An in-between phase

PennysIntoPounds

Picked up an Olio book yesterday evening, Toni Morrison's Sula, already love it.
And the Olioer gave me another five non fiction books which I'll enjoy perusing and they can then go into the ziffit pile

Today's doings:

Admin
Tidying
A fair bit of hopefully useful spec work

Tax pot became available, so I've allocated thusly:
Keep what needs paying til Jan and earn interest in the meantime
Put a wodge aside to get pizza and drinks for us and mates helping on moving weekend
(particularly pleased to be able to cover this as Mr PIP is trying to be very good this month and pay for moving stuff out of month's pay rather than use savings)
Paid LISA pot to take it up to my 1k for the year
Paid flat pot to take it up to the next hundred mark, happy £4700 day to me
Put the rest in my current account since it's my money I earnt in the first place!

Turns out to be a good thing I spent money on new 'spare' laptop before we knew we'd be moving as it means mum can zoom. Wish I could work out why her laptop microphone has decided to take a vow of silence though

Half wussy situps

Got an email alert for a flat in my area, a very small leasehold one bed with no outside space for 375k hahahaha 😭😭😭

Couple surveys

Comping

Nearly bought a charity lottery ticket for a pound but once you'd signed up and got to the last page it turned out to be a minimum spend of £5. I don't appreciate organisations trying to be sneaky, so that's saved me a quid or even a fiver

Mum said she'd make cauliflower cheese for dinner if I got milk so 20 minute walk doing that, used coop voucher and also used their McVits voucher getting a competition pack of biscuits, worse that happens is we've got some nice discounty biccies in and I felt like it was budget neutral after not allowing the charity ticket disrespect 😁

KajiKita

PennysIntoPounds said:

I think I'm just a natural blatherer in thought and speech @KajiKita 😂 It certainly is nice to have one's own diary space where you can write in your own voice, and if I'm not someone's cup of tea then fair enough! I love 'hearing' all the different voices on these diaries and how people express things 

Yup, me too 😊

KK

WinterWarrior

£375k for a one bedroom 😮 where is it, Monaco? 

PennysIntoPounds

Not just a one bedroom, a very small one bedroom that's not even freehold, doesn't even have a scabby balcony or patio space you could fit one chair on, is above shops, next to a pub, on a main road @WinterWarrior. It'll sell for about that or more too. Monaco is prob cheap compared to North London 😂

PennysIntoPounds

The main achievement today was wafting out a small fly, a big fly, and a daddy longlegs (not all at once). Very impressed with my air traffic control skills

Admin
Tidying
Survey

No biscuit win this time. Briefly considered being very mse and taking them back but decided I'd rather eat them

Spec work
Comping
Survey
Receipt survey

25 minute walk getting bits from Aldi

Another spec work project

Entered some competitions, today I'm mostly looking forward to winning a £200 supermarket voucher. The guitar worth nearly £900 would also be a very useful thing to be able to sell but I have a feeling I would just keep it to stare at lovingly, despite having no musical ability whatsoever

Ten minute carpet walk

Small bits and bobs off to-do list

20 minute walk going to meet Mr PIP for post work beer, and we used most of the rest of the M&S voucher for dinner for us and mum

Hope everyone's having a lovely Friday evening!

Sun_Addict

Happy Friday 🍻🍷

KajiKita

I hope Big Fly, Little Fly and Daddy Long of Legs appreciated your assistance! 😉😊

Sounds like a very civilised end to the week 😊

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Ugh, woken up at 5.15 with effin period pains, so that's all the plans for anything remotely physical off the list today.
I have however done all the admin, tidying and comping. Was hoping to get through a good chunk of the productive list today, we'll see! 
I'll be satisfied if we/I do:
Some steps that aren't to pub
Selling that bottle of wine enquiries
Looking for the iPad charger which I'm baffled about where it could be
Ditto the electrics/metal detector that arrived and I clearly put in a 'sensible' place
Another look at mum's laptop
A check of the book pile ziffit has previously rejected but might take a couple of now there's been a little break
Omaze postal entry 

Hope everyone has a pain-free and productive Saturday!

foxgloves

Oh, you have my sympathies, @PiP. I don't miss periods one little bit. I always used to feel dreadful every month too. Treat yourself kindly & hope the damn thing doesn't hang around a single minute longer than necessary.
F x 

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks @foxgloves, I'm hoping because it was a bit earlier than expected that means the start of menopause- which I look for any sign of every month 😂
At least I shouldn't be period-y for moving week unless my cycle goes completely haywire very quickly!