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

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, excellent work Rt, well done! :j :j

We have a bathroom (and bedroom, and spare bedroom) door :j but no car :eek: which is being held hostage by the garage while they figure out just exactly how unfixable three of our four fuel injectors are :eek: fingers crossed, should get a phone call on Monday...

I myself am currently quite drunk, icredibly stuffed full of curry, sticky toffee pudding and rose wine, and on my way to amother party :eek: Must remember I"m not 17 any more (and I was rubbish at this type of thing when i was anyway :rotfl: )

Greying_Pilgrim

*whispers* - How's the head this morning Cheery?

I was in bed (asleep) by 9pm last night, I didn't used to go out until 9pm when I was 17....... :rotfl::rotfl:

Glad you've had a chance to let your hair down - you've been working hard of late.

Greying X

rtandon27

***tiptoes in***

...well GP she hasn't surfaced yet, so I'm guessing it was a very 'successful' night out!...:D:rotfl:

I've got to admit that I too can't remember what anything past 10pm looks like! - need a solid 8 hours a night just to function during the day!

***tiptoes out so as not to wake Cheery***

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: you lot I've been up for hours! Went out to a local cafe for breakfast and bumped into some friends, so spent a happy hour waking up in the cafe then there was a little local market, so we spent another hour or two pottering round the charity shops and the stalls bumping into other people we knew :j Most enjoyable

Flagging a bit now though :rotfl: Just curling up on the sofa for an hour with the door open and a nice breeze :j

Cheery_Daff

Crikey, what a week :eek:

Work is ludicrously busy at the minute for various reasons, and I had an assessment deadline for a course I'm doing which led to me up working til midnight for the first half of the week, and I've not finished til gone 7 the last two nights either.

Combine that with ongoing car fiasco (been in garage for a week, cost £516 and STILL doesn't !!!!in start...), culminating in a pinged leg for Mr Cheery (trying to push car), several blood tests for me (all fine), and a new grim family crisis, and it's been a rather trying week...

Been ignoring YNAB, but I fear the time may have come to grasp the nettle. It's not going to be pretty - we've been doing what we can to just get through this week, and that has involved pizzas and various other expenses on top of the car etc.

Back in a bit...

Cheery_Daff

Oh, but on the plus side, I HAD to make scones for breakfast as we just didn't have anything else in...

Cheery_Daff

Right, all done :eek:

Horrendous mess, but I've sorted it with £56 odd going into budget fiddling :eek: I've been out for various cups of tea, dinner, snacks at street market, but there was no earthly point me guessing at those different things with no receipts

Logged as budget fiddling, big red number at the top of the screen, but I'm paid in a few days so will sort that out then. Fortunately actual ban account is NOT a big red number - I will be forever grateful that a £500 car bill hasn't crippled us as in the past it would have So much gratitude for that.

Right. Best get on. Working at home today so the man can come and sort the blithering car out.So far that's mostly involved scones.

Cheery_Daff

Bleurgh. Feel like I'm just surfacing after over a week of being submerged :eek: Just one thing after another after another after another...

So. Mechanic came to house last friday and fixed the car - but showed me a nifty thing to squeeze in the engine "if it doesn't start again" :mad: Started fine on Saturday (hooray!) so i didn't call him, but Sunday, when I had to make an unexpected trip to see family, the bloody thing wouldn't start :eek:

Squeezed thing in engine and thank goodness it started - but I can't be fiddling round under the bonnet every single morning! So it's gone back to the garage again this morning.

I'm a teensy bit annoyed having spent £550 now over two garages over three weeks, and we're still no further on - and in fact this seems to be a different problem than originally. Aarrgghh!

However, this is one tiny boring practical buzz in the cachophony of nonsense and noise that is in my head this week. But several work deadlines have passed now, Mr cheery's leg is mending, and I'm just throwing up my hands and doing whatever I need to do to get to the next day.

Which means frozen pizza tonight, takeaway last night, and the hoovering has gone to the dogs :rotfl:

Still, have agreed to take part in sone research next week which will get me a £10 for a nice treat so it's not all spendy spendy :j :j

EssexHebridean

Sometimes we need to accept that there are more pressing things in life than budgets, and just go with the flow of "path of least resistance" I think - and of course thankfully this is exactly what emergency funds enable, isn't it.

Crossing fingers for the car returning today full of vim and vigour (or at the very least actually starting when you turn the key!)

Cheery_Daff

Tis indeed, and I am grateful for savings that mean this is most definitely a 'minor annoyance' rather than a 'debt-causing disaster'. Also thankful that I don't actually NEED the car for anything - I can be everywhere I need to with a combination of walking/ public transport / bike. Mr Cheery is in slightly different position with needing to cart equipment round, but even he doesn't need to go that far and there's always been someone able to collect him - he's done a lot of ferrying people and stuff in the past so is now reaping the rewards I suppose.

Hoping I'll at least hear something today even if I can't collect it today... I at least want it back for the weekend as I want to go to the tip and we're meant to be going to a bit of a get together in another nearby town. I'd adventurise by train/foldy bike but suspect Mr cheery and his gammy leg won't be too keen... might be able to cadge a lift though as others near us are going. We'll see.

Only spends today should be the charity cake sale at work and donation at meeting tonight (unless I get car back in which case I'll go food shopping).

Right, best get on!