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An in-between phase

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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,556 Forumite
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    Thanks @KajiKita and seriously this cat believes it to be a travesty for food to be eaten by anyone but him regardless of what it is 😂
    Madame La Belle Floof (Queen of the KK household) has incredible hearing for fish tins … Open corned beef or spam tins …. no response. Open a crab, salmon or sardine tin, even the kitchen is two rooms away from her, and she becomes like a locked-on, guided missile to the kitchen and the sucker hooman, aka Mr KK 😉😊😂❤️

    KK
    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 37 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 23rd July
    Produce tracker: £223 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • 'Madame La Belle Floof' tells me everything I need to know about this cat and I love her for it 😂 @KajiKita


    Got a few more Sunday evening bits done; another going over of the cat basket blankets which will tbh need a few more goes- how do they get so fluffy?! As cat/s hardly use it I'm eyeing up one of the nice blankets for the sofa when we get it clean enough

    Did a couple of receipt surveys, the pile is getting ridiculous so I must try to make inroads with that no matter how tedious- I'm still inspired by @foxgloves being possibly the only person in the country ever to have won one 😁

    Did five minutes carpet walk, sounds a bit daft but like money, movement adds up- especially when it's so untempting outside!

    Mr PIP has emerged so dinner is cooking and reflexes are primed to be able to eat it before eats everything cat makes a stand for what is right and proper (him eating it instead)
  • Sun_Addict
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    That’s a fine specimen of a cat @KajiKita 😻

    My young cat is a cheese fiend and appears like magic whenever I get cheese out of the fridge then won’t take no for an answer until she gets a chunk. 
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • beanielou
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    Such a cutie. 🐱
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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,556 Forumite
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    That’s a fine specimen of a cat @KajiKita 😻

    My young cat is a cheese fiend and appears like magic whenever I get cheese out of the fridge then won’t take no for an answer until she gets a chunk. 
    She’s a bossy, demanding, impossibly cute tyrant … 😉

    Our cat will only cheesy cat treats 😉

    KK
    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 37 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 23rd July
    Produce tracker: £223 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • Blackcats
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    You and your cheeky euphemisms - made me giggle out loud! 
    Hope upstairs neighbour sleeps through the night to enable you to get a good night's sleep
  • What a beauty @KajiKita

    Same tbf @Sun_Addict

    Who, me?! @Blackcats *innocent face*
    And thanks, me too. I obviously mind very much for myself but I extra mind for Mr PIP while he's ill, he's the one with the proper job, and isn't used to feeling s**** whereas I'm unfortunately well versed in something or other feeling shoddy! Would be so nice for us both to just get a full soothing healing night of sleep... 

  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,556 Forumite
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    Hope you managed a quiet night last night 🤞

    KK
    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 37 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 23rd July
    Produce tracker: £223 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • Well that was a no to upstairs allowing a full nights sleep.
    Mr PIP still feeling ill and is napping between meetings, thankfully he's able to work from home.
    I've hurt a muscle by my ribcage from coughing which has now impacted on the rest of my back and shoulder. Feet were sore in the night but luckily didn't go Full Cramp

    So yeah, we're not a household bustling with energy and achievement today!

    But dun so far:

    Admin comping tidying

    Going back to mums in a couple of days so seeing how little money we can spend on food by making sure we prioritise eating things we have in

    Checked banking app to make sure my Lidl refund for crackers and Savers refund for paracetamol had come through

    Gave notice on my 95 days notice LISA pot so I'll have that 1k near the start of the new tax year

    Currently having a coffee and admiring the snow while I work out what the most productive thing I can plausibly manage to do next is

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