Long time no speak unfortunate happenings and purple suede!!

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Long time no speak unfortunate happenings and purple suede!!

So Sheffield was grand and back to work with a dull thud and a broken exhaust to the tune of £241!!! I did pick up a great purple suede jacket for £5 - not vintage only brand new but a great shade of purple anyway.

Other than that - just working and being busy and still unable to save given the above!!! Its also my mums birthday soon so we are visiting Scotland - all three of us over weekend of 21/22nd May. Hiring a caravan for three nights as this is cheaper than a family room for same time. Will stay with family when I go on my own. Also have a kiddies party this weekend which is another expense but the little girl is the daughter of a dear friend so I don't mind so much.

Invested in an epilation session for all of £2!!! perm hair removal from the college beauty spa!!! £2 for the removal of unwanted facial hair - worth it in my opinion. Hopefully I shall not be bothered by errant hairs when I am older and cannot Weild tweezers effectively enough to root the buggers out!!!

Had another flood in the bathroom - Weeny girl left the tap running and it dripped over the side of the bath and ( it pools and runs off the bath rim - doesn't fill the bath which I would have heard) So this is two unfortunate things!!!

Fingers crossed!!! Will post pics of the jacket when I get a chance - I lurve the colour!!

Made my first quorn chilli - tasty and eaten with pitta and cheese. Would be lovely with some nachos and cheese and jalepeno 's!! Yes some is in the freezer for the future!!!!

Also have hit 11stone. I need to loose some weight and do some excercise. I shall endeavour. This is all I will commit to at this point- I shall endeavour lololol

Much love peeps!!!

3 comments:

Scarlett11 May 2011 at 12:17
I so need to get myself to the college beauty salon here as they do cheap treatments too, thanks for the prompt! Im trying to do the weight and exercise thing, so far its reached thought but not action lol. Scarlett x
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Vix11 May 2011 at 12:22
I can't wait to see that purple suede jacket, I do love suede, vintage or not.
Great price on the beauty treatment. Brilliant deal and some pampering as well, can't be bad. xxx
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Lakota [Faith Hope and Charity Shopping]11 May 2011 at 13:39
Oh dear, at least you've had some had thrifty treats to somewhat make up for the disasters. The jacket sounds fab. Am on diet kick myself at the moment, first time I've ever seriously had to - I'm hungry!
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Why do I Blog!

Well primarily for me its a cathartic get it off my chest / a means to organise thoughts / to take stock. A journal that in 2012 has an interactive ' Dear diary' that is vast.

I don't write to share wisdom. Have very little of that. I don't claim to have an aspirational lifestyle of any kind. I dont write for it to be read even. If it is and my mad mixed up life interests people, makes them laugh, is a bit of a soap opera, whatever then that's great. Blogging - a bit of an affirmation of real life life choices maybe....

Sometimes my blog brings order and reflection to the real world. Sometimes Blogland folks share pearls of wisdom which is very very cool! :-)

I ve gained a great deal from reading other peoples blogs. Different ways of life are always interesting. I don't get involved in giveaways or stuff like that. I think its lovely though. Am pants at choosing gifts and it would give me no end of nightmares.

I read blogs before I blogged. Some people share so much and through reading I have learnt a great deal.Practical and otherwise.The tips are fantastic for frugal stuff. As are the stories of strangers lives. INSPIRATIONAL and all wonderfully different.

I m a bit of a roller coaster girl up and down. The blog keeps me more train like. Also an outlet for the negative stuff. A bit like wind. And by that I mean the gaseous stuff. BETTER OUT THAN IN. My blog is then a load of old fart.....this amuses me greatly.

Thanks Dave!!!

Once upon a time the end was in sight and financial freedom from my little debt of under 5k was nearly within my grasp! December 2012 if not before with the benefits of frugality however our friend Dave had other plans!!!!

I was made redundant from my job with a pish package I took what I could find till a full time position. Finally taking a 10k salary drop.

In 2009 I invested in property buying my house with a 15% deposit. n 2011 after three years of home owning and negative equity to the tune of 12k I have finally sold and now have jack bloody buggery shite. What smarts is that I gave up time with my small child in favour of seeking security for us. If only I had done the opposite....... rented, claimed top up benefits and saved my hard earned cash .... quality of life for me and weeny girl for three years would have been be better and we would have a cash sum in the bank and no debt.

You play frugal, play independent, watch your consumption, don't do frivalous sofas or new cars, no nights out at the pub type debt just what you have to! After a double whammy from the government - house market slump and Local Authority redundancy compounded by rural living what is a single mum supposed to do???? = Suck it up, Keep smiling, and use a brush instead of a hoover.