Buffy takes it 6 months at a time

Honeysucklelou2

Does your school not stipulate that emails will be answered between 9 and 5 ? I tend to shut off the school platforms and emails after 6 usually but my school have made it clear that any emails after 5 will be answered the next day. Work /life balance still has to exist even in lockdown.

Hope you were able to have a good walk and that pains have gone away. Thinking of you...

Buffythedebtslayer

The walk was hilarious. It was SO MUDDY and I am not good in mud. I had wellies. I am a grown woman. Did this stop me squeaking and screaming (!) at each slip? Did this stop my pathetic eyeballs filling with tears as we went through a sea of mud? NO it did not. Honestly Hormonal Buffy is a sight to be seen. My friend could not stop laughing at me! To be fair once I got on to dry land I could not stop laughing either. Never doing it again. We are going to walk in my bit next week - it has real paths!!! 
I came home and napped on the sofa. 
Today was a stressy nightmare. But aren't all the days! 

beanielou

I Dont Like Monday's!!

Buffythedebtslayer

Honeysucklelou2 said:

Does your school not stipulate that emails will be answered between 9 and 5 ? I tend to shut off the school platforms and emails after 6 usually but my school have made it clear that any emails after 5 will be answered the next day. Work /life balance still has to exist even in lockdown.

Hope you were able to have a good walk and that pains have gone away. Thinking of you...

It does..........under the old system we had the emails wouldn't send until the morning etc but this one doesn't do that, That was why I took it off my phone, even tho I turned the alerts off, I could check them and got e mails all night really. Lots of my kids will work or more accurately check things off as done (even if they aren't) in the middle of the night! It is very tedious. 
XXX

Buffythedebtslayer

I think it was Monday I pitched a fit and moved my room round. I have HAD ENOUGH. Everything is such a mess and my life is really quite !!!!!! and after all this covid !!!!!! is over my life is going to bloody change. 
The last three days have gone by in blur. Shattered from work and Mum. Made some decisions, mainly that I want things the way I want them and just waiting all the time until.... when ever! I bought a piece of furniture to improve my room, it is literally how I have wanted it for AGES but haven't ever done it cos the rest of the house is such a mess and cos I haven't been bothered really. 
I have ten days till the new drawers come and I intend to use that time to finish off the sorting of what is left. I feel like covid has frozen me on some sort of repeat pattern (as it has everyone I know) but it was like it got nailed into me Monday. 
I have found out that the local dump takes clothes so can finally get shot of the clothes in the spare room. I did all my live lessons today so tomorrow aside from the endless marking should be fairly quiet. And then it is a weekend of tip trips and tidying. 

XXX

Sun_Addict

Hope you’re getting a quiet day today, sounds like you need one. Take it one step at a time x

Buffythedebtslayer

Today was ok. I mean. I didn't have to go any where. Sainsbury's delivered ok. All stressful tho, mum doesn't feel so well, she is now on antibiotics for a urine  infection and they don't make her feel very well on top of everything  else. 
One of my friends has tested positive and needs to self isolate for 10 days so we are going to be cleaning buddies. She doesn't know it yet! but she is ! 
Today I have tried to prep as much as possible for next week. I am going to have a work free weekend as much as possible so I can be off to the tip. 
The CC bill is 745, that is 510 for the vets, 118 for the furniture and 117 in spending (out of 300 pounds spending money) 
I have to pay for car insurance. And Office this month. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Current finances 
Emergency fund - 400 (was 1100) 
Deposit saving - 500 (was 800)
Insurance - 300 
House 5533
I "borrowed"  700 from the emergency fund for the CC (op and furniture and my spends which I will pay back) 
I borrowed 300 from the deposit account for the car insurance. I didn't want to leave the insurance account empty. 
I shall aim to get the accounts back to their pre January figures as much as I can in Feb. I am toying with a no spend month.... aside from food, petrol and essential pet supplies. (not just any cute thing I can buy for the rabbits/guinea pigs.) and finally finish my Kondo situation. 
I have emptied the shed (again) and put up new shelves. It makes it loads easier to see what I have.  I have offered some stuff for free on FB. Emotionally it was hard. 
I am trying to move on from the past to go through and settle things. Work out the new path. What comes next. 
I want things to be straight or at least straighter for what comes next. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Today was, in the limitations of life at the moment, a good day. I went into work, saw lots of people I work with and did 3 live lessons. Home internet is not up to the job so after a socially distanced hello to my friends I sat in an office alone for three hours teaching my kids who I miss. On the way out I had a good chat with one of my closest work friends. She is great. 
I am doing the same tomorrow. It is a good feeling to have a purpose again. (I think I will try and go in three days a week) It is hard to do that at home. You just feel conflicted all the time and God only knows how people cope with children. It is a maddening situation. 
Money news, I had a 170 pounds left from Jan, so 100 has gone to insurance pot. I will keep the 70 for petrol and food for the first week of Feb. 
There aren't any pressing needs for anything. I hope in Feb I can just spend on food and petrol and posting parcels. Oh and rabbit insurance.  
I forgot his was due........
XXX 

Buffythedebtslayer

Morning all, 
Mum is significantly worse today. The doctor gave her a week of steroids and she was great but they have obviously worn off now and it doesn't look good. 
We have to go out for a blood test today. hmmmm. 
In good news, I have been paying into another savings account (another magic account I "forget about") for about a year I think? and it has 2600 in it. Which when added to the 5553 in the Isa and the 500 in the what I can put away for the deposit account means I have 8653 saved purely as my deposit. All thanks to this site. Does anyone go cold at thought of what would have happened if you had never found the site?? 
I had best get on, no live lessons due to blood test and mum generally but have to post work. 
XXX