OliveOyls 82 day challenge

shaun40400

two days with out a post ??
little worrying ??
hope your ok oo and all ok with the family!!

beanielou

Olivew~Where are you hun?
PC problems?

OliveOyl_2

oops sorry guys
I have been on here fleetingly yesterday, and posted elsewhere, just never got around to up-dating this thread.

Well I have had a pleasant day today, and a crappish one yesterday.
Yesterday my colleagues were back, without the boss, and they bickered, and sniped about each other whenever they could. At one point I put a box on my head to show them how exasperated I was (as you do.....it sort of worked with one, but FK was in full flow and was not going to be diverted.) Individually they're both very nice. In the end I went home with a headache, got into an argument with DS2 and went to bed.

But today was a fresh day
I went to the hairdressers this morning, and we go back a long way him and me. A while ago I was a shoulder for him, today he gave me a thank-you present of a selection of samples (about £15 worth )
Then I went to Boots and spent my coupons (as advised by Ickle - thanks ) and to Woolworths to spend a voucher. I wandered round the market & popped into Waitrose to get some vegetarian stuff for DS1's gf and found loads of reduced stuff too I took something to the charity shop and found a pair of unworn boots in my size for £8
Then I skyped Popeye for AGES.

After that I couldn't help myself, I went back to work and finished what I couldn't do yesterday because I was on "playground duty" I don't get overtime, but I get extra days. I feel a lot better for clearing that pile too.

hypno06

Loving the "box on the head" thing - that is just the sort of thing I resort to. That, and putting post it notes with appropriate comments on my forehead.....

OliveOyl_2

Oh yes the Post-It note as a discussion aid :rotfl:

shaun40400

glad to see alls well
except for the work/baby sitting problem, love the the box idea
must try that sometime...

OliveOyl_2

Shaun in this household an empty box is just an invitation to wear it on your head It's one of the touching things that OH & DS1 brought to the marriage. :rolleyes:

Well last night DD arrived at an airport 100 miles away at 3am :eek: , so her MS flight wasn't the economy she first thought. I didn't go to bed, I cleared all the ironing, re-made beds and cleared up, before leaving the house at 3am and returning just before 6am. So I slept in until 11.30. But I got up to no ironing pile

Today I have:

• cleared up the cat sick (he'd eaten my reduced price chinese food from plates I'd left in the sink) I'm getting really teed off with the cat's ability to hoover up scraps, and deposit them some hours later.
• Done a few loads of bedding. Recently I've been researching how to get hotel-crisp bedding. I asked my Mum's advice, but honestly could not consider the rigmarole she suggested, soaking clean sheets in a bath of starch solution and ironing whilst damp. Eventually I found putting powdered starch into the fabric softener dispenser worked, (and ironing whilst damp.) This morning in my lovely crisp sheets I found a couple of pairs of undergarments I'm not sure why I'm telling you this, but I think they'll make me walk funny. :rotfl:
• I didn't mow the lawn, but I think I can get DS2 to do it, by playing on his guilt (he's not been the best behaved son on the block recently)
• I've cleaned the kitchen thoroughly, even the cupboards have been wiped down. Does anyone know why going away brings out the urge to leave a clean house? I don't know whether it is to ensure returning to a clean house or because may not come back at all, and what would people think? :rotfl: :rotfl: Certainly I expect DS2 to maintain it while I'm away.
• I'm feeding them all tonight, but unfortunately in shifts. DD wants it NOW, DS1 & gf will be here at 9pm, and DS2 sometime. They all think it is wrong to have anything but a roast, but it's with mashed potato cos roast potatoes are horrible kept warm.
• I've Skyped Popeye at length, and we jointly purchased his birthday pressie on-line-throughQuidco-with a coupon :money: and will have a camera for our holiday next Saturday (Shopping has changed enormously since we've been DFW's.)
• When I changed the beds this week I realised how awful the oldest Duvets are. (The kids have always changed their own beds, I'd never noticed their deterioration) so I replaced the worst today (£15 in Woolworths) and rotated the remainder round the family, so that the most used beds got the new duvets and the most allergic occupants got the newest pillows (£2.97 a pair). (Popeye and I have duck down......;) )

After supper tonight I'm either going to start packing, or do some writing

beanielou

Wow, you have been a busy bee!
Take it easy hun.

hypno06

starched undies.........urm.......ok!

I was thinking the other day that it is years since I bought new bedding etc.......I would luurrvve to go and buy a new duvet, cover, bedspread etc, but simply can't justify the cost. I think I may have just discovered the contents of my Christmas "wish list" though!!

OliveOyl_2

DD & I were eating our supper, when we spotted a big fat pigeon on the lawn. It didn't, and hasn't moved in the last half hour. We've made noises, and I went out and flapped at it. It hasn't moved we think it is dead.
If it was injured it's eyes would be open? The idea of rescuing it scares me sorry, I don't like flapping things but it seems cruel to leave it to nature.