MG - The Matrix Re-wired

claudiac_2

It's blowing a gale out there, pity the rain is on too as I have a mountain of washing to do this weekend so it will all need to be dried in the house. Apart from that I am ebaying (FREE LISTING), and waiting to hear if my DD is going ahead with buying a house very close to me.

Marru

I got my PC back and is better than it was :j

Today BF is taking DD for family swimming (ex is poorly and is not coming to take her out - woop woop ) while I am waiting for BG engineer and finally doing the bliz in DD's room that I have been meaning to do for months. Her beavers are doing a table top sale next weekend so I have good excuse to get rid of her unused toys.

groatie_queen

Paperwork cull today - more old stuff getting shredded. No viewers, so I have a free weekend to get it done. My sister is coming for a cuppa tomorrow afternoon so will make some Twinks and something else - whatever needs using up in the storecupboard that can make something toothsome with.

Glad the pace is a bit slower after last weekend's shed and garage blitz. Still amazed how much clearing we did in just two days, and that the shed has gone too. Magic!

Igamogam

Today in our home I have declared its National put Away Clothes Weekend - fed up of the laundry cycle endigng up in a pile on floor,chair,top of drawers,DDs desks. Have put flyer up in kitchen with a list of suggestions.Oh they will hate me.I have no problem with doing the washing etc but in its current format it takes up too much of my time so a change must happen. Large box on landing marked chairty which I will sort into Oxf*m and Eb*y and have a listing day tomorrow. Also making large vat of curry sauce for freezing a la The Takeaway Secret recipe.Going to try the lamb kebab recipe tonight to eat with one of packet of MrT pitta bread bought for 2p

tellmeitsfriday

Argh no! My tumble drier's broken and it's raining outside!

So I have had the radiators on for the past hour, and it's boiling in here.., if anyone fancies a sauna, just bring your towel around lol.

Other than than, leg waxing (ouch) and packing (bah, but yay, if you know what I mean

Then, I just have to choose which books to take away with me, check the oil, water and windscreen washer levels, fill car with petrol, empty fridge of manky bits, do cat food for the week, and have a takeaway. YAY!

So, Dear Matrix, please can I be excused. See you on the 2nd Feb. Thanks. Love TMIF xx

crickett1234

:hello: Hello Matrix! Have been MIA for ages. Had a really hard week trying in vain to defeat a really bad bout with depression. However... have a lovely weekend stretching ahead of me. I have run into town and run all my errands, come home and made lovely bacon butties for Hubby and I, and had a couple of cups of coffee. Naughty but very nice!

So plans for today are to make some homemade granola bars, read my lovely stack of crafty magazines, finish one baby blanket and start another one (there is a mini baby boom going on amongst my friends... I bagsy crocheting a baby blanket for Greenbee when the time is right!! So pleased for you Greenbee!! ) and then we are going to have either a games night or a movie night this evening.

MG, I have to tell you my reading story. I learnt to read when I was 3. My first reading was done reading newspaper articles out loud to my Dad. He was a professional journalist and used to sit with me on his knee running his finger under the words. One day, I just knew what the words were and that was it. When I went to school aged 6 (they start late in Canada!) I had already read lots of books. Books at age 10 or 11, instead of 5 or 6. I read Jane Eyre when I was 8. Sunday afternoons after we had cleared away from Sunday Lunch, Mum and I would go to the big public library in Edmonton (Canada, where I used to live) and I would get 12 or 13 books out of the children's library and they would all be read by the end of the week. The librarians never believed I had read them all, but I would answer all of their questions about the stories and give them a mini-book report into the bargain. :rotfl: When I was 12 I had read all of the books in the children's library, so I started reading the adult books and fell in love with mysteries and thrillers. I love, love, love, love reading even now. 35 years after learning to read!!

Right... off to discover if I have the ingredients to make my granola bars! Have a fabby weekend one and all. I will try and post during the week, but can't promise anything!

Lara44

So happy to hear from you Crickett, I hope the last week hasn't been too hard. It sounds like you've got a lovely day planned A love of reading is such a blessing - whole other worlds to explore in books.

Well done on the writing Greenbee, I have managed a not-great first draft. Progress, progress

All our feedback from the conference we ran was great. So far the only criticisms were that staff members were too nice and that we used plastic cups :rotfl:

Today I am joining in the productivity with lots of chores, and final email to the financial adviser. OH is getting a pension as we have nothing at all put away for retirement. We have a small yearly surplus that we were thinking of using it to OP the mortgage - as we are shared ownership we have only purchased less than half the house so far! Or else save it in a stocks and shares ISA, but not sure if that is too risky atm. If we had a family of our own we would only just have enough to get by so it seems a good time to save.

The_Dragon

No need to send me anything back! I am just glad to help your crafty side!

Horace

Sorry 2 days of CBA - so didn't switch the computer on at all. Thursday I saw the health trainer and now I have to keep a food diary for 3 weeks - this is to address my not eating food habit and to help me lose weight - weigh 12st 3lbs which is fat for me:o

Today, I went to see soon to be ex OH and anyone would think I had asked him to rob the crown jewels when I asked him for a financial settlement too. He agrees in principle to £15K however it will be inconvenient because he wants to fit new windows on the house (he hasn't bothered with them for 25 years so what difference is an extra year going to make?):mad: He then suggested that I accept £10K and that he pays for the divorce because I cannot afford it. He will only pay the settlement if I get a full time job and come off housing benefit - 'I don't want to be catty' he said! He doesnt want it to be a formal arrangement either - neither of us are using solicitors (I might ring the court and find out about legal aid so that I can divorce him). I have had a stressy time since Christmas so have put him on the back burner so to speak. He let me take some of my jewellery but all my knicknacks, I was also allowed to have the church ornament that mum bought me from a cheap shop one year - it looks fab with a tealight in it at Christmas. He did give me a radiant heater too because he hated the thought of my feet being cold (fab, I can sell it:rotfl:).

Books - I learnt to read when I was 2, I became a member of my local library at 2 and soon read all the books and progressed to adult ones. I still remember the books we used at primary school - ladybird for littlies and then Wide Range Readers for the 11yr olds (by the time I left they had gotten rid of grammar schools and switched to middle schools which I started at 9). I can remember being called to the headmaster's office when in primary school because one of the teachers (Mrs Scholes it was - the cowbag!) had said that my reading was dreadful and she didnt want the inspector to think that any the children in her class were thick. I had my reading tested by the headmaster who said that my reading age at 6 was at the same level as an 11 year old and that basically I was bored with reading Ladybird books.

I know that age 10 I read a book that dad had been given about The Guinea Pig Club - this is a group of WW2 pilots who had intensive plastic surgery for burns etc - dad was given the book because he had been involved in a major car accident and had had skin grafts etc. The book had been hidden away but I read it anyway - I consumed every book in the house from the huge yellow pages to text books and everything in between. I was allowed to borrow 6 books every fortnight but used to read all of my books and all my mum's books.

I grew up with Stig of the Dump, Enid Blyton's Famous Five, Secret Seven. The Nancy Drew books etc. Then I moved to Nevile Shute because mum had these in the book case. I still like Nevile Shute and now read Wilbur Smith (although not keen on his modern books) John Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, Sam Llewellyn and other crime thriller writers. I love books.

Memory_Girl

The_Dragon wrote: »

No need to send me anything back! I am just glad to help your crafty side!

Too late - it is cut out (where is the stick out tongue sticky?????)

MG