Wednesday 13 April - What small DFW things will you do today?

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :wave:

CCL – thanks for the kick start :A
MTC – good luck with the house viewing!! :grouphug:
foxgloves – I hear ya re keeping the car – hopefully with it not being that old then you hopefully won’t need much else for a loooooooooooong time.

Here’s me:
Ts own brand cereal :cool:
Free tea/coffee in work
Not going on a night out at the weekend
Used Rok deodorant – has anyone tried this? It lasts around 3 years!! :A
Knitting pal’s pressie :cool:
Updated YNAB
Covering 2 classes
Putting a cheque in the bank
Keeping a beady eye out for the bday money that MIL/FIL is giving me

make_the_change

Angry is an understatement. I was supposed to view the house Monday and spent all day trying to get in contact with no reply until late that evening. We then agreed today and once again been trying to get in contact all day and once again no reply. So annoyed and upset x

xxxJOJOxxx

Evening All

Been struggling in piles of mess the last few weeks. Not really been well enough to tackle it. Made big progress to day! Hoping to get back to daily routines once I'm at a base level of tidiness.

Got £2.50 paid into onepoll account for delayed payment :-D

Today's List;

- list some things to sell tick
- mountain of drying away tick
-wash & dry additional load
- All meals from stock
- prep lunches for tomorrow
- sort some things for charity shop tick 4 bags
- work out additional costs & pay childminder
- meal plan for rest of week, using fresh stuff first
- sort some paperwork out

Base level Tidy
- my bedroom tick
- dd1 bedroom tick
- dd2 bedroom tick
- hall, stairs, landing
- living room
- kitchen
- hallway
- bathrooms

Don't think I'll get everything done, but will give it a go :-D

DawnW

Evening all
Thanks for the thread CCL -hope those Year 10s behaved themselves!
Sorry to hear about the car Foxgloves. A real pain given you had decided to get rid of it in the fairly near future (but not yet) . Small consolation, but ours had 2 new tyres fitted this morning, and DH's 'white elephant' (or rather silver elephant) has its MOT on Friday :eek:
MTC, sorry to hear about being messed about re the house - keep looking, and as often happens, I absolutely agree with Foxgloves' views stated above! Seriously though, it probably feels as though everything is stacked against you (been there, and know this feeling) but it isn't really - whoever is dealing with this rental is simply either incompetent or not bothered whether they rent it out or not, neither of which sound like ideal landlord material to me. Something better will come up, honestly. Take care xx

So, what have I done today:
Not much, as I have has little GD all day.
OH did both dog walks (and I did 2 baby walks, so it all works out equal in the end :rotfl:)
Entertained 2 year old for free - we have been to the park, fed the ducks, played with sand and water (outside, thank goodness!), read stories, drawn on the path with chalks, blown bubbles, played with the puppy and played in the sink. Grandma is very tired now, and so is the puppy :rotfl:
£120 spent on tyres first thing :eek:
Nothing else spent :T
Meals were from stores
Used more HG micro leaves in today's salad
Washing dried on line
Watered baby tomato plants and turned them round to stop them growing too far one way (on dining table next to a window)
Tried Foxgloves suggestion of olbas oil on old teabags to prevent cats from making a mess in my tiny front garden - ok so far
Checked FPL and looked for surveys but there were none today

Lots to do tomorrow I think!

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all :wave:
I am one tired bunny tonight. Every night I'm saying I'll have an early night, and every night I'm still awake at 11....
MTC - sorry that you're having so much trouble. Bullies thrive on intimidation - I know it's hard but I'm fairly sure that they'd be shocked if you spoke back to them. Or completely ignored them... I hate bullies, and the vast majority of them are just full of hot air.

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

Today's plans
[STRIKE]:cool: Check banking and PAD[/STRIKE] :eek:
[STRIKE]:cool: aim for nsd[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: all meals from stores[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: try not to get stressed apart from lesson 1 when I have to force Year 10 into a new seating plan[/STRIKE] Not even lesson 1 - they were fine again this morning.
[STRIKE]:cool: no heating at home, apart from maybe 15 mins when we first get home tonight (due to rain all day)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: try and get dh to do something round the house before he goes to work.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: keep my time diary[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: find some time to myself at the end of the day[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: full day of teaching[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]:cool: meeting after work[/STRIKE]
:cool: try and mark a set of books No but I did get my planning done for next week
[STRIKE]:cool: write a list of things to do.[/STRIKE]

Dawn - so pleased that the cat deterrent seems to be working so far. Fingers crossed...

make_the_change

Thank you all.

The school run was ok, I held my head up, smiled, actually said hello to a couple of parents and felt a little happier.

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allydowd

Hi April Awesome-ees,

Work today and going to continue my Great Big Canal Adventure tomorrow. Gonna take it easy and just lollop along for 9 miles from Falkirk to Linlithgow. I'll have to pay the train fare but other than that it's free entertainment.

Debt Free-Nillionaire Continuity Plan Month Eleven:

* Took a packed lunch.

How about you guys?

As they say up here "See you after."

Baileys_Babe

CCL thank you for getting us started this morning and well done on not getting stressed today.

Make the change pleased to hear you are fighting back by holding your head up high and smiling.

Today was very tiring for myself and the children so I will keep it brief. We went to one of our regular HE sessions which is low cost, all our meals came from stores including our contribution to lunch. Did many of my regular dfw bits and pieces but nothing exciting.

Good night