Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

savingholmes

You are doing amazing.  Well done for tackling so many 🐸 🐸 🐸 

Tresinia511

@doingitanywaysaid "I should be embracing NSDs but I want to buy coffees, chocolate and flowers and candles right now. I also want to buy wine but I am resisting that one!" And my heart just hurt a little reading this,  agree with PiP, your budget needs to sustain your soul as well as your needs,  You should have these small pleasures when you need them! I know you can get creative when you need to and you need coffees and chocolates so get on that thinking cap!

doingitanyway

You are spot on @PennysIntoPounds! 
I didn't really want the job, but I thought I should want it and that isn't quite the same thing...even the application form was...
Right again on being allowed pleasures. The thing is my income is not enough for the things I want to do. It isn't that I am being particularly poor at making it work. But, however I look at it I am not spending within my budget. I have avoided my friend so far but she will be popping by later and I will say I am busy tomorrow...thank you for your thoughts 

Thank you @savingholmes and @jwil

Thank you @Tresinia511 consider my thinking cap well and truly on!!

doingitanyway

So, the ordered mat was too thick and the door couldn't open without it bunching up...I received it yesterday and managed to get it sent back today.

I am still dropping china but my reflexes are kicking in and I am sometimes catching it before it hits a hard surface. The catching is really satisfying  However, I have broken maybe 14 pieces of china in the past few months. It wasn't happening before so wondering if it isn't just clumsy me, or one of those things, perhaps something is affecting my hands or grip...

I am ordering a dressing gown. It is expensive but as I spend lots of time in one, might as well do it in style  Plus, winter is coming and it is cheaper than a wood-burner! 

It would be fair to say I have had a lazy day. No frogs. No To Do. Hey ho 

I hope you have enjoyed your Saturday reader

Sarahwithlove

That's alot of china to break in a small amount of time. Definitely try and take notice of what's causing it if you can. 

Enjoy your dressing gown, love a good dressing gown in the winter. 

Sun_Addict

Glad you’ve had a no do day. Sometimes we just need them to regroup.

Seasidegal58

Yes maybe it's your grip that's causing the china breakages. It decreases in strength like most of the body as we age. I found that since I started the gym regularly and strength training my grip has improved enormously. 

What's your dressing gown like?  I'm imagining you wafting around your home like a 1930s film star (aka Jean Harlow...)😂

doingitanyway

Thanks @Sarahwithlove I will keep an eye on what's causing my breakages
Thanks @Sun_Addict I feel better today for having had a no-do day
Thanks @Seasidegal58 I do think strength training is important as we get older. A gym will be open 5 minutes from where I live in Winter25/Spring16 I will start seriously then. It is only 5 minutes away. I can't wait. The dressing gown is actually a 1930s design so you have that right. I do love it but will be challenging myself to sell things to raise the cost of it. 

So, a nice early morning catchup on the phone with BF then my yoga class. A really good morning. Someone at yoga gave me the contact details of a handyman so I will get them to do a few things for me to enable the house to work better for me. To Do contact handyman and make an appointment

I went cold turkey on coffee withdrawal a few days back and beginning to feel better

To Do I have decided to add in a Tai Chi class to my weekly yoga to keep me supple during the winter. A relative had a nasty fall. We have the same condition and it affects balance so I want to work on mine so that future me  fares better.  I will book the class

To do reduce energy DD I built up a few hundred pounds credit on my energy account so will reduce it by the cost of the additional exercise class + tax payment. That way I am not living on less. 

To do get 2 quotes on g... odds and ends I dug out bits of g...to sell and found a little bracelet that I'm wearing and quite liking...the plan is to sell odds and ends of broken and unwanted g... to make the money for the very expensive dressing gown...(which I love!)

I had a glorious bath with fancy things in it. 

I made soup and had it for lunch and supper. My BS seems to have settled as not feeling starving hungry

This weekend has been the exact weekend I needed. I feel relaxed and well. I want to keep Sunday as a day that is relaxed. It was difficult to turn down a friend's invite. She was absolutely fine about it. And I had the weekend I needed  

I hope you had the weekend you needed too

beanielou

Glad that you enjoyed your weekend. Good to sell the g. Anything that keeps you from falling is the best. 

jwil

Glad you had your relaxing weekend