Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Gravity has played havock with my former shelf, its more like an undulating ski slope.

Bored of waiting for the phone to ring. Cakes have 25 minutes left to go. Can't be arsed bunging anything in the oven for dinner may well just have a bowl of cereals later. To make up for this I've placed a heck of a lot of chickpeas in to soak as the basis for tomorrow mights farty bean curry. At least if I chuck it in the slowcooker in the morning it will be ready to eat whenever I feel hungry.

Laundry now sorted into the relevant piles ready to put away next time I venture upstairs. Will bung the final load of laundry on the airers once the four legged fiend has gone to bed to stop her retrieving it and making a giant nest behind the armchair which she then moults over whilst chowing on pond weed. She truly is the most disgusting dog ever.

Must remember to starve cat over night in anticipation of the stitches coming out tomorrow. Not too early though as I can live without her howling for food at 3am. Meanwhile the geriatric hairball is looking longingly at the door to the stairs in the hopes of being allowed to go to bed. I know the feeling. Starting to feel shattered but can't go to bed until I've shut the chickens in. besides which its far far too early and I 'm rather looking forward to a hot bath. Was vaguely tempted to unbox the DIY electrocution kit that OH presented me with a few years back when turning your ordinary mundance bathtub into a single jet jacuzzi was all the rage but it involves far too much messing about before hand and takes an eternity to dry out for storage afterwards.

moo2moo

Have performed my night nurse duties and issue dog with anti incontinence medicine and cat with eyeball cream. Elderly dog, puppy, kitten and chooks are tucked up in bed. Allowing poorly cat five minutes more chow time before clearing up the disaster zone created by the giant plastic collar which acts like a scoop and liberally redistributes biscuits everywhere.

Washing now draped over airers, my final chore of the night. Never did get round to listing anything on E-bay, still theres always tomorrow or tuesday or wednesday or even thursday.

DD2 is having a fab time. Random hotel guests keep giving her money for being well behaved and polite, it also helps that shes small, blonde and curly. OH tried to explain that she shouldn't accept gifts from strangers but as she pointed out he expects her to cuddle Nana who is just as strange as the actual strangers. Guess theres no arguing with that. Would have loved to have been there when she said it though.

lucielle

Your DD is priceless, sort of thing my DS2 would come out with. Reminds me of that programme with the children running rings round the parents, can't remember what its called now.
L

chevalier

moo2moo wrote: »

mind would boggle but apparently his mother used to do it that way. Of course. Makes perfect sense now.

Plans for today involve mucho housework and the aquisition of a crisp £20 note when I eventually figure out which account has cash in it, assuming at least one of them does. Payday is a very very long week away.

Car sailed thorough its MOT leaving me with a bill for £141 and instuctions on how to treat the giant patch of rust in the boot with the kindly supplied can of aerosol wax so as to prevent it faling its MOT in two years time as structurally defective and suitable only for the great scrap heap in the sky. At least that gives me a time frame for starting and indeed saving shed loads in Moo's New Car Fund. Technically this should be called "Moo's slightly less knackered geriatric shed on wheels fund" but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

So what this means is that you need to tell your OH that he can't go on this jolly of his until you have saved up for a new car.......

moo2moo

chevalier wrote: »

So what this means is that you need to tell your OH that he can't go on this jolly of his until you have saved up for a new car.......

Ummm well in theory that would work but as a five car household I doubt I'd get away with that, even if two of them are MOT less. THe remaining three are road worthy and insured. Worse still the boys toy is in far better shape than my car but it eats fuel. My usual £40 a month suddenly becomes £100 plus. Mad holiday plans haven't been mentioned since the other half of the outfits boss told him there was no way he was having three months off work. OHs boss was a bit more diplomatic about things and agreed in principle if it was for charidee and more importantly if he could convince his overworked stressed out co-workers to work the overtime to cover his absence.

Besides OH would happily go running out the door waving a piece of plastic in the air and purchase me a new car like a shot. Hes already got a shortlist in mind. It differs dramatically from mine. I'd consider a micro estate. Something like a Peugeot 206 estate. Big boot with a low entry for the dogs, back seats which fold flat into the floor (again for dogs) and five doors cos three is a pain in the bum with car seats. most importantly it needs a fair bit of legroom for the rapidly sprouting DD1 whose knees jam into my back when she sits behind me. OH on the other hand is thinking Land Rover 130 with a utility configuration... road tax would be £400 a year. Hes already decided it might be wise to fit it with a snorkel just in case I have to drive home amid a flood to save me taking mamoth detours as is the current method of avoiding flooding both car and engine. Apparently I'll also need underbody protection in case of road debris. Then I can see him "borrowing it" to do his holidays in as the boys toy Landie and Project Landie are "too small" for some of the trips they fancy.

I am resisting until the very last possible moment and have liberally caked my rusty patches in spray on wax to make this date as far away as possible.

moo2moo

Day two of Moos stay at home vacation promises glorious sunshine which is just as well as yet more laundry is on the cards.

Seem to have royally screwed up on quantities of ingredients for x-mas cakes. After the first four I've run out of butter, oranges and treacle whilst having enough almonds and flour for another 20 or so cakes. Will pick up the bare essentials on my way home from the vets in anticipation of baking another four cakes tomorrow which will hopefully clear out a few more bits from my stash of baking ingredients generating enough shelf space to finally put all of last weeks shopping away. Also need to buy chicken feed whilst I'm out and I fear I may be running low on puppy food too although as the bag claims I should be shoveling almost 1kg a day down her throat thats not entirely surprising. Sadly it also explains the ridiculous quantity of shoite emerging from the other end. Am v. tempted to get a horsey muck scoop as my usual plastic poopa scoopa snapped under the weight of one of yesterdays deposits.

Other excited plans for today include the decluttering of the kitchen cupboards. All of them. Which means shutting puppy in the garden for the majority of the afternoon whilst I tackle the lower cupboards to stop her running off and hiding everything. I seem to have aquired a ridiculous amount of stuff from people who have moved or decluttered and decided that since I bake I'd like their surplus stuff. I can however only get four bun trays in the oven at anyone time which is clearly why there are 9 of the things occupying cupboard space. Also have something approaching 40 cake tins in assorted sizes. Mostly they stack neatly but I really don't need them all.

After that I plan to make a start listing on E-bay. Bleugh. Going to cheat and list the lots first as that clears more things in less time generating more cash that single things, well thats the theory anyway. Mostly its outgrown school books from intensively homeschooling DD1 in holidays in order to help her catch up to her class in a way she could cope with without her realising thats what was going on.

Sadly it worked a bit too well and DD2 has assumed that this is normality which has caused no end of problems in school as shes reading the same books as the school reading scheme albeit four levels higher than her class. Means when they are issued a new book shes tells everyone what its about before they've even started and is quite happy to hold an opinionated discussion on the contents as its already been discussed in detail at home. Fortunately her teacher chose to do the sensible thing and by the end of the year she was allowed to go to the juniors and choose any book she liked to read quietly on the proviso that she doesn't butt in and correct the other children when they are reading aloud. The juniors are a lot more laid back about that sort of thing so life should be a little easier for her there.

Need to remember to buy the DDs new school shoes. Am having nightmares that I'll wake up on the first day of term with that niggly feeling that I've forgotten something and only work out what it is when the DDs are standing at the door in their neon coloured Crocs.

moo2moo

Remainder of yesterdays laundry on the line, first load of today in the machine. Curry in the slowcooker. Off for a mini photographing session in order to get the first batch of stuff on E-bay. Its has all the hallmarks of being another fun fiilled day. Keep having to remind myself that the place will gets worse before it gets better. Obviously it would be helpfully if puppy wasn't converting twigs into matchsticks on the carpet but at least its twigs shes chewing and nothing else.

mooomin

While you're doing eBay pictures you could do a puppy update picture

moo2moo

I can do a kitten update ....

moo2moo

48 items listed on E-bay fortunately all as job lots. I'd have lost the will to live had they all been single item listings.

Off to locate my wallet and throw together a quick shopping list before crating up the yowling starving cat and ferrying her to the vets. Got a couple of minutes spare to swap the laundry on the line for wet stuff.