Time to hang out the dirty laundry!!

minstrel57

Hiya, I have just arrived on this site today, I find all your diary a fabulous source of information and support

J

trixiepix

Hi mistral,

Welcome to the board and my thread, i'm a novice myself but it's lovely knowing the kind people on here dip into your posts to add a bit of help, advice and support - so stick with it and i'll be checking out your posts (big brother is watching you, well big sister maybe - lol)

To everyone else, thanks again for your support, help and advice today, i have a couple of questions you might be able to help me with, firstly considering i know very little about this whole technical black magic (aka computers generally) i was wondering how i subscribe to someones thread???? - i'm fed up with trawling pages to try to find someone's post, i'm sure there must be an easier way ( i probably am mostly being a doughnut here, but please be gentle with me)

Also, complete change of subject, as you may know i have a shiny new 6.5litre (woo hoo) slow cooker, what i need to know is can i just throw everything in uncooked or do i need to brown meats as it says in the manual (defeats the objective a bit for me if i then have to be cooking it before slow cookering (made that word up i think!!)

Anyway, back to money........

Today, hubbie rejigged the 'through the week' money, so i now have a crispy £10 note resting gently in my purse (i think it's preparing itself for tomorrows spending :rotfl:) and £15 tucked away for my dental check up on Wed.
My turn to buy the coffees at gym tonite (the only working out i did was lift the coffee cup, kids did badge class) £1.40 but this was before my funds were swapped for the tenner, tomorrow i've got coffees to buy at lunch and then remembered the friend i am meeting ordered me some greetings cards which she is bringing with her tomorrow and i've got to cough up a fiver (it would be easier coughing up a fur ball at the moment), so probably gonna have £1 left tomorrow to last til friday - arrrrrgh.

On the plus side, lottery is paid, i have enough loose change left to pay for posting something tomorrow and i can pay for the the things i am committed to (dentist, ordered cards etc).

I was gonna make some gingerbread men for the kids lunches with iced on bikinis, thought they wud find them funny in their lunch box, but just tooooooooooooooooo tired, so gonna have to wait for another day, i love baking, don't have nearly enough time to do it though.

Sleep well all

xx//(' _ ')\\xx

Kittikins

wow, love the sound of the bikini-clad gingerbread men, when you make them, pretty please upload them to a photo site and send me a link

to subscribe to a thread, go into it and in the green bar bit you'll see "thread tools", click on this and you get the option to subscribe

trixiepix

Thanks kitty,

I already have a few of my cakes on flickr and when the biccies are done i'll put them on and pm you the link.

xx

trixiepix

Quickie update as feeling really tired (for a change!!).

Finally managed to put a few more things onto ebay tonight, only about 6 low priced items but at least it's a start.
Dentist check up proved to be £16.50 rather than the £15 i presumed it was, so an extra £1.50 out of my £10, at least when i met up with a friend for coffee it was her 'turn' so had a few more pounds left than i had expected.

Off to discount outlet village tomorrow armed with £50 to start some xmas shopping, gonna have to do a list in a moment of whose presents i am trying to get!

Went to supermarket to buy squash and milk and managed to go a bit over the top, picking up a few things i could have done without had a planned the day a bit better (should have put the blinking slow cooker on this morning), so have eaten into this weeks shopping budget by around £15, oh well.

Have to go to bed now as i can't stop yawning - have to remain focused tomorrow as i know i'm gonna be tempted to swipe the CC.

xx

trixiepix

So the children have been back in school for just over a week and they have come home with head lice (AGAIN!!), so off i trotted to the supermarket to find a magical potion with which to deal with the little blighters, at this point i either had to go overdrawn to pay for the 2 bottles of potion (£20, you can buy cheaper ones but from experience this particular brand strikes the little b*ggers in one treatment) or put it on the credit card, so on the credit card it had to go - here i am trying to save towards paying off said credit card and his friends and i've already stumbled at the first hurdle.
Did a bit of christmas shopping earlier in the week (which had kinda been budgeted for, so that was fine) then my 9 year old wanted concert tickets as part of her christmas present, needless to say she can't go on her own so that was £63 we hadn't budgeted on, but nanny stepped in and paid for half.

So far gonna be the concert ticket £32, the tv licence (which i forgot about) £37 and internet payment that will have to come out of next months wages (28th) roughly £80 ( in previous months it been £400 - £500, so i suppose that's a step in the right direction.

Have a nice evening.

moo2moo

Wouldn't a reusable nitty gritty comb be cheaper?

trixiepix

Hi Moo,

I've already got a 'nitty gritty' but when i checked out the 'activity' this week i decided to zap the little blighters with potion first as DD1 has such thick, long wirey hair it makes it far more bearable for her!! and i'm now sure they have been eradicated, so back to the weekly 'grits' combing (that's what my girls call nitty gritty).

The whole thing is a vicious circle, i'm really hot on my kids not having nits but unfortunately there are parents who don't seem too bothered, which is a pain!!

Enough moaning for one morning!!!

xx

trixiepix

Even though it's a beautifully sunny day today in the south west, have started to feel really festive, popped out last week to shopping outlet village (complete with list) and bought a couple of xmas pressies, sent DH to get tin of cadburys roses from somerfield yesterday (on offer £4.75) to 'put away' for christmas and started checking online for a jd bug for DD2 - i don't even want to think about how much christmas will cost but i just love it sooooo much.

xx

Kittikins

Do you think a nitty gritty would work on mixed race (i.e. very curly/thick/strong) hair? I've always been put off as DD's hair is a nightmare on the best of days.......and she is a nit magnet I usually do Hedrin gel as it seems to work the best on her hair, but thankfully (touching wood!) she's getting them far less often now she's at school.