OS Daily 16th October 07

ellie2912

ANNIEBOOKLOVER~ cant believe you are wrapping presents already. You sound like my Mum who told me yesterday that she had finished wrapping all hers!
MRSMC~ your hubby sounds spoilt rotten.
VASTSARAH~ hugs to you, sounds like you have done the right thing if you are feeling better about the situation.
WHATATWIT~ boy do i struggle to type your name, have had a few variations that were a bit rude.:o
MIOLIERE~ hope the cough goes soon, you’ve had it ages poor you x
CHEERFULLNESS4, MRSMIX, ESSEXGIRL, MOOKYBARGIRL, MRSFLITTERSNOOP,TWINK, HEAVENLEIGH (and pink bump), CSARINA, THRIFTMONSTER, STFEJB, hello and hugs to you all xx
CRAZYCHIK~ glad you found the ebay item. Ive done that a few times.
CHALKY ~ hope you have a fab time in Spain (im sooo jealous,ive turned green), thanks for the good wishes
REDRUBY~ thanks for the good wishes x
TAPLADY~ take it easy and enjoy your time off work (if you can x) Hope the trouble with DS is a phase. Your DH knows how to romance a lady then?
STRESSEDOUTMO1~ hope your Dad gets better soon. Sending you and him hugs x
POOKY~ hope you like the house
DLB~ happy hoovering! (spell check was adamant you were HOVERING ,now i would pay to see that if you were! )
Well i went to my councelling assessment,im officially nuts!
Only kidding but when i speiled off my ailments and troubles the man said i can see why your depressed!
He gave me some advise on contacting CAB and union at work etc. So then i spent the next half hour in agony at the CAB office. Didn’t get the answers and the poor lady looked terrified when she told me if i waited it could be over an hour. Couldnt cope with that so will have to attempt again on Thursday.:rolleyes:
BM did its biz when i was out so a granary loaf is done and out smelling lovely jubbly. OH will be impressed! Im off for a lie down with a hot water bottle.(got my lifes exciting!) see if that eases my weary back,bum,leg , god i feel like im 82 not 28! (i’ll shut up now..:o )
CATCHYA LATER
ellie

Pooky

Well the house is lovely - the downside is that they'd put the wrong price online yesterday - he'd got the paperwork with him to show me that it's actually £205 per month more than we pay now - told him there's no way we can do that and he's going to see what he can do.

Really do hope something comes of it as all our furniture would fit and we'd get an upstairs!!!!!! Bungalows are lovely to clean but horrible when you want to get away from the kids for 10mins. Garden is all paved so no sciatica inducing mowing and at a quick glance I think all my curtains would fit too - smallest bedroom is even painted DD2s fav colours!

Fingers crossed all.

nicola1982_2

Hope it all goes well Pooky. We went through a similar move recently a £100 PCM increase on the rent but a better boiler and more room so we save by staying in more and cutting down the gas significantly.

Today I finally tidied the bedroom and it feels so much more comfortable. Contemplating a trip out to Matalan to buy some sheets for DS to be's moses basket. Also got an offer on a loan of a moses basket stand - which is brill, another cost saved! Baby is squirming at the moment - feel like John Hurt and it's going to burst out any moment.

whatatwit

Just popped back to say,

Vastsarah....well done, not an easy decision to make, but I think you have done the right thing.

Pooky....hope the new house is ok, and that you get it.

Taplady...that comment about being picked up in a lorry and taken to a laybye sounds almost illicit.

Crazychik

Good Afternoon All

vastsarah - by the sound of things, you've done the right thing. Gossip like that amongst friends can spoil a good friendship!
ellie - hope you get sorted soon at the CAB. They can be a pain, waiting etc. BUt after realising they are run by volunteers. I go when Im either desperate or have plenty of time to wait!

Home from work, glad the day is over! That place is getting worse, not so much for mindless chit/chat/gossip in my dept, as well as the back stabbing, but people are leaving left right & centre and also being sacked! A chap got the sack today, after servibg 15yrs with the company, so it goes to show, no-one's safe!

Made the batter for the toad in hole, thats resting, will put the sausages in the oven shortly.
Ive also made some toffee crispies before the school run!

DD tells me its her parents evening tonght! I had forgotton, despite it being written on the calendar. Why do I bother writing on the damn thing, if I forget to look at it.

DS didnt make the next round of his talent competion at school. He's ok about it, and I said you he lucky to get as far as he did and its taking part which counts!

Right, will start dinner now, then do the ironing & get a wriggle on with the washing!

Have a great evening all
Love Emma xxx

taplady

[quote=ellie2912;6573114TAPLADY~ take it easy and enjoy your time off work (if you can x) Hope the trouble with DS is a phase. Your DH knows how to romance a lady then?

ellie[/quote]

yes he certainly does!
watatwit - nothing naughty honest!:o

stressedoutmumof1

ellie2912 wrote: »

STRESSEDOUTMO1~ hope your Dad gets better soon. Sending you and him hugs x

Thanks Ellie - he's got Cystic Fibrosis so we're quite used to him having hospital stays - but NOT MRSA :eek:

Anyway back home from work :j DD is on her computer and I'm on mine - it's great having wireless No more rows over the PC.

Thinking about what to have for tea - might do chilli and cornbread.

Need to prise DD's school shirt off her so I can stick it in the wash - she ruined one of them last week painting - so she's only got 2 now - I think I might purchase another one, all this washing/ironing etc is tedious.

Going to be organised and make DD's packed lunch for tomorrow in a mo so I don't have to rush around tomorrow.

Thriftlady - hope you DS1's flu jab goes okay

grannybroon

Hi everyone

Not had a look at today's thread - hope to catch up with you all this evening.

Just popped on to say that I feel better than I have done for a long time! I think the clutter in my house has been getting me down and I just couldn't face putting out my children's stuff. The feeling of achievement today has been wonderful and I feel more like I was a few years ago.

DH and I 'did' the loft today. I have 10 full boxes of rubbish and two fertiliser sacks sitting in the study for uplift on Friday. Old manky carpet, ancient coffee table and a very dusty bed-chair just to be brought down on Thursday night. Also putting out 2 bikes from garage which have not been ridden for about 20 years. Yes, I know I should probably try and do freecycle but to be honest I feel just wonderful that at last we have decluttered. The wee girl next door got a huge box of barbie stuff and recent news is that Ken has already had a dress on!!!!!!!!!! Kept the Lego and Action Men.

We filled the car this morning with things for the charity shop - books, clothes, suitcase, etc etc. Also had 4 fertiliser sacks full of knitting wool for the day centre - it was closed!!!!!!!!! However, charity shop more than happy to take it to hand into another Day Centre where the ladies knit and crochet for Britain!

My Christmas section in the loft is rather full but have decided to wait until Christmas to properly sort that area out. It is all together in one place which is the main thing.

Have come across a box of old store card, bank etc statements at least 10 years old and about to get RSI from the shredder! It is having a rest just now as I think I have overheated it.

I think I have learn't my lesson not to hoard stuff. Surely if store card paid off monthly, only keep statements for a relatively short time.

Hope you are all having not too bad a day and that the thread cold is not spreading!

By the way, before you all start lecturing me about overdoing it - honest, I haven't. I think this is what I have needed to get out of the doldrums and DH being very strict with me.

Love

GB xxxx

mrs_mix

Afternoon all
GB I hope that you are getting rest between each bout of de-cluttering
Ellie sorry you didn't get on so well today with the counsellor and the cab

well I've nearly caught up with the washing as fast as I can do it they make more
I've also made a cake got dinner sorted and dd and ds1 are writing christmas lists yeah I know last minute and all that but I'm afraid I'm one of those people who leave it late and still manage to get it done very quickly

have a good evening all
pam xx

this_is_it

Hi everyone,

pooky hope everything works out with the house

vastsarah you did the right thing eith your friend

grannybroon glad your feeling better,it always feels good when you have a clear out but in my case it doesnt take long for everywhere to get full of stuff again.

Hugs to everyone suffering with all the bugs that are flying around.

I was determind not to switch on pc untill i'd got some jobs done.
managed to sort out quite a bit in the living room yesterday just have a bin bag of paper work in there to sort through with oh .
Today i made a start on the dining room so i have some where to put things when oh puts the wallpaper up in the lving room at the weekend
got rid of 2 binbags of rubish and a binbag of paper for recycling
also managed to empty out 4 big cardboard boxes which had everyrhing from christmas presents, christmas decoratiobs/cards to paintbrushes also found another box with more paper work in i dont know where it all came from as i had a good sort out with the paper work not that long ago.
We'r having lamb for tea tonight .

Hugs to everyone who needs them, net x x x