Time to Face The Music

milann

Pleased the poorly tummy didn’t amount to much.
The party sounded great. I love it that you could stay in the van 👍

RelievedSheff

milann said:

Pleased the poorly tummy didn’t amount to much.
The party sounded great. I love it that you could stay in the van 👍

The van does come in handy for taking our own accommodation with us  

It can take a break for a few weeks now. It won't be used again now until between Christmas and New Years. So with that in mind and the colder weather forecast it has been drained down properly. 

RelievedSheff

It will be a no spends day today. Number 2 for December. Would really like to make it into double digits this month with the no spends days.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be from stores. Breakfast was cereals, we have both taken our packed lunches to work and dinner tonight is smoked bacon and stilton quiche with chips and vegetables.

Tonight's jobs will:

• walking the dog
• load of washing 

We think the dog is coming down with a bit of a cold. He has one really runny eye yesterday which we had to keep wiping and last night his snoring was horrendous, like he was a bit bunged up. He seems alright in himself and is acting normally. Will see how he gets one for a few days and keep an eye on him. If he gets no better we will get him in at the vets for a quick check over.

EssexHebridean

Aww poor little soul - hopefully his sniffles will come to nothing. Good job it was now not a few days ago or you'd have had a dilemma about his sleep-over! 

I think the darker evenings are getting a lot of people down this year - I suppose combined with all the bad news there seems to be re cost of living etc it's no surprise it's all feeling a bit doom and gloom. I know I'm looking forward to Christmas now even though for us the break isn't a massively long one this year - although having just counted it works out as 12 days for me which isn't too bad actually! I'd forgotten about the extra day on the end! 

RelievedSheff

Definitely not a no spends say today. In fact it has been an incredibly spendy day already. We popped to the shops to pick up the birthday presents and some beer stocks. Stocking up now while it is on offer

Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be from stores though. Breakfast was crumpets, we have both taken our packed lunches to work and dinner tonight is pasta bake and garlic bread.

Tonight's jobs are:

• walking the dog
• load of washing
• cleaning the kitchen
• wrapping birthday presents
• writing birthday and chirstmas cards

We have definitely now done with the Christmas and birthday present buying. It will all be wrapped tonight and most of it delivered this weekend and then we are done.

We are going to pick some more booze up either tomorrow or Friday while it is really cheap on offer. We will need some when we are away in the van so we may as well pick it up now.

RelievedSheff

EssexHebridean said:

Aww poor little soul - hopefully his sniffles will come to nothing. Good job it was now not a few days ago or you'd have had a dilemma about his sleep-over! 

I think the darker evenings are getting a lot of people down this year - I suppose combined with all the bad news there seems to be re cost of living etc it's no surprise it's all feeling a bit doom and gloom. I know I'm looking forward to Christmas now even though for us the break isn't a massively long one this year - although having just counted it works out as 12 days for me which isn't too bad actually! I'd forgotten about the extra day on the end! 

Dog seems a bit better this morning. He is definitely more lively!!

enthusiasticsaver

You are so well organised for Christmas in spite of working full time.

 

Sun_Addict

Glad the dog seems to be better. I’m also stocking up on Mr SA’s beer while it’s on offer. 2 for £20 minus family discount brings it down to £8.50 a crate. No doubt prices will shoot up come January so grab it while you can! 

RelievedSheff

enthusiasticsaver said:

You are so well organised for Christmas in spite of working full time.

 

We have not always been this way. It's only the last few Christmases that we have decided to get everything sorted out early. It is so much less stressful than running around at the last minute.

RelievedSheff

Sun_Addict said:

Glad the dog seems to be better. I’m also stocking up on Mr SA’s beer while it’s on offer. 2 for £20 minus family discount brings it down to £8.50 a crate. No doubt prices will shoot up come January so grab it while you can! 

It's £10 a case what we are getting as well. Usually £14-£15 so it is quite a saving per case.

Think we will pick another 6 cases up either tomorrow of Friday. We have got plenty of room in the garage for it and the van needs stocking up for going away as well.