Moving forward and upwards

MovingForwards

Thanks Skinty
Seems to be fine, but he did yesterday when I got in.

The other always seems more draining than vomiting, a couple of trips and it seems all food reserves have gone and instant weakness kicks in.

MovingForwards

January financial round up:

Saved £126.67
Saved car everything pot £20

Paid £10 into SIPP and moved my allocation around, closing some pots.

Owe approx £59,721 on the mortgage
Owe £2210 car finance

CC has a nil balance

Plans for February are keep ticking over, save £150, save £20 for the car pot and £10 into my SIPP; I've got my work pension taken from wages.

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I've altered the boiler timer in the evenings, it comes on for a while, then off for a while, before another short on session. The flat is staying warm enough for me.

I popped to the local shop, got reduced price veg pack and mushrooms, grabbed 2 large milk, spuds and a large tub of yoghurt. Spent £4.99

Managed to annoy cat, gave her beef flavour when I got in, her least favourite. She complained to TomBo when he returned and didn't stop until he gave her a different one.

We had sausage, mash and onion gravy for tea.

Skint_yet_Again

Great that you can turn the boiler off for a bit. Hope you don’t get the snow and gales 😨 We’ve got sun but a bitter north wind 🥶

How very dare you expect the princess to eat beef flavour 😆

MovingForwards

Thanks Skinty

I'm going to see if I can knock another 15 minutes off it over the weekend.

Ended the week on a positive and I'm currently trying to wrangle some O/T.

I've got my feet up and we're watching a film. I won't be going out the weekend, just resting up. Depending on how I feel, I may dye my hair and have a little pamper.

I had tomato soup, TomBo had chicken soup, served with chia seed bread. Cat had a bit of each soup, she may be a bit spoilt.

doingitanyway

Rest up. As usual the soup sounds lovely 

savingholmes

Enjoy your weekend. Well done on the budget, savings and sipp

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Thanks DIA and SH

It's raining and windy today, good for the growing garden. 

TomBo has been for his run, did the shopping and filled my car. 

As a result of me not paying the above this week, I've made an O/P on the CF 😀
- feels like I'm back on track to pre-bereavement plans, albeit with less money in the bank than I would have had she not died; hope that makes sense.

Sibling has some work lined up. Hopefully things will continue to pick up again and then I can get on with sorting probate out and wrapping everything up.
- in a way my life is on hold until it's done as it's just 'hanging over me', waiting to be dealt with.

I've had a vanilla latte, my feet are up and I'm snuggled with a hot water bottle.

atrixa

Great news on the overpayment! Vanilla latte sounds lovely, especially in this weather.

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Thanks atrixa, they're sachets from A1DI and all the flavoured coffees are nice, better than branded as they're smooth, not bitter. Possibly the one weekend indulgence I won't give up. The iced coffees are fab in summer and the reason I got an ice cube tray last year 😀

The CF felt like it was stagnating only paying the contractual agreement.

I'm contemplating booking a couple of Friday's off work to go swimming, just have to time it right and budget for them. I'd still like to join a private member's place as their pool hours are more suitable, I'll revisit this idea later in the year.

I've used the last of my l3w1s voucher, ordered a stuffed marv3l toy, just had to pay a bit towards the p&p. 

Later I may transplant my succulents into their new fancy pot, if not I'll do it tomorrow.

We're about to have cheese sandwiches and watch some archeology, yes that old TV series 😉