Always Pass on What You Have Learned

wishus

The trip to London was good, and I made another contact possibly interested in working with me for my freelance job - so objective achieved! I had forgotten how many stairs there are in Old Street tube station though, and my knee was throbbing in pain half the night as a result of climbing them.

Plus, because they were a little painful when I got there, I decided a diet coke wasn't quote going to cut it and ordered a large Malbec from the bar - it came to £7.55! :eek:

I didn't buy any more...

When I got back, OH picked me up from the station and we had a wee glass from our spirit stash before bed.

Today, I am feeling knackered and am drinking loads of tea, but need to crack on with work later.

wishus

Oh dear... Slimming World diet does not do too well against the prospect of yummy free food!

At work, I have fed my face with a Krispy Kreme glazed donut and a few slices of Domino's pizza.

After all, I am trying to look after my health, but I'm also trying to look after my money. :money:No way am I turning down free Domino's!

Tonight I am going to my book club... will try to stick to lime and soda. Not sure if I have to go sit somewhere for a while before we start, so might have to get my dinner out. Thinking either Wetherspoons, or...

... popping to see if there is any pizza left downstairs and having that for dinner tonight at work before getting a later train. :think::shhh:

Also, really moving video here about poverty by author Kathleen Kerridge.

wishus

EDIT: got some potato wedges from downstairs... and a colleague still full from lunchtime pizza says I can eat his pasta he brought in, he doesn't want it. Looks like dinner is sorted!

mothernerd

Excellent pizza wombling wishus.

wishus

Thanks, mothernerd!


It was a bit of a fun Friday at work. Also scored a Cadbury's crème egg and a small glass of champers, which we drank under the glare of one of the managers, but it was the boss boss who gave it us!
:rotfl:

wishus

Finally - a bit of MSE-tastic news to tell you.


Today, I set up a payment to go out of my bank account on Monday, which is incidentally the day I pay my mortgage and receive my salary. I always count my mortgage as a spend at the beginning of the month in a spreadsheet, so that I don't accidentally account for it in the next month and spend it again. But, I had no more shopping to do, nothing else coming out... so I knew what I'd got was saved.


Despite spending over my grocery budget, I did it this month. I PROPER DID IT - an overpayment to my loan that flipping well reduces the term of the loan by a whole month!!!! Also - I've saved £32 interest.


Go me, go me, go me! :j :j :j


I had a little spend today... I had to buy packaging and postage to send my mobile phone off to the repairers, but it should come back as good as new. Or, let's face it, probably new.


... and pray tell, how did you travel to the post office Mrs Dodgy Knees?


I CYCLED.

:eek:Yes... I am fed up of feeling like a bouncy castle in jeggings. I can't really walk, and running is out, but cycling is supposed to be good for strengthening the muscles that support the knees, so I gave it a go. I was clumsy and wobbly and my knee did complain a bit, but I managed it, and I feel so much better!


While I was out I took my books back to the library and swapped for some more. I think I broke one of the machines and set off the alarms when I left too, but that's what happens when jobs for people get replaced by machines and volunteers who don't know how to fix the issue. Still - keep using the libraries, they are important.


I might see if I'm up to swimming tomorrow, but I have to clean the house, especially the bedroom, and sort out the pile of surplus bags we have, and couldn't really do that with OH lolling in bed until lunch. So, lots to do.


But anyway. Well done me. I deserved my choccie egg. :T


:EasterBun

kittycashcake

You total bloody legend!

wishus

Tomorrow, February 29th, is the 2nd anniversary of when I proposed to OH (in 2008!).


So, OH surprised me today with a ride out to the countryside and afternoon tea in a posh manor house.


Afternoon tea is a romantically delicious thing to do (and a bit easier on the budget than dinner in a restaurant). Well done OH.



But... let's make this the last 'treat', eh?

wishus

:doh:Oh dear... caught out by The Sun ads, I mistakenly grabbed a copy this morning thinking there would be a voucher for £5 in it off meat in Morrisons.

No... only a token. And you need to collect 21 of them. This would mean a spend of at least £8.40 to get a voucher back. Worth it if you actually wanted to read the Sun. But it's just not my cup of tea.
:coffee:

Picked up my free copy of the New Day this morning though, the new paper that's meant to be about positivity, and after perusing it on the train, I'm not sure if my brain has dribbled out of my ears the way it does when I read The Metro, but I think some melting/congealing has taken place. It's pretty fluffy. There's a teach-granny-to suck-eggs section on getting free stuff. The book recommendation is a diet book, featured next to a cupcake recipe :undecided and sport is restricted to a middle fold out, with no women's sport mentioned. Oh, there's Olympic skeleton champ Amy Williams 5 pages after, but she is only being asked about her favourite male rugby team . Reading age seems to be >9 Seems a bit, erm... ninny-centered.

I do like the fact that there is no 'pap' celebrity exclusives, just their own pictures, but there is still intrusive "they should do this" opinions about celebrities. Pfft! Not so positive, just ... fluff.

kittycashcake

So all the progressive women's issues covered then, how to look good and what do we think about men because they are ever so important and all we think about is kittens and embroidery and being whisked away by our Prince Charming. {{{ stabs self in the eye}}}

Sorry, I'm only allowed one feminist rant a week at home so they tend to squirt out randomly