NST April 2022: April opportunities

f0xh0les

I am on the boat, brought to you by wi-fi@Sea.   I am a Sea Turtle !   well, currently a  Mersey River Turtle. and so shall I remain cruising on the open seas until we dock at 6.30 tonight.  Worse ways to spend a day.  If nothing else I am learning how to turn my mobile into a h0tsp0t to make my laptop talk to the outside world (no internet at s/g house), and z00ming the family to make me learn how to do it properly.  Necessity is the mother of learning how to use technology.  When it was The Rule Of Six (remember that?) we were six in our house, so we were a unit and that was that. So I never really bothered with it on my machines as DH was set up in a full lecture recording setting with green screen and room divider.

I do love wind turbines.  Wind turbines at the docks, in the sea, happy days.

and now for coffee, getting up at 4am is anti-social, although driving across the country and not getting stuck in traffic once was A-MAY-ZING!!  Did laugh my socks off driving past Weston-under-Lizard though.

firsview

Safe travels f0xh0les 

f0xh0les

Isle of Man looks lovely today Turtles.  That was the weather, now for your local news....

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for not being out in the rain, for a very useful conversation with a colleague, for time to do my marking in peace, for dc not going out this evening, for online books, for seats on all my buses.

ldee2111

Work was draining today - some people being awkward. I had a petty exchange over email with a colleague (I was just as petty to be honest). Annoyed at myself for getting sucked into it. 

OH is working away until Wednesday and is then away for our friend’s stag weekend so this week I’ll get to live out my frugal dreams. 

My grocery order at the weekend was a tactical shop. I made the most of OH going away by not buying some of the pricey regulars, like meat. Instead I stocked up on a few packets of pasta, rice, noodles, butter, tinned tomatoes, etc. I’ll happily eat what’s in our fridge / freezer this week. 

NSD 10.

Grateful today for getting a lot of work done, for Mum always lending a hand, and for my cosy wee house. 

Thrifty_Taylor

Have a great trip @f0xh0les. Hugs to those that need them.

NSD#12
Felt queasy most of the day, so didn't do any exercises this morning. Work went well. Stopped at the post office on the way home to send the commissioned knitted chicken. Thank goodness for my free stamps, as it was too bulky to go through the wider letterbox slot, so needed 4 stamps, rather than the 2 I'd charged the customer for!
Had a good chat with DS2, he keeps a lot of things to himself, but opened up that he's feeling stressed about his hernia op, whenever we get a date for that. Gave him some lavender oil to help him relax & some Bach Rescue Remedy. Said it was good that he'd shared how he felt & now I'm able to help him feel better about things. Listed more coins on eboy, sold 3 that I'd posted online last week. Shortened a dress, then did the dishes & decided to bake some coconut & lime muffins. Haven't baked in months! They smell really good 😋

Grateful for DS2 opening up, selling more coins, licking the bowl out 😉

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

evening

Been in work all day and home at 9, feel tired already and it's only Monday!
Boss had a burst of productivity which involved sending emails out allocating jobs to various other people - mostly me and my colleague.  Had missed an important email so ended up rushing to do something which was priority but mostly got it sorted, phew. 
Bought petrol but also some white choc twixxy bars - have never seen them before so thought i should try them on the grounds of research
Gratitudes - I survived Monday, colleague and i working well together to make progress, another colleague showing me pictures of him and his dogs looking very cute 

love Deni 

BadBookkeeper

Sorry forgot to post last night I was binge watching the story about the canoe!

Yesterday was an NSD so now that’s 11/16.  

Unfortunately my weight has crept up to a new stone so need to pull that back in immediately.  Blaming never ending Easter eggs!!

Grateful for:
wfh
dry weather for drying clothes for free
hearing ds & his friend giggling when they played together after school 

Shrewbie

Morning all, not doing too well on the nsds and I’m eating into May’s budget... bought another new load of clothes online and will probably end up sending them all back!
Also booked a weekend to Lisbon for July, but the flights were very cheap. Holiday funds I am keeping track of on a spreadsheet and then will use our extra payments in June & Dec (I get 14 salary payments a year) to pay those off. 

Exercise and meditation done.
grateful for interesting podcasts, for new clothes coming today, for some motivation creeping back in since the weekend. 

enjoy your trip f0xh0les 

BadBookkeeper

NSD 12/16

Yet another rubbish day at work.  I think I’m getting to involved in a process that I shouldn’t but when it goes wrong it falls to me to sort out.  I’ve raised it but although management are listening, they’re not understanding.  I feel like staying out of it now and proving my point when it goes wrong but that’s not really my work ethic ‘sigh’

I’ve been looking into local public swimming sessions.  There’s a few I could attend so when I get paid I’m going to allocate some ‘exercise money’. We are looking after my sisters dog next week so will be walking more then too.

I paid the £150 we received from
council tax straight to EDF as a buffer/overpayment however they have now reduced our dd!  

Payday Friday.  I have £23 left in my account.  There’s nothing I need so will use as an overpayment to cc’s if I still have it Thursday night.

Grateful for:
a kick about in the park with ds
items ordered online for sisters birthday arriving on time
ds settling straight back into school after the Easter holidays.