Project Mortgage Neutral Begins

Suffolk_lass

Yes, no pleasure if it is too cold, it can be too much of a distraction. Much warmer than it felt yesterday here though

ajmoney

Struggling right now.  I am not posting for sympathy, more just hoping that if I put this down it might get it out of my system or help somehow.

ajmoney

It looks as though I should have enough in my budget to cover the GCSE course fee (paid on my credit card) without going into my February pay.  As it stands I have £46 in my account not earmarked for anything and I can't see why I would need to spend all of that, it definitely helps not having to use my car as much.

I think this is the latest in the month I have checked what I will be paid but I have just filled that in to my spreadsheet.

savingholmes

colours of dawn sound lovely - freezing temperatures not so much.

Suffolk_lass

Today I am going to call some of my friends and neighbours - just because I know we are all fed up at the moment. And we have started a "where shall we go, and which dates?" email with the three people (2 households) we normally go away with in July - small things but I'm trying to be more outward facing because I was struggling too

ajmoney

Suffolk_lass said:

Today I am going to call some of my friends and neighbours - just because I know we are all fed up at the moment. And we have started a "where shall we go, and which dates?" email with the three people (2 households) we normally go away with in July - small things but I'm trying to be more outward facing because I was struggling too

It is hard to have something to look forward to isn't it?  I haven't started on my holiday planning list yet so maybe do some of that this evening.  I have been wondering about booking a camp site pitch somewhere in the summer in case we can travel a bit by then, I know once things start to get eased they will fill up very quickly.  If that fails one of my friends has a farm and she has said I can camp and have a break on their land, either in one of their fields or in the back garden which is fairly big.

I know all this is a transition process for a rather large (to me) loss I experienced in November.  I was crying reading one of my books last night and that is usually a sign I won't sleep very well so I put on a guided meditation for self-compassion before I turned the light out.  It must have helped because I slept ok in the end so I might try a different one tonight.

Suffolk_lass

I don't know if you do FB but there are several groups that report on wild stopovers and pubs with a field outside you can camp in if you buy your meal and a drink there (varying amounts of facilities, and varying welcomes, with some offering breakfasts) and our experience with our camper van is that there are a lot more quiet places to go with it - all the caravan and motorhome certified locations take no more than five for example. Going Sunday to Wednesday is a good way of avoiding the hordes (especially outside the school hols). 

- I'm a great believer in meditation for keeping or regaining a sense of peace - I might have mentioned it to you before but I regularly use this one (one moment meditation) which I practised regularly when working and it just took me out of stressful situations there when I needed it - literally in a moment after doing it with him several times

ajmoney

Suffolk_lass said:

I don't know if you do FB but there are several groups that report on wild stopovers and pubs with a field outside you can camp in if you buy your meal and a drink there (varying amounts of facilities, and varying welcomes, with some offering breakfasts) and our experience with our camper van is that there are a lot more quiet places to go with it - all the caravan and motorhome certified locations take no more than five for example. Going Sunday to Wednesday is a good way of avoiding the hordes (especially outside the school hols). 

- I'm a great believer in meditation for keeping or regaining a sense of peace - I might have mentioned it to you before but I regularly use this one (one moment meditation) which I practised regularly when working and it just took me out of stressful situations there when I needed it - literally in a moment after doing it with him several times

Thank you for both suggestions, I will go and check them out.

ajmoney

My energy provider is or rather was gr££n network energy who have stopped trading today.  I saw a MSE fb post so have taken a note of my meter readings and will now sit and wait to see what happens. 

savingholmes

Good luck with the energy supplier