Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

scubaangel

moo2moo wrote: »

ps. Scuba Angel the vodkas in my chocolate fridge and the ice cream is in the freezer directly underneath it.

Discovered the alcoholic version of a coke float when inibriated as a student. Large vodka, even larger quantity of coke and several scoops of ice cream devoured by straw. Lovely. Also available with lemonade and fresh strawberries in place of the coke.

You shouldn't tell me things like that I now want to come and visit as I had to remove my vodka from the fridge over Christmas and the icecream has all been eaten and not replaced thanks to both parents putting their households on a diet.

Lemonade and strawberries sounds absolutely lush...strawberries in my mind are good for nothing without a healthy dose of alcohol (fizzy wine and rum cocktails or as a flavouring for plain vodka ).

moo2moo

scubaangel wrote: »

You shouldn't tell me things like that I now want to come and visit as I had to remove my vodka from the fridge over Christmas and the icecream has all been eaten and not replaced thanks to both parents putting their households on a diet.

Lemonade and strawberries sounds absolutely lush...strawberries in my mind are good for nothing without a healthy dose of alcohol (fizzy wine and rum cocktails or as a flavouring for plain vodka ).

Moi? I didn't say a word. My lips are sealed.

moo2moo

Left dinner cooking and went to get my car. Arrived home considerably later to find the fuse for the oven decided to trip nano seconds after we walked out the door and dinner is clap cold. Pnats. Now bumbling around waiting for it to finish cooking.

Won't be going to school anytime soon. The police have closed three of the four routes leading to its door as they are too dangerous to traverse (although the ijots are ignoring the cones and the many signs) and the remaining road hasn't been gritted any time recently so its like driving on a skating rink. Still there was less chance of me pranging the car on my way home than there was it being vandalised by bored teenagers who seem to be roaming aimlessly everywhere.

Gave in and lit the fire in the bedroom earlier. Its now the warmest room in the house. Will be going for an extra early night, its the only way to guarantee I don't go to bed to find it already occupied by a snoring farting seven year old and her ten year old accomplice.They usually appear to keep me company anyway but theres a big difference between being invited and invading.

moo2moo

Appear to have destroyed the oven. Permanently. Ooops.

beanielou

Ooooops indead.

Intergalactic_Floozie

Holy crap! How much is that gonna cost to put right? I'm thinking scary Aga type oven?

moo2moo

Intergalactic_Floozie wrote: »

Holy crap! How much is that gonna cost to put right? I'm thinking scary Aga type oven?

Scary Aga would be fab. Sadly its a badly designed range style thingie with a mini oven that cooks cakes to perfection for the first 1.5cm leaving raw sloppy cake mix on the underside despite claiming to be at 200 degrees C. However thats not the bit thats playing up (its always been carp like that). T' bigger oven is a combi grill !!! oven job. Roasting coats the elements in fat which then catches fire when you turn the grill on. Rather astonishingly the grill part still works. Its the heating element that doesn't. Problem appears to be finding one and then once I've got my sweaty paws on it fitting it, although Oh is planning to spend today doing some sort of test on the inner gubbins of it to make sure nowt else simultaneously died. After that I'll know what parts to source.

These things come to try us. Again and again and again.

In other exciting news the dodgy telly box presented us with the best picture ever yesterday but without sound. Would be taking it to the local recycling centre today were it not for the minor technicality that its minus four outside and predicted to get colder. Oh joy. At a smidgen over ten degrees indoors its positivly balmy. I may be requiring my x-mas bikini after all. Not.

Having perused the very very long list of school closures which currently exceeds 100 mine is not on it. Nor has the boss phoned, or e-mailed or sent a text. Thermal undies and Ready Brek for me shortly then.

Plans for today are somewhat brief and involve not freezing to death on the journey to or from school. I won't be coming home at any point during the day so will attempt to persuade him to give me internet privilidges so I can surf on those sites permited by the local council of which thankfully MSE is one. Will also be taking a chunky novel and lunch as the school cooks sons school is shut today and shes not daft enough to venture out when she doesn't have to.

Just on the off chance school is shut todays Flylady chores are as follows:

Result... there are none. Perhaps Flylady has frostbite. Will give me chance to catch up on everything I didn't do on Monday or tuesday or even on yesterdays list. Can smugly report I did all my ironing. Not that there was a lot of it as the door to the tumble drier shed has frozen shut so washing is restricted to that which can be dried indoors on the airer which really isn't a lot. Theres quite some backlog already.

moo2moo

Didn't spend any money in any form yesterday. Perhaps I will make it to the end of the month without overspending after all.... of course thats totally dependent on the cost of the oven parts that could well be a bit of a shocker if they are obsolete (thanks to the manufacturer going bust seversl years ago) and we have to fork out for a new oven.

Days to payday: 8
Money in purse : zero, zip, nada, zilch.
Money in emergency jam jar: As above and an IOU for £40 to the kids to replace their x-mas money.
Money in bank: £211.35
Money spent in January: £618.30
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £1048.70

Eager_Elephant

Hi :hello:

I have spent the last few days on and off reading your thread and now finally I have reached the end.

It's been so long I can't remember how I chanced upon your thread!!

The daily antics of your life are just great and the way you articulate them is even better.

I used to think my life was hectic but alas it is not as hectic as yours.

Hope you manage to live on 20k this year!!!

EE

moo2moo

Hi EE! Surprisingly I didn't think my life was hectic. Aren't everyones days like this?