Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Need to figure out where I can get big sew on googly eyes without buying £50 or paying £1 each.

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There's 144 in a pack though, so that should stop any excuses about not being able to make us all an owl cosy :rotfl::rotfl:

Trying_to_be_good

flying_fresian wrote: »

Click!

There's 144 in a pack though, so that should stop any excuses about not being able to make us all an owl cosy :rotfl::rotfl:

I can see 140 or so of them re-appearing on ebay sometime soon...

Are we going to see 'work in progress' photos of the owl, or just the finished product?!

chevalier

is the spending less than what the cost of the alcohol he would be drinking? If not then this can't be allowed to slide. It is just another form of control of you. You have been doing so well debt busting, and now he is undermining YOUR efforts AGAIN. This is a pattern, he has just found a new way of trying to weaken your resolve to not put up with him any more. Don't allow this for your self esteems sake
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MrsMoo2U

chevalier wrote: »

don't bother about teaching DD left handed. teach her right handed. should be fine......

My Nan tried teaching me right handed and to this day I still knit left handed - just cant get the right handed at all, although I write left handed, I use my knife left handed, the computer mouse left handed. My Mum tells me that the teachers would not allow me to write left handed and used to hit me for doing so. I guess that means that I am a natural leftie.

moo2moo wrote: »

"Should be fine" and "determined to be different" means DD1 is alternating between knitting right handed and knitting left handed. Usually midway through a row. Makes for interesting scarves.Yep, exactly what happened to me, they gave up and I still am rubbish.

Meanwhile OH is trying his best to make ammends which in turn is making me behave like a stroppy two year old. Arrived home at lunchtime today to an empty house. One piled with washing up. Did the washing up and the ironing and finished just as they arrived home from Ikea loaded with stuff ranging from a replacement dustbin bigger than the cupboard it was destined for, to a roasting tray, several cleaning tools and a chicken roaster all of which duplicated things we already have, the difference being they're all new and shiny. Nestled in the middle was a v. nice pestle and mortar which OH had bought as a gift becaue I said I fancied one... about 3 years ago.... cue another gargantuin wobbly. Quite why is a bit of a mystery to me too. Its almost like he can make things right by throwing money at things.
What is a mystery? You throwing the wobbly or him buying the stuff? If it is you throwing the wobbly then I say it is because you would prefer a cuddle, and a promise that everything will be ok rather than a pestle and mortar, if it is why he does it perhaps it is because he really would like to be able to give you a cuddle and a promise that all will be ok but knows he cant do that so is trying in the only way he knows how to win you back. Whichever it is I guess that you are both hurting equally but that doesn't mean that it is right for you not to stick to your guns for his sake as much as yours. I really do hope that you can work it through. Much cuddles and hugs sent from me and the Monster Moo.
Topped the day off by discovering the horrendous smell emanating from the hound from hell means shes in season and housebound for the next 3 weeks during normal dog walking hours.How about sending her to visit Moo, we could do with some extra income :rotfl:

Spent two hours enduring Blade the film for the second time in a month. Turns out knitting serves as an excellent distraction to this and so the rear of the owl is finished and the front about a third done.

Once in a lifetime is more than enough for me with regards to that film.

flying_fresian wrote: »

Click!

There's 144 in a pack though, so that should stop any excuses about not being able to make us all an owl cosy :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moo2moo

cherisong wrote: »

How about sending her to visit Moo, we could do with some extra income :rotfl:

OMG one is bad enough... an army of mini hounds from hell would be complete carnage but so entertaining. Fortunately shes still far too young to even consider such a thing.

Meanwhile after another absymal film and several repeats of CSI I can proudly announce that all component parts of the owl are knitted. Progress came to a grinding halt at the sewing up stage which requires that googly eyes are inserted almost immediately and then several stages later the whole thing sewn together inside out using my ficticious teapot to get the shape right. Can liberate a tea pot from school but doubt I'll have as much success with the eyes. Am going to end up ordering them from fleabay simply because it'll work out cheaper than me setting foot in a craft shop. Should anyone else have an need for 18mm googly eyes pm me and I'll bung some in the post.

Trying_to_be_good

Moo - morning, have PMd you in case there are eyes going spare...

Very tempted to get my needles out again - I'm on holiday at home with the four kids this week, and have compressed my hours at work to fit them all into four days so I have the fifth day for doing the craft-type and baking stuff I used to. In fact, most are my Nanny's knitting needles that I inherited, so I have to convert the sizes from imperial so need to download a chart.

Keep smiling!

Wordsmith

cherisong wrote: »

I guess that means that I am a natural leftie.

As I read somewhere: the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body; so only left-handed people are in their right mind.

MrsMoo2U

Wordsmith wrote: »

As I read somewhere: the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body; so only left-handed people are in their right mind.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have also heard tell that geniuses and creative people are usually left handed. Maybe that is why teachers of old used to spend so much time beating it out of children (for fear of being shown up - well I have decided that was what Miss Higgins must have been afraid of).

Moo, any chance of getting a teddy or something from the charity shop and using the eyes from that or do they have to be googly?

moo2moo

cherisong wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have also heard tell that geniuses and creative people are usually left handed. Maybe that is why teachers of old used to spend so much time beating it out of children (for fear of being shown up - well I have decided that was what Miss Higgins must have been afraid of).

Moo, any chance of getting a teddy or something from the charity shop and using the eyes from that or do they have to be googly?

Sadly no chance of mutilating teddy bears. The eyes have to be googly and we don't have any. I know I've checked every resident of the toy box just in case.

Bet many teachers still wish they could beat up children then maybe some of the little shoites would actually behave.

moo2moo

Appear to have royally screwed up the pink grapefruit marmalade. Its unspreadable. Bit like toffee in a jar. V. nice but I had a third of a jar on my chunk of crusty bread. Tis a good job I'm not on a diet.

Have three more hours of work to endure before finishing for an entire fortnight. Whoooooopeeeeeee.

Sat down and discussed things with the DDs. We've considering spending a week pretending we live in a victorian hovel which means no telly or electrical items whatsoever. No indoor plumbing but torchlit trips to the privy in the outhouse mid way down the garden. Decided this was just a bit too extreme or at least DD1 did when she screached "I need a bath. I can't not have a bath for a whole week. Thats minging mother."

Plan B involves living like eco warriers which means minimal electricity and only showering when the sun shines and the solar panels provide enough hot water.

Plan C is currently under formultation.