Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

I have a knitting disaster of my own to contend with. However you look at it last nights tea cosy resembles a mutant jellyfish. Am determined to finish it just to get shut of the horrible wool.

Feeling almost human today as are both DDs. Just as well really as I couldn't take another day of being ill.

Plans for today involve a lot of taking it easy.

Knitting_Nora

moo2moo wrote: »

I have a knitting disaster of my own to contend with. However you look at it last nights tea cosy resembles a mutant jellyfish. Am determined to finish it just to get shut of the horrible wool.

Feeling almost human today as are both DDs. Just as well really as I couldn't take another day of being ill.

Plans for today involve a lot of taking it easy.

Well, I think it's good that someone is standing up for our mutant jellyfish...creating representative cosies is a brilliant idea!

Glad to hear you're feeling a little better - and your plans for today sound excellent....go kick a child off the sofa (I maintain, they are young and will therefore bounce), and settle down in front of the tv.

Feel better soon.

Nora.x

rupe34

moo2moo wrote: »

Hey Rupe! How goes life in the land of the intelligent?

:rotfl:I wouldn't know:rotfl: I can tell you its a bummer spending all the Christmas holidays when the children are otherwise occupied writing assignments and reading REAMS of stuff, when you just want to eat chocolate in front of 'World's Strongest Man'.

Whinge over - I love it really;)

moo2moo

Aw... but Worlds Strongest Man was utter tosh. DD1 couldn't understand why they kept taking their shirts off. DD2 wanted to know if they were really stupid because they could easily have moved the fire engine and the giant truck faster by driving it over the line and the dead lift was totally lost on them. DD2 was totally convinced that the giant barbell was a foam filled joke shop toy. And the poor chap who announced he weighed 30 stone and spent all day eating, even waking up in the night for a shake, was denounced as being really greedy. Nowhere near as much fun as when Geoff Capes was in it... although I did eventually bump into him as a panto genie when I was rather small and he scared the pants off me. Its the closest I've ever been to a real life giant or at least thats what it felt like at the time.

Meanwhile its 2:30am and I'm wide awake and due in work in a little under five hours time. Have had next to no sleep thanks to the dog chasing the cat chasing the other cat around the bedroom in a free for all, the winner of which got to sleep on my head. Needless to say I wasn't overly impressed.

Have almost finished the second side of the tea cosy but had to stop due to something suspiciously like a friction burn (minds out of the gutter laydees) on the side of my finger. Cheap acrylic yarn is hideous stuff.

moo2moo

Neugh.... barely got any sleep at all, the wind kept getting louder and louder and more and more stuff clattered about the place. Makes me more determiined than ever to spring clean the garden asap. The lovely people at the Met Office have upgraded the storm warning to "be prepared" ..... for the four horsemen of the apocalypse perhaps. Ever so glad that they upgrade these things in the wee small hours when theres no one about to do much about it besides which how on earth do you prepare? Candles are already on standby as are a gazillion light sticks and torches such is the frequency of power outages here. The freezer and fish tank both have emergency duvets. Theres not that much more prepared a gal can be except to have a handy stack of ear plugs which I can't sleep with because then my own heartbeat keeps me awake.

Needless to say I look like an extra from Night of the Living Dead. Hate to think what the roof looks like this morning.

Knitting_Nora

moo2moo wrote: »

Have had next to no sleep thanks to the dog chasing the cat chasing the other cat around the bedroom in a free for all, the winner of which got to sleep on my head. Needless to say I wasn't overly impressed.

:rotfl:

My old dog used to sleep in her bed at the foot of mine. In the early days after she came home (was a rescue mutt), she used to take great joy in pottering along in the middle of the night and sticking her cold wet nose of whichever part of me she could find - sort of a "just checking you're where I left you" thing. she'd then go off back to bed and to sleep, and I'd be laying there, awake and heart pounding, until the alarm went off.

Of course, once she settled properly, she liked to sleep upside down and snored like a trooper...and very loudly. So much so, that one day my neighbour asked who the 'new fella' was as she'd heard the snoring through our joint wall, but hadn't seen said 'chap' entering or leaving!! I'd graduated to earplugs by then...:D

Have a good 'un.

Nora.x

ebayqueen_2

Morning Moo

Have been away over Christmas and am now back to porridge as they say around here!! So sorry to hear that you are unwell. Hope you are feeling better today.

My mam loved the owl tea cosy Moo, so thank you again:):):):)

Am not 100% awake this morning due to the wind howling all night here but need to get my act together and get something done today.

Happy New Year to you Moo and I hope its a good one.
God bless
E

moo2moo

V. glad she liked it ebayqueen.

I'll join you in feeling half asleep but since its already blowing a hoolie and stuff is flying down the road for the second night in a row I fear I'll be even more tired tomorrow.

Main part of hideous tea cosy constructed and a funky multihued stalk attached. The first of many leaves is underway. Its still eye wateringly hideous though. As is the amount I spent today whilst not out sales shopping with two DDs desperate to spend their christmas cash which is why hand crocheted cat toys will be featuring in my life v. soon. DD1 has bought a book on making them and a whole lot more useless tat besides. No excuses for not having another go ... unfortunately.

moo2moo

Back to normailty with a bump. Need to remember to wake the DDs up, feed them, make lunches, get them dressed and leg it by 7:30 remembering to bung the bin out. Have a small stack of parcels to tkae to the post office thanks to a couple of Amazon sales and the whopping £3 stuff for CEX. Still it means I haven't spent £2 on fuel taking the stuff to the charity shop and its out of the house.

Further plans for today involve a heck of a lot of laundry as the bathroom floor has all but disappeared, much post x-mas tidying including the deconstruction of the x-mas tree and a heck of a lot of general tidying though as I'm still feeling rather kettled I won't get too carried away.

Yesterdays shopping expedition set us back roughly £70 which included 8 pairs of pajamas (with dancing zebras for me), two GAP hoodies, a couple of books, parking and lunch out but was covered by x-mas cash. Means I can now turf all the outgrown PJs along with a heap of other stuff, just need to find my enthusiasm.

After a fortnight of slobbing around in PJs today is going to feel like a very very long day.

Knitting_Nora

Wow - you got all that for £70?? *creates plan to drag moo along the next time she has to go clothes shopping*

As for the rest, it does sound like a very long day...so remember to take care of yourself - lots of breaks, and eat plenty of choccie in between activity (or is that activity breaks in between chocolate consumption?).

Nora.x