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

Karmacat

Oh Cheery, I'm so sorry to hear about your nan ... I just hadn't logged it. As you say, even though its time, its still sad

Glad you had a nice long chat with your sister last night! A nice bath is good at any time, but I *really* don't want to think of you sweeping the kitchen floor after 10 on a Saturday night - hope you had a good sleep, anyway.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks KC. Funeral is this week, not looking forward to it really but then I'm sure nobody does!

Bit of a weird all over the place weekend here, with me and Mr Cheery taking it in turns to be cheery/grumpy and never quite managing to be cheerful at the same time Still, I've had a nice morning sitting in the park reading, and then sitting outside a little cafe reading, and walking through the woods

Home now, and I think I'm going to sit out in the garden since it's such a nice day Might do a bit of tidying while I'm out there, and then maybe a little bit of tidying/hoovering when I come back inside.

Will sort out YNAB today too :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Bit of a weird all over the place weekend here, with me and Mr Cheery taking it in turns to be cheery/grumpy and never quite managing to be cheerful at the same time

Tell me about it - insert week in our case I hope the funeral goes well - as much as these events can. I know there is a reason for them, but i don't enjoy attending funerals at all. My failing, I'm quite sure.

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Aw Greying, sorry to hear that ((((((()))))))) We're dreadful at it actually Or perhaps we're very good - when one of us is really low the other one always rallies round and stays positive and competent, then perhaps just gets tired and lets go a bit as the first one rallies round. Wish we could be cheerful at the same time more often though!

I'm not sure there's a single person who 'enjoys' attending funerals. I think they're always emotional, and in my family at least (and plenty of others, I'm sure) there's always an element of slightly dysfunctional relationships, always somebody not sure they should be there, or feeling like they're saying the wrong thing, and it's never nice to see people crying, especially when they're the 'grown ups' in the family Hey ho.

My main worry at the minute is making it through the rush hour traffic in time! :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Morning MSE chums :hello:

Gosh it was a blustery one last night! :eek: hope you're all safe and well and not blown away.

Some minor spends yesterday as I went to my old job for a meeting and didn't take lunch - naughty... also bought them a packet of biscuits. Roughly £5 all in.

Had to buy train tickets and found more in my purse from the last couple of times I've been - must do an expenses claim today as together they'll add up to about £90 :eek: I try to adjust the budget as I go along so hopefully I'll be able to bung that straight in the house fund when it arrives :j (also must add that up again - surely I've got enough in there now?!)

Got the whole day in the office today, and leftovers for lunch (although I confess tea last night was actually a bit of an odd combination and I'm not really looking forward to eating it again :rotfl: ) still, waste not, want not also got snacks and fruit etc so shouldn't need to buy anything today :money:

Booked onto a yoga class at lunchtime with new gym membership :j Hoping it'll be less painful than the 'legs, bums and tums' class I went on last week - still hurts now when I try to lift anything or turn over in bed :eek: :eek:

Nowt else to report. Funeral tomorrow so I need to decide on clothes tonight as we'll have to leave about 7am and I certainly don't want to be scrabbling round for clothes then.

Also payday tomorrow but excitement about money shuffling will have to wait til Thursday...

Hope you all have a jolly day :j

Cheery_Daff

Evening folks :hello:

Well, that yoga class was frightening :eek: Don't know whether it was because the instructor was rather fiendish or whether I'm just really unfit and unbendy :rotfl: added to which an echoey room, a strong accent and her not doing the moves herself because of an injury made things rather confusing. I did feel better afterwards though, just didn't particularly enjoy the 'during' :eek:

Excitement (kind of) this evening - payslips have been released before tomorrow's payday, and my student loan has actually been removed! :j :j :j :j I was convinced they wouldn't do it properly and I'd have to go through some ludicrous reclaiming process but apparently not! :j VERY excited at the thought that some piece of financial bureaucracy has actually been done properly (ish - remember I shouldn't really have had to pay it off in the first place...)

Still, that was quite a hefty chunk going out of my wages each month, so between that and last month's pay rise I'm now getting approximately £250 more than in August :eek: :j :j

Of course, that's going to have to straight into building back up the emergency fund that I used to pay off the student loan in the first place... :rotfl:

ISA dosh is due to hit the account on 21st, which now I think of it, is a Saturday, so maybe it won't arrive til Monday. That was a 33 day access account, and that cash will replenish the easy access 'house fund' savings, which are only 'virtually' sitting at my signature amount at the minute...

Off to do YNAB to tidy things up before payday :j

Cheery_Daff

Right, YNAB sorted :j Nothing glaring going on there. Deleted a couple of transactions from early September that were clearly just me entering them as bank transactions when they were really cash... Gym membership will have to come out of tomorrow's wages, but will be almost covered by expenses anyway once I get them back (didn't get round to claiming today so will definitely do it on Thursday).

Just added up moving expenses again - should need £15,565 to cover everything that's left :eek: so not far off :j There may be a slight bit of extra fees to cover the latest legal jiggery pokery to satisfy lender requirements, but that may be offset a bit by the reduction in stamp duty. Will top it up to £16,000 tomorrow and then start building the emergency fund back up.

Trying desperately not to see it as actual MONEY as I fear I may be far too distressed when it all disappears from the bank account in one go :eek: :eek: But mustn't forget that we will (hopefully! :eek: ) be living in an extremely exciting and cheerful house when (if) we come out of the other side so it'll be worth it We will be fortunate indeed :j (fingers crossed, of course...)

rtandon27

Thinking of you today Cheery xoxox

Greying_Pilgrim

As rtandon, thoughts are with you & yours.

XX

Cheery_Daff

Thank you lovely ladies :kisses3: It was a difficult day but not a bad send off and we got to see some long lost family members too.

Long day today, went out early to have breakfast with a friend before work which we are enjoying so much we're making it a regular feature I did blub at her this morning though then e late as i had to go to a work event this evenig, then Mr Cheery picked me up and we stopped off in @ldi.

Some bargains - little jars of apple pie and punpkin spice reduced to 9p (they're mixed with sugar so more a ready made porridge topping than spice really but for 9p I'm not complaining). 35p parsnips, carrots and onions :money: and some pumpkin spice knock off Baileys stuff which Mr Cheery has decided is grim but I'm quite taken with :rotfl:

A word of warning if you go though - do NOT be tempted by an experimental press of the dancing skeleton halloween novelty toy :eek: It sings (and dances) the WHOLE of "I love rock n roll" very loudly :eek: goes on FOREVER! :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ready for bed now (and won't be able to sleep with that bloody song going round :rotfl: )