Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

Tesco_points_addict

OK, what have I missed???

Intergalactic_Floozie

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

OK, what have I missed???

Moo suggested instead of moaning about my car breaking down and having to get a bus to work I get a bike instead. I issued a death threat and it's obviously worked cos she's running scared as hasn't posted. I am so hard!

moo2moo

Moaning??? I never used that word. Thats character assassination that is. Moaning indeed. Hmmph.

Ps. You're not so hard. I've had to compete with two children who are permanently superglued to Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat on YouTube and an OH who seems to be permanenetly dowloading huge things via Bittorrent. The pc is ridiculously slow, thats if I can get anywhere near it - not that that stopped me watching three back to back episodes of Ugly Betty Season 3 on 4OD whilst troughing my way through a box of celebrations and an assortment of super deluxe Sainsburys Shortbread with chocolate chunks - bribery from the teachers in the hopes they'll get extra bits done over the holidays. I'm so shallow that its working. Still a skeletal size 8 though, although one with a spare tyre if you use your imagination and put on your 3D glasses. Nope not working. Still need to eat more or do less. Or perhaps both.

Anyhow since I last posted we've had a delivery of logs for the winter and spent a happy afternoon trundling them round the garden in a wheelbarrow stacking them in strategic locations and then not so strategic locations and then anywhere else that logs could posibly be stacked. Hopefully we'll have enoough to get through to February. Still need to sweep the chimneys. Will have fun doing that much later in the year in the hopes I make a lot less mess than I did last time round. With three to do I get quite a lot of practice.

Saw my friend with the growth infested head. He was having surgery to remove the whole thing yesterday, fairly good chance its benign so lots of good news there. Got an e-mail from another friend to say she'd finally divorced her OH because he was being even more of a git than ever. She had postponed all this after he was in an explosion in Hellmand Province but things got worse and worse and his affairs got more and more frequent so shes now a free agent living back in the UK and we're meeting for a mornings deafening at an indoor play centre later in the week.

I'm attempting to cram 50 hours in at work this week to free up a bit of holiday. Have had lots of fun so far trashing the place. Boss is not particularly impressed. Turns out "we'll look into the loose tiles in the toilets that rattle as you clean them" did not mean "please remove all tiles from wall". Aw well, too late. I looked into them will a wallpaper scraper and minutes later they were all sitting in a box on the floor. Me thinks I may be spending this week learning to tile.

Also managed to take three noticeboards off walls and fill the holes ready for painting. Boss then decided one could go back up again exactly where it was so I'll be removing the filler from the holes later today. Then I get to repaint the chunks of corridor that were previously covered by noticeboards and coathooks. Interestingly discovered that with long enough srews and enough expanding foam anything can be stuck anywhere - discovered this when removing a row of coat hooks held in a crater by a lot of expanding foam and some very long screws.

The rest of the week seems to involve a lot of wall painting and carpet cleaning. Still its very theraputic and I can't spend any money whilst I'm there.

Car passed its MOT, service was afffordably priced with no extras, nothing to keep an eye on in the future and best of all it didn't need a windscreen which is pretty good since I didn't get round to arranging to have one fitted. Sometimes being totally disorganised has benefits. Mostly it just means I forget something hugely important.

Intergalactic_Floozie

YAY! I missed you yesterday. I love, love, love Ugly Betty! Eric Mabius (Daniel) is my dream man. I have a picture of him on my office wall.

Great that the car passed it's MOT, I don't have to get mine done til September 2010 but I do need to get it serviced and have today, in fact, instructed DH to see how much the garage near his work will charge

moo2moo

Daniel? You fancy Daniel? Would you like to borrow my glasses? Whats wrong with the short sandwich guy - well apart from him being short? Thinking about it theres a serious lack of fanciable males on Ugly Betty. Grays Anatomy on the other hand is chocca block with them as is Prison Break sadly only having poor peoples tv I have to wait several lifetimes before they'll let me see them again. Instead I'm stuck with reruns of Murder She Wrote.

Still bleugh outside. DDs got soaked several times yesterday and were made to travdl home in blankets as they were considered too dirty to get in OHs car. Clearly he doesn't carry an emergency stash of bin bags. Perhaps its not politically correct to admit to travelling around the country with two children ensconced in bin bags in the rear of my car. Ms Rantzen if you're reading this no children were harmed on the numerous journeys from the horse poo pile to the bathtub.

Mondays washing has been rewashed and is now in the drier. Why is it that children wet their beds when its persistantly pouring? I have a huge pile of things to wash as the delightful daughters managed to wet all their riding gear and their change of clothes and their emergency change of clothes. Everything not immediately machine washable is slowly drying off indoors but the whole house reeks of wet horse with an after stench of eau-de-wet dog. Will be bath time for the pooch if it ever stops raining.

Managed to decorate a room yesterday, debated doing the ceiling but decided to wash it later on in the week instead in the hopes the handprints come off. Just as I'm finishing a head popped round the door and said "have the shelves arrived already?"- ummm what shelves? Turns out I've wasted a day sticking two coats of paint on the walls of what is about to be transformed into a storeroom in anticipation of the giant building project for which school are awaiting planning permisssion. Still I can say with confidence its the nicest painted storeroom in the entire school.

Todays plans are rather vague either I'm going to magnolia the walls of the nursery toilets or I'm going to paint a cloakroom and two other chunks of wall blue. Since I plan to have done both by the end of the week it really doesn't matter too much which way round I do them. After that its lots and lots and lots of carpet cleaning and floor scrubbing. Its none stop fun!

OH was a bit wierd yesterday. Grunted at me in the morning. Bit my head off when I got home. Grunted at intervals throughout the evening and then brought me coffee in bed at 5am this morning. I get the impression he doesn't like being home alone. Still he did wash up.

moo2moo

Have just pigged my way through an entire packet of sugar coated shortbread fingers. Still todays been an NSD and I've managed to aquire 10 boxes of vaguely out of date cereals (circa 2008) and speakers for the DDs MP3 players. Decluttering other peoples carp is so much more fun than sifting through your own. Ruthlessly threw out over a hundred manky bibles which still leaves school with several hundred to choose from. Planning to trash the staffroom tomorrow and then have an extra long lunch break whilst ensuring there are no critical articles lurking within the pages of the trashy magazines which need to be kept. Its a hard life.

moo2moo

Was rudely awoken before daylight this morning by the OH getting up "quietly". Kindly declined his offer of a cuppa in bed but regretted that after being reawoken by his second and third alarms. Still it would be nice to say I'd done something productive with the extra three hours that I've aquired today but other than loading the washing machine I've done sweet !!!! all.

Won't be seeing my boss again until the middle of next week hes suffering from kidney stones and isn't a happy chappy. I was treated to a very graphic description of the whole hospital appointment which ended with the corker - too much information. Wish he'd twigged that somewhat earlier.

Off to check the bank balance and do a money shuffle to cover my imminent outgoings. Fingers crossed the child benefit has materialised.

moo2moo

Was planning to muck out the chickens before dragging the DDs from their pits but have had so much fun writing cheques that I've runout of time. Child benefit has arrived and has been spent. Still thats all the essentials taken car of.

moo2moo

Thank crunchie its Friday. Have painted until I'm sick of painting. One storeroom, one 6 toilet bathroom, one giant cloakroom and 5 random walls are now handprint free. Had a slight technical hitch when I couldn't vaguely match any of the yellowy oranges in the infant library (choice of 3 shades) so I magnolia'd one wall as a "feature" turns out its soo much more cheerfult that I get to do the entire library this holiday. Theres just the small matter of the enormous 3D wall displays and several thousand library books to deal with first. I'm hoping the teacher in charge of displays will appear over the holiday and will agree to taking the displays down. Might have to leave that project until later in the year.

Today is glorious so I'm going to slap on some factor 30 and take 10 litres of woostain and a paintbrush outdoors to attack a dozen or so assorted benches and picnic benches.

OH got home from work early and parted with £65 via fleabay for a nightvision monocular. !!!!!! for? I'm still clueless despite a very long winded technical explaination of why it works I'm still not convinced it was a necessary purchase. Do all men buy shed loads of complketely useless carp or is it just my OH? Does anyone have a use for a remote controlled car or a helicopter or two and a bit Scalectrix sets? A partially built railway with around £300 of new boxed buildings not to mention £200+ of track? Two incomplete Landrovers in kit form?

Rant over. I am in no way perfect but my impulsive purchases do tend to be restricted to garish colours of nail varnish, knickers and things for the DDs.

Intergalactic_Floozie

Jeez woman, you never stop working do you! It tires me out just reading your diary. I'm sat here trying to put off doing the washing up and I bet you;ve been creosoting fence panels for the past three hours!!!!

No, luckily my DH doesn't insist on wasting money on random carp. Thanksfully he doesn't have any hobbies other than smoking.