2020 - 'Nothing in your life will change until you make the decision to change'

savingholmes

WinterWarrior said:

We’ve watch the blacklist for years. The man who plays Raymond Reddington is the same man who played Daniel in Stargate…but old!! 

Wow that's an interesting fact. I watched a few season when it first came out but not since. 

Well done Jwil on your 12 year plan. It's great to feel you have options and when you get old enough to use it - you will be very grateful to your past self.

jwil

WinterWarrior said:

We’ve watched the blacklist for years. The man who plays Raymond Reddington is the same man who played Daniel in Stargate…but old!! 

Edited to say the film Stargate, not the series that followed. We are just binge watching all the Atlantis ones now 😏

Yes, I remember him from that, looks totally different now!  I'd never heard of it, possibly because we don't have sky.  I'm really enjoying it though!

jwil

savingholmes said:

WinterWarrior said:

We’ve watch the blacklist for years. The man who plays Raymond Reddington is the same man who played Daniel in Stargate…but old!! 

Wow that's an interesting fact. I watched a few season when it first came out but not since. 

Well done Jwil on your 12 year plan. It's great to feel you have options and when you get old enough to use it - you will be very grateful to your past self.

Thank you.  It is nice to feel there are options, and even though a lot may change in the next 12 years, I know that come state pension age, neither DH nor I will be destitute, even if something happens to one of us in the meantime.  It's a big relief.  The 12 year plan is about giving us freedom to choose what we do sooner than that, retire, go part time, change jobs to do something we want to do rather than worrying about the level of pay etc.  It's an exciting prospect.  Whilst I enjoy my job, it can be hard and intense.  I quite often see other jobs that I like the look of, but they are low paid or fixed term, or part time.  It will be nice to have the option to look at some of those when we don't have so many demands.

jwil

I've had a day pottering around the house today.  I was doing my 15 minutes per hour thing again.  It's worked quite well again!  I've tidied again (I seem to be constantly picking up the same items 😡 ) and cleared a couple of spaces so the house is feeling and looking a bit tidier and more spacious.

I've caught up on some emails and gone through my kindle books on my amazon account and deleted a load that I've read and won't want to read again.

I've also *gulp* applied for a credit card.  It's only a credit rebuilder one, with crazy high interest rate.  I am getting this purely to rebuild my credit, as realistically we might need to apply for finance to help with some of the house renovations at some point.  My plan is to use it solely for petrol and to pay it off each month.  I'm still a bit nervous, but I'm confident I've learnt my lesson.

This weekend we plan to break up the old sofas and get them to the recycling site.  We are planning on going to a local fete which is usually quite good, and little miss is hopefully meeting one of her friends.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

beanielou

Enjoy your weekend 

savingholmes

Have fun at the fete. Sounds idyllic

jwil

beanielou said:

Enjoy your weekend 

Thank you, you too

savingholmes said:

Have fun at the fete. Sounds idyllic

Thank you.  We like this one as it's quite traditional.  I guess it still might not be 'normal' but at least it's on.

jwil

Oh the joy of back to work today!

I've enjoyed my couple of weeks off, it's done me good and the kids have had lots of fresh air and exercise without costing the world.  The fete was good at the weekend, we spent on a few activities and the kids had lots of fun.  We had a go at church bellringing too which was novel!

DH broke up the sofas and took them to the recycling site so they are gone.

The kids did parkrun yesterday, and then we went to the park to meet one of little miss's friends.  She enjoyed it and it was nice for me to meet her and her Mum as well, as we haven't even seen each other before due to Covid restrictions at school.

Hope everyone had a good weekend

WinterWarrior

That all sounds lovely. I hope you survive going back to work ☹️ I like to book the next days or week off so I have a new countdown in place…then I can think ‘only x weeks until I’m off’ when it feels never ending 😬

teapot2

Sounds like a good weekend to end off your break and hope the return to work isn't too painful.