Ladies & Gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts ...

benbenandme

Another offer, another fiver :beer:
Really must go and get on with the dinner

benbenandme

Well the footie was good, we didn't play that well and lost 2-1, but more importantly Eddie Howe has confirmed he's going to Burnley Hey ho, he's been an amazing manager :T :T

In other news the ex called me tonight to say he's got a new job (goodbye maintenance for another few weeks then), and he will need to work weekends for the next few months. He still wants to have ds and leave him with his mum / g'f etc, or maybe have ds every sunday instead of every other weekend ... I said I'll think about it all over the weekend and talk again next week but tbh I don't want the routine to change, its been every other weekend for 4 years now and I and more importantly ds are uesd to this and settled with it and I don't want it all going to random days here and there again :cool: I know it can't be helped but why does he have to impact on my life so much still?? grrrr ....

benbenandme

Morning all, just having a quick mooch on here before the form is shut for the day. Yesterday was almost a nsd, just spent 85p on some milk.

Todays plan involves a chilled out day, some housework, ds homework, maybe a walk later or a film snuggled under a blanket on the sofa

pennywisepoundstupid

Sounds like my sort of day, enjoy it.

benbenandme

Aah, nice to be back

While we've been away this morning I have done an Asda order to be delievered tomorrow (one of their £2 8 hour slots), and done a fair bit of tidyingup, the flat didn't seem too bad but once you start looking a bit closer it was worse than I thought, so I have just about rehomed everything now, just time to do the cleaning bit next

My plan for the rest of the weekend involves getting my tax return done, I forgot all about this until I got the reminder from postie this morning , getting ds homework done (a project about European countries), and generally pottering and getting extra bits done around the flat

I also had a jumper delivered from Next today (one of the last parts of my xmas order), but I don't like it so thats got to go back at some point too.

benbenandme

My £50 isa payment has gone out too and that is now added to the mortgage pot :beer:

dangers

If the ex is offering to have ds every Sunday but is working on the Saturday night, would he be safe to drive???

benbenandme

Hi Dangers, the new job doesn't involve nights, so he'll be working during the day on the saturday. I'm thinking towards suggesting for the 12 weeks that he's training that he can have him every other sunday and then he can see him one night in the week too. I'm not thrilled with the idea tbh, I don't like the idea of him intruding on our lives during the week, I basically view him as a sperm donor that babysits every other weekend so I can go out without paying a babysitter, so the idea of him appearing in our lives during the week isn't nice :cool: :cool: However, I'm not too sure that there are many other alternatives. He also suggested just arranging it week by week, which would mean different days all the time, but I don't like the idea of that because (a) I would have to have more contact with him which I don't want, and (b) because I don't want to have to be double-checking the calendar constantly before I can arrange to do anything, but (c) most importantly, because I want a routine as much as possible for ds

benbenandme

Forgot to mention, I have cleared all the surveys from my inbox and have just ordered a £10 capital bonds voucher from one of the survey sites :beer:

dangers

Oops, sorry. Really do not know where I got that one from. What a pain to have to go through. Doesn't seem at all fair on ds, does it.
At least, you will start to get some maintenance again though. Does he have to pay all the arrears that he owes. Hope so!