This Time I'm Really Going To Do It

apple_muncher

Indeed it does amuse!!!

greent

The candle sounds like a brilliant gift, surely?

Glad kitten is now a 'proper' pet - she sounds sweet (and I'm not at all a cat person...) x

Karmacat

Watty1 wrote: »

I love you lot. You have really cheered me up. The hyacinths idea is fabulous ...thanks...but I have actually bought nice gifts because I could see it was stressing Mr Watty and I didn't want to make him worse.
SSS has a good point about their gifts being rubbish .... I have no expectations on that front but I have been very nice and bought cute little guest towels for one of them, a room smelly thing for another and a cheese baker for another. My favourite is the cheese baker because it is a totally random gift and who the heck needs a dish for baking cheese in anyway :rotfl:


I amused myself whilst mucking out this morning thinking of all the things I could say. And resolved that if they are awful I am totally prepared to get a taxi home from pub if I don't take my car, but preferably will drive at least some in my car so I can simply walk away and leave them there.
And if they are as awful as I expect they can take Mr Watty and the dog away with them .... and kitten and I will have a glass of sparkly stuff.
So nice gifts bought.

This is great, the whole lot of it :j:j:j

But my intention is to be vaguely charming unless provoked in which case full Jack Russell attack and then leave

This bit is so great I may have to steal it :rotfl:

Watty1 wrote: »

She sometimes lays on the desk next to me and goes to sleep, has been caught snoozing on the end of the bed and the other morning she woke me by experimenting with the idea of snuggling up to a human. She doesn't want much in the way of stroking or petting but she is very happy to be around. In the evening she sits on the sofa watching telly or on the back of the sofa near me.
She really is adorable.
Oh and if the dog is out she runs to meet me when I come in which is so cute. She really has made it from feral to pet I think and I adore her.

Oh! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! How gorgeous. :heart2: I love her too!

Watty1 wrote: »

I must add because I know it will amuse some of you that I bought the gifts in a little shop near where I had a business meeting or coffee and gossip girls session depending on your point of view. The gifts were inexpensive (although very expensive compared with the hyacinth idea) and I really really really wanted to buy a candle that was called "monkey farts" candle. But I was persuaded not to by one of the girls .....

They're really nice to you in that shop, aren't they :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: brilliant.

Watty1

Spendy day as went to have hair cut. As I have currently resigned from the 'throw everything at the mortgage' on account of home life situation I went to the nice little hairdressers which is vastly overpriced in a local very cutsy town. Would probably be drummed out of the MFW club forever if I admitted how much hairdresser cost but heck I like what she did, I was fussed over, parking was easy and the place was nice. Hairdresser told me I couldn't have my hair pink as people would think it was a mid life crisis. Made me giggle. She told me to wait 20 years then people would be impressed and think I was really cool


Popped into the kitchen/cook/gadget shop and bought a couple of small dishes I wanted for me as they do spark joy and fill in need and then on to gift shop and bought a birthday card for sister.


Astonished by stuff in gift/card shop. Who really needs that much tat at Christmas??? And honestly is it going to make anyone feel festive to have all that stuff with reindeers on ??


Bought Christmas Edition of the Big Issue from a seller, scowled at everyone who walked past and said hello but didn't buy from her while I was checking I had £3 in purse in cash. Really from the shops it is a very affluent town and I would expect the Big Issue seller to be doing ok, not shivering in a doorway.

edinburgher

Hi Watty, sounds like you've been having a tough time of it.

I've noticed that there does seem to be a lot of indifference to homeless people/Big Issue sellers in Glasgow at the moment. I believe that (perversely) homelessness seems to be on the increase and that this is numbing people to the terrible plight faced by those affected. A bit like giving fatigue...

Pink hair is definitely cool when the rest of it is white/silver (and accompanied by a natty cut). There's a lady who I work with who has a very trendy pink section and it takes years off her. That said, I believe hers was funded by unhealthy amounts of credit card debt :eek:

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Hoping that tomorrow goes as well as can be expected xx

Watty1

The lunch is here. I have wrapped all presents beautifully in left over gift wrap, finished with found ribbon and on a whim wasted £12 on iced gingerbread men in cellophane and ribbon to use as gift tags. Regret the waste of £12 now, but, at least gifts look beautifully wrapped and no one can say I didn't make an effort. One car has a flat tire, so definitely taking mine so happy as have instant get out if needed.
Mr Watty is happy his family are visiting as they haven't for years. Really I do wish he would wake up but hey ho. Best foot forwards. Off to glam self up out of yard jeans and tatty fleece

Karmacat

It's here! Positive vibes being smooshed your way instantly. I'm glad you'll have your car with you.

xxx

greent

Hope it went well...... xx

Watty1

Lunch went off ok. Brother decided each person should pay for own so was delighted we didn't end up picking up the tab. Gifts exchanged and all ok. I'm regifting one as its really nice but we just don't eat that much sweet stuff (its a selection tower with cakes, biscuits and chocolates and looks lovely and will make a nice gift for someone we give to each year). That leaves a cake suitable for a family of maybe 12 and I can't see us ever eating it and another as yet unwrapped gift which feels suspiciously like a box of chocolates. I have to drive to London in a couple of weeks so was planning to return the release pen the charity give us for kitten and I thought I would drop the cake and chocolates in there. The staff at the unit said last year that they hadn't been given anything festive other than the chocolates I took them when we collected kitten so I think they might really like them.


And actually nephews in law were delightful and good company, the wife of one charming and the girlfriend of the other very sweet. I found myself thinking perhaps I was being unjust until I heard brother in law telling mother all about how hard it was for the young and on finding me scowling at him amended that to every generation thinks it is hard for the young. I was distracted by the others and when I turned back to see if I could butt in he was explaining to her how equity release was just not an option for him, and how his financial planning to help his sons had not been ideal because he had been a free lance worker for so long. I caustically replied that the life of the self employed was really tough and I too had made planning errors. Sister in law stepped in to say how lucky Mr Watty had a good job and I smiled sweetly and replied indeed it was 'lucky one of us had a good job and that the other actually earnt some real money" and let her think that one over . Ha!


Then I expertly moved the conversation on to ask if she was excited about her long haul holiday in the new year and if she had already shopped for it (lucky guess there because she regaled me with all she had purchased to take ......)


Delighted I survived the event without being tackled on inheritance issues .....and actually it would have been a very nice lunch were it not for the underlying subtext