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Morning all.
Well done Soappie. Another one here who joined MSE when over £50k in debt and like you paid it all back over several years.
Paid stuff again today but I really really intend to fly including picking up all the rubbish that has blown on our front garden in the storms.
Have a great day everyone.Spend less now, work less later.10 -
Morning all,
Soappie that is amazing!!!! You have made my heart very happy, how liberating for you. Very well done xx
CoG - belated many happy returns to A xx
Narco - it is completely natural to feel how you do. And never, ever feel bad for sharing just because others are in different situations - we are happy for each other, support each other and cheerlead for one another. Do you have an airfryer you can use? I literally never use the range anymore, it's too expensive and the airfryer is just perfect for me and the children.
Thanks for all the well wishes. I am so glad the storms have gone, although yet more wind and rain is forecast over the coming days. Please hurry up spring.
Today is all about paid stuff and budgeting. I really want and need to get into a rhythm with making small overpayments onto the mortgage. But I need to balance with the constant stream of work that needs doing to this old place. I was cleaning for my new lady the other day who has a small, well insulated new build and wondered what it would be like to live in a house that is actually warm all the time that doesn't need any work!! Not that I'd ever move, but these old things take some TLC.
Right I need to get DD fed and out the door, have fab days all xx
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Morning all xx
Well done Soappie. 👏
Belated happy birthday to A - CoG 🎂
Keeping busy sounds like a good idea to me Narc0 And we're here if you need us ❤
I'm up, made my bed, dressed, taken my meds, packed my lunch, eaten my breakfast, completed Wordle, 2/4 on Connections, and I'm supping my brew. Bird seed and recycling are ready to go out when I do. And general waste bin is at the gate- I hope they empty it, not sure if you're supposed to put a load of roofing felt in there 🤞
I've been awake half the night. Supervisor triggered my anxiety yesterday. I thought things were going too well to last. And breathe. Just deleted a mahoosive paragraph- you don't need that 💩. Neither do I to be fair. Excuse my language.
Better get a move on
Of course I do NOT want to go. Again. This too will pass.
Big hugs to all.
RxxIT ONLY TAKES SMALL DAILY ACTIONSFOR MAGIC TO HAPPENRosemary Ikpeme11 -
Congratulations Soappie, that's a massive weight lifted I'm sure.I got washing and most of the ironing out of the way yesterday - nice windy day for drying OH's work shirts. Have not managed the fridge clean this week and will be out to stock up later, but I have had a good wipe round, and washed the veg box at the bottom which was the grottiest thing, so an improvement if not job completed.I've worked out that it's my regular toad in the hole on a Wednesday evening that makes the oven so dirty. I've found some Daily Oven Cleaner (seriously, who cleans their oven every day? It has to go on a cold oven.) in the back of the cupboard so the floor and door are soaking in that at the moment, and I'll try and get the shelves whipped out and wiped over when I get back from the supermarket. If I can incorporate this as a regular Thursday job, then hopefully the evil all-day oven clean every couple of months might lessen or even disappear!Make £2024 in 2024
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That’s the way, Slinky, little and often!
I have washing to dry, so some is on the maiden as DD wants it for her holiday and its Lycra so can’t go in the TD (unless some flyladies know better). I’m having my vertical half hour post-shower as i’m meeting friends for coffee shortly, so if i don’t have anything at home i can eat tape a cake and drink a coffee there…if i eat at home i won’t want anything in the cafe.
Hope all have good days.
Belated Happy Birthday A
Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily DickinsonJanice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear11 -
Morning all, It's a dry but rather cloudy day here today.
Happy Burns Day to any Scottish flyladies
My list for today
Get dressed
Feed the animals
Put food out for the wild birds
Wash up the dishes, dry and put away
HHI
Do paid stuff (long day today, as got a lot of driving to do and a Burns event at uni campus)
Check banking and update the budget
Spend an hour on uni reading
Only a short list from me today as most of my day will be taken up with paid stuff. Hope everyone has a lovely Thursday.10 -
WMx1, S&S x2, WUDUPA, dog bowls done.
Lots I wanted to do but Junior Flamingo off again. So I ended up grouting and sealing the bit of kitchen tiles that needed doing, a job I've never done before. Next it's bringing washing in, second load in TD, general tidy, downstairs floors. Out with my mum tomorrow morning so trying to do jobs accordinglyMarried 40y.o. mum of an autistic 11y.o. Carer/SAHM.
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Soappie.. that is fabulous!!! I am so pleased for you and proud of you!!! it is a fantastic achievement.
Round.. I hope thou art chilled my dear.. xx we do not want you to be stressing about the evil that is the workplaceMY mother (70) drives an automatic, has done for eons since a knee injury many moons ago and dodgy geriatric hips (wonder where I get mine from?) She has this at the moment..
Twinkle back to school.. she has to be milk and gluten free now and review in 6 months.
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and an emergency visit to the aged ps and a trip to the shop to buy carpet cleaner...Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily DickinsonJanice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear10 -
Slinky said:I've found some Yearly Oven Cleaner (seriously, who cleans their oven every year?)I agree. Once a decade is more than enough.I would never be able to park your mother's tank car PP. Or maybe it's one of those that has a self-parking function. It would have to have that for me, in our crowded streets at least.Thanks for all the birthday wishes for A. We enjoyed the lunch although it was a real palaver as it wasn't somewhere we could go in our own car because of a lack of parking. We had to go down and get into our car (a 15 minute procedure) drive to the end of the road, get out the tri-walker which is on top of the wheelchair, get the wheelchair out put the tri-walker back, get A into the wheelchair push it to where we can get a taxi, wait whilst the taxi gets out the ramp, push him up the ramp and into the taxi and then at the other end the same thing in reverse and also to get into the restaurant. After the meal the whole thing again in reverse. Fortunately we don't take taxis or eat out very often.This morning I had to be up betimes as the cleaner for the communal areas was coming. In the end she didn't arrive until 10.00. Did eye drops, washed my hair, took two bags of recylcing down add bought the paper. Came back and stripped the bedding and put it on to wash, made us a coffee and then washed up. After A had done his exercises I walked to the end of the road to get some mince from the butcher for tonight and a small piece of steak for A's supper tomorrow.In November I bought a book on Amazon as a Christmas present for a friend but it didn't arrived and eventually they gave me a refund. Today, to my surprise, someone put the parcel with the book in through the door with a note saying it had been delivered the them by mistake but they had been away for several weeks and had only just come back and found it. They put their address on the note so on the way to the shops I knocked on the door and said thank you.When I got back from the shops I started on the drying, made lunch and did the washing up and started to record a film that A wanted to watch but started whilst we would be having lunch. After lunch I did the eye drops again, made up the bed and did some tidying up in the main bedroom as it was starting to look like a second ROD. I then set up the film for A to watch, which he is now doing.I probably ought to do a bit more tidying up in the ROD but I think I might watch tennis online for a bit before it's time to make tea.
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