NST: May the odds be ever in your favour!

shyspender

Hiya Turtles

First check in from me I'm afraid but I've been working all weekend. Tomorrow is my first day off since last Wednesday. The good news is that I have only spent once, that was on Friday to get fuel , so my SFD total is 5.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get chance to respond to all the rules and get caught up properly on here. I'm nursing a painful shoulder/back right now too. I think I've trapped something or pulled something. Had horrible pins and needles for 24 hours and now I've just got a pain and stiffness.

OH is going to be staying for an extra week, yay for me! Need to tweak the budgets a little though to incorporate real food.

nannygladys

Congrats to you both MessyMare, jealous ref the motor home hollie, it's something I would love to do, I'll have to put it on my list.

Well I had a sfd today and that brings it up to no.4 so...
Food spends £21.26
Sfd 4/20

I did a freezer inventory today and its insane the amount that's in there, so I created a menu for the next couple of weeks and then I will do a pantry inventory and create another two weeks so hopefully the stocks will go down a bit.

Anyway I'm really tired tonight so I'm off for a shower then bed I think for a read.
Nannyg

apple_muncher

:T:T:T CONGRATULATIONS MESSYMARE & Mr MESSY MARE :T:T:T

Have a lovely honeymoon xx


Stewby - like the forward planning! What's the 'non-house' part? (feel free not to answer if it is too personal/sensitive). When is your wedding? And very impressive step count!

Bob - glad your day improved.

Samiszel - 6 :T.

Shy - 5 :T. Glad your OH is staying longer. Hope the trapped nerve thingy improves on its own.

Fmess - hope all the other things going on in your life get sorted out smoothly over.

nannyg - I know what you mean about what's in the freezer! Even though ours is 2/3 full of dd's bread. there is still plenty of other food in there.


Today I am grateful for aspirin, for dd + friend playing for hours, for the rain, for a peaceful day, for buses.

stewby

Erm... embarassingly the wedding is not until April 2018. We wanted a chance to save.
Stupidly, my dream has always been to have a wedding where everything was paid for in advance so I could have anything I wanted without checking the cost first.

Don't get me wrong, we aren't going crazy with money or anything. I decided against a photographer due to the cost. We are going to have some digital cameras out on the tables and get people to take as many as they want. We are also giving the kids (two seven year olds) their own cameras as wedding gifts.


No band as there are only 18 of us. Going to have an ipod fully of cheesy pop (as in 80/90's cheesy film pop including the ghostbusters theme tune).
:rotfl:

Without sounding cheeky messy mare. Although I am very aware this might be offensive.
In Scotland, it is entirely legal to wild camp. If you are in a motorhome and head to the West coast of Scotland there are some gorgeous places to go.
I hope this doesn't offend you, if you are heading up to the Moray Firth then give me a shout, we found a couple of beautiful places when we last went out and about.


We just went shopping and spent £41.55... however, a lot of it was meat which will last us a while and the majority was also yellow labels. Makes me feel good.

liltdiddylilt

apple_muncher wrote: »

Have tried bulletproof coffee, but couldn't get it all to mix in. I guess I'm extra weird that I'd prefer to eat the separate components separately!

I know what you mean. The coffee has to be boiling. Add the butter (I chop it up) and stir. once then add the coconut oil and stir again, finally the cream. Surprisingly Calling it tastes nice. But it didn't quite get rid of my snack habit. I munched a few too many macadamias. Only 15 grams or so but still. I got home and scarfed a whole pack of king prawns with some salt and pepper :rotfl: but since I bought a box of viennese whirls, french fancies and a dairy milk with dime* bar in it, I am proud as I stuck to my diet like glue after a REALLY testing day. The cakes were thank-you's along with a beautiful bottle of red wine.

Also paid £5 to a solicitor today which was £175 less than I expected and a great relief.

Thus not a SFD. I retract it. Still on 2!!

shyspender EPSOM SALTS for the shoulder. Bathe in at least 250grams of them. Wonderful, athletes use them and I find them amazing for my mood, skin and overall body health. Hope you feel better soon. ins and needles sounds like a trapped nerve. Have you (weird but I have) dislocated your shoulder or had it pop just out then in again? I trapped a nerve and a synovial fluid sack when i 'cusped' my shoulder and collarbone. I fell on the floor and was sick when it happened though but you might be tougher than me!!

MessyMare CONGRATULATIONS!!! :D Hope your honeymoon is amazing and that the wedding was everything you wanted!! xxx

stewby lovely to see you posting hun. Much hugs! Life throws some carp our way doesn't it! xx

Caeraugirl yes please do. If not I may try and invent one :rotfl: xx

Pollygarter

Those bulletproof coffees are rather good. We use a blender to get the butter to stay suspended in the coffee. Really rich and tasty and you can go a long while without food then without feeling hungry.

Bobarella asked if I had put money aside to pay the balance on the holiday house. Mwah hahaha. No!!!! That would be budgeting. I didn't have one of those til last month. Daft, of.course and that's why I'm in a mess. I got one now... Next year eh?

Fmess

Congratulations messymare

SFD number 3 here and just reached my 11000 steps off to bed. Life's just too tiring at the moment!

littleskintdragon

Congratulations messymare

Doing yesterdays check in this morning, not a sfd, went foor shopping, but stuck to budget and got loads in mr.a and mr.l.
It'll probably last me next week apart from fresh bits 2, so hopefully some ££ left over.

Taking ds to a baby group today already planned and ive got the £1.50 in my purse from our budget, so hoping for a sfd apart from that. I sometimes meet a friend afterwards for a walk around the shops, but luckily the weather isnt looking promising!

Also taking dd to gymnastics tonight, which usually means a 2 hours stroll around the shops, but im going to take my books withe and do some revision for an exam ive got next week! Eek!!

MessyMare

Thank you! I'm very glad that we can get back to a bit more normality now. I'm treating the honeymoon just as a normal holiday did have a bit of a low moment yesterday over finances but I'm going to keep my spending down as low as possible and take some time to have a think about it. I think I was just very overwhelmed yesterday and struggling to process everything, so with my totally faulty brain it just latched onto something to give the low mood meaning.

Anyway, enough blather, time to go vote! Have a brilliant day everyone!

nannygladys

Morning everyone, it should be a sfd for me if I can walk past Al@I on my way to vote, shouldn't be too difficult as I don't need anthing but I will have to walk fast to miss the plants outside!!
Nannyg