Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

beanielou

No not Guitar Hero 5!!
No more drums & guitars please:rolleyes:
Still cant believe how much I paid for the one with the drums last year:eek:

beanielou

Oooops sorry.

moo2moo

Ah but Beanie this one lets you play with whatever instrument you like and change midway through the song - how that works is most interesting unless of course you have 16 Wii remotes as the song would be over by the time you've extracted the remote from the guitar to put it in the bass guitar. Anyhow the new improved Guitar Hero 5 allows you to play 4 drum kits at once, not that anyone has 4 drum kits or the space in the house for 4 drum kits but if you're that way inclined theres nowt stoppng you.

If you pre-order it you get yet another guitar and Guitar Hero World Tour chucked in for a mere £65. Since I forked out for those last year I only want the game but thats a rather ridiculous £35 at the moment. I refuse to pay £35 for a game.

moo2moo

I'm all DooYoo'd out. I surfed my way around there for a bit yeterday and have concluded (unsurprisingly) that its full of freaks. So far I've been visited by a very very well toned (but clearly gay) fella wearing nothing but a rugby ball - eeek - several people with their tongues down other peoples throats and a succession of Disney Princesses. Having waffled away for nine reviews I can conclude the following:

• Its not about quality its about timing. Write reviews at 10am you get 5 ratings. Write them at 9pm and you get 20. As reviews = cash late night writing it is.
• Obscure reviews are read less than everyday ones so less expensive electronics and more chocolate bars. Damn. I'll have to product test.
• Kinky reviews get way more ratings than anything else. Whether I want to ramble on about the delights of the local Ann Summers shop is a different matter entirely. May need to be rather well inebriated for that one. At least I have an Ann Summers Rep at school that I can quiz.
• and finally - its all down to the title. Catchy titles get more reads than the mundane.

Not that you even care but thats DooYoo in a nutshell.

9 reviews done, 5265 points earned - 94735 points or 189 and a half reviews to go.

moo2moo

OH is due home this evening. Need to hit the ironing pile and finish blitzing the kitchen, change the sheets on the bed, do yet more laundry and clean both bathrooms before then. Looks like I'm in for a fun filled day,

Have a very lazy day at school planned with lots of window cleaning and toilet paper dispenser refilling to keep me amused. Also have to figure out how to patch the climbing frame which has crumbled with old age. Its nothing structural. Should be able to escape by 9:30 to get on with things at home.

moo2moo

£1.30 spent on milk on the way home. First half of the ironing done. 2 DooYoo reviews written, 93660 more points to go. I must be am bonkers.

Didn't get round to cleaning windows at school (aw schucks) ended up playing in cleaning out the sandpit instead.

lucielle

Hi Moo. I was wondering if you had a fave veggie recipe as I could do with some inspiration as I only have 1 good one and would like to broaden my families horizons.
L

moo2moo

Oooh I have lots of fave veggie recipes, they're mostly variants on a chillie. In place of the usual instruction to add mince meat I lob in a can of baked beans and a handful of lentils and double the amount of veg the recipes requires. Bizarre yes but cheap, tasty, nutritious and most importantly very very easy. After that I adapt away. Doctored chillie becomes shephard-less pie, sphag bol, lasagne, mexican. I love mexican. In tortillas with added cheese rolled up as hot wraps. Folded in half and fried or even rolled up liberally caked in cheese sauce with more cheese chucked on top and slammed in the oven for 40 minutes as extra tasty calorie laden delight. Perhaps this somewhat random approach to cooking is why I've never been on Masterchef.

Other favourites include grease laden toasties crammed with cheese, baked beans (or tinned sphagetti) and branston pickle. Baked squidgy french cheese caked in breadcrumbs. I'm not fussy if its squishy to begin with its perfect for this. And finally peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Yummy. Although it does look rather like baby poo once you've mushed it all together.

moo2moo

OH arived home cream crackered and stressed to the eyeballs. Seems to have spent the entire time trying to ignore his whinging UK based manager who managed to allocate all his staff eleswhere and then realised he was on his own in the UK and had to leave the confines of his ivory tower to get his hands dirty. Not a happy chappy and to make matters more interesting the peasants are revolting. Those stuck in Italy have discovered their expenses have been halved, their work load increased exponentially and they're already exhausted with another 2 weeks to go until they're relieved.

Woke up this morning to another enormous e-mail from the PTA. Oh joy. Such a shame I can't make the next meeting or the AGM. I'll be hiding as they attempt to persuade the teachers to whip up 14 pictures for a school calendar with contributions from every child in the next two weeks whilst teachers are preparing for parents evening which is also two weeks off.

Thanks to a bit of a clanger from the bods in control of cash distribution at the council the replacement Henrys are being held to ransom. Looks like we could be running on a single vacuum for quite a while longer.

Up to a whopping 12 reviews and 6945 DooYoo points. I'm running out of things I can waffle about for 150 words without rambling on inanely. Surprising really as I'm usually so good at rambling. 186 reviews to go and counting. Theres really only so much you can say about a roll of toilet paper without sounding like a fruitcake.

moo2moo

Suffering with major infighting amongst the relatives of which I'm apparently the cause. Can't think why as I rarely speak to them mostly becuase I live far enough away to avoid them but I have an aunt on a crusade which is never a good thing. We have a family history of girlie cancers. No surprises there. Its difficult to ignore when your mother dies from it at 39. Some 20 years later mums eldest sister has been diagnosed with something similar which hasn't responded to treatment. Shes in her 60s which whilst not old ain't young either. but shes jumped on the genetic testing bandwagon and has frogmarched her daughter to have tests done which came back positive (ooh what a surprise) daughter who wanted a large family now has a stash of frozen eggs and no where to put them. Her daughter aged 2 also tested positive. My other aunt is symptomless but tests positive too cue removal surgery at 51 neither of her daughters are carriers.

Problem comes that I've always known that theres a significant chance that I carry the gene too but, and this is the bit they fail to understand, I wouldn't have it treated. If its going to kill me then I'd rather enjoy the time I have left in good health in good health rather than flaked out in a hospital fighting something which will win eventually and wasting what little good health I have left. Equally do I want a double mastectomy at 33 and removal of all my equipment - well actually I couldn't give two hoots. If they'd guarantee it was a solution then I'd be on the table tomorrow but as it is well theres nothing to say it would make much difference either way.

No amount of tearful phone calls or letters offering to pay are going to make me change my mind. OH is in support of this descision which is all that matters. At the end of the day we've all got to die sometime and I could just as easily be run over by a bus tomorrow.

Such cheery thoughts for first thing in a morning!

Toodle pip all. Catch you later.