It's happened. I succumbed to a fashion fix, so there, my halo has finally slipped! Admittedly, I was hoping to keep it polished until at least the end of the first month, but hey ho.
I'll begin at the beginning... The first couple of days this week at work had been hellish. You know the kind of day where you don't stop, but still don't seem to have achieved anything by the end of the day? I didn't make it out to lunch on Monday things were so hectic, and Tuesday wasn't much better as I had one of those really popular lunchtime meetings, because 'that's the only time everyone can make it'. Uh yeah, that's because it's lunchtime!!!
Anyway, I had been really good and only bought grocery items, so no worries there. Then, during the early hours of Wednesday morning, I woke up and couldn't move, literally. Why do these things always happen in the middle of the night, when it's dark, your DH is asleep and you can't seek medical advice? Anyhoo, turns out I suffered a trapped nerve in my shoulder and had to have a couple of days off. This was mainly due to the inability to move and also to save my colleagues the irritation of listening to me 'oohing and aahing' every time I had a muscle spasm! The sympathy would have soon run out, let me tell you!
So, after a couple of days resting, I was back to work. (Shoulder's still sore by the way,but I'm coping like a brave girl!) Now, there's nothing like a little bit of upper body paralysis to focus the mind and I got through loads in the morning. However, during my 'confinement', I obviously suffered subconscious shopping withdrawal and found myself in every shop that had a sale on. It didn't help that I had seen on the interweb that Boots had reduced their sale items even more (although it looked more like a plague of locusts had descended on my local store by the time I arrived), as had Body Shop. I was very good and didn't buy anything in either store, but then I happened upon the Clarks sale. Their sale had been on for a while and the last time I went in there, I wasn't impressed, but I thought I'd take a look. Well, that was a bad move! They had a pair of black leather ankle boots in there, reduced from £69.99 to £20.99, in my size (believe me, to find any shoe sale with items in my size is a miracle as I have ridiculously small feet), so how could I not try them on? A part of me was really hoping they would be too big, so I could walk away without a problem, although I knew this was unlikely as Clarks shoes fit me really well. So there we have it, I fell off the wagon for the sake of £20.99, but they are a bloomin' nice pair of boots and I did need them (yes really, I did). It made me feel even better when I found a thread on the MSE forum relating to this bargain and concluded that I must have purchased them in the interest of money-saving. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;-)
Now for Freecycle. Again, I'd read on various forums that Freecycle was the way to go, helping people find new homes for their excess stuff and helping the planet along the way. For those who don't know, Freecycle groups exist in most, if not all areas. The only caveat to signing up to your local Freecycle group is that any items you offer must be completely and utterly free, that's it. I desperately want a sewing machine, but knowing how I go through many fads over the course of a year, I didn't really want to pay for one. So, I signed up and within a couple of hours, there were emails pinging into my inbox from loads of freecyclers either wanting or offering things. By 'things', I mean absolutely anything. one man's trash is another man's treasure, as the saying goes and they're not wrong!! I've emailed my group asking for a sewing machine, had no offers as yet, but I'm ever hopeful!
Until we meet again xx
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