PigginSkint's DFW Diary

PigginSkint

Copied from my post on the Make a Payment a Day thread on Sunday:

Hi All

OH is back home!

I drove down to London (in a hire car) yesterday and was not sure whether I would be coming back on my own today or bringing back OH with me - his stuff still had to come back in any case. We didn't know when they would be finishing - they finished at 3:30pm yesterday with a crate of beer and some champers! I made quite good time yesterday - 3.5 hours including 3 loo stops. This morning was spent packing and cleaning the flat then handing the keys over. The journey back took 4.5 hours because of the horrendous traffic in London!

PigginSkint

Hi All

Sorry I have been quiet lately - work is absolutely manic at the moment and I have no energy when I am at home! All I can seem to manage is PADding (Making a Payment a Day - see the thread!), and playing on Farmville on Facebook (got to keep hold of my sanity somehow!)

Need one more credit card figure before I can do my 1st October figures - Sainsburys online account management doesn't seem to be working at the moment so I suppose I will have to fish out the paper copy!

Anyway, I will try to post more often, if only to rant - work is very very stressful at the moment!

Bye for now!

PigginSkint

Hi All

How long is since I posted on my own diary?! Tut tut!

I blame my current addiction to Farmville on FB (...and Farm Town....and Lil Farm Life...and Cafe World!:o)

Life is very busy at the moment (translation: very stressful!). Lots of things happening at work that I am not happy about (long story) and there just seems to be so much work that I feel like I am slowly drowning. So all in all I am not having the best time of it at the moment.

Anyway, new resolution - update every day if possible - even if it is just a couple of sentences!

Bye for now!

dawnybabes

Welcome back !!!

PigginSkint

Thanks Dawn!

Got a busy weekend ahead - DS is having a birthday party on Monday (his birthday is on Tuesday) so I have got loads to do, not least to clean the house from top to bottom! It is halloween themed fancy dress so I have got to sort to out costumes, food, games, decorations. We are also having a bonfire (well campfire!) and fireworks so I have got to cut the square in the lawn, preserve the bit we take up, get stones to put round it, collect more firewood (got some good big logs but need smaller stuff). Oh and the small matter of a birthday card and present to buy and a birthday cake to make.

Not much to do then.....!

PigginSkint

We have made a good start on the preparations.Done nearly all my shopping now - just need to get a birthday card (his birthday is not actually till Tuesday) and the bread buns (decided to buy them tomorrow so they are fresher). All the firewood is collected, and the campfire area has been dug out of the lawn. Just the house to clean now - nothing much then! Then tomorrow the food to cook! And games to prepare! Suppose I had better get on and do some jobs - want to shampoo the carpet in the living room on the stairs tonight so that it is dry by tomorrow.

Bye All!

dawnybabes

Happy Birthday Jnr Piggin !!

Hope party went well

PigginSkint

dawnybabes wrote: »

Happy Birthday Jnr Piggin !!

Hope party went well

Thanks!

Party went very well - I think all the kids enjoyed themselves. They loved the games we had prepared - apple bobbing, finding sweets in flour (using their teeth), mummy wrapping, twister and the name game (you know the one - where they have the name of someone attached to their foreheads and they have to ask questions to try to work out who they are).

Food was enjoyed when it was eventually ready! I should have just stuck to burgers and sausages because that was basically all they ate - the potato wedges, veggie chilli, witches fingers (chicken gougons with flaked almonds for finger nails on the end) and all the other snacky things were barely touched. They didn't eat a lot of the puddings either - jellies in oranges with pumpkin faces carved in them (which OH had spent ages doing!), and 'worms in mud' choc angel delight with jelly worms stuck in.

They obviously all enjoyed the fireworks as well! Really good value from Aldi - an hour and a quarter's worth of fireworks for just under £20. They liked the fire too and were chucking all my cardboard from my recycling boxes onto it - a bunch of pyromaniacs in the making!

Costumes were great - I was very pleased with mine, have to say. Long black skirt and top, black hat from Home Bargains for £2.99, broom from Asda for 75p, nose from Asda for less than a £1 (I forget exact price) and some of my brother's old green camoflage (sp?) makeup which OH had in his make up box (one of the benefits of living with an actor!). It was a priceless moment when OH's mum arrived - her costume was that good (another witch) DS had no clue who it was!

DS's birthday is actually today so I said we would go out for lunch - DS doesn't know it yet but I thought we could go and check out the lunch menu at our local Frankie and Benny's (quite good value actually!).

Will update more later!

PigginSkint

Hi All

(cough! splutter! sniff! groan!)

I'm not well - can you tell?! I am full of cold, sore throat, cough and my chest reeeeeeaaaaallllly hurts! Plus I feel like I have done a few rounds with Mike Tyson!

I managed to struggle through Thursday at work but had to take the day off yesterday. It seems to be the same as what DS had and he seemed to shake it off quite quickly so I am keeping my fingers crossed this won't last too long. I intend to go back to work on Monday - I have got too much to do to stay off too long! Sad but true!

Tomorrow is the 1st of the month so it will be the day to update my totals and my sig - it won't be as good as I hoped, but that is mainly because I have just not got round to doing my sums so that I could work out how much extra I could pay off at the end of the month. Hopefully this means that November should be a better month debt busting wise! Here's hoping my 1st December figures will be better than the 1st November figures.

Now that DS's birthday is out of the way I can start to properly think about Christmas - I have already done quite a bit of shopping because I tend to do bits throughout the year. Yesterday I ordered all 3 of the first Jaws films on DVD for DS - £11 and free p+p :money:DS loves those films and is completely obsessed with sharks and all marine life generally, so perfect presents for him.

OH is going to be working over Christmas doing Peter Pan at the O2 - he will only get the evening of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off (he has to do the lunchtime performance on Christmas Eve and both performances on Boxing Day). This means a flying visit home! DS will be going to his Dad's on Boxing Day and then I think they are going to France for a week (where Grandma lives) so I think I shall be spending that time in London!

Anyway, must go and harvest my crops!

Bye all

macgirl

Ouch! Hope you feel better soon Piggin
Mine lasted about a week - 3 days off work and in bed (with a laptop )
Take care xx