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NST April 2020: Fools we are not!
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Forgot to post last night (played CaH with 'big' 2 when 'small' 2 had gone to bed) - NSD. Thankful for playing games with students (both under a lot of stress for very different reasons at the mo - I did ask them could they try and arrange their crises at different times in the future!! ), resisting the shop (sensible head won!), sunshine, an evening walk, a cashback payout.
Today a planned (and needed) smkt is on the cards when I take both DD & DS1 to donate blood
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £205 -
I'm an hour into an attempt at writing the reply to WTC and I'm losing the will to live - just referencing all the letters they have sent about their decision (about 7) and trying to link them with the relevant tax years.My body is okay (think the shower helped enormously) but my eyes hurt already and I have to plough on with this but came on here for a break.Today I am grateful for showers, getting things done, boiled eggs, filtered water, pills (my morning medication), lip salve and hand cream, and peas (second attempt now out of the mug and onto a tray (recycled foil pie tray) nesting in water soaked cotton wool - first attempt was abandoned, front jar of peas is for 'baking blind' and they had been baked at least 5 times.My mission in life is not only to survive,but to thrive and to do so with some Passion, some Compassion, some Humour and some Style.NST SEP No 1 No Debt No mortgage5
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Morning all, did manage a NSD yesterday and hopefully today. Got a refund from the old energy company as we were in credit, so moved that to savings, my parents ordered some clothes for LO and they were delivered yesterday, and my head is now ok as long as I don't poke it Did some "gardening" yesterday (its a massive overgrown jungle and OH wants to redo things so wary of planting lovely things and having it destroyed) dug up a few more weeds and put down some wild flower seed bombs near the onions and some sunflowers seeds the LO brought home from nursery
Grateful for getting a refund without having to chase, OH doing the washing up without being asked and finding a fuchsia that I planted last year has hung in there and seems to be trying to make a come back6 -
Health insurance company is being difficult with refunds. We get a €25/year refund for joining a sport for a year; I sent in 3 forms, 1 got reimbursed, 2 were refused for being 'the wrong form'.... Apparently, on 1 January they changed the form and they insist on using this form for handing in submissions from September! The form didn't exist back then! Good thing I have another 18 months to hand these forms in, as I am not going to bother the sports' instructors to re-sign the forms just now.Husband has to go into the office today to give a colleague a new laptop. He's in IT, and that kind of tasks still require in-person meetings. He will go to a Dutch supermarket afterwards, and I gave him a list, so not a NSD today.Weather is lovely, and I have moved outside with my computer.Are you wombling, too, in '22? € 58,96 = £ 52.09Wombling in Restrictive Times (2021) € 2.138,82 = £ 1,813.15Wombabeluba 2020! € 453,22 = £ 403.842019's wi-wa-wombles € 2.244,20 = £ 1,909.46Wombling to wealth 2018 € 972,97 = £ 879.54Still a womble 2017 #25 € 7.116,68 = £ 6,309.50Wombling Free 2016 #2 € 3.484,31 = £ 3,104.596
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Food delivery just arrived so we have plenty for the next several weeks apart from milk which one of the neighbours has offered to get for us. Made some soup for the Boy's freezer which he's coming to collect later. It will be nice to see him because we've only been keeping in touch daily by facetime. He won't come into the house in case but it's nice all the same.
Ordered some potting compost and seeds so that I can brighten up the porch and it'll give me something to occupy my time. The herbs I planted are coming along nicely.
Finished the book I was reading and Himself unearthed the one I was looking for to read next.
Lovely day here and the communal area is deserted (don't know where everyone has gone) so I'm going to make a G & T and have a little sit outside.Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.6 -
Afternoon all, such a beautiful day here, shame to be working indoors and not sitting enjoying some much needed sun! Have accrued another 2 NSD's since my last post. I was having a browse at clothes yesterday but resisted buying anything because I don't need anything! Think I was just bored...
There's not much else to report here. The kids I work with are all seemingly breaching quarantine rules and they all seem to find it funny or acceptable because they're young. It's frustrating having the same conversation multiple times only for it to be ignored...
Anyway, back to MSE stuff. I get paid on Friday, had budgeted £60 for fuel this month, put £20 in at the start of the month and still have most of it left, so I will put the £40 towards a jacket I bought as an early birthday present to myself last week. I also got an email from my car insurance provider advising that they are giving everyone a £25 refund, so should receive that soon. And tomorrow I have a meeting with my head of service about promotion. It seems like a weird time to do it but I actually applied before Christmas and my manager sat on her part of the paperwork for ages so I'm not taking responsibility for the poor timing! For purely selfish reasons I obviously hope I get it as I do the same work as people on the next rung of the ladder so it makes sense, and it will also mean a small pay rise.
I'm meant to be going to Amsterdam next weekend and we've heard nothing about cancellation yet. All we had was an automated email saying they'd be in touch soon. I can't contact them as the booking is not in my name, but it's a bit worrying that they've not cancelled it yet!Save £3,000 emergency fund #79 - £2,073.28 as of 05/24
Pay off credit card by December 2024 - £392/£2,0006 -
Today I am grateful for a 'day off' to catch up on all the marking I'm generating, for my counsellor, for apple blossom, for having the back door open, for good coffee, for 85% chocolate.
NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!5 -
Evening Turtles!
Not an NSD - donated to Children in need/red nose big night in via DS cubs fundraiser.
Using up items DS had left over lasagne and sausages for tea!!
Anyone else using up healthy things to make ‘cake’? Our fruit bowl of bananas,apples,lemon will soon become banana bread, apple crumble and lemon drizzle. Using up eggs too so all good!! I’ve ordered chocolate to melt and mix to a box of cereal nut clusters! No one like the bottom of the box as they are just bits not clusters so hoping to make chocolate bars out of it!
No decluttering done - will do this at the weekend.Finally caught up with budgets. Groceries have wiped me out this month. I have cash to pay in to bring me into the black so may transfer money from
DS bank to mine and put the cash in his cash pot.
Grateful for:
internet
good weather
doing a bit of school work
last years summer clothes fitting
ticking of a few tasks todayLightbulb moment - 17/08/2017 £17,033. Current CC debt £1050 DFD 31/7/24 2 months to go…. 8 weeks7 -
Just spent an hour (a bit more) in the polytunnel and in the yard filling large olanters with a mixture of new and old compost? soil and putting pepper and tomato plants into them. Put all my Erics into the little square plant pots vacated by the peppers and toms (a cauli called Clapton, what else would I call them). So all is right with the world. Had a shower and was leaning against the wall so I didn't fall over then finally put the shower seat down and sat down.We'll draw a veil over the earlier part of the day.Today I am grateful for bacon and beans (using up what's in the fridge before starting on anything else - mum had eaten half the beans so it made sense to use the other half), for another episode of Peaky Blinders to look forward to (mum's going to watch Ronnie Barker), for making a decision to close my business (working long hours for very little money and it will be such a relief not having to jump through endless hoops - will just be very poor until I retire), for making progress on eating the elephant.My mission in life is not only to survive,but to thrive and to do so with some Passion, some Compassion, some Humour and some Style.NST SEP No 1 No Debt No mortgage5
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Well done on making that decision mothernerd x
NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!5
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