Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

I'm sure it would, but unfortunately I just had pizza for tea 🙈

Nowt but wholesome stuff tomorrow. I've got a bit of a sore throat and have started sniffling, not surprising to be under the weather after the last few weeks but 🙄

Oddly enough, speaking of cashback, another £20 just cleared 😃 from another bank switch, one that had ridiculous conditions. I kept track for me, but lost track for Mr cheery so annoyingly his £20 has been declined (met the conditions for the bank switch incentive, but the cashback involved making several payments using a debit card for several months in a row, and I forgot he'd got two cards, and didn't realise he'd used the wrong one for the final month 🙄 Hey ho, still another £20 withdrawn, and £2.55 for some train tickets has confirmed but not paid out. After that only £27 left, and no more big purchases on the horizon sadly! 

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums 😊

Yep, I definitely have a sore throat and a cold coming, so a restful weekend for me. Fortunately there are no plans other than a band practice tomorrow afternoon. 

I'm taking Monday off (since I worked Friday) so still a much-needed 3 day weekend 😊

Some things to potter about with: 

* eat well! Lots of fruit & veg, and get some batch cooking into the freezer for the rest of the week
* unpacking from conference
* flylady home blessing including changing the sheets
* washing
* more clothes clearing - I think I've identified the main things I wear now, so everything else is going to have to justify itself or go into the charity shop/vinted pile.
* get stuff onto Vinted! Let's say 5 things.
* flute practice
* banking/YNAB - not done an end of June round up yet

Not going to plan anything else, although apart from the Vinted stuff that feels like a 'standing still' weekend rather than making progress, but if I'm feeling a bit rough that's probably no bad thing. Gentle pottering is the order of the day I think, and maybe a nice bath later with a book 😊

teapot2

Sounds like the 'looking after myself' part of your diary name needs to be front and centre this weekend.  Hope you can allow yourself to potter gently and feel better. 

Greying_Pilgrim

Morning Cheery love,

I second teapot2 and hope that self-care is front and centre of your weekend.  

How marvellous that you had a hook-up with the Stripey One!  😁 Definitely worth forgoing a corporate buffet for! 😁

Take care YOU.

Greying X

beanielou

I wondered if the stripy one was headed your way. Yah. 

Cheery_Daff

Thank you both 😊 I'd forgotten that looking after myself was in my diary name, so thank you for the reminder! 😂

Having a nice day so far 😊😊 Mr Cheery and I went to our favourite cafe for breakfast, and then hopped to our second most local town for a mooch about the charity shops. Found a useful white summer top (which will allow me to wear an excellent pair of trousers that I bought the other week but didn't have a top to go with) and a pink linen jacket which I adore 😍 

Can't remember if I said, but I've been experimenting with the Indyx app to catalogue all my clothes and help me decide what to get rid of and find new outfits 😂 Ridiculous, yes, but it's making me properly look at what I've got, and if I can't be bothered photographing things to go in the app, then I probably don't need to keep them... I've got a lot of stuff that doesn't fit 🙄 which I'm going to pass on, and far too much beyond repair gardening/DIY stuff - need some of that, but not as much as I have 😂

Anyway, we had lunch in a supermarket cafe - two cafes in one day 😮 but only a total of £10 between us for lunch so not massively extravagant.... It did us good to have a proper hang out though, we've been just passing each other on the way to other things for ages. 

Now I'm running a luxurious daytime bath 😁 Got soaked earlier and need to warm up my bones (and wash my hair 😂)

Then I think I'll take some pictures and get some things on Vinted 😊

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums😊

Got literally nothing done at home today.  Mr Cheery and I went out at 9.15am with no particular plans other than breakfast,  and only got home at 11pm 😱😂 had a lovely day though,  spend quite a bit of it sitting in a park in a pretty little town,  some of it dangling my feet in a river 😊😊 and then had an impromptu tea with friends.  A lovely day 😊😊

So no washing,  or gardening,  but I did at least manage to upgrade my gym membership 😂 got an induction Thursday evening - I've been a member before but not for a while so just a quick one. 

£20 of cashback landed in the bank, and we've also had £40.56 as the annual 1% cashback on the Amex card. Not loads,  but we usually only use it for fuel and supermarkets.  Mr C often forgets and just uses the bank card - looks like we've spent an average of less than £350 a month on the card and we usually average around £250 just on diesel... will have to remind him again! Might see if there's a better deal out there for normal spending - we pay it off at the end of every month so no need for 0% (although maybe this is where we start getting into stoozing?? Might be a step too far for me!)

Anyway, none of that tonight 😂😂

rtandon27

What a fabulous way to spend a day!

We had a similar 'do nothing' day on Sunday which included lunch out and a long afternoon nap! They are few and far between so such a special treat!

You are doing so well on the extra cash coming in each month, most impressive!

Watty1

What a lovely way to spend a Sunday.  Excellent Sunday-ing there.

Cheery_Daff

Watty1 said:

What a lovely way to spend a Sunday.  Excellent Sunday-ing there.

It was indeed excellent Sunday-ing - and even better because it was Monday! 😃😂

Now Tuesday, which actually feels like Monday, is going to be quite objectionable 😂 In fact this whole week is confusing because I'm doing four days, as normal, but Tues-Fri instead of Mon-Thurs 😂 Next weekend is only 2 days long so that will feel Very Objectionable Indeed 😂 But not long now til a big wodge of time off in one go 😁

Today would go more quickly if I actually got out of bed, I suspect 🙄