Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

Morning Moo

I know what you mean about surveys, so boring at times. I have a few and I can't be a**ed to even look at them. Need to though to get a few pennies in. You have done very well this week . Will you get the work finished before girls get home? I like your fish.:) I've said it before and I say it again. You have a great pair of hands on ye !!!!!!

The chance of doing everything that needs doing by the time the OH arrives home is v. v. slim indeed and the longer I sit on my bum doing nowt the less likely it is that I'll get any of it done. need ten minutes to recharge post work before knuckling down. Hoping that just remaking the bed, shifting the pile of junk on the landing and getting rid of the laundry pile will work wonders. After that a speedy bathroom clean is in order and a quick mop of the kitchen floor. Anything else is an added bonus.

ebayqueen_2

You have done quite a lot Moo. Is your kitchen completely finished? Here, I made great progress today, I bought a pack of oven cleaner :) HOpe I get around to opening the packet next week when the lot are all back at uni and school. Can live in hope

moo2moo

OH arrived home early, too chuffing early. House was still rather chaotic. They'd decided to get an earlier ferry so as to surprise me. They certainly managed that! At least I'd cleared the bedrooms and made beds and the kitchen was reasonable so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Thankfully OH is a typical chap and was totally oblivious to the state of the bathrooms or even the rest of the house.

Seems like they've had a great time.

In rather shocking news the £15 freebie for signing up to Netflix is alreasdy in my bank account in what has to be Quidco's fastest ever turnaround, wish they all paid out within a week of sign up. E-bay slaes are up to £20 and the nice people from Ocado sent me a £20 off an £80 shop so I've stocked up on laundry detergent and stamps. Means I won't need to set foot in a supermarket for at least another week which is just as well because OHs car has decided to display a non-specific warning light so hes driving mine for the next week because the garage can't fit his in until next Monday. At worst I'll make DD2 get up super early and cycle to school.

Plans for today involve a heck of a lot of laundry and an awful lot more tidying up and lots and lots of cuddles with the two extremely overtired monsters.

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

You have done quite a lot Moo. Is your kitchen completely finished? Here, I made great progress today, I bought a pack of oven cleaner :) HOpe I get around to opening the packet next week when the lot are all back at uni and school. Can live in hope

Oven cleaner is over-rated. In fact the cleanest my oven has ever been was the day after I set fire to it. Turns out jetting its inards with a high pressure fire extinguisher having first burnt off all the shoite caked over its innards works wonders. Tis a v. expensive way to clean it though.

ebayqueen_2

Drastic measures Moo, will consider all options if this £3.99 doesn't work. :):)

Enjoy the cuddles

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Oven cleaner is over-rated. In fact the cleanest my oven has ever been was the day after I set fire to it. Turns out jetting its inards with a high pressure fire extinguisher having first burnt off all the shoite caked over its innards works wonders. Tis a v. expensive way to clean it though.

I havent cleaned an oven in 25 years! As ours is cast iron I just run the vacuum round it to get all the carbonised bits :rotfl:

moo2moo

Children are hideous creatures.

OH and the DDs have been away for five days. DD2 wore everything she'd packed and even persuaded Nana to do some laundry as she didn't have enough pjs for a clean pair every night. DD1 has handed over four pairs of knickers, one pair of socks, a pair of PJs, a jumper, one pair of trousers and a t-shirt. OH seems oblivious to the child wearing the same clothes every day. You've got to wonder what goes on in their heads.

ebayqueen_2

You are up late today Moo Hope you are having a well deserved rest.

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

You are up late today Moo Hope you are having a well deserved rest.

Fat chance of that. Was wide awake at 6am so took the hound for a long romp in the forrest before returning hime to dry off in anticipation of getting soaked again whilst watching DD1 horse ride. Got to the stables to find the lesson cancelled due to weather but still managed to arrive home looking like a drowned rat.

Trying to persuade the DDs to do their homework but faliing miserably.

moo2moo

Woke up to find snow and E-bay sales of £60. Of course yesterday would have to be the day I practiced sliding on mud and failed miserably crash landing backwards onto a wall. Have a lovely purple scuff down one side and a sprained wrist, thumb and three out of four fingers plus a nicely swollen bruised hand. The thumb hurts more than anything else which is a right royal pain in the bum because theres no way the DDs will let me go sledging, neither can I knit, or wrap e-bay parcels. Even making a cuppa was a major challenge.

Planning to spend the day doing as little as possible in the hopes my thumb becomes a little less painful and a lot more useable v. quickly.