Friday 24th April - What small DFW things will you do today?

xJOJOx_2

Morning everyone

Bit of eventful day yesterday. Obviously the stuff at the council offices. Then lost my keys and had to sleep at friends house. Rung everywhere I'd been but no keys. Deceided in the end to physically go to council offices, as I were sure they were there - yep they were. Glad I didn't phone a locksmith before going there. Lady was a lot nicer today, must of been a bad day yesterday.....

Few bits today

~ sort out bag
~ count all money now rolling around my bag and purse and see what's left for the week
~ evening meal from stock
~ walk all journeys
~ check gas and electric
~ try and get some tips - been a funny one this week
~ tidy up kitchen
~ withdraw money for childminder and pick up form
~ spare set of keys cut done :-)

FatVonD

Jojo and Bob, is it just coincidence that both of you have gotten no tips since someone mentioned drawing a smiley face on the bill? Are you both doing it? Some people may like it but I ask because a girl did that in a branch of Pizza Hut and that (combined with her overly bright manner and telling DH his pizza looked so good she wanted to 'bury her face in it') meant that she got no tip from us! My deputy at my last but one job used to draw them on her instructions to the repro house and I had to have a word with her because it looked really unprofessional.

Breakfast and lunch from stores for me and we have a Just Eat voucher from an order they messed up so may use it to splash out on a curry tonight.

Nothing much else planned so should be a no spend day.

Happy Friday everyone!

carrielovesfanta

FatVonD wrote: »

and telling DH his pizza looked so good she wanted to 'bury her face in it')

CRINGE!




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xJOJOx_2

Fat one

Haha I haven't actually done the smiley face thing yet :-)

Got £2.50 today so it's improving. No tips due to sunny weather for me, regular tippers been having to go out to other pubs with their Mrs haha x

twiggy86

Afternoon all!

I'm all exciteable today as my bestest ever friend of 23 years had her 12 week scan today! :j

So apart from dance around and smile a lot, today I have/will:-
* Check banks
* Continue using up free foundation
* No heating on although was chilly this morning
* Take lunch to work
* Finalise budget for this month
* CLEAR interest accruing CC!
* Update spreadsheet
* Update snowball
* Update signature

Meeting friends tonight for a bite to eat but will try not spend too much - only round a friends house and best friend can break the news to everyone (I was privileged and knew the day she did the test!)

So it was payday today and the payments I made mean I've paid off over half my debt in just over 6 months! Go me! :j
If I don't post on here, I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Bobarella

FVD - That made me LOL, that waitress sounds bonkers! I dont give bills out, I am all paper free & stuff. I email reciepts if people want them. The power of technology I did get a whole shiny round £1 today, and found 20p a toddler had left in the toy cash till too. My pet hate, is people who sign off emails at work with X's, so flipping weird. Would you actually kiss the person you are writing that to??
For me, tips seem to be a monthly cycle thing. People get paid, or its a bank holiday coming up, lots of tips for literally no reason, I make a coffee and they leave me 60p etc. This week, a lot of people are down to the bones waiting to get paid so no tips. Im not too fussed really, I dont do that much to deserve one. Your OH must get a lot of tips though as a cabbie??

Twiggy - Exciting for your friend! I still remember how excited and weird I felt when I found out my best friend was pregnant the first time. As she was quite young still & I didnt see that one coming, but shes onto her 3rd now & very happy with her family, so when its right its right.

Carrie - Have a good night out.

JoJo - God thats stressful, did you have to take the kids with you to your friends house? Very pleased all was well that ended well.

Polly - Top marks for innovation. Im sure thats exactly how Heston discovered snail porridge

DD265 - Hope the house is 'the one'

Hannah - Thats a pain about the free breakfasts ending. I would have thought with all the stats on kids and the importance of breakfast that would have stayed on the agenda.

BB - Hope the group picnic was nice?

Dawn - Did you find any other funny clothes to tell us about?

Well. It was a good day at work. Have managed to pay myself some of my salary, which is a start. BB - I meant to say to you, very good point on the accountant thing, he can be a bit odd at times.
Cycled all my journies. Tommorow off to buy 2 -30litre panniers for the rear of the bike. Im going to see how I get on with just those for now. The advert says they are big enough to carry your weekends worth of clothing & supplies if you are a cycle/camp type. So that should be quite a lot of space. If I still struggle, Im going to get the same for the front. They are £39 in Decathlon. I also have to buy a bike rack for them to hang on which is £12 I think.
I heated up some leftover pasta for sons tea.
I am going to make smoked mackarel pate for our dinner, which will use up an open pack of peppered mackarel, and some pitta breads, will serve them warm. Really looking forward to that actually.
Son has a childrens party to go to tommorow so will do a squizz around the house for items that could be rehoused, and get him to make a card.
Line dried a load of washing today, which smells lovely.
This one may turn some people off but, found a bottle of expensive childrens sun cream left behind earlier this week, in the shop, so I thought well my son can make use of that. Save a few ££s.

Think thats me. Have a lovely Friday evening everyone. And weekend!

Bob

1HANNAH

Bobarella wrote: »

Hannah - Thats a pain about the free breakfasts ending. I would have thought with all the stats on kids and the importance of breakfast that would have stayed on the agenda.


Well. It was a good day at work. Have managed to pay myself some of my salary, which is a start.
Bob

Thanks Bob, yes it would be a pain, its not a definite. I asked one of the LSA's this morning and they've said its got to go to the governors but somethings got to change apparently.


Great news on your salary & have a lovely weekend

FatVonD

Jojo, I see what you mean, come the nice weather all your regulars are being dragged off to sit outside in a pub with a nice garden.

Bob, he mentions if he's got a particularly good tip or a particularly bad one so I guess the rest are just run of the mill. The bottom has really fallen out of the trade, partly due to the recession, partly due to Ken Livingstone increasing the number of drivers so there are too many chasing too little work. He's a yellow badge (ie suburban, licensed for Richmond/Kingston/Hounslow, not central London) and they can sit for 45 minutes waiting for a job and then get someone that just wants to go around the corner with thier shopping for £3.80 and then they're right on the back of the queue at the rank again. You would never get a mini cab take you for such a short distance and for so little money but obviously as a black cab they aren't allowed to refuse.

Unfortunately the bottom has also fallen out of magazine publishing so we are both stuffed together, money gets a bit tight so the first things people cut out are magazines and taxis!

DawnW

No funny clothes today Bob
I think those jeans must have been a US size or something!

Just made Polly's banana flapjacks though - yum! Mustn't eat too many or I might need to buy them back from the charity shop :eek:

Second thoughts perhaps not - even yummy flapjacks aren't likely to make me grow another foot in height :rotfl:

Bobarella

FVD - how annoying for him. I'm surprised people bother having a cab for such short journies. Unless they are all little old ladies. I worked in publishing for a few years, b2b. Quite enjoyed it. Then online publisher as last job before I went self employed doing this gig. But in both set ups the older people were always telling me the best had passed.