Keep calm and carry on....

South_coast

Thanks both 😀 

I'm completely exhausted today, we went to the park yesterday and it turns out interacting with a child while they use play equipment (as well as joining in myself as I am a big kid) is tiring! Add in a traffic jam that made the return journey 90 minutes instead of 60, and the result was me asleep on the sofa by 10.00pm 🤣! My legs were very stiff this morning (as were my shoulders, but that was due to sunburn) and I tried to talk myself out of going for a walk, but thought a slower trundle round would be better than doing nothing, so did get out eventually. Good job too, as I HAD AN ICE CREAM yesterday (in caps so KP notices it 🤣) and needed to work it off! Every attempt at getting off the sofa today is punctuated by groans due to aching, so probably a good day to target some free money!

On that note, the Panelbase money has arrived and I had a mystifying level of cashback on my bank account this month, so I'm at £12.85 so far but only by pure fluke! Cannot afford to rest on my laurels....

killerpeaty

Did somebody say ICE CREAM?! I bet it was the best part of your day :P Glad you had a good day yesterday, even if you're achy today.

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You know what would help with that ache?

Ice cream! (no regrets)

South_coast

🤣🤣🤣 Knew you'd like it!

South_coast

Oh, and best question ever from my sister today: "How on earth do you have sunburn?" BF is forever saying I ask ridiculous questions, so I made sure I relayed this one on to him 🤣!

South_coast

I've just inputted my new underwear into Consumer Pulse (really must finish trying it on). I know they need to cover all the bases, but some of the questions they ask always seem a bit odd: Were the knickers thermal? Were the bras for playing rugby? Anyway, it's done now, and once the points have credited I will be withdrawing them, as I have found something to spend them on now 😀 That will be a decent boost to the free money target, hurrah 😀😀😀!

coldcazzie

South_coast said:

I've just inputted my new underwear into Consumer Pulse (really must finish trying it on). I know they need to cover all the bases, but some of the questions they ask always seem a bit odd: Were the knickers thermal? Were the bras for playing rugby? Anyway, it's done now, and once the points have credited I will be withdrawing them, as I have found something to spend them on now 😀 That will be a decent boost to the free money target, hurrah 😀😀😀!

Thermal knickers sound spot on tbf (for me!) but a special rugby bra?

Also yes, small kids are EXHAUSTING. But yay for ice cream.

South_coast

"Playing rugby" was an option, I swear! And if I had thermal knickers, I don't think I'd ever want to take them off - love the idea of being toasty! 

The ice cream was a bit of a let-down if I'm honest (don't tell KP 😮). It was served in a classic cornet and I'm more of a chocolate-topped waffle cone girl these days - so bourgeois!

South_coast

I've not been feeling the love this week 🙁 While I knew my "money needed" figure would go up as I'm living off savings, it was very gloomy to actually see my hard work going into reverse in black and white (of course, the thing to do would have been to compare the 01/09 figure to the 01/07 one, as that would still have shown an improvement - but that's not the way my brain works!)

Today I've had a curtains-closed-and-wearing-favourite-socks day. Applied for a couple of jobs this morning, but one of them emailed back within the hour to say they'd decided not to go ahead with the role due to the pandemic - it was only advertised yesterday (perhaps a non-confrontational way of saying "Thanks, but no thanks. It's not us, it's you"?) I've also had zero motivation to cook all week, so have been working my way through batch-cooked meals from the freezer. Good for the electric bill and next week's food bill, as all the items I bought for this week are still in the fridge; no doubt bad for the waistline however, as I have been eating an inordinate amount of pasta - and this after I specifically researched diet-friendly recipes last week! It only works if you actually cook them 🙄! Buying the ingredients with good intentions is not enough!

Tomorrow I will be more dynamic. I have a bit of a plan, which it looks like the weather will support me in. Oh, and I've progressed one of the larger items on the to-do list today (just need BF's input to finalise and he's said we'll look at it at the weekend), so not a total write-off 😀 We plod on....

yogavibes

I plan on joining you in being more dynamic tomorrow too Also nothing wrong with living off pasta in my mind

South_coast

We can report back on our successes!

LOVE pasta 😋 (and pizza, risotto, gelato.... Could quite happily live in Italy. BF would be buzzing from too much espresso, but there are worse problems to have!)