Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

ebayqueen_2

Hi Moo

Catching up after a couple of days. Can't make the excuse that I have been catching up with the ironing :) Done the minimum required 3 crisp shirts everyday here!!!!

I couldn't help but giggle about DD and the chips sticking out of her mouth :) Hubby staring at his wee hand and showing his mates at work and one swooning. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say if you can knit that shawl go for it. It is gorgeous.

Not much happening here have lost something very very important and cannot find it as 4 days .. the bonus is I have pulled out cupboards and I haven't found what I have been looking for but I have thrown out some carp!!!

I have now come to conclusion that it could be away to the recyling bin in the sky and I am up S**t creek without a lifejacket. I do not jest. This is serious.

Ah well will keep looking and hoping for the best.

That is so very funny about the cleaner and the passport. Some craic!!! She is a lazy wee mare and she is taking the proverbial. There I have said it. :):)

Enjoy your de-cluttering today.

take care
E

moo2moo

ebayqueen wrote: »

Hi Moo

Catching up after a couple of days. Can't make the excuse that I have been catching up with the ironing :) Done the minimum required 3 crisp shirts everyday here!!!!

I couldn't help but giggle about DD and the chips sticking out of her mouth :) Hubby staring at his wee hand and showing his mates at work and one swooning. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say if you can knit that shawl go for it. It is gorgeous.

Not much happening here have lost something very very important and cannot find it as 4 days .. the bonus is I have pulled out cupboards and I haven't found what I have been looking for but I have thrown out some carp!!!

I have now come to conclusion that it could be away to the recyling bin in the sky and I am up S**t creek without a lifejacket. I do not jest. This is serious.

Ah well will keep looking and hoping for the best.

That is so very funny about the cleaner and the passport. Some craic!!! She is a lazy wee mare and she is taking the proverbial. There I have said it. :):)

Enjoy your de-cluttering today.

take care
E

Ooohhhh nooo hope it turns up somewhere unexpected. Its obviously the time of year for that dort of thing. On Tuesday I emptied two commercial kitchen waste bins, grovelled around on the school kitchen floor, took the U-bends off the sinks and generally wasted two hours looking for a ring which was later found in its owners jewellery box at home.

DD1s tooth is now even looser. The roots are completely free but its stuck in mid air by a v. firmly attached clump of gum. Poor kid is not very happy and white as a sheet but its refusing to budge so I've sent her to school anyway. Figured she'd be more distracted there than she is here. The dentist won't get close enough to do anything about it without knocking her out because shes almost hysterical at the thought of someone touching it. Its become incredibly loose in the past 48 hours so I'm hoping it falls out of its own accord in the very very near future.

Shawl might be gorgeous but I'd never wear it which makes it a bit of a waste. Tis lovely though. Perhaps in another lifetime when I don't slob around in jeans, t-shirts and hiking boots.

Going to finish my cuppa, grab a bin bag and fling 50 things I should have flung long ago. Then because its free listing on Flea bay all weekend I'm going to load up a box of stuff for that and tidy somemore in the vague hope of having a clean and tidy house by the end of the day.

moo2moo

Ended up collecting DD1 from school at lunchtime. She was in tears with the pain. One emergency trip to the dentist later its out although it took him almost ten minutes of wiggling and a heck of a lot of anaesthetic gel to get rid of it *moo scuttles off to play tooth fairy having forgotten again*

Spent the evening knitting whilst watching Bridesmaids which was v. disappointing although not as bad as the Planet of the Apes thing that I endured earlier in the week. Just the ribbing to go.

Decided yesterdays shawl was too complicated so am going to attempt this which is far simpler. Am thinking of this yarn in Wisteria although am not firmly convinced and can't decide whether to go with silk or merino. Figured not forking out a fiver for the pattern meant I could splurge a wee bit more on the yarn.... she says remebering just how much money has hemorrhaged this month already.

Yesterdays spends £30 at dentist, £2.16 at Post Office sending the last of last weekends e-bay sales and £8 on martial arts classes. Total spend for the month £597.

Plans for today involve riding lessons, country marketing .... in 40 minutes *eek* and much housework plus the washing of school uniforms ready for tomorrows school choir outing. Fun, fun fun!

moo2moo

Finished my socks


Decided spending money on yarn when I have sa cupboard full is rather naughty considering how much money I've spent recently so am going to finish all my knitting UFOs... all two of them and then make the shawl from sock yarn because I still have 15 balls in the cupboard.... 18 if you count the three I'm going to bung on e-bay later this morning.

Hiuse is moderately clean and tidy... thats as good as its going to get. Will whiz over the loos and sinks before Granny turns up but thats it.

Spent £20 on the DDs riding lessons and a further £3 on drinks and cakes at the Country Market, sold 8 jars of jam which means Decembers cheque shoud be very nice. My stock cupboard is very depleted. Hadn't realised quite how much stuff I had sold. Will need to make lots of marmalade over the Christmas holidays. Unfortnuately total spend to date is now an eyewatering £620. Scary just how fast it all adds up.

Going to spend half an hour sewing up bits of project mices bum before breakfast in the hopes that Granny doesn't arrive extremely early.

Knitting_Nora

Great socks! They're the sort that make you smile just looking at them, let alone wearing them.

They shall henceforth be known as 'the happy socks'....*strums dramatic guitar music in the background*

Nora.

moo2moo

Grannys visit went surprisingly well, a bit too well in fact. Turns out they'd have liked us all to go to them for Christmas but like their house too much to risk having the hound from hell there so instead they're coming here with my step sister and her partner and staying a few days. OH and I are still in a state of what the !!!!nesss. Tis like being hit by a convoy of steam rollers. Means our quiet christmas at home has just become a circus for eight. Aw well Christmas is a time of glad tidings and great joy and kindness to all men blah blah blah. THe old saving grace is granny actually asked for a very specific gift list and so DD1 has requested chaps, DD2 couldn't think of anything so has two weeks to come up with something, OH was clueles and I rather cheeklily mentioned the awesome shawl wool I'd decided against splurging on yesterday... well it is Christmas and I'd far rather have that than a stack of books chosen by someone else or a heap of chocolate which is their normal choice of gift when I fail to be decisive.

Got through yesterday without spending a bean. Walked the ound from hell in the park and generally bumbled about. Discovered that when OH said he'd washed the mud off DD2s trainers he meant he'd put them in the washing machine. Fat chance of them being dry enough to wear by 4pm today. Water runs out of them whenever you move them. The house simply isn't warm enough to dry them. Will be taking them to work later to bung in the boiler house. Even then I suspect it will take most of the week to dry them out.

Plans for today involve a brief stint at work, much domestic drudgery, a long pootle round the park with the hairballs since the hound from hell is mid-demonic phase and growth spurt (hopefully her final one).

OH is fabricating replacemnet bits of Landie. He seems to be going through an enthusiastic patch. Sadly this is always coupled with a shopping spree for what always seems to me to be irrelevant parts.

Listed a single solitary item on e-bay. If it shifts its one more big thing out of the way.

Spent the evening working on DD1s hot water bottle. Have passed the halfway point on the second side. Hopefully that will be finished by Thursday. Didn't get as far as sewing up mices bums though. Couldn't be arsed.

chevalier

oh help about having them there for christmas. I bet that will be interesting! Is OH still sober? Otherwise I forsee an interesting xmas time ahead!

Really liked those socks they are ace!

Understand about money running through fingers. We have just moved. We needed a fridge freezer. Decided to go for a new one with warranty $1300 later:eek::eek::eek::eek:. And I will like be spending the same for a washer dryer soon too, as mine packed up.
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moo2moo

chevalier wrote: »

oh help about having them there for christmas. I bet that will be interesting! Is OH still sober? Otherwise I forsee an interesting xmas time ahead!

Really liked those socks they are ace!

Understand about money running through fingers. We have just moved. We needed a fridge freezer. Decided to go for a new one with warranty $1300 later:eek::eek::eek::eek:. And I will like be spending the same for a washer dryer soon too, as mine packed up.
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OHs sobriety didn't last. He seems to have stabilised at a bottle a night plus 2 or so ciders and is piling on weight as a result. Am impersonating an ostrich for the time being as hes behaving himself.

Eek to the freezer!

moo2moo

Decided enough was enough and spent yesterday ruthlessly tidying. Cleared the welsh dresser listing all surplus stuff on Amazon and another website. End result was three sales in under 8 hours totalling £65 although after postage and fees thats more likely to be £50 I really ain't complaining.

Got all the ironing out of the way too. Have also arranged for DD1 to go to a sleep over, means reciprocating so will do that the weekend OH is away.

Spent the evening knitting. Stayed up too late agin but only have two rows of cabling and a dozen rows of ribbing to do before the hot water bottle cover is finished.

Put my foot in it at work again. My boss is like a walking timebomb. Need to watch my mouth for the next few weeks since its the most stressful time of the year and hes had a sense of humour failure.

Knitting_Nora

Morning Moo! :wave:

Accidentally up too late as well (and really shouldn't be left unsupervised with the laptop....). Fancy a cuppa?

Most impressed with your cleaning and knitting frenzy - do we get pics of the hotwater bottle once done?

And keep your chin up with work (albeit with your head down, and a quiet voice!!).

Nora.