5 months to emerge as a butterfly

Buffythedebtslayer

I am in the Waiting Room! 
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benbenandme

Morning all, another nice bright sunny one here today Yesterday I did a super early beach walk, was home by 9.30 and had done my 20,000 steps. The rest of the day was spent mainly chilling in the garden which was lovely and about time too! I now have a sunburnt back and backs of my legs but hey ho

Today I have a friend coming over around 10 as I am dog-sitting for her for a week while she goes abroad to her Sons wedding. I've never met the dog yet so am hoping all will go fine. I've been pottering round for half an hour just tidying bits and pieces, I need to hoover but will wait til around 9 as ds is still asleep, as are most normal people at this time on a Sunday morning...

This week is the final week of my tutoring at school, its been 15 weeks and has dragged a bit but the money is very welcome, its been syphoned off into a separate pot and one day will go towards a holiday. I'm determined not to use that for heating bills. 

benbenandme

Another weekend is here .. the weather isn't quite what was promised but its pleasantly warm. I've spent the morning pottering indoors and chatting to the original hottie, hopefully seeing him this week

Moneywise I've not really been up to much - I need to focus more on it again and do some more prolific surveys as I haven't done much this month. 

My tutoring is now finished, hopefully will be doing more in September. I am having my friends dog from Tuesday evening onwards for a week or so, other than that not much to report. This week has been hellishly busy at work, another month to go until the end of term ... 

beanielou

The cards are fantastic 

benbenandme

Thank you Beanie 

benbenandme

Quite a productive day again today;

Stripped my bed, washed, ironed and remade it
Emptied the rubbish out the car
Weeded the front garden
Food shopping
Returned parcels
Did some shopping for Mum
Weighed my porridge into bags for work for this weeks breakfasts
Did the banking stuff

I've also had a 2 hour nap, wasn't planned but I do keep falling asleep mid-afternoon; not sure if its due to the amount of rubbish I keep eating I need to get my mojo back and get back on track. I know its because once again its not looking like a great summer weather-wise and that makes me feel rubbish.

benbenandme

Yesterday was such a good day, a mate called me and we went down the beach for a few hours, just sunbathing and catching up, then walked along the beach and got some food and then sat on the clifftop, there is a little bar and next to it they have live music out on the clifftop and everyone just rocks up with a picnic, watching the sunset. It was such a chilled, hot day and was lovely

Today I need to get some stuff done for work, do some housework and food shopping, and generally do life admin, while enjoying some more of the sunshine

pixiechick99

That sounds like an absolutely perfect way to spend a Saturday! 

benbenandme

And the summer holidays are here

It has been a crazy busy week or two, I got back from a residential trip on Wednesday evening and we finished at Thursday lunchtime. This morning I managed a bit of a lie-in, took Mum to get her hair cut and now I've made a coffee and am going to start planning the next six weeks. I'm not going away anywhere (that I have planned so far anyway ). I have a few goals though. So over the last year I have put a stone back on. That needs to change, I worked too hard to get into shape to let it go again. So I have joined the gym and had my induction this morning. Our local leisure centre do an offer each year, 6 weeks unlimited use of gym, pool, classes, sauna for £59. So today was day one, induction is done and now i need to plan when I'm using it this week. I also want to do my 20,000 steps every day too and some hula-hooping which hasn't happened recently. The second goal for the summer is to get the house in order - deep cleaned, decluttered and ready for the winter.

I guess its time for a time honoured tradition, my summer holiday to do list, it will be very detailed but its like a massive brain-dump that I can work through and add to as we go. I will separate it into different sections 

Home & Garden:
Fix kitchen tap
Unblock bathroom sink
Paint hall 
Fix hall light
Paint downstairs toilet
Blitz front garden
Clear car boot stuff to tip
Gut garage
Weed back garden
Paint fences
Re-stain decking
Sort outdoor tap
Wax coffee table
Deep clean the hoover
Gut wardrobe
Gut shelves at top of wardrobe
Clean conservatory windows and roof
Clean windows
Clean blinds in lounge
Shampoo carpets
Use up / organise freezer
Tidy area by bins
Deep clean rubbish bins


Fitness:
Lose 1 stone
20,000 steps a day
Be able to do 5 press-ups

Other:
Car Insurance
Clean car
Ears pierced
Organise finances
Organise matched betting accounts
Declutter laptop
Pick loads of blackberries
Make £££ 
Get a tv for bedroom
Sort car warning light
Oil / water in the car


There are lots of bits I haven't put on here, mainly deep cleaning stuff, but I will probably do that on my daily lists as I do each room. 

Blackcats

Your lists are amazing!  Enjoy your 6 weeks