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

Cheery_Daff

Ok, Mr Cheery is out and while i would love to spend the evening plastering, I think I'll save that for tomorrow and focus on numerous pottering bits that need doing...

ERRANDS - 6.50-7.45
* pop to work to pick up sports bra and leggings for race (idiot!!)
* pop to Wickes for board adhesive and bonding plaster

ADMIN - 7.45-8.15
* text friend re letter I haven't sent her yet
* check train times for tomorrow
* ring mum re staying over tomorrow night
* email ebay seller re sending tri suit back (shamefully I may have left this too late! )

HOUSE - 8.15-9.30
* hang washing up
* restore some semblance of order to house (possibly truncated flylady home blessing)
* shift stuff on landing and bathroom so I can get straight on with plastering tomorrow

ME - 9.30-11
* have a nice bath
* finish off knitting sock and start next one

That's probably quite enough for one evening :rotfl: :rotfl:

milasavesmoney

Whoa! That's a lot of money saved so far on the plastering. Plus, there is just something so soul satisfying about learning a new skill and then doing a job well. Good for you!!! Seeing such progress must be very motivating.

You sometimes make my head spin with all that you accomplish.:)

Hoping for good sunny weather and a slightly cool breeze for your race.

Cheery_Daff

Ok, an update

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

ERRANDS - 6.50-7.45
[STRIKE]* pop to work to pick up sports bra and leggings for race (idiot!!)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]* pop to Wickes for board adhesive and bonding plaster[/STRIKE]

ADMIN - 7.45-8.15
* [STRIKE]text friend re letter I haven't sent her yet[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]check train times for tomorrow[/STRIKE] - can't get a train early enough from here, going to have to stay at mum's and drive to another station as hers don't start early enough either! Aarrgghh! Train fare is £40, outrageous!
* [STRIKE]ring mum re staying over tomorrow night[/STRIKE] - I did but she didn't answer :rotfl:
* [STRIKE]email ebay seller re sending tri suit back (shamefully I may have left this too late![/STRIKE] ) - nope, got 30 days :j and I didn't have to compose an email, just clicked 'return this item' button

HOUSE - 8.15-9.30
* hang washing up
* restore some semblance of order to house (possibly truncated flylady home blessing)
* shift stuff on landing and bathroom so I can get straight on with plastering tomorrow

ME - 9.30-11
* have a nice bath
* finish off knitting sock and start next one

That's probably quite enough for one evening :rotfl: :rotfl:

A good start Have also had a nice cup of tea Ok, I'm 13 minutes late starting my HOUSE section - best get on! :j

Cheery_Daff

Ok, final update...

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

ERRANDS - 6.50-7.45
* [STRIKE]pop to work to pick up sports bra and leggings for race (idiot!!)[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]pop to Wickes for board adhesive and bonding plaster[/STRIKE]

ADMIN - 7.45-8.15
* [STRIKE]text friend re letter I haven't sent her yet[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]check train times for tomorrow[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]ring mum re staying over tomorrow night[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]email ebay seller re sending tri suit back (shamefully I may have left this too late![/STRIKE] )

HOUSE - 8.15-9.30
* [STRIKE]hang washing up[/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]restore some semblance of order to house (possibly truncated flylady home blessing)[/STRIKE] - didn't go that far, but I did clean the kitchen :rotfl:
* shift stuff on landing and bathroom so I can get straight on with plastering tomorrow - will do this in a second

ME - 9.30-11
* have a nice bath - bath is run and just cooling down a little bit (nope, still not fixed the cold tap Plasterer had to fill buckets from the shower! :rotfl: )
* finish off knitting sock and start next one

I reckon that's a pretty successful evening actually! :j :j Have also sanded down the wall I plastered yesterday :rotfl: and am now making a list of stuff I need to take with me tomorrow - don't want to forget my race number! :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Right - this is NOT the nice early productive start I anticipated... :rotfl:

Hey ho, I have a plan:

10.40-11 - pack stuff for half marathon
11-1 plaster bit of chimney breast
1-1.30 tidy up
1.30-2.30 - make and eat lunch (packing leftovers for tea on train)
2.30 - walk into town
3.15-4.30 - buy headphones and a jumper and wander round the food festival
4.40 - train

ready, steady... GO

Cheery_Daff

Hmm, so much for that list :eek: :rotfl:

Taken me this long just to find all my stuff, and vaguely get my act together! :rotfl: Clearly not going to start plastering now!! :rotfl:

Am nicely up to date with YNAB now though :money:

Cheery_Daff

Evening all :hello:

Can't believe I haven't been in since Saturday! :rotfl: Eventually I left, had a nice evening with mother, and then did the half marathon on Sunday :eek: Was SO not prepared :rotfl: Sister took over and beat me by 37 minutes :rotfl: She deserved it though!

Had an internet-free day yesterday and did some more plastering, and then yet MORE plastering this morning :rotfl: and an afternoon with a friend

Just had an unusually fruitful reduced co-op trip :j :j Only popped in for some chick peas and their reductions are usually rubbish (eg £3.50 reduced to £3.17), but today... I got

3 jars of Bonne Mamon (or however you spell it) blackcurrant jam, £2.39 reduced to 29p
2 jars of co-op finest marmalade, £1.49 reduced to 9p
chocolate sprinkles reduced to 7p

And a couple of reduced pretzls and a cucumber, but they were normal crappy reductions :rotfl:

Woman was trying to offload more jam onto me - she said 'we've got LOADS of it!' but they only had 3 out so I just had those as she was about to go back to the stockroom to get more. When I got to the til the bloke said 'I've been putting stickers on that jam for 4 hours!' :eek: :rotfl:

He reckons they're going to have LOADS of reduced stuff in the next few weeks as they're rebranding, so keep an eye out folks! I'm pretty sure I've seen those fancy jam jars go for more than 29p empty in charity shops before now :rotfl:



Right, just knocking up a quick curry and while that's bubbling away I'm off to sort out YNAB, not done it since Saturday although have been quite diligent about entering things on the phone app!

Cheery_Daff

Hmm - Mr Cheery came back and was SO excited about co op reductions (he's in charge of food shopping and is bargain hunter extraordinaire) that we're now back at the co op again... :rotfl:

I made it quite clear that I didn't want to come back! :rotfl: but somehow I was caught up in the excitement and ended up in the car. Came to my senses by the time we got here though and have refused to go into the shop :rotfl: :rotfl:

Forgot peanut butter reduced to 49p too but you can probably get nicer stuff in aldi for less anyway :rotfl:

Trying to peek through window to see what he lands up with...

milasavesmoney

My OH gets excited about serious food reductions too. Especially if it's meat!

Cheery_Daff

Ok, this time they'd brought out the Bonne Mamon marmalade for 15p a jar... so we now have 5 jars of that too :eek: :rotfl: and some lolly ice things (39p, just one box of those), and some 'ordinary reduction' reduced potatoes. So not too overboard! :rotfl:

Been doing a bit of end-of-month YNABbing - seems I knocked out the budget by going on the train to the race the other day, and also we spent £123 on cladding yesterday too :eek: All accounted for now but I've had to do a bit of rearranging of the virtual envelopes...