Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Marg wrote: »

Hello!
I've only just discovered your thread but because of time constraints only read the first few pages and the last couple. You certainly have a way with words and should try submitting a few articles to magazines or newspapers.

Hello Marg!

But what the heck would I write about????? Wheres the bemused smiley when you need it? I suppose I could always write one for a parenting magazine entitled "How to abandon your poorly sick child and bog orf to a partay staying up super duper late and keeping its sibling up until 5 hours past its usual bedtime whilst embarassing it in front of all its relatives by dancing rather badly, singing rather loudly and most out of tunely making up the words as you go along whilst leaping about like a woman with an electric eel in her undercrackers" Catchy don't ya think.

That was after I traumatised child by driving with minimal attention to the road signs which resulted in a bit of a detour up the M6. FOr someone who finds dual carriage ways at 50mph fast, the five lanes of the M6 at 80 was most scarey and DD2 learnt lots and lots of new swear words. Most impressive was being undertaken by a taxi driver who decided to use the hardshoulder as his own personal lane and then inserted himself into my coach sandwich before swinging out two lanes and back in again rather swiftly when he realised he'd missed his exit and left the motorway by breaking sudddenly and swinging his car through 120 degrees at the barrier to face the oncoming traffic. Then there was the emergency stop we performed at 70 to avoid a cascade of Sainsburys bags rapidly exiting the rear of a slaloming hatchback and the general stupidity of other drivers not to mention the torrential rain and the lack of visibility and the road spray and the flooded bits of motorway and the endless roadworks without a single worker in sight. Tis amazing I'm not a nervous wreck.

Have eaten a v. well balanced diet of fish and chips, cake, profiteroles, gateux, cheesecake and more cake then was reminded at breakfast, halfway through a left over bowl of crisps, that the dairy based stuff really needed eating up and since Granny is on a diet and Gramps is diabetic I did my best.

Helpfully delcuttered the venue and managed to cram three dozen helium balloons in the back of the car much to DD2s amazement. She seems a bit better but probably won't make school tomorrow.

OH meanwhile is a differnt person. Following some sort of catastrophe involving creosote he managed to dye his beard orange and make everything he ate and drank taste revolting. Hes now clean shaven for the first time in 15 years and looks most funny. Not only is his chin the sort of persil white that fluoresces blue in nightclubs but it also emphasises his double chin, I hadn't even realised he had one until I was confronted by it in all its glow in the dark glory.

Rather amazingly OH has managed a load of laundry in my absence and has also washed up. Am still in a state of shock.

moo2moo

rupe34 wrote: »

Moo - I love the hoody - I think it comes under the heading of 'necessary purchase' no?

Was the no a typo?

Have discovered that its available on Amazon for the same price and I have almost enough Amazon vouchers to cover it. Still doesn't stop it being rather expensive though even if it is most excellent.

Wordsmith

moo2moo wrote: »

Tis amazing I'm not a nervous wreck.

Er ... have you ascertained you are not?

Wordsmith

moo2moo wrote: »

... but it also emphasises his double chin, I hadn't even realised he had one until I was confronted by it in all its glow in the dark glory.

And I am sure you desisted from mentioning anything about it ... :rotfl:

moo2moo

Wordsmith wrote: »

Er ... have you ascertained you are not?

Of course I'm not a nervous wreck, I have no nerves left, besides which I'm busy doing what all stressed out women do after several glasses of vino. I'm clothes shopping on flea bay. I'm being very restrained.... remind me I said that in the morning!

chevalier

as long as he wasn't trying to drink the creosote, I guess it turned out ok. And at least if his skin is white now, he will be able to get a tan on it in the coming summer....Or is he going to grow it back in, so that he doesn't have the evidence in front of him every morning of how much overweight he is......
chev

firesidemaid

oh moo!

thanks for the heads up re the preserving book:D

have wanted it for a while and that's a good price.

will check if the book peeps are due at work this week, o/w i'm ordering it;)

my OH got me a maslin pan and several other jam-making essentials for xmas, so am much better prepared this year.

i christened the pan the other week for some (yummy) strawberry jam - it was so pleasant to find that i wasn't trying to cram everything in one of our normal saucepans as usual! no mess all over the cooker too:rotfl:

moo2moo

Soooo time to get it over with and admit to yesterday evenings extravagent purchase. I succumbed to Joe Browns, admitedly not directly but it is a rather odd purchase. Winging its way to me is a white (eek) halterneck top with invisible support for a mere 10% of the current retail price. Have bought a size bigger than I think I need having read lots of horror stories about things being too small. But even so its white and girlie but it was cheaper than paying postage for something from Joe Browns direct only to find it doesn't fit and it will give me an excuse to buy a pair of girlie shoes to go with whatever the heck I decide to wear it with. Its going to form a key part of my "sensible" capsule wardrobe. For I have reached the conclusion that I can do capsule wardrobes (not the plural) as long as I categorise them and so I'm aiming for the following sub divisions:

Work (also suitable for gardening and domestic drudgery)
Girlie (for those days when its the only way to persuade OH to do what a mans gotta do)
Sensible (because you never know whats aruond the corner)
Eccentric yet funky (simply because I can)
Freakin Fabulous (for pretty much anything and everything else)

Am also going to sub-divide undies by the same benchmark because it seems a bit mad to have fabulous smalls yet never wear them even if they are completely unappreciated by OH.

moo2moo

Wordsmith wrote: »

And I am sure you desisted from mentioning anything about it ... :rotfl:

I didn't have to say a word. DD1 said it all for me.... screaching (as only a preenager can) "OMG.... what have you done?"

moo2moo

In between staying up too late watching dross on the telly box and generally feeling shattered as a result of almost three hours of motorway driving I managed to whip up two cakes for todays lunch boxes and retrieve the laundry I'd hung on the line before departing on Saturday which at least guarantees the DDs have dry uniform for school today.

Need to do some housework today to eradicate all traces of OHs weekend of bachelor pad living. Also need to source dog treats as the hound from hell is due to have her annual boosters this morning and will get far too excited without.

Rather amazingly haven't spent any money at all this weekend. Used last weeks P!necone payment to cover the unexpected flea bay purchase. OH did a bit of shopping yesterday so am well stocked up on all lifes esentials... chocolate donuts, jam donuts, milk and biscuits which hopefully means I should make it to the end of the week without venturing near a supermarket.

The kitchen is looking more jungle like with every passing day. Almost half DD2s seeds have awoken from their slumbers and shes aquired more tomato plants from a neighbour who popped round for some eggs yesterday. Still clueless where we're going to put everything though.