Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

supersaver1000

Sending hugs and good wishes Lilty.

Two year olds are incredibly demanding, but the housework will wait. You are doing a great job.

Hope your brother is well very soon.

liltdiddylilt

Hi guys!!

Sorry I haven't been posting on here. I have been everywhere else but just too pooped to get around to this.

Lots has happened. Firstly thanks for the well wishes for bro. he is home safe, going back for an MRI this week as frankly they don't know why he had a heart attack. Arteries and veins in tip top condition, no real reason for it, but they can't seem to find a bug. he has all the damage from the heart attack inside his heart but he should make a good recovery!

As for Jellytot, yes she is demanding... Today has been BRILLIANT. I have loved every second with her frankly. We have baked and made rice krispie cakes that are dairy free. She has painted, including colouring me in.... and then she had a bath to get rid of all the mess (after a shower this morning, not very MSE on the water!) and coloured in my white tiles with bath crayons. She ate some of her roast chicken dinner... all of her krispie cake and was just generally lovely. And so tired that she was fast asleep at usual half 6 lovely!

Housework was tackled some. Bathroom is still to be cleaned, threw away cheapo bathroom floor mat as frankly I washed it more times in a few weeks than the old one ever as it was just so rubbish, thin, bedraggled and terrible at soaking up water. It was only £1.75 or something stupid so onto a better one! £9 in Mr A for a chenille one... it's lurvley... should I?

Got rid of 2 bags of toys to be sent to my cousins baby oop north when parents come next. Also a binliner bag went to the bin as there was so much rubbish! Speaking of oop north, my sis has got me a 5kg bag of pasta yay! for free!!

In other 'free' news, I have been asked to compliance check mystery shop a local bank, and have been given loads of vouchers for free lindt chocolates! I also got 198 nectar adpoints this week first time I have done it all year, shame...

Back giving me tremendous trouble today but Jellytot has been of the loving pick me up mood the last few days and it is hard! I've popped my pills and should really go to sleep.

Sharing this with you first...

For those interested parties: pics here, here, and here.

G'night!!! xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Fab pics as ever and all good stuff in your world!

I made a cous cous cake and lemon curd yesterday, all slimming world style. Boys were not impressed but DH loved it. Think they'd rather made crispie cakes!! Xx

dawnybabes

She is adorable xx

liltdiddylilt

A what cake?!?! *googles* - a cake!! It is actually a cake made of couscous. My brain is going a bit funny thinking of the texture! What did you think? Was it crispy on the outside? Jellytot machine gun sprays couscous everywhere. She detests it. Even coated in ketchup definitely rice krispie cakes are worthwhile.

Recipe was 50g butter/marg, 200g chocolate (mix of plain and milk or just milk) and 125g of rice krispies, with 3 tablespoons of golden syrup. Melt the syrup/butter and chocolate in a glass bowl over a hot pan (or the microwave) then add in the rice krispies. It took a lot more than 125g IMO to make it the right consistency. Then into paper cake trays and into the fridge for an hour and a half. Voila!

Speak of fridges, my new one has not been playing nicely recently. Milk going off within 2 days, cheese going mouldy, veg wilting fast etc. Let LL know today that it might be faulty. MIL arrived... and turns out I am just a doof. Settings 1-7 is not 'degrees'. 1 is not the coldest, but the warmest! :rotfl: silly Lilt!! So whacked it up and now the back is frozen solid! Woop woop!! Heres to milk lasting, and cups of hot milk not coming out of the microwave separated into giant white lumps and yellow water :eek: blergh!

What has happened in Lilt world? I used the new oven to get a non-toxic slice of cheese on toast. 3 to be precise... little piggy. It was my dinner though! Bit of red onion topped it off beautifully.

MIL arrived with new expensive clothes for jellytot which were on super sale in Debs. £3.75 for £26 of clothes.

Woke up this morning to a bank credit in my Mr Hal account, which has no credits only 2 DD's. £171.29. Further to my June ruckus with NP0wer where they dropped my payments down from £86 to £64 a month, and I made them put it back up to at least £75, citing their total inability to bill people properly... they have refunded me the credit on my account. Right before winter. Nice one. I pondered it, until the post arrived on the mat. A bill. Telling me that they are upping my payments to £82 a month. I rang, explained the conversation I had 2 months ago to a completely insensitive woman who frankly sounded bored as anything... explaining to me that I have every right to pay the credit back onto my account. And that it is a new OfGem policy to pay back any credit at billing if it is over £5. Never mind the fact the whole point of a monthly DD is to build up winter credit. Or the fact I had my 6 monthly bill in June, when it was £132 in credit and they didn't pay me back any then! She also apparently couldn't put me back down to £75 a month as that would mean I was going into 'debt' on my account. Ah yes, the debt of £171.29 you just paid me back?? Hmm.

So I have a lovely credit gone into my 'savings' bank account, earning ME 5% interest, not NP0wer. I have today switched to FirstUtil with a cashback of £30 and thanks to my very helpful bill breakdown from NP, a perfectly accurate assumption that I will save £150 a year on their tariff fixed for over a year, and that I will be billed... £63 a month. I am saving the cashback from NP for future energy use, so it is in a YNAB savings pot for that.

On top of this, BT made a whole rash of new idiocy on my account over the weekend. I have thus far been billed £27.25, then refunded it twice over to cover some other issues they have been having. My line rental saver, paid for 15th July, is set to cover the next 12 months from today so I got a months line rental (£15.99) free and I have yet to start talking compensation. So no bill this month. in fact £27.25 being paid back to me. And all other manner of items being solved in the next 2 days. Eventually I should start with a clean slate and a healthy credit.

Off to figure out a meal plan for this week. I forgot yesterday so today was a bit random. Still, another SFD(NSD). 12 for the month!!

xx

liltdiddylilt

Awww thanks for the compliments on Jellytot. I adore her

giblet1979

Hi lilt,

Firstly - so sorry to hear about your brother. Hoping he feels much better soon and they can find out what happened. Hope you're ok. Sending hugs!

Sounds like you're very focused even taking into account how much stress it sounds like you've been having! Loving YNAB too - it's really encouraging isn't it??

Also, loving the pictures of Jellytot..what a gorgeous little girl (except when she's throwing tantrums and hurting her mummy's back tho..bless you).

Really hope things start to settle down for you hon x

lobbyludd

sorry for not dropping in earlier, and so glad to hear your brother is now doing better. fingers crossed for something found quickly that is simply treated.

love the jelly pics, really going to have to find a back-kind way for cuddles though as mama's health is really important (just sayin').

utility companies are just rubbish - how can they get away with such crappy billing procedures?

xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

I wouldn't really call it a cake Lilt!! DH thought it was great but it did go crunchy round the edges which was weird. I'm sure I've had it before when someone in group had done it in the microwave so it was more of a sponge pudding which was better. If proper cake was akin to champagne, this was definitely more the lambrini of cake .

Bleugh to lumpy milk and D'oh to dopey fridge operators :rotfl:

pennywisepoundstupid

Pleased to hear your brother is on the mend, must be a huge relief.

Your daughter is totally adorable, I love them when they are that age and everything is new and exciting, treasure every moment because they soon grow up.

Take care.x.