Champagne Lifestyle on a Lemonade Budget - 2021

phoebe1989seb

Happy Birthday, Sugarbaby 🎂 Hope you had/are having a super day....you look lovely, btw 😃

Debsnewbudget

Happy Birthday x

MrsPorridge

Happy Birthday Sugarbaby x

sugarbaby125

Thank you Ladies for your lovely compliments and birthday messages, they are much appreciated. I had a lovely surprise visit from my older daughter and her husband, so all in all I have had a wonderful birthday 

Wednesday2000

I'm glad you had a good birthday.


I stepped on the scales and have lost 2 lbs this week (so far) so that has given me a boost. I had a healthy breakfast of fresh fruit and soya yoghurt. I think I might have that every morning from now on now it's kind of warmer here.


I just ordered some bits from Tu clothing. Three dresses and a bag. The bag is yellow which is very unlike me but I thought why not?!

Wednesday2000

helensbiggestfan said:

  

Wednesday I love an Indian Head massage, my masseuse always gives me one at the end.....it really helps my C1-C3  vertebrae.  I seem to really hold a lot of stress and tension there, often when I touch the cerebellum area it feels really tender.  A head massage really releases the knots and soothes the pain.  

I called my usual IHM guy and he has retired, maybe due to Covid. I will have to find someone new.

sugarbaby125

I got 5 bouquets of flowers yesterday for my birthday. I ran out of vases.   





The vase on the left is a cut down water bottle. My older daughter borrowed me the vase on the right.



My Living room smells lovely with so many flowers and they really lift my spirit to be surrounded by so many gorgeous blooms

helensbiggestfan

SUgarbaby.  Looks like You have been thoroughly spoilt rotten for your birthday.  And why not. 😉 

Well after my week of pampering I feel great.  Today was the real champagne moment though - at the hairdressers.  

I love my hairdresser to bits.  I stopped going for a while when I was hard up and went somewhere cheaper but it was never the same, no one can cut my hair the way he does.  I have baby fine flyaway hair . Even the shampoo girl couldn't stop stroking it saying it's was so soft and silky like a child's hair.  

Sounds nice to have soft baby hair but it really isn't, it just sort of "hangs" there.  It takes a really good cut to make it look half way presentable.  Not many hairdressers can do much with it, he's about the only one.  He just has a way of making it look much thicker than it really is.  

Anyway I had already decided what I wanted to try so when he asked what we were going to do I said "give me a Vicki McClure". (Line of Duty). He looked a bit Nonplussed but when I showed him a photo his face just lit up. I think he was just as excited as I was at me going for such a radical precision crop.  He's 72 but you'd never know it, he's a dead ringer for David Bowie and he's a real fashion guru - hairdressing is still his passion.  He also has a farm and keeps a herd of cattle.  

He nearly died a few years back from throat cancer but he bounced back.  He reckons he will never retire and that they will have to prise the scissors from his cold dead hands.  It's lovely when someone is so passionate about what they do.  I think he's a classic example of how our passions keep us young and fit, that "Ikigai" I mentioned the other day, the thing that gives meaning to our lives and even a reason to fight back from serious illness.  He was telling me today many of his contemporaries have died recently, not necessarily of Covid. 

 Then blow me, when I went to Aldi I overhead the cashier tell someone that she had just lost her partner to covid 6 weeks ago.  I said to her that I was sorry but I couldn't help but overhear and how sorry I was.  She told me he'd been in hospital for 6 weeks and she  hadn't been able to see him.  Even worse the hospital rang her after his death to inform her of his passing.  How sad.  It made me feel so humble.  The shop was fairly quiet so I stayed and chatted with her for a few minutes.  

This blasted pandemic has caused so much heartache and sorrow. I just hope we are over the worst.Makes me more determined than ever to live the very best life I can, to make every day count.  There's more road behind me now than there is ahead.....so I'm just going to live each day as if it were my last.  

Anyway what with all my treatments and my new hair cut i feel and look 10 years younger.  Amazing what a mini makeover can do.  😂🤣.  I'm still a tad overweight but I'll tackle that after my holiday,  

I have treated my car to some much needed TLC this week too.  A new battery and a mini service and the old girl has had a new lease of life.   All set for our holibobs tomorrow.  All I have to do is pack, won't take long, even the weather forecast looks pretty good.  🤞.  

Remember ladies.... Carpe Diem and keep those champagne moments flowing.  ❤️  

phoebe1989seb

Your hairdresser sounds amazing, LL 😃 And you're going to look - and feel! - fabulous on your holiday....have a wonderful time!

Well, so much for me swearing blind that I didn't need more clothes - DH just got home and he'd popped into TK Maxx on his way 🙄 He found a stunning (Scandinavian) black coat - which just happens to be something I do need, having ripped a massive hole in my favourite black coat only last week - for £75.....RRP £720!!!!!

It was too good an opportunity to miss, he said, so grabbed it to treat me 😍

Sugarbaby, your bouquets are beautiful 😊

sugarbaby125

LL what a lovely, positive post. Enjoy your staycation with your family   

Thank you Phoebe, I am really enjoying my flowers