Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Sub 20K is my Chrismtas 2009 target but I'm finding it easier to view things on a month by month basis that way I keep myself on track. Christmas seems light years away and really isn't the incentive I need. Anyhow 12 items listed on flea bay including the Qype voucher and the first of the postcards although they don't seem to sell but its worth a try. I've got watchers already.

OH has phoned to say they've had a great time and will be home in 30 minutes with kebabs. So thats 30 minutes to make it look like I've done some housework today which clearly won't get done by the magic pixies whilst I sit on my bum typing away.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Madagascar 2 was brilliant. I haven't laughed so much in ages.

I'm going to see Coraline later in the week and am very much looking forward to Ice Age 3 this summer

/bigkid

lucielle

We had Madagascar 2 on love film must admit I roared with laughter, have now requested the first one.
L

beanielou

Did the jeans fit then?
They sound just fab

makeup

moo2moo wrote: »

Makeup - I tap danced very briefly as a 5 year old. My mum wasn't overly impressed when my dancing teacher suggested I'd be better suited to rugby. Ballet was even worse. I loved gymnastics though purely for the vaulting. Hated the floorwork and the graceful swan bits. Couldn't give a monkeys about the splits or the poses I just wanted to leap and run and soar through the air. Being on the A symetric bars was the best feeling in the world, surpassed only by an aborted discount into a swimming pool full of foam blocks.

Oh believe me I look like I'd be far more suited to a rugby scrum than a dance floor. But I just love it, I love tap for making lots of noise!!!

When I did ballet as a child I really believed my destiny was to be a professional dancer on the stage. I couldn't believe it when my teacher told me this wasn't to be....no surprise to anyone else. I was a sturdy child and taller than all my contemporaries.

I always wanted to do that kind of gymnastics, I never got beyond floor stuff... I did love trampolining which we did whenever we went to the seaside. That always made me feel like I was flying.

I also got that feeling from skiing, when it goes right you just feel like you are soaring high.

Well done on achieving your targets, you are doing so well. Congrats!

moo2moo

Helloo all! I haven't tried the jeans yet, as OH helpfully pointed out they are identical to every other pair I own just a different colour so theres no reason why they shouldn't fit but in the world of fashion that means nowt.

Have been busy tearing round the house seeking something which will strip nail varnish from DD2s finger nails and failing miserably. Whilst mine are most amusing I've a feeling her teacher will have something to say about hers. May well need an emergency trip to ye olde village shoppe before school in the hopes that today is one of the days on which they feel like opening and that they have some in stock. Most probably dust covered and priced in shillings and pence (I kid you not) but so long as it still works I'll be happy.

Today looks like being a fabulously sunny day. OH is back at work so I might get something productive done today. Not quite sure what but I'm sure I'll think of something.

lucielle

If you are feeling brave try petrol.
L

moo2moo

Thanks Lucielle. I tracked down some nail varnish remover in the end for 32p from the village shoppe. Sending DD2 into school reeking of petrol probably wouldn't go down too well. Mind you I suspect her teacher would prefer that to eau du chicken poo.

Matched betting completed and cashed out....for the moment. £788.26p cold hard cash and £80 Quidco. Grand total of £868.26p. Incredibly easy money but tediously boring and the most profitable matches all seem to be an hour before kick off which is when I'm at work making it a bit more awkward than I would have liked.

Postie brought £50 of Tesco vouchers yesterday some of which have been exchanged for Goldsmiths vouschers so I now have enough to pay for OHs watch. Not sure what I'll do with the rest of them, nothing really appealled but I'm sure if I try hard enough I'll come up with a use for them. I won a £5 High Street Gift voucher yesterday too.

Won't have chance to do much today as its my volunteer day as the green cross code man teaching road safety to 90 under 6s. Oh joy. Have yet more stuff to list on flea bay as DD2 has moved up a reading group to Stage 4 so I can happily sell off Stage 2 as shes way beyond them. Also came across an unopened Wii game that came free with the console and a stack of PS1 games.

Need to buy chicken feed at some point too as the chicks have developed enormous appetites.

moo2moo

I'm going to be a star... for 5 minutes at least. I'm going on stage to perform at the county Jambori this morning accompanied by 90 under 6s. There is one very minor technical hitch which I won't dwell on too much, I mean how concerned do you get that you don't know the words or indeed the tune of the song that you're miming along to? Probably doesn't help that I don't speak the language either. Knowing my luck we'll be invited to sing the Welsh national anthem too. Ah well tis a morning out. At least this time round when they ask us to sing the national anthem I won't start out with god save our gracious queen as all around me sing "Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi" in a completely different tune. A very very very bad rough pronunciation of this is "My hen laid a haddock, one hand oiled a flea" quite clearly this is not the actual pronunciation of the words in question but it sounds remarkably like that. The genius who came up with that line of prose helpfully translated the entire first verse into English for thickos thus:

My hen laid a haddock, one hand oiled a flea,
Glad farts and centurions threw dogs in the sea,
I could stew a hare here and brandish Dan's flan,
Don's ruddy bog's blocked up with sand.
Dad! Dad! Why don't you oil Auntie Glad?
Can w hores appear in beer bottle pies,
O butter the hens as they fly!

Apparently this is inconspicuous in chorus. Yeah right I bet the native welsh speakers around me will spot it and I'll be sent to the staffroom in disgrace. Clearly theres only one way to find out. I'm sure I'll be OK as long as I don't actually sing the words out loud. Oh the price one pays for being non-welsh speaking in Wales where the welsh language is taught for approx 25% of the school day even in the first language english schools.

Enough digression for one morning. Plans for today:

Survive the jambori without banishment.
Clean the 50% of the groundfloor of the house that I didn't manage yesterday.
Get excited because tomorrows payday
Vaguely consider listing on E-bay the piles of tat unearthed whilst manically cleaning

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Oh the price one pays for being non-welsh speaking in Wales where the welsh language is taught for approx 25% of the school day even in the first language english schools.

I'm from the north of Scotland, an island no less, and it is the same there with Gaelic. My friend has no other choice but to put her son in a Gaelic-only nursery, which is hard enough for the little b*gger as he is bilingual at home anyway...just not with Gaelic as one of his languages :rotfl:

Best of luck with avoiding banishment