Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

redofromstart

If it helps I will be up for joining you on that aim, and will read with much (mildly competitive) interest.

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

If it helps I will be up for joining you on that aim, and will read with much (mildly competitive) interest.

Happy to share the ‘adventure’ - not sure even ‘mildly competitive’ is *quite* fair though, with me working full time and you not …. 😉😂😂

KK

redofromstart

I've tidied my seed tin, nothing out of date, and some broccoli micro greens identified for Jan sowing. No obvious beans for sprouting but I'll have a Google based on what I have. I still have celeriac in the polytunnel (roasted in cubes, was lovely) and 2 chilli plants surviving but not thriving in the kitchen.

moved the seed stash from my overflowing 2017MrM shortbread tin to a deeper fortnum and mason chocolate biscuit tin. 

Merlin's_Beard

Are you trying to tell me that where I went wrong last year was staring at my designated veg patch and then not actually doing much about it?

redofromstart

KajiKita said:

redofromstart said:

If it helps I will be up for joining you on that aim, and will read with much (mildly competitive) interest.

Happy to share the ‘adventure’ - not sure even ‘mildly competitive’ is *quite* fair though, with me working full time and you not …. 😉😂😂

KK

Have to admit I thought that myself after I posted it. I'm still getting used to the idea of not employed!

KajiKita

Merlin's_Beard said:

Are you trying to tell me that where I went wrong last year was staring at my designated veg patch and then not actually doing much about it?

Ummm …. 

<wonders how to break it to MB …. 🤔>

😉

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

KajiKita said:

redofromstart said:

If it helps I will be up for joining you on that aim, and will read with much (mildly competitive) interest.

Happy to share the ‘adventure’ - not sure even ‘mildly competitive’ is *quite* fair though, with me working full time and you not …. 😉😂😂

KK

Have to admit I thought that myself after I posted it. I'm still getting used to the idea of not employed!

You get in the swing of it once all of the rest of us go back in January! 😉😊

KK

LadyWithAPlan

KajiKita said:

Merlin's_Beard said:

Are you trying to tell me that where I went wrong last year was staring at my designated veg patch and then not actually doing much about it?

Ummm …. 

<wonders how to break it to MB …. 🤔>

😉

Maybe start with there is no such thing as Rudolf the red nosed reindeer as an easy in .. 

I fully understand your emotions re your parents - so hard to see such behaviours and not be impacted by our childhood … so sending you a hug 
I am thinking of buying this book ( on adult children of alcoholics) which is raved about for showing the child’s flight or freeze response and how an unsafe parent or home leads to lifelong trauma and also suggests ways to change our own behaviour patterns .. not saying this is your issue but I will read it and report back 

Keep enjoying your Xmas break 

KajiKita

Thanks @LadyWithAPlan, I appreciate your support. I will be interested to hear what you make of the book (and know what it is if you think it good). 

Well, the weather has crash-landed here! Howling, squally, heavy rain showers. Madame is not impressed 😉 I’m quite happy though as I am stiff after yesterday’s efforts in the garden so I have an indoor list for today: 
- clean bathroom and loo
- make the lentil and peanut better loaf I gleaned from Redo’s thread
- £cial updates 
- as part of £cial updates, restructure my monthly tracker and YNAB sheets so that I can stop doing double entering - getting boring now 😉
- set goals for 2024 - I am impressed by how having a reading goal got me moving on reading, which I haven’t done seriously for years. I want to think about how that worked for me and how I could leverage that to achieve things in 2024. 
- more tapestry - need to check my old tapestry kits to see if there is any spare dark green I can finish my latest project off with as I seem to be short. 
- start a new novel (tried a Lessing and couldn’t get into it ….) 
- start thinking about seeds and succession sowing / planting next year - have totally failed on this so far in my growing life ….

KK

KajiKita

Cleaning done - boring but necessary. 

Replied to an email from my dad about his walk yesterday and the weather today - I will make more of an effort at this in 2024 as I think he needs the support. 

Updated my £cial records and rebuilt my YNAB tracker, and eliminated all duplicates in my monthly tracker. Totally reordered my YNAB sheet so it’s all ordered by category and added some missing savings pots (new laptop - manageable, new mobile, ditto, new car 😳). 

Started thinking about 2024 goals. Can decide on various targets but can’t work out what to go for on what our mortgage balance should be by the end of of 2024 - partly due to weak maths skills, but also because of the remortgaging we need to do. Actually, that’s another job to do - map out what needs to happen in which months in 2024 ….

KK