Making chicken feed of my mortgage

edinburgher

You have a very exotic life MWC - I have been to the US 3 times and that's pretty good going for most people - you seem to be there every other month! :rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

I must be making it sound more glamorous than it is in real life ed :rotfl:

First US trip of the year (although I'm off to California in June as well :shhh:)

muddywhitechicken

13 hours :eek: time for a list!

- ask lovely neighbours to chicken sit as Mr MWC is away as well
- pot up plug plants
- water seedlings
- plant more seeds
- iron (clothes still too wet...)
- pack
- de-fuzz legs
- sleep

choccielover

Can you not hit up the stores whilst in the U.S. MWC?

That's what I tend to do if I have the opportunity to get out there. But business trips are sometimes difficult to fit free time in for shopping I know...

Chocs

muddywhitechicken

choccielover wrote: »

Can you not hit up the stores whilst in the U.S. MWC?

I'll try! There's a Target near the hotel but not much else

I still have $42.45 left to spend on a Visa gift card :T

choccielover

Haha, yes these things always sound more glamorous and accessible than they actually are. I once spent a week in Madrid, sounded fab but I was based in an industrial estate on the outskirts so nowhere near the lovely centre....

muddywhitechicken

- ask lovely neighbours to chicken sit as Mr MWC is away as well - DONE
- pot up plug plants - DONE
- water seedlings
- plant more seeds
- iron (clothes still too wet...) Heating on
- pack
- de-fuzz legs
- sleep

muddywhitechicken

I'm home :j

The conference was good and it was great to meet up with US-based friends and colleagues

I got chatting to a "big cheese" over lunch and she's asked me to write a chapter for her new book _pale_ I'm sooooooooooooo far out of my comfort zone :eek: but what a fantastic opportunity :T

In money-related news, my pension appears to have performed better this past year than the year before (not very difficult!) and I've claimed £42.50 in B&Q vouchers (from CP+TCB) and Mr MWC has claimed another £30 (TCB) to put towards a new garden table.

Hatching egg update - Day 8
Miss Effie is still sitting on 4 eggs (1 got broken and she kicked 1 out)

gallygirl

Mrs E has hatched - how is Miss Effie .

muddywhitechicken

gallygirl wrote: »

Mrs E has hatched - how is Miss Effie .

She's still sitting on 3 eggs :T

Day 11 today so we're past the halfway point *fingers crossed she doesn't reject any more and they hatch successfully*