Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

Bitsy_Beans

Afternoon everyone.

Loving the positive stuff on here, is it to do with the weather do you think? I have to say it's easier to be bouncy and perky when the weather is sooooooo good

I am all giddy with excitement. I have a pile of gorgeous fabrics with which to make skirts and dresses for DD :j Thought trip to Rag Market was going to go pear shaped at the market is shut on Wednesday :mad: but thankfully there is an indoor market next to it which sells mostly foodstuffs but luckily there was a stall there absolutely teeming with lots of lovely fabrics. Oooh I was like a kid in a candy shop :rotfl: So I have enough fabric to make some dresses and skirts and a bit left over for any small craft projects at a later date.

Now if the Universe could find me the (minded) child free time to do it I shall be like that

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>:D So c'mon Universe I would like a (paid) week off work so I can get on with my sewing, pwetty pwease

I ought to investigate saving X amount of £'s each month towards car tax, Class 2 contributions quarterly paid and incidentals. We don't quite live hand to mouth BUT apart from now starting to overpay the mortgage each month we don't save a penny. Time to look into juggling the budget methinks........

Claire - Hope the boys feel better soon xx

MG - Definately make your dad "sing" for his supper

Dinah - exciting new about the website

crickett1234

Afternoon Matrix. Sorry I have been absent for a while. Congrats to MG and Marru! I need to re-read the Secret as well...!

Had loads of meetings yesterday afternoon, then the internet was down this morning at work and then I had a morning full of meetings. I now have an afternoon of sitting at my desk and slogging through lots of work.

My day was really successful yesterday. I ate my way through 4 of my nastiest frogs and feel all caught up with myself. I went home and cooked dinner as well as making breakfast and lunch for today, cleaned and generally pretended to be a housewife, and then sat down and watched a bit of telly and did lots of crocheting. It was a splendid day.

I have just renewed my car insurance. Holy cow,.... that was expensive! Still, at least I am legal. More than can be said for a lot of the cars on the road. Which is seriously scary.

Tonight, I am leaving work at 4-ish and then heading to a DIY store to get a pretty pot so that i can make my own water feature in the garden (and I am going to buy myself a waterlily to grow in it as well!) I already have a solar pump and fountain, so the only thing I actually need to do is get the container, plant up the waterlily, position the pump and bingo! All done! Shouldn't take me long, and hopefully it will sound lovely and calming and peaceful in the garden. Then I am going to collect in the washing, put on another load, cook dinner (grilled chicken breast, homemade coleslaw and homemade potato salad with melon and rhubarb and giner yog for afters), make breakfast for tomorrow (breakfast trifle - stewed fruit, yogurt and muesli layered. Yummy!) and lunch as well (coleslaw with ham and grated cheese with a homebaked bread roll). I have some puff pastry left over from the quiche I made last night, so I was thinking I might make some cheesy nibbly things for hubby and I to have a gnaw at! Then it is crocheting again. I managed to do one whole patch of the baby blanket last night - so if I do the same thing tonight, I will be getting on for half way through the whole project!

And at some point tonight I need to do the menu and the shopping list for next week so I can get the shopping done either tomorrow night or Friday night. Busy, busy, busy!

Memory_Girl

We are all just rattling along aren't we??

Welly waddle was fun - just having lunch from the freezer (khichri with egg FREE - Yay!!!) The I am going to "ahem!!!" Strategically leave the tools to hand for when Dad arrives.

TFN

MG

troglodyte

Afternoon everybody!

Loving all the good news! Congrats Marru on the house and MG on the work, and everybody else who is achieving things! :j

We've just had a carpet fitter lay carpet in our last bedroom, yay! Now can set that up and move on to the stairs, we are getting there in baby steps! Also made chocolate beer cake for OH's birthday, when it's cool I'm going to sandwich it together with rhubarb cream (no idea if that will work, but have read that rhubarb and chocolate are a good combination) - he loves rhubarb, and we have a positive hedge of it in the garden so busy exploring rhubarb recipes at the moment; had mackerel with rhubarb and orange sauce last night and that was really nice, rather to my surprise!

Workwise a bit quiet today so a chance to make progress with other things - problem is that when this happens I have so many things I could do that I don't know where to start and end up wasting half the time in indecision

Hope you are all doing better than me

clairewop

Back from town, got hanging baskets, been to bank and credit union, stopped at the chippie on the way home.

Both boys have picked a spot in their bedroom to be de cluttered, ds1 is doing the top of his wardrobe and corner shelves, ds2 has chosen a cupboard, (one that can be removed if boiler goes) both have been given a black bag to fill.

Memory_Girl

20 minutes till DAd arrives - tools are draped casually - LOL

We have loads of Sub Artic Tomatoes sprouting, and some cucumbers - no courgettes though so may start a different seed packet off soon. The Bok Choi and Chinese cabbage are rampant - and the chilli seeds have finally peeked through.

Sorry - this must be as boring as talking babies to non Mums - but DS1's excitement about his garden is really rubbing off on me.

Off to put the kettle on and making some biscuits too methinks. I am in the mood for NICE biscuits - anyone remember those? I will dig out my grannies recipe and report back.

MG

redsquirrel80

Memory_Girl wrote: »

20 minutes till DAd arrives - tools are draped casually - LOL

We have loads of Sub Artic Tomatoes sprouting, and some cucumbers - no courgettes though so may start a different seed packet off soon. The Bok Choi and Chinese cabbage are rampant - and the chilli seeds have finally peeked through.

Sorry - this must be as boring as talking babies to non Mums - but DS1's excitement about his garden is really rubbing off on me.

Off to put the kettle on and making some biscuits too methinks. I am in the mood for NICE biscuits - anyone remember those? I will dig out my grannies recipe and report back.

MG

Garden updates are exciting Jealous of your tomatoes.. waiting for plants we ordered to arrive. Lots of leafy things here too, and a few chunky courgette babies

Craftyscholar

Dinah93 wrote: »

I LOVE the idea of going in with lots of £1s to pay off the morgage! But the bank would make you sort them if they're not sorted into bags already in full ammounts - I did a bake sale for Japan a month or so ago and hubby counted and sorted it all but didn't write on the bags, I had to do it all again which drove me mad as I'm sure they could have weighed them!

I'm fairly sure there are legalities about the amount of any denomination of coin you can use to pay a bill (pity, it was a lovely idea)

However if the coins were sorted into separate bags I really do not understand why the bank would not have weighed them.

Memory_Girl

Craftyscholar wrote: »

I'm fairly sure there are legalities about the amount of any denomination of coin you can use to pay a bill (pity, it was a lovely idea)

However if the coins were sorted into separate bags I really do not understand why the bank would not have weighed them.

I figure 100 Matrix Ladies - banking a few bags each .................. with a film crew in tow :rotfl::rotfl:

BTW - its just a dream innit

MG

EssexHebridean

I agree - it must be the weather with all this positivity flowing about! Not surprising really either, it's glorious outside here although I guess might be a bit more nippy out of the sun.

fairly productive so far today -
One load from the machine, on the airer.
Load already washed folded ready to go away
Next load to the machine ready to go through tonight
Dishwasher emptied
15 minute tidy around the place generally
Submitted my Avon order
Designed my flyer for the next Avon Campaign (and worked out how with only a little extra work I can cut down having to print two bits of paper to in the bags with the books each time! Yay!)
Done an online exchange for a customer with a faulty item and also a credit/return on one thing I managed to get free for someone via another deal. Yay again!
Done couscous for lunch with enough left for fridays lunch as well.

I still need to:
Once Avon flyers have printed, get them cut up and loaded into the bags with the books 7 order forms
Do at least one more 15 minute tidy round
Deliver my final two Avon orders and wait for my neighbour to knock for hers
Drop off Avon books
Washing up

Probably some other stuff too but that'll do to be going on with! oh - forgot one thing - CUP OF TEA!