Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

I unleashed my clicky finger. The damage isn't as bad as it could be.

One tiny weighing scale for weighing yarn to 0.1g in the hopes of stopping me going demented trying to figure out how much is left from a 100g ball on a scale that weighs to the nearest 5g with a 5g error... looking at a pathetic amount and being informed it weighs 10g is most frustrating. Further splurges involved a novel or two. Am resisting browsing wool shops because that would be a very expensive click.

Have to go to a supermarket at some point before the children starve. Have had no sleep thanks to a yowling cat at 11pm, child with a wet bed at 2am and an OH who crashed around between 4and 5am. A headache is the icing on the cake.

Plans for today involve much decluttering, a lot of necessary chucking out of tat and a heck of a lot of laundry.

moo2moo

Blew £101 at Mr Ts despite going to the tiny one on the council estate to curb my enthusiasm. Freezers are bulging at the seams.

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Blew £101 at Mr Ts despite going to the tiny one on the council estate to curb my enthusiasm. Freezers are bulging at the seams.

So easily done! I had a £6 off a £30 spend voucher - got to checkout thinking thats about £40 - came in at £77:eek:

moo2moo

Sat down to read a book with lunch. Fell asleep. Woke up considerably later. Laid half a shed floor and started on the edging charts for the shawl. Might get it finished this week *snort* if cows fly. Have 40 or so rows to go with an average of 450 stitches per row.

moo2moo

Finally cashed out of YouGov, managed a £3 survey for P!necone, finished laying the shed floor, hung the doors, filled and fitted the exterior doorframe making less mess with the expanding foam than I had anticipated and creosoted the interior again. Still have to felt the roof but its either been too wet or too windy to do that yet. Perhaps today is the day.

Made huge progress with my shawl. Whilst tired. Made negative progress pulling back all the knitting I did whilst tired to get to the one tiny mistake I made which offset the entire pattern noticably by a single stitch. Humph. Taken four times as long to undo it as it did to knit it in the first place.

Goodies arrived from Amazon, books are perfect, scales were broken and boomeranged back for a refund at which point I can reorder them, replacement is not an option despite the same seller having a dozen, not that I'd want to risk buying from them again given the amount of corrosion in the battery compartment.

Discovered there are only three weeks left to the end of term. Have done nowt about childcare and given the stress levels at school I'm unlikely to get a change of contract this year. Ho hum. Means I won't have to take a paycut until September when my contractual year starts which simplifies things somewhat.

DD1 has a rounders match tomorrow. Thought she'd be really excited about it but she burst into tears. Seems she never catches the ball and can't hit it either. Spent ten minutes with a roll of wall paper and a pile of balled up socks much to the fourlegged fiends delight. DD1 can now hit 50% of the items lobbed in her direction even with the distraction of 10 stone of hairball leaping up and down in front of her. Its another of thoise things made difficult by being dyspraxic, I've never been able to catch a ball either and tend to crash into walls on the squash court far too regularly for my liking.

moo2moo

Wasted most of yesterday trying to buy roofing felt without success. Seems you can now only buy thick decent quality log life stuff if you get the stuff you apply with hot tar and a flame thrower. Not entirely sure that fitting that to a wooden structure surrounded by hedges is the greatest idea in the world. Am stuck with a choice of the stuff that they put on rabbit hutches or stuff marginally thicker that works out at 50p per square meter. Its hardly likely to be long term stuff.

Had more success with flooring though. Because OH will be doing grimy manly things in there it seemed sensible to protect the timber floor from oil spills and coffee spills and whatever else gets dropped on it by sticking lino down. Imagine the jaw drop when I was told a roll end of hideously ugly stuff would cost £250 and a piece with a rip in the centre £180. Tried four different stores before haggling someone down to £90. Still a heck of a lot more than I wanted to pay but even B&Qs cheapest stuff was consdierably more.

Finally finished ripping back the shawl to the point I can start going forward..... or at least I think I have. Will be taking it very slowly and checking every dozen stitches just in case I've gained or lost stitches whilst rectifying the other mistake. Most annoyed with myself for not noticing this earlier.

moo2moo

Gave in and bought naff roofing felt yesterday. A case of needs must. All the local suppliers stock the same stuff so I didn't have a lot of choice in the end. Hoping to get that done this weekend, the OH is already three jumps ahead and is talking about arranging to collect his toys on Monday which assumes the roof is on, the building watertight, the lino down, the interior edging strips fitted, the storm braces in, the roof edges on and the guttering (which I've yet to buy) installed. Did I mention hes working too. I forsee a busy weekend ahead.

The problematic row of shawl is done means I'm on the homeward stretch which is just as well because I'm thoroughly bored of it but making a point of not shoving it in a corner because I'd never get round to finishing it.

DD2 has a teacher training day which means I have a great excuse for legging it much earlier than normal and going back later on when everyone else has left. I stand a much greater chance of actually achieving something worth achieving unlike yesterday when I spent my time scraping up chewing gum left by parents, removing piles of vomit soaked sawdust from ridged carpet and reattaching a tap in the boys toilets. Fun, fun, fun. Keep reminding myslef that it pays the bills and funds my more impulsive frivolous splurges and when my days are full of puke or shoite I really enjoy my job.

moo2moo

Home much earlier than anticipated thanks to the school bus company deciding that all schools were shut today rather than a selected few. Meant DD1s bus didn't arrive and I had to leg it to collect her from the bus stop and drop her off at school. Offered a lift to a few others but they opted to walk on account of it being a nice day and a great excuse to miss an RE lesson. I'll have to stay late to make up the extra hour but it means I get a full day gardening. Might even get round to planting the veggies I was given last week.

Igamogam

Phew all your sheds n shawls antics are making me feel very inadequate! I was wondering why we didnt have the flame thrower/roofing felt dilemma on our 'project' shed...........I went out and had a look - its a metal roof thats why - I honestly couldnt remember.Its insulated and lined tough so when it rains it doesnt feel if you are in a biscuit tin having dried peas hurled at you:rotfl:

Good luck with it all this weekend - hope the weather is kind

moo2moo

Spent most of yesterday weeding. Have made minimal impact but did discover a lot more potato plants lurking amongst the giant weeds. Hoping that doing the same again today will allow me to plant out the courgettes and lob in some pea and bean seeds..... I know its a bit late but its worth giving it a whiz.

Was asked about my plans for the holidays, need to figure something out by Monday even if its a bit fluid. Hoping the riding stables have got a summer timetable sorted as DD1 doesn't want to go to football or wilderness holiday clubs and is too old for the on-site club at work.