Things can only get better

Morning all

The dog kindly got me up at 6am today. Been productive already as washing is done and on the line, finances are done, just need to do meal plan. So nice to think no getting up at 5am for a week

On the finance front, I've gone over budget with groceries already with one more week to go until the end of the budget period I'm so cross with myself - will I ever learn? At the moment it's only £3.53 over but there's still next week. However, I've got a full freezer and plenty in the cupboards so shouldn't need to buy much next week. As I'm off work I'll just buy what we need for the day fresh stuff wise.

Plan for today is to tackle the cupboard of doom under the stairs. Mr SA is protesting, I don't know why as I can do it on my own. The cupboard is full of his tools, shoes and coats which is probably why he's butting in. His side is still hurting him from when he fell in the pond a couple of weeks ago so I'm not expecting him to be much help with the jobs I want to get done this coming week. He wants to go in town one of the days, will have to be Friday as I want to get everything done first.

Have a good day everyone

The cupboard of doom is done :j It's still pretty full but much better. A lot of stuff has gone in the shed and a lot has gone in the bin Mr SA has rediscovered coats he didn't know he had. There is another cupboard of doom in the dining room which will be a job for another day.

Weeded the drive, took ages as it's a very long drive but done :j

Fence paint sprayer arrived this morning along with the ironing board and house phone. Mr SA is pleased with his new toy, the ironing board is a million times better than the old one, forgot what it was like to iron on a board that doesn't rock. The house phone is another story. It's been something on my must buy list for ages since I found the old one wasn't working which I blamed on GS playing with it. Finally got one today, plugged it in not working Had to phone Virgin from my mobile, got through to foreign call centre, couldn't tell a word he was saying Anyway the upshot is the phone line is dead. I haven't used it for about a year because I thought it was the phone. So I've been paying line rental for a phone line that doesn't work, although unknown to me. They're coming out to it tomorrow afternoon. I hardly ever use the landline just for calls to Virgin and other lines that are expensive to ring from a mobile.

Then Mr SA announced the extension lead we'll need for the paint sprayer (it's an electric one) isn't working. So now we've got to buy a new one of those. It's never-ending.

Goal for tomorrow is take the winter throw to the launderette then do some weeding in the garden - living the dream :rotfl: