Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Have spent far far too much time reading Amazon reviews of a well known brand of hair removal cream. Not that I have any interest whatsoever in male hair removal. I blame it all on Piquant.

Mahoosive progress has been made in the shed. The wiring is almost complete. The last of OHs new toys arrives today and the winch that I've been using as a bedside cabinet for the last year has finally departed from the boudoir leaving much dust in its wake.

On top of that I've crammed in almost 50 hours at work this week which means I might actually have some holiday time left to use over the remainder of the holidays.

DD1 has packed for pony camp which starts on Sunday. Need to check through the pile and make sure everything is labelled and more importantly to make sure she hasn't packed anything of mine. Finding my wardrobe getting more and more depleted with each passing day. She even borrowed my swimming costume after announing hers no longer fitted. Can't believe quite how much the kid has grown. Again.

Have today off work and tomorrow and the day after that too. Suspect the time will disappear at an alarmingly rapid rate but am hoping to achieve much decluttering in the meantime. All but one of the flea bay items has bids on it which is jolly good as the auctions still have 5 days to run.

Saw a friend mid week that I haven't seen for over a year. In that time her almost normal teenage daughter has sprouted holes the size of coke cans in her earlods and gained a variety of obscure tatoos in very prominent locations. Most odd. I have nothing against tatoos per se but can't quite get my head round facial tatoos nor skin implants which give the appearance of horns. Am clearly v. old.

Reckless splurge of the week involved ice cream in the pack. The extravagence of it all.

Igamogam

I have been reading those reviews too..........hysterical I am with you with the body mutilation thing - some tatoos are fine - the right ones in the right place on the right body and I have only ever seen 3 of those, and my own ears are pierced although I rarely wear earrings - nature of the job means I cant and I forget to wear them at weekends and holidays but luckily mine were done the old fashioned way and never close up I can even understand people wanting to have multiple holes put in ears but when it goes to stretchers and bars and nuts and bolts as far as I can see in places they really shouldn't be then it all looks a bit ugly to me - I once interviewed a girl with tongue eyebrow and lip piercings - and she interviewed well but it came down to her and another and the other got it and I know deep down it was on appearance in the end I also struggle with babies and toddlers with pierced ears - like they asked:mad:

moo2moo

Up ridiculously early as DD1 needs to have her tent pitched at camp by 8am. Shes still a little over tired from being allowed to stay up to watch Fridays Olympic opening ceremony in all its bizareness. Cue many many questions...... Why is that man wanderinging round with a big cigarette?.... its a cigar and hes..... Doesn't he know that its naughty to smoke inside? Well no because hes been dead for quite a long time...... then .....ugh whys that boy snogging that girl? Thats gross......

Mostly it was quite enjoyable but you did have to wonder why they dredged out the surprisingly tuneless Paul McCartney or Dizee Rascal.....ho yes for this is the best that British music has to offer. What utter tosh.

Still apart from that, and annoying voiceover woman, it was pretty entertaining and worth watching all the shoite just to see Mr Bean.

Meanwhile much progress has been made. OHs final toy was collected from the shop, craned out of a tralier, winched down the garden and craned into position in the giant toy store all of which has taken two very very long slow days to achieve. This means I can recommence decluttering the house. Need to do some housework first though as the floors are liberally strewn in dog hair, the washing up is in danger of cascading off the worktop onto the floor and the bathrooms.... well... I suspect the portaloos at the end of Glastonbury are a tad more hygenic.

Need to go into work at some point to clean holiday club before they return at 8am tomorrow. There don't seem to be enough hours in the day to do verything that needs doing at the mo. On top of everything else my car failied its first MOT thanks to a duff pair of front tyres. Turns out the tracking was out by precisely the same amount at both sides leading to some very odd wear patterns. Thats now sorted but meant a bill substantially larger than I was expecting. Will be living on lentil curry for the remainder of the month.

chevalier

We saw a bit of the ceremony but had league games to go to early, so that was a bit of a shame. And it isn't repeated on the tele stations we have (can't afford sky here).

Nice to see that the decluttering is continuing. I was hoping on doing some of that today, but have felt so tired that it didn't get done oops
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moo2moo

We don't have Sky either or Freesat so am having to put up with watching most of it on-line via the BBC website which has the refresh rate of an arthritic gnat.

Child abandoned with tent in a field in the middle of nowhere. DD2 is already planning all the things she'd like to do whilst her elder sibling is out of the way. This appears to involve the cinema, swimming pool, park, a bike ride, trip to the ice cream factory, dinner out af Frankie & Benny's and the watching of the olympic equestrian events. And thats just today.

For now my stint at school is out of the way and I'm having a quick cuppa whilst DD2 figures out what we're doing first.

NorthernLas

Have you ever thought of downloading your posts and making them into a book ... seems much more interesting to be than this '50 sheds' stuff. Especially now that OH has a toy shed of his verwy own

moo2moo

I doubt the ravings of this particular loon would be worth reading. At least the 50 sheds stuff makes me snort coffee over the keyboard with gems like:

She sighed as my right hand moved slowly in & out and gasped as I thrust it in one more time. It isn't easy doing the hokey cokey in a shed.

moo2moo

Ended up doing a spot of shopping after discovering the bottomless bag of dog chow was empty. Ended up at Pets at Home because they have geckos and lizards and a v. nice lady with green scales tatooed up her arms who is quite happy for us to get them out of their tanks to socialise. Having had our reptilan fix we bounded out of the shop and proceeded to leap frog over the bollards outside the store which isn't as easy as it sounds with a large bag of dog food under one arm.

Came home via the park where I played on the swings and the slide and the see-saw and the giant spinning witches hat and the rather obscure thing with handles 6 feet from the ground that I suspect is designed to spin you round like an aeroplane but is only suitable for use by teenage lads with arms like orangutans. Sadly more than one overweight middle-aged chap decided to flash his beer gut in a vague attempt at demonstrating how it should be done.

Spent the evening watching Ghostbusters 2 whilst scoffing crisps and Haribo Fangtastics. Did a miniscule amount of housework whilst assisting with the building of a 3D wooden motorbike (DD2) and ferrying more tat to the shed en route to assist OH with the last of the wiring. All thats left if to connect it up in the house, which appears to involve dismantling a ginormous shelving unit ... and reclocating it in twwo parts to two different sheds and then temporarily emptying the loft to run a cable from one side to the other. I suspect that will take most of this week.

chevalier

Good luck with the great light up ceremony. Hope it goes well.
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Igamogam

I remember when OH shed was linked to the grid - I asked him when he was moving in - the didnt appreciate it and lead balloons came tumbling from the sky:rotfl: what he didnt get is that I was only half joking:rotfl::rotfl:

We quite enjoyed the opening ceremony - eccentricty at its best;)

DD1 has already done her Olympic visit and was there on saturday watching basketball - she reports back that it is all very impressive and quite an experience - we go next week.