McDiary - I'm loving it!!

yeovilmac

Congratulations on getting hitched, Twinklie....:beer:

Another one bites the dust....

Football today so £13.00 on petrol, £2.00 on car parking, £2.50 on a programme, £1.00 on Golden Gamble ticket, £3.50 on 2 x Bovril + 3 bars of c******te and £1.29 on a loaf of bread on the way home. Ouch! :mad:

Last night with the boys tonight, I think the house is going to be deathly quiet from tomorrow onwards somehow.:( . I'll still be having them from 3.15pm Fridays till around 4.00pm on Sundays but after being with them every day for five weeks, I think I'll miss them. I'm purposely thinking of pigging out tomorrow night to fill my body with those feel-good endorphin thingies to make me feel better.:rolleyes:

yeovilmac

Well, I'm here. Alone. Empty house save for me and a telly that could be showing my favourite football team for all I care..

I knew it was going to be hard saying goodbye tonight but not as hard as it was. Their mum and I stopped living together when they were four months old and they were seven in November so that's a long time to not live with them. When her b/f started getting violent with her just after Christmas, I said that she, her daughter and the twins could all come and stay because I had the room.

Right now, I really wish I hadn't. The alternative would have been a B & B for a while until a council house became available but at least I wouldn't have put the boys and myself through today. The older one has been so subdued all afternoon and the younger one quite naughty and I'm sure it's a reaction to their circumstances. I took them back at 6.00pm tonight, thus ending thirty-six days, nine hours and thirty minutes of living with them, waking up every morning and seeing two pairs of eyes gazing at me; going to bed like the Waltons; making their little breakfasts each day ( bowl of Weetos, slice of toast and a squash ), taking them to school and seeing the yummy-mummies ( oops, did I really say that aloud :eek: ).

I know I did the right thing in the short term but, ye gods, sometimes I wish I didn't.

yeovilmac

Forgot to do the money bit.

Spent £10.00 on diesel for the van plus £8.17 on a McDonalds ( first one for a long, long time ) and £6.50 on some shopping ( bread, milk, coffee, biscuits etc etc ).

ZTD

Think not of what has gone, but what you have retained. Your memories of some good times that wouldn't have existed otherwise.

(Land_of)_Maz

Awwww Martin, the thing is you have done the kids such a great benefit by letting them all stay with you. Even the best of B&B type accomodation would have resulted in some pretty sh1tty times for them, probably resulted in some name calling/stigma at school, not to mention probably overcrowding and a poorer standard of living than they had at yours. Instead you gave them weeks of stabilty, the reassurance that their dad loves them, and a whole lot more.

Lesser men would've let them go off to B&B or whatever, but you made room for them in your life, not to mention your ex and her daughter, which speaks volumes for your character mate.

So don't feel blue, they gained a lot and so did you i'm sure, and even though it hurts a bit it's only cause you love them.

Dodgy threesome hug for you!:grouphug: That'll make you feel better! Imagine it's 2 of those yummy mummies!

yeovilmac

Hi all,

Quiet day spent at home today. Back was a little sore from moving them all out yesterday so busied myself by tidying up the house, doing two loads of washing, attacking a pile of paperwork plus I had two regular jobs booked today.

Spent £7.00 on petrol, £1.74 on some photocopying paper, 39p on a pkt of dolly mixtures, £1.70 on the behemoth bap and 54p on a slice of Australian crunch.

yeovilmac

Motored on with these infernal catalogues today. :j

Got another 201 delivered today and have a friend coming to help tomorrow as there's 285 more to do between now and the weekend. I've got a job booked to London for Thursday, a cracker too. Normally when I go there, it's either to deliver from here or collect from there. This week, I'm doing both PLUS I'm collecting for two different departments. Policy is to charge full price each way plus part-price coming back plus a bit extra for the extra fuel for the van. Basically means that I'll earn 2.5 times what I'd normally do for the same mileage....:j :j

Missing the boys terribly now. Mum mentioned me seeing them in the week but I left it that she would contact me but no call just yet. Will dream of having them to stay over tomorrow night so we can curl up on the sofa and watch the England match.

Money? Spent £13.00 on diesel, £2.05 on lunch and £2.63 on bread and milk. Diet is going slowly, a quarter of the way through and I've lost 1.5 stone but walking miles every day has helped that. I'd settle for losing another 1.5 stone in the next two months before the next campaign starts.

(Land_of)_Maz

Hey sweets!

You're working hard, doing great and I'm glad that sore back hasn't amounted to anything.

Nice one on the London job, could do with a few like that every week, eh!?

Maz
x

yeovilmac

Hi Maz,

Yes, one of those a week would be wonderful. :beer:

Next week's work includes the highlight of my year. I work for a florist once a year on Valentines Day. Get there about 7.00am before the other drivers and load maybe 15-20 deliveries of red roses, love balloons, champagne, chocolates etc and take them to the lucky ladies. Go back mid-morning and collect the same again and then, if you're lucky and the shop is busy enough, maybe one more load in mid-afternoon. Going rate last year was £3.50 a drop and I did 48. This is cash-in-hand and allowing £15-£20 for fuel, it makes a good day of it. Pretty much everyone is pleased to see you although one woman got flowers last year and you could tell from her husband's face behind her that they weren't from him..:eek: :eek:

Today? £55.00 on diesel ( £10 this morning so I could deliver 226 catalogues and £45.00 tonight ready for tomorrow ). Lunch was £3.72 for John and I as he was helping me today. Going to sort out my creditors once and for all tomorrow night so bought ten stamps for £3.40 too.

(Land_of)_Maz

You don't deliver to Aberdeenshire do you?! No, oh well spose not! Will see if Big G sends me flowers! Is not unheard of, but not usually to my work.... have been known to come home to a bunch... yeah maybe once or twice a year.

That must've been priceless to see that hubby's face when his wife got flowers! What a picture!!

£3.50 a drop, that seems like a good going rate.

Interesting that you mention your debtors etc... you should post a new statement of account let us see where you're at. We can all see what you're spending but not your bills etc...

Just me being nosy!! But maybe you'd get some advice too.