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

Cheery_Daff

Well fortunately the rest of yesterday passed without incident

Off to do my 50th parkrun in a bit (once I'm out of bed... :rotfl: ) This means I will qualify for a free t shirt :money:

There's a running shop down the road so I might see if I can get a new pair of trainers while I'm down there - will save me a trip into town and my feet will be nicely expanded after the parkrun so I can make sure they'll fit properly.

Then off to see my mother after her epic month-long trip away which will be nice

Filled the car up £43
New tyres £85.01 (where did the 1p come from?? :rotfl: was too busy trying to get to meeting I forgot to ask :rotfl: )
New running shoes, probably a gazillion quid :eek:

Have made curry and trifle to take with me, so hopefully won't stray too far off the slimming world track :j Lost 9.5lbs now - cheery but hardly impressive in 6 months :rotfl: Still, better off than on :rotfl: Aiming for a whole stone off by my birthday - only a week and a half to go so unlikely :rotfl:

Right, get up and run woman!!

BEAT_THE_DEBT

50 park runs well done x

littlemonkeywolf

Whoop Whoop to number 50- I do hope you made it out of bed. enjoy your new tshirt

Cheery_Daff

Thanks :kisses3: Twas a lovely morning for it, and someone took an ace photo of me at the end which was nice :j

Link's not ready for me to collect t shirt yet though :eek: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Morning (just) :hello:

Nice day here Not very warm but I might get out in the garden later. For the time being though I'm going to spend an hour stripping wallpaper :rotfl: Not very exciting :rotfl: but needs must and all that - I do want to move house at some point!

Resorting to the steamer thing :eek: I don't like it but it is rather faster than a spray bottle :rotfl:

Back later

rtandon27

Cold here too - but sunny!

My forays into the garden have been to fill the birdfeeders and hang up some laundry!:rotfl:

Mostly sitting today doing budgeting and banking!

Cheery - have you tried a hairdryer to strip wallpaper? I removed some flocked stuff a few years back and the hairdryer worked wonders where the steamer didn't! (The steamer worked well on the ordinary non-textured paper.) Was also a good tool to remove latex paint from the wood trim without the fumes of a chemical paint stripper!

Yeah for getting to the t-shirt reward! (How's the sore foot?)

Cheery_Daff

Tum te tum, still stripping wallpaper... to be fair I stopped for lunch, and to write a blog post, and for an hour long phone call with my sister, and again because the steamer ran out of water... so in reality I've probably only done about an hour and a half...

But it's a start, right?! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Not planning on taking wallpaper off anywhere else (she says...)

Yawn :rotfl:

Have also managed (just now) to put some washing on, and draw up a tick list for my flylady activities - not had a list this week and barely did anything... :rotfl:

Right, steamer back up to boiling, best crack on! :j

rtandon27

fly-lady?!? eek!:eek::eek::eek:

is she still around then?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Oops, sorry RT, missed you there :hello:

Thanks for the hairdryer tip Mine is about 25 years old so not sure how well it'll cope :rotfl: Fortunately steamer works fine now it's not being asked to strip paper directly off plasterboard - would be easier if we hadn't painted 4 coats of textured paint over the paper but there we are :rotfl: But I shall remember the tip, thank you! :j

Flylady is indeed still around Although I think she has a team to help now :rotfl: Not in the house :rotfl: However, I mostly ignore her day to day advice and just follow my own routines based on her website

Stripping going well! One entire wall done :j :j so I'm just boiling the steamer again then I'll do the other wall (which is less than half the size) :j

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums :hello:

Payday :j :j Do love a bit of budget fiddling

YNAB all sorted, nowt much to report.

£800 in House Maintenance fund (£725 of which is for the plasterer :eek: )
£100 in dentist - building up to enough for both of us to have to have a crown in the same year :rotfl: Not planning on that, obviously :eek: but neither of us have got great teeth and we've both had to have a crown before so it's nice if it's there

£150 in No Quibble funds :j Don't think we've got time to go anywhere til at least June with all the races I have planned so that will build up nicely :rotfl:
£430 in holiday fund :j :j Not even sure we'll go anywhere, but good to have the option, depends on where we are with house :rotfl:

And I've added £400 to the Moving House account, which now stands at £3400 :j :j Will update signature

Car tax and RAC both due in May, but both have enough in their own little pots to cover them :j :j

Love budgeting :j

Hope you're all good