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

Cheery_Daff

And since I'm sat here on me lonesome waiting for Mr Cheery to come home, I thought I'd check the bank and my wages have gone in :j :j Late night bank shuffling here I come! :rotfl:

It seems my payrise is....

.... drumroll please...

£36.56

Not huge but nicely welcome And I see looking back through my payslips that I obviously benefited from some kind of tax shuffling back in April meaning I had about £14 extra a month since then, which I confess I didn't realise So that's an extra £50 a month on top of what I was getting in March - which is £600 a year :eek: :j

Not sure whether to sweep the extra £36 over to savings, or use it to pay my course feels (£30). But then I was considering paying those off in a lump sum when I do a few months of full time...

Anyway, it's all in the same bank account so a bit of a moot point! :rotfl:

Anyway - an update (after the usual budget fiddling, of course )

£154 car maintenance (nothing til MOT in October)
£288 annual bills and dentistry (I'm due to pay dentist £219 this week though :eek: so this will drastically reduce!!)
£321 house/maintenance
£313 no quibble weekends (next one in 3.5 weeks! :j )
£118 holidays (got a week off in August, may have to supplement from no quibble fund)

Not too bad

Also added £152 to long term savings:

£50 savings budget
£27 savings from gas/electric
£19 from spreading council tax out
£20 savings from house phone
£36 payrise

So in July I reckon

£200 spends
15 NSDs :rotfl: Should keep me on my toes

Cheery_Daff

Changed my mind and transferred the extra £14 from tax rejigging into savings too - so that's a total of £166 to long term savings this month :j Will go and update sig :j

LOVE keeping track of it all here, really motivating to see just the little bits add up and up

(hope you don't all mind reading my waffling :rotfl: )

Pippilongstocking

Waffle away me dear getting it out of your head is often the answer

Happy Monday.

Wonder if I can do 15 NSDs?

Cheery_Daff

bet you can no trouble at all!

i spend too much time going to and from train stations past a shop :rotfl: :rotfl:

go on, why don't you try 15 too and my inner competitor will come out and i'll have to keep up

DedicatedDFW

Hi Cheery

I'm popping round diaries catching up - well done on all the savings and NSDs :T

And to being at weight target - i now know exactly how you feel re. trying to get to target weight - i have lost about a 1/3 of what i need to to reach my target - and the last 2 weeks i have been eating very healthily and exercising (as i have in the previous weeks) and what do the scales say - next to no weight lost - 2lb in 2 weeks :eek::eek: *grumble* *grumble* - i am not at any club though just plodding on on me lonesome with it all. I won't be at target weight for me hols - far too much to lose for that but i had wanted to be nearly 2/3rds of the way there - don't the scales know this? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Very productive in the kitchen the other day too - its fab not wasting food isn't it? Although i confess to always needing to throw come lettuce leaves away as they never last as long as promised - i'm pondering freezing them and grating them up in a stew or something but no idea how that would turn out could be or

And New York is fab although i do love a few other places over the pond

Where is your next no quibble weekend trip ?

starnac

Can you freeze lettuce dedicatedDFW?

Cheery_Daff

I imagine lettuce would go soggy in the freezer but have never done it! i've stuck it in soup in a pinch though

neglected this the last few days! bit spendy, that's why...

Wednesday £2.40 tea at train stations, £2 big issue

Tuesday £9 taxi (train delayed by cows wandering too close to train line and made me late for meeting :rotfl: ) £2.50 chocolatey things at station

i think that's it...

aiming for NSD today :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Oops, forgot to reply to you the other day DDFW, sorry! very frustrating to be so close to target weight and i tried for SO long to let go of it being a particular number! Actually felt much better this week being weighed - i'd put on 1.5lbs but still in target range so still free couple of weeks ago i would have been annoyed but just accepted it as a minor fluctuation and moved on

as long as it doesn't fluctuate too much more in that direction :rotfl: :rotfl:

so i ruined my NSD yesterday with an entirely unnecessary 90p chocolate bar at the train station :mad: silly girl. remind me not to do that again!!

Today will be cheery Two hour skype tutorial thingy for my course (starts at 10.20 so i'd best get dressed and point the webcam at something non grubby! :rotfl: )

then later have a teleconference for work - NOT impressed with it being on my day off :eek: but it's with outside people and the only day everyone could do. Started an hour later yesterday to make up for it

Also need to run a few miles at some point, and do some garden pottering :j

not sure i NEED to spend anything... although visiting nephew for his birthday tomorrow so will need an extra bit of present but that might be tomorrow...

have a jolly one all! :j :j sun's shining and i can just feel it's going to be a good day :j

starnac

Ooh good luck with your Skype tutorial. How fancy!!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Starnac, although it wasn't fancy at all - my blithering internal microphone wouldn't work :eek: so we ended up starting half an hour late while we sorted it out :eek:

All sorted eventually though (although the problem hasn't gone away, I just used a different computer so will need to sort it properly at some point!). And we actually finished earlier than planned anyway as we whizzed through everything so quickly :rotfl:

Nicely relaxed for the rest of the day I think!