monday £8 ish lunch in m&s - oh dear!! i'd taken lunch with me too, but we had to escape and that was the only place to escape to! Technically that was for two of us, but cheery colleague bought tea and cake later
also £3 cereal bars and £25 another 6 weeks of slimming world (and i'll consider giving up after that but not quite ready yet!

today £1.50 meeting donation, £2 Big Issue

think that's it, although i seem to be quite good at forgetting big things... :rotfl:

Old car getting picked up on Friday :j £137, minus £8 admin fee for a same day bank transfer (thought it was worth it for peace of mind, rather than waiting 3 days). Annoyingly the original quote was £147 but i closed the computer and when i did it later it had gone down :rotfl: Only just occurred to me i could have rung and quibbled!

Ah well, i've given up worrying about whether i'm being swindled over this car business, right now i'd PAY good money for someone to make it go away :rotfl:

Right, i have to be on a train at 7.32, best go to sleep! Night all, back to being sociable again soon...

Cheery_Daff

OH good grief, there i go again with the inappropriate kissing smileys!! :rotfl: :rotfl: So sorry, i meant the nice friendly one, not the great big snogging one! I mean, you're all lovely, but, er, well, i like to reserve that kind of behaviour for one person at a time, and i think Mr Cheery would probably be quite jealous :rotfl:

(actually, i imagine he'd be mightily amused but even so...)

and now i'm REALLY going to sleep!

Karmacat

The snogging gave me a good giggle - you *have* to tell Mr Cheery about this one :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Good to hear about internet-free days, dashingness, and general car-selling :j I know what you mean about feeling so fed up you'd *pay* someone to take it away.

Hope today's a good'un - looks good here, there's a frost, but its really sunny.

Cheery_Daff

Today's been great, although the third day in a row of two-hours-on-trains-each-way travelling :eek: Blithering worn out. Been out of the house before 7am AGAIN, out for 12,13,14 hours a day this week, on the go constantly while out, interviewing and entertaining and planning and making decisions and generally being *switched on* and I'm worn out!

Mr Cheery has a band practice at our house tonight - while it was mildly vexing to be thrown out of the kitchen about 20 minutes after I got home I was (a) impressed with myself that I managed to actually make a basic lentil and spinach curry and baked potato in that time and (b) pleased that it was a nice excuse to be in bed before 8pm :j :j :j

Spends today:

£3 for me and office pal this morning
£8.30 taxi home Quite necessary though, I wouldn't have got my curry otherwise and I couldn't face it taking another 45 mins to get home!

VERY pleased I'm off work tomorrow Going out to an 80th birthday party for lunch :j :j

Right, going to hide the computer and read my book til I fall asleep - probably in about 10 minutes

DedicatedDFW

Wow Cheery you do sound like you've been busy and as you say 'switched on' Good that you have tomorrow off - so a nice long weekend? And om nom nom to the curry and potato - sounds so much tastier than my tea

Hope you also get some time just for you tomorrow too

Cheery_Daff

Thanks DDFW. I have indeed had a MARVELLOUS day :j :j :j

Nice lie in (although how I needed it after going to bed at 8pm I have no idea :rotfl: ). Cancelled appointment to get spare key cut for the new car til we know whether we're keeping it - that's £100 saved (for now) and I met my pal for tea in a nice antique shop cafe too

£3 or a pot of tea for both of us

Then off to 80th party at the city farm cafe :j :j Lovely birthday girl had ordered the staff not to accept any cash from any of us So that was free

Full of cheeriness I went to the little garden centre

£3.80 on 3 primulas and some daffs for me (of course)
£2.50 primulas in a teacup for pal I'd had a cuppa with this morning
80p chocolate for workmate who was working at home today

Posted chocolate through one letter box, delivered primulas to another, then bought

£5 tulips
£2.40 biscuits

and dropped them in to the friend who went with me to buy the car. Feeling like santa today :rotfl: :rotfl:

Oh, also bought

£1.39 milk

Er, that should be it for today - going to the gym tonight but that's already paid for and I won't go past a shop :rotfl:

Should go through and add up Feb spends and March so far - now there's a frightening thought... back in a bit...

Cheery_Daff

<takes deep breath>

Right...

February spends from my personal spending fund

£18.68 treating food
£52.95 tea and cake (and lunch out and one trip to the pub)
£20.25 slimming world cereal bars - got to be able to do that more effectively!
£33 clothes (really?? But that was skirt, cardi, dressing gown, coat, belt etc)
£9.52 meeting donations
£8.35 magazines (hmm)
£10.10 non-work buses
£13.80 taxis
£109.72 'miscellaneous' :rotfl: :rotfl: (haircut, books, couple of birthday cards, paint, candles, flute choir, half marathon etc etc etc)

Grand total = £276.37
Budget is £200 :rotfl:

But that's why I'm here, right?? Treating February as an 'observation month'

Right, best add up March's spends before they get wildly out of hand too :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Rather alarmingly, I seem to have spent

£131.08

of March's fun budget already!!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

6 days in, 25 to go! :eek: :eek: :eek:

That leaves me with

£200-£131.08 = £68.92 to last the next 25 days

(this is just my own personal spends, remember - food, diesel, Mr Cheery, joint treats are separately accounted for so don't go feeling too sorry for me! )

So... there needs to be some kind of a plan... :rotfl:

I see I had 5 NSDs in February, almost without realising! :j:j

Not had one in March yet, but I might have to rethink that 5 I was aiming for :rotfl:

Off to put my total spends in my signature, see if it motivates me a bit!!

Cheery_Daff

Hmm, had a think while I was running on the treadmill earlier (not much of a think, mind you - I was concentrating on not falling over :rotfl: )

I've been saving £2 coins for ages, for a non-specific purpose, wondering what treats I could get myself... Only thing I've bought so far is a fancy pants running watch Now wondering whether this pot could be dedicated to running-related spends (races, new shoes, gadgetry etc)... Running is one of my dedicated 'priorities' for the year, after all, and it would save me a fortune out of my everyday fun spends account

Hmm, will think on...

Karmacat

Okay, so what you've observed (and what anyone who reads your diary knows) is that tea and cake is really important to you :rotfl: thats not going to change!

Could you batch cook the cereal bars? Adapt Twink's hobnob recipe, maybe? And I'm wondering what the "hmmmm" means for the magazines ... are you a library member? Is it convenient? I'm a member of mine, but the biggest disadvantage of this town is that my library is now 30 minutes walk away, in an awkward direction, whereas it used to be 5 minutes away.

And the half marathon is quite a lot. Just in general, y'know

Anyway, I really *am* shutting the lappie down now - enjoy the cogitating