Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Whilst I'm ranting I had an Ocado delivery last night. On time, Perfectly presented, cheery driver no substitutions just a joint of meat slightly larger than a pork chop (no where neear the 1kg option on the website). What the !!!! is that about?

chevalier

Ow the thumb sounds nasty, you haven't dislocated it have you?

And as for the joint, I hope you told him where to put it lol
chev

Igamogam

That thumb doesnt sound good. I have developed tennis elbow - didnt show OH any sympathy when he had it - but its bl**dy painful! Have anti inflamm gel to put on from doc and excercises from physio which are also bl**dy painful!

thrifty_fifty

Howse the thumb today Moo? Hope you're on the mend. xx

moo2moo

Morning all! Thumb is just stiff and achy and uncomfortable if I make it do things it dosn't want to do. My bum, thigh and arm are wonderfully colourful and I feel like the biggest prat going. Spent yesterday curled up in an armchair with a book. Seemed pointless trying to do anything since everything ached. Feel much more human this morning.

E-bay sales ended at £95. Most impressed. THeres just the small matter of parceling it all up and getting rid of it.

Minor last minute panic last night when DD1 retrieved her festering PE kit from her bag. Made her handwash it ready for today, she wasn't impressed. For once we're actually organised ready for the first day of term.

moo2moo

Many e-mails later the nice people at Ocado have conceeded that 0.6 is less than 0.7 and so have refunded the cost of Sundays minature joint. Common sense prevails. Eventually.

Wish I could work similar miracles with this months phone bill whiach has topped £40 thanks to OH insisting on making phone calls during daylight hours.

moo2moo

and so at 3am DD2s alarm clock went off and got louder and louder and louder until I gave in and went to turn it off, randomly pushing buttons in the dark in the hopes of cancelling the snooze button. Each button press resulted in a bright flash of light. Eventually gave up and took the battery out and as I'm creeping out the room to go back to bed a small voice pipes up "Mummy I can't get to sleep". Bah.

Am now totally and utterly kettled and thats before I get dressed. Stayed up far too late to finish the first of the coat sleeves. Still have another to do and a gazillion ends to sew in but this weeks homework is pretty quick so hopefully I'll catch up with it.

OH got one of those phone calls from work yesterday. The one that goes we booked you on a training course last September but forgot to tell you about it. It starts elsewhere v. soon and means quite some time spent living on hotel food. Fabulous. Not sure if he'll be home weekends or if the mismanager at work will attempt to pressure him into working his rostered weekends in order to alleviate some of the carnage his absence at no notice will cause at HQ. Still the boy is excited about going, assuming it goes ahead because his boss is notorious for pulling this sort of stunt and then abruptly changing his mind.

Need to do much tidying today, shed loads of laundry, wrap a couple more E-bay parcels and do something with the disaster zone that was formerly a kitchen.

ebayqueen_2

Hi Moo

Haven't been on for a few days and am so sorry that you fell and hurt yourself. You were right to sit down yesterday with your book and chill out.

Hard to get through the day with very little sleep. BOOOO to stupid alarm clocks. Looks like you will be checking her clock before you head to bed each night now. Kids eh:):):)

You done very well on your ebay this weekend. Have you much more to list?

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

Hi Moo

Haven't been on for a few days and am so sorry that you fell and hurt yourself. You were right to sit down yesterday with your book and chill out.

Hard to get through the day with very little sleep. BOOOO to stupid alarm clocks. Looks like you will be checking her clock before you head to bed each night now. Kids eh:):):)

You done very well on your ebay this weekend. Have you much more to list?

I could easily find another hundred items to list. Two hundred if I put a bit of effort in. But like all these things its finding the time to do it and then post the stuff but the money is great. Asuming OH does go away I'll make a point of shifting a lot more stuff whilst I have the time to do it although the list of things I'd like to get done whilst hes elsewhere is growing rapidly and the course is still quite likely to be binned as totally and utterly unfeasible.

Spent yesterday evening sewing in ends. Again. Hate doing that. End result is superb. Bit dubious about my colour choices but they're growing on me.

Old fish tank was collected yesterday which spurred me on to clean the mold off the walls and window surrounding it and do a smidgen more tidying up. Banished the ioring pile only to discover the DDs had filed it on their bedroom floors. Went ape. Hoping they tidy up tonight otherwise I'll be docking pocket money.

Plans for today involve much tidying, much more cleaing and a heck of a lot of laundry. Just like every other day of my life really. Also need to knit eyes and beak for an owl which needs to go to its new home by Friday. Am more than tempted to spend the day sauntering round the woods with the hound instead.

moo2moo

The kick up the bum fairy is in residence. Dropped in at a friends for a cuppa and to get shut of a dozen eggs since the chooks decided to go into mass production. Whilst there I collected my unsold country market knitting. Its not sold in two months nor is it likely to since one lady has priced her stuff ridiculously low to the point that nothing else sells. Not worth trying to compete with her because I couldn't even buy the wool for what shes selling her stuff for.

Still every cloud has a golden lining and all that and since I was on my way to post a parcel and had to pass the posh shop in the village I popped in and pursuaded the owner to stock a couple of my tea cosies on a trial basis plus shes got something else in mind that she wants knitting up in keeping with her colour scheme so will wait to see what happens. Am quietly chuffed.

Back to earth with a bump though as the bathroom needs cleaing.