Must try harder!

WinterWarrior

jokono said:

I don't let the pets come upstairs during the night but the cat starts meowing and scratching at the stairs door around 4.30am every morning. I ignore it and usually he stops after a few minutes. Unfortunately I can't lock the boys downstairs 😅, one of them came to our bed during the night and the other one came at 5.30. There was no space left in bed so he got up on me and started talking. When asked to be quiet he suddenly got very hungry and to save everyone else I gave up and went downstairs with him. I remember my sister had the same strategy to wake my mum up early, crying for food. When I got downstairs the dog had a runny #2 accident, all very dry already and needed lots of scrubbing. I'm trying not to have a 3rd coffee yet 😴

You need a third coffee! My dog wakes us up if she needs to go..I don’t know which is worst sometimes 🤣 The amount of times I’ve been plodding around the garden at 3am in nightshirt, boots and big coat 😕

nannygladys

That's why I'm glad I don't have permanent pets anymore. I've just put 'not my cat' out as he was really annoying me by scratching the settee and I don't feel guilty at all 
Nannyg

elbree

Everything OK @WinterWarrior? You're a bit quiet this weekend. Hope you're staying cool. 

WinterWarrior

Ooh look at me AWOL! I was extra busy doing a deep clean of the largish porch/cats room and various other bits this weekend. We have family up next week, which although they aren’t staying here, they will see the depths of my clutter if I don’t get a move on 😬 I may have left it too late! It was so much easier when I lived in the real world and had weekly visits. Also, as I’m off next week I have loads of jobs at work that wouldn’t be too urgent if I didn’t need to get way in front so I don’t drown when I get back.
The visit will be expensive as it’s a week of eating out and tripping about, but because my mot and service were under budget, I have some left over and think I should be able to splurge happily while still not dipping into savings, not even the savings I put in this month! 

I will start building up my car pot next month ready for next July. 

I’m always frustrated at the slowness of savings, but I’m happy I am managing to save while still enjoying things. Such a change from a few years ago, or even last yr when I was struggling to learn what worked for me. 

I hope you all had a lovely sunny weekend and haven’t been melting today. It’s even hot here! Not so much in my office, but I gave the postie a can of pop from the fridge as he looked ready to expire (and that’s with a driving route) 🤣 Poor man. 

Sun_Addict

There you are, glad all is ok. We worry about you when you don’t post 😆

WinterWarrior

Sun_Addict said:

There you are, glad all is ok. We worry about you when you don’t post 😆

Aw, thank you. I’ll try to do better! 

elbree

Yes, I'm a creature of habit and like to hear from you regularly! 😂
Have got the same this weekend - D and SM staying!😱 Basically need to burn the house down and start again. 
Also spent all of my money and had to move £100 out of savings for the last week til payday - 😖 I'm a mess essentially! 

WinterWarrior

elbree said:

Yes, I'm a creature of habit and like to hear from you regularly! 😂
Have got the same this weekend - D and SM staying!😱 Basically need to burn the house down and start again. 
Also spent all of my money and had to move £100 out of savings for the last week til payday - 😖 I'm a mess essentially! 

Burning the house down is an excellent idea…that would save me from cleaning the bathroom 😅
Did you spend on nice things? 

WinterWarrior

Good morning and happy Tuesday 🍦🍦🌞🌞
it feels hot already…I’m glad I’m not in a peak temperature place! I expect it would feel better if I wasn’t looking like a beached whale right now. I’ve definitely got to that middle aged exploding waistband stage. I’m not sure how to fix it, but I’ll keep trying. Although next week will be an eating out everywhere week 😳 photographs will need to be panoramic just to fit me all in! I could do with upsizing clothes, but I’m determined not to…I have plenty I can’t squeeze into and it will be better for me, the environment and my bank balance if I aim to get into them again. I really need to find my mojo while I’m cleaning 😬
It’s just work today, with a huge list of things I need to get done.
our wild rabbits seem to be ill and we’re worried we’ll lose them all. It happened about 8 years ago and took a long time for them to build the warren back up. Now we have loads of them again and lots of babies, but a lot seem to have swollen eyes and runny faces 😢 We are hoping it’s not myxomatosis as that’s pretty fatal to most ☹️ There’s no cure and nothing we can do, but I’m putting plenty of carrots and apple out to help build them up. 

I hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday filled with all good things ☕️🍦🌞

joedenise

That sounds like myxomatosis WW.  Not good at all and not nice for the bunnies either.