The Spreadsheet Diva's MF Diary

SueP19

Finally home, after yet another long day.

We went to a Nepalese restaurant at lunch(work thing), very nice but boy have I got indigestion. Tad too spicy for me.

Just wrote my to do list for tomorrow, not too bad, still got to put tree up, not looking forward to that as that was DD deptment. Starting to miss her now. She on other hand is in Covent Garden looking at a certain handbag shop !!!!! She calls them her investment, likely story lolol

Hoping to sorted by lunch tomorrow as I have a date with Mr Hugh Grant, just live the bit where he calls Mrs T sexy minx

CathT

Hi Sue, have just been reading through your diary. You have done a huge thing supporting your daughter in the way that you have. Good luck paying off the cc's and making those OP's.

It has stuck in my mind what Lulabelle said about not overpaying/saving so much it makes you miserable. We have done that in the past and it is no good when you are in it for the long haul.

Good luck, will be keeping up with your diary.

SueP19

Thanks CathT

I was finding about £1,200 a month towards fees so hopefully I will be able to find a happy medium. I think my first year will be mainly about an EF and getting used to putting money aside for Xmas etc, never had chance to do that before

Petal88

Hi Sue,

Just read through your whole diary and I just wanted to say that you've done amazingly well - I am in awe of you and you deserve all the best for everything you have done for your family.

I'll be following your diary with interest from now on!

SueP19

Petal88 wrote: »

Hi Sue,

Just read through your whole diary and I just wanted to say that you've done amazingly well - I am in awe of you and you deserve all the best for everything you have done for your family.

I'll be following your diary with interest from now on!

Ah thanks I don't feel awesome I actually feel like a failure xx

SueP19

Day 16

Well up n at em early this morning as loads to do, early bird catches wormy and all that, miracle really as I was up in the night with a dodgy shoulder and back then started worrying over DD

Thank god I am an early bird not a night owl

First disaster of the day, painkiller spilt all over floor, managed to save the plink plink fizz :money:

Mini drama last night : drama scale 1 stress scale 8

OH's e cig is turning itself off, so mad dash to shop but couldn't remember what one he had, SIL lent me a spare so problem solved, you would have thought, er no:mad:
He had a mini tantrum as the borrowed one was spitting at him, leaking and generally cr*p. He lost his temper and stomped off for a bath, whilst I spoke to SIL and was told to keep heating it, which in my opinion solved the problem, as the leaking due to OH over filling it and the spitting caused by lack of use.
I offered to go into town (40 miles round trip) to get a replacement, which I would have earlier in the week except I have long since dismissed OH "it's knackered" attitude due to gross exaggeration in the past costing monry and know wait for the evidence :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Any way my offer was met with a comment about the distance, don't worry about the long list I have to do or me trailing out, not sure if I should be proud of the MSE bit in him or angry he didn't put me first

Today list.......trifle, pasta salad, rife salad, cook ham, coleslaw, mince pies, quiche. Put up the damned tree, wrap presents, put new duvet on bed and last but not least tidy front room:mad: this last job is monumental as a bomb has gone off in it, DD took all my large craft boxes and no one but me puts anything away :A:A:A

Finally I want to work on my list of "to be achieved" next year, inspired by a thread on here, not sure I will make 40 but 20 seems good to me :beer:

PS diaster no 2 pasta all over floor lol
PPS diaster no 3 no microwave for custard, microwave died a horrible death earlier this year by fire and as even a new cheap one is £35 and all I do is beans in it I didn't replace it, am now feeling the error of my ways lolol
PPPS have just read Frugalfamily3 new diary and have developed freezer envy, I too have only 3 shelves, this needs major attention, do u think a freezer would look odd in the front room ???

SueP19

Update
Pasta salad:T
Rice salad:T
Potato salad:T
Trifle:T
Pastry x 5 :T
Quiche:T
Cottage pie:T
Ham:T
Mince pies:T
Lemon curd tarts:T
Sausage rolls:T
Put up tree:T
Decorated tree:T
Wraped presents:T
New duvet and cover on bed:T
Nipped to shop more wrapping paper:T

Now lunch phew xx

Karmacat

Blimey. All the best, Sue, I hope Christmas Day itself is calmer for you

:santa2:

selloptape

Wow Sue that's amazing, I've only been to work and then come home and flaked out!

SueP19

I am about to watch miracle on 34 st. Hugh Grant will have to wait I am afraid lolol

Yes I am totally knackered, ankles killing, knees throbbing and the bottom of my back ouch I am getting old xx