Saturday shopping- Sunday relaxing

Yesterday was chilly here with a big frost to start the day off and some rain late in the day. A good day to be inside.  I usually pick up our shopping early on Saturday mornings, the shops are quieter and its all done and put away early in the day. When I did this weeks order online I decided to stock up as I had my $150 voucher to use and I also want to restock my pantry a bit, but as I put the order through I found out the voucher can only be used in person – so that mucked up my budget for the week.

This week I did well with the half price specials. I love Twining’s tea but I won’t pay $11 for 80 teabags so when they are half price I stock up. I bought six boxes which should do me until the next time they are on sale. Peanut butter was half price – $2.85 and roast beef lunch meat was 2 for $5. Those were my best buys for the week.

Its one week now since the school holidays finished and our town had thousands of visitors for the fortnight. So far there are no new cases in our town but the person I work with in my second job had to be tested again – fortunately results were clear. I’ve made the decision that I will continue to work from home for my second job after that, as I had been going to resume face to face work this week which is when I found out she’d been tested. I can work online using zoom so will continue with that.

Well its early Sunday morning here and its raining, which sounds lovely on the roof!. I am about to catch up with a friend in the US so long as the weather doesn’t interfere with the internet. Then I’m going to have a cosy afternoon of crotchet in front of the TV.

 

Monday, Monday…

I’m going to try an post more often. I feel I’m slipping into a bit of a ‘rut’ of just keeping busy to distract myself but not really getting anything much done, so I’m hoping if I blog more I’ll get a bit more motivation in these strange ‘covid’ times.

Last Friday DH had to put the car in for repairs. I’d budgeted $350 but apparently it needed more repairs than DH expected as the final bill came to just over $1000!  So I raided the emergency fund to cover it.

I think I need a bigger emergency fund. Or I might just keep more in the offset account for a while until this pandemic situation is more settled.

Each Sunday we try and prep something for the freezer. Yesterday DD cooked up a huge batch of bolognaise sauce and then made two large trays of lasagna and 16 individual serves of meat sauce. I love the way the house smells when cooking lasagna & it tasted great.

My plans for today in between work, is to catch up on my crotchet, my temperature blanket is quite behind, and to do some decluttering in the pantry.