Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

prettypaula

great diary Moo thoroughly good read.... you are seriously funny

moo2moo

chevalier wrote: »

i feel your cleaner is taking the p. as others have said the boss needs to do a risk assessment and send onto maternity leave. that way you can at least advertise for maternity cover. puke is one of the reasons i couldn't do your job, just a wiff sets me off in sympathy

Did make me chuckle Chev. By the time the council get their act in gear sufficiently to meet to word an advert, place the advert, wait the obligatory month for internal vacancies to be advertised, meet to discuss the lack of internal candidates, meet again to discuss placing an external ad, advertise externally at least twice, interview (hopefully assuming someone applies), award the job to someone and wait a gazillion light years for them to start the cleaner in question will be the mother of a toddler. Of course the assumption in all this is that she qualifies for maternity leave, which we're pretty sure she doesn't so its unpaid time off.

Meanwhile theres still no sign of a sick note from the quacks. Humph.

Today is a new day and all that.

Don't have to go into work, do anything work related or even think about work until 7:55 on Monday.... we're always late on Monday mornings. Bonus is I get to spend the morning hiding in the loft under the guise of playing hunt the nativity costume. Since there must be close to a thousand costumes to wade through this could take quite some time.

Plans for today involve an extra day with OH who has been stood down for the day thanks to an overstaffing blunder, he still gets paid though which is a bonus. Also discovered he still has 4 weeks holiday to use in the v. near future. Quite how thats happened is a mystery.

Need to sort out my Country Market stuff and put my name in my apron. Its like being back at primary school all over again. Need to fit in an hour at the market before taking the DDs to their riding lesson (although I'm hoping OH will volunteer to do this). After that a brief return to market followed by the non-baking of the X-mas cakes whose fruit I forgot to put into soak yesterday. Wondering if I can get away with soaking for considerably little less time than normal, otherwise it means staying up v.v. late one night next week to get them done or attempting to bake 6 tomorrow which means running the oven for 14 hours and not leaving the house for very long.... which is probably more sensible..... although that obviously means Oh will decree that we're spending the day doing fun filled family things. Thank god the Land Rover salvage yard is shut on a Sunday.

Have a gazillion e-bay auctions finishing tonight. The bidding war has commenced. Some of my 99p stuff has 12 bids on it taking it to the heady heights of the £1.50 price range. I can barely contain my excitement.

And finally (yes I'm going to shut up now).... Hellooo PrettyPaula!

ebayqueen_2

Don't ever shut up Moo.

We love to read your diary:)

You have a busy weekend ahead of you. Put all thoughts of work out of your head and enjoy it.

Ebay can be very very slow sometimes but all the pennies add up.

Take care
E

prettypaula

ebay just doesnt do it for me anymore... we went through a mad spurt of selling anything not nailed down, embarassingly to pay for a holiday to St Lucia (!) and out of 1499 feedback someone left me a negative as i couldnt understand her messages (she might have been your cleaner?).

Now ebay have shafted me down the listings and basically told me im a very bad girl and so therefore its not worth selling until it stops affecting my seller status.

hope your cakes go well, i am very VERY interested in jam/marmalade/chutney making and REALLY need to make some picalilli for christmas gifts but have never attempted anything before and the random recipes ive found appear to contain obscure ingredients that are possibly as hard to find as frankincense and mehrr.

x

moo2moo

Its been a rather odd day. OH volunteered to get dressed and take the DDs riding. The market seemed to fly by, I sold five jars of assorted edibles, spent £3 on drinks and cakes for the DDs when OH dropped them off to have an hours peace. End result was a profit of £8 (although more like £5 after ingredients). My salvaged E-bay tat sold for £43 after fees. Have had an e-mail from someone who missed the end of the auction so hopefully thats another couple of quid in sales.

Bunged £2 in an envelope to cover DD2s school trip to the cinema but apart form that haven't spent anything else all day.

Spent the afternoon scraping shoite off the lawn before banishing the DDs to their rooms to do a spot of tidying. They seem to have tidied their floors into the laundry basket.

Knitted a wee bit more sock and have completed the heel. Even remebered to put the christmas cake fruit in to soak.

PrettyPaula - jam and chutney making is incredibly simple and extremely addictive. You have been warned. Odd as the picalilli ingredients sound theres nothing there that can't be purchased in Mr Ts.

moo2moo

Slept in for the first time in ages. Spent the morning gardening and the afternoon playing doctors and nurses after OH decided to attempt to drill through his hand. Fortunately he failed. He has a nice deep hole but managed to miss all the tendons and nerves. Unsurprisingly its rather painful in a woe is me perhaps I'll get my leg over tonight kind of way.

Managed to clear the dregs of one of the rubble bags from the front garden (assuming 4 square feet of mud qualifies as such). Means you can now walk up to the front door in the dark without risking maiming yourself. Mowed the lawns and generally pootled about until mid afternoon when I remembered I was supposed to be baking cakes. Cakes now in oven where they are destined to remain for quite some time. In theory I could set the oven timer and go to bed but the one and only time I risked doing that the fuse box decided to plunge us into darkness. Probably a co-incidence but not something I've attempted since.

Drum roll please..... I've finished my first ever sock. Of course being my first ever sock its somewhat flawed but it has the merit of being sock shaped, quite whose sock remains to be seen. The pattern I used was clearly intended for someone with small feet and calves like tree trunks. Never mind. Its companion is in progress. At worst it fits DD1 and at very much worse it stretches to fit me, although its more like a sport sock than an actual sock. Heres hoping my second attempt is free of the many balls-ups present in the first one.

mooomin

How would you feel about trying to knit a pair of thick socks for a man with size 13 feet?

Mr F has MAHOOSIVE feet which makes it hard to get decent socks for the man, and if he stretches another pair of mine we'll have a domestic incident. It's getting too cold to bury him in the garden...

moo2moo

flying_fresian wrote: »

How would you feel about trying to knit a pair of thick socks for a man with size 13 feet?

Mr F has MAHOOSIVE feet which makes it hard to get decent socks for the man, and if he stretches another pair of mine we'll have a domestic incident. It's getting too cold to bury him in the garden...

Clearly you have more faith in my ability to knit socks than is sensible. Coming from a family of big footed men I can recommened Big Foot socks. They ain't pretty or cheap but they're mighty big. M&S do a Big and Tall range of socks in a 12-14.

moo2moo

Why does Monday morning materialise so quickly? It wasn't until late last night that I remebered I hadn't washed the DDs school uniforms. IN DD2s case this isn't an issue but DD1s was horrendously expensive and so she got one of everything apart from jumpers which I splurged and bought two although you wouldn't know this to look at them, they're covered in bobbles already. Nasty cheap chinese imports with over inflated price tags from the schoolwear specialist.

Am treking to the post office this morning with all bar one E-bay parcel, obviously the most profitable one since the winning bidder hasn't paid despite bidding at the very last minute. Really really infuriating when people do that and then wait a week to pay.

Planning to spend the morning avoiding doing any actual work by hiding out in schools loft under the pretence of searching for nativity concert costumes.

Further plans for today involve eradicating the laundry pile, cleaning the bathroom and a whole load of washing up since I abandoned the kitchen last night at the point the cakes went in the oven.

Need to finish clearing old documents from the filing cabinet so that the drawer shuts on the first attempt. Went through the month end statements yesterday. Have just over a grand and a half to clear to be sub 5K by Christmas. Means being v. controlled with my spending this year. Have been good so far but have yest to buy anything major for OH or the DDs. Am not convinced OH will appreciate a three month supply of the Cambridge Diet but he might take it as a slightly less than subtle hint that hes getting very podgy. The loss of three waistband buttons in a week doesn't appear to have made him realise this on its own given the bar of chcolate hse scoffed before going to bed last night.

In more exciting news progress is once again being made with project landie. One side of the rear tub is now repaired, that leaves three more external sides and the interior to go. Its going to be years before its all finished though.

prettypaula

Moo - u would be proud, am picking up some free empty jars from freecycle. i AM going to make that picalilli on nov 19th. thankyou!!!