Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

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.

Wasn't up late through choice. Got half an hours sleep before the geriatric old dear felt the need to howl at the moon. Am now knackered and running late all ready

Happy pay day y'all!

THe boss goes through these highly stressed phases. Something to do with running a week of school concerts for parents and then scheduling the biggest fundraiser of the year to start six hours after the last concert ends further compounded by some ijot sending out a request for donations three weeks before we need them when we don't have anywhere to store them. Given the choice of the diasabled loo (already crammed with carp) or the bosses office..... well I did what any other completely insane person would do.... Apparently when he told me to bung it anywhere I could find space he didn't actually mean that.

Plans for today involve lots of leaf sweeping and a wheelie bin inventory for some council audit which will waste half an hour of my life tomorrow. Whoever decided I needed to participate in a meeting about wheelie bins needs shooting. Perhaps thats this weeks punishment for being a gobby cow.

Igamogam

Just been catching up on your diary - have been ill,confined to bed ill which I am not very good at.On the mend but it seems a slow process.

Love the socks - brill! I once knitted in a pair of stripey toe socks on circular needles - about 35 years ago come to think about it - never tried it again! Shawl is fab. I have a shawl 'on the needles' which I started before DD1 was born - she is now 20:o. Thank goodness MIL was a great knitter and produced a stunning shawl for her and her sister 6 years later as I still hadn't finished my shawl. Have told my girls I wil finish it for first grandchild and instructed them not to produce one for another 10 years :rotfl:The shawl is a 'wedding ring' shawl. One ply yarn :eek: beautiful but sloooow growing. I remember my mother knitting a great shawl - chunky needles and chunky wool;basic stocking stitch and simple triangle shape - I thought I had kept all her knitting patterns but this wasnt amongst them I have promised myself I will experiment and try to reproduce it one day - think once I can work out how many to cast onI will beaway!

Your illegal immigrant pregnant cleaner is taking the p*ss and her friend is very wrong. Your boss should make a stand - even if he is stressed and his office is full of shoe boxes........... this is such a bad time of the year in schools. I know when I get back next week we will probably just suspend any sort of useful teaching and learning and we will be relying on crowd control techniques, a ridiculous amount of glitter and tins of chocolates to keep all, adults and children , sane!

Sorry hijacked your diary a bit

ebayqueen_2

Hi Moo

Eventually getting a catch up of all the diaries. You have had a rough few days Moo. Glad to hear your wee girl got the tooth sorted. Hard to listen to kids when they are in bad form and not very pleasant for mam to watch either.

I bet you felt like slapping the face of the individual who found their ring at home!!! Unbelievable. I found my missing item thank goodness and why I put it where I found it I will never know. I seriously lost a few years of my life last week with worry. Why do we do this to ourselves.

Here, Granny is a good one isn't she!!! How long will they stay for? Will she help you out with the cooking? Sorry to hear of OH having a drink again. Hopefully it will pass. Hard to live with that kind of pressure. Will be thinking about you Moo.

Your socks are gorgeous. As I have said before and I will say again....you have a great set of hands on you Moo. Well done. When are your starting your neck wrap?

Re work avoid all like the plague and play the quiet busy game and all will get back to normal soon.

Take care Moo

moo2moo

Finally finished!

Something I bunged on E-bay for the heck of it because It wasn't worth sending it to the scrap metal merchant for £2 has reached the heady heinghts of £6.50 with 9 days to go. Tis at times like this that I love E-bay.

ebayqueen - glad you found your missing didgeridoo in the end.

Boss has been normal all day and was almost apologetic about yesterday.... almost..... meant we got away with a re-enactment of the weekends peace service. Imagaine being told a parable about sheep, shepherds and squeaky gates and being told to baa, cheer, squeak, moo, munch munch chomp chomp and boo hiss as appropriate. Got reprimanded for extracting the urnine from one of the TAs who is a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Nursery have made a sign for their school nativity which the teachers were busy caking in glue and glitter. Poor woman pointed out to the department head, v. seriously, that she'd mis-spelt Christmas. Apparently it should have a h at the beginning and an a instead of an u at the end. Announcing that I'd have to go home and correct all my Christmas cards because I'd copied my spellings from the board resulted in an entiere department complaining they'd been spelling it that way for years too.

SPent the afternoon cleaning and tidying.... have another month to deep clean the entire house in anticipation of Grannys arrival. At this point we think they're staying for four days. I envisage many bracing walks in the park with the hairballs to prevent me killing someone. On the brightside Granny likes washing up... althtough she has been known to stop mid-meal to wash up because she can't stand the thought of the mess any longer. Its most annoying to stop mid way through carving the turkey to put something on a plate only to find the knife you were using seconds ago has been washed because you let go of it. Its the most wonderful time of the year!

Igamogam

Love the hottie looks very cosy - I am welded to one at moment- still feeling rough after 2 weeks. Dont talk to me about TAs who cant spell...........:mad: or ones who dont know what an 'oval' shape is;call the children 'mate' and accuse me of being 'well shady' in front of child remprimanded for tipping water into another childs dinner! Needless to say that TA didnt last long;)

Knitting_Nora

Wow - that hottie is a work of art! Now you've got my hot water bottles demanding similar coverings...*closes the cupboard door on their demands*

moo2moo

Its almost the weekend in that tomorrow is a bidet and I can do as I likey rather than work my normal hours. DD2 and I are orf to the craft centre in the forest for the day for a spot of leaf stomping, much perusing of crafty bits and a picnic. Still means I have to get through today first although am hoping that doesn't involve scraping chewing gum from a carpet because some three year olds granny decided to send her to school eating it.

Spent mostof yesterday wandering aimlesly round Mr As accompanied by OH. Managed to rack up a £105 bill. Cupboards are heaving once again. Forgot to admonish myself for spending £11 in the village POst Office which brings my spending to £736. Won't be doing much spending at all for the rest of the week mostly thank to the Halifax who instantaneously accepted a transfoer of wonga from my wage acccount to them but threw a wobbly when I tried sending money back to my wage account and helpfully informed me that the bank in question didn't accept faster payments so my transfer would take 3-4 days. Hurrah. More wierdly although I clicked the go ahead and do whatever you like button my balance wasn't immediately debited by the amount venturing forth into cyberspace. Its very easy to see how people go overdrawn when stuff like that happens.

Finally got home from work at 7:30pm post bin audit which was indeed a waste of time although one which has led to a further six wheelie bins and two more weekly collections plus much more sorting of waste. It all adds to the fun. Was too tired to concentrate on anything much so decided to make DD1 a pair of gloves rather than risk screwing up the shawl. Rather glad I did because I've made sooo many mistakes which needed pulling back and redoing. Think this is mostly because I'm knitting from a chart which is very different to knitting from a pattern. Theres so much more room for error and I seem to be making the most of it. It is using up more of the giant ball of yarn quite what possessed me to buy half a kilo to make a hot water bottle escapes me. I forsee a lot more red knitted things in my not too distant future.

Am 40p from payout with One Poll .... and surveys seem to have dried up which is most frustrating.

moo2moo

Its not yet 10am and yet todays spends have totted up to £90 already. £60 for DD1s school dinners, which will hopefully last until Christmas, and £30 for DD2s next football course. Seems like the harder I try to be frugal the more I end up spending.

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo

You get weeks that all you do is spend money. Hopefully next week will be a bit better. As you say, you are now well stocked up so stay away from the supermarkets.

You have had a busy week my dear. I am sure you were ecstatic when you were gifted more bins. :) Well done on the hot water bottle, its beautiful. I can't actually believe the type of people that are being employed as teaching assistants !!!!! I know quite a few and they are all well educated and have went into TA because of family commitments. You made me giggle when you described the the well shady one. Here it takes all kind to make a world and we are enlightened every-time we meet them:):):)

What about ebay this week? I know you got a bit of money for the scrap item, did you sell your little meerkat. They seem really popular.

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Its not yet 10am and yet todays spends have totted up to £90 already. £60 for DD1s school dinners, which will hopefully last until Christmas, and £30 for DD2s next football course. Seems like the harder I try to be frugal the more I end up spending.

Oh I so know that feeling! And this whole survey thing............ why when I get almost half way through does it pack up and say I dont qualify - on what grounds? Being too honest about carp savoury snacks ( NO I will NEVER buy them !) Happeing a lot lately and is really frustrating. Hope you get your 40p soon;)