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

Cheery_Daff

Oops, sorry, vanished there for a few days

Lovely day out at a nature reserve (well, mostly the cafe actually :rotfl: ) on Wednesday with a friend, then on Thursday me and Mr Cheery sneaked off for a long weekend away in Lincolnshire :j

Stayed in the most fabulous cottage, really old and full of all kinds of marvellous decorations (although we could have done without the stag heads :eek: ) First thing owner said was 'we've just replaced the wardrobe with a harmonium, but we've left you a hat stand to put your clothes on' :rotfl: :rotfl: Absolutely loved it :j

Didn't do much otherbthan bimble round some market towns and a very circuitous cycle ride today when a Sustrans off road route was partially closed. Must have done 15 miles in the end (it was meant to be 10). But a lovely day, rounded off with a picnic and brass band in a park by a river before wending our way home via a friend's house and a takeaway :j

Promised ourselves we would do NO decoratig etc this evening so we have tea and olympics instead and I'm slowly acclimatising to the prospect of going back to work tomorrow :eek:

Purse entirely stuffed with recepits but mostly just spent on food and parking so shouldn't be too bad...

Hope you're all good :hello: xx

Greying_Pilgrim

We've replaced the wardrobe with a harmonium and left you a hatstand....... :think: Deliciously, deliciously bonkers! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Your cycle trip sounds arduous, but worth it for the picnic and its setting Cheery - well pedalled!

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Greying :j The house was indeed deliciously bonkers and very much to our tastes :rotfl:

And I've followed the bike ride with a trip to the gym today - got the personal trainer guy to explain his training programme again to me - it was written down but I only did it once and I didn't know what some of the things were... :rotfl: Planning to go again tomorrow, and yoga and Wednesday - I WILL look like an olympic athlete, damn it! :rotfl:

(Mind you, then i stuffed in 2 choc bars on the way home so my olympic dreams may still be some way off...) :rotfl:

Minor calamity this morning when part of my sandal snapped off on the way to work :eek: managed to fix temporarily with staples and sellotape but sadly it's ruined and will have to go in the bin

Fortunately, when I bought them, I almost immediately found an exact copy in a charity shop for £5 and snapped that up too :money: I alternated for a while then stuck to one pair, and have now retrieved the others from the wardrobe :j

(And yes, I only threw away the broken right foot from the other pair :rotfl: let's just hope it's the left foot that goes on the other pair, then I'll still have a functioning pair! :j :rotfl: )



Right, off to paint the landing ceiling :j got some ace pics from holidays so will sort those out later :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

And I've followed the bike ride with a trip to the gym today - got the personal trainer guy to explain his training programme again to me - it was written down but I only did it once and I didn't know what some of the things were... :rotfl: Planning to go again tomorrow, and yoga and Wednesday - I WILL look like an olympic athlete, damn it! :rotfl:

Greying feels tired just reading ^ goes for a lie down in a darkened room with an icecream...................... X

Cheery_Daff

Ha :rotfl: just discovered that painting the ceiling (an actovoty which, having now done twice I have decided I loathe) is made ten times worse after a weight lifting session :eek: :rotfl:

Which, if I'd thought about it, I probably could have predicted... :rotfl:

Still, only one (possibly two) more ceilings to paint (not yet) and both will be less hassle than this one. And also I might designate those jobs to Mr Cheery when the time comes

Tea and WATCHING the olympics now for sure :rotfl:

milasavesmoney

Good for you for keeping up with exercising. I think your plastering/painting must be doing a lot for getting your arms in great shape also. My arms felt heavy when I read you had exercised before painting. Sympathy soreness. :rotfl:

Lots of paper shredding and recycling going on at mi casa. :A

Cheery_Daff

Ooh what are you shredding Mila? I just discovered our shredder at work, most exciting

Speaking of work, i'm hoping today will be slightly less discombobulating than yesterday as I have lots to do right now but no real structure to my days, no meetings, nobody else around, all a bit weird. Yesterday was first day back after a week lff and I just generally wandered about and rearranged paperclips etc and tried to remember what my job involved. Today it's ten to nine and I'm not even in the shower yet! :eek:

Planned a gym trip today but, er, my arms are rather objectig after yesterday...

Also need to sort banks/YNAB after holidays - purse is stuffed with receipts and iy'll take a bit of sorting. Payday is tomorrow and I like to start with a clean slate (although this pay is allocated to September but you know what I mean). Not going to do it before work as I'll never get there but will do it tonight

(Actually it's just dawned on me that it's not Wednesday so payday isn't actually til Thursday )

Going to put a top coat on the attic landing tonight then that'll be nicely finished too :j Getting there! :j :j

milasavesmoney

I'm shredding sensitive material. :rotfl:
No actually it's anything I wouldn't want an identity thief to get their hands on. Most of my paper goes in the recycle bin but the shredded stuff can go on the compost pile.

Cheery_Daff

Aha, now I see Mila :applause: I don't have a shredder at home and I'm afraid I'm a little lax on such matters I'm sure one day it'll come back to bite me then I'll start paying attention! :eek:

Just checked energy bills - only £43 (for both gas and electricity) this month which is pretty darn good for us :j Direct debit is currently £67 a month, so we're now £83 in credit :j and they give us 3% on credit balances which is better than the bank so all good :money: We're on a flexible thing where we can change the direct debit whenever we like - we had so much credit last winter that I've been slowly moving it down in line with their recommendations - but now they're recommending £90 a month again :eek: However, while we're still in credit I'm going to leave it as it is for now - especially as I'm not sure what will happen when we move (which I'm still deludedly believing might be this year :rotfl: )

Right, off to delve into the horrors of my receipt-filled purse :eek: back shortly :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Phew! :eek:

Gosh, that was a LOT of paperwork and messing about! :eek:

Still, it was worth doing and it'll teach me to do it as I go along next time (well, maybe not :rotfl: )

I do notice that I have four transactions that have not cleared - two from Norway, and another when I paid for some postage through p@ypal at the start of June - suspect that one's just got eaten up in other transactions but wonder what happened to the Norway ones? Oh well, not going to investigate - their tough luck if they haven't taken it in 2 months (and chances are I just entered it wrong anyway). Give it another month and I'll delete them :j

Right, off to get weighed now and ee how much damage I inflicted over the weekend :eek: