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Thanks merlin. I've decided that I'm going to wake up next Friday and feel better. This is the plan.2
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I hope it’s improved a bit now KP, sounds awful ❤️MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁0
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Thanks Ng, I am not better but I shouldn't really complain to you of all people right now!
I'm very fuzzy, it's all the painkillers I think and the lack of sleep. Slept until midday on Saturday, think it was a migraine but couldn't feel it?
Babysitting cats, they're so cute even if one of them looks me in the eye while putting her claws in the sofa2 -
Sorry to hear that things haven't improved KP - have you been back to physio?
Cats do love to make eye contact at the worst times - my ginger boy likes to hold eye contact while he's in the litter tray... it's awkward! 😂Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway1 -
😆 Don’t be daft, I love a good complain and I’ve been doing a lot of it lately, why not! I hope you are starting to feel a bit better 😊MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁0
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Hope you get better soon - sounds v painful.
on the house buying / tying yourself to someone who is not good with money is my idea of hell / what happens when she can’t pay her half of the bills etc every month?
Could you get a mortgage on it on your own and then (quietly ) rent out a room or 2 to help with the bills in the short termDON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff. Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest1 -
I disappeared. I'm going to say for good reason but honestly it was because I was feeling rough and do nothing. I also am still buying crap and I know that I'll be told off but I'm spending the money I would have been spending on commuting and damnit I want to buy some collectables! I've missed out on meeting my friends foster child, I've missed out on at least two different comicons (I want to go to the one near my brother), I AM MISSING OUT ON CAR BOOTS! My favourite of all of the cars and the boots.
I do need to look at money.
I have two fairly big things to say:
I've now been put on gabapentin which has been awful. I've had to take time off work (again). To the point on day 5 of taking the pills I got in touch with the doctor again to plead for help. Apparently the usual starting dose is start on one 100mg pill a day, then up to two 100mg and lastly three 100mg a day (with the idea you can go up if needed). I don't know if there was miscommunication (the person I spoke to initially wasn't a full doctor, maybe a trainee? they spoke with the doctors and called me back) or they thought I was in too much pain, but they started me on one 300mg on day one, two 300mg on day two and then three 300mg going forward. All I can say is I couldn't stay upright. I tried to put my trousers on, fell over and cracked my head on the wardrobe. It's sore! This morning I tried to make a tea, ended up having to sit on the floor outside my bedroom and was stuck there swirling for 30 minutes. It's improving, I'm now on 600 total a day. The great and brilliant thing is that I can feel my leg again. It has been a blob of hot pain for months and it was hard to understand where the pain was. Now it's much more defined.
Second thing is that a mortgage isn't possible on the family house. I'm upset. Kinda relieved because it would be a lot of work. But upset. I always wanted to live there in retirement.
I haven't caught up on anyone's diaries or really read the comments you guys left because concentrating is hard and this message has taken forever to write.5
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