Pay Off Before Lay Off!

Habibiboo

Lois_E wrote: »

Wow! You've posted a lot since I was last here, Hbbb. Glad your foot is on the mend, and love your description of your dogs' welcome when you came home to them.

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Hi Lois

I try to post most days just to keep me MSE and MFW focused, but I must admit some days are either too long or too boring, in which case I have more fun reading others' diaries than adding to mine, or some days just demand early nights (this week especially).

Ta for your comment about the dogs. It's true, apart from when your baby wakes up to you first thing in the morning, it's very rare for a creature to display such utter, unreserved joy at the sight of you (or me, in fact)! I expect Mr. Hbbb would have a joke about that, but he values his next hot lemon toddy too much!

Hope you're well! X

Habibiboo

Alchemilla wrote: »

Loving your simple pleasures.♡♥♡

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Hi Alchemilla

Thank you ... I'm sure if I had a Ponyplops he / she (?) would be in there too! X

Habibiboo

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TGI Saturday!

What I did: 3 hours of client work; banking; gardening; laundry housework; walking the dogs; cash out of hole in wall for rest of the month; changed phone contract to better option plus new phone, for less money than paying now; arranged camelia heads which came off bush in last night's wind and rain artfully onto a plate - they're too shallow for a vase, now looking like lily pad flowers!

What I didn't: 15 mins decluttering in garage; phone call to door man; wear my pedometer so have no idea how many steps today although was probably 1000s; catch up on personal emails; scrub hen-house. This is all now officially a to-do list for tomorrow.

MFW actions: Half an hour banking, hour and a half making a new spreadsheet for day to day finances to try to keep things a bit slimmer for a bit longer (I want to ignore the uni money when it starts coming in and use this pretty much for new door and MOPs, no extras). This sounds like a valid excuse for time invested in the spreadsheet, but the truth is I have no defence, I like putting my numbers and different colours in - and I love that it does all the sums for me too

Grey clouds: cough, cough, cough, cough, cough ... you get the idea.

Silver linings:
* Robin coming to back door for meal worms
* Dogs smelling fresh for the first time in months after visit to "salon".
* Mr. Hbbb having a bit more energy and a bit less grump!
* Mr. Hbbb bought me a new tin opener (actually this should be in grey clouds too because I really want a kitten. I was really excited because it happened when dogs were out which would be excellent for introducing a new ball of fluff to the household. So, he told me to close my eyes and open my hands ready for my present, so I cupped them over a pillow in case it was a wiggly kitty but no, cold, hard steel of a tin opener). Grateful for gift (but secretly very disappointed).

Daily Declutter: 1 parcel to PO. It's free listing again this weekend too so hopefully will go through cupboards in front bedroom again tomorrow. Total = 86 / 365.

Simple Pleasures: Lady and the Tramp is based on real life! The dogs have a habit of trying to nick any spaghetti I cook for the hens, so I tried the experiment of seeing if they could each start at the different end of the same strand and meet in the middle ... and they did, kinda! I know there would have been different issues if meatballs had been involved though!

Hope everyone's had a lovely day!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Sounds like you had a good day yesterday.

Spaghetti trick sounds fun :T

I'd rather have a kitten than a tin opener too

Tilly x

Alchemilla

When I was a kid, my pony did this with the family dog with a carrot that still had its greenery. Funny.

apple_muncher

I like your comment that you need early nights - yet you're up past 10pm! After 10 is a LATE one for me!

Lois_E

apple_muncher wrote: »

I like your comment that you need early nights - yet you're up past 10pm! After 10 is a LATE one for me!

Ah, but what time do you get in from work, and what time do you have to leave in the morning?

When I was growing up, my dad was never home from work until after 7:00, so we ate at 7:30 and then would enjoy some evening together before reasonably late bedtimes for our ages. The grown-ups certainly never went to bed before 11:00. Mornings were later than other people's too - although my mum had to leave at 8:00, sometimes my dad had to leave for work at 8:30, but often it was later, and we lived so close to my school that I could set off any time between 8:30 and 8:55 and still be in plenty of time.

Other families have different timing. I remember the first time I went to stay with X's family and they had their evening meal at 5:00. I couldn't imagine how I was going to last until breakfast without further food! (It turned out there was a bit of a snack just before bed. Phew!)

Alchemilla

We start our day at 5.45, 5.30 if DS gets us up.
Definitely country hours.

Habibiboo

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

Sounds like you had a good day yesterday.

Spaghetti trick sounds fun :T

I'd rather have a kitten than a tin opener too

Tilly x

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Yes, a productive day in many ways!

Dogs performed the spaghetti trick for OH today, they certainly seem to love it!

Thanks Tilly for your support with the whole kitten vs tin opener debate ... I'm glad to have an ally in my camp about the kitty, although as Mr. Hbbb rightly pointed out, my shiny new tin opener poses no threat to my friendly robins and blackbirds (unless I become even more clumsy than I am already and / or take to opening tins in the great outdoors of the garden)

Hope you're having a lovely weekend, Tilly, lots of positive planning and celebrating! x

Habibiboo

Alchemilla wrote: »

When I was a kid, my pony did this with the family dog with a carrot that still had its greenery. Funny.

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Aww, what a great memory! Was the dog obliging?
You've always been a pony-girl then A?