My journey to a debt free life

Onebrokelady

Makingabobor2 said:

Hope you are ok

I'm ok thanks just been busy with life in general 

Onebrokelady

Seasidegal58 said:

I hope you had a lovely Christmas and all good wishes for 2024. 😀

Thanks I hope you had a lovely time too. It's gone in the blink of an eye isn't it 😀

Onebrokelady

milann said:

Here’s to a healthy and happy New Year OBL

Thanks Milann Happy New Year to you and yours 🎉🥂

Cherryfudge

Good to see you back, and hear about your Christmas and paying off the mortgage! What a great feeling! And it really sounds as though the reduced working hours are suiting you.  

jwil

Congratulations on being mortgage free!

Seasidegal58

Fantastic news about your mortgage OBL!  You must feel so chuffed!
So pleased to hear too how much you enjoy having dropped a day at work. A friend who still works at my old firm always did a three day week but has dropped one day now as she approaches retirement. She says how much more enjoys her working week now. 

Re your horse, I sort of get how you feel. I used to enjoy riding when I could and it was always in the back of my mind to take it up again when I retired and go on actual riding holidays.  But now that I have retired I find that having a dodgy knee puts me off of riding for any length of time. Plus my weight on the poor beast!  I should have did this all sooner!☹️ 

Onebrokelady

Cherryfudge said:

Good to see you back, and hear about your Christmas and paying off the mortgage! What a great feeling! And it really sounds as though the reduced working hours are suiting you.  

Thanks it's a lovely feeling 😊 the reduced hours are really good and I wish I could have done it sooner 

Onebrokelady

jwil said:

Congratulations on being mortgage free!

Thanks I can't quite believe it's paid off 😀

Onebrokelady

Seasidegal58 said:

Fantastic news about your mortgage OBL!  You must feel so chuffed!
So pleased to hear too how much you enjoy having dropped a day at work. A friend who still works at my old firm always did a three day week but has dropped one day now as she approaches retirement. She says how much more enjoys her working week now. 

Re your horse, I sort of get how you feel. I used to enjoy riding when I could and it was always in the back of my mind to take it up again when I retired and go on actual riding holidays.  But now that I have retired I find that having a dodgy knee puts me off of riding for any length of time. Plus my weight on the poor beast!  I should have did this all sooner!☹️ 

I am very chuffed 😀just need to sort the debt out now 😬 I had gone back to riding but haven't been for quite a while. I am thinking of going back though because I really miss it. 

Onebrokelady

Back to reality and work today . I was very lucky this morning as I decided to walk down to the station to get my bus and I just got on the bus and it absolutely chucked it down . I do like sitting on the bus listening to the rain 😀 

I was on an early so finished at 15.30 but I still don't get home until 16.45 because of the bus. I walked into town then got a bus because I need to increase my exercise, it's been sadly lacking lately.

I ran the hoover round when I got home . I am trying to stick to a routine of doing bits each day so I don't end up up with a big cleaning job on my days off. I didn't have a proper meal for my tea tonight because I didn't feel like anything. I am feeling very unhealthy diet wise after Christmas and new year. We didn't eat too much over Christmas because we didn't feel like it but I have made up for it since. I now just want a salad and some fruit 😂 I think I need a mini detox or something. I am going to go food shopping and buy some healthy choices and also restart my Nutracheck membership, it's a calorie counting and I did well on it last time I used it. I need to shift the weight I've put  on since I've been on these steroids 😟I'm not sure how it will go though because I'm constantly hungry.

Poor DD2 messaged me today to say she has to take the day off because she has a stomach bug she had only been back for one day. I keep telling her she needs to take time off properly to recover so I'm hoping she listens now. She has been ill since September with a chest infection then a cold virus followed by covid and now a stomach bug. They have Noro virus on her ward so it's probably that 🤢🤢

I'm off tomorrow so will be meeting a friend for coffee then I might do a bit of my bedroom when I get home