Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Suckered into going out so that OH could buy fags. Withdrew £40 from the cash point to cover tomorrows riding lesson and a cylinder fill for OHs rifle which will hopefully last for several months.

• £14 or so on fags (won't know for definate until I wrestle the reciepts from OH)
• £38.52 on Pet insurance. Shockingly expensive. Comes of having geriatric and incontinent animals. Can't change to another company as the dog is too old for anyone else to take her on especially with a long term condition.
• £4.50 on OHs air cylinder refill

Heres hoping Child Benefit is due in the next week or so.

moo2moo

Oven is on for roast pork. Have promised the DDs we'll make carrot cake for next weeks lunches and DD2 wants to make gingerbread dinosaurs with her new cookie cutters.

Finally tracked down the hen thats been laying in the hedge and found a dozen eggs. I've now got 4 in lay so should be able to start selling eggs again to go towards the cost of feed.

beanielou

Good idea on aldi one week & Mr T next.
I have tried doing both in one day & go way over buget & end up very tired & grumpy.

Tesco_points_addict

moo I love you! Every day you make me smile x

TPAx

moo2moo

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

moo I love you! Every day you make me smile x

TPAx

Can't think why. Life heres duller than a very dull thing. The highlight of yesterday evening was the discovery of a very large very irritating zit on the back of my neck. The evil satanic hordes actually stood around debating who would get to pop it thus inflicting lots and lots of pain on little old me. Having finally got rid of the thing they then practiced their first aid techniques by application of an enormous amount of germolene and a huge plaster despite my claims that the plaster wasn't nescessary I now have one stuck to my hair. Pants. hoping it comes off in the shower without ripping a chunk of hair out too.

Further excitement was had when they watched an allergic reaction in progress from its itchy beginnings to giant hard red granulomatous bumps which is apparently rather unusual but in my case happens on a weekly basis as I'm allergic to the most random and unexpected of unpredictable things. Still have really itchy hands from it but at least I only have the lumps on one hand rather than both.

It really was a very dull day.

moo2moo

The dreaded finances. Only two days after payday things are dire:

Days to payday: 29
Money in purse : £25.50
Money in emergency jam jar: Home to a few moths
Money in bank: £164.68
Money spent in January: £1104.50
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £542.50
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 2 (3 if yesterdays one was the cause of the allergic reaction)

moo2moo

Too lazy to make cakes of any description yesterday, slobbed around reading The Devil Wears Prada instead whilst decluttering more Toblerone. The bottom of the fridge is still not in sight.

OHs bosses wedding is next saturday. Office whip round is £30 per head. Eek. Fortunately Oh told them I'd already got them something so he hasn't had to contribute. The something in question was wine glasses in Mr Ts sale at a fiver. They're rather nice, in fact I'm regretting not getting some for us. Not that we'll need wine glasses for another decade as we still have 20+ in boxes as well as the 20 or so occupying shelf space and thats after I threw out all the odd ones.

Haven't got round to dry cleaning the outfit I was going to wear but it appears I'd be rather overdressed in it anyway. Means I need to rummage through my wardrobe for something warm, comfortable and smart but as its a bunch of total strangers appart from two of his collegues wives who have both seen me rather tipsy and very vocal before (the 2008 office x-mas do) I don't think it'll matter too much. At lest this time I can safely assume there won't be a karaokee bar in sight.

The uber bad part of all this is my step mother is coming over to babysit and will be staying the night. Its an access all areas situation. The woman makes Anthea Turner look like a slob. No amount of cleaning will be adequate but that won't stop me obsessing about it for the next week. I will apologise now.

Have promised to take the DDs horse riding next saturday morning too which means if I'm lucky I'll get 20 minutes to eradicate all traces of horse manure from my person and do something with my guranteed to be windswept madly curly hair which is being more badly behaved than ever since it was hacked by Vidal Assassins more agressive lesser known sibling. I can only just get it in a pony tail which is essential when you spend your days with your head stuck down as many loos as I do.

moo2moo

Plans for today:

• Riding lesson at noon
• Cake baking for lunch boxes
• Dinner in the slow cooker - curried chicken thighs..... yum yum yummy
• E-bay photos
• E-bay listing (although OH has threatened to be home by 9:30am)
• DDs homework. DD2 has to write her own spelling list with words with a long A vowel sound. Easier said than done .... Aardvark being a tad too difficult for a 7 year old to remember.
• Ironing and yet more washing
• Blitz DD2s room in anticipation of Grannys visit repeating on friday
• Eradicate the smell of wee from DD1s matress. No mattress protector yet developped can cope withthe amount of wriggling that DD2 does during the night.

Intergalactic_Floozie

I've just read this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Diary-Recovering-Shopaholic/dp/1848310234/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263714275&sr=8-1

But I can report your diary is much, much more entertaining!

moo2moo

Naughty naughty atempting to tempt me with books. I will resist. I have a smidgen over 200 books unread upstairs to wade my way through and dispose of. Admittedly some are utterly unreadable. Can't think what possessed me to purchase Fluabert or Tolstoy or even Dostoyevsky (which will be spelt wrong) and theres only so much Jane Austen I can take. But I spent money on them so I will at least attempt to read them. Have reduced my pile by almost 30 books since the start of the X-mas hols but then got more for X-mas. Sometimes it feels like the world conspires against me.