Cherry takes the reins

Cherryfudge

I'm about to post a To Do list to motivate myself: be warned!

I'm tired from a heavy few days at work but I'm back in from tomorrow to Friday so this is my only full day to get things done and I need to plough on.

Progress so far:
Trimmed and washed my hair
Done all the washing - even the bits at the bottom of the basket (thought I may as well get them out of the way)
Done a bit of a warm-up for my piano lesson (not practice)
Put the guinea pig and his friend who's on holiday with us out in the garden. (Not together. Baby guineas are adorable but not a good idea at present!)
Pick first greengages
Start a supermarket online order for stuff I can't get locally
To do - urgent:
piano practice
food shop
Get things ready for my friends visiting this evening
Tidy up!
To do - important:
sort out donations to charity (and create space!)
buy foundation as mine has disappeared
buy adaptor for toothbrush
update spending diary on here

There may be more... I'll be back

parsniphead

You're going to be a busy bee today cherry. I love how tidying up is on the urgent list.:rotfl:

Have a nice evening with your friend tonight.

Cherryfudge

Tidying up was indeed urgent parsnip

Cherryfudge

I have survived the list and the house is a lot tidier! DD's car broke down mid-evening and at first it sounded like a horrendously expensive job or end-of-the-road, but it turned out just to be a little valve that had died. The garage has it for now (DH wrote them a note and popped it through their letterbox - love the personal touch!) and DD will have to get the train to work tomorrow which will take hours, but hopefully that's only for a day.

So here's how the list went:

Cherryfudge wrote: »

Progress so far:
Trimmed and washed my hair
Done all the washing - even the bits at the bottom of the basket (thought I may as well get them out of the way)
Done a bit of a warm-up for my piano lesson (not practice)
Put the guinea pig and his friend who's on holiday with us out in the garden. (Not together. Baby guineas are adorable but not a good idea at present!)
Pick first greengages
Start a supermarket online order for stuff I can't get locally
and I should have added: chucked the defunct stuff out of the fridge, though I didn't get as far as cleaning it out.
To do - urgent:
piano practice Some done
food shop done
Get things ready for my friends visiting this evening done
Tidy up! done, including a bag of the dreaded papers to recycle
To do - important:
sort out donations to charity (and create space!) One lot done
buy foundation as mine has disappeared yep, and found a new one on offer
buy adaptor for toothbrush done, and toothbrush is finally charging
update spending diary on here not yet. Here I come!

So all in all, it's been a long day but I can see results.
13th
Spends
Sponsorship money for a colleague's child £3.00 - I suppose that goes under 'donations'?
14th
Spends
Pets £3.98
Toiletries £0.89
Housekeeping £16.28
15th
Spends
Piano lesson £10.00
Housekeeping £7.80
Belt clip for keys (no idea what budget that lives in) £2.25
Toiletries £4.98
Medical £1.75
Household £1.00
Stationery £0.75
MS stuff
£3.00 off foundation
Saved on a haircut as I did my own (easy as it's long)
Restocked ingredients for cheap meals at work
Found one of DH's abandoned receipts - he never bothers with loyalty points unless I'm breathing down his neck, so I get them.
Confession time:
Almost completely fell off the calorie bandwagon - just too busy to count, so I will also now have to admit to 3 chocolate biscuits.

Honeysucklelou2

How exciting that you now have the chicken coop...

parsniphead

Cherry, you have thrown me now because in my head you dont have long hair.:rotfl: It's going to have to go so you match.

Cherryfudge

Honeysucklelou2 wrote: »

How exciting that you now have the chicken coop...

Chicken coop but as yet no chickens! I must admit it looks 'right' having a coop in the garden.
I recently saw someone's chickens in their garden, including a grey one with a fluffy head - I haven't looked it up yet but it was so pretty, maybe I should be looking at these not bantams after all.

Cherryfudge

parsniphead wrote: »

Cherry, you have thrown me now because in my head you dont have long hair.:rotfl: It's going to have to go so you match.

LOL, sorry about that! Is it any help that it's an inch shorter than it was?

Maybe 'in real life' I have long hair, but as cherry I can have short hair, that's fine by me. It's intriguing to think what we all look like in each other's imaginations. You have dark hair just past your shoulders... and new jeans.

glass_half_full

Hi Cherry,
Just browsing and came across your diary. Love your to do list. Anyone who has piano practice at the top of their urgent to do list has definitely got life in the right perspective! I also am learning the piano, its very relaxing I find.

Cherryfudge

Hello glass_half_full, nice to meet you.

I'm afraid it only made it to the top because I knew I hadn't practised much and I had a lesson looming! Having said that, I'm just starting a new piece which will be challenging but is interesting so I shouldn't get bored. I'm not naturally musical but I do get a lot from playing.

Well, today all the money has stayed safely tucked up in the bank, apart from the bits snoozing in my purse which have been joined by my repayment from petty cash - someone managed to prove to me that I had made a card payment on behalf of work and while I can't remember swiping the card, the receipt is there and I remembered I had gone for a better product as the petty cash I had in hand would only buy something relatively shoddy.

A friend was round for coffee this morning and I've cleaned the bathroom and - greatly daring - washed the dress I wore to the wedding. I reckoned 'dry clean only' couldn't be taken too seriously for something made of polyester and elastene, and it's saved the specialist cleaning fees.

Not much else really, apart from being back on the diet.