NST January 2024: This is Sparta!

Thrifty_Taylor

Oh @f0xh0les, you do make me laugh! To see the look on the builders faces when you tell them that! 🤣
Hugs to all friends, roommates & turtles going through flooding & illness. Our thoughts are with you.

NSD#4
Another yoga routine completed ✔️
We t for a 4 mile walk with DH, stopping off at the PO to deposit some savings.

Measured the position of the septic tank for the architect. Then I was due to go to a friend's, but as she was delayed , I scrubbed a wall in the kitchen. Finally got to my friend's, I did more of my rug whilst we chatted. Good to get something off my chest that I'd been thinking about since yesterday. Plus she gave me some solar fairy lights 😊

Norwegian practice after tea, then the dishes. Waiting for my turn in the bath, so I can read the last 2 chapters of my book, after pampering.

Grateful for getting the measurements done, so another step closer to house extension, a nice walk, friends with good listening ears & who don't judge you

ditty1234

Grateful that all of my cancelled gym bookings over Christmas finally paid off - I actually went to yoga, conclusion is - I have no core and am as tightly wound as an industrial spun yarn, luckily I have already booked for next week. 
Gave a large cardboard box away to colleague who is moving, had nice leftover salmon dinner from NYE. 
Life is good, even if the rain is back. The river has nowhere to go and I am just dreaming about crystalline snow and squeaky frost :-)

ldee2111

NSD 4.

Grateful today for waking with energy, for eating healthy food, for a fun aqua aerobics class, and for comedians.

abundant1972

Evening everyone 🌗

Felt flat today. Saw my ex (we are good friends now) and had a catch up and put the World to rights. I had my gym kit packed and it was a sunny day - but I felt so tired and depleted I just came home. Slept poorly last night - about 4 hours - so think it's just that. Hopefully will feel revived in the morning. Spend day as bought us cake from the supermarket. 

Today I am grateful for:

1) Time spent with my ex
2) My little car for getting me from A to B
3) My meal preps

Today was a spend day
NSD total = 1 

Quick check in and off to bed! x

Starlight_at_Sea

Not a NSD ( but currently almost on track, at 2/4!) today was a humongous car bill, as anticipated.  No other spends though, and greatful for:

Surviving first day back at work - a bit of a mental, emotional and physical milestone, but it's done. 
A unexpected cheque in the post, after months of sadmin predominantly involving paying things out, finally there is one that was overpaid! 
Have sorted out one awkward admin thing, and it turns out I was more organised than I thought, and had booked, and paid for, everything I that I needed to for a looming family commitment. Phew. And well done November-me! 
Comfort food from the freezer today, but full of veggies and I remembered to juggle things between my place and dad's so I didn't have to purchase anything, and had the right contents for meals at each house at the right time. More complicated than it sounds! 


Acknowledgement process is ongoing ... have unlocked bank account apps, and begun the tally! Moving excess to repay credit card. Many gulps required, but also some tiny glimmers of hope - unanticipated rewards had been tricking into my NatWest account, so have withdrawn £30 of reward monies; saw that the high interest saver that I held a large house purchase deposit in for several months pays interest out annually, so even though its balance is now tiny, that should be boosted at the end of March. 

grandmanerd

one load of washing went out on the line, another load went in the WM and I threw down the sheets for washing today. Need to buy a replacement phone (taxi to tessimo's, nearly ordered in the early hours but was worried it might not come until tomorrow. The current one is on it's last legs and has gone awol. I heard it sing the little tune that means it needs recharging and it's close by, but I stripped the bed and checked as much as possible of round the sides and behind the mattress. Will try to think of whatever else I might need (more vapour rub - how rock'n'roll) as it will be a spend day.

More rubbish/ recycling  went out to the bins. Ate from stores. 5 packs of crackers thrown away, all way out of date (only rediscovered them last week and I did try one first). Salads and a curry with extra veg. 

I'm trying to take more stuff up/ down stairs with each trip - books for the downstairs shelves, books to go back to the library and 2 items of clothing to donate. They were originally from a cs and will go back to one as I haven't worn them. One 's a full length sundress in turquoise/ blue shades but I bought it principally because I thought it would make a beautiful pair of butterfly wings for my grand-daughter. I have to accept that there's a  limit on how many things I can make for her and concentrate on the 3 wip.

Watched a series episode I'd inadvertently missed and brought a board upstairs (a colour in play house that has been downstairs since I  bought it) and put the parts of my jigsaw that were growing onto one board - it may not be quite big enough for the whole thing but will hold more than 2/3.

Asked DS3 to start the process of sending the classical vinyl for auction and he started then stopped and said it will have to wait until he's better (I managed to open a 2 l bottle after he'd failed). i have been told off because I have 'made everyone ill' - that'll be the two of them then.

Grateful for fairly healthy cobbled together food, good drama series, books (only just realising how much I have struggled over the past year with my eyes, needing to choose from the limited selection of large print books etc) and recovering my interest.

grandmanerd

£3.33 from the bottom of a bag put into the penny challenge tin. Used up squidgey bits of antiseptic cream.  Used rags beyond saving to mop up mysterious puddle from cooker drawer/ WM/ hole in the ceiling.

ladybird1106

Need a 😡It's disturbing how somebody's incompetence can have a massive effect on another person's life. Luckily youngest passed phone over and I strongly worded  that they had in fact got it wrong and to check their facts. Suffice to say an admin worker was blamed for not attaching vital info to youngest file. Profuse apologies ensued and youngest is now on the priority list.Rant over. 
Emailed company that we bought train tickets voucher for dad birthday treat, as they hadn't sent the right code, prompt reply. He's now a happy bunny as he's booked his day out. 
Been to get petrol as we are taking the eldest back to uni city later this evening. Checked petrol prices via app. Paid cash and add 78p change to the fun pot. 

Love 🐞

Toni'sfriend

Not a NSD today as we needed milk. I know it sounds like a bit of a waste to lose a NSD because of one item but it's all we're going to need for the next couple of days. Himself collected it from a little shop on the way back from collecting my medication from the pharmacy. Pennies more expensive but he would surely have bought things we didn't need if he'd gone to Aldi.

Ticked off most of the things on my to do list and the place is looking much tidier. Maybe, I'm just being a little bit optimistic on what I can achieve but if it's written down I can carry it forward. Good bit of decluttering accomplished though.

I found out last night that my next door neighbour had a massive heart attack on Christmas Eve. The doctors thought they had lost her but, thankfully, due to their skill she is now on the mend. A long road ahead for her and her family but it does put your own troubles into perspective.  She's only 50. Much younger than I am. A lovely person who does a very caring and stressful job. 

So, fish for dinner, I will use up this food before I buy any more. xxx

DawnW

Sorry to hear about your neighbour's health scare @Toni'sfriend

NSD 2 for me (at last!) as I was working and had neither the time nor the inclination to go to any shops afterwards!

Still no news from the hospital re brother's op on Monday given the strikes, so I am assuming no news is good news.

Change in the weather, it was pleasant and we saw the sun today, after Storm Henk plus the torrential rain yesterday and much of the town's roads being flooded and impassable. I even put some washing out on the line before work and it dried quite a bit. Now finishing off on the airer.

More chilli, coleslaw and half baked potatoes for dinner. Still enough chilli left for another meal for the two of us.

I froze some roasted beetroot as they go off really quickly once cooked, and I can't see that we would use them in the next couple of days. These were from the garden. I too am on a quest to use up food I already have before buying more! I seem to have a big bag of sweet potatoes, so will make some soup for lunches.

Grateful today for no rain and the sight of the sun!