Giving it another go.

newlifeahead

Morning walk completed. My walking partner is going away for the week so I will give the early morning walks a rest for now and just do walking with ds2 during the day instead.
Bank accounts checked and I am just waiting for my council tax and water dd to go through.
Today will be paid work, home schooling ds2 and cleaning the house. Then Thursday and Friday will be very busy.
Thursday - paid work, then getting my nails done whilst ds2 is being tutored. I will then have to rush off to work for my mom and my dad will collect ds2 when he has finished. DS2 then has swimming lesson at 5:30pm and I will then have mine at 8pm. I am not sure what time I will finish working for my mom but I really don't want to miss my swimming lesson. When I get home after 9pm I will be exhausted and it will take an hour to dry my hair.
Friday - paid work until 1:30pm then work for my mom again straight after. DS1 will finish school at 3:10pm but then has to go to his tutoring lesson at 5:15 until 6:15. DS2 then goes to boys brigade at 6:30pm until 8pm. Again I do not know what time I will finish working for my mom, so my dad may have to do all the running around for me.


Somewhere in there I have to fit in making my own birthday cake :eek:
Maybe I will have to make it today, but I don't know if it will last until Saturday, otherwise I may have to wake up at 5am on Friday morning to make it then
Phew I think I will write this all out and put it up somewhere so I don't forget anything. It may be best if I live and deal with everything hour by hour and try not to panic.
I remember reading something about living in day tight compartments and not worrying about tomorrow. I think this will be a good time to try this out

newlifeahead

Oh lovely. Now my brother and sister have turned up. I am trying to work and deal with Ds2. My sister decided to tell me she is sleeping over until Saturday.
Oh isn't that fantastic news. _pale_

newlifeahead

I just hate it when my post disappears
I wrote a long post and now it's gone.

I will try and write a very short version.
Money left in my purse from weekly spends £11:08
I managed to earn £60 working for my mom
Out of the to dolist for Thursday the only things that didn't get done were my nails, my swimming class and baking my cake.
As usual I have put myself last again
Tomorrow is my birthday and I plan to switch my phone off and spend the day just with the kids. If I can't be contacted then I cannot change my plans.
So I will buy myself a £6 carrot cake from the co-op. Tomorrow we will go the Harvester for a meal (I have a 20% off voucher) and then we may go to the cinema (have the 40%off voucher.)
Tomorrow I will enjoy my day even with untidy nails :rotfl:

newlifeahead

It's my birthday today :j
I have been to my sw weigh in and I have put on half a pound this week booooo Never mind I have had a cup of tea and birthday cake to make me feel better.
So far I have received a nice waterproof coat, a hat for when I go out walking and some perfume.

Yesterday I got paid £40 for working for my mom so I have been able to earn enough to pay for ds2 Rugby subs £50, boys bridge subs £14 my nails £20 and ds2 BB outing £4.

My sister decided to tell me (not ask) last night that she would be staying for the whole week when she goes back to uni. I politely told her that that would not me ok with me as I have a lot on over the next few weeks eg studying for my exam. I really do not want the extra distraction and need to focus. I am sure this subject will crop up again. She had planned to stay in a hotel when my parents get their bathroom renovated but now that she has been staying here a lot free of charge it looks like she is not interested in paying for a hotel.
Anyway I must get on with the day. Happy Saturday all :beer:

*Robin*

Happy Birthday, NewLifeAhead - hope you have a lovely day with your lads! _party_ _party_ _party_
:bdaycake:

Heads back to Lurkdom..

newlifeahead

*Robin* wrote: »

Happy Birthday, NewLifeAhead - hope you have a lovely day with your lads! _party_ _party_ _party_
:bdaycake:

Heads back to Lurkdom..

Thank you for unlurking Robin. I had a very simply but great birthday:)

newlifeahead

I should really update this when I spend any money otherwise I forget what I have spent money on.
From last weeks budget.
Out of the £11:08 I had left in my purse I now have £10.08. So only £1 is unaccounted for.
£4 of that will pay for ds2 outing and the rest I will put away for a rainy day £6:08

Out of the £100 I received from working on Thurs/Fri only £45 was needed to pay ds2 Rugby subs, £5 saved there
£14 will be used for ds2 BB and £20 for my nails. That leaves £21 for a 2nd rainy day.
I have taken out £100 for this weeks spend
£20 paid for petrol
£3 on lottery (played on my b'day but didn't win boo)
£24.68 shopping
£29 for tuition
Leaves £23.32 for the rest of the week.
So far so good. Fingers crossed no disasters this week.

newlifeahead

I have no idea why I plan to do things sometimes. On this occasion things still went well. For my birthday my parents took the kids and I out for lunch. It was a great few hours and they paid which was even better.
Kids bought me a cake so I didn't have to buy one in the end. I enjoyed by birthday and spent hardly anything :beer:
I have no plans for this week and hope to take it easy.

newlifeahead

ohhhhhhh

I have found the missing £1 it was in my jacket pocket. I used it for the shopping trolley :j

newlifeahead

Yesterday I spent £17.20 in Lidl. So far this week my shopping budget has increased. I will put this down to my siblings coming over every day and eating our food

Now I only have £6.12 for the rest of the week. I may have to buy milk and bread at some point. I am not going to worry too much about it now, I can always use the money saved from last week

I hate it in the middle of the month when debt busting seems slow. I have taken the plunge and paid £404.82 on my Cap 1 card. I am also waiting for a refund (£22.98)from QVC which should hit my account by the end of the week. This will then leave £157.02. I will try and clear this before the end of the month and then this card will be clear except for any interest charges on the next bill run.