Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Have finally updated my spending diary. Bleugh. Knew it wasn't going to be great as I've paid for the puppy this month. Still under budget but theres an awful lot of month to go and not a lot of money left unaccounted for but enough to cover everything thats needed.

Feeling absolutely exhausted despite not having done much today. Heres hoping I manage a lie in tomorrow and puppy forgets to howl at 2am.

moo2moo

So much for an early night. I'm having fun cyber shopping and have splurged on a teething toy in the hopes that it will stop the puppy eating my children. Went for the indestructible version that you fill with treats to keep her ammused although i'm not entirely sure I'll be going with the recommended frozen gravy option. What happens when it melts? Doggy drool is one thing but snail trails of frozen gravy are something else entirely.

House is eerily quiet. No bursts of machine gun fire or commando drivel, no whingy kids or repetative electonic tunes and no howling dogs. Much as I adore the lot of them its v. nice to get rid of them for a bit. Stops me going completely bonkers.

moo2moo

So much for a lie in. Puppy was howling by 5:30. Successfully ignored her for 10 minutes by which point Hairball no.1 was pacing up and down and eventually resorted to tugging the duvet off me. She really doesn't like it when the puppy cries. Let her out and then went to retrieve puppy who was sooo excited to see me that she ran in circles round my legs chasing her tail. V. funny to watch but it doesn't half make it difficult to make a cuppa. I don't begin to function until at least my third cup.

Finished my book late last night, far later than is sensible for someone whos usually asleep by 9:30. Bet I'll regret that around lunchtime. Could quite happily go back to bed for another couple of hours but I don't think thats going to happen. Puppy is happily gnawing on a tennis ball which makes a change from eating the carpet and the vacuum cleaner. Tis quite funny when she goes to chew the pepper covered carpet though as she takes a big sniff and then sneezes and wanders off in disgust. If only husbands were so easy to train. Perhaps someone should invent a keyboard that gives electric shocks when credit card details are entered. That would be most helpful although my boss would probably order one for each classroom just to keep the teachers on their toes.

Plans for today:

Toluna
DooYoo
The remainder of the surveys in my inbox
More laundry (although its raining and I can't risk drying it on the airer as its the concertina type and is likely to crush puppy when she tries to eat it.)
Further domestic drudgery
Domestic godessing in the form of calorie laden produce for lunchboxes
Come up with a thought train that does not involve men, children, animals or debt busting.
Consider listing tat on E-bay
Harass the DDs into doing their homework and tidying their rooms
Clean bathroom as its remarkably like those on How Clean is Your House? before Kim and Aggie step in.

moo2moo

I have a new contender for the most pointless on-line survey ever. Based upon me ticking the "yes I am a swetty betty" button I get to read and review an on-line magazie which is entirely in German. Can't help wondering what on earth the sponsering company gain from this.

moo2moo

I have reached the conclusion that I am paranoid. Puppy has been asleep since 10am waking briefly to scoff down lunch and puppy milk and has since flaked out again. The rational part of me assumes that this is v. normal rapidly growing puppy behaviour whilst another part of me is wondering if she has worms or some terminal illness or a virus. Sure I ddin't worry this much about the DDs when they were babies. I am neurotic. Well, OK, I am more neurotic than normal. Still whilst shes asleep she isn't eating anything that she shouldn't.

Meanwhile our duvet day didn't go according to plan. The alarm company phoned to say works alarm had been triggered and I was the first eejot to answer the phone. Arrived just as the builders were leaving, turns out they'd popped in to do a bit of vacuuming. Ho hum. They'll be gone by Friday and I get two hours overtime for cleaning up after them on Thursday although there won't be much for me to do as they're doing a pretty good job of clearing up as they go along.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

I have a new contender for the most pointless on-line survey ever. Based upon me ticking the "yes I am a swetty betty" button I get to read and review an on-line magazie which is entirely in German. Can't help wondering what on earth the sponsering company gain from this.

I got this but the magazine was in English *confused smiley was very useful*

moo2moo

OH has seen the light (again). A club sandwich in the hotel bar is 12 Euros and breakfast is a similar figure so hes taken a train to civilisation to find a cafe for dinner and to purchase cereals and milk for breakfast. Shame I can't convince him to go one better. One of his collegues travels everywhere with a weeks supply of imitation pot noodles although I do think thats just a tad extreme. V. cost effective though just not particualrly healthy.

Don't seem to have managed many of the things I had planned. Couldn't face writing DooYoos I was rather lacking in inspiration. Need to get a move on though as my points will start to expire in another month or so. Need to claim them before that happens. Have e-mailed Harris Interactive to request my points back, they've been confiscated because I haven't done any surveys in 9 months which was when they decided they'd pay everything in US dollars. They're now paying in Amazon UK vouchers but I've lost all my points. Humph. Will wait to see if they're nice enough to give them back.

Have done 2/3rds of the ironing without puppy stalking the cable. Was most amazed when that happened. Came across the ad. selling her siblings. They're double what I paid. Rather glad I got mates rates.

Spent most of the afternoon building ice-cream cones on Moshi Monsters much to DD1s disgust. Apparently parents shouldn't be able to do things like that, we're too old.

moo2moo

Have been procrastinating for the past hour. Puppy is sound asleep in puppy land. DDs are stampeding around like a herd of elephants despite many threats and I am totally and utterly kettled. Again. Have written a single solitary and rather pathetic DooYoo only £18 or 36 reviews to payout. Bleugh. My get up and go got up and went. Off to dig out a novel for bedtime because its one of those nights where my head will hit the pillow and I'll be wide awake again. Would scoff chocolate but its in puppy land and its just not worth the hassle of settling her down again.

moo2moo

Bleugh. Its monday morning already, at least its not raining. Far too tired to go and do a day at work. Not that I really do a day at work. Guess I should be grateful for that. Started my day off in fine style clearing up puppys bodyweight in poo. Am still astounded that one so small can poo so much. The worst part is its sooo stinky. Still, not a chance of having blocked sinuses when hayfever season kicks in.

Bumped into one of the local puppy breeders last night. Shes amazed that the puppy in question hasn't been taught to sit yet. Turns out having a puppy is much like being a parent on the playground on the first day of nursery school when you discover that your snotty 3 year old is the only child in its class that can't recite the alphabet in Chinese whilst doing complex mathematical calculations in order to be awarded the Nobel Prize at age 4. Most parents are aghast that your child spends its free time on the slide in the park when it could be going to Gymboree followed by Enjoyaball having squeezed in a piano lesson before its French and elocution lessons. Worse still at age 7 I neglected to transfer my poor unfortunate offspring to the local private school thus ensuring they grow up to be Bin Men or hookers or worse. Still at least they'll both be in trades where theres never a shortage of clientelle or work.

At the mo. I am more than happy that puppy is chomping on my children less as the week progresses and is happier about being shut into pupy land although you wouldn't have thought that from this mornings 5am howls. Fortunately the time honored tradition of burying ones head under the duvet works a treat and I managed to sleep in until 6am when the alarm went off.

Plans for today involve doing all the things I didn't get round to yesterday plus putting the ironing away and teaching puppy to sit. Damn it. I was trying for a puppy free sentence but am so besotted I am incapable.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Worse still at age 7 I neglected to transfer my poor unfortunate offspring to the local private school thus ensuring they grow up to be Bin Men or hookers or worse. Still at least they'll both be in trades where theres never a shortage of clientelle or work.

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Morning Moo!