Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

MatyMoo

Ouch ouch ouch Glad the antibiotics are working so fast.:)

moo2moo

beanielou wrote: »

Errrr why did you get a single packet of crirps through the post?

Tis one of the more absurd things the on-line survey companies do. They give you 20p to waste 15 minutes of your life answering ridiculous questions and then blow a tenner shipping some product to you to test for a further 20p. Am determined to reach payout with each and every company no matter how long it takes.... and in some cases it will take a very very long time.

beanielou

You Gov certainly takes an age.

moo2moo

Have found a home for the icing bags with one of the TAs at school. These particular TAs are not to be confused with those who find it fun to spend their Saturdays and Sundays crawling round muddy fields on their bellies but are instead ninja level experts in the art of sticking, gluing, laminating and photocopying. Quite why they feel the need to combine the lot by gluing leaves onto a sheet of paper and then feeding them to the laminator where they invariably get stuck is beyond me.

Shouldn't have returned to work this afternoon. Walked through the door to find DD2 looking like a zitty puffa fish having had an allergic reaction to something that she'd either eaten or brushed her face against. Quite what it was remains a mystery.

Further fun discoveries involved the cowboys who had managed to create an airlock in the water supply. Not that any of the little darlings had bothered to mention it to any one. Oh no. They just continued using the loos and lobbing more and more paper in until the airlock cleared and some bright person flushed generating a cascade of lumpy brown water and quite a lot of soggy loo roll which launched itself over the rim and onto the toilet floor. T'was not pretty. T'was also quite smelly.

DD2 had a fab time at her party despite being caked in antihistamine cream.

moo2moo

OH has wangled a day off work, the DDs are spending the entire day at the riding school and I have absolutely no idea whats on the cards for me. Managed to get the remaining ironing done yesterday and swept the floors. Have a £5 off Mr Ts voucher to use by tomorrow but haven't any space in the freezer. Need a few bits and peices but not £50 worse and OH has volunteered to accompany me which is another good reason not to go. Doubt he'll have any problems blowing fifty quid.

moo2moo

Ebay auctions end in 12 hours and not a lot is happening. Think sales will be pretty dire. Still thats less stuff to cart to the Post Office.

Had the mother of all barneys yesterday with OH. Hes suggested taking the DDs on "a holiday of a lifetime" to Florida. My initial response was not good.

My first thoughts were you did exactly the same trip with your mother a decade ago visiting all the same places you've mentioned and hated it. My second thought was the more problematic eek but I'm not convinced we'll be together in a years time and I'm not putting up with another year of shoite for the sake of a holiday. Voicing this was not what he expected.

Of course hes since gone on to suggest this to the kids and as predicted (by their mother) being asked what the perfect holiday could be given the option to choose anything they wanted having quickly discounted Mexico and Morocco (too much sand), EuroDisney, Australia and a few other places they've agreed that the perfect holiday would involve sheep, cows, goats, ducks and horses and would involve staying on a working farm in Scotland (haven't a clue why Scotland) learning how to milk the cows and look after the animals.

OH is more than a bit bemused by this.

The earlier discussion ended up with me admitting that I didn't know where I was going to be in a years time but wherever it was I wanted to be much happier than I am now. Perhaps hes finally getting the idea that things are going to be changing and possibly not in the way he wants.

I guess the time has come.

Quite what the time has come for I'm not sure.

moo2moo

Didn't achieve very much yesterday. Went to Mr Ts and blew £62 after vouchers, mostly on soft drinks and pizza for dinner. Taking OH is never a wise move. Spent more time working out where he'd wandered off to with the trolley than I normally spend doing the shopping. Find it most infuriating that I shop by price whilst he shops by flavour. Why would I want to pay 90p more for a tuna and tomato pasta bake when I can buy a plain tomato one and add a can of tuna? Why would I even buy a pasta bake in the first place when I can chuck a tomato sauce together from the stuff we have in the cupboards? Meh.

Did at least manage to return the unopened mobile phone for a refund without question.

Spent the remainder of the day with the chainsaw. Hoping to get the remaining chunk of trunk on the ground today and then clear up.

Wordsmith

Argument, bad; bringing things to a head, good. Now it is out in the open, don't let it go on the back burner with you both simmering under the surface. Any chance you could get away for a weekend by yourself to decide what you do want? Good luck.

chevalier

sorry to hear that things have been so tough for you.

Ouch to the tooth abcess, I can't imagine how that must hurt. I hope that the antibiotics have sorted it out now?

Sorry that your OH was so far off with what would be a dream holiday for the girls. oops. But well done him for being around when you weren't at your best with the tooth.

I did have to giggle at the description of your boss actually noticing that you were ill though, poor man.

I think the big row that you had has been coming for some time really hasn't it. He has pushed the limits so much, and you have taken so much off him that I am surprised that he hasn't been out the door before this really. I really hope that the prospect of him losing everything will make him shape up.

I will keep my fingers crossed that it goes the way you want
chev

moo2moo

Morning Wordsmith... nice to see you back! and Chev... thank you xx

The arguing continued.... but only once he'd sunk two bottles of wine. After that I got yet another ear bending for coming home after midnight roughly five years ago. Its not really something you can argue back about. You just sit there like a naughty child trying not to cry. Yes I was home late. No I didn't phone and yes that wasn't the greatest thing to do... but its not like it happened recently and I've been reminded of it ever since. Even pointing out that it was a sodding long time ago just results in me told I have no respect for him. Its true. I don't.

Its 50/50 this morning whether hes in a monsterous mood because he remebers this happened and is still angry or whetehr hes in an awful mood because he vaguely remebers saying something but can't remeber what it was and so will be grumpy just because theres a chance I'll be on edge.

Am feeling like I'm the one whos lost everything. I used to have a fab OH and a great lifestyle. Now I'm a virtual hermit with an OH who I avoid as much as possible.

The DDs are most definately the most wonderful things that have ever happened and so we spent yesterday evening baking fairy cakes and decorating them in putrid colours with every form of cake topping known to man.

At least going to work today will give me some time to think.