Cherry takes the reins

I actually did all my list today - that's why short lists rule! The actual list, the invisible one, is probably pages long, but it isn't written down any more: it got done once, just once.

Updates: I managed to get back into the system for booking leave and hurried through the process before it threw me off again. Pressed 'send' and realised I have made a mistake somewhere and said I was due on a 7.5 hour shift somewhere, that I'm not. I'll have to see if I can get my manager to sort it out, poor man.

Run accomplished, only about 2K but that's a lot better than not going at all. I'm feeling very unfit every time I run so I need to keep at it.

DD didn't get back to me about the tickets but my friend mentioned the same show is on elsewhere later so it's not the end of the world if we miss this time round. She has been having difficulty picking up some messages since she got a new phone (and I'm wondering whether to buy her old one off her! My current one is miserably short of space despite my best efforts).

Dinner was a pie made with lots of left-overs from Sunday so there is now more fridge space. Just as well. DS2 knocked stuff over from there earlier, so things went on hold till the floor was clean and safe again.

The piano pracrise wasn't as bad as I'd feared but I had already cancelled today's lesson as, between work, being away and DS2 being on waking nights, I hadn't practised for at least a week.

Spends:
Mortgage overpayment £500.00
Milks bill (housekeeping) £6.39
MS stuff:
£10 saved by not having my piano lesson
Cost of dinner saved by using stuff up
Breakfast and lunch were 8p's worth of delicious hot cross buns bought at yellow sticker prices yesterday. Not the most balanced diet, but yummy.
Confession time:
Broken cup from the fridge incident, and waste of a bit of food.
Tickets for DD's birthday would have been cheaper if I'd booked earlier.

Thanks SS1000 - I'm not known for being an early bird.:rotfl:

No run today but got plenty of walking in so the step count is looking better than lately.

Nothing spent today either.

I made some inroads into the clutter. There are a number of boxes of books that were Mum's and which had just been stacked up. Some I knew I didn't want to keep and probably didn't have a resale value but to I felt I should get rid of the address labels on the front covers, only to have found those labels aren't designed to be removed. Today I found by accident that antibac wipes do the trick! Takes a few minutes but there must be a solvent in the fluid.

The decluttering score is: 3 books into the recycling as badly damaged. 12 with labels (and odd scraps of paper used as bookmarks) removed and bagged up for charity. Emailed my sister about a couple she may want.

Spends:
None
MS stuff:
Dinners from fridge and freezer again.

Nothing much else to report.

I forgot to add - I've sent 11 books to the charity shop and some craft stuff to a friend - that's two carrier bags' worth of space gained!

Honeysucklelou2 wrote: »

I don't think hens can lay for 10p a day!

I was afraid that might be the case. Yours will be much better off, I know.

So I have a weekend off! Yay! And rain is forecast, ah well.

No progress made on the house today but half an hour or so has been spent in the garden clearing brambles and other weeds. The tangle that was a border isn't sorted yet but it's considerably less dense than it was this morning. I have also finally brought into use a little hand fork that I got two or three years ago. Would you believe it looked too nice to use? :rotfl: It's a sturdy little thing with a wooden handle, much tougher than the old plastic-handled one it takes over from - and it makes detail work a lot easier. I discovered a tub of marjoram which I thought had died off, too, which was especially encouraging as my neighbour and I were lamenting the damage done to tough-looking bushes of rosemary and sage in the recent snows. Now it just seems that nature is making up for lost time!

I had one of those moments of unexpected objectivity this evening: I was washing some pans which we were given for a wedding present a lot of years ago and which have been treasured almost as members of the family. DH and the kids have been on at me for a long time to replace them as they are getting very worn: the copper bases have mostly buckled and a lot of the handles have loosened to the point where they wobble, but I hung on to them out of sentiment and because I can't be sure a new set wouldn't suffer the same fate! Tonight I decided they are no longer what they were and it's time to look into a decent new set. I had DH look up how much they are in the hope he will realise that dunking a hot copper-based pan in cold water does more than create an interesting bang. :rotfl: I don't think he's the only culprit but he's now the most likely person to wreck them, IMO.

It's funny how I somehow saw them much as they were when new, but looking objectively there's not a single one in good condition any more.

Spends
Housekeeping £3.48
MS stuff:
87p off bread