Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Double_Trouble wrote: »

Glad you had a nice time and rather selfishly glad you are back the day doesn't seem to start properly without one of your updates

DTxx

Aw thank you.

moo2moo

Several gazillion loads of laundry later theres still stuff in the laundry basket. I'm sure its breeding behind my back. Need to get it all folded and sorted today in order to pack ready for DD2 going to camp at the weekend.

Further plans invove fleece washing and a spot of Rhubarb jam making as well as much tidying. Have finished my initial draft of the magazine article. I need some guidance from the toy shop in order to fine tune it for submission.

Spent £100 in Mr Ts yesterday replenishing the food stores and buying the last of the school uniform, Still need to sort school shoes out but I haven't a clue when I'm going to find the time to do that.

Got a surprise cheque in the poist which is always good

Back to work this afternoon. Thats going to be a shock to the system.

moo2moo

I was an uber biatch yesterday. I walked in the door late to find OH at the PC pasting the publication into publishers newsletter format. Not because the magazine company requested it that way but because he thought it made more sense than submitting it to them as a piece of text and allowing them to use whatever layout they usually use. I totally and utterly lost it. I'd had to take the DDs to work with me because he wasn't home in time to look after tham and they stayed at work for the duration of my stint which wasn't overly long but didn't need to happen. It wouldn't have killed him to pick them up. His solution to me being seriously miffed that he hadn't bothered to put pasta or spuds in to go with the stuff in the slow cooker? He !!!!!!ed orf down the shed reappearing to eat dinner. Question is why was I made to feel like I was the one being irrational?

Have put it down to being overly tired post holiday. Am not spending my holidays at his mothers next year no matter what.

moo2moo

After a lot more sleep I have my sensible head on. Plans for the day involve the dregs of the laundry and an entire wheelie bins worth of ruthless chucking out. Still need to do DD2s packing and an awful lot of tidying after OH arranged for his brother to visit. Not sure if hes arriving today or tomorrow or at some point next week. Will be tidying OHs stuff into the old shed. Hes had long enough to do it himself but appears to have forgotten all about it. Suspect I will be most unpopular tonight. Ho hum. Have zero enthusiasm for anything. Could quite happily spend the morning curled up with a book but that almost guarantees his bro will arrive today.

Piquant_2

moo2moo wrote: »

I was an uber biatch yesterday. I walked in the door late to find OH at the PC pasting the publication into publishers newsletter format. Not because the magazine company requested it that way but because he thought it made more sense than submitting it to them as a piece of text and allowing them to use whatever layout they usually use. I totally and utterly lost it. I'd had to take the DDs to work with me because he wasn't home in time to look after tham and they stayed at work for the duration of my stint which wasn't overly long but didn't need to happen. It wouldn't have killed him to pick them up. His solution to me being seriously miffed that he hadn't bothered to put pasta or spuds in to go with the stuff in the slow cooker? He !!!!!!ed orf down the shed reappearing to eat dinner. Question is why was I made to feel like I was the one being irrational?

Have put it down to being overly tired post holiday. Am not spending my holidays at his mothers next year no matter what.

Oh bless OH, they'll strip out all his formatting regardless of whether it looks right or not. They'll use different software anyway.

Sorry you're feeling bleugh. I think you're remarkable for even entertaining the idea of a holiday with his mother. I certainly wouldn't have gone near mine for a holiday!

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

Oh bless OH, they'll strip out all his formatting regardless of whether it looks right or not. They'll use different software anyway.

Thats precisely why I was so miffed. It was a total and utter waste of time. On the brightside I heard back from the boys toy company who loved what I'd submitted so far. Turns out I managed to make the head honcho snort coffee on his PC keyboard which is no mean feat when writing about something so dull. Need to tweak a few bits to get a couple of facts right and I've still got an ending to write but its almost done. Planning to spend the weekend finishing off assorted works in progress in the hopes of making some headway into the stuff that falls into the category of needing doing but can't be arsedness.

Piquant wrote: »

Sorry you're feeling bleugh. I think you're remarkable for even entertaining the idea of a holiday with his mother. I certainly wouldn't have gone near mine for a holiday!

It's kinda hard not to visit. She has a modest sized hotel at the seaside which has been adapted to accomodate the hairball. The kids love it there. Other than fuel and a couple of meals out its a free holiday.... apart from the odd bits when you get roped into helping out because you're handy. Shes offered DD1 a summer job there when shes old enough, although its too far from home for me to be overly happy about. I know she'll have to leave home someday but the idea of losing her for the entire summer at 14 simply doesn't appeal. Perhaps if she was a normal 14 year old I'd feel differently but the developmental delays are still pretty obvious to me even if others are oblivious to them. But then they don't live with her day in, day out. Am surprised how quickly her reading is coming on now that she has access to the Kindle and tablet E-reader. She finds the grey background makes the words stay still rather than swimming around the page which makes it easier to focus on. Most surprised to find her reading Black Beauty earlier today.

In other exciting news I have a laundry reprieve on account of having broken the machine. Its taken me 5 years to wear out the door seal. Have removed it and ordered a replacement. Can't use the machine until it arrives. Devastated. Truly devasated. Really I am.

Today is the day of the great wool festival. Am most excited. Hoping I get to play on a spinning wheel or three. I had many grandiose plans about detailed research into knitting patterns in order to buy precisely the right amount of the right wool to do them but I haven't quite got round to doing that so I'm going to resort to the default option of ooh thats pretty and figure out what to do with it at a later date.

At the mo I'm having a brief go at spinning Hebridean sheep fleece which is a cross between horse hair and hedgehog spikes. The resultant yarn has all the consistency of rope. V. glad I only have a tiny amount of it.

On a more positive note I spent yesterday de-tating the dining room and rearranging the furniture. not that there are many ways to rearrange a table and eight chairs but I managed it anyway. Now have space for my spinning wheel when I get my hands on it. Have given up all hope of getting it into the breakfast room for the time being as thats still a dumping ground for OHs tat and rain thwarted all plans of treking down the garden with stuff. Will get rid of some more in this weekends free E-Bay listings.

Plans for today involve a brief foray intot he charity shop to drop off the tat and pick up a small amount of spending money for my wooley shopping spree. Hoping it stops raining so I don't get drenched at the riding stables.

moo2moo

The washing machine part arrived, was fitted, and successfully prevented the machine leaking all over the floor. Unfortunately the machine refuses to spin. More dismantling revealed the carbon brushes being worn back to bare metal explaining why the spin cycle caused the RCD to trip. Have ordered a pair of those. Hoping they will be here by Wednesday. Total spend on parts to date £14 including postage which is rather different to the £75 I'd have spent buying them direct from Bosch. No they're not genuine parts but on a 5 year old machine it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference. V. glad it was an easy solution as I was experiencing the oh shoite feeling of having splurged frivolously only to find the cash was needed for something essential. Fortunately it does appear to be that dire. Yet.

We all had an amazing day yesterday. The whole wool thing was like walking into a roomful of old friends despite the fact I'd never met any of them. I bought far more than I was intending to but with good reason. Some of the yarns were too amazing to leave, others were so cheap it would have been daft not to buy them. I ended up with a 1.1kg cone of black pure wool DK for £10 reduced from £110 which was my excuse for blowing a further £10 on 3 BFL sock yarn blanks for dying and 100g of BFL superwash fluff to keep them comapny. As if that wasn't enough I managed to aquire some silk in fabulous colours and some rather fab Posh Yarn as well as a bit more fibre and the odd bit of sock yarn. DD2 wangled a go on a spinning wheel or three and loved it to the point her eyes sparkled. She ended up with a whole load of hand dyed fleece and a promise of a raw Ryeland fleece when she gets her own spinning wheel. Rather glad it was on a very small scale otherwise I'd have spent considerably more. Not feeling in the slightest bit guilty about my splurge which is always good.

Have 24 hours until OHs bro arrives and 36 until DD1s friend shows up. Will have to do some handwashing between now and then as we don't appear to have any clean bedding. Oh joy.

moo2moo

Have gutted DD1s bedroom and half the ground floor. Having a coffee break and then doing the same with DD2s room. Filled the boot with stuff for the charity shop. Feel much better for it.

moo2moo

Eeeeek! Have just been woken by a text to day OHs bros train arrives in under an hour. I wasn't expecting him until 8:30 tonight. Have yet to de shoite the bathrooms, deal with the mountain of honking laundry that threatening to take over the bathroom and clean out the honking litter tray. I figure getting dressed is vaguely more important. Hope I can deal with the worst of it in under 5 minutes because its going to take 30 minutes to get to the station and I'm still munching breakfast.

chevalier

then let OH pick him up or he can wait. YOu don't HAVE to drop everything really?