Sashybo - Back Again

sashybo

Hi Scott, yes I finally hit payout but still waiting on the money. Only up to £3 now, it seems a lot quieter atm but maybe I'm not checking it enough.

I always enjoy the yoga & find it helps my posture a lot, just need to try & do it regularly.

Made it onto the cross trainer earlier & managed 12 mins which I'm reasonably pleased with. :j

sashybo

Have had a busy week, worked 3 days in a row, including my first Sunday in over a year. :eek: Get paid overtime for Sunday working plus a book on allowance so it's worth doing when I can. Was out for nearly 12 hours on the Sunday as took my mum shopping after work as she doesn't drive.

Was exhausted after 3 days at work though, especially as DH was working late shift on 2 of the days so I was up at 5am for work, home by half 2 & getting DS handed over as DH left for work. I'm sure I'll get used to it but tiring atm.

In good news I'm keeping up logging food in MFP & it is stopping me from eating as much rubbish. I'm doing some form of exercise nearly every day and have lost 1lb already. :j

Cashed out £20 from PA & £5 & £10 from 2 other survey companies yesterday. £10 am@zon voucher also received through from SB which went towards a seat for DS that can be strapped to dining chairs as a sort of portable highchair, mostly for when we visit the outlaws next month for a few days. DH also had a £10 voucher so it only cost £5. :T I got another £10 am@zon voucher and used that towards part of my mum's birthday present (rhubarb & ginger gin liqueur).

Will use the survey cash to pay off the debt, £5 to the CC & £20 to the first loan I'm overpaying.

Managed to steam clean my kitchen flooor yesterday after trapping DS in the travel cot (he wasn't amused). Then cleaned the bathrooms & got a washing out on the line too.

The garden is looking good, we have some cucumbers, courgette & tomatoes appearing and the radishes are ready. DS really enjoys radish.

Taking DS for the next round of immunisation jags today & dreading it. Also back to work for another 2 shifts from tomorrow.

OnwardAndUpward81

Congratulations on the pregnancy! Good luck with it all and maintaining financially focused, you've done the right thing by posting here at this time xx

Scott-Weiland

Your doing well on surveys Sashybo I am impressed.

btw can you grow me some sweet potato in your garden? I am buying 2 kg of it a week lol

So what sort of stuff are you eating in your diet?

sashybo

Hi OnwardAndUpward, thanks for popping in. The baby is now 1 and although the debt has increased, I think we didn't do too badly with baby spends, more that we needed bigger cars and took out loans for those. Overpaying one at a time with survey money etc so will get there eventually.

Hi Scott, trying my best to do surveys during the day if I'm at home with DS. He's happy pottering about & a good boy so can do short bursts.

That's a lot of sweet potato! :rotfl: Have never grown it actually. To be honest diet wise I'm just cutting down on biscuits/chocolate/crisps and trying to eat smaller portions. Need to eat more protein & cut the carbs back a bit too but don't want to go full deprivation or I won't stick at it.

sashybo

Back again, rubbish at updating atm.

Took DS for his injections last week & he was smiling away at the nurses making them feel bad before they gave him the jags. 4 injections, 2 in each arm, I hate it. Poor wee soul. He recovered within 5 mins but I was traumatised. He was grumpy for a few days afterwards, not helped by the ongoing teething. At least no more immunisations until he's 3 now.

Weighed myself & have lost another 1lb so that's good, hoping to lose 1lb a week until I've lost the stone & a half that needs to go.

Keeping up some form of exercise most days, did 25 mins of yoga tonight after DS was in bed.

Have ordered another £10 am@zon voucher from SB, DH & I are going to save them up for new electric toothbrushes as ours are losing charge really quickly now so will need to be replaced soonish.

Went out on Saturday night to my friend's house, there were just the 3 of us but we had a Chinese takeaway & a couple of drinks and it was a nice night. Good to get out of the house on my own too!

Made Redo's Thai green curry last week & it was a big hit with DH & DS (and me!) so will definitely make it again. :T

Made chicken breasts stuffed with garlic & herb roule and wrapped in Serrano ham with mashed potatoes & green beans for DH's Father's Day dinner & rhubarb crumble for dessert. He was working all day so wanted him to have a nice dinner when he got home. He was pretty pleased with it.

I went shopping at the end of last week in Primarni. I spent a lot of money. To be fair most of it was things I needed like pyjamas & socks, so it wasn't wildly exciting stuff, just more than I wanted to spend *cough* £80 :eek: *cough*. £10 of it was stuff for DS so that will come out of his spending account, probably £8 was stuff for DH & I can put at least £10 of my survey money towards it too. I got a couple of long line t-shirts to replace those annoying tops that ride up every time I move which is a bonus. Poor DS was so bored though, just fed him snacks the whole way round. :cool:

sashybo

Have just paid £40 of survey money off the z0pa loan which takes the monthly payment to £190 from £194 (as the term can't be shortened by overpayments but the monthly payment reduces instead).

Have also transferred £20 to DH to pay off the bigger car loan, this is the next target once the z0pa monthly payment is down to £180. The z0pa loan will finish in April next year. :T That will be the last of the 20k debt we had to take on due to negative equity from our flat when selling to move to our current house 4 years ago. So close to being under 2k with it now.

The 0% CC should be paid off by March next year, minimum payments are about £20 p/m & we're paying £100 atm so that it's cleared before the 0% runs out. That will be all the unexpected/uncovered by insurance vet bills cleared. :j This month's payment took us under 1k though. :j

We'll then be able to concentrate on overpaying the car loans & hopefully cut the term, especially on the bigger one which is meant to be over 7 years. :eek:

DH is hopefully going to sell some more techie things soon & is planning on putting the money towards the bigger loan.

Can't wait until the z0pa loan & CC are gone as that will be £290 p/m that can be used for something else. :T Some of it will be used towards the remaining debt but most will probably be used to keep our joint account more solvent. 4 weekly pay plays havoc with our account as all the bills are monthly.

sashybo

Need to get into a better routine posting here.

Worked late shift 2 days this week, one of which was an overtime shift & working early shift on Friday. Payday on Friday too. :T The O/T shift will be in the following pay so a bit extra for then.

DH & I managed to get enough vouchers to buy new electric toothbrushes and DH even managed to get £10 refunded after a mix up with the delivery date. Next thing I'm saving vouchers for is a small bookcase for DS's books downstairs as it's a bit of a riot near his toy box in the living room.

We're heading down to visit the outlaws next week so they're majorly excited at seeing DS for a few days. I'll not get near him. :rotfl:

I've managed to lose another 3lbs so 5lbs altogether now. :T Trying to do a bit of exercise every day, even just taking DS for a walk in his pram is obviously helping & logging what I'm eating definitely makes me think before eating too many biscuits.

Will try to post more regularly, still slogging on with the surveys. Worked out that I've already managed to get £150 worth of vouchers from SB this year, not looked at my other site totals though but could be a good motivator.

sashybo

Had an interesting few days visiting the outlaws. MIL was being her usual crazy grabby self with DS, the poor boy couldn't get near me as she was always picking him up & saying "No, no come to gran" :eek::mad: DS going through a bit of a clingy stage with me atm so not great as he was getting a bit upset at times.

I also got interrogated over childcare again by both MIL & FIL (separately!). MIL wanted to know exactly how often my mum watches DS. :rotfl: FIL didn't seem to believe that we were managing to cover childcare without paying for it but still was less crazy than MIL.

I thought MIL would have been wanting to take DS out to show him off or invite people over but that didn't happen. She never wants to introduce me to people for some reason, if DH visits on his own she takes him everywhere to meet everyone! DH & I went out for lunch one day & left DS with the outlaws and that was the only day she had people round to see DS. Weird.

They have also invited themselves up in September on a weekend when I'll be working the Friday Saturday & then the Monday Tuesday and were visibly pleased when I said I was working late shift that weekend. :eek: They drive me mad & I can't relax around them at all so maybe it's a good thing I'm working. Feel sorry for DH though as I know he feels similarly & they just emotionally bully him when I'm not there. MIL takes DS off DH at every opportunity. :mad:

On the way back home we dropped in to see DH's aunt & uncle (much more normal people). They have invited us to stay overnight with them next time we're down south which would be nice.

DS mostly enjoyed his stay but the heat was bothering him & of course there were no curtains in his room so he was waking at half 5 every morning. We moved him into our room as it was cooler & a bit darker but he still woke up at half 5 rather than his usual 7/half 7.

So I've arrived back from our "break" even more tired & stressed than I was before we went. It was truly hard work & I just can't figure MIL & FIL out. It's hard and a bit sad that I've been with DH for 15 years and I still can't relax around his mum & dad. FIL is horrified if we're left alone & he has to make conversation & MIL has just gone crazy on me since DS was born, she seems weirdly jealous!

sashybo

Had a nice lunch/dinner out with DH yesterday but paying for it today as I drank too much & was sick. :eek: I think I need to accept that my body doesn't like drinking for hours at a time, just can't handle it since having DS.

DH used the carpet cleaner today & did a great job cleaning the living room carpet, it looks so much better! Also tidier as we did that afterwards.

Still exhausted from the outlaw experience! Need to try & catch up on some sleep. Cooler here today which has been nice.

Going to try & do some ironing shortly as the pile is getting ridiculous.

I need to do a bit of cooking for DS as almost out of dahl for him, might try and do that tomorrow. Probably some other things I can make & freeze for him too.

Have ordered some new drinking glasses & mugs online so we can get rid of ones we don't like or use. One thing both DH & I noticed at the outlaws is how many of their glasses & mugs need replacing as so worn but the outlaws refuse to do so as they're still "fine". I understand that but it's nice to have nice things too, it doesn't need to cost a fortune.

The other thing I'd like to replace here is the extra cushions on our couch, the ones we have are well & truly trashed now. Will have a look about.