Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

lucielle

Enjoy the flicks.
L

mooomin

Hope you managed to use the cinema codes ok, I won another two today so you might find another super-secret MSE email coming to you soon :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moo2moo

Thanks FF although perhaps the small print might help too. As it was we arrived at the cinema and broke their automatic ticket machine. Not content with that we moved on to the next one and broke that too. Turns out from the error message on the screen that despite the on-line ticket booker allowing me to obtain three free tickets in one transaction the cinema collection point does not and went into technogeek melt down.

Went to the desk manned by real people which was under seige thanks to aome imbecile crashing two of the four automated collections points. Explained to the zitty supervisor that I was simply trying to pick up tickets but computer says naw. She inserted my credit card (zero charged but needed to book) into her machine and it spat out one solitary ticket. Shoved my mobile phone under her nose (thank god for small leaps in technology - and even more amazing that it had sufficient battery power to do this and was not lounging about at home in the fruit bowl as per normal). Persuaded her that I really should have 3 tickets not one by which time shes breaking into a sweat and the tutting queue now reaches the very windy world outside. She phones a friend who explains where the reservations menu is. That doesn't recognise my booking reference because I've collected my tickets only I haven't well not all of them anyway. She escorts me to the machine to see if I'm dumb enough to have left them in it. But no it has an error code on it saying mutliple redemptions are not possible... much prodding of the screen fails to do anything so we return to the cash desk where she phones another friend and eventually decides that since my mobile screen says I should have 3 tickets she'll hand over another two anyway. So it may well be that two of the three codes I have are still valid. Not entirely convinced one way or the other.

Ended up going to see Nanny McPhee as they aren't valid on 3D films but enjoyed it v. muchly. Anything featuring poo is always going to appeal.

Mucho thanks FF!

moo2moo

Squeezed in an hours cleaning at school, some pottering about at home and several happy hours grooming a pony at the stables. The DDs had the best day of the hols ever.

Plans for today involve getting them up and out of the house in 40 minutes with enough food to keep them going for 12 hours. Need to venture into school to let the builders in, kill half an hour and then drop them off at the stables for the day before returning to school to do something constructive which will not be in the builders way. Its a toss up between carpte cleaning and tidying my office. Office is a very generous descriptive term for the 5th of a windowless prison cell with my job title on the door.

moo2moo

Have wasted four hours at work doing sweet fanny adams. Seems rather pointless me being there as there really isn't a lot i can do. Have cleared out a cupboard throwing 70% of the content in the bin. No school needs 40 manky rotten mop handles. Nor do we need 6 mop buckets or 20 ordinary buckets, most of which are missing handles. Cleaners are in for a major shock when they return. I've even been bored enough to stick one of the many spare paper towel holders on the wall in the janitorial room rather than the usual pile stuck on a shelf. Bored, bored bored.

Tokk the DDs riding and saw the enormoous minature horse that is our puppy. Shes recognising her name and is by far the most inquisitive dog in the litter. Shes on solid foods and off to the vets for round one of her innocculations tomorrow so she may well be coming home later on this week. Eeek. Finding more escape routes each time I wander round the garden.

moo2moo

Another day, another mountain of laundry to tackle. Can't fathom why though. DDs 1 and 2 have been spotted wearing the same smelly poo splattered jodphurs seach day since Sunday. OHs mountain is still at his side of the bed and I've only had one change a day but the basket is still overflowing. Bah. Still it will give me something to do this afternoon.

Am only pottering about at work until lunchtime after which DD2 is going to a friends and DD1 is off for some quality daddy time at the range leaving me totally and utterly in peace. Will be heavenly although they will all expect feeding when they get home so must remeber to do something vaguely domesticated although this will be a bit of a challenge as although the freezer is crammed to the top it seems to be full of bread and sausages. Must put a bit more thought into grocery shopping next time I venture out.

House is still suspiciously tidy. Not entirely sure why. Perhpas theres something to be said for frogmarching the DDs out of the house almost upon waking and feeding them and throwing them straight into bed upon their return. A more suspicious person would think it was because OH was spending more time at work and less time rearranging bits of Land Rover and the asociated books and manuals and brochures that seem to accomany this. Either way its nice to walk in the dorr to something that doesn't make me want to hurl 1001 things into a bin bag so that I can make a cuppa. Haven't ventured as far as the DDs bedrooms recently though, I suspect the level of devestation within is of epic proportions since DD2 was observed entering her room sideways.

aliasojo

Love this thread. It's like a book in bits iyswim.

Eager_Elephant

Well.....

There is a slight update regarding the bin bag of cat litter in the utility room....

DH cleaned out the litter trays again the other day and .................... he placed into the new bin bag of cat litter the old one which was laying on the floor and ...........................................................................................
did NOT put it in the bin!!!!

Instead the larger bin bag is now in the same place as the old one!!!

I refuse to move it for him!! I have been in the utility room today and swept around but have not moved the bin bag!

His jeans are also still hanging around the utility room - not sure when they will get moved!!

More updates to follow!

EE

moo2moo

Men are completely totally and utterly useless. Actually I should edit that to read Straight men are completely totally and utterly useless. Gay men appear to have the straight mens share of the colour co-ordinated domesticity gene and they all seem to be drool worthy too. *Stomps foot* its not fair. Why should straight women be burdened with the slobs?

That said OH is being suspicously domesticated at the mo. He washed up, most of it even looks clean enough to put away, unlike normal where you'd swear he washed the rasting tin first and then dunked everything else very rapidly into the resultant greasy water. Still at least he washed up and cooked dinner.... even if my vegetarian meal came with miniscule bits of bacon.... bah. They might be tiny but I don't do meat no matter how small. Took me ages to inspect each bit of pasta and retrieve the bits from where they were hiding in the sauce and then I had the gall to tell DD2 off for playing with her food.

Humph. Distracted myself again. Meant to say that of course OHs new found domesticity had nothing to do with his recent foray to the Snap-On Van. Nor the purchase of some special offer allen keys - a bargain at £40 for 8. Really they were. Not that thats what he went there for, oh no, he spent another £30 on something or other else which is critical for doing his day to day job but which isn't included in the offices comprehensive tool kit on account of how if its not in the kit they don't require it to do the job even though the items in the supplied kit don't undo whatever highly crucial thingamibobby needs undoing. Computer says nah. Boss who does the paperwork and never needs the office says naw and so the chaps buy tools themselves and themn their boss borrows them when they're not inwork to do whatever job needs doind cos their personal kits are more comprehensive than the supplied kit which never seems to carry precisely what he needs to do whatever it is hes trying to do. Surprising that really.

OH has been set his objectives for next year which impact upon his payrise. To get the full payrise they have to meet all the objectives which means OH needs to support 3 different European destinations and get promoted two levels above his supervisor in order to qualify tfo the training course they insist he needs but whose minimum entry requirements are £250,000 budget control, minimum underlings of 36, severe stress, a beer gut and a rapidly balding head. Ok I made up the bit about the beer gut. Tis fairly plain to me that this would come under the heading of an unrealistic target.

moo2moo

Moving swiftly on to other things I have to squeeze in another 10 hours at school before Sunday. Doning quite well at job creation at the mo. Blitzed the barely used kiddy kitchen. 4 ring oven... 16 saucepans etc etc. Barely enough worktop space to kebab a cat... 6 cheese graters, one microwave, one combi oven, one toaster, one kettle, eight hopping boards. The only way you'd get 8 (or even four) chopping boards onto the worktop is to balance them on top of said microwave and combi oven and sink. Still I was ruthless and turfed out loads of stuff and having perfected the art of cramming shed loads of stuff into very little space its marginally better than it was when I started.

Other exciting tasks included hanging the door to the playhouse... yes I know, its only 3 weeks since I put the walls together but I've been avoiding all things requiring a chisel cos I was convinced I would remove the wrong chunks. As it was I fitted the door hinge... some wierd off set crank type thing ..... lo and behold attempt one had the door offset to the left in mid air by several hinges. A few more holes later I still hadn't got it right. Attempt three involved turning the hinges upside down and using the first set of holes I'd drilled.... hey presto. Mission successful. Of course it took three times as long as it should have done and I was really really really peed off at the end of it. Todays master plan involves fitting two windows. How hard can that be?