OS Daily Thread - Tuesday 12th January 2010

lisa26_2

Hi everyone. Not had time to read everyone but whoever it was who's dog ate chocolate...well done for getting them to the vets so quickly. I have just found out that my baby ( a staffy who lived with my ex) has died due to eating a whole christmas pudding. For all those dog lovers out there who don't already know this....grapes and their dried versions contain the same chemical that is poisonous to dogs as chocolate.

I'm on night shifts tonight so I intended having a lie in. Unfortunately my neighbours and the builders (i live on a half built new estate) had other ideas! Hence I've been awake since 7am today and my shift doesn't finish till 7am tomorrow :-( lol!

Anyway, I went to tescos this morning and did my first proper shop since before xmas! And still spent under £30 including wash powder, toilet rolls etc! When I got back I set my easi-yo going with my first attempt at yogurt making which I am happy to report was a success. Lunch was homemade veg soup and tea was rubber chicken fajitas using an out of date discovery meal kit from the back of the cupboard!

After tonight I am off work until the 1st of Feb! I'm planning some bread making, english muffin making and banana cake making, all with ingredients I already have in. Hoping for lots of NSDs!

Take care everyone

purpleivy

Molly41 wrote: »

Ummmm gonna admit that I wipe my dogs bums for them quite a lot - cos they are furry and get messy - TMI?

Yeah, deffo TMI, but the OP did ask LOL! I hoped that people could imagine what the problem might be!

candygirl

lisa26 wrote: »

Hi everyone. Not had time to read everyone but whoever it was who's dog ate chocolate...well done for getting them to the vets so quickly. chI have just found out that my baby ( a staffy who lived with my ex) has died due to eating a whole christmas pudding. For all those dog lovers out there who don't already know this....grapes and their dried versions contain the same emical that is poisonous to dogs as chocolate.

I'm on night shifts tonight so I intended having a lie in. Unfortunately my neighbours and the builders (i live on a half built new estate) had other ideas! Hence I've been awake since 7am today and my shift doesn't finish till 7am tomorrow :-( lol!

Anyway, I went to tescos this morning and did my first proper shop since before xmas! And still spent under £30 including wash powder, toilet rolls etc! When I got back I set my easi-yo going with my first attempt at yogurt making which I am happy to report was a success. Lunch was homemade veg soup and tea was rubber chicken fajitas using an out of date discovery meal kit from the back of the cupboard!

After tonight I am off work until the 1st of Feb! I'm planning some bread making, english muffin making and banana cake making, all with ingredients I already have in. Hoping for lots of NSDs!

Take care everyone

aww i'm really sorry to read that hun:(:( I have 2 staffies, and adore them :o

stressedoutmumof1

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Managed to get some paperwork done today but wishing I hadn't as the amount of money that is owed to us by clients is very depressing. If someone doesn't pay up soon we'll not be able to pay our business bills this month. :mad:
I have heard al the excuses under the sun now for why people don't pay and it makes me mad. :rolleyes:

Haribo - have you tried visiting your client? I've often found that if you sit in reception and don't leave until you have your cheque makes them pay up in order to get you to leave. Just a thought. You do have to be quite strong to do it though :rolleyes:

SunnyGirl

Zippy The usual way to make a button hole is to knit to where you want it then put your strand of wool to the front of your work (known as yarn forward or yfwd) knit the stitch as usual then knit the next 2 stitches together. This makes the hole and by putting the yarn forward it keeps the correct number of stitches. If you don't want to faff with this as a novice I would just sew a smallish button on a make the knitting go over it lol!! I've done it in the past many times!

toochoosey

(((HUGS))) Lisa xx

I REALLY need to get the dishes done....sat here in dressing gown watching the hairy bikers.....hungry now!!!

bargainbird

Hairy bikers made me hungry too , now eating cheese and marmite sanger and some mccoys, should have read your post Molly whilst eating

Rant Alert - The Prat that was selling us the subaru today decided his wife was going to have the car :mad:, what an @rse, so now have to continue looking :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Dustykitten

Back from cricket nets and feeling rather tired now. Just need to get the washing in the machine and get organised for tomorrow. Cake was greatly appreciated by the boys when we returned.

zippychick wrote: »

I am trying to kick myself into action , so have done pilates today for the first time in ages.

Well done did you do some at home or go to a class. I've stopped my class (kept having to miss lessons so it was turning out very expensive) but I think I'm going to miss it. I have great intentions of doing some at home but never quite seem to.

jackieglasgow

Evening all, I like this new longer thread we've got going, enjoying all the chat I've missed whilst I'm out in the daytime.

Lisa hugs for your loss - poor dog.

Aussielass - that link was so funny, I nearly had a Tenalady moment!:rotfl:

Zippy nice knitting! Well done you, it's a new skill, isn't it, you've picked it up really quickly?!:T

Work was really good, although a couple of the younger girls/women in my team are driving me nuts at the moment. Attention spans of gnats! Unfortunately they're really nice girls, and I find it hard to be as hard on them as I'd like to be, IYSWIM!!!

Off to make the packups for tomorrow, I'm doing a wee bit of overtime during the day, then off to Boots for the 75% off sale - I've got £20 of Love2Shop vouchers someone gave me, to treat myself with. That reminds me, I've got a bit of a WWYD - I got £50 M&S vouchers for introducing my MIL to SKY, and could do with bits and pieces, but as they've got the 3 for £10 thing on, do you think I should spend it on food, or me? In my defence, I think it's over 12months since I bought myself anything, but I'm trying to save my salary this year, so could use it to replace cash from my GC budget? Oh, decisions, decisions.

Hugs to everyone else, I can't remember all the news! Although I did enjoy all the doggie chat - even the whole dogbum wiping thing! :rolleyes:

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<<I nearly had a Tenalady moment! >>

Hi chums,

jackieglasgow that quote reminded me of when, on one of the worst days of my life when I was in the registrars with my eldest DD registering my late husbands death.The registar asked me if I wanted a glass of water as in was in the very hot summer of 2003, and I said yes please ,she went off to get one and I was still feeling a little weepy, understanderbly so, and when she returned my DD said 'its o.k. Mum's having a Tenalady moment' ,meaning that my eyes were leaking.The registrar lookng worried, leant over her huge desk and looked down:rotfl:.My DD and I had to stifle the involuntary smiles as she obviously though I was 'having an accident'
When we came out my DD said Dad would have fallen about in hysterics if he had seen the registrars face:rotfl::rotfl: even today we still smile about it.My late husband had a wicked sense of humour ,the blacker the better and could see humour even in awful occasions.
Well the snow seems to have started to melt a little here, but its very slow going, and in my side road its very icy still. My DGS Danny popped his head around the door on the way home from work and snaffled a few cakes 'just to keep him going till he gets home ' he dropped a London evening paper off which I always appreciate, they hand them out free at the mainline stations.He is enjoying his job, and even though he spends about three hours travelling everyday he says he plugs his music in and just relaxes on the train home.
I will be glad to see the spring arrive though as January is such a bleak month . I have the school run again in the morning, so I'm off to bed now .Hope everyone is home safe and warm and for those in need have a <<hug>.
Night,night God Bless
JackieO