NST April 2020: Fools we are not!

Toni'sfriend

various chunks of frozen cheese
I don't even know where to start with that. Himself has bought so much of varying kinds and frozen it. It will be addressed when we work our way through his butteries. Think we might be down to about 20 of those now.

snowbird20

2 NSD, today will be the 3rd.  I did have to order a mattress from Amazon for son who is in our Florida house.  But that's not my spend and i'm not taking the hit for it.  DH's pay came in the mail today, about 5 x more than we anticipated so that's a pleasant surprise.  It'll make a nice cushion against unexpected expenses (like mattresses from Amazon).  Discovered someone used my name to open a BestBuy credit card and order 4 Apple Pencils-whatever those are.  Cancelled the order and reported the fraud.
Gratitudes:  1dh is working half days now-i like it/2-cheeseburger pizza-i like that, too!/3-family and friends (except 1) are all well/4-the horses on the hill behind the house-they make me happy/5-warm socks. 

BadBookkeeper

NSD 11/15
very busy day!  DS had video call with school friends, virtual cub camp, roast dinner (chicken goes out of date today, do had to use up. so now I think it’s Sunday)!
Made banana bread used last of flour gutted as wanted to make a lemon drizzle too but never mind.  I think my family are purposely leaving bananas now so we make banana bread!
Used up bananas and a few eggs that we’ve had a while.
Cub camp was reef knots, paper aeroplanes (again but all good this time)!, den building, making food (banana bread), a quiz (good fun) then back again at 10am tomorrow.  So thankful for Leaders trying to keep things going! 

In between all that we did a jigsaw of the UK! Sneakily educational I thought 😊
Tomorrow I want to iron, clean house, colour in this weeks picture for the window (flowers is the theme), walk, revisit April budgets and re focus April’s challenge. 

Sorry for going on again! 

Siebrie

My temper is showing these days; normally I can go with the flow, but as I get older my premenstrual hormones start playing up more. I decided to have a me-day today and stayed in bed until 13.30 with my ipad and a book, showered, had some tea, read most of the book outside, popped frozen pizza in oven for dds (I had 1 piece) (we agreed that it was awful and won't have it again), and went back to the bedroom at 8. I will take some iron tablets and outdoors exercise tomorrow.

apple_muncher

Today has been a quiet day (yeah, like all my other days are pure rock n roll, eh?!), and I am grateful for the post people still delivering, for de-weeding more of the patio, for a great parody of the sound of music, for sending the PM an email about signing the cv info for deaf people, for an edible pineapple upside down cake.

mothernerd

I managed to get mum to go back to bed for 2 hours and cleaned all the neglected bits of the front room - under drawers, along the top of the curtains and picture frames, pulled out both armchairs and swept all the bits out and the skirtings too. Picked up a fork and a little clock which had fallen off the tiny table and set the modem and the alarm phone upright (after moving the clutter of wires and sweeping out bits trapped behind and between them.

Watched several good films whilst doing paperwork. This afternoon I did a 'pasta thing' - used leftover pasta, cauli and broccoli from yesterday, chopped and cooked a large onion, added a tin of tomatoes, a tin of butterbeans, cubed one of the rather sad looking courgettes, basil, mixed herbs, 2 garlic and herb dips and a spoonful of mango chutney. Put it in the microwave in two batches for a couple of minutes, then in the oven for half an hour - was gorgeous, I had seconds.

I have been out for a walk. Went home via the canal bank, knocked on the window, they hadn't taken the trolley back so I sat in the garden for five minutes then got them to push the trolley outside, then took over (I had gloves as i needed to hold the rail to get over the canal bridge). Coming back holding the trolley was much easier than walking by myself - took all the short cuts (diagonal across the car park, straight down the middle of a side street, a wiggle across the A!dee car park and then the bridge. No-one on my side, very glad I didn't cross over (easier slope on that side) as everyone I passed was using that side. Then along the middle of the roads to get back here, moving to the side when a car came along. So I now have my bag of cleaning stuff, the remaining herbs and spices and a few more clothes. Still can't find the code book so can't access my bank account and various other things. Will have to go through everything again.

Today I am grateful for good food from leftovers, mum taking it easy, managing a challenging walk, the birds that come to visit and progress on the paperwork.

misstara

Bought some bulbs for the garden today as well as some bin bags and milk so still on 15/20 NSDs.  Grateful for a walk with OH, getting some more gardening done, chicken and chorizo risotto for tea, watching old films with OH and hm banana bread with choc chips

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Evening
Today has been really nice.  Stayed in bed reading this morning.  Drove to the shops and managed to get everything we needed.  On the way home i dropped off a card and bar of luxury chocolate with a friend as a birthday present and had a 10 min chat with her, from  a distance.  DDs and i had a walk then had afternoon tea - little sandwiches and scones with cream and jam, yummy.  I have sorted a tub of out of date paperwork so the shredder has been going at full pace; i've brought in the breakfast bar stool from the garage where it's been for about 3 years as i've now made space in the kitchen to use it.   This evening DDs and i had tea and watched a film together.  
Deni x

greent

Nsd. Grateful for watching more birds in the garden, rain for the garden, heated airer for laundry,  leftovers for easy food, finding car insurance at half of my renewal quote!

facethemusic

Saturday- back to the local shop today so still on NSD 11, 
but my bank balance is healthier than same time last month so total spends are down- a good chunk of that would be fuel normally and I'm using very little of that just now. 
Gratitudes- more veg seeds planted- if everything grows we will have lots of fresh veg this summer, more than 10000 steps every day this week, a pleasant chat with a neighbour I don't know very well while she was in her garden, playing games with DD, using up food that usually gets ignored. 
I have decided any food still in the cupboard after lockdown that hasn't been used/replaced is NEVER going to be eaten and can be thrown out/donated to food bank depending if opened/in date etc. I'm trying to build meals for me around what I have in place to get all the odd bits that have been around for ages used up (DD is harder to please but I'll eat all sorts of random combinations). I'm now saving plastic bottles if we finish anything so I can fill with water to pop in the freezer as space appears. I plan to only replace what we use all the time until I get all the random bits used up, but I don't want to let the drawers get too empty.