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Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions
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That was perhaps my shortest day at work ever. Having driven for 50 minutes on roads more like ice skating rinks than tarmac I made it to work to be told by the boss to turn around and go home again. Fed the DDs hot juice and toast at school and then did just that. Whilst it wasn't snowing when I left home we had blizzard conditions when I arrived back here. Visibility is down to 10 metres, we've had two inches of snow since I left. Coupled with the ice its as close to living hell as I ever want to get. Snow is now falling heavily and steadily.Passed three accidents on the way home which as I passed less than 20 other vehicles over the 10 mile extended journey is pretty dire.
Almost every school in the area is now shut. Rather bizarely some schools are closed until lunchtime with the heads reassessing the situation then whilst others are open to teachers only. Surely if its not safe to get children to school its not safe for teachers either. Fairly sure most teachers time would be put to better use doing a days lesson prep from home than it would going to school to do the same thing with the added stress of getting there and back safely in the first place.
Clearly a revised plan for the day is required.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Snoring husband halts progress again. Even the cat doesn't need this much sleep.
All accessible rooms upstairs vacuumed (DD2s room is under seige from soft toys), made a start downstairs in the dining room which is marginally tidier. Washing machine on its third load of the day. The stuff on airers in the house is stubornly refusing to dry.
Still snowing, had 5" so far this morning. Local weather forecast is doom and gloom. Managed to open the door to the other hen house so have cleaned them out and retrieved 10 eggs in the process which we had for lunch. Had a happy ten minutes gluing bits of gorilla together. May manage to get it finished this week, apparently then we're starting either the dinosaur or the horse.
Found a letter in DD1s bag summoning me to a meeting with her SENCO. Oh joy. That'll be something to look forward to. They'll spend half an hour telling me all the things she can't do and telling me how far she lags behind the rest of the world as if I'm some clueless moron in a dream world. I can't force the child to be "normal" and I refuse to make her experience at school at worse by making her do the volume of additional work that school feel is necessary. All children are good at something. In DD1s case its not english or maths at least not in the way the national curriculum requires.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Had a fun filled half hour delving through the bowels of the filing cabinet. The drawers now shut and the stuff crammed in the kitchen cupboard is now filled where it should be and not where it got bunged once the envelope had been opened.
Still snowing. Still no sign of the coal man. Have brought a huge quantity of logs indoors so that I don't need to venture outside in PJs at 5am unlike this morning.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
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Whooo hooo its finally stopped snowing although not before the gods had dumped upwards of another 8" on our heads. Still not to worry the Met Office have issued us with a severe weather warning for the weekend apparently we'll need to dig out our life jackets as we'll be flooded over the weekend. Its getting beyond a joke. Road outside looks horriffic. Took OH three goes to get the landie out of its parking slot and over the drifts and debris left by passing tractors. Hoping school is shut today as I seriously doubt I'll make it to a main road safely. The only other alternative is to walk which will take forever with DD2 can't dump her with the neighbours as one lot didn't make it home yesterday and are stuck out at Holywell. T'other lots kitchen has icicles indoors. Would be unfair to leave DD2 there for the day although they'd love to have her she'd be really cold and super mega whingy because of it. Boss said he'd make a descision around 7am. So until then its life as normal.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500
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Got plenty done yesterday inspite of all the intereference and requests for help with jigsaw puzzles. DD1s gorilla still isn't finished but there are fewer and fewer bits left in the box.
Wrestled some reciepts off OH fairly sure I'm still missing a wodge.
No sign of coal man yesterday so OH picked up 3 v. overpriced bags from the local farm supplier spending £24.
Days to payday: 1
Money in purse : zero, zip, nada, zilch.
Money in emergency jam jar: Home to a few moths
Money in bank: -£15.62 (have also written cheques for £40 which have yet to clear)
Money spent in January: £907.51
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £759.49 (need to pin OH down for his receipts to update this)
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 2 go me! Only 100 or so to go
Free listing day on flea-bay this Sunday. Need to dig out my stash in anticipation. DD1 is supposed to be going shooting but the shooting ground was sheet ice two weeks ago so will be much worse this time round.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Did 90% of todays Flylady tasks yesterday so will be finishing off the odd bits I didn't do and then returning to the kitchen again in the hopes of finally conquering that
Thursday ~ Master Bedroom and Landing
Level One
[STRIKE]Declutter the floor.. and vacuum it![/STRIKE] did yesterday
[STRIKE]Strip the bedding, wash and replace! [/STRIKE] did yesterday
Level Two
[STRIKE]Vacuum the dust mites off the mattress and turn it if you can![/STRIKE] did yesterday
[STRIKE]Declutter your make-up.. it breeds all manner of germs![/STRIKE] don't own any and [STRIKE]bin any ancient smellies[/STRIKE] have a to use up drawer
Organise the towels and [STRIKE]spare bedding[/STRIKE]done.. fling what needs to be flung!
Level Three
Find 5 items from each cupboard to be binned/charity shopped.. pairs of things can count as 2... holey socks, pants with no elastic etc..
Clean fronts and behinds of radiators!
Wipe tops of upstairs door frames
Extras- Sock pairing session.. you have to pair up at least 20 odd socks!
- Clean vacuum innards, pipes and filters.. do not use again until it is all dry!
- [STRIKE]Wash some stinky trainers!! .. We all have some![/STRIKE] I don't
- Mend 1 item you have been putting off for weeks!
Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Booked a hair cut for tomorrow. Can't avoid it any longer. Now beyond scruffy and into the realms of Bag Lady. Hairdresser asked if I wanted a restyle. Amazed she thinks theres any style to it. Fairly sure she was just being polite and "restyle" is hairdresser speak for "Ye gods look what the cat just dragged in. You should sue whoever did that to you love".
Have successfully decluttered another giant Toblerone with my coffee. Washing machine and tumble drier are both whirring away. Need to tackle yesterdays washing up next and then do everything that I didn't do whilst the hoardes were underfoot which means washing kitchen and bathroom floors and braving DD2s bedroom in search of laundry.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
One DooYoo done, one more book added to the to go to charity eventually pile.
Coal man has been but is rationing supplies as they can only get their smallest wagon out and about, some coals better than no coal but the bill still came to £51.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Still surfing away avoiding the housework. Currently wrapped in a blanket wearing ski socks with my jumper sleeves pulled down over my hands. I know I'd be warmer if I got off my bum and did something but lacking in enthusiasm and enjoying the silence. Haven't heard a single muuuuum for over two hours. Its bliss. Unfortunately bliss doesn't make the washing up go away.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500
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