Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo
You are up early today

Well done on getting that room cleaned out. Its amazing how soon things gather up. I cleaned my utility room out last night !!! Now for the rest of the house.

I am sure it must be lovely to watch your little girl get into books. A new world will open up to her. With boys they sort of stop reading at about 15 so I spend my time hunting down books that I know YS will really want to lift and read. I find that soccer player biographies and wrestling annuals go down well here

Are you finding it hard to sleep Moo or is the hound keeping you up?

Take care
E

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

Morning Moo
You are up early today

Are you finding it hard to sleep Moo or is the hound keeping you up?

Take care
E

Finding it hard to get back to sleep once the hound has awoken for her nightly howl at the moon. Doesn't help that broadband rocks at a whole 700mb download speed which means pages load faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpealidocious three times whilst making a cuppa. Ah the joys of rural living.

DD1 is now the proud owner of a shiny new cornet thanks to the musci teacher working wonders and persuading the county to fork out for one. Mutterings have been made about her joining the youth brass band. Quite when she'll fit that in remains to be seen.

Plans for today involve much indoorness in rain avoidance because its pelting down. The old dear took one look at the weather and went back to sleep.

moo2moo

Down to earth with a bump. Opened the credit card statement to find it way over a grand. had forgotten I'd bunged the house and car insurance on it. !!!!!!.

Signed up elsewhere for a sock yarn secret santa. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Turns out the person I'm secret santa to runs a yarn shop and dyes their own yarn. Double !!!!!!. Worse still they don't celebrate Christmas which means no cheesy christmas themed anything. How do I get myself into these things? I'm sure my clicky finger is possessed by the spendy elves.

Meanwhie back on the ranch OH has wangled tomorrow off work meaning hes underfoot until November. All plans of a superficially spotlesshouse by Saturdays birthday party ground to a halt the instant he collapsed in a snoring farting heap on the sofa. Can't do anything noisy which is a right pain in the aris since the hound from hell has shredded firewood in the dining room and the bedrooms and the hallway and the kitchen. Have knitted two leaves for the strawberry hat instead. Hoping to get that finished tonight which means I can finally start on something I want to knit. Not that I've decided what but I'm sure I'll figure it out. Have all of half term to do the Christmas pudding hat although I really should get it out of the way first.

moo2moo

Finally got home at 8:30 last night thanks to one teacher running almost two hours late for parents evening. Not at all impressed. Did nothing with my evening apart from eat and sleep. At least when I'm doing that I'm not spending money.

Knitting_Nora

Hi Moo2moo *subscribes*.

Great thread. Lots of sympathy for the possessed clicky finger - those spendy elves are everywhere (you know you're in trouble when your toes can wiggle out the pin to your credit card...).

As to the sock yarn santa - do you have to create something sock-themed, or can you go rogue? Enquiring minds want to know.

Have a great day.

Nora

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Finally got home at 8:30 last night thanks to one teacher running almost two hours late for parents evening. Not at all impressed. Did nothing with my evening apart from eat and sleep. At least when I'm doing that I'm not spending money.

How inconsiderate. We wouldnt dare over run our parents evenings:o

moo2moo

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Hi Moo2moo *subscribes*.

Great thread. Lots of sympathy for the possessed clicky finger - those spendy elves are everywhere (you know you're in trouble when your toes can wiggle out the pin to your credit card...).

As to the sock yarn santa - do you have to create something sock-themed, or can you go rogue? Enquiring minds want to know.

Have a great day.

Nora

Fortunately I don't have to create anything major. Its predominantly a yarn swap with chocolate and a vaguely knitting related nicknac. Heaven. Need to keep my ideas firmly reigned in remebering that this is for some random stranger otherwise I could get really carried away.

anyhooo.... have finally finished the strawberry hat. Its better than I imagined but..... no piccies of that either its too dark and I want rid before DD2 claims it.

Have not spent anything for the third day in a row. Go me. Have not been outside in daylight either. At least tonights parents evening finished earlier than yesterdays. Still kettled though. All that wandering round doing nowt then rushing round like a loon only to do nowt for the next half hour is deadly. Still I did get to read The Hummingbird Bakery cupcake book. Never good when you're hungry.

moo2moo

Started the day with the unexpected decluttering of two cold slimy slugs which exploded when I stood on them in the dark. Its a heck of a way to wake up.

On my third cuppa of the morning having had an impromptu foot spa. Knew there was a reason the house had a bidet.

Its finally the last day of term, although DD1 finished yesterday. Have to persuade her to put on her school uniform anyway for a cheesy piccie with her sibling at todays school photo session. Also means I'll have to endure a deluge of parents from 8am. Bleugh. Anticipate running away as fast as possible.

Still it can't be any worse a start to the day than yesterdays unexpected fire drill which saw some child throw a paddy resulting in the shattering of a fire alarm emergency trigger point and a deafeningly loud eruption from the sounders. You'd be amazed how many teachers stood around in their classrooms waiting to be told what to do. I forsee many more fire drills in the future.

Have promised DD1 a trip to civilisation to select a major treat having achieved her bronze merit award for ganing 50 merits at high school. Shes very chuffed. Rightly so. Hoping I can find a pair of boots whilst out because my boots (left over from Uni in the mid 90s) are rapidly dying. Means I've reached footwear crisis point and have nothing else suitable to wear to work. Seriously consideering steel toe capped Doc Marten boots but doubt I can drive in them. Need something thats going to last.

Trying_to_be_good

moo2moo wrote: »

Seriously consideering steel toe capped Doc Marten boots but doubt I can drive in them. Need something thats going to last.

My sister always managed to drive in her 8-hole Docs, I never managed it in my 10-hole ones - in case that helps?!!! We're so lady-like.

MatyMoo

moo2moo wrote: »

Started the day with the unexpected decluttering of two cold slimy slugs which exploded when I stood on them in the dark. Its a heck of a way to wake up.

On Rodders first two trips to the garden the other morning, in the dark, I stood guarding a big fat slug on the path so that he wouldn't eat it. Once the sun came up, and I was more awake, it turned out to be a leaf :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am so not a morning person :eek: