Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo · 19 July 2011 at 5:57AM

Finally got three letters from the tax credits people confirming that we don't qualify for anything this year. Am now waiting for several more letters to inform me that we were paid three months money in error and they want it back. Quite why they feel the need to send everythin in triplicate escapes me.

Also had confirmation that the transfer of banking from Santander to my other current account is in progress so I'll be able to close that in another three weeks.

Am pretty sure that brings me up to date with my paperwork to do list. Doesn't explain why the desk is still covered in bits of paper though. Need to tackle that today because I'm running out of space for my mug.

Shalva · 19 July 2011 at 6:08AM

Happy new dairy Moo.........I read you each morning with my first cup of coffee and I can only echo what others have said." there's a book in there somewhere for sure.." Have a great summer and keep on posting............

moo2moo · 19 July 2011 at 2:38PM

Its raining which meant no Landrovering for me. Instead I've shopped virtually with Sainsburys to take advantage of a £15 off spend voucher, free delivery and 10p off a litre of fuel which is most timely as I'll need to fill up by the beginning of next week. Of course this means I've spent an expected £85 but now have enough laundry liquid and razor blades to last until early 2012. Shopped via MySupermarket which claied my shop was £75 cheaper than it would have been with Ocado, thats probably because I stuck to the offers which is why DD1 has half a dozen packs of soya mousse to munch her way through. An awful lot of stuff was stuff horrifically expensive - sugar was £1 per kilo whilst Asda sell 2kg for a mere 22p more. Needless to say I didn't buy any. Couldn't shop there regularly.

Am two thirds of the way through the ironing but am far too bored to continue. Will save that for this evening.

Got my first every Country Market pay cheque. All £12 of it. Seems they pay monthly in arears. It does mean I should have a jolly nice one to look forward to next month and after that its 90% profit which is an added bonus. Celebrated by ordering some pink grapefruit. Means I have four different things to look forward to making this week. Quite when remains a bit of a mystery.

moo2moo · 20 July 2011 at 6:44AM

Its the end of the world as we know it... and I feel fine

Obviously being the last day of school the place looked like a small bomb had been detonated. Stacked all the furniture in order to extract as much popcorn as possible from the carpet. I hate popcorn machines! They remind me of those automated tennis ball fireres. the stuff goes everywhere except in the bowl. Being nice people the staff had shared so all tweleve classrooms were in much the same state. Filled eight bin bags with unlabelled lost property cleared from the floors of the cloakrooms. The more bizarre forgotten items include two cellos, several violins, a trombone and an antler.

Was most surprised to be presented with two boxes of chocolates, a £20 gift card and an assortment of thank you cards. Thats never happened before.

Did the absolute minimum yesterday but still didn't leave until 8pm. Walked in the door, ate cold pizza for dinner and went to bed absolutely shattered without doing any ironing whatsoever. Need to rewash the laundry I did two days ago because the house isn't warm enough to dry it and its gained that horible damp smell that goes with having wet clothes hanging around for too long.

Have tons to do at work today, mostly moving furniture out of classes as teachers are swapping rooms. Also need to put several hundred chairs back into storage having first removed all the PE equipment which was bunged in the same place out of the way. After that theres the small matter of sticking a bouncy castle in the hall along with a giant ball pool before removing anything and everything that can possibly be damaged by the summer rentals which means locking every door I can find keys to. Even then they'll find something to destroy. Its going to be a very long morning.

moo2moo · 20 July 2011 at 1:44PM

On days like this I really and truly love my job! The retiring teacher had a huge pile of stuff in black sacks destined for the bin. Spotted a Harry Potter audio cassette poking out and asked if he'd if I had it. Not only did he not mind but he'd thrown the other part of that book and the complete set of tapes for the next three too. Squeeeee! Will be borrowing a casette recorder from school so that the DDs and I can curl up and listen at bedtime and then I'll be bunging them on E-bay where they should shift for something approaching £100. Double squeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile I recieved a parcel today, one originally sent to an E-bayer who complained it hadn't arrived. Turns out it did but she didn't collect if from the post office. I refunded her at the time in good faith. Cheeky mare couldn't even be bothered to say thank you or leave feedback. Have e-mailed her but don't hold out any hope whatsoever.

Washing machine is on. Need to whizz about doing lots of housework because the entire house is minging. Then I need to whizz back to work to lock up and whizz home in time to throw together dinner and create lots of space in the cupboard in readiness for the Sainsburys delivery. Will be most smug when the native curtain twitchers notice the caliber of supermarket delivery service. Bet that keeps then in gossip for weeks....... Eeee you know her up the road, the scruffy one with the overgrown front garden and the duff double glazing.. Sainsburys were delivering there.... eeee... well I never.... kipper and curtains love, kippers and curtains

starnac · 20 July 2011 at 2:10PM

moo2moo wrote: »

To have the sort of house where the unexpected arrival of someone on the doorstep doesn’t leave me having palpitations (although toilet training the OH is critical to this particular plan)

To improve my Welsh so I can say something other than Gallau mynd i'r ty bach os gwelwch yn dda?

Hi moo, just started reading your diary. the goals above stood out to me as I too would love that kind of house where people could just drop by rather than have to telephone 3 weeks in advance

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Is Welsh something you would use for your job?? At least you have mastered the most important phrase. I taught DD that one before she started primary school as I have always had a fear of not being able to ask for the toilet. (Don't ask me why).

Good luck with your quest to be sub £5k by Christmas

moo2moo · 21 July 2011 at 6:41AM

Hi starnac!

Welsh is most definately something I need at work and going by last nights dinner conversation, when the DDs were arguing over the correct pronunciation of something which resorted to them yelling at each other in Welsh in the hopes that increasing the volume would emphasise how right they were, its something I need at home too. If only to stand a chance of staying sane.

Spent yesterday afternoon under project landie inserting a variety of objects into the chassis in order to pull the wiring loom through. Its not something I'd want to do again in a hurry. Still loom is now in which means OH can start to connect all the dashboard wiring. The other connections have to wait until the body panels are fitted in order to add light modules and wot not.

All the excitement meant I did sod all housework again. Went back to work to lock up, ended up doing another hour just chucking out the bags of rubbish that had been generated in my absence. Came home threw together dinner from the dregs of the freezer which are the closest they've ever been to empty since we bought them. Sainsburys arrived early with no end of substitutions, the best we've ever had. Vaseline (for applying to seals on the ladie to stretch them and work them over things) wasn't available so OH was presented with a bottle of Durex massage oil by the rather sheepish geriatric delivery chap. Think he was a bit miffed when I returned it along with a completely random pack of razor blades and a couple of other things which dropped a £25 off the bill.

Discovered my antivirus was on the verge of expiring so ordered another from Amazon bolwing the vast majority of my vouchers.... blew a few more on Elizabeth Wests Hovel in the Hills having heard many great things about it recently. Tis a good job I've read my way through tons of books recently otherwise I'd be feeling rather guilty about it.

Collapsed in a heap on the sofa in anticipation of an evening with a mediocre novel, the one eyed cat chose that moment to walk into the dog. Normally this would have resulted in a giant game of chase but it turned out that this was accidental rather than inflammatory. The one eyed cats remaining eye has turned decidedly grey. Shes obviously got very little sight left. DD2 pointed out the same thing this morning which resulted in me explaining that a one way trip to the vets is necessary before shes run over by a car simply because she didn't see it. Guess thats a phone call I need to make sooner rather than later.

Am anticipating a long morning at work followed by a super speedy lunch and an afternoon at a retirement party before returning to work for my evening shift. Quite why I though this week would be laid back escapes me. Really do need to do some housework in the very near future, have to have the palce spotless by this time next week in readiness for an invasion of the grandparents. Need to have packed a weeks worth of stuff for the DDs by then too. Getting quite excited at the idea of a child free week, although not quite as excited at the idea of spending the vast majority of it at work cramming in as many hours as humanly possible.

Wordsmith · 21 July 2011 at 9:58AM

moo2moo wrote: »

best we've ever had. Vaseline (for applying to seals on the ladie to stretch them and work them over things) wasn't available so OH was presented with a bottle of Durex massage oil by the rather sheepish geriatric delivery chap. Think he was a bit miffed when I returned it along with a completely random pack of razor blades and a couple of other things which dropped a £25 off the bill.

There's a thread on here somewhere about home delivery substitutions. The one I remember most (can't remember who posted so can't give the proper acknowledgement) was Twix bars instead of Tampax.

Sorry to hear about the imminent demise of the cat. Poor old girl (the cat, not you ... although poor you, too, of course).

Hope you get some time to rest soon. Sod the housework, is what I say.