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f0xh0les

Urgh I am such a total clutz. I kicked the hoover (henry) about 4 days ago and I have bruised the side of my foot. I am so sore I can barely stand on it. I can just about cope with a trainer on, for a little while, so the school run was do-able, but after about 20 minutes I feel like sitting down on the floor and crying. It feels like some tiny person is blowing up a balloon inside the arch of my foot. But there is only a tiny bruise, and a tiny amount of swelling. Grrr. If there was an enormous bruise or something visible I would be happier, but this invisible ouch is really getting me down. I feel totally useless.

So, I found out today that the football training the 2 youngest went to over Summer, is back on this half term, and starts on Monday - it was an offhand comment by another mum on the playground, if I had booked my kids onto the training as another mum had mentioned it to her. I knew nothing about it! They are driving 25 minutes to get there, I live at the top of the road! Anyway. Now the 2 boys can have 2 hrs of football coaching for 5 days for the princely sum of £10, so if I do a trip to the cinema (kids club) to see the Spiderman Spiderverse film, and a trip in to town for them to spend what is left of their birthday / Christmas gift vouchers, and a trip to the local pool, then they should be perfectly happy. Will also let them bake cakes and ice them. They will get their regular saver interest toward the end of March, so they will have another £35 to spend, and then they will get more £s from the accumulated over 70s at Easter. It is often true they have more available money floating around the house than I do. It also does not help me to get them to earn pocket money, they have too much money coming in for it to be worth their while to do chores. Swines.

My mobile phone provider has gone into administration, and so I am going to have to find another provider for me and the eldest 2 (the younger two do not have phones - not for want of asking, but they do not need them as they are either with me, or at school.

So nothing much has been done today, a few loads of laundry and drying, and I cooked supper. Apart from that I have been sat resting this stupid foot. At least I can still drive . There is always a bright side.

f0xh0les

Still hobbling about, clearing, cleaning, tidying, and the car is now fixed.

Half term is not turning into the clusterf**k I was worried about, 2 kids are at the football club for 2 hrs Mon-Fri, the car is fixed, we have been to kids club at the pictures and seen Spiderman into the Spiderverse - I paid for the tickets (£2.50 each) and they bought their own snacks with their own money - they even went across the road to the shop to buy a bag of popcorn so they did not pay cinema prices. DS4 was off at a playdate (do 9 yr olds do playdates? I dunno) one morning, and tomorrow we have plans to go into town so they can spend more gift cards and cash, so it will cost me £1 parking, and they will be happy, then come home and do football. Still need to do shoe shopping for DS2, so will try and get him to come in as well tomorrow. DH is working Saturday - Open Day at uni, so he has to rock up and answer questions, so he will be away for most of Saturday.

Going to swing past Her0n today as they have Alpr0 puddings £1 for 2 x 4 packs. They are getting quite a few vegan things lately, and I am aware that lunchboxes will start again in 5 days. I have not missed them one bit, and it is quite nice to be able to wake up next to a warm man and not have to get up at 6am to do things. Don't tell anyone, but I actually got up at 7.15 this morning! Such a rebel! This is how Rome fell! Oh well.

I am all within budget, with 8 days to go, still need to get a new mobile phone package x 3, I cancelled my dd yesterday, as there was only a week left to go and I did not want to be a victim of repeat billing, so they cut off my service. I can still receive calls but not make them or text. Grrr. Then when I tried to get 3 x sim packages (after asking on webchat if it would be possible) they passed the first 2 credit checks and failed the 3rd as it looked like I was having too many credit checks -on 3 x £5 a month sim only packages. So was not happy, it was why I asked on webchat in the first place but they assured me buying 3 was fine and should not cause problems. grrrr!

It is fine and sunny and my foot is much less painful today, but then I have been sat down all day. I would recommend Spiderman though - it is an animation, not a real person film. Well worth £2.50 each.

crazy_cat_lady

You sure that you shouldn't get that foot checked out f0xh0les? So many fiddly and complicated little bones in the feet - may be more damaged than you think. My ex walked round on a broken ankle for 2 days a couple of years ago, insisting there was nothing wrong...
Glad you are surviving half term.

f0xh0les

Ahem... I only found out I had broken my ankle 2 times before when I went in to A&E because I could not get the swelling down after falling off a 2 inch high path in the garden. The look on their faces when showing me the xrays of having broken the bone in nearly the same place as the last 2 times and I admitted I did not know I had even broken it, I just put on an elasticated bandage and pulled my laces tighter - Army boots work wonders! I only took 2 days of work! They reassessed my plight, decided they would not bother with plastering it, and gave me one of those useless salad tongs with velcro straps instead. I was fine in a fortnight. It cured me of jumping off things and chasing trams. All my own fault.

So this time, I was actually terrified they would plaster me if I went in, and if I can't drive, I am , to all intents and purposes, no use to man nor beast. Yesterday I got up to get the post, and something squished, hurt a lot and clicked, and I am in much less pain today, in fact I was humping furniture around in the back room, and although it is a little electric-zappy, it is loads better, and I can even walk without a trainer on.

So I got up this morning, breakfasted with DH (well, I had coffee -- it counts), watched The Greatest Showman and was finished before 10.15, shifted furniture, washed up, and realised my foot had not stopped me from doing anything, so stopped and had a coffee and thought about putting it up, and decided against. Hoovered, cleared the back room (lots of tat still on the table in cardboard boxes, so will do that tomorrow) and I have unearthed what shall henceforth be referred to as.... the carpet in the back room! Yay! totally clear floor. All hoovered and clean. Blimey. Then I moved into the kitchen and started bringing order to all and sundry, made lunch, to the 2 smalls to football, came back, got DS1 and 2 ready to go out with all their gift cards, went to pick up the smalls, and took them all into town and went to the bookshop with a watery name, and bought GCSE study guides and workbooks (yawn!), and the doughnut shop. DS4 had a strop (as usual - it is traditional for him to refuse to leave at least one shop every time he goes out) - utterly embarrassing, and it never works, he never gets his own way, so he should just stop it now. So we got home late, after DH and it was beans on toast and a doughnut for afters. Had to order one book for DS3, so will be returning for that very soon, and they have some lovely round enamel badges (bit like prefect badges) with 'book worm' on, that are 75% off, and next to the till, so I am going to go back and get some. I love an enamel badge.
So, all in all, a jolly good day (minus DS4s strop in the book shop because I would not give him £6 for some glow-in-the-dark slime that he would only massage into his bedroom carpet).
Tomorrow's fun and frolics shall involve a trip to the recycling centre, and buying white polo shirts for DS4 to trash in seconds because everyone knows the best way to clean a football is to rub it on your stomach whilst wearing a white shirt. Thanks kid.

Feeling positive tonight. Still trying to get my phone to work with the new sim card. Still trying to port my number, and for some reason, my phone seems to think it is 2 hours earlier than it actually is. I am not hopeful about the tech, but at least I found a whole floor! Swings and roundabouts.

crazy_cat_lady

Well I am pleased that the foot is feeling a bit better at least. Totally understand re the driving as well - I wouldn't be able to do much if I couldn't drive.
Your ds sounds like mine, except the strop is usually over something XB0x related. It is awfully embarrassing and he is awfully stubborn... Sounds like a lovely day all in all though.

f0xh0les

NUMBERS!!!! (cue JAWS music) da da.... da da..... da da......
Mortgage currently £98,999.99 (because that is so much less than £99,000.00)
Monthly interest in short February £121.38
Daily interest in short February £4.33 per day
So I am knocking off £500 every month.
Renovations fund is sitting at £500 at the minute, I am hoping to get a bit more into it when the child benefit comes in on Monday. It is the time of year when payday and child benefit are a few days apart, so every month seems a long one between being able to save/overpay.

Tuppence off the daily interest again this month.

The pantry is stocked,the fridge is full, I have done the stocktake and I have managed to wring 22 main meals out of what we have in - although a few bits of greenery or fresh veg will be needed, but nothing major.

All beds have been stripped, I still need to make up the 2 smalls' beds, and I now have a laundry mountain to scale, but it is all sheets and duvet covers that are easily dried.

Baked 6 large individual coconut and cherry cakes, and 10 scones this morning before anyone else got up, and folded all the laundry and put into piles for its owners to claim. Took DS3 and 4 to Ping Pong, did the bins, and got on with the laundry. Football is on at 12.30 and I am trying to get as much done as possible before that happens. Supper tonight is toad in't hole with masses of veggies (sprouts, peas, corn, kale, carrots, parsnips) and gravy.

So I am now going to go and remake the beds and get on with the boring job of sodding laundry.
I rediscovered the back room floor last week - little by little, the whole floor is cleared, as is the table top in there. This has never happened before in the nearly 3 years we have been here. I am making progress.

So today I have one smallish pink crate of bits and things to look through, and one 1KEA storage cube/laundry box thing to look through. To be honest anything could be in there! Might find Atlantis, but we are waiting in for a re-delivery of a parcel that the postie never left a card for, and we only found out it was at the sorting office when DH emailed to complain, and they said it had already been delivered and gave us a tracking number. It was sat at the delivery office waiting for us to collect it, which we can't do, as we don't have the postcard. So one of us has to be in the front room, as they have a maddening habit of knocking softly on the door, instead of using the industrially loud doorbell, and sodding off again. :mad:

First world problems eh?:rotfl:

apple_muncher

Yay!!!! to the mortgage. Well done!

f0xh0les

Oh yes, all 3 phones working now, and all numbers successfully ported.

Small box of things found which may be 'bayable. One whole crate emptied.

The only chocolate in the house is orange flavoured (bleugh!!!) which is stupid, as I do the shopping and that means the chocolate buying. Poor planning, me. Poor planning. Or possibly very cunning forward thinking.

mark55man

It could have been worse I inadvertantly bought my OH some Geraniium flavoured chocolate, and she said it tasted like an old lady's handbag!


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crazy_cat_lady

You have had such a productive day today! And well done on getting that mortgage lower and lower as well.