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

Cheery_Daff

No need to whisper it RT, Mr Cheery was clearly right :rotfl: :rotfl: I imagine he's very pleased about it, but was gracious enough not to rub it in my face

So - Slimming World rejoined :eek: Paid 12 weeks up front and going to pull my finger out and do it properly this time :eek: Started well with a wholesome breakfast of yogurt, strawberries and porridge :j :j

Payday :money: so YNAB all reconciled and October's budget done :j

I'm going to try and have October as a bit of a less spendy month :eek:

I've been looking at the amounts I've been putting into the Patchwork Fund this year:

Jan - £600
Feb - 489
Mar - £469.59
Apr - £152.16
May - £260
June - £130
July - £300
Aug - £200
Sept - £50

I'm grateful that I can save anything, let alone those amounts - but it's certainly dropped over the year... While there have been supposedly 'good' reasons for it dropping, in reality it's largely just about the 'creep' of spending you get when you stop paying attention... My target was to put £511 in each year - a combination of what I saved last year, plus bits saved by cutting monthly bills etc. Clearly I'm not meeting that! :eek:

So I'm transferring £400 over there RIGHT NOW :eek: and I'll just have to manage without it

Also realised I've saved NOTHING for Christmas (I did start to, but kept stealing it... ) So I'm going to transfer £75 over to the credit union now for that - mostly because I can't then get at it without a faff

Don't go feeling sorry for me (I'm sure you weren't :rotfl: ) All bills are covered, plus money for treats, household stuff, emergency food, plus savings building up nicely for all annual bills etc, and £100 in house maintenance fund for Yet More Boxes etc

Main casualty will be my own personal spendings, which I'm going to try and severely cut this month. Well, obviously I've just spent £55 on rejoining slimming world.. but nothing else to pay there til after Christmas now. I've got a couple of events coming up which I've budgeted for, and I'll need a haircut before this interview :eek: (and possibly even some 'new' (charity shop) clothes...). But I can darn well manage without anything else for the rest of the month!

Right, best crack on with some work...

Cheery_Daff

Hmm - was going to put some split peas in the slow cooker for later but, er, the slow cooker seems to have vanished :eek: Suspect Mr Cheery may have packed it :eek: There's a suspicious looking box labelled 'kitchen appliances' that I thought just had the rarely-used blender in it but perhaps not... :rotfl:

Must do transfers and update sig before I forget!

Cheery_Daff

Yep, Mr Cheery packed the slow cooker :rotfl: just need to decide if it's worth unpacking before that box gets buried under a mountain of other boxes!! :eek: :rotfl:

Bored today woke up early but instead of going for a run lay innbed staring at the internet for 2 hours :mad: and the day didn't get much more productive than that read some bloke's entire blog from start to finish :eek:

One thing I did do though was the flylady mission :j At least I *think* it was today's mission :rotfl: to get all the stuff that doesn't belong out of the living room...

... can't promise I did exactly that... :rotfl: living room has many (packed) boxes in, full of all types of stuff...

...but I did sort through the pile of stuff tied up in a shower curtain that Mr Cheery dragged out of the car when he took some pals to London the other week. Most of it was actually rubbish, but the rest is now all back where it belongs, and I can get out of the front door again :j Success! :j

hope you're all having a jolly day

Cheery_Daff

Afternoon chums :hello:

dragged myself out for a run this morning, only half an hour and VERY slow but with a half marathon in 6 weeks :eek: and nothing more than a 3 mile parkrun done since June I figured I'd best start getting out more often... :eek: :rotfl:

Still not had official notification of interview - good job I emailed the other day else I'd have proper given up, as interviews were meant to be on Monday! wonder how many other people have given up hope?! §uppose I should be glad for an extra few days of interview prep

Anyway, nowt else to report Nearly a NSD yesterday but for some beer for mr cheery from treats budget (which doesn't count) and a 50p in the pot at the meeting.

Today should be a proper NSD as I'm not planning on going anywhere at all

meeting a friend for lunch in town tomorrow though, but planning on just soup rather than owt fancy

Might track NSDs for October - only covering my own personal spends though as that's what causes the problem :rotfl:

starnac

Afternoon cheery.

I have a HM on Sunday and haven't run for 2 weeks :eek: nothing, nada oops! Well at least you can't say I've overtrained :rotfl: I'm currently waiting to see if I was successful in the VLM ballot. A moment of madness in April sees me dreading the post arriving this week! It would be a good challenge for me though. How did you find Chester marathon?

Good luck for your October NSD's

Cheery_Daff

Always best to err on the side of NOT overtraining, I find, Starnac :rotfl:

Which half are you doing? If you don't mind me asking Feel free not to say And oooh - did you get the bumblee or the spiderman? (apparently the acceptance magazine has got a woman dressed as a bee on the front, and the rejection a bloke dressed as spiderman) Fingers crossed - although not sure in what direction! :rotfl:

Chester was ace Mostly flat course, through the city then out to Wales in the countryside. Plenty of support in the city and the surrounding villages. You start and finish at the racecourse, so there's a nice crowd at the start (and at the finish too probably if you finish before tea time ) The first time I did it, I was nearly an hour over the cut off and there was still someone there to give me a medal and three old blokes on bikes stayed with us folks at the back all the way round.

Utterly lovely race, really well organised and plenty of places for people to support too. The final bit is along the river to the racecourse and there's always lots of people cheering on over there!

Go on, you know you want to

I ran 2.3 miles this morning :rotfl: Hardly going to get me round the half in one piece! :rotfl:

Pleased to report NSD number 1 today :money: Must add it to sig

Not a NSD tomorrow...

9.30 hairdresser (£12 I think)
Walk into town
give blood (if they can fit me in, if not come back later)
wander round looking for interview clothes (if capable :rotfl: )
1pm meet friend for lunch :j
4.30 wander to other friend's house to entertain baby while she makes tea (husband broke his elbow and is having surgery :eek: )
Home to celebrate 10 years to the day (well, the closest Friday night anyway) that me and Mr Cheery met, here in this very kitchen Going to make a cup of tea and stand in the exact same spot :rotfl:

starnac

I think that's a fab idea for your anniversary Cheery. DH and I recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary and we went back to where we got married, stayed in the hotel where we spent our wedding night and generally visited places we used to go. So standing in the same spot in the kitchen if a fab idea

I'm doing Cardiff half on Sunday. Did it last year and really enjoyed it. Bricking myself this year though for some unknown reason? No magazine yet so don't know if it's Spider-Man or the Bee yet. It seems almost an even split between friends who have had theirs so far. If Spider-Man graces my welcome mat I may look into Chester or the Liverpool rock and roll marathon. Maybe. We'll see.

Sounds like you've got a busy day tomorrow. Well done for giving blood (if they can fit you in ) and for being a wonderful friend x

Cheery_Daff

Aw, thanks Starnac :kisses3: Sounds like you had a lovely anniversary too :j Just dawned on us yesterday that this may be the last year we're in this house - and since we actually met *in* the house we should do something appropriate to celebrate before we can't come back here any more

Good luck with the half! Rock and Roll marathon sounds fun

I confess I've been very idle with giving blood - used to go quite a bit but when they put me on anti thyroid drugs they wouldn't take me for 2 years after I stopped and I got out of the habit. Went in Feb 2014 then they went more towards booked appointments rather than walk in, and I just never got round to making one

Tried to book the other day but it wouldn't let me, but said walk in WAS available, I thought they'd cancelled altogether! so I'm going to try my luck :j

Once I'm out of bed, that is... :rotfl:

rtandon27

...but in bed is just soooooooooooo much better!;););)

Karmacat

Happy Anniversary! How lovely to think of your meeting in the actual kitchen where you still are - celebrate there before its gone, sort of thing

The HMs sound great. I was amazed when I went to Cardiff a few years ago - all round the harbour being so open and lovely. Chester's gorgeous too, of course, and there you get the medieval bit thrown in for free

Cheery, good luck on giving blood and entertaining babies - thats quite a day