NST January 2020: A Turtle Quest

crazy_cat_lady

I would like to join the 50m to couch group please! It sounds like everything I already do
Dear me, it's still a good 36 hours or so until payday. I must have a good few more nsds than I've reported, but I lost count when I was working away.

f0xh0les

NSD 17

Only 15 hours now until payday. £2.01 left in the budget. £2.01 left in my current account. Moving anything not in the budget into the savings account at the start of the month really focuses the mind (and the purse). Even if it means 1 child is going into school with a jam sandwich tomorrow (he is absolutely delighted by this idea - it is a novelty not child abuse)

Volunteering today, DS2 still off school sick - his cough sounds healthier, but I fear he is beginning to eliminate his congestion - bleugh! Nobody would want to sit near him at school, so kept him home. More hot baths, Vapour rub, and hot drinks. I would make such a rubbish nurse.

January seems to have been sooooo looooooong.

MediumDino

At 14/16 NSD now. I would be at 15/16, but as I was buying supplies for Brownies on Monday I unthinkingly bought a snack at the till.

I have been greedy at the library, I went on a browse of the catalogue and reserved way too many books, yesterday most of them were ready for pick up (about 10!) Though I suppose it is a fairly innocent form of greed. It still doesn't feel right.

The election here means I have been handed all sorts of flyers (and one pen) by leafletters at the stations etc, suddenly learning how to say no to those seems really important, rather than automatically holding my hand out.

Siebrie

"I need milk today, as milk in fridge is out of date sometimes it lasts longer but not taking the chance of sour milk for brekkie."- Calling14.


Slightly out-of-date milk, on the brink of turning sour, is excellent for making pancakes! Especially with selfraising flour, it makes very fluffy pancakes.

f0xh0les

Good for scones too Calling

dolly84

f0xh0les - it's great when you give something a revamp for no money. BTW - mine get a jam sandwich in their lunchboxes sometimes too.


Made my own beeswax wraps yesterday, took a bit longer than I thought and was a bit messy but fun or would have been if I just did two rather than four small and two large.


Have done some cleaning and odd fixing jobs today and have tended to my compost heap. Walked the dog for 6 miles instead of running today, I am shattered but he seems to be oddly energetic.

crazy_cat_lady

Come ON payday!!!! Still 7 hours to go. I have £5.61 in my purse and nothing in the bank.
I am beyond tired, and January really needs to do one now. It's been a very long and difficult month.
No spends as no money
No fun as teaching and also exam marking.
So nothing to report.

Calling14

Agree January has gone on for ever and money flying out of my nest all month.

Thanks for milk tips still tasted fine today, used most up in lasagne the other night. No waste here.

One more day of 50metres to couch club, might try it in reverse then.

Today spent again no washing up liquid and was off this afternoon so few make up items from Primarny. Spent rest afternoon moving soil around my garden had about dozen bags of top soil, donated by friend, they had dug up from their garden. Tried stomping it down before next doors cats think its a litter tray. Will look. For mesh to cover it until i plant in it. Some in garage somewher
Grateful for
Afternoon off
Lovely tea cuban pasta dish ( simply cook) sent another kit free just need to remember to cancel the subscription.
Pamper night, starting now. Look frightful, muddy wreck

f0xh0les

I need to give back my NSD:( . Came home from the school pick up part 2, and they had drunk all the milk and eaten all the bread:mad:. So 2 ltrs of soy milk and a cheapo loaf of squishy toastie bread later, I have 34p left in the bank until tomorrow. :j

I did not shout either! I just went into the kitchen and made a (soya) chicken and leek pie, spuds and vegetables, and as I could not be faffed making a pudding, they had ys Xmas pudding and chocolate ice cream, which they said was delicious. 5/5 a day.

So I will declare my total of 16 NSDs for January.

mothernerd

Very tired. Both mum and I had appointments this week and there has been one each week in January. Then following on from last week's podiatry appointment I had to make mum an appointment for treatment by the district nurses. So today we had to travel to a little town about 5 miles away.


The weeping sore on mum's leg is technically an ulcer - the skin in the middle is dead. So we will be seeing the district nurses twice a week for several weeks. The appointments tend to be booked ahead for 3 weeks so we are going back to the same place for the next 3 appointments then switch to our infirmary. The first week we are there I have to book appointments for the following few weeks.


So February is now busy. I made two appointments yesterday but they are in March and April. Tomorrow we are going out of town the other way (to an ex mining village) for mum's diabetic eye screening, maybe. I was asked to book an appointment in the middle of last year and I phoned and said I understood that we needed an appointment with the specialist. They said they would get back to me but have now sent another normal appointment.



I was dropped off in the town centre on our way back from the clinic and haven't done much since. One of my mini goals set yesterday is to do a bit of walking (15 minutes). So I did an hour of hobbling and then sitting, took two books back to the library and then crossed town to the shopping centre. It's not much but I hope if I do it every day I may get back to proper walking (and then real walking).


Today I am grateful for the NHS, for adventures (neither of us had been to today's clinic before and only had a vague idea where it was), for everyone we met being very helpful and for easy meals from the freezer.