To remind myself how far I've come - my debt diary. - SOA added

The_Dragon

chocaholic110 wrote: »

Grr...OH has agreed to drive his brother to wherever they are going tomorrow, which means he will be out driving 7 hours...AND apparently will have to pick him up on Friday, meaning he'll have to do the journey again. And he can't see why I'm annoyed that it's going to take up two days of his week off - he hardly gets any holiday time to start with. And I'm being made to feel as if I'm being unreasonable and it's obviously "my hormones playing up".

Argh! Men!

Hmmm - sounds as though the guilt trip worked!!!

Is there any reason "dear" BIL hasn't got his own transport?

chocaholic110

The_Dragon wrote: »

Hmmm - sounds as though the guilt trip worked!!!

Is there any reason "dear" BIL hasn't got his own transport?

I'm not really sure. He's a bit, um "fly-by-night"! He borrows cars, or buys cheap cars then sells them after a couple of months and buys a new one. He's "between cars" at the moment.

Thing is, even though I'm mad, I can see how OH feels because we're both rubbish at refusing family pressure!

Uptomyeyesindebt

Choco - I think you and I are living parellel lives!

We are both getting Euros to go to Disneyland Paris, both moving house and I had to drop keys at the estate agent as the surveyor is coming on Monday! How spooky is that!

Oh, and we're both in debt of course. Thankfully I don't have in laws who want to borrow my car while away then lay guilt trips on me. Have fun at Disneyland. I too will be surreptiously getting my packed lunch out! And filling my bag during the continental breakfast each day!!:rotfl:

chocaholic110

Uptomyeyesindebt wrote: »

And filling my bag during the continental breakfast each day!!:rotfl:

I have never had the nerve to do that even though OH always wants to - [STRIKE]might be[/STRIKE] will be different this year though!

Enjoy your trip too - see you on "It's a small world"

*wanders out singing the Small World music that will stay incessantly in head now for the next three weeks*

Uptomyeyesindebt

Not sure if I have the nerve to do it either, actually!! Might just send the three kids to fill their pockets!

chocaholic110

Uptomyeyesindebt wrote: »

Not sure if I have the nerve to do it either, actually!! Might just send the three kids to fill their pockets!

Good plan - then you can pretend you don't know them if anyone says anything!
I have told my two they have to eat until they almost burst at breakfast. So if you're staying in the Santa Fe and see two kids being force fed like geese for foie gras you'll know they belong to me..or another DFW-er!

Uptomyeyesindebt

Trouble is, my ten year old has hollow legs, so I can feed him until I think he will burst - and an hour later he will be looking for a snack! He's built like a whippet as well so goodness knows where it all goes! Slightly worried about overfeeding them and then letting them loose on the rides...;)

chocaholic110

Uptomyeyesindebt wrote: »

Trouble is, my ten year old has hollow legs, so I can feed him until I think he will burst - and an hour later he will be looking for a snack! He's built like a whippet as well so goodness knows where it all goes! Slightly worried about overfeeding them and then letting them loose on the rides...;)

Ugh, didn't think of that! Maybe just Peter Pan and Snow white ride for the first hour...definitely not the teacups!

hypno06

Uh oh - I now have "its a small world" in my head and I'm not even going to Disneyland.......

its a small world after all.....:o

The_Dragon

Uptomyeyesindebt wrote: »

Not sure if I have the nerve to do it either, actually!! Might just send the three kids to fill their pockets!

My parents used to do this when we were on holiday in Italy, I used to have a largish back-pack style handbag (still do actually :rotfl:, but then it was only for hols, now I use it all the time as I have to carry Epi-pens), we used to be able to make about 8 sarnies (in bread rolls with ham, cheese, even boiled egg!), grab some fruit and if we were really lucky small bottles of water or fruit juice!