Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

Igamogam

I am always envious of anybody who can do applique! - I would love to be able to

NorthernLas

Do you mean lumpy embroidery or applique?

Just these days applique has become hip due to them expensive die cut machines (ostensibly used for card makers). It means that there is no fiddly cutting out as long as you have a friend with machine and dies. And then there is the double sided vilene to drool over

I think I'll get my coat ...

moo2moo

I appear to have decluttered my inner domestic goddess. She has been replaced with the shedevil. Spent the weekend reading the 50 Shades trilogy which has less marginally plot than the 1970's epic Debbie Does Dallas. It has a hero who makes Rupert Campbell-Black look like he needs a dose of viagra and yet its strangely addictive reading, if only to see how many times the word apex can be used per page. I'll never look at a roofing contractor in the same way again.

Unsurprisingly housework, and everything else, has been rather minimalistic. The kitchen looks much like you would expect after a 10 year old and a 13 year old were let loose to bake for an entire afternoon. I suspect I'll be spending most of the day attempting to find the works urface and clean the various splatters off the cupboard doors and the floor and the ceiling. At least DD2 now knows why its really really really important that you put the lid on the blender before you switch it on rather than after.

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

I am always envious of anybody who can do applique! - I would love to be able to

I didn't say I could do it... that would be a gross exaggeration.

moo2moo

Just as everything was going swimmingly well the PC decided to die the death of deaths with a spectacular and catastrophic motherboard failure. Obviously being positively prehistoric nothing on the current market is compatible with it which means a new motherboard and memory and processor and graphics card. Even the cables used to connect everything are obsolete. Seriously unimpressed. As is DD1 as her tablet has been comandeered for the foreseeable future.

Will be thinking uber frugal thoughts for the next couple of months. Just glad it coincides with a council tax free month which should go a fair way to covering the replacement components.

After the briefest of school terms the holidays loom large once again. Still don't have a new contract but won't be working the holidays regardless. Have written to HR to remind them. Bet this means I'll hit the start of the school holidays with a zero pay month when they finally get it all sorted out. Have managed to get out of overtime at holiday club which has caused much muttering on the playground because someone else who clearly doesn't want to do it has been roped into it. Tough. Had enough of that malarky. Hoping to do something with the holidays which has nothing to do with work. Ideally I'd like to gut and redecorate the bathroom. Whether I get round to it is another matter entirely. Hopefully by then it will have stopped snowing and I'll be able to do something in the garden without getting frostbite.

moo2moo

Despite buying lots of bits the OHs PC still isn't working. One of the new components is faulty. The shop have agreed to exchange it so hopefully it won't be too long until I can type properly on a keyboard. Can't get the hang of balancing my hands in mid air and touch typing with two fingers. Keep ending up with lots of random gibberish on the screen.

Rather fortuitously today is payday but I can't access my bank account thanks to slower than slow broadband the bank website is timing out before the pages are finished loading. I know the speed isn't normally great but todays speed is truly taking the micky. Dial up would be faster.

Rather amusingly DD1 is incredibly cheesed off. Her transformation into womanhood has occurred without a fanfare, a fireworks display and all manner of exciting things. Shes a bit bemused that its a huge non-event and yet its all the other girls at school talk about.

Yep, this week has been rather dull.

moo2moo

The PC finally works. Nothing else does. But thats because the OH whitelisted everything claiming that our Wif-Fi was being infiltrated. ... it was... by his netbook, DD1s tablet, two Kindles, his phone and the Wii. Ho hum.

Spent yesterday outside in glorious sunshine. Chomped the last of a fallen tree into logs for the woodburner and reduced the remainder of the scrap timber pile into kindling. It's shifted a whole lot of debris from the garden.

Last weeks weeding seems to have paid off. Had another go at dandelion eradication and tackled another patch of nettles. Noticed the rhubarb is starting to poke its head through the ground, hopefully we'll have loads of that this year.

I'm now stuck. It's Easter which is traditionally the start of the seed planting season, but since it's snowing again at the mo. that seems a bit pointless. Instead I'm making a fluffy rabbit covered tea cosy for a friend complete with the flowers that I wish were flowering in the mud splattered disaster zone beyond my window. Wish the sun would hurry up and shine!

moo2moo

We have snow! Lots and lots and lots of snow and its the last day of term. School will be deserted. Of course theres always the very vague possibility that school will be shut but it's going to take more snow than we've currently got for that to happen. It's safe to assume that DD1s high school will shut so she'll get to wake up super early to walk to primary school. Bet she'll love that!

The blue tinged world outside my window is rather magical but I suspect the OH isn't viewing it quite the same way given that hes on his way to work and doesn't have the option of walking there.

Seem to have done lots of walking recently. Spent yesterday marching round Chester wearing a plastic suit of armour behind a skirt wearing Roman Legionary on a school trip. Learnt tons about the Romans, far more than I'd ever learnt in school, but not quite enough to keep the kids entertained for five hours. 30 bored children makes for a really long day.

Busy concocting some sort of plan for the school hoildays, roller discos, swimming and ice skating all feature as does a trip to the cinema. hoping that keeps the girls amused without costing a small fortune. Still haven't had my change of contract committed to paper which means I'm in breach of contract if I don't work over the hols. Will phone payroll later to remind them.

moo2moo

Gobsmackingly school is shut! Found out at the bottom of the steepest hill. Built a snowman on the way home. Up to 8" of snow so far and it's only been snowing for four hours. Happy sledging

Piquant_2

That's a lot of snow!

I thought I misread your earlier post thinking you were wearing plastic armour, now when I look again I think you were wearing it. How very fetching! Just as well the skirt wearing Roman legionary wasn't here today, very windy. He would have displayed his all to the world :eek: