Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 3 - A New Beginning

apple_muncher

Most excellent news! Enjoy your weekend.

beanielou

Excellent news :T :T

janb5

I`m beyond delighted that you have made progress on the legal front. We`re all keeping our fingers crossed that this will determine events from now on. So pleased for you all.

wishingthemortgaheaway

Wooohooooo.

Nobody can deny that you have done everything you possibly can. At least it's borne fruit.

Enjoy your weekend.

Buffythedebtslayer

Good news on the Ex front. Progress. YAY. Loved the night out for your boy and also having staff absence at my place, if it moves I am photocopying it and setting it as cover and God help any child who gets sent out if I am around. It has been a not fun week. Hey ho, only three weeks to go.

Big love and have a great weekend XXX

f0xh0les

Congratulations. I call that real progress. Good job CCL.
Tomorrow is December, so only 15 workdays left (if you break on the 20th like we do).

crazy_cat_lady

I do break up on the 20th f0xh0les. However, I also have a sneaky little day off on Monday - it's an inset day, but we've done all the required sessions after school so the school is actually closed. I intend to finish my Christmas shopping on the day - anything I don't find in the shops I will get online. I want to spend locally but there is so much more choice online...
I've had a lovely day out today, finally catching up with bestie after weeks. of not seeing her - we have both been mega busy. It was her ds birthday yesterday so we went out to a trampoline park followed by pizza lunch at a well known restaurant. It's been lovely to have a long sit and a good chat. We talked about work, Christmas, ex and everything else, and I feel good for it. Also got on with dealing with a few frogs that have been long overdue - chasing up a couple of emails and sorting a couple of bits out. I also have to venture into the loft tomorrow and find the Christmas decorations - I've held the kids off but they really want to be up and running once it's December. And tomorrow it is definitely December (what on Earth has happened to 2019?)

foxgloves

It was good to hear there has at last been a bit of a breakthrough, CCL. Oh, how I hope it can be sorted for you not too long into the new year. I'm sure you will be really up for getting a frugal (but realistic) budget in place to restore your finances. It honestly will be a new start, won't it, rather than this lengthy limbo process which has prevented you - in fact all of you, including your ex - from moving on.
Re the RuPaul show you went to......I'd never heard of it & had to look it up! Good that you both had a fun night out.

Great that your daughter has been helping out with the cooking. Cheese & onion quiche is always a good one - nice simple flavours, not too much chopping & they just go together really well.
F x

crazy_cat_lady

I've had one of those really busy days today where I feel as though I never stopped but if you looked about you'd wonder what I'd been doing.
I woke up very early this morning - just after 5am and it was so cold in the house that the heating had kicked in (it's set to 12 degrees overnight) I couldn't get back to sleep so I got up and came down and did a bit of crochet until I dozed back over on the sofa for an hour. Then got up, got dressed, got the decorations out of the loft. Oh. My. Goodness. I couldn't believe how many boxes of wool I've thrown up there and forgotten about. Trouble is, with them in cardboard boxes you can't see anything so you forget what you have. Lots of the boxes were more than half empty but I'm more than overdue a massive sort out.
No time to fret over it though as I had to go tutoring, and then to Mr M for more milk and some chicken. I also popped into HBargains to see storage boxes and came out with four large, lidded boxes for my wool stash.
Got home, fed the kids, we put the tree up together with some Christmas music in the background, then I went to sort my wool stash. I figured I might as well put the few spare balls of wool I was keeping in my cupboard in the boxes first in case I didn't quite have enough space for everything in the cardboard boxes. Needless to say the four boxes are full and I still have some balls of wool in my cupboard. I really must STOP buying wool - it's just embarrassing to have that much and not use any of it :o:o So I refuse to buy more until I've sorted it all out and made a significant dent in the stash. I've found a large amount of chunky wool, which is much better knitted than crocheted so I might be getting the needles out again soon. Also found a few balls of sock yarn, which I'm unlikely to use - so Foxgloves if you are reading this then give me a shout if you can use it and I will post it down to you.
While I was doing that, ds was sorting out his bedroom - he wants a desk and chair for Christmas but has a tiny bedroom so he needs to declutter more than I do at the moment.
We're now settling down for the night to watch the dancing, and getting ready for the kids going back to school tomorrow. I have a rare day off and 5 items left on my Christmas shopping list - so I'll be doing that. I haven't started wrapping anything yet so best be getting on if I can find the time. And I still haven't bottled my gin either...

foxgloves

Many thanks, CCL. I will defo be able to use extra sock yarn.
What a sensible present your son has chosen!
I bottled my gingerbread gin a while back, but I still haven't done the blackberry & pear one. Hopefully this coming week.... maybe while the Christmas cake is in the oven.
I had a similar thing with my yarn stash. I have only bought yarn this year for knitting specific presents - nothing for myself. I have to get on top of it. I added quite a bit of Mum's yarn stash to my own & so once again, it no longer fits in its chest of drawers. Must do better!
F x