Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 3 - A New Beginning

wishingthemortgaheaway

Well done to your daughter,

Keep putting one step in front of the other.

Honeysucklelou2

What a star! Well done to your DD!

Buffythedebtslayer

Amazing DD welcome back to the mad house xxxxx

f0xh0les

DD is a credit to you CCL

SpekySquarehead

That's amazing CCL. Quite right to be very proud. She obviously gets it from you.

Is your neighbour ok?

crazy_cat_lady

Evening all

Very quick check in tonight. I'm exhausted. Not sure why as I'm sleeping better than ever at the moment - just getting back into the swing of things I think. Among other things at work today I have been called grumpy and prickly. I can tell I feel a bit grumpy but I don't know why.
Thankyou all for your kind words about dd - I am unbelievably proud of her
There isn't anything much to report. Work, blimming freezing and tired. Determined to relax tonight, and that means no internet or crochet. So I'm heading off, just thought I'd say a quick hello though.

Eager_Elephant

Well done to DD for being amazing:T:j:T

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

By the time I'd driven out of the street, an orange light had lit up on the dashboard to warn me that tyre pressure was low. So I decided to pop in and check pressure at the petrol station on the way - to find a completely flat tyre Managed to pump it up enough for me to drive to the nearest garage, where the tyre place was closed I popped into the repair centre next door that was open to ask where the next nearest place was. The men there said that whilst they couldn't replace the tyre for me they would put the spare on for me so I could get to a garage - v kind. When they took the wheel off they had a look and round the puncture, and the man told me he could probably repair it, and that it wouldn't need a new tyre if that worked. He proceeded to pull half a drill bit out of the tyre! A drill bit! .

You wont believe what happened to me today....yep, that parellel life thing has happened again!!!

Started driving to work and the car felt odd like it was pulling to one side and then I thought the car sounded different so turned radio down and yup, it was making an odd sound and I realised that I probably had a flat tyre.
I was on a single carriageway A road so just stopping is not possible so had to drive for over a mile until I could pull in safely, lovely lady pulled in behind me to check I was ok (I had my hazards on for some of it as I didnt dare drive to the speed limit (50mph on that stretch).
I did have a flat tyre and as I have no clue i called my brother who came out with his work mate and put on the spare.

The cause of the puncture............a screw:mad::mad:

I didnt know whether to cry about it or laugh about our parallel lives:rotfl::rotfl:

So tonight I opted for a brand new tyre rather than a fix as I would worry about other damage plus of course I drove on a deflated tyre for far too long. Luckily only cost £50 but I could have done without it.

SpekySquarehead

Hahaha - this parallel life is quite entertaining and scary at the same time!!

crazy_cat_lady

Isn't it weird EE, how our lives always seem to mirror each other in some way? I just want to assure everyone that we're not the same person though :rotfl: Can you get on with winning millions on the lottery or something please? I'd like that
So, I feel a bit better today after a relaxing evening and an early night last night. However, I am still absolutely exhausted - life of a teacher... DS is also exhausted this week, so we left work asap tonight, which means I've been working at home again since I got in - only about an hour and a half but I had to do it, and at least it's done now.
Plans for tonight are pretty much the same. Finish up on here and relax. I've almost made it through the first week back, but I have a full teaching day to get through tomorrow. I feel guilty not doing anything but I know I need the rest.
I'm still trying to keep the faith with the little things. I literally have zero cash in the bank for the rest of this month - not a spare penny anywhere, so no extra payments or anything, but I am managing to put a little bit of savings away in the penny fund from what I still have in my purse. I have managed to get an extra hour of tutoring this weekend as well so that's good news, then the week after next the exam season starts again.
However, I'm starting to use up stuff from the cupboards that has been there for months or maybe even years... I've had a porridge pot from a load that ds wanted then changed his mind about. I've resisted extra shopping trips, takeaway and used a couple of weird food combinations but it's all good.
The frog list is going down, and whilst I haven't done anything at all today, I'm just about to do 1 thing then stop for the night. If I crochet it will be easy stuff that doesn't require much thought on my part.
So no actual payment of debt but lots of small steps to reduce costs and spends. I still have 3 weeks until payday and need to keep with the frugality.

foxgloves

Great to hear about all the 'Using up' that's going on in your house atm, CCL. I can't reach the back of our pantry & since mr f (arms like a gibbon) reorganised it, I can't even SEE to the back! There could be all sorts of forgotten nomnoms in there!