NSK: MAY the Odds Be Ever In Your Favour!!!

SiannieLaz

Evening All,


SFD for me today, busy day at work but we were let out early as it was a bank holiday Got home 2 hours before DD was due back and fell asleep on the sofa! Managed a workout this evening after DD fell asleep, but it's taken up all my time now and I won't have time to cook and be in bed for 10 I am determined to start getting up at silly o'clock again to do it, at least I have the whole evening to myself then.


Off work tomorrow, but might not be an SFD as we are off to see a nursery in the morning, and if they can take DD (and I like it) I have to pay a £50 registration fee! Can just about manage it this month, but it will leave me with only £16 for savings, etc. Oh well, next month will be better xx Need to focus on finding a new childminder too, as mine goes on maternity leave at the end of June


Totals so far:
SFD - 17/15
Groceries - £69.97/£80
Misc - £28.68/£40
Petrol - £15/£15
Exercise - 8/20
Daily check in - 25/31


Have a lovely evening all xx

cottage_retreatist

there is a little kitty crying outside

I have fed it some food but it is scared to come out form where it is hiding

feel so sad it has been crying for hours - not much i can do for now though i suppose!

Will keep an ear out if it is still crying for an hour or so I will go and jump over the gate and rescue it!!!

xx

edited to add - crying has now stopped, it has either run away (home hopefully) or is content, I feel good for being able to help it in some small way!

Fmess

cottage_retreatist wrote: »

there is a little kitty crying outside

I have fed it some food but it is scared to come out form where it is hiding

feel so sad it has been crying for hours - not much i can do for now though i suppose!

Will keep an ear out if it is still crying for an hour or so I will go and jump over the gate and rescue it!!!

xx

Oh no poor thing, I hope it's ok. Let us know please

cottage_retreatist

thanks fmess! crying has stopped for now but am keeping an eye out just in case!!!

xx

mooomin

Daily check-ins 27/31
SFDs 14/15
LTWs 18/19
Exercise days 22/20 :j
ISA savings £103.41/£50 :j :j
Food: £121.91/£150
Birthday fund: £40/£40 saved
Car fund: £100/£100 saved
Misc spends: £117.43/£175
Petrol: £55.99/£80

Nowt to report from me. Yesterday was quiet - a SFD apart from the planned food spend of just over £4. Today we're out for dinner so not a SFD, but this is an unplanned outing and I've been so good this month that I can go out and still be in budget, so I'm pleased

stewby

Morning. Bright and earlyish morning for me... not to worry heading back to bed soon (this is another week of nights coming up). Always a good excuse for having a long lie.


So.... have another couple of spend-free days in sunday and monday. Could have killed OH when he spoke about needing cereal on Monday as we went to asdamas on friday night to do the shopping for the week... so I decided that he made the mistake and I made him go buy the cereal.
Basically he was feeling grumpy and sulky on friday so all he wanted for the week was two bottles of beer. I kept asking him and reminding him that it was for the whole week but he kept saying he didn't want anything, just beer.
Maybe next time he will actually pay attention and not sulk with me.


Anyways... I have one very shiny 50pence piece left in our shopping budget. (I have put the coppers, 5p and 20p pieces into our savings pots).
The savings pots (the camperbug full of coppers and 5ps) will be disappearing and I will be stealing the 20ps out of the other pots too as we are doing something for the Teenage Cancer Trust in June so it will give a nice contribution to that.


Oh yeah... and the best bit!!!!! I lost 4lbs this week which puts me at my 8lb loss for the month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

NSK, any idea when June will be heading up?? I need to have a look to see if I can do it.


We have the wedding in June (not mine) and then a festival straight after so for the first two weeks, I will not really be able to post... however I have budgetted for both of these events!!!!!!
(that should be quite impressive really as I have never done that before). I am hoping I can still take part as I like having something to aim for, it helps me focus.


Hope everyone else is getting on okay... keep going tributes, we have almost survived May!!!!
Hugs.

MagicCat

Hello tributes,

Hope you're all well and had good bank holidays - I was away for Nan's party, lovely time had by all but some more spending on petrol, B&B etc. Am slightly over some of my budgets, but a bit under on others, so not too bad overall I suppose.

V annoyed with my builders this morning - they have a spare key to get in, as OH and I often leave for work early. I got a call at 8.15, when I am at work on the other side of the city, saying the key was given (by the builder!) to the plasterers last week, and they are now away on holiday, so the builder can't get in, and I need to 'sort something out quickly' as they have a lot to do. No apology at all! In the end, arranged for OH to go back with his key as he is a lot nearer, but its a real pain. Will be v glad when the work is finished, but no sense of when that will be yet - should have been the end of this week, but clearly not going to be. Sorry, moan over now!

Well done Fmess on getting under 10k!

Mothernerd - hope things are going OK, you are so right that little things add up and make a difference.

Dolly84 - enjoy halfterm, see you in June!

SiannieLaz hope nursery visit went well.

NSD 13/15
Groceries £194.79/£200
Birthdays £69.94/£60 (May is a bumper birthday month including my sister and my nan's 90th)
Petrol £76.15/80
Personal/toiletries etc £18.03/£10
Entertainment £81.45/£80 (includes going to nan's 90th party)
House - £32.25/£50 (paint for bathroom)

NinjaSavingKat

Well hello Tributes!!!

What a gloriously disgusting and wet, rainy day we are having in London Town. I am at work until 1900 so not looking forward to the sludge home from work and the inevitable wait for a bus in the downpour...

But my little Tesco run happened without a glitch and I even had a few pennies left over. Genius!

£3.50 voucher and £5 money-card will be put towards an orchid for my friend who is 31 years old tomorrow but not in a very happy place. Flowers die to easily. We will be heading to dinner and a movie as well.

I am constructing June's Challenge as we speak but am laden with work at the moment so am finding it hard to get it written.

Been lucky and have had 3 OT shifts granted. Two of which are sandwiched together and will be tough going. but beggars can't be choosers....

Not much else from NSK towers except I am glad the little kitty is okay though.

More soon....

Onwards and Upwards!

mothernerd

Another SFD. Went to my health trainer appointment. Have lost 2lb and 4 cms from my waist measurement. Wish it had been more but at least it is in the right direction. Bit confused as the total weight was more than I expected - machine only does kg and I forgot to write it down and can't work it out now.

He always asks how I am first and I said I felt as though I were trying to control too many things, weight, money, trying not to start worrying about the lack of money (lost 2 months money when things were already on the edge) and sliding into depression - explained how some weeks I have eaten a lot of raw veg and other weeks have been living on what was in the house.

Anyhow he offered me a food parcel. My first reaction was " Oh there's lots of people worse off than me" and then "What will my mother think?". But he said that from things I have said in passing, that I have helped lots of people over the years, often to my own detriment and maybe I should accept some help for a change. And it will help. Feel guilty because I have food in the house but realistically there has only been enough to pay standing orders for the past 2 months (been buying food with a cleared cc and then paying it back once all the sos and dds have gone out) and there is an extra £250 on top of all that to find this month(may also have to go on the card and be paid off in bits).

So I am officially poor.

I also collected my free prescription and collected my sack of pills whilst I was there. Struggled to get home and took ages to walk to the little post office and back this afternoon. Forgot to say I tripped on the way into the polling station on Thursday. Really need to persevere with the leg exercises.

Carry on tributes (go easy on the exercise for June Kat, unless we stick to our own level - mine's currently being outrun weekly by someone who couldn't walk 6 weeks ago).

SiannieLaz

Evening All,


Very successful nursery visit this morning, DD held my hand for the first 10 seconds, then ran off to play with all the other kids and cried when we went home! The staff were lovely, and were convinced DD is Boo from Monsters Inc.! I said I would let then know by the end of the week as I didn't want to seem too keen, especially when they said I probably had a few other places to see, but I will definitely be registering her.


Had a basic life support course in the afternoon, which I managed to stay awake for. I was super tired as I forced myself out of bed this morning at 5am and did a workout. Very pleased with myself, and freed up the evening. Cooked my yellow sticker chicken yesterday, and tonight made chicken, chorizo and chickpea stew, chicken and broccoli soup, chicken and leek risotto and 4 batches of choc chip and oat cookies. Chicken carcass is in the slow cooker for stock, and I still have at least 3 portions of cooked chicken left. Wont be buying any chicken for a while!!


Didn't manage an SFD today tho, as needed milk, bread and butter.


Off to bed very shortly so totals are:
SFD - 17/15
Groceries - £76.84/£80
Misc - £28.68/£40
Petrol - £15/£15
Exercise - 9/20
Daily check in - 26/31


Hugs to all that need them, and lets hope the sun shines on us all tomorrow xxx