Prosperous soul embraces creativity & mortgage neutrality

Honeysucklelou2

Well done on the weight loss SH.

L9XSS

Just caught up with your diary. Well done on everything you are facing into. The weight loss is tremendous, good going! I don’t think you realise how strong you are mentally, it certainly comes thru reading your diary. Lots of support for you too. Celebrate all that you have achieved so far!

savingholmes

Thanks HSL. 

L9XSS said:

Just caught up with your diary. Well done on everything you are facing into. The weight loss is tremendous, good going! I don’t think you realise how strong you are mentally, it certainly comes thru reading your diary. Lots of support for you too. Celebrate all that you have achieved so far!

I think you are right. I experience real lows and few highs but I think I could sum up my progress as 'showing stolid determination'. Thanks for the encouragement. I really don't want to paying my mortgage still at 73.5!

I rang the mortgage company - but their payments team want to speak to me Friday so I have an appointment for then. I'm off that day anyway so that works. If I've calculated it correctly it would save me £146 in interest in the first month. 

I've defrosted some sort of meat casserole from the freezer and am going to have it with roasties, carrots, broccoli and beans. Looking forward to that.

I did 15 minutes at lunchtime chopping up branches to fit in my bin before it started raining again... My bedding plants are looking cheerful. Still not planted the next lot. Hopefully tackle Friday.

Meeting my sis around 10 tomorrow to do our trek down South. 

jwil

Hope it all goes well.

savingholmes

Thanks Jwil

I just finished work at 7.30pm - and have caught up on most of the hours I owed. Less than an hour owed now which is a relief. I had hoped to cut up more branches / twigs (very therapeutic) but it started raining as soon as I went out. My front lawn is closer to brown than green and I'm on a water meter - so still a win. I want to plant some bedding plants where I can see them when I look out the front window as my other flowers have died back now. In the back garden I have redcurrants, a few blackcurrants, raspberries and cherries ripening (the ones the birds don't get). I also have apples and plums on the way.

Cleaner has been which is always lovely. 

My roast dinner was gorgeous. It was a single portion of roast beef with carrots in (thin) gravy. Thanks past me. The roasties were amazing - had them with parsnips, broccoli, carrots, green beans and onions. I had intended the roasties to last several meals but they all went! A welcome change from fish salad! I ate earlier today around 2pm but that still gave me 14.5 hours without food. I then also had meringues, (defrosted) forest fruits and raspberries plus a banana and an apple. Sweet tooth - me? What gave me away? Then followed that little lot with porridge for tea. Last night I ate chocolate around 10.30 and then porridge around 11.20pm and couldn't get to sleep until 1am. Need to avoid that mistake today. Eating some pecan nuts at the moment - gorgeous.

Not sure what I'll do for food tomorrow. I'm taking some fruit, nuts and SW bars with me. We are hoping to eat one meal out - with sis and DS if I'm lucky - but will probably skip the 'wake' food/bit. I'm paranoid about covid too - so think I will wear a mask which may not go down too well. Hopefully it will also act as a deterrent to the random huggers and even family ones!! With something like 1 in 35 people having covid currently - the chances of there being no-one there who is contagious seems slim. I'm expecting a big turnout - as she was very active in her local church - not that I know how big that was. Like me, she also came from a big family - who then had kids etc too. I find the thought of going at all really stressful - before the added difficulty of the sadness of the occasion. Hence trying to focus on what I can control like mask, food, potentially seeing DS etc. I also prefer to drive - but so does sis - so she won that one. I hope that that also turns out okay. Need to dig out ear defenders to take with me too. 

beanielou

Hope all goes well tomorrow.

MovingForwards

Good luck tomorrow, you've organised everything within your control.

doingitanyway

As you say, control what you can. I hope it goes well 

Chrystal

Thinking of you, and hoping you get through the day with as little trauma as possible. 

You're doing really well with everything so hold your head high.  ((((hugs))))XXXX

savingholmes

Thanks all 💗

The service went as well as these things could. Met up with DS for an hour and found somewhere nice but expensive to eat. Hopefully about to set off home soon. Hours to go yet...