Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

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MeandO wrote: »

Because I know they're there..... Following me...... Urgh!

Stalker thighs...!!!

debtfreewannabe321

I also read that no bread rule for ducks on FB i think, I spend too much time on there reading rubbish! I have a huge bag of bird food (seeds) for the garden perhaps i'll just bring a bag of that next time I go feed the ducks which isn't often anyway?!

liltdiddylilt

Well good evening you bunch of weirdo's.

Dazi - I live by the sea. Unfortunately feeding the seagulls is not exactly something I can choose to not do. The thieving wangs just fight off everything in their midst and steal it all. There is an old couple who go out to the grass behind my building in front of the court house and tip out 5-6 loaves of bread and a bag of corn onto the grass. The second her red coat comes into view they all just start wheeling and screeching like maniacs. Hundreds descend, and dozens of pigeons, which we also can't escape. I have often thought about getting a pellet gun and shooting the old people. Not the birds. Just the people who enable them at 6am every morning.

Anyways... if I believed everything I read on Facebook (and the daily mail) I will be a seriously weird puppy. One week eat apples, the next they give you cancer, the following week they bust fat... and then they contain too much sugar and give us diabetes. Methinks bread and ducks is just like everything else in this world. Everything in moderation.

Squirrels took my grapes. Would anyone like to tell me what squirrels are supposed to eat? Because as a child I was indoctrinated that it was monkey nuts only, and now some pesky squirrel comes and takes a grape like it is his god given right to do so and eats it right there in front of me. Was it a mutant squirrel?

Anyways.. enough animal chat. Lists.

Stuff done since yesterday at 7am.

-Small dropped at nursery
-3x bin liners of rubbish carted out (more decluttering plus household bin)
-Kitchen scrubbed til gleaming
-Bathroom scrubbed til gleaming
-Beds stripped and remade with different sheets
-4 loads of washing through and dried
-All of my ironing completed and wardrobe sorted out
-Living room has had every piece of furniture moved around and found a new home. Painted 3 walls magnolia again and did around various door frames to get rid of muck and finger marks, put all furniture back in different places
-Successfully avoided breaking any toes on the coffee table where it is now for over 24 hours
-Bought some more clothes
-Went to Costa coffee and sat and had a delightful hot chocolate with a free paper this morning to chill and treat myself
-Updated all of YNAB
-Cleaned out Jellytots pit of a bedroom again
-Made some food for this week at work

Naughty things:
-Bought more clothes. Not naughty. But still feels like it
-Costa coffee serious expense when I could have made my own at home
-Went off the rails of my diet a bit (Me&O I'm good company for you now!)
-Went completely off the rails with the grocery budget
-Overspent every category I was watching this month sigh. And not a SFD in sight recently.
-Didn't log into my banking to wilfully ignore my spending
-Didn't log into my challenge for the same purpose

So yeah. Some positives. Some negatives. The overspending is contained. But I need to make a bit back. Will cut some key budgets over the next 2 months and make back the overspend on groceries/toiletries/household

Hope everyone is well. I found it refreshing to take a break entirely from MSE land this last 2 days but I am finding it has left me far behind many of my diaries! xx

scubaangel

Takes one look at Liltys lists and return to the sofa with the lemon cake from work until the tiredness wears off....

I'm absolutely with you about the pellet gun and bird enablers, at uni I had a little paintball gun which may or may not have been used to scare off students feeding the ducks/squirrels/geese on the lawns under my dorm windows.

Westie983

I have been to work, come home and now catching up on Holby - far lazier day then you Lilty I am impressed, nothing like reading a free paper while consuming a hot chocolate I now know that I can't ever make it like they do in Costa so don't bother, also a treat is good once in a while, just like a glass of red wine is till tomorrow when no doubt it will give you spots and turn you green....

keep a ploddin on,

Weirdo Westie checking in :-)

liltdiddylilt

LOL

Hello you two!! :D Your cake and evenings sound lovely. Am much jealous now, which is leading me to believe a magnum from the freezer would not be that naughty since everyone else is doing it... :rotfl:

I forgot to say. I vacuumed the house 4 times yesterday. And mopped it through, but mopped the living room 4 times as well :rotfl: OCD. it is very shiny clean.

Jelly came in from nursery and was first highly excited by the fact that my duvet was hung over an airer which happened to be resting in the middle of the unmade bed airing as you do. I needed it off the floor for rug vacuuming and mopping. And then walked into the living room/. Did a double take.. ran in to the new cosy arrangement and shouted 'Look mummy, it's all moved!! Its so BEAUTIFUL!! I nuv it!!!' :rotfl:

Love her I do. Especially now nursery have worn her out enough for her to stop being such a pain in the backside.

Having said that she ran away from me after her haircut this afternoon. She was throwing a meltdown on the way there from nursery because I insisted on holding hands and she wanted to skip. As we left the same drama crept up and we crossed the first of 2 big roads with her screaming and dangling from my arm where she wouldn't hold her own weight. I stopped and re-adjusted so I wasn't hurting her, and she slipped my grass, wheeled around and ran straight at the road a few feet away with a car whizzing up only a couple of lengths away from where we were. I panicked and half rugby tackled her, just managing to grab her by her collar and mostly her hair. She shrieked the place down, but she didn't get run over. I smacked her leg for that. She frightened the life out of me and she needed to know that that was a BIG NO. So then she held my hand and cried all the way home.

Anyways... red wine Westie... It gives me a hangover if I look at it. Same as white wine. I just am not a very good alcoholic.

Off for a shower and then to bed. Night all xxx

supersaver1000

Ooh Lilts, I remember similar situation with little Supersaver. It's such a shock when they run off like that.

Your house sounds wonderfully clean. Mine will be like that one day.

In the meantime I haven't any Magnus, but have had 10 mini eggs and a small pack of Oreos. Delish.

pennywisepoundstupid

Hi lilty, kids they can be monkeys, I remember my DD have a meltdown whilst in town one day, we were half way across a road at the time and she decided to throw herself down in the middle of the road, rolling round and screaming her little lungs out, I remember she had cute pink dungerees on and I picked her up by the back of the straps and carried her across the road, she was still screaming and both arms and legs thrashing around, I was also trying to push a pram at the same time time as DS was a baby.


And don't get me started on DS.


Kids we love them to bits but sometimes.............

MeandO

Woah, someone's been busy!!!
Missed ya

I LOVE re-arranging furniture, I'm known for doing so at crazy times of the evening too. I get bored easily see! Unfortunately though, this house doesn't leave much scope 'furniture re-arrangement'. The last house was perfect, but despite this being a big house, it's odd in that things only seem to fit one way in the rooms. Much disgruntlement about that, I can tell you.

Don't remind me about painting. I am currently sat in my lounge, trying to ignore the tester pot squares that are looking at me from the walls shouting 'paint me, paint me'. I bloomin' hate painting after doing two whole houses previously and now the whole of this one needs doing as well.

As for diets, I've been fairly saintly until tonight when I NEEDED chocolate - the only thing closest to chocolate in the house was a penguin, so that has been devoured.

I'm off to bed, after a bit of YNAB-ing, so shall catch up properly tomorrow.

night
x

Ali-OK

Treats night everywhere it seems

Just had hot choc with squirty cream on it, been dipping my Choc Orange slices into it...oh yum!

Wondered where you got to yesterday, mega-productive :T

As for seagulls :mad: I can remember sat on a wall, dish of chips beside me posing for ex taking a pic... when along came said seagull and promptly nicked one :rotfl: No manners, it could least have asked first