NST May MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

hi Turtles

I've been to my self emp job this morning, home via the SM for food and petrol. 
Did a couple of surveys.  Had a nice text chat with friend.
Made veg lasagne for DD2.  Off to visit her tomorrow till Sunday, can't wait to see her 

love Deni x

beanielou

Have had a lovely wee catch with some lovely friends.
Food for the soul 

beanielou

mothernerd~~please take it easy.
I read your posts & I am so so grateful that I live in a bungalow with a wet room.

firsview

Evening Turtles. Spendy day today as it was the monthly trip to HB and collected my shopping from Mr T.
Had my smart meter fitted today, did feel sorry for the poor boy doing it as the meters are in a very small cupboard in DS1’s bedroom ( it was the garage) and he was dripping with sweat when he emerged.
Naughty kitten caught his first bit of wildlife today, a small mouse which OH  bravely removed from him and rehomed in the undergrowth behind our garden. After that I forgave him for leaving me 2 sodden towels in the bathroom this morning meaning I had to dry myself on my dressing gown.
Today I am grateful for it being Friday, my half a pound turning into a whole pound and the mouse being rescuable!

ldee2111

What NST thing(s) did I do today?

We’re at DS’s grandparent’s caravan. Today DS and I went a walk in the beautiful Galloway forest and we took a packed lunch. 

Grateful for my out-laws’ who let us stay so often at their caravan, and grateful that OH, DS, and I get to spend so much time together. 

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for having choices and possibilities, for discovering that there is no ERC on our mortgage, so instead of plodding on for the next 14/15 months we could just pay off that pesky £226 😂, for cutting out and sewing and stuffing, for getting through my list today, for it being half term.

beanielou

apple_muncher said:

Today I am grateful for having choices and possibilities, for discovering that there is no ERC on our mortgage, so instead of plodding on for the next 14/15 months we could just pay off that pesky £226 😂, for cutting out and sewing and stuffing, for getting through my list today, for it being half term.

Fab news 

f0xh0les

Oooh @apple_muncher !  Think of how much interest you will save.  It will be pence!

Thrifty_Taylor

A spendy day today, topped up DS3"s card for school snacks & went shopping after work. Had a good day at work. Glad it's the weekend though! Put the shopping away, then siphoned out the last of some flavoured gin (home made present), had some chocolate (but a third less than I normally have) & did some crochet.

Grateful for a good day, the sun shining, a feeling of determination to spend less & save more

mothernerd

I've had a lovely day. Had less than an hour to finish my morning routine, find clothes and make some lunch (pointy cabbage, red cabbage, spring onions, couldn't see the box grater and no time to hunt for it so mixed everything in with some beetroot salad which had it's own dressing, Put the prawns on top which filled the box. Put 2 apples, 2carrots and 2 peppers in another box but didn't need those. Added a fork for eating and knife for slicing.

Eye appointment was good. Told him I wanted distance glasses instead of the varifocals (wear my reading glasses nearly all the time) and showed him the varifocals fall off my face all the time. So I'm having new lenses for my reading glasses and keep the ones I've got for now (otherwise I'd be groping around virtually blind until they come back) and they'll swap the lenses when the new ones come. There wasn't much change in the prescription but the lenses were very scratched (it's that pyracantha again)so it's a bit of future proofing because today I am on UC and get my voucher. The assistant put 3 pairs of glasses in front of me - I went for the green frame, didn't look much different from the current ones but much neater on and a snug fit. Cost £150 after the voucher deduction. I also have a very small cataract developing, nothing to worry about, just a bit of misting.  I'm a bit young ffor cataracts but my other conditions could have brought it on.

Went to film club, after getting cash from the machine for my brother. Film had started and it wasn't either of the ones I thought it would be but good fun. Went home, had food, undid my latest book parcels (I have Dr Who dress up paper dolls) and a map for getting round next week. Sat in the kitchen chopping veg - boxes of celery, leek, sweet potato and new potatoes. Arm was aching by then so started on peppers. Back aching so went in the front room, sat on the couch reading my book (DS3 had gone to bed by then. took a parcel in for Beloved. Too late to phone the DWP so will not worry about it - if I can do the accounts I will submit an exact figure.

Had an hour and a half on the bed stretched out and have been to evening film club. lovely funny film called CODA  (Child of Deaf Adults) about a girl who's the only hearing person in her family and has to choose between her talent for singing and working on the family fishing boat. Quite a lot of rude words in but usually done by the deaf parents so you don't hear them. I actually talked to people. 

The woman next to me hadn't any tissues so I fished out my new packet. The woman who raced me to the toilet was trying to repair her makeup. I spoke to someone I know (but mainly as friends of friends) and also a woman who helped in setting up a local organisation (she was from the county wide organisation and ours was one of only 2 boroughs that didn't have a presence). Friend in the IOM messaged me back and enclosed a photo of us both in the back garden at her parents with her dog (she's in her late teens/early twenties, I'm about 3 and the dog was 6 or 7. 

I told her I remembered going to the infirmary with her mother and the dog to visit her father (this is before I went to school so 1961/2). I also remember waking in their front room looking through bars. I was 18 months old, had been complaining that I was cold until my mother relented and let me climb back into the tansad (1959, still one of the hottest summers on record). The next day I went to their house as her mother looked after me whilst mum was working. She called the doctor out, I had pneumonia and was too ill to be moved, so the cot was brought down from the spare room (1930's pea green paint).

Grateful for two excellent films, lovely new frames and the optician understanding my problems, good food, getting on with the chopping and rescuing veg and a surprise photo of me.