NST NIFTY NOVEMBER

ldee2111

Thrifty_Taylor said:

the front of the finished blanket 😊

Beautiful! 

Just googled the Christmas tractor run and it looks fantastic - DS would love that kind of thing… shame we don’t live in your area. 

thriftylass

Good morning, checked on my Amaz@n this morning and if I click on who delivered my order with the fake voucher, the seller has now magically changed to a new one with a clean sheet as a few people stared leaving negative feedback. 

Edit: they just changed the seller linked to my order. The original seller is still there and guess what? Am@zon removed all negative reviews about the scam (which were correctly in the seller rating not the item rating ) and restored his 5 star rating. Raging, knew Am@zon just cares about profit

Won't be a NSD today as I'll buy a friend a drink for his 50th today (not going out as we don't have babysitter), DH will though. Will go shopping on way home too.

grandmanerd

Friday 18th  November 2022
Sorry this was meant to be a light-hearted post about (some of) the origins of Christmas - I was going to talk about some of the plants and the symbolism involved. However the internet took me to a very dark place (whilst I was trying to offend the least people - I don't mind offending people, we all need to laugh at ourselves) and the tirades of people so utterly lacking in any perspective, knowledge or understanding of history, a sense of humour or basic humanity. They're only armed with the knowledge that God made himself in their image and they have the right to persecute anyone who disagrees with them, preferably with an AK47 (only when nothing more dangerous is available). 

So now I'm depressed and will go away and find something else to talk about. Still bothered that DS3 did not know about the Ind and Ag Rev - not been so despairing about history education since DS2 asked me about WWII (which happened just after the Roman invasion of Britain because that's how they taught it in school) and my role in it (I was born in 1958, mum was only 11 when WWII ended - which is why I dislike that lying BUPA ad with the old man and the chickens). Sorry, I'll go and think cheerful thoughts or attack a 'weed tree' (better put some clothes on first, Mr Builder noted that the frosted glass in the house 2 doors away was not sufficiently frosted). 

thriftylass

History is a weird one. Kids have a funny understanding of time. My kids, 11 and 8, can't comprehend that I was alive before the internet was a thing or why (when they were way younger!) granda has never seen a dinosaur. 

I remember being 8 or so and finding a Nazi eagle pin near the garden we had which happened to be on a sandstone ledge/shelf in a forest, I knew sandstone formed once under the sea. So I imagined the Nazi standing on the beach dropping his pin not being aware that both events were million years apart, lol

Anyway, hope you feel better soon grandmanerd. There are some strange people on the net and dark places are found too easily.

lcc86

Work from home day today, spent all morning in my PJ'S until lunchtime when I went for a walk. Got loads of work done to be fair. 

Managed to get the kitchen cleaned at lunchtime as well, was a bit of a bombsite. 

Not much else to report today, nice and quiet and generally just got on with things. Am looking into whether to buy some premium bonds. My mum has loads and wins the odd £10 here and there. Might see what I get paid next month and buy some, don't really want to take it out of my savings for some reason (I know there's no logic to this but in my head I like it all in one place!).

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for a good day at work, for dc doing the rest of the day plus a rehearsal after going in late, for a lady buying three of my small elephants, for a dry day, for finishing off a dozen snowmen.

BadBookkeeper

Sorry turtles, didn’t check in yesterday.  Had a busy time putting house back together after bedroom carpet fitted! 

We’ve been doing our weekly shop at @ldi and a few bits at t£sco to save money.  But because we hate it so much the last 2 weeks we’ve treated ourselves to a bottle of red to share but this although a lovely treat is wiping out the savings we make!  So this can’t continue.  

We’re time poor at the moment.  Need to make good use of the weekend and I’m silently hoping ds footy match gets cancelled as it’s right in the middle of Sunday but of course he’ll be gutted so feel mean even thinking it.

Made a lift of things still to be purchased against my Christmas pot balance and I’m going to be £150 short.  I’ve underestimated a few things and also bought more than I should have. 

Another snacky couple of days in the office.  Can’t seem to break the habit.

Donated to CIN.  So many families worse off than us. 

NSD still 7/15 bought a lot off my lists last 2 days so getting there now. 

Used tcb on purchases but only 1 decent Black Friday deal on a Lego set I wanted for ds.  Anyone had any good bargains? 

ldee2111

NSD 9. 

OH had the car for work today so Mum kindly dropped me and DS at school this morning. 

DS went through one set of gates and I through another… I was supposed to be helping sort winter clothing donations. Turned out I wasn’t needed as the staff had managed to sort it yesterday but forgot to let the PTA know… 

Left the school and walked to the Dr’s surgery to have blood taken… ‘it looks like you don’t need it done today as you had it done in September’… 

Left the Dr’s and walked the mile-ish to Mum’s to help her with some HMRC nonsense…solved the nonsense after a combined 2 hours of horrendous hold music and speaking to 4 different people we finally discovered the issue… they have Mum’s DOB wrong?! How that happened we can’t figure out. Mum has to send them ID so they can rectify the error on their system! Madness. 

Grateful today for not needing blood taken, for a dry day while I walked about the streets in search of something to do 😂, for Mum making tea and toast, and for having £2.50 in points to redeem on tomorrow’s Saneberries shop.

Thrifty_Taylor

Thank you for all your lovely comments about my blanket. The customer was very pleased with it & is wrapping it up for her daughter for Christmas. She also has 2 little boys, so would like ones making for them when they're bigger & she's gathered enough outgrown clothing!

@ldee2111 the tractor run is often recorded, so you'll maybe be able to show it to your DS. It'd be a long way to come to see it in person & too cold to swim over from Scrabster if the boat doesn't sail!!

Had a lovely day. Didn't want to wake up properly, but did eventually & did exercises. Finished my book whilst eating breakfast (have since sold it & 9 others 😊). Took DH for his appointment, delivered the blanket, then picked mum up & went shopping. Bumped into a couple of colleague's, so was nice to see them. Lit a fire after putting the shopping away. Repaired some holes in DS2&3's clothes, & a quick sewing repair for a customer. Unpicked a zip. Why do people not wash items before dropping them off to be fixed?! Both items very ingrained 😔 DH says I should charge more! Washed up after tea, watched a film with DH & did some knitting. Had a red box with malted chocolate spheres alongside me & some sloe gin & lemonade. One happy bunny 😋

Received a lovely comment on a FB post. I'd changed my profile picture back to one from last year.  "the lovely thing is you are blissfully unaware of the lovely energy you give off. That day I saw you in the tearoom I came home and said to mum how you hadn't changed since she worked with you. Always smiling, always positive and always kind. Many can learn from your energy and it's uplifting being around you. X X" Isn't that nice?! 😍 Made my day.

Grateful for kind people, happy customer, good films, good books, time to knit & Friday night treats

hazeldreams

Congrats on the new carpet @BadBookkeeper, love the blanket @Thrifty_Taylor, hope you get your expenses soon @f0xh0les, glad the building work is going well @grandmanerd.

Another manic few days for me, but quickly checking in to report;
- so far only a handful of NSDs (4 I think)
- 10 AFDs
- 4 chocolate free days
- 4 really healthy food days
- YWA x 2 this week, and first combat in 2 months at 8.30am this morning - eek! I'm already aching at the thought of how I'll feel tomorrow!
- night out with OH, sis and bro in law tonight. Looking forward to this - would love to be AF and drive but I'm not sure my resolve is that strong.
- after working the last 2 weekends, I took yesterday afternoon off and it was lush! Work free weekend this weekend too!
- another £200 to the CC bringing it to £1500 ish. Might do another bank switch to shove another £200 over that way too
- GC challenge going well. Still under budget with just one week to go.

Someone mentioned the idea of a cleaning challenge. Not sure if it was this thread or another, but might give that a go. I hate cleaning, but we have the whole clan for xmas day and it would be nice to have a sparkling home to host them in.

Happy Saturday all!

Hazel x