NST: February: Back to Basics.

crazy_cat_lady

Lots of love to you Bob - the fear is completely understandable. I hope you'll be feeling fighting fit by the end of the weekend.
I have had a bit of a bad day today. Headache. Tired. CBA at school. Kids misbehaving. I'm just glad to see the back of it all. Roll on half term.
Bagged another nsd - dh is going to do the top up shop out of his sick pay when he picks dd up from cheer class.
I will be sitting with my feet up in front of the telly and relaxing as best I can.

jeanangeo

Quick check-in but not much to say. Work is still mad which is good because I have't had any opportunity to spend but bad because I've been too tired to even think about forums. Looking forward to the rest of the evening off (cinema in about half an hour) and the weekend (zzzzzz time).

Hope everyone is OK, just toddling off on a catch up...

The_Only_Girl

Hi Bob, your fears and anxiety are understandable and normal especially with young baby to care for. Please do take as much rest as you ccl sorry to hear about your migraine. It's been going on for a few days now, isn't it? What are you taking for it? can. Calling glad your boiler is fixed again. Not easy to have no heating in the middle of winter. £5000 is a bit of an overkill in my opinion. In my part of the country you could have a decent brand new one for less than £2000. I'm slightly jealous of your window unit replacement as such a bargain price. Some of our windows need replacing (as well as everything else in the house and outside the house) but our priority at the moment is saving the 3-6 month EF and visiting our parents abroad so we might have to wait a bit before renovations could be tackled. Especially as DS1 will be in uni in September and 2 years after that DS2 will follow suit. At this rate we won't be having any renovations til just before we retire, which hopefully will be before we turn 60.

I was counting on NSD #6, but I got home from work and saw signs that somebody's been to McDo. Hubby had his dental appointment in the morning and he must have stopped by McDo to pick up his and DS2's lunch (DS2 is down with the flu passes on to him by me ) Grrrrr. We've just had fish and chips last night and now this? Alarm bells are ringing. I need to speak to hubby before he slips into his old ways.

But then I too need talking to grrr. I couldn't decide whether to cook chicken chow mein or chicken pasta bake for dinner (to use up the last chicken in the freezer). As requested by the boys I decided to cook pasta bake, only to find out halfway through cooking the sauce that we haven't got any pasta in stock! More grrrr. So I had to quickly nip to the shop to buy the much needed pasta. I should have stuck to the chicken chow mein as all ingredients are in. Well, we live and learn.

Nothing else planned for this evening but watch movies on Netflix and then off to bed.

mothernerd

Calling14 wrote: »

Well today a much better day, amazing how fresh air helps, never got a walk in been so busy.
Car washed
Tip run done, walked around council run nursery.
Got new washing line and all the pulleys.
Did small food shop.
Borrowed Karcher window cleaner off friend and cleaned all my downstairs windows.
Gas engineer came and heating working again, his fault, left boiler on the highest setting so just over heated.
Quote new boiler with British Gas £5,000. I have a 3 bed semi!!!!!
Won't be doing that reckon get one fitted for2k.
Planted a bush, after digging dead one up
Washing line nearly done.

New window unit fitted very happy at £55. Offered to do my landing one for£50. So may do that as bargain price.

Also bought new cannisters for my kitchen and kitchen clock up.

Used all chicken up in a curry with leftover roasties.


Much happier mood today, house looks heaps better, worth chaotic afternoon. Collapsing with a cider now. Better Mothernerd has done more lol x

NOPE.

Went to the counselling place (Well Being Centre - they had photographs done and were putting up their new sign today) and spent an hour and a half talking to the young volunteer. I had taken an old (1989) copy of the Council newspaper with plans of the shopping centre before it was built and photographs of what it replaced.

Also a calendar from 2003 with old photographs (1944 - early sixties). We only got as far as July so have agreed to carry on next week after my counselling appointment (will have to remember my sandwich). I took a clear plastic bag and a marker pen so I could over lay the photographs and add notes - what was there now, what it had been in between etc. very enjoyable hour and a half with a short break as he went to pose for the photograph.

Came home and ate and have been fighting tiredness all day. I took another bag (of my things) to the charity bin in the library and I have taken down the spotlight covers and cleaned them (used the potatoes but not sure how much they contributed) and have small cuts on three of my fingers (cleaning inside and in the rim). Three bulbs replaced and a few brackets put in place (think I will have to measure and saw some of the shelves).

Plan is bath, watch a film and read, followed by an early night.

Today I am grateful for good food (hm veg curry from freezer and berries in sugar free jelly particularly good), and enjoyable read and being sociable.

XSpender

I had another NSD yesterday putting me on 5

I am home tonight after being away with work since Monday and am worn out. Mr S has delivered although I seem to have made a mistake and ordered about £5 worth of garden peas.:eek: Oh and DH has scoffed 2/3 of the snacks I bought him for the next 2 weekends. Tough when they are gone they are gone.

I have been pondering Apple's take up and give up question and think I will take up eating more fruit and veg and give up all sweets, chocolate and shop bought cakes and biscuits starting on Monday until our holiday on Good Friday. When I was a very small girl up until I was a teen I used to give up sweets every Lent and even refused a bun at a party once because it had a sweet on top, I must have been 5 or 6.

Cup of decaff tea and then bed for me.

The_Only_Girl

has anybody heard of/seen/bought the Wonky Vegetable Box from Asda? Are they value for money?

WelshKitty85

Hi everyone!

SFD 8 for me today.

Have been looking at the mr t website to see what I can use my club card points for (saved a whopping £7 worth over the last year as we rarely shop there). Have decided to convert them to days out vouchers for when we are away in April. I can change £5 worth into £20 worth of vouchers and will then just have to pay £7 entry into an attraction that would normally cost us £27. Bargain!

stewby

The_Only_Girl wrote: »

has anybody heard of/seen/bought the Wonky Vegetable Box from Asda? Are they value for money?

I have heard about them. Sadly they are nowhere near Scotland as only being trialed in certain places.
OH loved the sound of it so we were really keen to try them. It's a shame that they aren't making it more widely available as a trial.


I think they are £3 per box. There was a website about them. Ah, there you go...

http://your.asda.com/news-and-blogs/wonky-fruit-veg-boxes

The_Only_Girl

stewby wrote: »

I have heard about them. Sadly they are nowhere near Scotland as only being trialed in certain places.
OH loved the sound of it so we were really keen to try them. It's a shame that they aren't making it more widely available as a trial.


I think they are £3 per box. There was a website about them. Ah, there you go...

http://your.asda.com/news-and-blogs/wonky-fruit-veg-boxes

My friend/fellow money saver mentioned it to me and sent me a link for an article about it. I was also keen to try them but alas, they don't do it in my area either. I do hope they would roll it out in every stores as it would encourage more people to eat more vegetable without spending an arm and a leg, would reduce food waste by supermarkets and would support more farmers and vegetable growers. We can only hope, wait and murmur not...

themarsbargirl

The wonky veg box at adsa is kinda in my area, but we very rarely go because it's further away, looking at the contents online we also wouldn't use half of it in our house so wouldn't be good value for money for us.

I've been awol a few days, couple spendy days but nsd 4 today. Took a couple days off doing uni work, the break was good but need to hit it really hard now, only 17 days until my first deadline. Sigh.