Old Style Diary Archive - JAN 06

johanne

ok day just got a tad better... embarrassed to say i just listed my copy of money diet on amazon as im literally trying to find money anywhere i can... it sold within half an hour! :j So couple more pennies for the bank account.

Just applied to extend my overdraft by £1000 too on a temporary basis.. gives me at least one month mores money for bills.. so maybe job situation etc will have sorted itself by then.. and tesco may have actually paid me the money they owe me!

nicki_2

Bloody postal service!!! I've just received a letter from Readers Digest that I should have got earlier in the week but most annoying is that it is another 6 numbers into this years draw which should be returned with some stuff that came the other day...the thing is I posted that letter this morning! Guess I'll ring them to find out if there is a way I can return them seperately! Maybe I should just go back to bed.

Bargain_Rzl

jw1096 wrote:

Sounds exactly how my mum felt when I was young, my mum ended up telling the library to give me permission to borrow adult books when I was 7 because the kids stuff just simply wasnt cutting it! I ended up reading flowers in the attic by virginia andrews at 8yrs old, of course I didnt understand the subtext till I watched the movie at 14yrs old! I was also so bored with kids books I even read my mums applied biology university texts at 9yrs old, and understood the lot.

Hehe! I was a precocious little git as well - I remember reading all my mum's childbirth books when I was just turned 7 and she was pregnant with my brother. Mum tells me that when she eventually had a home birth (baby born 7:30am on a schoolday so we were all there) the midwife came in in fits of laughter because I had just asked her whether mummy was in the first or second stage of labour

scuzz

Hi All

Very late posting today, as I've been very busy this morning

Work's not much better and my legs are still hurting

Had my readibrek - yuk!

Must get motivated to go running later

Got a load of recycling to do this afternoon, with more at work waiting for me to take away

frugalfairy_3

Morning all (belatedly).Sorry to hear about your house, Johanne, I hope something much better comes along for you soon.

Had a disorganised start to the morning, tried to have a short lie-in, sabotaged by hungry cat and then drifted round the house in my nightshirt drinking coffee, only to be disturbed when on loo by postlady from Amazon bringing OH's next ton of books :mad: . Had a bath (shower broken still) and then put on big pot of soup using up rest of the veggies in the fridge. Have now prepared tonight's dinner so I can get on with half-heartedly flicking a duster about and making a concert skirt for DD by the weekend.

Breakfast: bagel and lots of coffee (sorry Kiwi)
Lunch: HM soup and HM roll, followed by HM yogurt and raspberries
Dinner: Veg and ham pasta gratin using bargain end of knuckle piece of ham bought for only £1.27 from supermarket yesterday. Yay!

Have a good day, everyone. FF

Chipps

Morning all!

Hugs all round, but especially to Johanne

We are back from DSs piano lesson, we set off this morning in brilliant sunshine, but a few miles down the road the fog started, and it was thick fog all the way. Not nice. The fog has caught up with us at home now, so I am quite glad I put the washing in the airing cupboard & not on the line this morning.

Did my Rosemary Conley exercises this morning (before DS got up!) - got DH to do some yesterday evening, but just as we were starting, DS phoned to be picked up from Boys Brigade, so he sat & watched our antics when he came in - making unflattering remarks & laughing!

My english teacher was really good though, whilst reading shakespeare, the class would get regular work, and me and one other guy used to get the teachers university essay questions on the same text to challenge us.

I wish I had had such sensible teachers in secondary school. Whken I first started school, we had an interview with the headmistress who said to my mum, "whatever you do, don't teach her to read!" Too late! My mum sent me on my first day with the instructions "pretend you can't read!" Fortunately the teacher was pleased that I could read (less work for her, I guess) and within a few months I had read all the books in our class & was being sent round the school where I plundered the books from all the other classes! However, by secondary school I was so bored & fed up with school that I really couldn't be bothered, so after passing O levels, opted out part way through the sixth form. I got an office job & did secretarial studies part time at college, (such things were totally frowned upon by my school - girls from that establishment were not supposed to aim so "low"!!!!) then got married & had children: my full time career! I did start an OU degree a few years back, but have stopped that since home educating our 2 youngest children. Oh well, may get round to it again one day!

What has all this got to do with my OS day so far? I don't know, there must be a link somewhere....

iwanttosave_2

Mornig everyone, :wave:

Felling great today, got my broadband through, bit of an anti climax but never mind. Stayed up last night till god knows a clock. Was on here and trying to get my fist assignment finished. Jamiedoger, you asked what I was doing, I am doing a health and social care course on the OU, it doesn't start till feb but want to get the first essay out of the way, just trying to figure out how to word everything :rolleyes:

Not really got anything planned today, Got two wash loads with my name on it and a bit of tidying up but other than that there is not much else to do, I love days like this.

B-cheese and ham toastie
L- nothing
D- maybe chicken, not decided yet.

I think i might work out a meal plan ready for shopping tommorrow, never done one before but i'll have a bash

Curry_Queen

Morning everyone :hello:

((((Johanne)))) I'm so sorry you didn't get the house hun, saw the photos last night and it looked lovely! Fingers crossed you find somewhere just as nice very soon

PP - good luck at the hospital hun

Kiwi - does this mean you've finally got the go ahead to move then? :j ... my advice would be to try and do as much de-cluttering as you can beforehand so you don't cart stuff you don't need to the new place, plus, if you've got two months yet then I'd start packing away the things you don't need to use right now, as you'd be surprised at how quickly moving day will come around then it will be panic stations LOL!



I'm feeling a bit groggy this morning having stayed up late to watch Lost - soooo disappointed we still didn't get to see what was in the hatch though :rolleyes: ... and think I might be coming down with a bit of a cold too as I'm a bit sniffly this morning, but fingers crossed it's just tiredness and being a bit run down.

The sun was shining this morning and I was all set to go hang out the washing but realised I don't have any pegs!!! :rolleyes: :rotfl:

Today will mostly be spent sorting out kitchen stuff and finding homes for everything to be put away so I can get rid of the boxes sat in the middle of the floor.

Need to have a re-think about what we're having for dinner tonight due to Tesco's c0ck-up with my delivery again, as I'm missing a lasagne and chicken pasta dish, plus a few other bits that I'd got to shove in the microwave :mad: Hopefully my cooker will be plumbed in this weekend so not much longer to wait now :j

Right, I must get on and do something! Hope everyone has a good day and *hugs* to those feeling under the weather or dealing with stressful situations :A

tootles_2

Morning folks (just) late posting today had to go out first thing.

Nice bright morning, I have towels out on the line for a couple of hours until the sun goes in. Quiche out of the freezer for lunch with some celery and tomato, yogurt (OH) and apple me.....supper toad in the hole with onion gravy. Should have gone to the market yesterday but thanks to the parcel fiasco did not make it, so will have to rake round for veg for a couple of days, we have an airport run in the morning, not sure if the veg lady will still be there when we get back.....so might have to go on Saturday.

Quick question, please don't howl me down......I thought we were old style???? why do so many of you use a dishwasher?????? I still wash dishes by hand, it takes me 15 minutes at the most and I do not have to have hugh amounts of crockery. Oven tins get soaked in a mixture of washing soda and washing up liquid, I fill them as soon as I have emptied the tin and leave it to stand whilst we are eating, by the time we come to wash up, everything just sluices odd, a little scrub with a scourer gets off the difficult bits, the rest of the stuff, bowl filled with hot water and washing up iquid, plates etc put in as we use them, when they are washed I pour a kettle of boiling water oven them and leave them to dry, only thing that gets polished is glasses which I do wash seperately.

Managed to do three of my quilt blocks last night, another 3 planned for tonight, first I need to cut the fabric for the borders to make sure I have enough fabric to do them, otherwise I will be stuffed!!!!! so will be spending some time on my knees in the living room this afternoon................

Need to stew up the chicken carcass this afternoon, will make lentil soup I think have some veg water in the fridge, will use that as well, also need to make some bread, will put the BM on tonight, have just had my first bill from Atlantic for the electric looks like we n=might have to increase the monthly payment, but will wait and see what next monts bill is like them make a decision.

Sorry to hear about the house Joanne, there will be another one out there for you, just keep the chin up............CQ glad the move went ok and you are getting out a bit....PP keep plugging girl, I know the problems with fibromyalgia.....I have suffered from it for almost 20 years although it took them 10 years to sort out what it was and I did not get a definate diagnosis until 2002. Fortunately it does not disable me to a great extent, but I do have relapses from time to time, the chest pain I had at Christmas has been linked to it.......as it carried on even when I had recovered from the virus. I do have times when I am not able to walk and my disturbded sleep pattern has its roots there too, so I do know what you are going through to an extent.

Thats it, I am off to see to the lunch................

freyaluck

hello all!

Hugs to Johanne
curry queen I am so glad your move went ok and your happier in the house, I really cant wait to get a house and hearing you so much so happier I am ready to start packing.
just clearing up to do today.
nothing much else going on , will probably pop back later
hugs
Frey