Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

Trying_to_be_good

And woohoo - page 100 of the 'new' diary! Thanks for the ongoing entertainment, Moo.

moo2moo

Oops. Me thinks the girl doth waffle too much.

Scoffed cold left over pizza for tea. Blew the no frivolous or unplanned spending thing by buying icecream after our trip to the park but in my defence m'lud I did purchase them at Lidl gaining six for less than I'd have paid for one at the park. Of course I also bought milk and pizza but no ones perfect. Figured whilst I was on a roll I'd get a couple of other things out of the way and so have purchased cub uniform for DD2. Rather fortuitously cubs are updating the uniform by adding funky purple trim which meant the official supplier is clearing out the old stock for less than used stuff is shifting for on E-bay.

Did a bit more ironing but still have more to do. Its a never ending task.

moo2moo

Plans for today involve balancing precariously on a chair to liberate the spare seat box from the top shelf whilst trying to prevent a pile of precariously balanced eyebrows (of the Landrover kind), several cat carrying boxes, a bow and arrow (confiscated from DD2 some time ago after we caught her aiming at pigeons) and a whole heap of assorted tat aka as OHs fishing rods and the DDs v. smelly festering crab nets.

OH is then planning to amalgamate the decent parts of the two knackered seat boxes into one that fits the new gearbox combo in the hopes of only needing to order two replacement panels. I'll have to admit to being a bit sceptical about this since there are more holes in it than a pair of fishnet tights. Most of the places that securing bolts were attached no longer exist having crumbled into oblivion quite some time ago. Means that all the newly painted bubblewrapped bits can occupy the shelf space which should.... note the should... get some of the parts out of the way.

Further plans involve pottering around school killing five and a bit hours to complete my week. Not a clue what I'll end up doing because I seem to have been pottering aobut all week with the result that my to do list is empty which means washing handprints off walls is high up on the list of things to do to kill time. Bleugh.

Need to visit a cashpoint to cover tomorrows riding lessons and Sundays shoot although OH has muttered something about visiting a model engineers open day which means much admiring of chuffing trains and much expenditure in the hopes of stoping the DDs voicing their thoughts out loud. There are times it would be so nice to be an 8 year old and get away with yelling "I'm bored, can we go now, have you finished yet?" sadly being a thirty something year old this is frowned upon.

Wordsmith

moo2moo wrote: »

There are times it would be so nice to be an 8 year old and get away with yelling "I'm bored, can we go now, have you finished yet?" sadly being a thirty something year old this is frowned upon.

Never stopped me. Although that could go some way to explaining why I spend so much time alone these days.

moo2moo

I fear I'm in the bad books again. Decided to interfere with project Landie by insisting that the seat box was placed on the chasis to give me an idea of what went where because I couldn't get my head round it. Turns out the reason I couldn't get mey head round it is because the ones we have are the wrong shape as are the footwells OH has spent days respraiying. The good news is they're too big so OH can chop them down and make them smaller, the bad news is that the tunnel which covers the gearbox needs to be rather more oval than rectangular and the only solution is to obtain a new one which is considerably easier said than done. Taking a presure washer to the bits which were OK to use has revaled quite a few holes that need welding up and having jet blasted a large chunk of batttery box across the garden it appears that knackered beyond repair and needs replacing too. Obviously this goes a long way to explaining why OH bought stereo speakers for it yesterday.

Anyhow that not of any further conern until at least lunchtime since OH is taking the DDs horseriding and I'm going for a natter with the laydees of the Country market. Am hoping I'll also get paid today, all £10 of it. Have shuffled about and labelled stuff up and was rather surprised to discover I already have 15 varieties of jam to take with me. Hoping that increases sales considerably. Need to inventory the jam cupboard when I get a bit of peace in the hopes of keeping track of whats in there because I really haven't got a clue although I'm guessing theres something approaching a hundred jars stashed in various locations. At least it'll make Christmas gifts incredibly easy this year, just need to change the labels and find some sort of box to bung them in.

Need to get a load of washing done and on the line before I depart and could do with a quick sweep round because everywhere and everything is coated in black dog hair. Also need to print out a list of dates for horse riding so that OH books them in for the right things on the right day. Could also do with washing up, diging out a card for tonights birthday disco and picking the next lot of ripe strawberries. Have almost finished the ironing so plan to get the last few items out of the way and the board back in the cupboard too. Tis all easily achievable in the next few hours providing I don't sit on my bum at the PC for too long.

Withdrew £40 from the cash point which should see me through to next weekend. Have a few extra activities to cover plus trips to the Eisteddfod which require spending money so have agreed to reinstate the DDs pocket money which means forking out £3 a week each. Am rather hopeful that this will work out cheaper in the long run.

chevalier

So you are in the bad books cos you wanted to plan hmmm? lol chev

stripes

Its impressive your list to do, mine would have been iron and call it the end of the day:j

chevalier

mine too stripes!

moo2moo

Managed to get everything done and still arrive at the market early. V. v. quiet today but I sold 5 jars of jam which is more than I sold in the first three markets put together. Looks like I'm finally getting things right.

Came home and spent the remainder of the day dismantling the original landrover. Theres not a lot left thats attached to it although its still mobile, not that we can get it anywhere. Now need a free listing day on E-bay to get shut of as many parts as possible.

Threw together dinner from the remenants of the freezer and a pineapple that was several weeks past its best. Really need to shop on Monday. Discovered a second money off voucher for Mr Ts but one that requires £50 spending on things that aren't food or drink or laundry products. I guess thats rather unlikely to be of any use at all.

Grabbing a quick five minutes peace before whisking DD1 off to her party. Need to clean the kitchen on my return and hang out a machine load of clothes which were the result of allowing DD2 to blast mud and chunks of rust of the chassis without reminding her to make sure there was no one in the line of fire first. Further plans would involve scoffing the box of chocolates and boutille de vin rouge won in the last village quiz but have yet to collect them from a friends house. Guess I could always detour home from the party, its a heck of an incentive. Whilst I'm there I can also order another Avon hairbrush since the last one we got was fab, so fab that DD1 has comandeered it and I'm relegated to using the infuriatingly naff one.

MrsMoo2U

Moo, you fair wear me out. Just catching up with your diary and i am exhausted.
Quick question - not that I have a tesco near me but where do you get these money off vouchers from?