well a few days of ground level sofa have annoyed me to the point I've ordered legs for it, they were only £15 from amazon. I plan to keep it for a few months anyway and daughter will get the benefit of it once she claims it.
I've not heard of that budgeting thing
@AliGal but I'm a bit hesitant of something that asks you to spend money to save money if you see what I mean. Theres a lot of budgeting advice online for free, but if you think you can save more than the app costs then I guess it might be worth it.
What I did and it's helped me a lot to get by the past 2 years is I have made up a spreadsheet with all my fixed incomes and bills, and added the lowest usual incomes on pay dates etc. It's helped me to project ahead to knowing what I will have and when. So even putting off ordering a weekly shop sometimes a few days would mean making it through another month.
I'm going to continue with it now, because although I know I'm going to have a sudden financial freedom (they've said Monday or Tuesday) I don't want to just spend ruthlessly. I want to make it count. I guess I've learned not to squander and waste money, but at the same time I'll allow a few treats as well. I still can't really believe it, it's going to make such a difference to us.
The other thing I've done is I already have several bank accounts so I've labelled them all differently. One is the bill paying account, one is for food shopping, one for saving for any gift giving, holidays and any treats like take aways, one for my daughters driving fund and finally - the household repair account. I did say I was a geek...
Anyways, food wise I'm back on track, I made a nice pot of soup yesterday, with onion, chilli, garlic, squash, carrot, cauliflower, butterbeans and lentils. Probably not especially low carb but super healthy. I had it with the last of my low carb 'krisprolls' I made. It was yummy, loads left too. I do like the krisprolls but not as much as I love the keto naans so I'll probably focus on batch cooking the naans rather than making the rolls although I might still make a batch now and then.
My scales yesterday had me at 0.5lb up, but I'm just going with a sts
shhh don't tell anyone.
But given that it's the worst week I've had in the past couple months for eating badly I don't think a 0.5lb gain is too bad. We'll see what Friday brings when it comes around again, with hopefully a better week. I'm going to have a few days of eating properly on my plan again, then I'll attempt a 36 hour fast as I had in mind before, probably tues/weds but not sure yet.
I bought a huge pork joint by accident, didn't realise how big it was going to be. I'm going to shove it in the slow cooker probably with sweet chilli sauce and just see what comes off it. Pulled sweet chilli pork maybe? might do a quick google first. I need to get that on soon actually. I'll probably try to get a batch of naans made later too. or I'll have nothing to have with it!
I've rearranged the furniture in my craft room to what I expect is it's final destination for a while. I have disposed of an old bookcase that belonged to my husband that he didn't want when he moved out. When I say disposed of, I mean I burned it last night in my chiminea
and as he thoroughly annoyed me yesterday over a completely inappropriate, unnecessary and quite frankly nasty conversation he had with my daughter around money that she is getting, I found burning something of his quite cathartic lol.
What an awful, awful man he has turned in too. Or perhaps he always was. In any case I'm saddened at the gradual loss of any bond in particular between him and my daughter, his ongoing bitterness and selfishness is gradually burning his bridges with her, and although I have attempted to point out to him in the past what he is doing I have learned not to bother, although I did send a message yesterday outlining the criteria for the benefit she is receiving, and suggesting if he has any further questions to contact me, it is inappropriate for him to discuss finances with her.
I really don't understand where it all comes from. He has the life he wanted, he left, he is living with another woman, flash new expensive car. They are both high earners and only have the inconvenience of children one or two nights per week. He chose this, all of it. I chose none of it, but I'm at the point of being extremely grateful for it! He is not a person I would ever choose again to have in my life and my only regret is that I will need to have an ongoing tolerance for my sons sake. Daughter can choose to see him or not on her own terms at her age, but son has a long time to go yet where I will still need to be involved. Otherwise I'd be quite happy to never see or hear of him again.
Right I best get this slow cooker on the go, back in a bit!
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thank you @ladyfelsham, yes he is not the man I thought he was when I met him 12 years ago, if nothing else that much is clear and I absolutely am better off without him, on all levels. I'm disappointed for my kids.
hard to believe even a few weeks ago I didn't think this would be possible!
