Eager Elephant's Effective Everyday Excursion ...

Eager_Elephant

Been to work today, had to buy lunch as nothing in the cupboards!!

Also had to order school clothes for DD who appears to have grown considerably over the last few months.

Have PAD'ed £1.04 to DH's Paypal card (for my car bill)

Day off from usual job tomorrow (may have relief work to do but won't know until the morning) and have loads to do so I am going to make a list here before I forget - this may need to be carried forward:

Take relative to doctor's
Book appt for DS
Swap OH's clothes that are too small
Call in at garage re indicator
Sort mileage claim for work
Ring up with work hours
Sort jacket which needs an online exchange
Sort Tax Credits
Make a start on spreadsheet for prev self-employment
Finish working out TOIL

So not much but should keep me going.

I have DS off school tomorrow as his school is shut due to no heating, at least he can sort himself out and doesn't require looking after :rotfl:

EE

Eager_Elephant

I managed quite a bit off my to do list and I also went to work for 2.5 hrs so some extra pennies to come:

[STRIKE]Take relative to doctor's
Book appt for DS
Swap OH's clothes that are too small
Call in at garage re indicator
Sort mileage claim for work
Ring up with work hours
Sort jacket which needs an online exchange[/STRIKE]
Sort Tax Credits
Make a start on spreadsheet for prev self-employment
Finish working out TOIL

Car now booked in for indicator and MOT (god I am getting good, normally I miss the MOT date and only realise when the tax is due - not this year though :A)
Need to post off mileage claim and jacket for exchange tomorrow.

Tomorrow's list looks like this now:
Sort Tax Credits
Make a start on spreadsheet for prev self-employment
Finish working out TOIL
Post mileage claim, jacket and court letter
Take diary to friend
Collect books from library
Buy chicken feed
Pay Barclaycard
Work out household budget
Mystery Shopping phone calls

Plus I have the normal housework plus I have some relief work lined up already so that will be another 2 hrs hopefully.

DS is off for another day and is also looking unlikely that he will be back on Friday - he obviously is :j, I am :mad:.

Have also made my PAD for the day.

I do appear to be more focused, not sure if it is a change of mindset or just that it is January and everyone else is also focused??

EE

Eager_Elephant

Forgot to mention that I am going to be frugal with DD's birthday party at the weekend, she did not want a party as she had fallen out with some friends so instead 4 of them are going to the cinema and then for a bite to eat.

Was hoping for them to see the weekend morning cheap showing but all the films this week are one's they have all seen so instead of £1 per person I am looking at £5.50 per person plus obviously me and DH. :eek:

Then I remembered last Xmas my brother gave us some cinema vouchers, too be honest we rarely go to the cinema and anyway we can watch most films a month or two later on Sky Box Office for much cheaper than a cinema.

So I am going to use the vouchers to pay for the party which means that I only have to pay for sweets (although I may sneak some in) and the food afterwards so should be much cheaper. :T

EE

Eager_Elephant

I have already managed to do part of my list:
Sort Tax Credits
Make a start on spreadsheet for prev self-employment
Finish working out TOIL
[STRIKE]Post mileage claim, jacket and court letter
Take diary to friend
Collect books from library
Buy chicken feed
Pay Barclaycard[/STRIKE]
Work out household budget
Mystery Shopping phone calls

Also need to sort internet package out

Have paid £2.48 to the library as have fines that they are letting me clear with whatever change I have on me when I call in. I have another £7 to pay this is on top of the £10 I paid them before Xmas :eek:. DH has about £20 owed on his card :eek:. These are all fines from 2 years ago when I forgot to take some books back and we just didn't use the library because of the fines. Now we have started again but used DD's, then her's had the full limit taken out and I asked them to check my account (forgetting about the fines) and that is when they told me about them :eek:

Going to work shortly so will hopefully do some things this afternoon.

EE

beanielou

Eek to the fines.
i renew online.
You might be able to?

Eager_Elephant

beanielou wrote: »

Eek to the fines.
i renew online.
You might be able to?

Yeah I can renew online but 2 years ago I forgot and then it all spiralled out of control, at least they don't add fee's on top :rotfl:

This time I am being very good and am checking my account every 3 weeks, it's going ok so far but it is early days

EE

Eager_Elephant

:eek::mad:So I am hormonal at the moment and DH setting the alarm for early this morning for no reason was enough to have me swearing at him.

Tonight he comes home and I am tired and narky. He is talking to DS about morale and moral and what they mean. I jokingly said 'what would you know you have the morals of an alleycat' :rotfl:. DH gets all defensive and asks what I mean - Hmmmm.

So I checked his email and lo and behold he has emailed the girl again for her bank details for the dirty underwear :eek::mad::eek::mad:

I have forwarded the email to another email account so I have proof for divorce and also replied to the email back to him asking what he thought he was doing and I thought he was working on our marriage.
He should check his emails before bed so it may come as a shock to him to know that I know - what a !!!!!!!!!!

The serious question is that he knows I check his emails/facebook but he leaves the emails there for me to see. Yesterday I checked and there were no emails anywhere, none in deleted or anything so I thought then they he may have been up to something.

Tomorrow he is out for a stag doo - I am supposed to be taking him and picking him up - well he has another thing coming now. Or i could take him but not collect him :rotfl:

My god I am so angry, I am now going to bed as I am tired and majorly peed off.

EE

beanielou

Not surprised that you are cheesed off.
Good idea to drop him off & not pick him up again!!

Eager_Elephant

As I said previously I have made up my mind about our relationship but need to sort some background stuff before anything can be done.

I am annoyed and by writing it down it means I can refer back to here if necessary.

OH read his email and came to tell me that it was from ages ago but he had not synched his phone since before Xmas which is why it is only showing now.

I told him that I didn't want his excuses and nothing he said would make me believe him.

Now I am not up with technology so who knows if this is true but it seems like an excuse to me and anyway the previous emails I read before were in the afternoon yet this one was in the morning.

God I hate being suspicious, I sound like a detective :mad:

Plans for today are to take children to school, go to work, collect DD and then cook tea. Should be quite uneventful!!!

EE

EE

NorthernLas

EE I have lurked on your diary for a while and wanted to say you are doing great. My suggestion would be to rise above the 'shenanigans' and appear normal as poss as my experience is as long as you don't act suspicious blokes have short memories and forget that they need to be careful re. emails, texts, phone photos etc.

I also like the idea of taking him and not collecting him ... do you get migraines that stop you driving at all? (you may as well have the sympathy vote as well when you can't collect him).

Do you read Jo's Diner? ... I'd recommend it - she is dealing with similar challenges and opportunities!

NL x