NST AUGUST 2024

ditty1234

Hi Just checking back in to look for September link.
I am busy distracting myself as am supposed to do some prep for work.
I have applied for a new local job and hoping to get an interview and badgering myself for putting a bit too much confidence into my chances on this job. 
I had a lovely 2 weeks of holiday and fun, and am now looking for the ultimate budget time in September, October and November.
My dog sadly passed away, although it was overdue, and I have to pay ds2 back as he fronted the money at the vets.
Time to do some accountability work and get back to the drawing board. 
Hugs and best wishes to everybody, look forwards to catching up. 


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DawnW

Sorry about your dog @ditty1234, and good luck with the job application.

Quiet day today after yesterday's party and the travel involved getting to and from. I have cleaned the bathroom, done a load of washing (currently drying outside), cut back the quince tree and cleared some areas of the garden. Lots more to do, but not today. Next job is to have a shower and wash my hair after getting dirty and sweaty in the garden.

I still need to do some watering and pick the raspberries, but I shouldn't get mucky doing those.

I have found a recipe for pea and prawn risotto, which I am going to try for dinner, as I have all the ingredients.

Grateful for a warm sunny day after the wet, windy and chilly weekend!

Shrewbie

Sorry to hear about your dog @ditty1234. Hugs

apple_muncher

Sorry to thwart you, ditty! I've not done it yet!

apple_muncher

But now I have! Here's September:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6550221/nst-september-2024-a-turtle-soap-opera/p1?new=1

grandmanerd

Whatever has been ailing me for the past 3 or 4 days eased off today (I've been drinking lots of water, eating sparingly and simply and trying to balance breathing with back pain and other aches). Far too much to do and DS3 is not being the least bit co-operative. He's conveniently forgotten our conversation about moving him upstairs (Beloved rarely come down anyway) and me down. He went upstairs with his laptop when I said I was sleeping on the couch. I'm going to try to get the mattress out of my bedroom window after I've made more space in the yard and spread out the tarpaulin. 

I need to have words with him (will wait to see if he does any of the necessary work) but it will have to queue up behind more urgent crises.

When I've made some space I'm going to pack a suitcase with all my essentials (CPAP machine, pills, medicinal creams, 2 pairs of trainers and some clothes). I have looked at mattresses (can have one by the end of the week) but was quite tempted by garden trucks, polytunnels and camping toilets and showers.

Grateful for what I have got done (it helps when you aren't curling into a ball of agony every few minutes), books and the couch.

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for getting a bootful of items to the ch shop, for plenty of big fat juicy rasps to pick after the recent rain, for cutting up carpet and moving furniture in pip's room to make it more like what he wants, for having a car, for my friends.

Thrifty_Taylor

Sorry to hear about your dog @ditty1234. Congratulations on being nearly mortgage free @ldee2111 🎉 thanks for doing September @apple_muncher.

Been AWOL again! Lots of early mornings & late nights, has made me very tired. Had a nap after work today, which has helped lots.

NSD#15
Went for a walk with DH Sunday, followed by sewing. Got out in the garden for an hour, cutting branches up for the fire & compost heap.

Had an excellent day at school yesterday. The new to me pupil that I've had for 3 mornings, wanted me at lunch break yesterday instead of the woman he's had for the last 2 years! Fed things back to the head teacher & received lots of praise, so gave me a boost!

Cut up the last of the branches after work, the trimmed overgrown things at the top of the driveway, so can see better when I pull out. Sewing after tea, after pinning a lady into 10 items (with another 10 in a bag 🤯).

Today has gone fine too. Had phoned the hospital yesterday to check on my status for the eye clinic (only been waiting 17 months!), they returned my call today & I'm due to get an appointment for September 😃 goodbye cataract 🤞 then received a message to say my new (red) front door has been delivered. Maybe I should get a lottery ticket! 😂

Did 2 sewing jobs after tea, so can now get rid of a big bag off the pile 😊

Grateful for teamwork with DH, feeling appreciated by HT, upcoming appointment & my new front door finally arriving

Shrewbie

Morning turtles,

I'm aiming for an NSD today, first one for a while. 
Yesterday was the first day doing the commute from my new place - the house that my housemates bought and moved into in July. It is a fairly easy journey but the buses are infrequent so it means I would be better off shifting my working hours 30 mins forward. Will speak to my boss about this. 

Worked out the budgets yesterday. I have overspent this summer but I'm not too far behind target.
Grateful for the new living situation, for seeing my housemate's dog again after more than a month, for feeling motivated despite being tired.

EDIT. Just found out some very exciting news. There is a programme here to help people get on the property ladder but I couldn't apply before as I am over the age limit (35). I have just heard that the gov is putting the age limit up to 41. My dream of buying a flat may be coming closer to realisation!!!!

grandmanerd

Hugs ditty

Well lots of fun and games in grandmanerd towers. I made space in the kitchen (not tidy, I just moved chairs that have been dumped into spaces I'd cleared, and my two little raskogs - one next to the couch as bedside table/ storage nearer to under the stairs) and moved as many pots in the garden as I could but there was no way for me to move the mattress. I got wet, the tarpaulin I'd laid out (to drag mattress into the backs and then cover it up) got wet and I gave up and settled myself on the couch to read and sleep. It should be much easier to clean up the space as I've been pulling thing out from under and between pieces of furniture

Had pills, a shower and something to eat earlier. Went to the bathroom about half an hour ago. DS3 was already there and asked if he should attempt to push the mattress through my window (it's an escape one). The headboard was still in the backs (and the computer chair and the traffic cone I put in front to highlight them). DS3 got the mattress out (complaining about the window's unfitness for it's purpose - apparently in the event of fire, you are supposed to chuck a mattress out first to cushion the drop). I went downstairs and suggested he put more clothes on. Got downstairs and the headboard was gone - they sneaked in.

Ran to the bottom of the back in case they were still there. No - 2 police cars, several cars lined up and a man sitting on the block of concrete with a sheared off road sign/ lamp post next to him. I asked where the dump truck was and he said they hadn't been yet. No I meant the bulky waste collector - he didn't know.

However I'm not downhearted. Overnight I have decide we need to get rid of all the things that don't work (I dismantled an adjustable standard lamp yesterday and the midnight pixies had gifted me a 3 branch led one last week) and the furniture we don't want or is unsuitable. I may need to pay the waste wizards but I just want it all gone, start with a clean slate and then get what we need and want further down the line. All my life I've lived with other people's cast offs and I need space. One of the declutter rules that resonated with me was 'did you bring this into your life' and the answer is 'NO' in a lot of cases.

We each (those 2 and me) have a pack of 'moving boxes' so anything that doesn't have a place can go in those for now.

Grateful for DS3 doing something (even though there are problems with how to keep it dry and possible complaints from the neighbours), books which helped to pass the time when I couldn't sleep despite being too physically exhausted to take another step, easy food.
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