DFW Advent Calendar 2007/Daily Chat Thread -12th Dec

floss2

JET34 wrote: »

Floss hope your feeling better (was the wine worth it!!)

Thanks Jet, am feeling a little less _pale_ ...the upsetting news I had that started the need for red wine is still with me though...found out that a cousin has died - in September, and none of his family told any of my family. We've found out from an aunt on dad's side, purely by accident. I can only guess that when my mum died in 2005, his dad thought the family link had gone, as his wife (mum's only sister) died years ago.

floss2

Lucy1982 wrote: »

can we have a DFW Christmas Party? I've been really lucky and work are paying for ours

We have to pay for our own....local government, can't be seen to be spending council-tax-payers money etc etc

JET34

floss2 wrote: »

Thanks Jet, am feeling a little less _pale_ ...the upsetting news I had that started the need for red wine is still with me though...found out that a cousin has died - in September, and none of his family told any of my family. We've found out from an aunt on dad's side, purely by accident. I can only guess that when my mum died in 2005, his dad thought the family link had gone, as his wife (mum's only sister) died years ago.

That's really sad to hear family's are a strange thing's aren't they..
sending you one of the famous dodgy 3sum hugs :grouphug: hugs to you and your's

Lucy1982_2

floss2 wrote: »

We have to pay for our own....local government, can't be seen to be spending council-tax-payers money etc etc

Well as a standard the company does, but if you have a sensible head of department like I do, he asks and they say yes! Staff that live locally are getting free taxis home and those that live further away are staying in the hotel.

mrsspendalot

Afternoon all

Been in town all morning .... spending again :rolleyes:

Bought perfume for brothers gf (but from my mum so no personal spend)
HMV voucher for brothers gf's son (from mum again - she owes me a fiver now coz she didn't give me enough cash :rolleyes: )

Then I went to boots.... and here is the naught bit ..... spent £39.40 on makeup ...... to get £73 worth of 'freebies'. I did need new makeup though. So here is what I got:
Max Factor foundation & powder = free gift set worth £40
No7 protect & perfect face stuff & nail varnish = free gift set worth £33
Max factor eyeshadow & eyeliner ... 2 for £10

I paid for the 2 for £10 deal with my advantage card points
The free gift stuff has loads of little bits in ... all of which I will actually use .... honest :rolleyes: I love buying make up

BUT ..... to make up for it (pardon the pun) I got a total bargain in Matalan!

Went to buy pants socks and a dressing gown for FIL. Got pants £5 socks £5, but didn't want to spend £16 on a dressing gown. Was just about to not bother when I saw one in a broken plastic gift bag type thing. It was £12 and his size. It was also a towelling one which he wanted. I get 10% off in there so it was much nearer my budget. Also got myself a little bag for Sat night (£2) and a stocking for DS2 (£6).

Got to till and with my 10% off it came to £18.90 ..... a little cheap I thought. Got to the car and looked at the receipt and the dressing gown had come up at £3 :cool: :rotfl: So with my 10% off which I shouldn't have had on the sale item anyway (but neither me or the sale assistant new it was a sale item because it wasn't marked) the dressing gown has cost me the grand total of £2.70 :rotfl: That is cheap, even by Matalan's standards.

Also went to debenhams and got a little gold sparkly shrug to wear on Sat. Was £18 but had £12 nectar points on my card to only cost me £6 :T

Also spent £30 getting my mum & dad a voucher which was the only thing I had actually budgeted for out of everything I spent today :rolleyes:

Anyway, just paid £150 off the barclaycard and will clear the rest next week after my night out this weekend, as I don't want to leave us short.

Snaggles

Oooh, which bit of Debenhams was the sparkly gold shrug in (which brand)? Been looking for a reasonably priced one for ages!

mrsspendalot

It was in red herring snaggles

Snaggles

Thanks, I'll pop in and have a look this evening - I've got a Debenhams voucher so if they've got one, I might treat myself!

always_amazed

we are having £8.83 per head towards our christmas party..... an odd amount but nonetheless more than we have ever had before!!

It's quite difficult, some collegues said they would organise it, but surprise surprise it seems to be me getting everything booked. I'm just sad, as I feel that the under agers who work in our cafe are going to miss out on their fair share of the fun!

It is soooo cold today up here, last night we had a late event on, and when I went to collect the glasses left outside they were covered in frost!! Brrrrrrrr.

Lucy1982_2

always_amazed wrote: »

It is soooo cold today up here, last night we had a late event on, and when I went to collect the glasses left outside they were covered in frost!! Brrrrrrrr.

People were sat outside drinking in this weather :eek: :eek: Surely no one is that desperate for a smoke!!???