Uni's going to try and change her life for the better.....

Lemon_Tree

hi i'll keep that in mind, we have it at the moment but would have to get it installed when we get our new house and OH has never been a customer in his own right. Tis a tad annoying that OH's brother also works for sky but when we joined he wasn't prepared to help in any way at all, but then agagin he'll only do things if he thinks he can get something from it or for someone who would be eternally grateful and worship the ground he walks on.
how are you doing today? are you working or do you get to enjoy the bank holiday? my OH is going into work at 2

Uniscots97

Let me know when you want it then LT, we get these every few months. This one expires later on in september.

As for your OH's brother not helping out thats a bit mean, isn't that what friends and family are for? If I can help my friends in some way after them helping me then I think thats a good thing.

Yes I'm working today, nipped up to shops quickly to grab ribbon to finish the nappy cake. Got Organza ribbon (2 inch wide) and got half inch silk to put in the centre of it. Got 6 metres for £2 (its all white). I was thinking about cutting out gold teddy bears to put on the half inch ribbon or do you think that would be overkill?

Ok payments, have updated some but not all, C1 has gone up but not by much. I should be able to bring that back down this month. 'Beanz' is now under 9K!!!! I can't believe it, nice feeling. Just wish the others were coming down as fast.

Lemon_Tree

i'd say the bears would be too much, when you think about it, it's only the likes of us who would take the ribbon off and reuse it for a project or something. But only you can tell when you do a couple to see how it looks.
to be honest my BIL is so full of himself it winds me up, he was brought up as the golden child as she did the college, buy home thing etc but he was given opportunities that the others weren't. I guess he also plays to his mothers weaknesses, she values people who flash the cash rather than those who do things to help. hey ho, they'll be no changing her now

Uniscots97

I think I'll leave the bears off the ribbon then. Have all the bits and pieces for it now.

Updated all my totals now. No extra work tonight, looking for to having an early night but stuff to be done first. Lunches made for tomorrow.

Uniscots97

Got nice freebie from freebies board so that will bulk up the hampers i'm doing a bit. OH keeps going on about going on holiday in a few months (we both have time booked off) but he fails to see we really can't afford it. Short of a miracle or me working every spare minute on my extra job its not going to happen. I just wish he'd stop bringing it up.

Only egg payment still to come off, that'll leave me about £150 for the month. Trying hard to stick to packed lunches, brought in 2 panini's today. I ate one and the other can stay in our work fridge until tomorrow. Also brought in some fruit (although the pear I have is so hard its more like a turnip) and a packet of crisps. I have to get out of the habit of spending. Even the freebie was amazing as I'll be able to use the baby wipes out of it for myself.

My Vivatic payment goes into my Paypal account on thursday so thats a little extra dosh though I think that should be used to bring C1 back down.

Lemon_Tree

just a thought but if you're OH isn't working can he not do some of your second job for you or sign up to do it himself?

going to take a leaf out of your book and go and make my lunch for tomorrow rather than leave it till tomorrow morning rush making it.

Uniscots97

I had thought about it LT but its not feasible. They do listen in (on the calls) and my profile says I'm female, and you can only have one account per landline number.

Have cracker of a headache tonight, narrowly missed being hit by a noticeboard falling over (its scraped my good suit jacket so its missed my head by a few centimetres) at work. Went into shock, not good for a new job. The headache I'm guessing is stress, although I do have a sore throat. Feeling a wee bit sorry for myself.

Uniscots97

Feeling a bit more like myself this morning. OH gave me petrol money, he's just as skint as I am yet stepson is taking money off OH for petrol and stepson has more in disposable income than both of us put together! I've stopped making stepson packed lunches, I'm fed up him wasting them or moaning (he moaned the bread wasn't soft enough when it was only a day old yet wuold happily eat it in the house!), so decided on a bit of reverse psychology. He admitted he's been eating McDs every day (sandwiches I'm guessing get thrown in the bin!) and is spending nearly a tenner a time (he'll quite happily eat 5 burgers in one sitting, the pound ones. No wonder he's got stomach problems), tried to tell him thats a week's wage he wasting every month just in fast food. He's still not saved anything towards car repairs. But I'm hoping that once he sees just how much he spends he'll realise why both of us take packed lunches.

Lemon_Tree

i think you're completely right not doing stepson a packed lunch, let him fend for himself he'll soon learn the value of money and families. Bit of a cheek him taking petrol money from your OH though.
Glad you're feeling a bit better today

Uniscots97

He has got a cheek LT, stepson got let off from paying any dig money at all for 3 months (whilst he was job hunting). He got job seekers, but had no outgoings at all. We had to nag him to put money on his phone (he expected his friends to phone him). No offer of even a fiver or whatever and he knew how tight things were. Now as I said he has more disposable income than me and OH put together yet is happily taking petrol money off OH. He seems to forget all the times that OH paid for a tyre etc for stepson's car and never got paid back! OH even had a word with stepson saying about getting me a card and a box of chocs to say thank you for not taking any dig money off him whilst he wasn't working (which I could have as he was getting job seekers, and he moaned when he had to buy envelopes out of his own money after I said I'd cut his hands off got touching my craft stock as he went and helped himself without asking). Has he got me anything? Nope. He bought 'you know who' a present, £30 spent on carp. Did he get a thank you? Nope. We bought a takeaway on saturday and I said to him "you can get the next one"..... his reply? "that'll be f***** shining"! Nice eh? Sorry just venting. So I'll stick to my guns on this one.
Have also not long phoned him to make sure he's up for work (long story but he turns his alarm off and he and OH are working in same place but different shifts otherwise OH would let him sleep in and on his own head be it), just rang out twice. So texted him to say how many times I called and why. That means if he tries to be devious and say I didn't call I have proof (yep, he's done that one before as well). I can't call OH as he'll be sleeping (opposite shift from me) so stepson will just have to get himself up, I can't do anything from here.

On a brighter note, I went out at lunchtime and got 12 croissants reduced (lunches and freezer) and some bases for more nappy cakes (silver).