Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Days to payday: 28
Money in purse : £5.50
Money in emergency jam jar: Home to a few moths
Money in bank: £164.68
Money spent in January: £1124.50
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £522.50
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 3 (still can't shut the stash drawer properly though, or fit many medicines in the medicine cabinet as thats full too as is an entire shelf in the wardrobe)

moo2moo

Operation headless chicken has moved up a gear. Weather forecast is pants and builders are 4 weeks behind. Considering its only 6 weeks since they started even I am impressed with their ineptitude. They want to make up for lost time by starting inside the building on Wednesday. Tomorrow. Agh.

I have one teacher who despite several dozen reminders has been unable to find time to clear out her third of a cupboard with 5 months notice. Boss has told me I can skip it all if its not gone by 3pm today to allow me to dismantle and salvage all the shelving. Other rooms are going OK. Have reached the point where I need to persuade the male teachers to work up a sweat before class and help shift the bulky furniture. But the worst part is they need the bosses office which is still chocka with more confidential paperwork piling up by the minute. One of the secretaries "helped" pack stuff yesterday but managed to mix up the needed for friday pile with the never darken my desk again pile. After that the desk has to be dismantled to get it out of the door and then we have to find somewhere to hide him for the next 3 months. No one is volunteering to share as the remaining offices are too small as it is.

Wonder if I come down with something really contagious in the next hour or so.

moo2moo

OH starts his 3 days off today. Hes already being suspiciously helpful and did the ironing without being asked (me abandoning the ironing board in the middle of the room may have had something to do with this).

I have two days worth of Flyladying to catch up with and some revoltingly black shower sealant to do something with.

Monday ~ Kitchen, Utility and Dining Area
Level One
Wipe and replace small appliances
Declutter and wipe work surfaces
Level Two
Sweep and mop floors
Wipe units/appliances
Clear and wipe a cluttered fluffy shelf!
Level Three
Tidy, clear and wipe the top of the washing machines and dryer
Clean one small appliance thoroughly.. microwave, kettle, iron,
Clean deterrgent drawers


Extras

1. Clean paintwork
2. Order and organise the packets and jars and tins.
3. Sort the utensils.. half melted spatulas are not necessary! did weeks ago when avoiding something else

Tuesday ~ Hall, Stairs and Landing!Level One
Declutter the floors and vacuum them.
Tidy everything you can see when the front door is open! Coats and shoe rack for me! (eek the suspension of a Land rover and a trailer lighting board)
Level Two
Dust and deweb.. dnon't forget lightbulbs and shades!
Scrub front door.. inside and out!
Wash any curtains/draught excluders and doormats! Wash doormats??????
Level Three
Empty and declutter the cupboard under the stairs.. you do not need the junk that has been in there for a million years! Ye gods its like a tardis. You may need to send a search party to help me find the exit
[STRIKE]Degunk, dejunk and clean the porch.. how many pizza leaklets do you need to wipe your feet on?[/STRIKE] Thankfully no porch
Extras

1. Wash windows and nets/blinds
2. Wipe and water and furry plants no plants. They all died of neglect
   
3. Wipe paintwork and door knobs
4. Sort coats and bags and shoes

moo2moo

And finally

Days to payday: 27
Money in purse : £5.50
Money in emergency jam jar: Home to a few moths
Money in bank: £163.68
Money spent in January: £1301.50
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £365.50
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 4

moo2moo

Yet another day which didn't go according to plan. Accompanied OH to the range this morning which ate up most of the day and a crisp tenner, a further £50 disappeared on gog go juice for OHs car. Squeezed in two loads of laundry and a mountain of washing up. Finished reading The Devil Wears Prada. Must learn to prioritise more. Now too knackered to do anything but have two beds to make and dinner to throw together. Amazingly I still have cash left this month although its rather dubious whether I'll manage the remaining 12 days of January without eating into Februarys money as I've still got a few direct debits to exit the account and a wedding to go to. Still need to sort out something to wear without a major wardrobe malfunction. I have some great tops and some equally fab bottoms just nothing that actually looks right together, unless you happen to be colourblind even then it would be debatable. Lifes so much easier for men.

tattycath

I've just started reading this thread and i have to say-you're so motivated and seem really organised. Most impressive. I keep toying with the idea of a diary to try and motivate me but -i'm so boring and there are so many interesting diaries on here, i always talk myself out of it!!!-I've subscribed to this thread and I'm hooked!!!

moo2moo

Hello Tatty Cath!

Still sitting on my fat !!!! having done an abysmal job of making the beds. They're thrown together rather than made in the caring sharing way of the NHS ladies. Feeling rather flat at the mo. Am thinking thats perhaps because dinner consisted of 2 slices of toast (taking the days total to 8) and three chunks of fruit & nut Toblerone - technically a balanced meal as it contains fruit and dairy and carbs and lots of protein thanks to the odd nut. Am hoping OH materialises with a bottle of concentrated grape juice to top up my 5 a day intake and dilute the blood in my alcohol stream. In my defense I did have a rather filling homemade veggie soup for lunch at 2pm.

Seem to have spent the entire day running around trying to catch up with myself whilst running backwards on the spot. Finally got teacher to clear cupboard at 5:30pm but had lost all enthusiasm to smash the living daylights out of the remaining shelving. Am saving that for tomorrow. Was asked to put the worlds most hideous clock on a prominent wall so that the world can be amazed at how little taste people with far too much money have. Was tempted to ask the lucky owner if it was a gift from someone she'd really peed off but I fear the real answer may well be yes and as I'm currently in pole poition on the people who irritate her most in the world (I do try rather hard) the boss has pointed out that secretary baiting is not a sport. Pants because its lots of fun.

honeybear_2

If you ever find that you have an excess of Toblerone I'd be happy to help out

tattycath

moo2moo wrote: »

Hello Tatty Cath!

Still sitting on my fat !!!! having done an abysmal job of making the beds. They're thrown together rather than made in the caring sharing way of the NHS ladies. Feeling rather flat at the mo. Am thinking thats perhaps because dinner consisted of 2 slices of toast (taking the days total to 8) and three chunks of fruit & nut Toblerone - technically a balanced meal as it contains fruit and dairy and carbs and lots of protein thanks to the odd nut. Am hoping OH materialises with a bottle of concentrated grape juice to top up my 5 a day intake and dilute the blood in my alcohol stream. In my defense I did have a rather filling homemade veggie soup for lunch at 2pm.
:rotfl::rotfl:
Seem to have spent the entire day running around trying to catch up with myself whilst running backwards on the spot. Finally got teacher to clear cupboard at 5:30pm but had lost all enthusiasm to smash the living daylights out of the remaining shelving. Am saving that for tomorrow. Was asked to put the worlds most hideous clock on a prominent wall so that the world can be amazed at how little taste people with far too much money have. Was tempted to ask the lucky owner if it was a gift from someone she'd really peed off but I fear the real answer may well be yes and as I'm currently in pole poition on the people who irritate her most in the world (I do try rather hard) the boss has pointed out that secretary baiting is not a sport. Pants because its lots of fun.

And today OH and the kids wanted doner kebabs, so rthat's what they had and I made myself a healthy cheese omelette and some salad-do I get brownie points then?? lol oh and i'm eating homemade banana bread i made last week!!!!
...but there are loads of things i should have done that i haven't got round to doing and my memory is terrible these days!!!

moo2moo

Can there ever be such a thing as an excess of Toblerone? Admittedly having wolfed down 4kg of the stuff (the chocolate content of 10 x 400g bars) does sound a lot (because it is) I am officially a pig. Must start eating properly again. Have been substituting toast for Toblerone which has reduced my usual 12 a day habit considerably (thats 12 slices of toast as meals and as snacks between meals). Being sensible if the average female requires 2000 calories a day to maintain a healthy body and I spend roughly hours of my day doing physical things at warp speed using an average 200 calories per hour then in theory I need to consume 50% more calories than nomral which probably goes a long way to explaining why I permanently feel tired at the mo. The chasm between knowing this and doing somethng about it is a gaping one much like tightrope walking across the Grand Canyon it sounds easy but I really can't be bothered. Am cheating a little and sticking cugar in my coffee. Unfortunately Mr moo needs to loose several stone. His rotundity is greater than mine as hes beginning to resemble a Weeble (Weebles wobble but they don't fall over).

In other exciting news the demonic daughters are egerly anticipating the arrival of Harriet, apparently shes their soon to be baby sister. Having explained to them that despite what they are taught in school about babies needing a mummy and a daddy, it is possible for two ladies to have a baby (didn't go as far as explaining the turkey baster theory of procreation) and thus applying the logic of a small child if daddy seahorses have babies then their daddy must be too. Both children are now mortified that their coplex plans for bedroom redecoration and reshuffle are redundant.