The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

lucielle

Glad to 'see' you back
L

40somethingmum

Hi Fay,

Welcome back.:T:T

Love

40SM;)

Pippilongstocking

Afternoon chaps

Sneaking on inbetween work!

Lots tidying up of xmas goodies to be done here

Many socks for xmas (mainly spotty for some reason?!?!) and some stripey - nevertheless they are fun

OH's back and heading away tomorrow
Kids back at school on Wed
Spent lots and forgot my blinking clubcard vouchers for Pizza Express so ended up standing all of my family a meal (don't ask how much - 10 people) stupidly I paid the lot (I guess in my own head the ying and yang of this is that my mother put 100 in the bank for us for a treat when away - no brainer where that money went then) could have kicked myself

Took all the food for OH's party/the week at OH's house with us and religously stuck to the food in the house aside a few meals out (he paid for htose ones) and also a splurge of cinema tickets for Sherlock Holmes

Petrol OH paid for - Ferry's I paid for (fair enough I think)

Kids scammed money for a trip into edinburgh to see their (normally in France) step sisters - whilst I supplied money for lunch (not unsubstantial) and their train fares - the stepsisters dad just gave them £2 each for the bus (chancing toe-rag!!!!) so I ended up treating both cinema and lunch!

Aside that financially not much to report - xmas pressies paid for well before xmas
Already stashing christmas crackers (half price) and will look out for bits and bobs.

Meant to stash up the stripey socks shop but to be honest the low temps and full car meant that our focus wasn't really on tinned tomatoes and stuff - need to do a thorough list and sort htat out

And of course investigate the freezer - what a saving filling up bread, milk and chicken bits, sausages, bacon etc - meant that the spends in the house to feed 8 people were minimal and we could easily (and cheekily) make other folks buy a few treaty bits without feeling too bad.

Didn't get to see chums or pals really as it was very family orientated when down but did manage to get the kids to catch up with a few of their friends.

Anyway back to the grind! Hugs to you all here's to 2010 being ace!

Pippilongstocking

Update for 2010

Its that time of year when you think of the last one and figure this year will be different (somehow or other!)

So this years plans

Pay off evil gargamel (if possible) £2610 (50 a month plus extra saved to get a FF)
Pay off not so evil but very annoying penguin chops £2745 (zero saved must sort that out)
Pay off evilish loan for MSc £868 (100 month, penalty if paid quickly so it can plod along)
One more OD to go £1000 (but 0%)
Total annoying debts of around £7223 (*£21,223 with student loan)
Then aside a student loan of £14k we will be sort of debt free (?!)
Move house (again) by August for the last time here I hope
Finish all form of formal study this year (this may be completed by Jan 15th 2010 or December 2010 depending upon my meeting on the 15th Jan!
Learn to read books again for fun
Rediscover the joy of the garden
Try and think up something memorable for OH's 40th (AFTER DARWIN AS A 40th PRESSIE for me - THAT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO UPSURP)
Back to yoga or bodybalance as I am becoming a BABAPAPA shape (the pink one, or the red one, or the yellow one, or the orange one - maybe just a stripey one .......
Copy Jo and many sensible folks and save up over year for car tax etc - work out what this is first!
Do up darwin a bit more and get out in him once a week
Walk the scary monster more
Learn to cook things I am scared of cooking
Be with my kids more (OK that should go first but its definitely the most important)

ETA - possibly also have welliefest 2010 (married) so prob need save for this I guess

Extra income in 2010 dwindles by £300 in January as one lodger leaving at end of Jan (using Jan rent from deposit) and one lodger only here until May - so must keep up the over payments whilst I can.
One report to write for 2/3 days consultancy work (£300ish)
Don't seem to be getting paid for teaching (?)
About the time of year to start thinking of growing some plants for ebaying

Pippilongstocking

PS I got this rug for my xmas - how cool is this - wanted one since my first ever visit to the swedish shop of lovely goodies

lucielle

Liking it lots.
L

Pippilongstocking

lucielle wrote: »

Liking it lots.
L

Thank you L - I may just lollop on it for the rest of my life - is lovely and soft.

Heard from Piq at all? No sign of the stilletto healed whip yeilding one?

Hope your weather improves - ours is slippy and wet and cold. Not much in the way of actual snow though.

Pips_Mum

LOVE the rug, very you!!

Good list too x x

honeybear_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Thank you L - I may just lollop on it for the rest of my life - is lovely and soft.

What a gorgeous phrase

Nice to have you back, little stripey hobbit

Lemon_Tree

great to see you back, we've missed you. Sorry i couldn't reply earlier as i'm out of credit, oh and windscreen wiper blades (broke 2 today and they deff. weren't stuck on the window, guess i now know why the blades were so cheap.

great challenges for this year, glad you got the wedding in there somewhere

lots of fun going on here