NSK; The August Fairwell

dolly84

MagicCat - I did an online Asda shop a while back and have never bothered since, I had about a dozen subs one of which was tuna fish when I had ordered crumpets. Hope you get through the funeral OK.

I have filled the car up today and bought bags for cleaning up after the dog. So another spendy day.

This will be my last check in until Friday or Saturday, have a good weekend all.

Siouxsie32

Good afternoon everyone! Yikes, more tales of woe - hugs all round I think :grouphug: Hope everyone's well!

I've been at work the last few days...and had birthday too. Wasn't a very interesting one as I was working, but my lovely friend sent money to my boss to take me for a drink when we were finished (was at a different office so not at home to see my friends). Was kinda shocked at the price of drinks - we went to a lovely upmarket place an it was about a tenner for a glass of wine :eek: How do people afford it?

Last night I snubbed yoga in favour of an easy £40 few hours of work. When I got home I found a cheque from CPP for £240 :j Plus three of my ebay items that I relisted have bids so I'll get another £50 at the weekend from there. Not a bad money making/money saving week!

I also received 6 vouchers from S'bury offering £4 off a £20 spend. Starting tomorrow though, so I'll put off this evening's supermarket visit and just have porridge for dinner (oh yes, nobody can accuse me of not knowing how to have a good time ). My list has been written. I don't normally spend £20 but I can add my hair dye to top it up. Plus if I can squeeze in a leg wax while I'm in town, I can get it all done and only lose one SFD! Genius!!

Siouxsie32

Edited because my internet connection was a little dodgy and posted the same post twice!

mothernerd

NSD.

Feeling very heavy and sleepy (might just be the lurgy working it's way out).

DS3 ran a bath - he's used all the water the past 2 days, but it was coming out hot and plentiful,so he said I could have it first. Ran a sink full downstairs and tackled the washing up mountain, then took 3 bucket fulls out of the bath, got him to move everything out of the bathroom and mopped the floor whilst waiting for the bath to cool. Went back after and (holding on with one hand and scrubbing with the other) cleaned the bath and sink.

Ate home cooked food. I'm so rock and roll.

Today I am grateful for free food (fruit and opened tins of mixed beans from mum), comedy videos and sleep (had a couple of uncomfortable patchy nights but making up for it in the last 24 hours - hopefully more to come).

Kandinsky turtle - staying in my shell.

liltdiddylilt

Evening all.

Sorry I went AWOL over a couple of days. Internet woes. BT will rue the day their peanut paid monkey transferred my phone/internet/tv to someone else for a week and a half. Big corporations... I shall aim to suck them dry of compensation

Speaking of which, on ASDA delivery subs, I have to confess to doing my shopping with them online purely for those subs sometimes. They have repeatedly substituted smoked salmon for salmon fillets, broken eggs on the way to me, given me half the cheese I ordered and so on. Since I order these deliveries for when I am at work and they are just collected and dumped in the kitchen by Him, once I get home and check it through, I call them and ask what the heck they are playing at with half of the stuff. Refund, plus keeping the item, that is about the only reason but it is a rare occasion I do it now, preferring my dips into L!dl, !celand, ASDA etc. I sometimes feel bad. Then I remember the volume of food they throw away in the bins behind the shop, and the huge amount of money they make in profit a year and decide not to.

Kat & Dolly Frog marched to the checkout because the woman had kept me talking in the aisle for nearly half an hour... I was edging away all the time, planning on putting the cream (£1.21) and chocolate (£1.30) back on a shelf somewhere on the way to the till, but she literally followed me all the way there and 'helped' me put my items through the self-serve. For once, as she had been so helpful/bunny-boilerish and also had a severe BO issue, I just paid and ran! I made the money back. I went onto my Nat Lottery account and found £4.40 from some win on the Euromillions forever ago. I transferred it back out and declared it 'Jellytot cake funds' so she's actually in credit

Crazy lady - being of a softer demeanor at the moment meant I did in fact shed tears at your happy happy post and sig. CONGRATULATIONS :j :j :j :j :j (who am I kidding, I cry all the time!)

Speaking I can't wait for a little blub at you next month

Caeraugirl I have dropped you a post. I love my little pots on YNAB. I genuinely don't look at my bank balance as 'my' money any more. It all has a purpose. It cannot just be spent on pretty things! It so helps!

Thank you all for virtual hugs and support. I have been having a tiny bad time of it and suspect that not all that much is to do with Him. As Kat has said, when there isn't anything 'wrong' it still may not be right. I have yet to determine that one. He had a point. He was doing what I had asked, but for his own selfish reasons, unthinking of the horrendous consequences for myself & Jellytot. I was then the one to blame for not being supportive and only thinking of money. He knows I spend my evenings on here.. I wonder why my budgets are such a surprise to him... :rotfl: - It is hard for me to have my big brother poorly. I idolise him as does my dad. My dad has been a shadow of himself the last week. He has lost weight, his face is drawn, he looks old suddenly and I remember that whilst my brother is young at 40, my dad is 67 years old. With my Pop (86) dying, and my mum struggling with that and her mum who has alzheimers... my family is struggling and I am miles away. I have perked myself up with some exercise, and plans for my weeks holiday. I discovered the last time I took more than 1 day off work (and there have only been 4 of those) was the week of Valentines day... Thats a lot of time at work without a break!

Onto totals anyway. Some exercise added and 2 SFD's. I have spent the day clearing out Jellytots room. 2 bin bags full of toys to go to my cousins nearly 1 year old as she has outgrown them. Cuz brings them back to my mums house [storage facility] once Teddy is done with them. Very MSE, especially as Teddy is a boy and has had some rather fetching pink toys another binliner full of pure rubbish, mostly empty medicine bottles, hairbands that rip her hair (and mine!) and some broken toys... looking a lot better in there! Also discovered that babywipes wrapped around a window scraper make excellent cleaning tools. All trace of colouring in on the walls gone, seagull poo removed from the outside of our sash windows... allsorts has been scrubbed in this manner today :rotfl:

I hve jabbered on supremely as always and am off to make dinner. Fishfinger sandwich

Night peepity peeps. Hugs to those needing them xx

speakingofart

Another day literature reviewing, very dull but every word is a bit closer to September 1st and being finally, finally, done. So rubbish for exercise but good for NSDs as I just haven't left the flat. Updated totals, including the food I bought on friday and forgot to add.

SFD 10/12
Exercise 9/16
Food £21.81/ £150 (till 15th September)
Petrol £0/60

TiptoesDB

SFD: 5/12
EXERCISE: 12/25

Hi all, been a bit absent this weekend as it’s been a busy one. Not managed a NSD, but should today as we aren't doing anything.

Yesterday I took mum out for the day – she paid parking and her coffee, and her share of dinner, which is a new thing, as we usually pick up the whole bill. I had a few chats with her through the course of the day about money and how things are different for our generation and that she is in a very good position financially (something she really doesn't realise as my dad ‘did’ all the money and saved and invested, she’s never had to even know how much was in the bank till now). I will wait a little bit before I have the conversation about how I can’t always afford to do what she might want to do as we do not have pots of money lying around like she does.

Friday I had to buy lunch as forgot to bring mine to work – d’oh. I did manage a run on Friday – a nice long one round town from work, yesterday was a 4 mile walk with mum, but I am not counting that, and today was going to be a 40k bike but it’s blowing a gale out there, so I will go for a long run instead I think… after my post pancake nap that is! I am too scared to go out on the bike in strong winds.

Thanks Fmess ! It was a trial run of a cake I am making for a friend’s wedding on Friday, it’s not the wedding cake, but she is having a cake table. She did ask me to make the actual wedding cake a while back but when my dad was ill (and we didn’t know he would leave us so quickly) I said that I couldn’t commit to the wedding cake itself as I thought I would be caring for him for a lot longer. The cake is a vanilla sponge – 3 layers- with buttercream topping and filling and is decorated with dolly mixtures on the top. It looks very cute, but trial 1. was v. wonky! I will be doing trial 2. today.

Oh Kat – your underwear mishaps are keeping me very amused!

Crazy Lady – super well done you! How amazing! It must be an amazing feeling! You really deserve to celebrate! Speakingofart – can’t wait for your turn next!

Pheonix – hugs (gentle ones!) I hope you are on the mend and getting back into the saddle is not too scary.

Lilt – sounds like you have been doing some thinking and you are right – you are going through a really tough time. Go easy on yourself …

Ok, little sunday nap next , then a blowy run...

x

NinjaSavingKat

Hi Chickadees... short check in from me.

Very very much needed lazy day yesterday and a meet up with my friend for a film (Hector and the Search For Happiness).

Today I am sorting through everything that I think I can chuck away. So far a large pile of clothes have materialised and that pile will get larger as the work life closes down and I can chuck more skirts etc - Just gotta figure out how to make some money from this. I know you can donate them and get money per kilo but now there is something at M&S that you can do apparently but I am sure you have to have wearable clothes and not rags...

eBay does not interest me now. I just want to simplify life and get rid of them all without crazy runs to the post office that is no where near my house.

Papers /magazines and books were sorted through and the LL and his girlfriend has taken a few loads to the dump. I have also pulled pictures out of a massive and heavy album which is being binned.

Next on the list is getting my double kingsize duvet cleaned - goosedown - bought before going vegan and realising that ducks are plucked live or something equally as horrific. It's gonna get vacuumed squished and shoved in a box and sent home along with my favourite blanket. yeah, I have a favourite blanket. :rotfl:

I am just ready to get rid of everything now and have had enough of this stupid thing called "work"...:T:T:T

Anyway..short break for noms and will check in later today...

Onwards!!

mothernerd

NSD.
Quiet day. Learning /practicing new pain control techniques and/ or trying to ignore it/ distract and amuse myself. Followed by afternoon nap - still not sure if it's the lurgy making me tired or the shape of things to come. Maybe just because I spent so long trying to get 'better' and it's just part of adjusting to new circumstances. Hopefully DS1 and the builders are both coming round sometime this week so may have a better idea of how to proceed with house repairs and a much needed second opinion. When I was waiting for the parcel to be collected, I started thinking the front room skirtings looked scruffy in full sunlight - were done before Christmas and looked good. Can't start re-doing everything - well I can't do much at all, so hoping it looks okay to someone who hasn't spent 3 hours looking at it. They weren't done at all when I bought it so surely house- buyers aren't going to take that much notice, they are new skirting boards, isn't that enough. Sorry difficult day.

Still in my shell. Hugs to all who need them.

mothernerd

Today I am grateful for my bed (lovely lovely mattress), simple food (yoghurts, apples, rice salad, crispbread with lowfat cheese spread and green peppers and hm ready meal later) and hot baths (something to look forward to but waiting for Ds3 to wake up so he can run it).