What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 26 Dec 16

La_escocesa

Thinking about you Yorkshirelass - such sad news. Sending a big hug your way. xxxx

determined_new_ms

Hi guys - happy new year (i never really go in for thinking the new year is something different and feel like it's just a new day!) but hoping that 2017 is great year for all of you xxx To be honest 2016 was probably my best year for years! And I'm pretty hopeful that things will continue

Party at bff's last night was fun and in the afternoon my bff msged to say bring quilts and pillows so we ended up crashing there. So in the end NYE cost us £17 for a bottle, some fireworks & oh got madam a little Miss Santa outfit. so total cost to me £8.50 :money: need to update spending diary.

Today I am entering to a fiscal fast for the month of Jan. No spends at all! Food to be eaten from stores before any more is bought. Leisure activities need to be free! If I can do it them I will treat myself to a pair of boots in Feb

We're just having a lazy day, need to do a few chores to get straight.

Cooking a joint of gammon for roast today. Is it sad I'm excited to try out our new electric knife?! Been reading about having weekly meal plans based on a joint of meat so gammon will be featuring heavily this week! Going to also make extra veg & potatoes for bubble and squeak tomorrow :money: (liking the idea of cook once, eat twice as well )

Need to go through the fridge and freeze some bits.

Other than that just general relaxing and fun with the fam, when oh recovers from his hangover - he drank more & stayed up later than me. Should try to be a bit sympathetic!

Anyway guys peace, joy and love to you all xxx

determined_new_ms

La E are you guys having 2 holidays? I thought you were going to New York? x

FatVonD

Happy New Year one and all!

Ours was a quiet night in with a ready meal and Jools Holland on the iPad. So sick of Ruby Turner every year but great to see (and hear) the great Chaka Khan!

Today my mum took us to the carvery for lunch, I couldn't finish all my meat (lovely rare beef) so I brought it home for the foxes, I've also put the last of the cranberry sauce onto the last of a loaf of bread for them.

One of our trees has something growing through it with bright orange berries and I was pleased to see one of the birds eating them when I went out to deliver the fox food.

We did a quick shop at the local Mr T which cost more than I expected it would but they are generally a few pence more expensive than the bigger ones on most things plus they don't have all the deals. We'll be having a YS sandwich platter with sweet potato fries and a dip for dinner tonight after having such a big lunch.

I still need to brace myself to go online to check my bank balance, my plan is to pay every spare penny I have off of my Mr T CC which means I will end up using it during the month but for less than I've paid off. I'll still have debt but will hopefully avoid paying interest on it and will at least have gained more clubcard points because...

It is DSD's 18th birthday in March and her mum wants us all to go out for a big meal (she doesn't want a party.) For eldest DSS's 18th four years ago we were able to pay for the whole family to go to Cafe Red by using our clubcard vouchers so we're hoping, at the very least, to put a big dent in the bill (depending on where they want to go too, obviously, though DSD's mum is a canny lass so I'm sure she will be on top of the best deals too.)

Tonight we plan to watch EastEnders in bed thus saving on heating again :T and I'll probably just potter around t'internet on the iPad. I shall work out in my new diary when is the best time to take the three days holiday I'm owed to get the most days out of my train tickets (bad news buying a monthly at the beginning of February as its a shorter month for instance even though it is a leap year this year.

1LuckyLady do you beautifully illustrate your bullet journal like all the ones I see on Pinterest?

maria3104

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

clf yuk. That probably would have made you ill if you had drunk it.

And foxgloves hope you are on the mend soon.

Terrible news here. My lovely, kindhearted BIL has cancer. Its just too awful to believe and he is far too young to be facing this. He has insisted that we still go to the NY Eve party that we were all going to tonight so we will try and be as cheery as we can.

I will say Happy New Year in advance, enjoy it whatever you are doing tonight x

Very sorry Yorkshire lass. I am thinking of you

maria3104

1st Jan is here. Busy morning by me. Up st 4.30, waved ds2 off to play with his udders at his part time job. Then two to three hours on farm paperwork.
Walked dogs did chucks and cleaned out cattle sheds. In at 10.30. Had a bath, then a shower. Have spent rest of the day watching pride and prejudice. Delicious.
However I really should be making a 2017 plan.
Shall I do fiscal Jan? The grocery challenge? So many options.
We need an excavator, a lambing shed, start trying to reduce the mortgage?

As I sigh I am reaching for another snack and log. I will think about it tomorrow. Decision made. Procrastination rules.

Hny all. Maria x

foxgloves

Well, quite a successful session on rubber turkey duty. Made turkey & mushroom supreme for tomorrow's dinner, 7 portions of a really nice turkey chilli I make & freeze every year and a big pan of lovely rich stock. I've also put aside a big wodge of meat for tonight as mr f is making turkey madras & rice, as well as small scraps which I will make into soup tomorrow. I also did 2 trays of turkey breast slices in gravy for the freezer as they will provide a couple of 'free' Sunday roasts this month..The last bits of meat, leftover gravy & leftover roast veg have been frozen at mr f's behest for him to make a stew 'on a cold day when he's got more time'.
Ate festive leftovers for lunch.
I haven't been able to do anything else. The turkey wrangling wore me out..i think I need to stop feeling so angry about this flu & accept that I probably won't be back to normal for another week. Bah!
F x

carrielovesfanta

Evening folks! Happy New Year!

I hope that any hangovers are long gone now. I'm ok, just tired. I never sleep well after a drink and certainly not in the in-laws' pit of fire they call a home! I also removed (into the bin) two more bottles of Baileys and a bottle of Hooch that were in danger of becoming a public health hazard.

I have spent a nice afternoon going through and sorting my yarn stash and sewing box. It's nice and organised now and I managed to condense it to two drawers and the wip box.

Today's MSEness was dealt a blow by the realisation that we had left the heating on when we left the house yesterday Still I don't think we'll need it on for days now - it's roasting in here!

Other bits:

• L/D from stores. This new meal plan is working a treat.
• Breakfast at the in laws
• Sorted some monies that were owed to OH
• Heating OFF :rotfl:
• No drinkies
• Early night
• Chicken out for tomorrow's tea
• Bit of a tidy round etc
• Have an enjoyable think about what I'd like to do in the year ahead.
• OH has sent his invoices
• Relax with free stretching vid

Have a good evening folks


clf x

1LuckyLady

DawnW wrote: »

I was poking around in the bottom of the larder just now, looking to top up the tray where I leave soft /children's drinks, and found not one but 6 bottles of wine I didn't know I had :T How on earth did that happen? :rotfl: I am definitely going to sort out the larder and see what else might be lurking in there!

Dawn this did make me chuckle as I went in the cupboard earlier looking for wine (to send home with my parents) but could only find cans of Iron Bru!!

1LuckyLady wrote: »

Today's list for me
* Set up new bullet journal pages for kids jobs/pocket money lists & my dailies list Also set up new pages ready for a new freezer inventory & use up box inventory as I've not kept these up to date over the holidays as other people were freezing bits and pieces
* YS bread for breakfast
* Prep veggies ready for lunch
* Whatever is left over from lunch today will become New Years Soup
* Minimum heating on
* Wash a load on the quick 30 degree wash
* Watch the NewYears fireworks with the kids on iplayer as we put them to bed at their normal bedtime last night
* Weighed myself, recorded I and have set myself a small target first
* Watch another new to us film this afternoon with the kids
* Keep veg peelings and freeze ready for another stock when I have some bones
* Make a meal plan after lunch today for the new few days
* Check how hubby will be for holidays days this year to try and maximise time off by adding them to bank hols etc
* Add more items to the cs bag

FatVonD wrote: »

1LuckyLady do you beautifully illustrate your bullet journal like all the ones I see on Pinterest?

I'm afraid not, I do use lots of different colours on it but don't have an artistic bone in my body I'm afraid I've not been doing the bullet journal long and spent ages looking at them on Pinterest before I started and then youtube after I think it was La E mentioned youtube. So in the end I decided to just start one and see where it takes me!

Cheery_Daff

Evening all :hello:

Just got home after spending last night at friend's house - 120 miles of diesel (already in tank) but otherwise no spends :money:

Uber Frugal January starts here! :j :j First of all by eating the leftover picnic/cake etc we brought back from friend's house That's the sort of frugality I like! :j