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

rtandon27

OH DDFW do I ever feel for you! I've even had folks take reduced items straight out of my hands as I picked it up off the shelf!

My new tactic is to have my six foot something OH do his viking impression nearby, complete with crossed arms and a scowl while little 5 foot of me squeezes between the old dear's trollies to get to the deals they are strategically blocking off. Then I smile sweetly and ask if they mind if I took a turn.:D (Passing the one or two items off to him.) There are always plenty of reduced items to share around but they seem to believe in end of the world shopping manners!;) Kinda reminds me of 'American' football strategy!

Cheery_Daff

:eek: at people rummaging through your trolley DDFW! :rotfl: Good plan to have OH standing guard RT

I *think* I might just have managed another NSD yesterday!! Community allotment in the morning (free, of course, and I snaffled some lovely red and yellow tomatoes too - well, some red ones and some yellow ones, they weren't stripey!). Then a birthday party, then a cafe in town for some musical thing Mr Cheery was involved in (tea from treats budget)

Bit of food in the evening (from food budget) and some salted caramel popcorn flavour vodka, which didn't taste half as nice as it smelled... Still, that came from treats budget too (LOVE the treats budget :j :j )

Stayed up far too late finishing my book (nearly 4am!! :eek: ) and now work isn't going *quite* as well as I'd like...

Slimming world tonight so no NSD (although theoretically I have an envelope, it's got nothing left in it :rotfl: )

DedicatedDFW

rtandon27 wrote: »

There are always plenty of reduced items to share around but they seem to believe in end of the world shopping manners!;) Kinda reminds me of 'American' football strategy!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I can just see you completing passes to your Mr and drop kicking the goodies for a field goal :rotfl::rotfl: - if i've got the terminology right Thank you RT - i've had a bit of a tough day and you have made me laugh I agree there are often plenty of reduced things to go round - but i am often up against people who reserve the whole reduced shelves for themselves :eek: and yes i've had people grab things out of my hands too - super annoying!

DedicatedDFW

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Stayed up far too late finishing my book (nearly 4am!! :eek: ) and now work isn't going *quite* as well as I'd like...

Ooh what book was it Cheery?

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: you lot

Book was 'three things you should know about rockets' - just got it from the library last week. Tis about an American woman who worked as some kind of storyteller for NASA then decided to go to Scotland for a month to work in a bookshop - that bit was actually quite cheery (I love a good story of someone turning their life upside down in a good way ) but then it all got a bit 'this is my new boyfriend but we're not sure if we like each other or not' and there was a very tedious few chapters about visa rejections. Not really worth ruining the whole of today for :rotfl:

Still, I did get plenty of work done in the end :j

2.5lbs off at slimming world Cereal bars stocked up on for the marathon :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Evening all :j

Lovely day today on our work's away day - pootling up and down a canal on a little boat I was one of the organisers - I was late, nobody had my phone number, we forgot the list of who was coming and who'd ordered what dinner, and we did a quiz but forgot to take the answers :rotfl:

Sounds fairly shambolic but actually it was ace and we had a fab time

£10 donation to the boat volunteers
£6.20 lunch and a drink
£2 grapes on the way there

Also filled the car up with £50 worth of diesel - normally that'd last a month but I did 130 miles today, driving (possibly stupidly!) to the marathon at the weekend which is another 150 miles, Mr Cheery needs to visit his dad, another 150... so probably won't last the month but I don't think there's any other big trips planned so shouldn't be too much extra.

Off on Thursday so will do banking then - too tired now!

Made myself a new work bag tonight :j :j Still use my big rucksack on days I take the laptop, but this is for when I'm out visiting. I had a black and white polka dot oilcloth one from the market (cost about £7 I think) but several pens leaked in it and it was looking rather tatty...

Took an old table to the tip at the weekend, and peeled off the red gingham oilcloth topping, and formed a plan...

Undid the old bag, took all the handles and the base off, drew round it - and then spent nearly 2 hours scratching my head trying to figure out what order to sew everything together in :rotfl:

Done it now though and it looks exactly the same as the old one Except now it's red gingham with a rather excellent black and white dotty lining :j :j

Karmacat

I love the ingeniousness of your new bag, Cheery! And the canal trip sounds really great :rotfl: I definitely envy your energy levels in doing the bag on the evening of the canal day, good for you :j

starnac

Your bag sounds lovely. Oops at forgetting the quiz answers. That would cause ructions here!!

Cheery_Daff

No ructions here Starnac fortunately! Everyone laughed, and woman who'd organised the quiz collected the answer sheets and marked them - and my team won (no cheating involved, I promise!!) :rotfl:

Lovely pottering day today! Bit spendy mind you, but first day out since payday...

£10 haircut
£10 leggings and vest top
£1.30 strawberries (actually they can come from food budget)
£5 new phone charger
£2 fruit pastilles for race (and yogurt coated brazils... not for race... )
£1 post its
£7 ankle support

Poor ankle been a bit niggly, and while I'd normally be an advocate of easing of and letting it heal, given Sunday's race I've given in to an ankle support and already it feels a lot better. Suspect long term it won't do anything useful, but as soon as I've got through Sunday I shan't be doing much activity for a while anyway!

Just got home and made tea - only to find NO MILK in the fridge!! :eek: :eek: No Mr Cheery either - hoping he's gone out to get some...

Cheery_Daff

Oops, actually came in to do October's budget :rotfl:

Savings accounts
£244 car maintenance fund (MOT just done, next thing is insurance in Jan)
£219 annual bills (TV licence and house insurance both due Jan)
£448 house maintenance (plumber due in Oct, will want £96. Also need roof slate fixing and possibly outside windows painting)
£210 No Quibble weekends (will probably manage another one before Christmas)
£85 holidays (not got another one planned, although might go away at Christmas)

Added £178 to the savings account (which includes the extra £12 from the gas and electric bill), and paid in £30 of small change, so that's gone to the savings account too :j

Money got out for envelopes, so won't need to find change for buses etc, so am aiming for 15 NSDS in October :j :j