Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

DD2 enjoyed her party, came home to find her sound asleep tucked up in her top secret den. Managed to transfer her to her bed without disturbing her. Hoping she manages to sleep through the night. Had second thoughts about sending her off to Grannys for the weekend, fortunately Granny agreed and so they're coming over for a day and taking her to Frankie and Bennys as a surprise.

Yarn still hasn't arrived. Wheres the really irritated smiley hiding? Spent two hours attaching appendages to mice. Bored beyond belief. Still have loads and loads and loads of sewing to do. Bleugh. It is progressing though and when I finally finish it I'm going to open my secret santa gift because I'm incredibly impatient and can't possibly wait until Christmas to open it, not when I know it contains chocolate.

Shifted another book on Amazon for a v. nice £4 profit. Also claimed another £10 Amazon voucher from shop n scan which makes my Amazon splurge account a little healthier, not that I'll be splurging anytime soon as some kind soul has bunged the first 38 Terry Pratchetts and the whole of both the Lemony Snicket and Percy Jackson & The Olympian series on the kindle, that should keep me busy for quite some time.

mooomin

38 Pratchetts???? *bliss*

I met the great man at a book signing event, 'twas as close to meeting God as I ever hope to come.

Mr F has a book which now bears the legend:

"To *Mr Fresian's real name*

Happy Hogswatch

Terry Pratchett"


His face was a picture on Christmas morning

moo2moo

flying_fresian wrote: »

38 Pratchetts???? *bliss*

I met the great man at a book signing event, 'twas as close to meeting God as I ever hope to come.

Mr F has a book which now bears the legend:

"To *Mr Fresian's real name*

Happy Hogswatch

Terry Pratchett"


His face was a picture on Christmas morning

Thats a stupendous Christmas gift.

moo2moo

Here in moo towers the lesser spotted moo has finally returned to earth having completed a celebratory lap of the house. Somehow or other the month has flown by in a mini whirlwind of events and I hadn't realised its payday. I've also been unbelievably pants at checking my bank balance so it was a bit of a shocker to log in this morning to find a grand and a half in there. Seems everyone has thrown money in my direction recently. More of a shock was my overtime being paid the same month it was submitted.... thats unheard of. I don't feel quite so bad about my recent splurges.

DD2 still hasn't stirred so I'm hoping this signifies a return to normality, whatever that is.

Plans for today involve moving yesterdays log delivery from the drive to the back of the house always assuming some scroat hasn't nicked it whilst I'm at work.

moo2moo

Squeeeeeeeeee...... yarn has finally arrived and it was sooooo worth the wait. Am most tempted to cast on with it this evening rather than torture myself with another evenings sewing up...... if I do I know the mice bums will sit in the bag for another couple of months which is daft because they're so close to being finished. Can't shut the yarn cupboard door (note I now have that much yarn it needs a cupboard all of its own) and I have another 6 balls in transit. Must not buy any more wool for quite some time....... really.... no matter how tempted I am.

Have moved and stacked all the logs. Hopefully thats the only delivery we'll need this winter. Which leaves me a staggering hour and forty five minutes to clean and tidy suitable for a visit from Granny at some point tomorrow. Eeek!

Knitting_Nora

moo2moo wrote: »

Here in moo towers the lesser spotted moo has finally returned to earth having completed a celebratory lap of the house.

*snort*

Seems everyone has thrown money in my direction recently. More of a shock was my overtime being paid the same month it was submitted.... thats unheard of. I don't feel quite so bad about my recent splurges.

Ooo, how fab - random money throwers...alive and well, and lurking around moo! *siddles a little closer*

DD2 still hasn't stirred so I'm hoping this signifies a return to normality, whatever that is.

Poor little sausage. How's she doing generally? DD1 ok?

moo2moo wrote: »

Squeeeeeeeeee......

Wow, bats out in daylight...who'da thought it...

yarn has finally arrived and it was sooooo worth the wait.

Ahhh, it was you...might've known!

Can't shut the yarn cupboard door (note I now have that much yarn it needs a cupboard all of its own)

I honestly don't know what I'm more jealous of - that you have that much yarn, or that you have furniture in your house in which to put it...!:D
Nora.x

moo2moo

Ummmmm I only have furniture in the house to put wool in because I evicted the toys from the toy cupboard and dumped them in the bottom of DD2s wardrobe. Her clothes still dangle in mid air so theres loads of room. The yarn store is rather compact at a mere 2 foot cube but you'd be amazed how much stuff you can wedge in there, which is just as well because its full to the point of overflowing.

Today is a most excellent day being that its the last official working day of the year and theres still loads of year left. Have tons of minor things to do in what little time is left. Hoping DD2 will go back in for at least part of the day, need the peace to do a rapid deshoite. Shes going to take some convincing when she unwraps several titles by David Walliams and The Diaries of a Wimpy Kid. I know at her age I'd have tried all manner of stunts to be allowed to stay home and read on my birthday.

Spent the early part of yesterday evening writing x-mas cards for work, don't normally bother especially when the usual method of delivery seems to be piles on the table in the staffroom. Figure if people can't be bothered to give them to you or leave them in your office then they ain't doing much more than paying lip service to the whole thing. Still have been given a heck of a lot of gifts from other members of staff which is most unusual, so couldn't not. Mind you at the rate I'm writing cards I figure it will be another decade before I need to buy anymore. I'm still wading through the pile I bought for 5p a box in the Woolies closing down sale.

Wrote a heck of a lot of cheques to cover various bills so the bank account didn't stay healthy for very long. It was a nice surprise though and it means my oh shoite I'd forgotten about that and that and that fund is a smidgen more generously proportioned than normal.

Once that little lot was out of the way i settled in for the long haul in a determined to get this over and done this even if it kills me kinda way and so at something approaching 1am I finally finished project mouse bum. Admitedly it will need a little tweaking in daylight but everythings attached and it looks pretty darm good... even if it has occupied something approaching 30 hours of my life.

This means all my knittery UFOs are complete. Theres nothing whatsoever in progress and as a reward I've openined my sock yarn secret santa which is choc full of chocolate with a skein of truly amazing super squooshy yarn and a whole lot of little knittery goodies.

Happy Friday y'all!

moo2moo

Theres a lot to be said for being stuck at home with a poorly child. Other than brief forrays into the pharmacy for medicines and a couple of grab and runs in the village shop my spending this month has been rather minimal. SO minimal in fact that my credit card bill for the month is under £250 which includes my internet splurges, £70 deposit for OHs staff Christmas dinner which OHs company will reimburse and three lots of pet insurance. Might just end the year with less than 5K of debt after all.

Other noticable benefits include a massive depletion in the various storecupboards, although I could manage at least another month without needing to buy pasta, rice or cereal. Hoping a lot of scratch cooking over the holidays will get shut of a lot of the dregs too.

Plans for today involve the great tree erection which means an assault on the loft. Both DDs have tidied their rooms in anticipation of the great event, although DD2 promptly utilised the floor space to play with the Scalextric. She seems much happier and got through yesterday with fewer painkillers than normal.

Knitting_Nora

Good news on DD2 feeling a bit better - and she apparently has very cool toys...can we come and play...pleeeeease....we're a very tidy 'verse...sort of....;)

Good luck with the great erection (ooo, that didn't sound right did it?!:o)... and spare a thought for those of us who have already packed our tree and decs away.

And congrats on the spends (or lack of) and storecupboard raids - I'm not suggesting you break a child routinely....but clearly there's some evidence that it might be cheaper in the long run! :rotfl:

Nora.x

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo

what a cold one here...roads like a bottle.
Only catching up on diary this morning and sorry to hear your wee girl has been in such pain. At least you haven't spent much. Wish I could say the same this week.

take care
E