Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

MatyMoo

moo2moo wrote: »

Puppy school was ace. In her determination to get to me the hound from hell unbalanced the instructor and then legged it in my direction. Obviously she was supposed to wait to be released before hurtling towards me at warp speed but I'm v. proud of her none the less. The rest of the class was in fits of giggles. Then came puppy swap when we exchanged leads and headed off in the opposite direction to our dog with someone elses. I ended up with two dogs at my heel and a v. out of breath dog owner hanging on the the four legged fiend in the hopes of remaining upright. If only she'd stay that close in the park.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moo2moo

Cider is still untouched in the fridge. Can only assume OH purchased it out of habbit and is now using it to prove to himself that he has some willpower and can choose as and when he wants to drink it.

Finally got to speak to a nice person about the phone bill. Turns out in transferring our account from one system to another they've lost the direct debit instructions and so we've missed a payment. A whole £25 worth I might add. The first chappy made it sound like we'd fleeced them out of millions. Still its an excuse to write a rambly ranty letter about their shoite customer service people. Had to pay by card over the phone to clear the account but even then they haven't noticed their glaring error. Took me 15 minutes to convince them that the address they have on file is garbage. I mean who writes an address with the town name followed by the street followed by the post code then a random number and a house name? No wonder we haven't recieved a letter tellling us that payment had bounced even though they claim to have sent it before the date they collect payment. Lying bunch of deranged loonies.

Work was most interesting. The longest serving of the cleaners has had enough. Or rather shes enjoyed eating dinner at a normal time and having an evening to spend with her family over Christmas and has handed her notice in. Not unexpected. Shes been threatening to do this for years. She leaves in four weeks but since this is a council position it will be at least 8 before anyone replaces her which means theres a potential for 15 hours a weeks overtime for a while not that I actually want to work until 9:30pm each and every night but the job still needs doing even if theres one fewer person doing it. My options are to run round like a loony doing the absolute minimum or to take longer and still do the minimum. Oh joy. Plan to persuade the boss to advertise on the playground for a relief cleaner so that we can get them CRB checked and started asap to cover this. No looking forward to the interviewing bit though. Tis so hard to do this without laughing. I started the last one v. tactfully with " Hi, welsome to school. How do you feel about cleaing 40 toilets, 5 urinals and several dried vomit splats everyday?" Though who wrinkled theri noses in disgust at the thought didn't last very long. One who admitted she didn't think the job would involve toilets and wasn't prepared to do any didn't get much further and the chap who turned up with a wrist support and RSI that couldn't vacuum because of it. Well. Nuff said really. Apparently its unethical to turn people down because of medical issues but really who makes these things up. Ah hello you're in a wheel chair. No problem. Wedge yourself into this v. narrow toilet cubical and don't forget to clean the pipes behind it. In another life perhaps.

Plans for today involve a trip to Makro and the ironing I didn't do yesterday. Fun, fun, fun.

moo2moo

Makro was whoopsie heaven. T'was so good in fact that I even considered buying another freezer but couldn't figure out where to put it. I spent an astronomical amount of money but since £40 of my £120 bill was stuff the OH purchased with his Christmas money my actual spends were a mere £80 which included:

Catering packs of 24 sausages for £1 - will be living on sausages for quite some time. Was v. restrained and only bought half a dozen packs although thats 144 sausages for £4.

Also bought 6 kilos of extra mature cheese at £2.25 a kg. Most of that is in the freezer.

The rest of the stuff wasn't quite as cheap but was still cheap in comparison to the supermarket. OHs favourite sausages worked out at £9 for 60. They're huge and ooze flavour. He happy to have those instead of chops so although they're a little expeensive they're muchly cheaper than meat cuts.

£11 obtained 48 rolls of Charmin or Cushelle or whatever the heck its called now loo roll. Won't need any more until July.

£10 got 2kg of hot chocolate which I'll decant into a smaller jar. The DDs get through loads.

And finally pasta was £5 for 5kg. Got the posh mutlicoloured stuff.

There were quite a few other bits besides ranging from fahita dinner kits at £1 to 4 pints of milk for 50p. Was most tempted with 25kg of sugar for £10 but couldn't work out where I was going to store it. Equally managed to avoid the temptation of 48 packs of crisps for £2.50. The DDs would have been delighted but space became a major consideration.

Freezers are now crammed to the point of bursting and I'm still trying to figure out where to put the loo roll. Almost came away with a 120 wash box of Bold for £6 till I discovered it couldn't be used with the septic tank. At least I figured that out before I bought it.

Of course I then left the shop and discovered that the little bit of white fluff had transformed into three inches of snow which made getting home more than a bit interesting. It seems to have disappeared overnight though so the DDs are going riding.

I meanwhile have a pile of ironing to do... yes still... and the DDs thank you letters to bung in envelopes and post. OH has offered to take them so that I can have a morning to myself. This is unheard of. Usually he does everything he can think of to avoid going alone. Mind you he bought wine at some point yesterday and only had a standard sized glass which is equally unheard of. Expecting some major binge to come along at some point in the near future as things seem to be going along a bit too nicely. The super helpful thing has worn off but hes not quite as much of a slob as he had been in recent months.

moo2moo

I attempted to stay up to watch Resident Evil last night but gave in in the end after the old dear stood and huffed eventually resorting to woofing at me and heading for the door and repeating until I got the idea it was time to go upstairs. The four legged fiend was a bit more persuasive and materialised with my pj bottoms, followed by my pyjama top and then my slobber covered book, open at the page I left it. Decided it was safer to go to bed than risk anything else being brought to me. OH was presented with his glasses and the phone earlier in the day before being wallopped across the knee with an empty dog bowl.

MatyMoo

moo2moo wrote: »

I attempted to stay up to watch Resident Evil last night but gave in in the end after the old dear stood and huffed eventually resorting to woofing at me and heading for the door and repeating until I got the idea it was time to go upstairs. The four legged fiend was a bit more persuasive and materialised with my pj bottoms, followed by my pyjama top and then my slobber covered book, open at the page I left it. Decided it was safer to go to bed than risk anything else being brought to me. OH was presented with his glasses and the phone earlier in the day before being wallopped across the knee with an empty dog bowl.

This is VERY funny :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

£11 obtained 48 rolls of Charmin or Cushelle or whatever the heck its called now loo roll. Won't need any more until July.

And how the heck do you do this? I only need one of my nieces in the house and they get through a ROLL a DAY :mad:

chevalier

wow talk about emotional up and down time.:eek::eek:

I don't know what to say about that for sure.

But well done on the bargains in makro and lol about getting another freezer to fit it all in. I bet you are glad you resisted that idea!

Good luck with the budgeting. Can't believe how much OH insurance went up. Does he have a job where he is a high insurance risk or something. Have you looked at the article about tweaking your job title (not lieing i hasten to add), to get a lower quote?

chev

moo2moo

MatyMoo wrote: »

This is VERY funny :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

£11 obtained 48 rolls of Charmin or Cushelle or whatever the heck its called now loo roll. Won't need any more until July.

And how the heck do you do this? I only need one of my nieces in the house and they get through a ROLL a DAY :mad:

Umm that would be because my idea of a world crisis is an imminent loo roll shortage and so I already have at least a dozen stashed in various cupboards and drawers. Besides which OH isn't toilet trained and since the DDs are only here for about four waking hours of every day they get through very little.

moo2moo

chevalier wrote: »

wow talk about emotional up and down time.:eek::eek:

I don't know what to say about that for sure.

But well done on the bargains in makro and lol about getting another freezer to fit it all in. I bet you are glad you resisted that idea!

Good luck with the budgeting. Can't believe how much OH insurance went up. Does he have a job where he is a high insurance risk or something. Have you looked at the article about tweaking your job title (not lieing i hasten to add), to get a lower quote?

chev

OHs insurance went up because he does 30,000 miles a year. Apparently the more you drive the more likely you are to have an accident unless you do under 5K a year in which case you're even more likely to have a prang because you lack consistency and experience. Mostly though there have been so many accidents because of loony driving this winter that claims have shot up and when that happens everyones policies go up too.

Had a glass of wine at dinner with OH last night. I was issued with my usual bucket whilst he had a thimble full. Fridays bottle is now just under half full but thats mostly down to me yesterday. Tis all very surreal.

Meanwhile money is flowing in and then more rapidly out. GOt a £25 giftcard from Mr T towards the damage caused to OHs work torch by their leaky batteries. Am more than a little surprised. Then discovered the bottom of the log pile and had to order another delivery which will set us back £180. Still its better than being cold especially since its supposed to snow again this week. My current account is already in the red after the Makro trip so will need to shuffle some cash around to cover this as Fridays payday is an awfully long way away. Have promised to take DD1 shopping today to spend her Christmas money in the sales whilst DD2 is at a birthday party in a sweet shop in the same village. It saves making the 20 mile round trip to drop her off and then repeating it to pick her up an hour and a half later.

Seem to have got lots of things done again. OH did some jiggery pokery with bits of wood to stop stuff falling off the back of the PC desks shelves now that theres no longer a giant pile of flooring leant against it to prevent this. Managed to do all the ironing and roast enough dinner for two days although since the cat played football with the joint and the hound from hell did a runner with it when it hit the deck we gave it to the old dear for tea last night and I'll have to magic up something else. Can't see them being overly keen on garlic mushroom lasagne which I threw together for me whilst the oven was on. Even the DDs got in on the act and transformed the manky bananas into chocolate banana cake. Got a bit carried away and decluttered a Terrys chocolate orange whilst trying not to fall asleep watching telly.

Plans for today involve preventing DD1 from buying carp whilst allowing her to be completely in control of her own decisions, also need to put the x-mas decorations in the loft before the box I dumped on the landing needs dusting. Could also do with cleaning the bathroom but that will be so much easier tomorrow when the DDs are elsewhere otherwise one of them will demand to use it just as I finish mopping the floor.

moo2moo

and so we attempted to kill an hour and a half shopping but were thwarted at the first hurdle by being in tumbleweed central, a place where nothing opens on a Sunday. Window shopped instead before wandering round aimlessly to kill time. DD2 had a fab time and had pancakes and ice cream for lunch before departing with an enormous stash of sweets and candyfloss. Total spends to day a whopping 20p on parking. Also visited a cash point and liberated the last of the money from my emergency account to cover the log delivery. Have two accounts teetering on the verge of being overdrawn but since both have interest free overdrafts this isn't quite as dire as it sounds. Just means I need to avoid spending any money at all (apart from the £6 or so in my wallet) between now and Friday. Somehow I need to magic up another couple of quid to cover tae kwan do on Thursday and swimming lessons. A piggy bank raiding session is required.

moo2moo

Dreaming of a cleaner again. Of course common sense tells me that the place is a nightmare to keep clean because theres so much carp in it. Pretty much every surface is covered in something that shouldn't be there. After a year of ruthless chucking out which if I'm honest is more half hearted shuffling you'd have thought I'd be vaguely on top of this. Still seem to have more furniture than we need and whilst I'm getting shut of it OH is trying to persuade me to buy more.

Am going to pootle outside to poopa scoop and whilst I'm out there I'm going to bag and dispose of the myriad bags of fire ash that OH insists on lobbing out of the window. Of course they'll weigh a ton and make the wheelie bin super heavy but they're going along with anything else that gets in my way but doesn't serve a purpose. When it gets too cold to pootle outdoors I'm going to chuck at least one bin bag of stuff from the house too and then I'm going to taclke the remaining thank you letters. Such fun. Not.