Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Have given myself a kick up the bum. Load no. 3 now in the machine. Have ironed everything that I can't get away with not ironing. Need to clean the bathroom next.

Have no children for the entire weekend so OH has agreed to work late on Friday and all day Sunday. There goes my plan of actually achieving something (anything) that we've been putting off because the DDs have been underfoot. Not sure if I'm p'eed off because hes avoiding me or because hes volunteered for an away trip the first week of the Easter hols. If I were a more cynical person I'd note that he spends part of most school hoidays away on business rather than it merely being co-incidental.

Hopefully we'll manage to do something a little out of the ordinary with the chid free time even if its just going to bed early, around lunchtime on Saturday would suit me fine.

Tesco_points_addict

Moo, i have some VERY exciting news, a massive 400g bar of toberone is just £1.62 in Tesco at the moment!

TPAx

The_Golden_Goose

Just checking in before I immerse myself completey in GleekDom!!

*swans off singing Glee theme tune!*

moo2moo

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

Moo, i have some VERY exciting news, a massive 400g bar of toberone is just £1.62 in Tesco at the moment!

TPAx

I spotted them on Friday when I was doing my best to rack up £60 worth of shopping and use a £9 off till spit. Have substituted bananas for Toblerone at the mo in the hopes it wards off some of the post x-mas chocolate induced zit explosions. So far it seems to be working. Doesn't taste anywhere near as good though. I am resisting. This month has been hellish expensive so far so have sworn off treats for me until I'm back on track.

Spent yesterday afternoon baking carrot cake and sultana buns so its not like I'm totally depriving myself of nice things, just the shop bought nice things. Oh how I long for a vanilla slice caked in sticky icing and oozing with cold custard.

moo2moo

Today is going to be a very long day. Planing to leave la maison moo by 7:30 visit work briefly, drop the DDs off at pony fun day armed with enough food to feed a small army, visit fuel station, cash point, plumbers and builders merchants and then return to school to rack up as many hours as humanly possible whilst remembering to release the hound at lunchtime and collect the DDs in time for dinner.

Am guessing I'll be too tired to do anything in the way of housework in the evening but still need to do a mini blitz as DD2s friend is coming for the day tomorrow. Have promised to take them all to the cinema to save them driving me completely insane.

Intergalactic_Floozie

How about banana dipped in melted toblerone?

moo2moo

Finally made it home from work two hours later than expected. Never trust a builder who says we'll be done by 4:30 love. What he meant was the lads will be gone by 4:30 so that we can let rip with the giant angle grinder to cut channels in the walls for the electricians. This of course generates tons of dust which the fire alarm will be convinced is smoke and will repeatedly trigger the sirens for over an hour. Jolly good fun.

Spent three hours with an octogenarian assistant excavating a trench in which to put the greenhouse footings. Poured and levelled the cement in one side and then suffered an hour long deluge of hail stones which stopped play. Its now minus four which makes it too cold for cementing. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit warmer as I have to have the hole filled before the kids return to school.

Taking the DDs and DD2s friend to the flics this morning to see Planet 51 (at least I'm fairly sure thats what the 95p special is). Forgot to get popcorn and I refuse to pay cinema prices. Also need to squeeze in a trip to a fuel station as the boys toy is entering the red and the fuel gauge doesn't work properly so I'm clueless as to whether I have half a tank left or fumes and with a 40 mile round trip and someone elses child in the thing I don't fancy chancing it especially as they've demolished the fillling station by the cinema and heavy snow is forecast. Knowing my luck we'll leave the cinema to discover that its snowed heavily and have to crawl home at 10mph in the gas guzzler which eats considerably more fuel thats its current economical 20mpg. Even a V8 Jag wouldn't use that much. Not that I've ever driven a V8 Jag or any Jag come to think of it.

moo2moo

Days to payday: 27
Money in purse : £5
Money in emergency jam jar: £0.03 (found a penny whilst doing the laundry)
Money in bank: £341.60
Money spent in February: £977.91
Money remaining of this months portion of the live on £20K challenge : £689.09
Part used smellies used up and disposed of: 15
Gift vouchers for X-mas 2010 and all the birthdays in between: £40.00

moo2moo

Just read this weeks MSE e-mail. Nationwide are offering £75 for new Flex account customers transferring all their SOs, DDs and bills. It just so happens that I have a dummy account for precisely this purpose which has two whole SOs set up on it for savings accounts so that if payments don't go through it doesn't give me any headaches or unexpected expenses and as they're only for £40 I can afford to have that much sitting in both acounts just in case they exit the wrong one. Will sort that out this afternoon.

Am running late for work despite having been awake for almost three hours.

moo2moo

I have had the ultimate dumb blonde day. In fact even an actual blonde would have been hard pressed to top this morning.

Collected extra child on time. Arrived at cinema on time. Purchased tickets at automated pay machine. Inserted credit card. Collected tickets and then thought hang on a sec todays not Thursday. Not only that but the 10am showing was actually at 9:15.

Convinced the poor unsuspecting student on the only till operated by a real person that I was incredibly stupid and adding a further £14 to my card ended up going to see Disneys Princess and the Frog instead. There are days when I'm not safe to be let out on my own.