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

Cheery_Daff

Hmm, put 1.5lbs on (hardly surprising as I had 2 chocolate bars today amd 2 yesterday, on top of all the weekend treats). It was the Woman of the Year competition so lots of inspiring stories from the nominated ladies :j

And I won the raffle! :j :j Slimmer of the week had gone so I got to choose between the actual raffle prize (a few bits of veg and some coconut milk) and the fruit basket, which is what I went for :j

I got:
- 3 apples
- 4 satsumas
- 3 bananas
- a kiwi fruit
- a pomegranate
- a punnet of raspberries

:j not bad for a 50p ticket! :money:

Karmacat

That sounds excellent, that fruit basket

I was reading about the YNAB founder yesterday, on MrMoneyMustache - he sounds like an **amazing** guy, and the firm is 100% online, and devolved, everyone lives where they want to live and no one commutes, basically. He really sounds like he walks the walk.

Shredding - I'm like Mila, Cheery, I shred anything the identity thieves could use, right down to my name and address on envelopes and documents - after all, if a fraudster put on a good act, an envelope thats been through the post might be enough to get a naive counter assistant to open up a loan in my name or something. Plus anything with something about a client on, even if there's no name, gets shredded. It cost about £15 about 10 years ago, really good buy. And I confess, I'm not putting it in the compost bin yet, because the bin has been overgrown by the box hedge leaning out from the fence line :o:o

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Cheery_Daff

Ooh yes, I read that interview too KC! He does indeed sound amazing. I'm not sure I could stick to that rigid a schedule though (although if you have 6 children perhaps you *need* a rigid schedule?!) Wish I could stay that cheerful too and do that much exercise :rotfl:

Ah well, sometimes you just have to accept the imperfect person you are and impressed at other people's fabulousness

You're all right about the shredding of course, but I'm afraid my life just cannot handle any new activity right now so I shall be sticking fingers in ears and studiously ignoring all talk of shredding (except to cheer you all on )

Goodness I'm exhausted :eek: Had to get up at 5am :eek: and started work at 6 :eek: spent the whole day answering phones to people disappointed with their A level results... not my usual job (thank goodness) but it was surprisingly satisfying :j Was meant to be staying til 6 but calls tailed off so they let us go at 3. But now I'm completely wiped out!

Want to get a few things done this evening but really I suspect I'm just going to be napping in front of the olympics :rotfl:

milasavesmoney

I'm lost at the A level results? Why would anyone call because they are disappointed? :think::question::question:

Cheery_Daff

Because they didn't get the grades they were hoping for Mila, and so the university they were hoping to go to had refused to let them in, so they had to go into 'clearing' where they ring round other universities trying to get a place on a different course... Sorry, probably didn't explain it very well!

milasavesmoney

Yes that's a perfect explanation. We take SAT or ACTs here in the States. I didn't realize it amounts to the same thing.

Cheery_Daff

Morning team :hello:

Late one this morning Gosh I was tired last night. I intended to just doze for a little and then get up... but ended up on the sofa from 6pm til Mr cheery came home at 11 :eek: and I still couldn't get out of bed this morning! :eek:

Oh well. Payday yesterday so have done YNAB and updated signature - £805 to moving house fund, so that theoretically there now should be enough to fund everything (estate agency fees, conveyancing, surveys etc) other than stamp duty - which is what we'll now start saving for. Could be anything from £2-7500 :eek: but if we keep putting £800 a month towards it then we'll have the lower end of that at least by the time we move (and the rate we're going with moving prep, we'll probably have time to save all of it) :rotfl:

Right, I *must* go to work, although I see it's now raining so I'll have to go and find something other than sandals to wear. Sigh.

Not at my most cheerful today!

Karmacat

Aw, Cheery, sounds like you really needed all that sleep. Hope you didn't get soaked either.

Cheery_Daff

A bit damp KC but not too soggy thank you! But I had a bit of a useless day all round and then I dropped my phone (for the 100th time) but it landed on a metal table leg and the screen is smashed, and I can't see a big black blob of it in the bottom corner :eek: Never broke a phone screen before!

Still, I have successfully managed to create myself a work-related website, which I've been meaning to get round to for months :j :j Not *quite* happy with it yet, but all the basic elements are there, it's just tinkering now. I've had a blog for years using free sites, but this is the first time I've tried self-hosting and it's a fairly steep learning curve :eek:

Tiredy tired again now Hoping I'll feel back to normal tomorrow! :j

Cheery_Daff

Having a nice day today :j :j

Got a decent amount of diploma work done this morning including finishing a document I've been putting off for MONTHS and sending to collaborator :j :j SO pleased.

Me and Mr Cheery went out for brunch and spent a happy hour listing all the tasks we still have left to do in the house :eek: I've spent another hour putting them into a spreadsheet, and allocating them to the next five weeks so we have a detailed plan of action for who is doing what in which week :eek:

There are 167 things left to do :eek: I've split each coat of paint into separate items though so we can have the satisfaction of crossing them off individually :rotfl: but even so, it's going to be a busy few weeks :eek:

Have printed the weekly lists and will pin them on the kitchen wall (until week 4, which is when that wall gets painted :rotfl: :rotfl: )

Fortunately we get a small mental headstart, as the first week runs from today until next Sunday Best blithering get started though, there's a LOT to do on that list! :eek: