ffox

 i spent 12 hours and 44 minutes on my phone today, a full ten hours of which was using up free lives on drop the cat. i am so fed up of myself. i've added a timer to it now because that is CRAZY. i was going to do sewing whilst listening to my NEW audiobook (found on youtube) but just ended up looking at my phone and getting a screen headache that is not shifting. so that was fun. 

i finally finished assassin's blade! i gave up on reading it on my kindle and switched to audiobook so i could listen to it whilst cooking etc, and if definitely helped me power through the last 20% of it. i... hated it. oops. it was just so bad. celaena is a brat, she is clueless and spoiled and i intensely dislike her. and i have like four or five books left in the series to read with book club. 

to make up for that being truly awful i have now decided to read good books until the book club girls catch up. i've started remarkably bright creatures, and its incredible. to the point that i am aware i am going to go to bed, and then stay up for another three hours reading it. 

we didn't go to puppy training again. chris is in full blown flu mode and has spent the day in bed so i didn't have a lfit. moose is still recovering from his trek yesterday. 

i had a no spend day today (woo) but i will need to buy laura new school shoes when the child benefit lands in my account tomorrow. 

i made fudge to read with, and had a sugar sandwich for dinner.... laura wanted supernoodles and a chicken breast for dinner - thursday is picky dinner night so she gets to pick from whatever is in the cupboards and freezer. weird mix but go off. 

i put the bins out just now and took this photo on my phone for @fujiapplefox  - this is the night sky by me on a regular night. i just noticed how bright orion is. my favourite constellation. 


anyway, i'm off to go and read more. 

currently reading: remarkably bright creatures
no spend days: seven

 finished reading empire of pain around 11pm. there was a statistic in there that i am going to paraphrase. it said that after they released the "tamper proof" pill, that out of everyone that died from heroin overdoses in the following years 4 out of 5 of them started their drug abuse and additction with prescription painkillers. wild. prescription drug abuse is such a weird thing that nobody really talks about. it must be fine because its come from a doctor! but its not, and it can and does ruin lives. 

finished all my work training pretty quickly today so i caught up on some youtube. i really enjoy videos by morgan evelyn cook, diaries of tay and project no buy. i thought about doing a no buy, but a) i've already messed it up and b) i don't really buy much anyway. i should probably put a self imposed ban on shopping on vinted though. or maybe just allow myself one purchase a month. now i WFH most of my day to day outfits are going to be leggings and a warm hoody, rather than any of the cute dresses in my wardrobe. 

i don't think chris slept very well last night due to me not being able to breathe so i hope he is asleep when i go upstairs. i called off going to dog training because i feel so rough and i have done no practice with moose all week. i had the bookswaps meeting at 6pm and i joined via phone rather than give people the lurgy. hannah being pregnant etc i can't think of anything worse than making her ill. i am pretty sure reading a mirror crack'd from side to side by agatha christie traumatised me and i know i haven't got german measles but i don't want to be the cause of anything going wrong! 

one random person has joined our book club on fable - i hope they are prepared for the level of snarkiness that has been going on. so far i am not loving the series. but our next read is set up and it is assassins blade. i have never known novellas be over 450 pages. 

currently reading: assassin's blade
currently grateful for: clean pyjamas and hot water bottles

i took the loan. it came through this morning and i promptly paid off four credit cards, and the skip and transferred the rest to savings. feel very pleased about it as it will save me about £45 a month. i then went into overdrive mode on sorting out the finances for 2026, and treated myself to a new spreadsheet set up from etsy. it's got everything including a net worth tracker, investment calculator, automated emergency fund target, debt snowball calculator, monthly budgeting and transactions and two different annual overviews. it has made me very happy. i've decided to put £25 into investments each month from the £45 i was saving by not paying the credit cards. hopefully i've picked smart funds!

took moose for a walk to work on his training. he was less pully than usual and quicker to "leave" other dogs, but he wouldn't sit for anything. i think he doesn't want a cold bum because he hates sitting on the tiles in the house too and is more likely to respond to you if you ask him to sit when he is on the rug. 

i cleared out the majority of the upstairs landing although i still need to finish vacuum packing things away and putting them in the top cupboard. it looks a lot bigger. the whole of the house looks bigger since taking down the christmas stuff. i'm going to need to start building a list of things that i want to do to make it snug again, starting with painting the wall my desk is against, and getting my gallery wall and skulls up. i don't think many people would say that skulls are snug, but i kind of like them interspersed with the cross stitch and silly quotes. 

wanted to play switch with laura this afternoon but i can't find my switch dock anywhere, so that is something i will have to dig through the airing cupboard for tomorrow. we ended up propping my switch up on the table and connecting both sets of joycons to it and played lego harry potter for an hour. it was pretty good fun!  made dinner (haha, i didn't make anything at all, i just dug a bag of some chicken pasta concoction out of the freezer) and then decided to make fudge. very pleased to report it has set for once, although my arm is absolutely killing me from beating the daylights out of it for 14 minutes. ouch. 

laura and i then watched the traitors, i read a thread about how george r r martin will never release winds of winter, and now i am sat here. chris has just come down for an electrolyte pill being two days into his seven day fast, and asked me what i am doing tonight. i told him i was going to be reading throne of glass, and he was pleased because it means he gets to carry on watching boardwalk empire. i would go up to bed to read, but i am in mortal danger of falling asleep and i want to eat fudge!

currently reading: throne of glass  
current vocal stim: i have thirty thousand dollars of credit card debt (credit card debt)