MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Memory_Girl

We've still got the "have a kit-cat" mag to come

I am soooooo classy :rotfl::rotfl:

A friend is submitting papers to "Science" - I'm doing the women's weeklies :rotfl::rotfl:

However I chickened out of "Shred" today (all that jumping around with sore sinuses - nope!!!!) so did my Callanetics video instead - oh boy I have just moved muscles I'd forgotten I had:eek:

Off for a cup of tea and give myself some sympathy

MG

Horace

Morning peeps - not long back from the village and I did another house viewing today for a 3 bed house with tiny garden. Must admit that it needed a lot of work doing to it and it had polystyrene ceiling tiles in every room. It needed a new kitchen, a new central heating boiler, re-wiring (judging by the state of the sockets. Agent told me the vendors would accept £59K for it even though they were marketing it for £95K. That will be a no. Did discover that this chappy lived in the same road that I am hoping the universe will let me live in - he lives opposite. He told me that the road was quiet at night with no noisy neighbours although he couldn't speak for the rough end of the street. He also told me which roads were the best ones to live on.

Went to the village for spuds and came home with 4 large baking spuds, carrots, tomatoes and a large grapefruit (total cost £2.50. I nipped into the Co-op to look on their whoopsie shelf but came out with a bag of frozen oven chips, 4 loo rolls, 2 jars of small chunk branston which were on BOGOF and I know I will eat it.

Lara - I hate to say it that if your OH has raised eye pressure he already has glaucoma. Raised eye pressure can be treated with dilating drops and other steroidal eye drops and if it remains elevated then he could have a trabulectomy which helps the eye to drain. Living with glaucoma is not so bad and if left can cause blindness - my own glaucoma was caused by an eye disease which in itself also causes blindness and I have lost the central vision in my left eye and only have a smidgen of peripheral vision in that eye. I had elevated pressures in my right eye too - a whopping 53 which necesssitated an immediate stay in hospital to get the pressure down to a relatively safe for operation pressure of 32 (which is still high). Since I had the trab in that eye - I haven't suffered any ill effects. My eye pressures dropped to single figures and maintained stable and now they are back at 10 and 15 which is ok for me. 15-20 is normal eye pressure anything above that is dangerous and anything too low below that e.g 3 or 4 is not nice either.

Marru - if you fancy meeting up for a coffee and a chinwag then we can do that:D

Memory_Girl

My Frog of the day has been chomped - Tax Return all finished. ............ as usual the HUGE job took less than 15 minutes LOL.

Spent a heart-stopping £11 on a piece of roasting beef from L**l today - but it has already been cut in to 5 pieces and will be pot-roasted with veggies for five Sunday Dinners and leftovers made into Stovies for another 5 evening meals. Still gave me palpitations at the till, still I am very proud that in January I can afford to spend over a tenner just like that at the end of the month.

MG

robsmum_2

My combi microwave died on Tuesday evening, just a very gentle death but dead none the less:eek:Spent all day yesterday trying to find someone who could repair it:mad:no one will touch it as it's classed asa low value item.:eek: £150 is now low value- to me its priceless it has helped us reduce or food bills and our electricity bills. We lasted 2 dinner times watching our electriity monitor and are ordering a replacement tonight:eek:

It's like my hands have been cut off.

Horace

I have some frogs of my own - my CV (easy peasy) and the divorce papers these will take some time and I am going to submit the financials one too (ha ha - let the judge decide that one).

Tonight's dinner has already been planned - jacket spud, side salad (lettuce, onion, tomato) and sirloin steak (a treat from mum). Must admit that if the steak is good then I may get some more from Aldi (yep, I looked at the pack). I have tons of veggies for soup.

Whilst mooching in the greengrocers today (they sell locally sourced veg and some from abroad) I noticed they had a freezer section and I could buy large bags of chopped veg for soups/stews for £1. They also sell bags of misshapen & broken biscuits & looking at the packaging on the chocolate ones they are cadbury's even though they don't mention cadbury's by name - cadbury's purple is distinctive. Not that I got any choccie biccies. Should have had some eggs really as they were selling them off for 50p per half dozen but they had to be used today, if I had got them then I would have hardboiled them all but I dare not risk eating eggs beyond their eat by date.

Gemmzie

Afternoon all, I swallowed a frog today that I usually avoid - the complaining frog. I had my hair dyed yesterday (OH treated me - he's been saving since before Christmas) and I wasn't entirely happy with it so today I went back in and they are going to fix it tomorrow morning.

Lara44

Good on you Gemmzie, I hate doing stuff like that too.

Horace, sorry to hear about your eye problems. Like you, I thought the pressure was a sure sign as his Mum and lots of family have glaucoma. However he got good news, the Dr. thinks that because he has very thick corneas the slightly elevated pressure is actually normal for him. He had the whole range of tests and got discharged. :j

Just starting work now though!!!

groatie_queen

Two frogs dealt with today, one to do with finding a new source for my essential but not-funded-on-NHS medication which comes from abroad, my original supplier has gone out of business, which gave me a fright. Needless to say the new supplier is more expensive and there is more red tape - but it is do-able, just have to add another cup of oats and lentils to the mince lol.

The other frog was to do with maintaining funding of communication support through Access to Work, a government scheme which is invaluable. The type of CS I use is very costly, it is verbatim reporting (stenography) rather than summarising, which is much more common and is cheaper, and because verbatim reporting is so dear I only use it for national conferences which happen about once a year. I think the AtW officer is happy that I'm frugal with my usage :rotfl::rotfl:

So far, no house viewings booked this week, so the great paperwork declutter will continue. If I get it down far enough, and manage to resurrect my printer/scanner/copier, I may be able to get some of it scanned in and then shred the paper. That would be real progress!

Firewalker

Memory_Girl wrote: »

A friend is submitting papers to "Science" - I'm doing the women's weeklies :rotfl::rotfl:

However I chickened out of "Shred" today (all that jumping around with sore sinuses - nope!!!!) so did my Callanetics video instead - oh boy I have just moved muscles I'd forgotten I had:eek:

MG

Get back to Shred and I bet your friend is not getting paid by Science.

On a different matter, I find that 'expensive' food is most worth it. At Christmas we bought a big joint of ham costing £16 aprox. My heart almost gave up at this point; but it provided so many meals (and great meals at that) that it was very much worth it.

Firewalker

Horace

I must admit that when I had an oven that worked I used to occasionally buy a large organic chicken from the butcher which would cost me about £8. I know a large bird is excessive for one person but it got eaten initially as a roast followed by cold cuts, my own tv dinners were made from it as I would cook additional veg and box it all up at once ready for Ping to work his magic as and when the mood struck. The carcass was used to make stock but as I could never actually pick the carcass clean I got the added bonus of chicken bits and this never became a stock but lovely chicken soup. Now I rely on Mosky and he isn't big enough for a large chicken:(

I have just come back from the post box where I posted my cousin's daughter's birthday card (she is 20 tomorrow). All it cost was the price of a stamp because mum gave me the cards ages ago as they were ones that she had made herself - I sold what I could and then gave her a load of craft stuff in payment.

Still not done the divorce forms or the CV - although I have started formulating the wording for the CV.

Groatie - Access to Work is there to be used - I know you like to be frugal with it but you musn't struggle. At least you don't take advantage like the con artist that I 'worked' for back in 2008 - she employed disabled people because she could get £10K from the government for each employee plus she made loads of false Access to Work claims. I found out later after some of us made her famous by putting her on tv that she had in fact been claiming that I was a support worker for my wheelchair bound colleague when I wasn't.:mad: