Diary of my new life !!!

benbenandme

Oh and I forgot .... taks ds to his football lesson tomorrow morning before he goes to his Dads, do the mystery shop tomorrow and sort out my eyebrows :rotfl:

spud30

Well done on surviving your first week Benben.

I also think you've made the right decision on school. It's a shame about the extra uniform costs, but cant be helped ehh.

Good luck with your 'to do' list.

chickadee

Hi Benben,

As you said, now you know why the rest of the world looks forward to weekends! try not to overload it. You need some relaxation time for yourself you know. It sounds like you are trying to cram in a week's worth of chores into two days. Life is for living, you don't need to kill yourself getting stuff done. Please don't make yourself ill hun!

chickadee
x

benbenandme

Spud .... thank you for all your posts, you feel like my virtual mother looking out for me
Chickadee ... thank you too, I know what you mean about all the chores, its just that I can get them donw soooo much quicker when ds isn't around, and at least that way I will get more time o spend with him when he does come back on sunday My plan is to do a few bits off the list tonight and then blitz it during the day tomorrow but have the evening of, and then do the car boot on sunday and any remaining bits then before he comes home. Then again, I may decide to just have a lie-in and forget all about the list :rotfl:

MushyPeas

HI benben. I've been enjoying reading yoru diary, sounds like you are having a busy weekend! Good luck at the carboot. Do let me know how you get on, I want to do one but I'm a bit scared by myself!

sophiesmum_2

Hi ben ben
Now that you have changed ds's school and uniform is there no way you could sell the original uniform locally and at least get some of your money back?
I know you have ironed ds name tags in but if you bought a pack of blank iron ons you could iron a blank one over top. May get you a couple of quid back on what you have spent:D The original school may have a noticeboard you could stick an add on.

Glad you enjoyed your first week at work:D

sophiessmum

benbenandme

Yep I think I will contact the old school again and see if theres any way of advertising the uniform there. So far I have done a few bits off the list, last night I had a pretty good tidy-up and now that ds has gone to his Dads I can finish it I took him to his football this morning and we bought petrol on the way so a couple more bits done there, oh and we nipped into Tescos and got his p.e. t-shirts. I have stuck another load of washing in and switched the dishwasher on so they can be doing their stuff all morning!! Last night I also got all the paperwork sorted out.

This morning I have got and extra 2000 piggypoints in my pigsback account so that will be another £20 of John Lewis vouchers towards Christmas presents :T :T

I am off out now to do the mystery shop / try and find a bank open to bank the cheque :rolleyes: / post the birthday card / sort nephews birthday present and do the weekly food shop. I think I might buy something very naughty and fattening to have with a cup of tea too

benbenandme

Update on the list ....

Catch up with all the washing have done 3 loads so far
Catch up with all the ironing
Clean and hoover throughout all tidy, ready to be cleaned ...
Do weekly food shop done
Finish buying ds uniform (again!:mad: ) done
Label said uniform
File / bin / action pile of paperwork/post on table done
Buy nephews birthday present done
Post friends birthday card
Pay in a cheque done
Sort garage stuff ready for car boot sale on sunday
List 10 items on ebay
Buy petrol done
Clean out car

Have also done the mystery shop and the football off the other list :T

Can't be @rsed to do the stuff for the car boot sale so will make an effort to get as much on ebay as possible instead. Had forgotten there was an England match on today so am going to sit and watch that now and catch up with other mse threads too :beer:

benbenandme

Spent today:

£15 on petrol (budgeted for)
£22 in tesco (from £37 weekly budget)
£4 on pe shorts
£5 for shirts for ds
£5 on umbrella* (mystery shop, will be returned)
£1.70 on car park
£3.20 on football lesson
£8.50 in another tesco (rug £3, pe tops £1.50, £2 playdoh to go with nephews present, £2 on jogging trousers for ds)

benbenandme

Oh yeah, nearly forgot to tell you all .... do you remember I phoned Tesco because some of my clubcard points had expired??? They said they would recredit them back to my card and I will get them in November with the next round of vouchers, well, when I got my receipt today at the bottom it says my current clubcard total is 5329 points :eek: :eek: I think they have credited me with £50 worth of points THANK YOU MR T'S !!!!! :beer: