Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Managed an entire 7 hours before giving in and ordering needle tips. My knittery earnings cover this so I'm not feeling in anyway guilty about it. No siree bob. Decided against spending a further £2.50 on a stitch holder, had the ingenious idea of bunging the stitche on a bit of waste yarn and hoping that does the same job. Will add it to my knittery wish list for forthcoming birthdays and wot not.

Plans for today involve persuading OH (who is currently in uber helpful mode) to take a few things to the tip when he collects DD2 which will get rid of the old ironing board and a chest of drawers and two fluorescent tubes which are cluttering up the front garden.

Need to mop the floors again today as they are covered in muddy paw prints and as part of my continuing efforts to get on with it I need to clear out the junk drawer which is overflowing to the point that it doesn't shut. Much chucking out is required.

DedicatedDFW

moo2moo wrote: »

Nothing, zero, zilch, nada, zip. Just reuse ordinary jam jars and lids and pasta sauce jars and any other sort of glass jar with metal lid that hasn't been used for curry or pickled onions. Simply wash, de-label and bung in the over at 120 degrees C for 15 minutes.

As far knitting.....bah...... third attempt at a jumper went swimmingly, no twists, no lumpy joins, no screwed up rip just a minor balls up on gauge which meant that instead of an adult size 10 I had something closer to a kids age 10. Have frogged back and cast on for a fourth time, this time on considerably bigger needles. Will complete this if it kills me (which just might happen). Means I need to order another size of circular needle tips as well as a stitch holder. Still I'll consider it my well earned reward for relocating the x-mas decorations to the loft and defrosting the freezer.

Must also start going to bed two or so hours earlier. This 6 hour night malarky is resulting in panda eyes.

Thanks for that moo - i had thought jars could be re-used and now i know the right way to clean them too looking forward to seeing the finished product of the new jumper :T

moo2moo

Managed to degrot the drawer, wade through more laundry and generally tidy. OH meanwhile cleaned and tidied Land Rover land. Not spurred on as I thought by my house cleaning frenzy but because hes invited someone over to dinner today. Still its tidy although he hasn't chucked out any of the empty spirit bottles that he has hidden away in there. You'd swear he thinks I'm stupid.

Hes now washing his bottle of wine down with a few ciders, a good couple of inches of spirit in a half pint glass with a lot of coke to disguise the fact hes drinking spirit and then folowing up with a couple of codeine based chasers. The boy has huge problems and they're escalating. Lost my temper again last night when he thought it was funny to tie knots in my knitting wool as I was knitting. Its not funny or amusing and hes really really !!!!ing me off. Still can't come up with an affordable alternative. Rather amazingly hes convinced things are improving and bunging a load of laundry on the airer makes up for him spending five hours of the day !!!!ed as a newt. And a grumpy newt at that.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!

Normality resumes.

Two more items sold on Amazon, 9cm of jumper knitted and a whole lot more tat chucked out. Need to clean loos today because the children have kindly exploded into them having had curry at school for lunch.

Friend is getting married in France at some point this year so have to get passports sorted out and animal vaccinations organised in order for them all to stay in catterys and doggerys. Have months and months and months to avoid the hassle of that.

mooomin

Sorry to hear that OH is being an @rse.

No idea what to suggest, but happy to remind you that there's always a bed in Fresian Towers should you feel the need to run two countries away for a bit of space

Knitting_Nora

*hands moo a wet kipper* sounds like you need this, moo.

Nora.x

moo2moo

Have scrubbed bogs and shined ovens and mopped floors and generally cleaned like a woman possessed only for OH to announce he and his friend and another bunch of people are going out for dinner...... *insert unprintable expletives here*

On the brightside (because theres always an upside to these things) it means I won't have to do any major cleaning for quite some time.... the added bonus being OH is either out, at work or away so won't be able to make too much mess between now and Monday!

ebayqueen_2

Ah Moo

Clean house no visitors.....perfect...(did that in my Pop Larkin accent) !!! :):)

Igamogam

Hi M2M

Just caught up with your thread - heck you wear me out! All my good intentions for 2012 have been scuppered so far by a series of unfortunate events - chimmney fire,2 day power cut, burnt out PC thanks to power surges, death of 2 friends on same day ( not related or unexpected but none the less tragic) and the usual 100mph start to the new term having to pick up all the emotional pieces for the mad frogs.Together with a trip to the MRI scanner to check out if my 'little friend' in my head has indeed stayed little and behaved for the last 12 months, its been a bit of a shoite start so far. But I am inspired as always by your postings and this weekend will be back on track and hopefully be up dating my own diary, decluttering ( even if its only chocolate!) listing on Eb*y and generally starting 2012 all over again!

beanielou

Sorry Mr Moo is indeed being a moo

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

Hi M2M

Just caught up with your thread - heck you wear me out! All my good intentions for 2012 have been scuppered so far by a series of unfortunate events - chimmney fire,2 day power cut, burnt out PC thanks to power surges, death of 2 friends on same day ( not related or unexpected but none the less tragic) and the usual 100mph start to the new term having to pick up all the emotional pieces for the mad frogs.Together with a trip to the MRI scanner to check out if my 'little friend' in my head has indeed stayed little and behaved for the last 12 months, its been a bit of a shoite start so far. But I am inspired as always by your postings and this weekend will be back on track and hopefully be up dating my own diary, decluttering ( even if its only chocolate!) listing on Eb*y and generally starting 2012 all over again!

Eeek, eek and thrice eek. Hope the friend in your head has shrunk.