Redsquirrel's 'Striving For Better Days' Diary

redsquirrel80

Hmm I never thought of that at the time, mind you all I have in the house is vodka, not sure how well that would work!

Marathon place is confirmed.. exciting but scary... I feel anything but energetic at the moment, hopefully getting back to the gym will help. Still stressing over money, have been surveying like mad etc but it all seems like such little bits..

Karmacat

Hi Red,

Its difficult, isn't it. I had a listing frenzy over this last week - what surveys do I do, what forms of moneymaking do I do. And I realise that without thinking I sort of abandoned matched betting for doing surveys, because they're a bit mindless - and thats crazy, m.b.ing is about a thousand per cent more profitable. In our urge to get debt free, we have to be careful to spend our energy in the right places, I think, this has been a bit sobering for me, tho I'm glad I took the time to do the overall survey of what I'm doing.

redsquirrel80

Very true Karma. I can't see me getting enough money together to do MBing, and I don't entirely trust myself either (especially when I'm tired - just ruined a load of cheques at work by signing them myself.. on autopilot!)

Bad night's sleep again, but it's turning out to be an ok day.. have to go to a cr*ppy meeting later, and then I MUST run this evening!

redsquirrel80

I did it! I ran! Did my usual route home, but half run - half walk. Full rundown (ahem) in the running club thread here - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=14050603#post14050603

OK, need to go in the shower then feed my growling tummy.

Ooh I feel good! :j

boredofbeingathome

oo i am impressed well done.:T

Karmacat

:j Woo hoo! Thats what they recommend,isn't it? Fantastic, well done! :j :j :j

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

:j Woo hoo! Thats what they recommend,isn't it? Fantastic, well done! :j :j :j

The run/ walk thing yes.. the 'go up a really steep hill and lose the ability to breathe' bit is not generally recommended by anyone!

I'm really hoping the run will help me sleep, I'm quite comfortably relaxed at the moment after a shower and lots of spaghetti. Am scared to go to bed too early though, in case I can't settle.. I'm actually tempted to sleep in the living room, sometimes find that a change of scenery breaks the insomnia cycle

boredofbeingathome

I also sleep in the living room, as Mr.B snores like a pig on steroids..and i need my sleep..but i seem to manage on very little for some reason. I always wake up early no matter what time i go to bed.

redsquirrel80

Helloo... not updated for a few days, been a funny mixture of not much to say and too much going round my head!

Went to guided meditation class at work on Friday which I found really good - am useless at properly relaxing and if I try to 'think of nothing' on my own my mind wanders terribly, so found it good to have someone's voice to listen to.

Had a lazy weekend, apart from Friday night out and a run on Sunday.. got lots and lots of sleep, but back to the insomniac ways last night. Don't think I was bothered about coming to work - no stress here, just boredom - but maybe it's because I know I have to get up by a certain time. Had some weird dreams the last few days that have quite unsettled me, one involved lots of people from various stages of my life that I haven't seen for ages. I've also had a couple of dreams about running - in one I was doing a marathon, and in the other I was running in really heavy rain but couldn't feel it, how weird!

Money-wise, I'm still within my £100 (plus the £24 cheque I found) budget for the month - that was for food, bus fares, odds and ends, nights out etc (OH paid for everything Friday, bless him). Still actually have about £50 in the bank and payday is a week tomorrow. May be doing a few things this weekend that will take me over budget, but not too concerned by that. £150 grocery budget till Christmas is looking a bit doubtful, especially as the running is making me extra hungry!

Funny things have been happening with my debts, one of the DCAs has passed it on to someone else, so have written to the original creditor to see what's going on, no reply yet... and another (who were dealing with two of my accounts for different things) have sent me a letter saying they're "no longer dealing on this account".. shouldn't that be "dealing with"?.. anyway, not sure what's happening there. I made a payment to them last month as usual but from the statement they've just sent me for the other account it looks like they've used it towards that. Confuzzled...

Should be starting the Spanish classes next week, but not had confirmation from them yet. I'm also thinking about going to an 'Anxiety Management' course that work are running (the same person who does the meditation class) - it could be nonsense, or it could be really good for me, but I'm embarrassed about going because it's at work... hmm...

And finally (unless I think of anything else), I'm going on another tiny little holiday (tell me off now if you want *blush*).. after my weekend away with OH, I'm going to meet some friends to go to one of the European Christmas markets. Yes I know I'm a bad DFW, but it is VERY cheap - and it also means I can pay back what I still owe one of my friends for the summer holiday, by paying for her train fares/ accommodation etc.

Thanks for reading, that was a long one... *sneaks off*

boredofbeingathome

You can sneak missus............................................

I am confused with the DCA business as well...it sounds like they are playing you up a bit.