Pay off mortgage and start having fun!

After being in an ahem "diet" for two weeks , I have lost two pounds plus I know I lost that in the first couple of days and then nothing. Ive also just realised that its exactly three months today that we go away to centerparcs, and two months until we go the the Newmarket races (where I shall want to wear a lovely new dress )

So I've decided to cut out alcohol for a month as a kick start and to try and be a lot stricter,when I stopped drinking for the first few months of this year it did help me a bit I think. Anyway, I'm going to spend more on food and try and buy stuff I enjoy that's healthy rather than just apples , bananas and cheap veg. Time to get more creative , so I steer clear of other more naughty things.

After a wet and cold weekend it looks like a wonderful sunny day,useless when you are stuck in a factory all day
I sometimes feel I've left it way to late in life to get our finances sorted, if only we had been better when we first got together twenty odd years ago. I'm 40 now and although if everything goes OK we will be mortgage free and hopefully own the factory (or our business will) n seven years time, we still both have no savings and I will have a pension pot of a few hundred pounds , dh probably a few thousand. There will still be so much ground to make up.

Just Monday morning blues I think today

Cheers al, better late than never I guess

I've made a lovely £1870 op on the big loan today :T money that would have been better spent on a little mini for me to swan about in through the summer, but hey ho I shall "cruise" around in our Vauxhall zafira instead

I've ordered ds2's birthday presents from the monthly budget so it will have to be a very tight month now, a ticket for a band (dh going and paying for himself) and a massage chair -for gaming apparently :eek: got a good deal on eBay so not too bad, and at least I know it will get used a lot :rotfl:

The factory sale still has not completed ,mainly due to us having a fairly rubbish solicitor,hopefully in the next day or two.

£19 spent on food ( and a bottle of wine!) Ready to celebrate completion of buying the factory however that still hasn't happened :mad: cutting out alcohol did not last long as I've just had a glass!

Today I discovered that it's bank holiday Monday next week :wall: how can I not register that ,normally I am counting down the days until time off :rotfl: so a great evening tonight ,five days until work again, wine, PJs and the final episode of inside number 9

Yay! We have completed :j

We now own just over half a factory unit in east London (well the company which dh owns does ) It does not feel as it should do really as the worry of keeping the staff's jobs and paying for it is very much to the forefront.

I also have another complication on my mind, as a couple of the staff handed their shares back to the company for free (as we could not purchase unless the company had only one shareholder, because of the loan) they are long serving close friends of dh who don't want any money for them as they trust us to look after them when we are in profit.

It goes without saying that of course we will (and have done in the past when ever possible) ie. Bonus's \dividends etc. But i feel so guilty, however the money really needs to come from the company not our rapidly decreasing wages.

Dh treats the company as he always has done when it was owned by many shareholders over the years , he (and I now) are "employees" not the owners if you see what I mean. So it all feels a bit strange now that everything is officially in his name.

Sorry for ranting on, just mixed feelings tonight after many years of ups and downs