Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

apple_muncher

Why are you up so late when your jellytot alarm clock goes off at 6ish??!!

ps I've never strained almond milk, just left it to settle. Like you, I only own sick-wiping muslins, but reckon a clean one lining a sieve would work. In fact, maybe a sieve on its own...

liltdiddylilt

Because I am an idiot AM... This morning she woke me at half past 5 with an inexplicable nappy explosion. She was covered in wee through two soaking layers of clothes from armpit to knee. So I stripped her, washed her, changed her and then popped her back in bed on a towel in fresh onesie with poppers. Went back in as she wasn't going back to sleep and neither was I... To find she had climbed out of the onesie, removed her nappy and wee'd in 4 spots on the floor plus on her duvet. This limited the mattress damage to the mattress cover but still spent from 7am on my hands and knees scrubbing and have to have the heating on trying to get all this dried before bedtime tonight!!

Lesson learned: safety pins are the way forward! I am now in bed for an hour prior to my mr A delivery. Just ate some disgusting soup and jellytot is in a botched bed made of blankets and a single duvet we have which is way too big for her cot bed. It will suffice! She needs a nap and so do I!

apple_muncher

You know how to live the high life!

killerpeaty

:eek: Your morning sounds just... Ahh! I genuinely was feeling a bit sorry for myself this morning because I was totally and completely convinced that it was Sunday until 10 minutes before I was supposed to be out the door. Now, totally not a bad morning! :rofl:

At christmas I ban my family from buying wrapping paper, they always buy so much that there is tonnes of the stuff left over! I just store the rolls in my wardrobe and bring them out for everyone to use in December. But completing christmas at the end of September? Witchcraft!

I had no idea that mystery shopping could be so spy-y.

liltdiddylilt

Haha Peaty it is always wonderful to get a little perspective. In the grand order of things, a few liquid deposits on the carpet and an extra load of washing, plus the pleasure of the heating for a couple of hours is really no bad thing. It could have been Poo.... :eek: :rotfl:

I hate that awful moment when you wake up and think you can go back to sleep, only for it to be untrue. Similarly, I also hate it just as much when Jellytot mashes the buttons on my iPhone docking station/alarm clock and I get woken up at 6am and 7am even when it is switched off at the PLUG! I can't get back to sleep in the mornings so I just lie there and SULK.

Re the mystery shop, yes it was all a bit spy-tastic. Not to mention the woman in the post office asking me what items were in my parcel. Everything went quiet, everyone around me turned to look and I had to say 'Erm, its a dictaphone and a USB recording device...' sounding like I was actually saying 'It is a bomb coated in anthrax...' :eek:

Christmas... I live 250 miles away from all but 3 of my 'presentees' and usually have to have it all wrapped up and done by early December at the latest. This way my parents come down to see us prior to Xmas and I send it all back with them, including Nephews B-day present - 23rd December, what a birthday... - and then I don't have any charges. So with mums op being a week tomorrow, and with prior knowledge of how knocked out she was from radiotherapy etc last time around, I am not convinced she will be making it far from the sofa in the next few months, let alone down here and ready to hump parcels. I know I am going up there mid-October, so that is D-Day. Have to get it all sorted by the end of this month or I will melt down and cancel Christmas. I have a LOT of Christmas wrap from last year. Or the year before actually, as last year he had just walked out on us. Him got me 10 rolls for £2 plus 15% discount or something in January 2013. I have plenty. And for the discerning types, I have 2 10 metre rolls of Marvel comic-book wrap. Win.

Today I found that no-one in the world stocks marrows as everyone who owns a greengrocers was force fed it as a child, and everyone who buys in shops and supermarkets was also force fed it as a child, so it doesn't sell! Instead I found 4 beasty courgettes loose in Mr S and sliced a couple of them in half, turned them into boats, filled them with mince and did the precise same meal again.... which was delicious again, but I STILL have enough mince left over for tomorrow... I might get sick of it

Bought myself a new cardigan and a smart top from New Look today. £22.98 for the 2. I couldn't find anything to wear to the play visit today and Him looked so smart when he turned up to go I felt shabby, then realised the last clothes I bought were over a year ago in Matalan, other than a cardi and a top which subsequently went back to Mr S following a washing disaster.

Mr A shop arrived. Been charged for Star of Anise, but no Star of Anise in the entire shop on unpacking... also ordered 2.5kg of frozen chips, only for them to randomly pick up a 1kg pack for the same price almost. Not a substitution either. We shall have words. Ooooh in fact I am having words with their online system now. It reminded me the the drinking chocolate I got had a mighty great dent in it and the lid was off. Luckily there is foil inside but still... :mad: it's not difficult picking up stuff in a supermarket surely? I manage to do it in several on a weekly basis. This time was a cupboard super stock up and there was no way I was carrying it, when they will deliver for £1.

Jellytot loved her play date at nursery and didn't want to leave. Bodes well for next week!

I am off to sleep Night guys xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

I was never given marrow! I feel I have missed out in life!!

Yay to new clothes and successful playdates! But Boo to pants substitutions/omissions from the online shop. Definitely out a complaint in.

Hope you both sleep better tonight Xx

liltdiddylilt

Me either Lucky! Ask your parents; I am sure they have horror stories hence why you never got any!

Hope you sleep well too. After all that time to yourself you will probably lie awake

liltdiddylilt

I am at work with a repeat of the Migraine that started on Friday. Haven't had back-to-backs in many years. Last individual was months and months ago. Have taken so many painkillers plus Valium (for my back) to try and sort it out. I am stuck as I cannot have anti-inflammatories. Don't worry I have only taken my usual dose for my back. U am just hoping that this is enough to kick it.

Hugs to anyone out there who needs them. I am already struggling with the lighting in the office so really want this to go away now. I don't want to go home and Him's dreaded friend is here.

liltdiddylilt

Many x Painkillers seems to be working enough to hold off the inevitable until at least this afternoon.

Best news of the day is NP0wer... I called them before work as have still not heard anything about the boiler fitting. They said it isn't meeting their carbon requirements so they will need me/landlord to pay towards the installation... so that is why they had not got in touch! I asked how much we would need to put in. The answer? Out of a £1977 installation... £68.71. I laughed and gave him my card details then and there. Installation booked 17th Sept. Day off work procured for this purpose. Landlord kept apprised and paying me the money back. All happy!

lobbyludd

hope horrible migraine has gone lovely - do you know what your triggers are?


could it be (hush) ?marrow?

make sure you get money back from LL, and ask in a way that tells non-friendlyhimfriend to leave - this is your flat lilty, your home, no-one should have to avoid or feel uncomfortable in their own home because of the people in it.

I don't care what him feels about it that really is not the point. sod it, -you're ill - I'll tell him.

dear x,
I am feeling poorly, so would appreciate having the flat to myself and would be grateful if you could leave now.

or

dear x, it's time to go home now.

or


LEAVE NOW.

just print out which one you'd prefer and hand it to him on the way in.