Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

HairyHandofDartmoor

beanielou said:

Keep plodding 😊

Thanks Beanie .

elizabethhull said:

foxgloves said:

. Yes, you definitely need a restful weekend with some nutritious food & plenty of hydration, 

Absolutely agree. However you get your protein, being veggie, make sure there's plenty of it, plus vitamins, minerals & so on. Eggs are great as a multi-purpose food (I know you already know !!). I just mean that having proper meals is worth the effort.

And I also have found with certain jobs that visualising either the end product or the reward (if they're different) is helpful.

Have a good weekend xx

Thanks Elizabeth . Yes I must visualise us having more money so that we can have a lovely family Christmas and maybe the rest of the fence done.

milann

It sounds as if life is busy atm. Think of payday and remember if the children give you a hard time it isn’t aimed at you but something that has put their world out of sorts. 

Have a relaxing weekend 🤞

HairyHandofDartmoor

milann said:

It sounds as if life is busy atm. Think of payday and remember if the children give you a hard time it isn’t aimed at you but something that has put their world out of sorts. 

Have a relaxing weekend 🤞

Thanks Milann . That's a good way of looking at it. And I'm still enjoying the work, I'm just exhausted.

jwil

Great news about the extra hours.  Hope you are having a lovely relaxing weekend x

Onebrokelady

Great news on the extra hours, not good news that the class is challenging 🙁hope you have a nice relent weekendx

BalanceBy50

And it's not long to half term too HHOD so a decent break to recover too.  You sound very cheerful over it all too ☺.  Your school are so lucky to have such a flexible employer in you xx

BalanceBy50

Employee!!!

milann

Hope you’re having a lovely restful weekend 👍

Sunshine_girl2

Hope you are ready for the week ahead and then a weeks rest . Well worth all your hard work in the end . 

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thanks everyone 🙂. I've been quite lazy this weekend and haven't left the house apart from to go in the garden 🌿 (does that count?). I've washed and ironed my work clothes and emptied a few bins, but apart from that I've watched a bit of telly and read a lot.

I've finished the final Wexford book in the series by Ruth Rendell and feel quite sad that she won't be able to write any more books 😏. I feel like I know the characters really well after reading the entire series in order and now I won't know what happens to them. However I've started reading the DCI Banks series by Peter Robinson which is a long series. I've read most of them before but will enjoy reading them again. The first one is called Gallows View and is a good one, but then they all are 📚.

DH and I had coffee ☕ in the garden today and yesterday and it was warm, sheltered and very quiet, an advantage of sitting out in October. I did a bit of deadheading and DH did a bit of weeding in the borders. We've got three roses flowering and one in bud, our geraniums are still flowering and so are the primulas and fuscia. The cylamen are also starting to flower and they normally put on a good display all autumn. At half term I want to buy some autumn flowers though to boost the colour in the garden 🌹🌻🌺🌼🌷.

I feel much more rested and relaxed than I did on Friday evening 🙂. Although I didn't sleep well last night as my head was full of my new class and all the happenings, however I'm always like that when I'm in a new class as my mind is full of new impressions and my brain has to process it all. Working with different children and a different teacher in a different classroom is always a bit challenging, as teachers all have their own way of doing things, the classroom lay out is different and you have to get used to thirty new child personalites and work out the best way to handle them. I'm looking forward to getting stuck in tomorrow though because although it's challenging it's also very satisfying 🙂.

I hope everyone has had a good weekend.