Watty's Awakening

savingholmes

Watty1 said:

PennysIntoPounds said:

I hope you're proper proud and excited about this:
'I close this year with savings, real savings.  I started heavily in debt on my CC but I've paid off everything to do with PPH and the house and I've found enough money to do a lot of renovations'

That, is bloody brilliant 👏 

Thank you.  I am properly pleased with this.  A mixture of frugality and sheer hard work.    

As important, on reflection, there were very very few unnecessary spends too which I am proud of too.

Huge congrats. 

Watty1 said:

Cherryfudge said:

You've come an amazingly long way @Watty1. Be proud of yourself!

It's a good idea to have some meals you can just dip into without having to feel in the mood to eat or cook. I hope the VNM's mother is comfortable.

She is as comfortable as she can be and seems very unaware of her surroundings now.  She watches TV or sleeps.  The meals were prompted by @k@KajiKita comment about holding space.  Today I will do a beef in black bean sauce adaption in the slow cooker.  Again, using stuff in the cupboard and using up and tomorrow a lamb curry in the slow cooker.  Each meal will feed us both with left overs to freeze for when the inevitable comes.

Well done on the practical support. It all helps. 

Happy 2025. Hopefully you have given yourself a platform for growth both business wise with your new training offering and personally with your home improvements, relationship with VNM and more importantly listening to and accepting yourself and meeting your own needs.

Watty1

Thank you for the kind words.

Lamb curry in slow cooker.  Very simple and I'll add some left over tomatoes and frozen spinach nearer the meal time.  Breakfast and stables done now going to work.   I'd like to clear up and catch up on outstanding stuff today.

I recognised a big stressor yesterday which is people wanting to book call times with me so I'm going to readjust my calendar and them simply say they must book the next available slot.  Electricity being cut off to the office a couple of times due to work so I need to cancel all the appointments for those days so this is prompting an overhaul which fits with the January goal of planning out how the year will work.    Appointment with accountant also made.

Watty1

In fun stuff £3 charity shop jigsaw puzzle for me and the VNM to do over the holiday season has been an epic fail.    Feral kitten (7 year old cat to be truthful) loves jigsaw pieces and has spent many a happy time batting them to the floor.     We have laughed so much at her happily playing that I've suggested it was a £3 cat toy instead and we have now given up as there is no way it can be completed with her assistance.     Perhaps not an epic fail.  We have laughed a lot.

KajiKita

Loving the idea of FK ‘helping’ so much with the jigsaw that it had to be abandoned! Brilliant 🤩 😊❤️😂

Well done on recognising a stressor and putting an action in place for it. There’s something about this time of year that allows things to arise for us 😊

KK

Debsnewbudget

When I had my business I used a brilliant (free) calendar booking system that I programmed free slots each week. I then just used to send the link to people and they could book a time that was suitable for them and t popped into my diary. Then sent reminders to both of us. 

I will try and remember the name ……

its Calendly 

LadyWithAPlan

Loving the jigsaw reinvention:) 

that slow cook lamb sounds lovely - will see what warming stew I can cook up

Watty1

Debsnewbudget said:

When I had my business I used a brilliant (free) calendar booking system that I programmed free slots each week. I then just used to send the link to people and they could book a time that was suitable for them and t popped into my diary. Then sent reminders to both of us. 

I will try and remember the name ……

its Calendly 

Yes, that is the one I used but I messed up my availability and had a lot of time off in December which has led to people phoning and pressurising me to find them slots.   I emailed the worst two offenders and said I have tidied it up for January, changed when I will do calls and good though I am even I can not manage to make more hours than 24 in a 24 hour day.  I am hoping the humour might soften this a little. 

Now it is tidied up (and I should have got my PA to do it as she is more detail orientated than me) I think it will work better and I will stick to the line that if I am not available on there then simply I am not available.  It will be good practice for me to set a boundary.

Watty1

Been feeling a bit down and tearful today, but, on the plus side I have stuck at my desk and I close the working day with things nicely up to date and a project list for January.   Phew!

PennysIntoPounds

Well done you. Have a cosy evening x

Cherryfudge

You have, and have had, so much to cope with. Perhaps tears are the right thing to release a bit of tension?

Well done for sticking with the desk work and getting it done, complete with plans for the future.

I hope the new year brings more good things and I expect it will, overshadowed though it is at present. This too will pass.