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A trilogy in seven parts.....hypno's latest efforts

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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Well, I have done a fair bit of ironing, and sorted out the hall........done another couple of loads of washing, and relegated a bedsheet to become a dustsheet for when I paint the students room when she goes home....

    Also did a bit of tidying in the front garden and filled a big garden sack with weeds/dead stuff.

    Also did a Tesco shop online to be delivered in the morning.

    So I must have achieved something, right :confused:

    Need to be at work at 6, so just about time for a coffee and a shower.

    Hope you have all had a good afternoon.

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  • savingholmes
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    wow hypno you have been working hard... I have been reading while kids on playdates and OH sorting out our bedroom - can't be bad!
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  • dmv_2
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    Hey Hypno, congratulations on your decision not to have a student this year you have definitely it. Was just wondering if your DD will be moving into the bigger room now as I seem to recall you saying the students always had a bigger room than her?
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    hypno06 wrote: »
    Well, I have done a fair bit of ironing, and sorted out the hall........done another couple of loads of washing, and relegated a bedsheet to become a dustsheet for when I paint the students room when she goes home....

    Also did a bit of tidying in the front garden and filled a big garden sack with weeds/dead stuff.

    So that neighbour isn't going to annoy you any more...
    hypno06 wrote: »
    Also did a Tesco shop online to be delivered in the morning.

    With points I hope... ;)
    hypno06 wrote: »
    So I must have achieved something, right :confused:

    Of course you have - even the ironing is an achievement in itself.
    hypno06 wrote: »
    Need to be at work at 6, so just about time for a coffee and a shower.

    Six am is not the start of a working day, but the end of a good night out. Why Sunday?
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »


    Six am is not the start of a working day, but the end of a good night out. Why Sunday?

    Not 6am....6 PM - just got home from a shift in the bar.........

    Will be up long before 6am as DS is ski racing in the morning.......oh the joys!

    dmv, yes, DD will be moving into the bigger bedroom once I have given it a bit of a facelift. The DS moves into DDs current bedroom, again after a bit of a decorate, and then what is currently DS's bedroom becomes a study, so the desk and the computer that is in our dining room at present (sort of nestled between ironing mountains) will move upstairs.

    That's the plan, anyway - but it will take time to do it all I reckon! Aiming for everything done by Christmas I think.

    I have finished one ironing mountain today - the one in the dining room remains and will get tackled in the morning.

    Z, I don't think my neighbour will EVER be happy - they NEED something to moan about......
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  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    You got plenty done ..well done and the plans sound good.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    hypno06 wrote: »
    Z, I don't think my neighbour will EVER be happy - they NEED something to moan about......

    I didn't say happy - just if you bang them over the head with the shovel and put them in the "dead stuff" bag...they will never irritate you again...
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  • Yorkielass
    Yorkielass Posts: 2,235 Forumite
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    Sounds like you've had a productive day Hypno :T:T I spent most the day in the garden, getting lots of plants potted up, into the garden, and lots more fruit and veg sorted - my first year really trying to grow some of my own, at last the weather's been good enough to do it and I was away from the temptations of lots of spending/making a mess inside!

    I know you've done some of your ironing :A and there are only 2 of us compared to 5 of you but when I get a back log of ironing I sort it into me casual, me work, OH (he doesn't have specific work clothes and bedding etc and then take 1/2 or whatever of each pile, hide the rest for now, bung on some TV and do what I've got - much less daunting than a massive pile and means we both have some ironed things. If I was closer I'd come and clear your ironing mountain for you - I rather like ironing :o:o
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    I didn't say happy - just if you bang them over the head with the shovel and put them in the "dead stuff" bag...they will never irritate you again...

    ooh tempting......sooo tempting :rotfl:

    YL, I only do my ironing pile bit by bit.....I bring it through 10 items at a time!
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  • hypno06
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    hypno06 wrote: »
    ok, list for the weekend:
    • do the bloody ironing half way there
    • recover from doing the bloody ironing in shock that I actually did any ironing at all
    • cut the front lawn have strimmed the weeds and cleared a load of dead stuff away.....looks better already
    • [STRIKE]go to work[/STRIKE] done
    • run the kids around done for today, more tomorrow
    • write half a dozen dooyoo reviews one done
    • do a new SOA/budget not started
    • clean the kitchen not started
    • clean the utility work in progress
    • [STRIKE]hoover and clean the hall[/STRIKE] done
    • make the lounge presentable hoovered.......more to do

    Updated list at the end of day 1.....seems I have started much, and finished little.......must try harder tomorrow!
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