Taking it slowly, but doing it well.

wishingthemortgaheaway

Thanks Debtfreeforlife, I’m definitely trying for the rest. Currently sitting in bed chilling before an early night.

A nsd today which was desperately needed if I stand any chance of hitting this month’s target.

£Co confirmed £2.20 cashback so that’s been withdrawn and added to the mop pot. Mobile phone bill has been generated so that pot has been tilly tidied. That’s the end of the easy mop pot wins until the end of the month now, so the hard slog begins.

We head home tomorrow so need to meal plan and write a shopping list but my bank rewards are offering £10 cashback on a £30 spend along side 12.5% £Co cashback on an 1celamd food shop, so may sort that in the car on the way home tomorrow too.

Updates below. Sleep well everyone.

MSE February Goals

1) £210 Mop Pot
Target 1 - Interest added
£19.84/£71.56
Target 2 - Next brick on the countdown house
0/£102.11
Target 3 - MFW 2018 challenge amount
0/£36.33


2) Emergency Fund Top Up
£58.82/£150

3) NSD
1/16

4) Complete Bullet Journal Tasks
0/16

5) Save the £2 coins
(Monthly Update)

6) get into the size 14 Jeans
(Monthly Update)

pinkypig

You'll do it:T. Enjoy your early night and have a safe journey home. Xx

wishingthemortgaheaway

We are home.
We had the best south to north run that we’ve had in a while today (thanks Pinky for the positive vibes last night)
We did stop at the expensive, but oh so nice farm shop on the way back. They sell raw (unpasteurised) jersey cow milk from a self service vending machine. It is delicious. Hubby loves it in his coffee, Pickle drinks it hot, cold and on his cereal. I’m hoping it’s going to make an excellent white sauce for cauliflower cheese tomorrow.
So milk, cheese, cauliflower and a few other bits bought. £15 ish damage but hey ho, it’s a short month.

One load of washing has been done, another is in the wm, on the timer. Should be ready when we get up in the morning.

Unpacking to finish tomorrow, food shop, swimming lunch with a friend, make tea, bake club baking and nurture the small child. I’m tired just thinking about it, so night all. Updates below.

MSE February Goals

1) £210 Mop Pot
Target 1 - Interest added
£20.81/£71.56
Target 2 - Next brick on the countdown house
0/£102.11
Target 3 - MFW 2018 challenge amount
0/£36.33


2) Emergency Fund Top Up
£58.82/£150

3) NSD
1/16

4) Complete Bullet Journal Tasks
1/16

5) Save the £2 coins
(Monthly Update)

6) get into the size 14 Jeans
(Monthly Update)

wishingthemortgaheaway

I really can!!!8217;t post about Mse things tonight.

My friend had her histology results today and it is terrible news.
I!!!8217;m going to visit tomorrow.
Her brother messaged me this evening to tell me (incurable, chemo to shrink but not cure) he doesn!!!8217;t know if she!!!8217;ll tell me, and she doesn!!!8217;t know he!!!8217;s told me, but felt I needed to know.

My hubby does not cope well with these sorts of things, and he!!!8217;s going away for two nights with work. So he!!!8217;s now not going to bed as he had planned to, and will most likely spend the night dosing on the sofa, stressing. Stress then sets his wierd stomach issues off and he!!!8217;ll lose all appetite and be a grumpy sod.

I!!!8217;ll just watch copious amounts of tv, try and keep on top of house jobs and pretend it!!!8217;s not affecting me.

Urghhhhhh truly truly terrible news. Another friend of mine (a chemist) says she thinks that I!!!8217;m a few hundreds years, historians will look back at our times and there will be books/programmes/museums about the terrible, inhumane and truly
Awful thing that chemo therapy was. And question why we, as a human race ever subjected our fellow man to it and it!!!8217;s horrors.

But, I have to believe that, as awful as it is the pros outweigh the cons until such time
As something better comes along.

How long she has, who knows? Her quality of life - no idea.
Her determination? Two weeks ago she was adamant she was going to win the battle, I!!!8217;ll find out tomorrow if she!!!8217;s still in a fighting mood.

Sometimes life just truly
Sucks.

Wish

pinkypig

Awww Wish I'm so sorry, what terrible news. Having her friends and family there for her will mean everything. Sending you strength and best wishes - its going to tough:( xx

wishingthemortgaheaway

so, today is another day.

Thank you PP, for your kind wishes, I feel much better having been to visit friend today. She is I need good spirits and is determined to prove science wrong. I really hope she does. At the moment she is better than she was before the op because the main tumor that was casing the issues, has been removed, and she can now get nutrition because her intestinal system isn't blocked and making her sick up all food. Sadly, chemo is going to make her more poorly before she gets any better.

Still, in money saving news:
Not a nsd.
I thought hubby had filled my washer fluid bottle up yesterday evening when he did his... seems not, £3 for a bottle of stuff from the service station garage, in a snowstorm on my way to the hospital.
£20 out of the bank to pay for parking at the hospital, I'm going to put this aside as February's hospital parking money, it's £3.50 each time I go, so that's 5 week's worth, and she may be home by then.

I've started filling in my work expenses form. £300 plus a bit of change. That will replenish my work expenses pot and mostly pay for a group weekend away in April, I think I'll have just under £50 to find on top of the expenses amount. So, should be reasonably easily do able.

Hubby had a little, not grump, but something at me. Pickle has been gifted a bag of clothes from a friend round the corner. It includes some socks (I didn't know there were going to be socks in the bag) I asked hubby to sort through the bag last night, friend said, what you don't want/need take To the charity shop.
Hubby sorts through, photograph s the piles and messages me the photo with an explanation of what is I need each pile.
Conversation continues:
Me: Oooh socks, that's useful, he's not got many socks that fit him properly at the moment.
Hubby: we can buy him socks you know? In fact, if he needs clothes, just buy him clothes. We're not poor, we can afford to clothe our child.

I can see his point, and maybe we should meet somewhere I need the middle, but Pickle grows out of clothes so quickly and needs so many of them, he's a messy pup, that if I were to buy new all the time, even from the supermarkets, we would be broke. I do tend to buy a lot of bundles from friends, then pass on when we are done.

Hey ho, things to consider.
Tomorrow, tidy the house, full day of work, evening of tv and knitting, hoping for a nsd.



MSE February Goals

1) £210 Mop Pot
Target 1 - Interest added
£24.49£71.56
Target 2 - Next brick on the countdown house
0/£102.11
Target 3 - MFW 2018 challenge amount
0/£36.33


2) Emergency Fund Top Up
£58.82/£150

3) NSD
1/16

4) Complete Bullet Journal Tasks
3/16

5) Save the £2 coins
(Monthly Update)

6) get into the size 14 Jeans
(Monthly Update)

wishingthemortgaheaway

A nsd today, struggling a bit with these in February. But successful today. I'm feeling a bit pants today, a bit fed up and urgh. I'm sure it will pass. Early night and a good list for tomorrow.

Updates below


MSE February Goals

1) £210 Mop Pot
Target 1 - Interest added
£24.60/71.56
Target 2 - Next brick on the countdown house
0/£102.11
Target 3 - MFW 2018 challenge amount
0/£36.33


2) Emergency Fund Top Up
£58.82/£150

3) NSD
2/16

4) Complete Bullet Journal Tasks
3/16

5) Save the £2 coins
(Monthly Update)

6) get into the size 14 Jeans
(Monthly Update)

pinkypig

Not surprised given what you've got going on but hang on in there the weekend's nearly in sight:D. Hope you feel better after your your early night xx

wishingthemortgaheaway

another day of feeling a bit urgh, but I did get 1 visit report written and sent off. Only 3 to go, but now I've done 1 it should be easier. Not a nsd as I had to get out of the house is morning as I felt like the walls were caving in, so went to work in a local cafe. £6.10 spent on drinks and food.
Had a boot sale app sale collected and paid for today, so that's £6 into the mop pot, not a lot but probably more than I'd get at a traditional car boot sal, and a tiny bit of clutter has left my house.

Our weekend starts tomorrow, hubby is home, Pickle has finished his child care week, so family time starts.

I need to be a bit more productive next week.

Updates...


MSE February Goals

1) £210 Mop Pot
Target 1 - Interest added
£31.67/71.56
Target 2 - Next brick on the countdown house
0/£102.11
Target 3 - MFW 2018 challenge amount
0/£36.33


2) Emergency Fund Top Up
£58.82/£150

3) NSD
2/16

4) Complete Bullet Journal Tasks
3/16

5) Save the £2 coins
(Monthly Update)

6) get into the size 14 Jeans
(Monthly Update)

wishingthemortgaheaway

This is really the update from yesterday as I was too tired last night to post and have been too busy with Pickle this morning. Now we are travelling back home from the house of my parents. Hubby is driving, Pickle has just fallen asleep and I have got my knitting to crack on with shortly.

Yesterday was not a nsd. Pickle is cutting his last tooth and it is terrible painful so we needed another bottle of teething spray. I did pay a Christmas cheque into the bank and we took Pickle for his first haircut, which the hairdresser, who has cut my hair since I was 7, didn’t charge us for, we have got a lock of his hair to keep and a certificate marking the occasion.

Dad is going to put some money in my bank to refund me for two lots of washing machine liquid that we bought at C0stc0 for them, so I will put that back into the household goods pot which is where the money originally came from.

I’ve done a little tilly tidy, but no other updates from yesterday.

Updates...


MSE February Goals

1) £210 Mop Pot
Target 1 - Interest added
£32.54/71.56
Target 2 - Next brick on the countdown house
0/£102.11
Target 3 - MFW 2018 challenge amount
0/£36.33


2) Emergency Fund Top Up
£58.82/£150

3) NSD
2/16

4) Complete Bullet Journal Tasks
3/16

5) Save the £2 coins
(Monthly Update)

6) get into the size 14 Jeans
(Monthly Update)