Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita · 8 January at 10:11PM

savingholmes said:

Well done on the steps. Been there on the plants.

You seem more at peace in this job despite the newness?

At peace? I dunno. More just resigned to / accepting of whatever comes. I’m in a strange dynamic where the woman I am taking some of her role from so she can move onto running projects keeps flipping between telling me that I should do the job as I see fit and saying ‘don’t do that!’ 🤷‍♀️🙄😂 Also, ever since I started there has been a disaster of a project for a major group customer and I have been endlessly checking parts, rejecting them, rechecking the remade ones and writing reports on them - something an engineer used to do for me - it’s like I’m being paid quite a lot of money to do something easy I left behind 20 years ago! 😉 My part in that project finally ended today with a shipment so I’m hoping that we can get back onto the handover again …

So far, it’s easy, mundane and a bit boring. I have headspace leftover for living which was something I wanted. 😊

KK

Idreamofplants · 8 January at 11:58PM

headspace leftover for living - I like that phrase, it is definitely a goal for me this year

LadyWithAPlan · 9 January at 1:31AM

KajiKita said:

savingholmes said:

Well done on the steps. Been there on the plants.

You seem more at peace in this job despite the newness?

At peace? I dunno. More just resigned to / accepting of whatever comes. I’m in a strange dynamic where the woman I am taking some of her role from so she can move onto running projects keeps flipping between telling me that I should do the job as I see fit and saying ‘don’t do that!’ 🤷‍♀️🙄😂 Also, ever since I started there has been a disaster of a project for a major group customer and I have been endlessly checking parts, rejecting them, rechecking the remade ones and writing reports on them - something an engineer used to do for me - it’s like I’m being paid quite a lot of money to do something easy I left behind 20 years ago! 😉 My part in that project finally ended today with a shipment so I’m hoping that we can get back onto the handover again …

So far, it’s easy, mundane and a bit boring. I have headspace leftover for living which was something I wanted. 😊

KK

This is not a bad thing being paid well for easy stuff!
Your morning chores are impressive and you getting the office clear for 2025 sounds a great use of time as well.

Well done on the steps.. I am walking to the gym again - 2.5 miles each way... but as long as its crisp and dry I dont mind, and definitely helps the steps.

debtfreewannabe321 · 9 January at 8:09AM

You inspired me to have a long walk back from the coffee shop yesterday 😊 it was so cold though I was regretting it by the end 🤣 however walked around a mile so that was good!

KajiKita · 9 January at 8:13AM

debtfreewannabe321 said:

You inspired me to have a long walk back from the coffee shop yesterday 😊 it was so cold though I was regretting it by the end 🤣 however walked around a mile so that was good!

Oh well done! 😊👏 With a bit of luck that will have helped your sleep?

KK

debtfreewannabe321 · 9 January at 9:08AM

I certainly felt better for it! I kind of miss my old jobs for being active but they went too far into the active and yet this one seems to be perhaps 7-8000 steps a day tops which isn't enough for me to feel sufficiently exercised (no pleasing some of us eh 🤣🤣).

KajiKita · 9 January at 8:50PM

@LadyWithAPlan
“ This is not a bad thing being paid well for easy stuff!
Your morning chores are impressive and you getting the office clear for 2025 sounds a great use of time as well.

Well done on the steps.. I am walking to the gym again - 2.5 miles each way... but as long as its crisp and dry I dont mind, and definitely helps the steps.”

Wow, that’s a good walk, especially in this cold! 🥶

debtfreewannabe321 said:

I certainly felt better for it! I kind of miss my old jobs for being active but they went too far into the active and yet this one seems to be perhaps 7-8000 steps a day tops which isn't enough for me to feel sufficiently exercised (no pleasing some of us eh 🤣🤣).

It will get better once we start getting back out in the garden again 😊

Steps not great but not dreadful at 7.4K. Quite a bit of junk eating this evening, but again not dreadful. 😉
Getting really tired of this cold, all my tendons and ligaments slowly tightening up m feeling smothered and restricted in layers and layers, having to scrape the windscreen at both ends of my day, being constantly slightly cold, my hands drying up and going flaky / splitting … CH had only got the house up to 14 degrees after being on for 90 minutes by the time I got home this evening … 🥶 It’s actually quite draining.

Didn’t do a lot before going out this morning, but did manage the quick bed change (new pillow slip, new bottom sheet and turn the duvet). I did a bit more clearing in the office last night as well - had a good go at the noticeboard, it’s almost clear now 😊

My teeny-tiny goji berry plant turned up today 😂 Note to self: read the description more carefully on the size of pot and therefore relative size of plant I am buying …! 😂
Deliberately treated myself to a small flexible bucket, scissors and enclosed clipboard, all in turquoise, for my conservatory gardening work station I am planning c. £27.

Requested £7 from TCB which will become an OP when it eventually turns up in PP …

KK

KajiKita · 10 January at 10:34PM

Well the TCB of £7 turned up today. OPd along with a 52p OP 😊🎉 Need to add this to my monthly tracker of my target OPs. I know I’m struggling with hitting my target for surveys income - I either forget about them, get too busy or keep being excluded! 🙄😉

Rang mortgage company, just to confirm that they are actually receiving these OPs … ! Yes they are 😊 I also asked about the £250 cashback we were supposed to get. Apparently this was released at the end of October / early November. I don’t remember receiving this so I need to follow this up 😊

10.2 K steps today 😊 and an NSD.

No chores done before work - I spent the time making myself a hot breakfast instead, which made a big difference before I headed out in to the cold! We have closed the curtain to the living room - we have now got one warm and toasty space 😊❤️ Mr KK had to show Chloe how to use / negotiate it. I’d forgotten that she only arrived in March last year so hadn’t seen The Curtain … there was a certain amount of perturbation until it was explained to her, bless 😉

Mr KK took his drill sharpening kit Christmas present into work today and did about 40 drills. I received a WhatsApp part way through the day with a photo and a comment that ‘The gadget is good’ 😊❤️

Quiet evening here, planning food for next week, doing the Toscos order and watching the first of MD’s new British Gardens series 😊 I’m happy 😊

KK