Dancing in the Rain

Orange_Ena

Evening DIA

I'm glad the handyman has been to do a few jobs. It's great to get home stuff sorted and I don't think £25 an hour is too bad at all. He's got travel expenses, insurance, advertising, tax and other expenses to pay out of that so if you break it down, it sounds ok. My friend is self employed and she's recently put her prices up to cover extras and she was telling me people don't realise what she has to pay out of her fee. I was listening :rotfl:

I really want a potato rosti now with all this talk

Have a fab weekend, nearly breathing out time x

parsniphead

I'm glad your day ended well after a tough day at work.

Potato bread sounds lovely, I may have to try it, perhaps the gluten free one.

I hope you are having a good day.

doingitanyway

Yum INOD. You have inspired a new recipe. I am going to try to make a sweet potato and buckwheat flour potato bread. I might play with it by adding oregano and feta cheese too. One of my ideas is to start a ‘naturally gluten free and healthy eating’ blog or workshop or supper club when I finally have a decent home to host a supper club, so your idea has gone in my recipe book, assuming the bread turns out well

Orange Ena, you are quite right, the handyman fee is not expensive really. I should be more realistic.

Thanks Parsniphead and Beanielou for the positive vibes

Today my week ends as I am not working tomorrow. I can breathe out

I had a ‘I want to stick pins in my eye’ training course. Hours of IT and new system torture…:eek:

I picked up some reduced price fruit and salads. I ate a giant salad tonight with a tin of mackerel and 2 boiled eggs.

The frog I ate today was to take a different route to work. I have a rubbish sense of direction and I was convinced I would get lost and be late for work if I walked from a different station. So I never have. I did it. It all went well

Have a wonderful weekend everyone

beanielou

You have a good weekend too

beanielou

Hope all is well

doingitanyway

beanielou wrote: »

Hope all is well

Thanks for checking on me beanielou. I am fine. I went away for my week in Oxford but I am back now. The environment of the university is so beautiful. My creativity is boosted I shall miss it.

Money was an issue so whilst at Oxford so I cut out one or sometimes two meals a day.
I front loaded with an enormous breakfast of fruit and yoghurt followed by scrambled eggs, bacon and mushrooms. I took an apple and ate it at lunch with some nuts and I also ate raw veggies and humous on a few of the days when I felt very hungry. I ate lunch with a colleague one day as she wanted to meet and another day we all went out to eat but I suggested Le0n as I had a voucher for a free meal. :money:

I walked everywhere, not even getting a bus back to the station when I went home :money:

The upshot is I stuck to a small budget with no problems and I lost 4lbs this week :T

There are lessons to be learnt. I eat too much. That is why I am fat! I am grown already so I no longer need three meals a day and I do so much better with a cooked high protein breakfast every day. I can do this 4 days a week but the other 3 days dictate I leave home early, maybe I’ll try a very early breakfast on those days?

This morning I am unpacking, pottering, cooking, staying close to home, phoning people, organising and goal planning...I have made soup (lentil, spinach, tomato) and toasted some nuts and seeds with rosemary and oregano.

I spent £15 on food in Lid1 on my way home last night. On the train I made a list and a menu plan. This shop should see me through to pay day. I will make a veggie curry for the fridge and a frittata with sweet potato and red onion this morning.

Pay day is approaching. So looking forward to being in the 7,000s

I am going to catch up on diaries this morning but I hope you have all been hanging on in there (as the Americans I have spent the week with might say)

Have a lovely weekend everyone

doingitanyway

Morning campers

I have a voucher for £5 off a £30 shop before 30th July. Usually I would jump on that to save money. This time I am ignoring it. I am using what I have this week and do not want to spend in order to save. My food spending continues to be ridiculous for one person so I trying yet another strategy. No big shops.

Goals for this coming week…

My frog for next week is to open a credit union account. I have been talking about this year for a year. Time to do it! Saving in my own bank has not worked as I simply transfer it back and spend it. I need to create an emergency account and make it a little more difficult to access.

My financially fit for the future task is to set a price for my private work.

My investment in health and wellbeing task is to go to the health shop and obtain the best vitamin and mineral supplements to meet my health needs, then buy a pill box to organise taking them.

My treat of the week will be an evening out with friends at a bar overlooking the river. I have budgeted £10 for this. I already paid £5 as a deposit to the organiser so £10 should be fine

My written correspondence of the week will be cancelling a monthly subscription

Happy Sunday reader

parsniphead

What a lovely couple of posts DIA. Oxford is lovely isnt it. I'm glad you had a nice time. The ' I eat too much thats why im fat' comment made me laugh and also hit home.;)

You have a good list to work through. Get that account opened. Did you ever put in a PPI claim for the mortgage. I didnt but will when i get more printer ink this week.

Enjoy your week.:)

Orange_Ena

Glad you had a lovely creative week DIA :T

With regards to your breakfast, have you tried overnight oats? Or making a batch of protein pancakes for the freezer then just popping them in the toaster in the morning?

I love that last goal post.....all achievable I reckon. Have a fabulous week x

beanielou

Glad Oxford was good
Loosing 4lbs was good though maybe not the best way to do it?