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Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

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  • moo2moo
    moo2moo Posts: 4,694 Forumite
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    Yes indeedy shes v. v. adorable. Also v. labour intensive (am not thinking about that - means the DDs can groom a dog each). The resident hairball was lured into the shower as part of phase one of Operation Invasion. Spent a happy 20 minutes giving her a v. thorough wash with flea shampoo. Only clogged the shower drain once. Shes now v. v. white and fluffy shes also moulting everywhere as the jet blast from the shower has loosened all the dead hair in her coat. No doubt she will at some stage emphasise her disgust at this by launching her wet smelly derriere at my bed and rolling round on the pillows drenching everything in sight. Have her tucked on a mound of towels in front of the fire but suspect it will be several days untils shes completely dry.

    Blew my £30 Ocado voucher on shed loads of dog food for delivery on Saturday along with an awful lot of store cupboard stamples aka baking ingredients. I fear I may well have overspent on groceries again this month.

    Meanwhile car is now making funny noises when cornering at speed. Doubt I can get away with creeping round corners at 15mph until its service in July so will be on the blower to the garage later. Oh joy.
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  • Awwwwww that is one cute puppy!!!!!! How exciting.
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  • beanielou
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    Looks like she will be a real cuitie pie.
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  • DedicatedDFW
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    Hi moo - just wanted to pop in and say I have happily subscribed to your shiny new thread ;). Dog photos are looking fab and am excited to see pictures of the actual dogs - current one and new addition - what are their names by the way? Take Care
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  • moo2moo
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    Halooo! The ladies names are top secret and highly confidential. Will refer to them only as the hairballs to protect the identity of their paranoid owner. Passed the house inspection *whoop, whoop*. Vet inspection is first thing this morning. Hopefully will be able to collect her before lunch. The DDs went to visit her last night and dropped off a blanket to bung in her kennel overnight so that she has some familiar smells when she arrives. Busy shuffling furniture to give her a bolt hole somewhere quiet to allow her to settle in with minimal stress. Have threatened the DDs with DS deprivation if they enter her room whilst shes having some quiet time. Not entirely sure that this will be nescessary but at least if she has the option of it it may help her settle in.

    Tidied like a mad thing last night. House looks like we're planning a midnight bunk as theres a huge stack of boxes in the corner of a room full of stuff whilst all the low ledges and tables are minimalistically baren. At some stage will have to empty the boxes, probably to find the TV remote that DD2 helpfully packed away somewhere near the bottom of the pile.

    OH is surprisingly excited and spent a happy couple of hours making the garden dog proof.
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  • moo2moo
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    edited 18 March 2010 at 3:15PM
    Meanwhile back on planet Earth work has been surprisingly entertaining. Was told by a JCB driver that I had a very nice bum wiggle. Same fella and his supervisor had been persuaded to supply "a couple of barrows" of concrete into schools greenhouse base, even opened the gate so that they could drive the JCB across the field to save barrowing it by hand which is just as well as my crater ate 1.5 tonnes of the stuff. Better still they shovelled it into the hole and levelled it and smoothed it off and have promised to come back tomorrow to lift the greenhouse into position and mortar it in. Took them two cartons of juice as a thank you much to my bosses ammusement. Still working on a JCB driving lesson. Not fancying the offer of sitting on the sweaty drivers knee for a quick razz around the field. Somehow thats not quite the same.

    Boss is now finding it highly amusing that a mini Mexican wave occurs whenever I set foot outside the building as the fellas working on the road all wave at me. I suspect he may be making fun of me for quite some time. Staff are already referring to them as my fan club.
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  • moo2moo
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    Went to collect hairball no. 2 at lunchtime. She peed on the floor everytime she was touched, cowered from a passing car whilst out for a quick walk when OH sorted the paperwork, chattered her teeth together in fear at something else, bared and snapped her teeth and generally cowered and piddled and still we brought her home.

    Half an hour later we hadn't had any puddles or drips. Shes wandered tound the house and the garden, met and ignored the hissing spitting venomous thing we affectionately call cat (not its real name but since it also answers to "Ooow get your fangs out of my foot" this is an improvement on some of the things I could call it). Chickens were also successfullly ignored despite walking under her nose. OH is finding it rather funny that shes making a point of ignoring everybody else but keeps walking up to me and batting me with a paw for a fuss before returning to her explorations. Fortunately after an hour of this shes now snoring away contentedly at the side of the sofa.

    We now have her on a weeks trial after which she is inspected to make sure shes happy and healthy and isn't losing any more weight and then we can officially adopt her.

    Pulling a sickie is v. tempting, no chance I'll get away with it though.
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  • honeybear_2
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    Economic Model - With Cows:


    SOCIALISM
    : You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour.


    COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

    FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

    NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.


    BUREAUCRATISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away...


    TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

    SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

    AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

    ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
    debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.

    FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

    JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

    GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

    ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

    RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows because you’re sobering up and open another bottle of vodka.

    SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5,000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

    CHINA CORPORATION
    : You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

    INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.

    BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad.


    IRAQI CORPORATION: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none.
    No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....

    AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers.


    WELSH CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.

    :D
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  • moo2moo
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    Morning all. Having to type with one hand as hairball no. 2 has taken to sitting on the PC desk if my hand is not on her shoulder. Trying to persuade her that she is not a cat but shes not convinced.

    Had a v. strange night. When I left for work hairball no. 2 was stretched across a door way like a 3D rug. When I returned she was still there but wearing a lead. OH put the lead over her head and she growled at him so he tried to take it off and she growled some more and then firmly removed his hand from her head and told him where to go. Got home to find them having a growling competition. Clearly we're not having that so told her to shut up, leaned across her and opened the door then whisked her straight out for a walk. Clearly thats not what she was expecting. Returned home and attempted to remove her lead and was met with growls and the gnashing of teeth. Left her a bit and tried again with equally little success although its rather odd to be growled at threateningly by a dog who is laid on her back in a submissive position and is licking your hand at the same time. Took hairball for a 3 minute wlak, whooshed her into the back garden and removd her lead whilst mobile with no trouble at all. Can only conclude from this that whatever abuse she had featured her neck or collar and shes particularly skitty there.

    She spent the night asleep across the door. Refused to move this morning but happily had her tummmy rubbed although peed because she hadn't been out to the loo for 10 hours (not surprising really). Utilised the door opening trick to take her down the road, fed her and she has since been superglued to my knee. If I stop stroking her hse nudges me to remind me and if that doesn't work shes attempting to gain my attention in other ways, although shes learning v. quickly what is and isn't acceptable. Currently shes mid squeaking conversation with the Chinchilla.

    Now running late for work, kids still asleep, haven't had breakfast or made their lunches or done anything else. Off to get a move on. Toodle pip all.
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  • DedicatedDFW
    DedicatedDFW Posts: 4,234 Forumite
    Hi moo! D'oh! - yes when I read your reply about the dogs names I totally realised my faux pas on your faux pas thread.

    Just a thought - though you are probably already aware of this - do you think the new dog might be easier with one of those harness type lead things? I think these go around their back somehow instead of the neck? Have a Good Friday
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