Old Style Diary Archive - FEB 06

elona

Happy Birthday Everybody :j :j :j



Dishwasher is on , washing is on the line and a tomato, garlic,onions, peppers and mushrooms mixture is in the slow cooker.
Have prepared mackeral with sliced onions and lemon juice ready to bake for tea.

Still find it painful to walk about so that is my excuse for being on here lol.

Hope it does not rain as sky is overcast.

Regards to queenie if she is around.

Penny-Pincher!!

Afternoon

Workmen have been to do loft insulation and tidied up after themselves:D BIL came over and gave us a bed for DD to put under hers (a spare type thing IYKWIM). OH has done some of DD's skirting in her room, and has just popped to Tesco to get a few bits needed as he was unable to get there yesterday.

BIL has also offered to fit in new sink, worktop, taps and tile our kitchen for nought:beer: He's a builder by trade and does extensions/conversions for a living and done tons of work for us before, but as OH helps him alot-he's doing it for free. Just awaiting new stock of worktops then it will be full steam ahead. Cant wait and weve agreed that the conservatory should wait ATM and we should concentrate on finishing the little jobs that need doing before starting a new project:rolleyes: MEN!!!!!

Starting to get nervous about tomorrow with the hospital, but OH is coming with me for support and will take my current read with me.

Have made all calls needed and updated me banking etc. Floors still need doing but they can be done later or tomorrow.

Take care

PP
xx

tootles_2

Happy birthday to all birthday people (((((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))) to those who are poorly, not feeling well, not sleeping well.....

I had a good night, put the light out at 11.20 and woke at 6.20, turned over and went back to sleep for an hour, got up at 7.30. Over to see my friend, car still going well on the £25 of desiel I put in 14th Jan, so have just a week to go before I fill up again.

Am looking at transferring a loan we have onto a 0% credit card, not sure if it will work, need to have a little think.....

Grilled gammon, tomatoes and garlic mushrooms with jacket spuds for supper, spuds cooked in the micro......... have a vienetta in the freezer so a couple of slices of that for dessert.

Nothing planned for this afternoon, tomorrow is jobs day, need to pay in at the bank, go to the library, B & Q and deliver some of our garden stuff to the allotment, round trip of about 6 miles.

OH landed me in the s=== last night has volunteered me to do a cream tea for his bowls club in August, 48 bowlers, tea and cream scones....... I thought my days of huge batch bakes was over when we left the national trust garden.

Off to have a cup of rosy lee...............have a good day.

Simonkey_2

I really just wanted to pop in and say hello as I have just joined today and you sound so lovely! I have been reading (and taking notes!) from all the threads on here and have learnt so much from everyone. I have got £15k student loans to pay off and every month end up dipping into my cc (which annoys me beyond belief) and I also want to save up for a house deposit so it's gonna be a long hard slog but we'll all get where we want to be eventually.

Thankyou for making me laugh and all your good money saving ideas and I'll contribute where I can!

Icemaiden

Afernoon all

Happy birthday to all.

Just a quick visit today as still got DS off school feeling sicky. Wouldn't mind but he breaks up from school on friday for a week and is supposed to be going to my mums for a couple of days!

Lovely windy day here so 2 lots of washing on line and house looks quite respectably which is a good job since MIL is up tonight, I'm not really in the mood for entertaining so will let her do all the talking, I'll just nod in all the right places.

Anyway must go, have a nice afternoon all,

Ice.

Icemaiden

Just wanted to say " welcome Simonkey "

moggins

Afternoon everyone - sorry I wasn't here for the birthday girls but I've been on a wally trolley expedition, the stall in the city centre was selling huge ones for £15 Okay so it's black and white check but it's not too old grannyish. And I have come home with so many bargains today that even DH can't complain.

I've bought both the childrens new mattresses (far better quality than the ones I had budgeted for) for £110 including delivery - they were already reduced in the sale, got an extra 20% today because I used my Debnehams card to pay for them, I got Nectar points too and the guy knocked the usual £25 delivery down to £10 because I was local

I then went on to get DD a pink remote controlled Smart Car and a huge pink one armed bandit thingy for £6 (all to go away for her birthday in June and three beautiful long thick cardigans for myself for a tenner each all reduced from £45 each Okay so I have just spent £30 on clothes for myself but I needed some cardis badly and I would never have found any as beautiful as this in the charity shops

Got all the seeds I need on BOGOF at Wilkinsons, 72 peat pots, 2 propogators, a huge box of Growmore and fish, blood and bone meal so I have no excuse now.

I also popped in to the local sewing machine shop, the guy there was amazing! He explained and showed how simple the modern machines were, and has said that if I want to go ahead and buy one he will give me an hours lesson showing me how to thread it etc and if I have any problems after that then I can come back as many times as I want until I am completely happy using it as he doesn't like selling machines only for them to end up in a cupboard because the owner is afraid of it Now I just have to talk DH into letting me have one.

Rebob

Been to the local weight wise course this morning. It is a 10 week free course to help you loose weight as a group. It is then a monthly meeting for the next 8/9 months. Hope it helps my weight as it is getting me down.

Welcome Simonkey!

Happy birthday to the birthday peeps!

Have a nice day.

PoshPaws_3

:wave: Hello all. Our feet have just now touched the ground, after a morning of alternately rushing around and sitting doing nothing.

Took DH to his job interview this morning. Sat in the car for an hour waiting, which I didn't object to as it was an excuse to catch up on some reading. Interview went very well, thankyou to all who sent good wishes! Had a nightmare finding the place - at one point I was wishing for some empty cardboard boxes, so that I could do a REALLY good impression of Starsky & Hutch driving! Screeched into their car park just two minutes late, having been pointed in the right direction by their Warehouse, which was five minutes up the road! Crazy. DH reckons he'd snatch their hands off if they offer it to him, so we're keeping our fingers crossed.

From there we went to Asda for the weekly shop. I'm ashamed to say ~sob~ that we spent £18 over budget. Largely due to buying a huge piece of beef for £3.20 which I've since cut into two and frozen, a piece of pork tenderloin which was marked down to £1.70 and is in the freezer, some freezer storage containers (because ice cream cartons are often just too big), a bunch of daffodils :rolleyes: (89p, but they're so pretty!). I think we bought one or two of every vegetable that was in the place, from the piles that I've just put in the fridge! Over £5 of that was DH's booze for the night ~sigh~ but it could have been worse, because he wanted to buy an X-box controller for £9.99. The promise of looking on Ebay managed to avoid that one. :T Anyway, its DS who wants it - and he's got way more than that in pocket money stashed away, so I don't see why we should fork out for it! Even if he is only 7. :rotfl:

So, we've just managed to get everything put away and lunch eaten. ~phew!~

In a moment I need to get the WM on, do the dishes and get some Ebay stuff packed up for sending tomorrow. Its all big stuff, too - a telescope, a horse's saddle and a big box of horse equipment - so I'll have muscles on my muscles by the end of all this weightlifting.

Breakfast was "Mummy bread" (as its known in our house), which is h/m multigrain using Dove's Farm Organic malty grain flour 50/50 with a Strong White Bread flour, some added Porridge Oats & Linseed and made with Olive Oil and a dab of Honey. You can feel it doing you good, as you eat it! We had it with Gooseberry jam (which was a BOGOF from last week) and it was scrum.

Lunch was a pre-packed Cauliflower Cheese which had been roosting in the freezer for far too long and was just asking to be eaten.

Dinner will be minced beef chilli Burrito's. I must try and remember to ask DH to only make me two. I had three, last time, and could hardly get up the stairs afterwards. :rotfl:

Hope those who are having a bad day find that it improves later, and those who were having a good day, manage to have a great day. :wave:

Ticklemouse

MATH wrote:

It's been this way pretty much since I was sixteen and I'm 21 now :rolleyes:
MATH x

Cough,cough, splutter - Oh, REALLY?

and you accused me of having towels older than the 12 years I said they were :rotfl:

Well, actually, my DS1 still insists I'm 23 even though I tell him I'm 24 now, so maybe you really ARE 21 (growing nose smilie)

Hope everyone's having a good day. Haven't got further than Math's post and have to do the school run, so I'll catch up with you all later.

Happy Birthday to all the birthday peeps

TM