5 months to emerge as a butterfly

benbenandme

Back and neck are still aching and I feel rubbish. I got into bed at 5, am mooching on the laptop but might be asleep soon, hoping I feel better tomorrow.

Blackcats

Hope you feel better soon

benbenandme

Thanks Blackcats, so I was asleep before 7pm according to my fitbit, then I woke up wide awake at 2am, got back to sleep just after 4 and got up at 5.30. I don't actually feel too tired but I do want to try to get my sleep back into a more usual pattern tonight

My back is better than yesterday but still stiff and I'm needing regular paracetamol / ibuprofen. Hopefully tomorrow it will be better still.

benbenandme

Morning all, had a good nights sleep and was wide awake at 5:30 so got up. had a coffee and mooched. So far I have: folded and put away the clean washing, stripped my bed, remade it, the old bedding is nearly done in the washing machine, loaded the dishwasher and put that on, tidied the lounge and cleaned it (will hoover through at a more reasonable hour ), tidied and cleaned the kitchen and rehomed all the random bits piling up on the coffee table. The rest of today involves a bit of food shopping, some football, some walking, cleaning the bathroom, hoovering / mopping the floors. 

Yesterday I finally caved in and put the heating on for four hours, it was okay under a blanket on the sofa but I was aware I was just spending the day on the sofa as it was cold in the house, also the washing just wasn't drying. It's not cold at all this morning (windows are open currently), but I will put on later for a bit if I need to. I will try not to have it on during the week, it's generally not so bad then - come home from work, have dinner, shower, snuggle under the duvet with the laptop

Banking was looked at yesterday for the end of the month - I've got about £35 until payday (Wednesday), and other than a few top up bits today (around £20 probably), I  don't think I need anything else.

Next month I get a bumper pay, we're getting the backdated payrise for support staff, I did try and work out how much I'll get, I'll have another look at it now and see if I can get a rough figure.

benbenandme

After some number crunching I'm thinking it will be roughly £770  extra in December (rough figured, estimated pension extra etc) This will mainly go straight into savings but I may allow myself a treat too.  I should then see about an extra £85 a month in my pay which will be very welcome. 

benbenandme

I've just completed a survey on Ylive (was Populuslive) and it has meant I've reached the payout threshold, so another £50 on its way to my bank account  

Drawingaline

Our heating finally kicked in too. Feeling the same, OK sat on the sofa, freezing everywhere else and no washing was drying and trying to avoid the dryer. 

benbenandme

I did put the heating on for a couple of hours tonight, just to take the chill off the house. In bed now snug as a bug
I've just withdrawn £27 from prolific and moved a couple of bits into the savings pot and I've just gone over the £1000 mark, so happy with that as originally I was aiming for about £600 before New Year and that's before I've moved the extra pay over too!

In other news I have applied for a new job at school - it's a new role, admin manager, I'd love it, I am super organised and like admin and data stuff, closing date is Wednesday so I'll keep you all updated. It would still be term time only which I'm chuffed about but about another £2k salary too, we'll see.

It's nice to have hit December too, two weeks to go at work ...

beanielou

Positive vibes for the job.

Blackcats

Good luck with the job application - sounds perfect for you.