First things first, has a really great weekend with DC, we have agreed to look forward rather than back as we have so much good memories and work to build on. Have no idea of the how, just that we both want to which is probably a decent start. David took Friday off and we headed to John Lewis for lunch, ham broth, was good but a bit too much barley, can definitely do better myself.
Ponies are all spruced up though and have their first coat of mud guard on, so that is one ticked of the list. Still no mug shots though but I do have the pics so just have to learn how to upload them.
I have been really impressed with those who do blog every day, makes me realise how quiet my life is.
Oh, one new thing, I have joined vibrocise, it is basically isometric position holding on a vibrating plate and definitely is harder than it looks. They take down your vital stats after the initial trial so I will keep this updated for progress.
Anyway quick one to get me back in the groove. Meeting with HR tomorrow as I am a bit too expressive. They need to be careful what they wish for as I can easily become another monkey and put the money in the bank every month with no shame! If they want another empty eater like they have already, no problem. Don't want to talk about the detail but I was at my lowest ever ebb on Saturday (1st November) and have spoken out loud about my lack of motivation for going on, while at work. For 6 days no one said anything, then on day 6 some of my coworkers became 'concerned for my welfare', bit late don't you think? Smacks of cover your arse, if you ask me, then on day 6, they still didn't manage to make contact with me and still pretend to be concerned with my welfare. Fully aware that this is a vendetta against my family name, oh well, plenty of other things to do in the world, even if I love my job. Sometimes the world just wants you to do something different.
We will see what tomorrow brings, here we go!
JCx
Monday, 10 November 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Swaps and Upcycle
Eeepp!
Short blog today, been a bit naughty again and skipped the extra shift at work, I know, I know but I have just been so busy, for what seems like weeks, that I took a bit of a day to myself.
Little bit of a long lie then off to the horses who inhaled their dinner and looked quite happy despite the horrible rain. Current plan is to bring them in on Friday night and let them dry out before creaming their legs, anti mud fever details on Saturday, and the much promised tidy up.
Went off them on a magic mystery tour to near Huntley Equitation as was, so sad now that it has shut down only to hear that Hilltop has too, sad reflection of the horsey world we now live in, 10K for rates and another for insurance, 20K in debt and no one has fed or gotten on a horse yet. No wonder welfare issues are becoming more of a problem, there is no where for anyone to learn!
Any, met a lovely lady called Jill who took my little dressage saddle in a direct swap from some new springer stirrups, woop woop and I also picked up hi viz hat band, breastplate and a full set of HKM boots, add this to my previous 5 point breastplate and we are so ready to go eventing! Promise promise, pics.
Home and made JO's cauliflower Kerala curry, yum, and plenty of portions for the freezer. Really need to do a stock take as I seem to be making loads!
Anyway, just a check in tonight, no war and peace. Seems DC and I both want the same thing, the problem is both of us reducing ego and stubbornness to get there. We shall see.
Night,
JC
Short blog today, been a bit naughty again and skipped the extra shift at work, I know, I know but I have just been so busy, for what seems like weeks, that I took a bit of a day to myself.
Little bit of a long lie then off to the horses who inhaled their dinner and looked quite happy despite the horrible rain. Current plan is to bring them in on Friday night and let them dry out before creaming their legs, anti mud fever details on Saturday, and the much promised tidy up.
Went off them on a magic mystery tour to near Huntley Equitation as was, so sad now that it has shut down only to hear that Hilltop has too, sad reflection of the horsey world we now live in, 10K for rates and another for insurance, 20K in debt and no one has fed or gotten on a horse yet. No wonder welfare issues are becoming more of a problem, there is no where for anyone to learn!
Any, met a lovely lady called Jill who took my little dressage saddle in a direct swap from some new springer stirrups, woop woop and I also picked up hi viz hat band, breastplate and a full set of HKM boots, add this to my previous 5 point breastplate and we are so ready to go eventing! Promise promise, pics.
Home and made JO's cauliflower Kerala curry, yum, and plenty of portions for the freezer. Really need to do a stock take as I seem to be making loads!
Anyway, just a check in tonight, no war and peace. Seems DC and I both want the same thing, the problem is both of us reducing ego and stubbornness to get there. We shall see.
Night,
JC
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Spoiled Girl
Me again,
Busy, productive day but not quite according to plan. The day started with some poor forward thinking on my part having set my alarm too late to do all that I had planned and make the noon showing of Dracula so I rerouted to the Equaliser with Denzel Washington. The trailer for this was very promising and I like DW and loved the TV series with Edward Woodward - showing my age there. It was good but if you are planning on going, don't rush, I would probably wait for it to come on Sky or DVD. How does this fit in with keeping what I earn I hear you shout, I have earned it fate all.
Well as I said, it is about added value, I really enjoy the cinema but object to paying lots of cash for the experience, so the compromise - Saver Tuesday! I have a. Discount code for Cribbs, up to 30% off and at Newport (best Welsh now, "gotta be honest, not my favourite city", but the cinema is clean and well maintained) every Tuesday, all day is £5. At both places if you go to the lunchtime showing there are about 20 people in there, average age 62, no mobiles going off, etc. pure bliss.
Now one of my favourite games is that if I can get something that I was going to buy anyway cheaper than I thought, I take the difference and put it into my 'Rainy Day' account. So today I moved across £3.80, as the original ticket cost £9.95 and I paid ) £6.15, happy days. You may think this is slightly mad and inconsequential but in week 1 of October I put £133.65 into this account alone just by buying yellow stickered items, cinema discount, 3 for 2 offer on vet wrap, Tesco money off at the pump, etc. I won't do this every week and this pay month not so much, as I am running down the freezer and larder but if you pocket the difference you will see it mount up. It is a good way to collect your emergency fund or even pay it into your mortgage or debts if you can over pay - every little helps, as they say and most of us won't notice the odd couple of quid going 'missing'.
So what was that special delivery? Santa came early chez JC, a Lakeland click and collect delivery, hence the cinema at Cribbs rather than Newport as I was paying for the bridge anyway. Mini oven, saves the big one and cuts down on electricity when cooking for 2 or 1. Electric slicer, the only thing that puts me off my own bread is not being able to slice it properly and this gets rave reviews. Mini cup cake maker and mini pie maker - these are going back to be exchanged for proper sized versions, as when Lakeland say mini, they mean teeny, tiny, mini. Oh and some other bits, microwave thing for pasta and a potato ricer. Stoptober, you have been foiled. In all seriousness, I hope that each of the things I have bought will either cut down on energy consumption, increase the nutrition of my diet, reduce the cost of said diet, by making things last longer (you know when you have a small position of something left over that is not enough even for a lunch) and add a bit of a treat. We all have a sweet craving sometimes and a little home made cup cake will stop me grabbing an over-priced, under-sized chocolate bar!
I love Lakeland, their no quibble guarantee is worth so much, even if you just don't get along with the product and the staff are actually knowledgeable and helpful, rare combo these days.
So tomorrow sees me back at work but only for a short shift, then I am on a shopping trip for Saffy, sprenger stirrups, set of boots, hi vis gear and a couple of saddle racks, maybe a spare winter coat for me, THEN, I promise I will stop shopping. Honestly, this is more shopping than I have ever done, eish!
Over the weekend, all bills should come out of the account and then I will distribute the remainder and organise a click and collect top up shop at our NEW local Asda! as tomorrow is day 1 of the £25K challenge and really the September spending, ok including tomorrow, is part of that.
Now I promised myself that I would learn about getting pics on this blog and that is my goal before Friday. I read a good post in a blog the other day, will look up who it was, but basically weekly, monthly and yearly goals rather than the dreaded new year resolutions, urgh! So you know one of my yearly ones.
1. Pay off £25k in 3.5 years (£7K+ per year, £600 per month).
2. Have a go at this eventing lark next spring, probably summer, local only, no great expense.
Monthly.
1. See above
2. Keep up with the blog for a month.
4. Check electricity meter weekly, get obsessive about usage! Lol
This Week
1. A blog a day.
2. Be better at blogging - target this week piccies.
3. Tidy up the horses, may be Thursday.
4. Re-organise the kitchen to accommodate new Lakeland stuff.
5. Identify what else I can sell - brake pads, steering wheel, sweat rug?
That will do for this week.
New game - 3 things that made me happy/ grateful/ fulfilled today:
1. Picked up DC's glasses and delivered them, still has wedding ring on, we were polite even if he is still reserved. He really needs to take a chance but he knows I am close to end game and it makes home feel vulnerable/ afraid, give up, give in, give it all you've got?
2. So pleased with how my little home is coming together, this is a double edged sword but I am very blessed (I have worked hard but you need at least not to be unlucky too) to be in a position to make it happen.
3. Happy that I have found Saver Tuesday, I really enjoy the cinema, added value in my life.
JC
Busy, productive day but not quite according to plan. The day started with some poor forward thinking on my part having set my alarm too late to do all that I had planned and make the noon showing of Dracula so I rerouted to the Equaliser with Denzel Washington. The trailer for this was very promising and I like DW and loved the TV series with Edward Woodward - showing my age there. It was good but if you are planning on going, don't rush, I would probably wait for it to come on Sky or DVD. How does this fit in with keeping what I earn I hear you shout, I have earned it fate all.
Well as I said, it is about added value, I really enjoy the cinema but object to paying lots of cash for the experience, so the compromise - Saver Tuesday! I have a. Discount code for Cribbs, up to 30% off and at Newport (best Welsh now, "gotta be honest, not my favourite city", but the cinema is clean and well maintained) every Tuesday, all day is £5. At both places if you go to the lunchtime showing there are about 20 people in there, average age 62, no mobiles going off, etc. pure bliss.
Now one of my favourite games is that if I can get something that I was going to buy anyway cheaper than I thought, I take the difference and put it into my 'Rainy Day' account. So today I moved across £3.80, as the original ticket cost £9.95 and I paid ) £6.15, happy days. You may think this is slightly mad and inconsequential but in week 1 of October I put £133.65 into this account alone just by buying yellow stickered items, cinema discount, 3 for 2 offer on vet wrap, Tesco money off at the pump, etc. I won't do this every week and this pay month not so much, as I am running down the freezer and larder but if you pocket the difference you will see it mount up. It is a good way to collect your emergency fund or even pay it into your mortgage or debts if you can over pay - every little helps, as they say and most of us won't notice the odd couple of quid going 'missing'.
So what was that special delivery? Santa came early chez JC, a Lakeland click and collect delivery, hence the cinema at Cribbs rather than Newport as I was paying for the bridge anyway. Mini oven, saves the big one and cuts down on electricity when cooking for 2 or 1. Electric slicer, the only thing that puts me off my own bread is not being able to slice it properly and this gets rave reviews. Mini cup cake maker and mini pie maker - these are going back to be exchanged for proper sized versions, as when Lakeland say mini, they mean teeny, tiny, mini. Oh and some other bits, microwave thing for pasta and a potato ricer. Stoptober, you have been foiled. In all seriousness, I hope that each of the things I have bought will either cut down on energy consumption, increase the nutrition of my diet, reduce the cost of said diet, by making things last longer (you know when you have a small position of something left over that is not enough even for a lunch) and add a bit of a treat. We all have a sweet craving sometimes and a little home made cup cake will stop me grabbing an over-priced, under-sized chocolate bar!
I love Lakeland, their no quibble guarantee is worth so much, even if you just don't get along with the product and the staff are actually knowledgeable and helpful, rare combo these days.
So tomorrow sees me back at work but only for a short shift, then I am on a shopping trip for Saffy, sprenger stirrups, set of boots, hi vis gear and a couple of saddle racks, maybe a spare winter coat for me, THEN, I promise I will stop shopping. Honestly, this is more shopping than I have ever done, eish!
Over the weekend, all bills should come out of the account and then I will distribute the remainder and organise a click and collect top up shop at our NEW local Asda! as tomorrow is day 1 of the £25K challenge and really the September spending, ok including tomorrow, is part of that.
Now I promised myself that I would learn about getting pics on this blog and that is my goal before Friday. I read a good post in a blog the other day, will look up who it was, but basically weekly, monthly and yearly goals rather than the dreaded new year resolutions, urgh! So you know one of my yearly ones.
1. Pay off £25k in 3.5 years (£7K+ per year, £600 per month).
2. Have a go at this eventing lark next spring, probably summer, local only, no great expense.
Monthly.
1. See above
2. Keep up with the blog for a month.
4. Check electricity meter weekly, get obsessive about usage! Lol
This Week
1. A blog a day.
2. Be better at blogging - target this week piccies.
3. Tidy up the horses, may be Thursday.
4. Re-organise the kitchen to accommodate new Lakeland stuff.
5. Identify what else I can sell - brake pads, steering wheel, sweat rug?
That will do for this week.
New game - 3 things that made me happy/ grateful/ fulfilled today:
1. Picked up DC's glasses and delivered them, still has wedding ring on, we were polite even if he is still reserved. He really needs to take a chance but he knows I am close to end game and it makes home feel vulnerable/ afraid, give up, give in, give it all you've got?
2. So pleased with how my little home is coming together, this is a double edged sword but I am very blessed (I have worked hard but you need at least not to be unlucky too) to be in a position to make it happen.
3. Happy that I have found Saver Tuesday, I really enjoy the cinema, added value in my life.
JC
Monday, 13 October 2014
Happy Home Maker
Well, it is a bit late tonight but I have had a bit of a busy one but also been a little lazy and bad!
I had no sleep at all last night and I mean that, it wasn't that I tossed and turned but I was literally awake all night, as if I was still on nights. How I am still awake now, I have no idea, as this morning at 7.30 I gave in, got up and blended both my tomato soup and my veggy, 'if it is in the fridge it is going in the pot' soup, then I popped the pork leg into the slow cooker with some potatoes, carrots and onion. Kitchen bitching at its best!
Home-made tomato soup for breakfast then off to pick up some bits. Mum stayed last month and I know it is a bit selfish, but I really didn't like giving up my bed, so I purchased a blow up bed, with fast integral pimp, from Lidl and some pink fluffy socks as well as a tin of chickpeas and a tin of pineapple. Eh, why? I hear you ask, well, while I was having breakfast Jamie Oliver was making a veggy version of the recipe I use for chicken curry. It really is a delicious curry sauce, I usually burn my mouthstealing checking that the flavour is just right out of the pot and, as I have a couple of heads of cauli in the fridge, I thought I would give this a go tomorrow. Quickly running out of freezer room in this dinky fridge, I will be so much easier to bulk store when my own fridge comes to this property.
So Lidl first then I went on the hunt for 2 picture frames for King Abdullah Al Saud and King William, both limited prints of pencil drawings, that I thought would look nice in the living room. Again there is art still to arrive for the bedroom but that is fine where it is for now. Frames are so expensive and a cheap frame always looks like a cheap frame, so today was a first - I went charity shop shopping in the hope that I would find better quality for a reasonable price. I think I struck lucky with the King Abdullah frame (bare with me, I will try to add pictures tomorrow) and the other is still better than say an Ikea job but not quite right. Anyway I wanted to get them first thing as I had a meeting at work 11.00 - 13.00 then home before Nick, the handyman, came back around to put up the rest of the curtains. I sweet talked, paid, him to put up the tie backs to and the 2 new frames, again pictures to follow. The little house is now coming together and feels much more homey, warm and not so echoey. It is also nice to start to be surrounded with the nice 'things' that you accumulate on your travels that evoke happy memories.
I am really happy with the work done and other than things for the house that I already own or that are being delivered tomorrow, more on that then, I think I am just about done here. This is definitely not how I envisioned my life a year ago, in fact, it is on the 23rd of this month that the bomb shell that destroyed my life, mind and future was dropped and I am finding the work-up to that date hard, so I fell off the wagon last night (lasted 3 weeks) and had a go at David. Sometimes I really see no hope for our future but you just can't turn the feelings off, right? Or do you know something I don't?
So the confession, no that wasn't it! it was so dark! wet! windy and miserable by the time Nick left that I didn't' visit the girls, bad Mummy!
Still, I am sure they are fine and I am really glad I put them in their necked middle weights last week.
So the plan for tomorrow, pick up DC's glasses, pick up my 'secret' delivery, watch Dracula untold for £6.15, noon till 2, them head up to the horses. They are looking a bit wild and unkept, so I want to smarten them up a bit, before and after pictures promised and also use this as a reference as to how they looked coming out of summer.
So, my little house is all but ready for winter, just some draft excluders and we are done. Checked my electricity meter today, my consumption has increased from 97p per day to a whopping £1.07 per day, lol. However, British Gas have kindly predicted my next bill, so far I use about £8 per week, between now and the end of November they predict I will use £29 per week, what do they know that I don't? And they wonder why I won't go direct debit, rolls eyes! In addition to that good news, I have been refunded £52 by Lloyds insurance for a policy I don't believe I agreed to and Sky are taking 1 months line rental of my next bill for the bloody shocking line I had until they replaced the router!
All in all a good day, roll on tomorrow.
JC x
I had no sleep at all last night and I mean that, it wasn't that I tossed and turned but I was literally awake all night, as if I was still on nights. How I am still awake now, I have no idea, as this morning at 7.30 I gave in, got up and blended both my tomato soup and my veggy, 'if it is in the fridge it is going in the pot' soup, then I popped the pork leg into the slow cooker with some potatoes, carrots and onion. Kitchen bitching at its best!
Home-made tomato soup for breakfast then off to pick up some bits. Mum stayed last month and I know it is a bit selfish, but I really didn't like giving up my bed, so I purchased a blow up bed, with fast integral pimp, from Lidl and some pink fluffy socks as well as a tin of chickpeas and a tin of pineapple. Eh, why? I hear you ask, well, while I was having breakfast Jamie Oliver was making a veggy version of the recipe I use for chicken curry. It really is a delicious curry sauce, I usually burn my mouth
So Lidl first then I went on the hunt for 2 picture frames for King Abdullah Al Saud and King William, both limited prints of pencil drawings, that I thought would look nice in the living room. Again there is art still to arrive for the bedroom but that is fine where it is for now. Frames are so expensive and a cheap frame always looks like a cheap frame, so today was a first - I went charity shop shopping in the hope that I would find better quality for a reasonable price. I think I struck lucky with the King Abdullah frame (bare with me, I will try to add pictures tomorrow) and the other is still better than say an Ikea job but not quite right. Anyway I wanted to get them first thing as I had a meeting at work 11.00 - 13.00 then home before Nick, the handyman, came back around to put up the rest of the curtains. I sweet talked, paid, him to put up the tie backs to and the 2 new frames, again pictures to follow. The little house is now coming together and feels much more homey, warm and not so echoey. It is also nice to start to be surrounded with the nice 'things' that you accumulate on your travels that evoke happy memories.
I am really happy with the work done and other than things for the house that I already own or that are being delivered tomorrow, more on that then, I think I am just about done here. This is definitely not how I envisioned my life a year ago, in fact, it is on the 23rd of this month that the bomb shell that destroyed my life, mind and future was dropped and I am finding the work-up to that date hard, so I fell off the wagon last night (lasted 3 weeks) and had a go at David. Sometimes I really see no hope for our future but you just can't turn the feelings off, right? Or do you know something I don't?
So the confession, no that wasn't it! it was so dark! wet! windy and miserable by the time Nick left that I didn't' visit the girls, bad Mummy!
Still, I am sure they are fine and I am really glad I put them in their necked middle weights last week.
So the plan for tomorrow, pick up DC's glasses, pick up my 'secret' delivery, watch Dracula untold for £6.15, noon till 2, them head up to the horses. They are looking a bit wild and unkept, so I want to smarten them up a bit, before and after pictures promised and also use this as a reference as to how they looked coming out of summer.
So, my little house is all but ready for winter, just some draft excluders and we are done. Checked my electricity meter today, my consumption has increased from 97p per day to a whopping £1.07 per day, lol. However, British Gas have kindly predicted my next bill, so far I use about £8 per week, between now and the end of November they predict I will use £29 per week, what do they know that I don't? And they wonder why I won't go direct debit, rolls eyes! In addition to that good news, I have been refunded £52 by Lloyds insurance for a policy I don't believe I agreed to and Sky are taking 1 months line rental of my next bill for the bloody shocking line I had until they replaced the router!
All in all a good day, roll on tomorrow.
JC x
Sunday, 12 October 2014
First One, bit scared
When asked why a blog, I was a bit surprised but it was a great question, especially as I am such a private person.
I guess there are a few reasons.
I am at a major crossroads in life and I am hoping for some perspective and distance from the written word, rather than the emotional self. Deep, I know!
In a world of negativity, I want somewhere to 'publicly' acknowledge what an amazing life I have and to remind myself of just how very much I have to be thankful for every single day.
Accountability! Now that is a scary word. You said it, now do it.
Finally to document the fun, stupid things I get up to on a daily basis to achieve my, non career, orientated goals.
Cleverly led on to, well what the hell are they?
Well, I achieved a lot in a previous life but I want this one to be a new challenge, without too much of the baggage/ advantages of the old one. They will still be there if this venture fails.
Pay off that £25K debt that the previous life has left me with in 3.5 years from January 2015, so just before my 45 birthday.
Spend the next 5 years saving £50K, should be easy if I can achieve 1!
Move in to my own place at 50.
Retain the safety net of Shalom.
Oh and along the way, enjoy the ponies - especially Miss Tivvi, every day is a bonus. Actually ride little Saffy, I think she has enjoyed her sabbatical and settled in well to our little family, but there is only so long that you can lounge around the pool, believe me I know! Get even more sneaky and determined to keep every last penny that I earn to myself and only spend it on things that I feel are added value and bring joy to my life.
A little more about this. British Gas are an amazing company (!) and bring me the colourless, taste free, smell free, untouchable wonder that is electricity. This really does, without doubt, bring added value to my life, I cannot bear to imagine life without it. BUT, lighting and paying for the room I am not sitting in, no added value, heating the house to 25 degrees while sitting in my bikini playing Club Tropicana, no added value, heating up a family size oven to cook a 9" pizza, no added value.
Paying Tesco (or other) to cut down rain forests, to supply me with 'cheap', tasteless ribeye steak, no added value - visiting Hanley Farm shop where I can buy happy, healthy (if dead) local meat at competitive prices = real added value.
So this is the philosophy.
I will be a tightwad, over things that do not bring added value to my life, so that I can spend that money on the things that do.
Pretty simple eh?
So, to that philosophy I raise a toast, with the bottle of champagne that I bought today in Sainsbury, reduced to £13, (do you see?).
To all the amazing experiences that I have in my life (souls, opportunities and collections) I am very grateful that you are here and I will growl (with attitude) to keep you in my life.
To all the psychic vampires out there - it is all mine and I am keeping it.
Finally, by no means the least, but the hardest part for me to write. I have, along the way, lost the most important part of my life. My amazing and incredible husband has, in the last year, become a stranger to me. I hope and pray every day, that this is just a phase, some sort of mid-life crisis where he is re-evaluating what is important in his life and that he will once again put me near the top of that list. I miss him so much.
The next few years, as the previous we're, are going to be fun, I dearly hope that he rejoins me on this second half of our lives.
I guess there are a few reasons.
I am at a major crossroads in life and I am hoping for some perspective and distance from the written word, rather than the emotional self. Deep, I know!
In a world of negativity, I want somewhere to 'publicly' acknowledge what an amazing life I have and to remind myself of just how very much I have to be thankful for every single day.
Accountability! Now that is a scary word. You said it, now do it.
Finally to document the fun, stupid things I get up to on a daily basis to achieve my, non career, orientated goals.
Cleverly led on to, well what the hell are they?
Well, I achieved a lot in a previous life but I want this one to be a new challenge, without too much of the baggage/ advantages of the old one. They will still be there if this venture fails.
Pay off that £25K debt that the previous life has left me with in 3.5 years from January 2015, so just before my 45 birthday.
Spend the next 5 years saving £50K, should be easy if I can achieve 1!
Move in to my own place at 50.
Retain the safety net of Shalom.
Oh and along the way, enjoy the ponies - especially Miss Tivvi, every day is a bonus. Actually ride little Saffy, I think she has enjoyed her sabbatical and settled in well to our little family, but there is only so long that you can lounge around the pool, believe me I know! Get even more sneaky and determined to keep every last penny that I earn to myself and only spend it on things that I feel are added value and bring joy to my life.
A little more about this. British Gas are an amazing company (!) and bring me the colourless, taste free, smell free, untouchable wonder that is electricity. This really does, without doubt, bring added value to my life, I cannot bear to imagine life without it. BUT, lighting and paying for the room I am not sitting in, no added value, heating the house to 25 degrees while sitting in my bikini playing Club Tropicana, no added value, heating up a family size oven to cook a 9" pizza, no added value.
Paying Tesco (or other) to cut down rain forests, to supply me with 'cheap', tasteless ribeye steak, no added value - visiting Hanley Farm shop where I can buy happy, healthy (if dead) local meat at competitive prices = real added value.
So this is the philosophy.
I will be a tightwad, over things that do not bring added value to my life, so that I can spend that money on the things that do.
Pretty simple eh?
So, to that philosophy I raise a toast, with the bottle of champagne that I bought today in Sainsbury, reduced to £13, (do you see?).
To all the amazing experiences that I have in my life (souls, opportunities and collections) I am very grateful that you are here and I will growl (with attitude) to keep you in my life.
To all the psychic vampires out there - it is all mine and I am keeping it.
Finally, by no means the least, but the hardest part for me to write. I have, along the way, lost the most important part of my life. My amazing and incredible husband has, in the last year, become a stranger to me. I hope and pray every day, that this is just a phase, some sort of mid-life crisis where he is re-evaluating what is important in his life and that he will once again put me near the top of that list. I miss him so much.
The next few years, as the previous we're, are going to be fun, I dearly hope that he rejoins me on this second half of our lives.
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