Organised Christmas 2008.. The countdown has begun!

Shevs

Oh and the car isnt going to get washed this week I will have to take it somewhere on saturday morning cos I ust cant bring myself to do it. Will try to clear the boot of the car out tomorrow night. How is everybody gtting on with there lists.

Oh and Roxie if you want send your ironing to Manchester, I am pretty sad and quite like ironing...... (hangs head in shame) I'll shut the door on my way out lol xxx

pickers

You can do a similar thing at FreeBingo.net, play free bingo and win points, the top points earners during the month get Amazon vouchers, £50 for top I think.

No slots tho' just good old free bingo.

Dunno who plays the Sun Bingo paper game, as they've also got games just like that, where you go back every day to check your numbers etc

Good fun, I won a £5 Wetherspoon Voucher in their weekly tourney last week - drinks are on me :-)

I like the idea of redeeming points mind so thanks for that Triggles.

ASC

SuziQ wrote: »

My daughter has developed a huge interest in cooking,especially since going off to Uni-so I am tjinking of making her some sort of hamper? maybe spices and things that she may not have. She has also hinted at wanting a blender so am now on the look-out for a bargain if anyone has seen one!

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Hi Suzi, I don't know if you're still looking for a blender (haven't made it to the end of this thread yet!) but I noticed one in Tescos yesterday for a tenner. I think it was part of their value range but it liiked like quite a good one with chopper attachment too.

HTH x

ASC

Tigger888 wrote: »

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Okay - my reward is to watch Cranford tonight with a nice glass of wine. Only thing which may stop me today is watching the F1 this afternoon - trying not to look at the news etc so its not spoiled! (actually looking at my list I think I could get a lot of jobs done whilst watching the Grand Prix!!) :T

Yay, another F1 fan! DH is taking DS away this weekend, I'm devastated as I've never been apart from him for so long but I do at least have a thrilling grand prix to look forward to. If I can time DD sleep accordingly I shall be writing Christmas cards and working on DS tiger sweater on Sunday afternoon. What result are you hoping for?

jasmine_from_the_north

ASC wrote: »

Yay, another F1 fan! DH is taking DS away this weekend, I'm devastated as I've never been apart from him for so long but I do at least have a thrilling grand prix to look forward to. If I can time DD sleep accordingly I shall be writing Christmas cards and working on DS tiger sweater on Sunday afternoon. What result are you hoping for?

"What result are you hoping for?"
I am hoping that I will not get completely mad, bonkers, blaaah etc.by Christmas. My grandplan is falling apart, stuff's happening that I didn't count on happening, feeling completely helpless and overwhelmed, it all feels like one big mess. Just need to get my backside in gear again, somehow. Don't feel like any sparkle today :-( but tomorrow's another day - I shall try to get on if not for myself then for my family.
Oh and burnt the "test" pumpkin cake...AS WELL!!!
xxx

ASC

Aaah Jasmine, cyber hugs to you. Don't get stressed, it's only one day after all and at least you have a grand plan, I haven't even got that far yet (and it's almost November aaaggghhh!)

Take a deep breath and yes, tomorrow is another day. Oh, and cut the burnt bits off the cake and smother with icing or custard (sorry, never had pumpkin cake so I don't know what would go best)

maria_and_the_imps

[strike]1, salt dough ornaments with the imps[/strike]
[strike]2, cooking with the kids[/strike]
3, pj bags started
[strike]4, tidy desk[/strike]
[strike]5, all the mending[/strike]
6, door hanger for xmas eve basket started
7, reindeer food
8, sort big cupboard
9, clean sofa
10, sort my wardrobe

i started the week so well and now it's all gone wroge lol

RoxieW

Shevs wrote: »

Oh and the car isnt going to get washed this week I will have to take it somewhere on saturday morning cos I ust cant bring myself to do it. Will try to clear the boot of the car out tomorrow night. How is everybody gtting on with there lists.

Oh and Roxie if you want send your ironing to Manchester, I am pretty sad and quite like ironing...... (hangs head in shame) I'll shut the door on my way out lol xxx

oh how i wished i lived in manchester!

Thats my only job for today - rest is do baking with kids and chil in prep for cobys birthday party tonight. Had a really funny turn last night. Suddenly went really dizzy then about an hour later threw up everywhere (sorry if you're eating!) and felt really dizzy all night. Felt like I'd really overdone the wine when really hadnt touched a drop. OH blames me 'doing too much' when in reality we had visitors yest afternoon so i did nothing but chat and drink coffee!

jasmine_from_the_north

ASC wrote: »

Aaah Jasmine, cyber hugs to you. Don't get stressed, it's only one day after all and at least you have a grand plan, I haven't even got that far yet (and it's almost November aaaggghhh!)

Take a deep breath and yes, tomorrow is another day. Oh, and cut the burnt bits off the cake and smother with icing or custard (sorry, never had pumpkin cake so I don't know what would go best)

Hi ASC, thank you very much for the cyber hugs - got a biiig hug this morning from my DH, so I am doing allright with the huggingtons...:j
Well, I felt like a failure yesterday but my DH said that nothing is that bad anyways to be so stressed out and depressed about - so I am just going to get on today - again - as well as I can and hope for the best. And that cake - I forgot I put it in the fan assisted oven and the timings were for a standard oven then went to do the ironing and suddenly smelt something not very nice and there it was - burnt to a crisp. So one of my things to do today is to make another one - fingers crossed it'll be done to perfection :-)
Lots of love and sparkle to everyone.
xxx

pinkladymel

You sounds like you have a lovely DH Jasmine and obviously he spurs you to carry on. I don't have the patience so once I had threw my failed cake in the bin there would be no more attempts LOL

The car parking fairies sound good. My husband would drive around and around all day if you let him, looking for car parking spaces. He can't see them for toffee.

Yesterday morning my modem packed in so had the cable men out today! It was scary having no internet!

I realised that I had taken no photographs at all for a month and that is a crime so I charged the camera and got a shot of my little 3 year old boy:


Yeh I have no carpet on the stairs haha

He doesn't look so little anymore