Progress not Perfection

kayannie

Thank you for the chestnut lasagne recipe. I regularly make a chestnut & leek bake, so when I saw vacuum packs of chestnuts going for half price after Christmas in Aldi, I stocked up. I'm looking forward to making the lasagne. KA

Blackcats

Doing your nail varnish at home occasionally sounds like a good idea.  My problem is that I'm ok using my right hand to paint my left hand nails but am not too good at using my left hand to paint my right hand nails.  

Sun_Addict

Blackcats said:

Doing your nail varnish at home occasionally sounds like a good idea.  My problem is that I'm ok using my right hand to paint my left hand nails but am not too good at using my left hand to paint my right hand nails.  

I'm not too bad painting nails with my left hand - had many many years of practice 😆

Sun_Addict

That's Monday almost done. Worked in the office until lunchtime and need to do another hour or so to finish off my day. It's extremely busy at the moment as we have to spend our budget or lose it and I'm the one it has to come through. I certainly enjoy spending money when it's not mine 🤣

In good news I've received £50 in thank you gift vouchers from work today 😁 

Stopped off at Lid! on the way home, picked up a free doughnut for Mr SA plus a couple of other things. I've now hit the target spend for the free drink and the wheel of surprises has bagged Mr SA a free apple turnover 😆 In other free things news I picked up my free coffee from 0ct0pus this morning.

Talking of spending money, I'm going to have to buy a carpet cleaner this week. I've had the money put to one side for ages but not got around to buying one, a bit like the new phone I need. The stair and hall carpet desperately needs cleaning. I was going to get it done professionally but the amount of accidents I've cleared up just lately I would be gutted if I forked out for a professional clean then it got soiled straight away so I might as well buy the carpet cleaner. I'm pretty certain it's the young cat who's doing it as I caught her weeing on the living room rug last night! 

Today's exercise has been walking to/from work and a yoga session after work. 

Tonight's dinner is scampi from freezer stocks, sweet potato wedges and steamed veg. 

Housework task after work is vacuuming and steam scrubbing the floors. 

9 weeks today we'll be in Lanzarote, getting closer now.

PennysIntoPounds

Congrats on the vouchers! Can they be put towards a carpet cleaner?
Poor young cat, do you have suspicions as to why?

Cherryfudge

Nice to have a bonus £50! They value you.  

foxgloves

I wonder if your cat has cystitis. One of our past cats would pee indoors for this reason & the behaviour would stop aa soon as it cleared up. We always knew this was a sign for a vet appt, antibiotics, etc. 
F

Sun_Addict

PennysIntoPounds said:

Congrats on the vouchers! Can they be put towards a carpet cleaner?
Poor young cat, do you have dsuspicions as to why?

The vouchers are for me to treat myself. I already have the money set aside for the carpet cleaner. 

Sun_Addict

foxgloves said:

I wonder if your cat has cystitis. One of our past cats would pee indoors for this reason & the behaviour would stop aa soon as it cleared up. We always knew this was a sign for a vet appt, antibiotics, etc. 
F

She’s always done it ever since we got her. I think a lot of it is she’s marking her territory. She was also semi feral and not used to being indoors. Yesterday she was sniffing the rug with that open mouthed thing cats do then she sprayed it. Earlier the dog had been rolling around on it so must’ve left her scent. She’s also very impatient so if I don’t let her out straightaway in the morning she pees on the hall carpet. She’s very naughty it’s a good job she’s cute with it. 

Spendywendywoo

@Sun_Addict, I would highly recommend doing the carpets yourself. We have a vax carpet cleaner and it’s great, with the winter our carpets weren’t looking great so we got someone in and it was not as good as the job we’d do. It takes quite a few hours to do our carpets properly but the money saved over the years is worth the effort. 

Well done on your vouchers too