Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

NannyOgg wrote: »

Someone did

The bit about women being worshipped made me chuckle!

Am now £167 lighter. Clearly OHs shift being changed to one that allowed him to accompany us to the supermarket was not the best move the universe could have made. We now have more lights and decorations than ever despite not having unpacked the accumulated stuff of previous years. Its all sitting in a big box on the floor.

Things are drying out slowly although the bathroom ceiling is still v. soggy am expecting it to take at least a week to dry out, probably longer meanwhile mold spots have appeared on the ceiling of the other bathroom so will be bleaching that in the v. near future.

OH managed to stay sober last night making for a peaceful evening although he looked like hell this morning. Had several random arguements mostly infantile things like me describing freeze dried soya as immitation cardboard whereas he'd picked up several packets as a treat... for a hamster perhaps. OH also tried to get me to purchase Tia Maria because I like it but as I've found on numerous occassions I have a single glass and the next time I visit the bottle its empty. Politely declined this. Hes insisted on buying a bottle of wine to accompany Christmas dinner. I diplomatically decided that the local supermarket was not the place to point out v. loudly that it was a daft idea. Am glad it was only the one bottle though.

Now have a freezer full of whoopsied meat, hopefully I'll manage without supermarkets until school starts again. Highly unlikely but I live in hope.

Spent an afternoon delivering Christmas cards writing them as I went. Clearly this is both highly eficient and organised as well as being v. MSE. Attempted to post the school photos that accompanied us on our round trip to OH mums onward to his mum but discovered the Post Office was shut. On Christmas Eve. Who'd have thought it?

Still doing laundry. It really is never ending. At least the sofa covers are now dry so I can rebuild the sofa thus returning all the cushions and covers randomly strewn throughout the house. Am hoping this will tidy the place up a wee bit but even my optimism can only stretch so far. Still I have a cunning plan Baldric and this involves eating Christmas Dinner in a room which is not festooned in carp. Obviously leaving this to the very last possible minute means I'll be very very ruthless. Clearly I'll also be doing this whilst watching the second part of The Chronicles of Narnia, cooking dinner and wrapping the last minute stocking fillers aquired over the past week. Am missing four items which OH bunged in one of the cars many hidey holes, some of which I can even open, obviously the items in question are not located in these.

moo2moo

Totally randomly the chooks are laying frozen eggs. Tis most odd. They're like Slush Puppies with a frozen yellow golf ball in the middle. Only discovered this when I dropped one by accident. Also discovered that the four legged fiend likes frozen egg although it took ages for her to eat.

Mags_cat

moo2moo wrote: »

Totally randomly the chooks are laying frozen eggs. Tis most odd. They're like Slush Puppies with a frozen yellow golf ball in the middle

:rotfl:

Thank you for that - it really *did* make me LOL!

Season's wossnames, moo. I hope you get chance to make the best of it for you and the mini-moos.

x

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Totally randomly the chooks are laying frozen eggs. Tis most odd. They're like Slush Puppies with a frozen yellow golf ball in the middle. Only discovered this when I dropped one by accident. Also discovered that the four legged fiend likes frozen egg although it took ages for her to eat.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Are you friends with Flooze on Facebook? She left Pepsi in the car the other day which froze then exploded ice-showers all over her boot

Ho ho ho to you my dear, hope you have a lovely time. Xxx

moo2moo

flying_fresian wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Are you friends with Flooze on Facebook? She left Pepsi in the car the other day which froze then exploded ice-showers all over her boot

Ho ho ho to you my dear, hope you have a lovely time. Xxx

Oooh nooo. Poor Floozie..... have to admit to having a close encounter with a bottle of coke which rolled around in a footwell for the duration of a trip from Yorkshire to Berlin prior to me deciding to open it in the car thus drenching everything in sight. Stopped at a deserted truck stop to grab some clean clothes, stripped off in the car park and then spotted an audience of truckers in the window of a cafe at the other side of the road.

Having a quiet cuppa before the slumbering daughters arise. Tis going to be a most interesting day. OH is planning to be as awkward as possible and has decreed that nothing will be opened prior to breakfast. Really can't see that happening although I can safely assume 1/3rd of a bottle of brandy has a fair bit to do with that decision. Will make sure the DDs have a great time even if hes determined not to.

Merry Christmas all!

Trying_to_be_good

Merry Christmas, moo. May your stockings be full of interesting lumps.

In thinking about that, it's why we have stockings in our house - they are officially pre-breakfast opening, with everything else saved for after breakfast. It leads to the rationing of chocolate in the stocking as that's also fair game for before breakfast!

MrsMoo2U

Hope you managed to have a good day Moo and that the girls enjoyed opening their presents before Breakfast.

Randomly I too was on the same motorway near Oxford on 18th/19th December. Managed to clear it at 2.40 am in the morning - having arrived on it at 4.30 pm the previous day. I am not following you - honestly !

I hope that whatever decisions are made, you New Year starts as you mean it to go on.

moo2moo

cherisong wrote: »

Randomly I too was on the same motorway near Oxford on 18th/19th December. Managed to clear it at 2.40 am in the morning - having arrived on it at 4.30 pm the previous day. I am not following you - honestly !

I hope that whatever decisions are made, you New Year starts as you mean it to go on.

Oooh nooo that would have been so much worse. Did you arrive in Switzerland eventually?

moo2moo

As predicted OH had forgotten all about the banning of opening gifts before breakfast, a statement made even more absurd in that he never eats breakfast anyway. By the time he awoke the fires were lit, laundry had been done and 101 other random things accomplished. Can't say it was like a normal Christmas Day but it wasn't as strange as it could have been although it was most definately a case of us and him. He happily unwrapped his gifts, mostly PC games which he'd purchased for himself and a pile of jaffa cakes in all their various guises. Whilst the DDs were eating breakfast he installed the first of the games and played constantly pausing only for fag breaks and to cook dinner to ensure it was edible.

The DDs and I watched the Polar Express and built several of the 3D wooden puzzles they love before attempting to teach DD1 how to twirl a baton (random Santa gift) after that that spent an eternity practicing magic tricks with the aid of a magic set before giving a performance, a performance OH attempted to opt out of. Sometimes I really don't get him. Of course it was going to be awful and v. funny but the whole point of parenting is to encourage them and to be there when they fail to suggest they try again. DD1 made her sister disappear and DD2 tried the trick with the disappearing balls, several plastic plant pots and a tea towel which resulted in cotton wool balls flying across the room much to the kittens delight.

Did manage to read a novel from cover to cover when OH fell asleep after dinner and woke up just in time to go to bed. Oddly he had difficulty sleeping which meant a disturbed night for all. Managed to drop off just as he left for work at which point the kitten stood on the intercom (stupid in built feature of the phone) thus making it ring in the bedroom. Like a muppet I answered it expecting the sort of call you don't want to recieve at 6am only to discover it was a false alarm. Meh.

Santa was v. kind. I have fleecy lined trousers and a thermal t-!!!! for dog walking as well as a scarf and wimbledon-esque ear warmer plus a small mountain of chocolate that is depleting rather rapidly. Also have enough shower gel and hand cream to see me to at least Easter. The DDs got tons of things ranging from painting by numbers to new PJs. Have already relegated the outgrown PJs to the recycling pile.

moo2moo

Plans for today involve achieving shed loads of housework before OH returns home around 11. Am hoping that two more loads of laundry will see me locating the bottom of the baslket at which point I can start on the bedding. Still need to bleach the bathroom ceiling and randomly tidy up. At least the flood zone is tidy even if OH hasn't taken the hint about the Landy wing being in the way.

Still drying out the flooded bathroom. Attempting to do it v. slowly so as not to bring the ceiling down but its still v. wet in there. The celing is covered in large drips which don't seem overly keen on departing. Don't want to attempt to fix the burst pipe until I can be sure that thats not going to make things worse although I'm getting very impatient.