Chip Chip Hooray!!

Chip_Hazard

Cheers Z, it's a nice thought but I'm afraid the club will adopt the approach I'm predicting....:rolleyes:

Cheap night out tonight. Played skittles and spent £3.40 in total ( one pint plus £1 subs ). Earlier, spent £19.00 on petrol.

Had a phone call at teatime. The catalogue start date has been brought forward ten days so I'm starting tomorrow. :eek: He's promised me 2,575 this time round with the possibility of more if I finish earlyish...:j . This is good news as if I start earlier, I'll get paid earlier...:D

ZTD

Chip_Hazard wrote: »

Cheers Z, it's a nice thought but I'm afriad the club will adopt the approach I'm predicting....:rolleyes:

Then they freeze out all those volunteers who can't afford £300 on top of a season ticket on top of their time.

Chip_Hazard

Long old day today...

Spent £12.00 on petrol, £13.09 on shopping and £10.49 on 9 Easter eggs. I bought a medium and a small egg for each child ( so that's eight ) and the ninth was part of a "three for a fiver" offer so I bought one for myself.

Diet went quite well today although had a small box of Maltesers tonight. I'm off now for three days, I'll have to start the catalogues on Monday though. I picked the first 375 up this morning and I'll get the other 2,200 on Wednesday / Thursday next week.

Few jobs to keep me out of mischief tomorrow morning then off to Yeovil for football at lunchtime, picking my gorgeous boys up on the way.:j

Chip_Hazard

Football today so spent £2.00 on car parking, £1.00 on lottery ticket, £1.50 on a cuppa soup and £2.50 on a programme. Also spent £2.96 on two Easter cards for my good friends who usually bring treats for the boys...:D

We won 2-1 so it made for an all-round good day. :j

bluebells_2

Hmm Chocolate, why is it every one has had an easter egg in this house and i aint ? I wonder if someones trying to tell me something !

Chip_Hazard

Almost a no spend day today. Just the £7.00 of petrol ( bit short till Tuesday...:mad: ).

Been a quiet day today. DS2 had a party to go to and when we got there, they invited DS3 to join in but he didn't really want to.... . Kids, eh? Ended up staying in for most of the day.

binnie

You seem a really nice man Chip. So glad you take responibility for your kids.
Some don't and I think it's great how you can spend quality time with them.

I enjoyed reading your diary and look forward to reading more when you update it.
:A

bestmumof3

binnie wrote: »

You seem a really nice man Chip. So glad you take responibility for your kids.
Some don't and I think it's great how you can spend quality time with them.

I enjoyed reading your diary and look forward to reading more when you update it.
:A

Me too; I always think it makes really nice pleasant reading.

Especially when every penny is accounted for - most of the spending is stuff for the kids and their football and stickers etc. There is no indulgent spending.

Chip_Hazard

Thanks binnie and bestmumof 3.... kind of you to say so.

As for the indulgent spending, I haven't ever spent a lot on myself, mainly because I've not had that much. Still don't nowadays sometimes, being self-employed, money is either plentiful or non-existent, normally the latter. I've got £7 now to last me till Tuesday morning, that'll be a £1 for bread for sandwiches, £2 for football stickers and maybe a fiver if I go to the pub quiz tonight. If their Mum lets them stay an extra day because of Easter, then the quiz will be out and I'll have another fiver...

I have two older children ( boy of 16 and girl of 12 ) and when they were younger, I worked a 12-hour day, six days a week. On Sundays, I would go off and play golf so I spent very little time with them. My ex-wife left and took the kids and to be honest, I deserved it. That was twelve years ago this month and I vowed at the time that I'd learn my lesson.:rolleyes:

Met someone else and we had the twins but we split up in 2005 after several "almost split-ups". Ever since then, I've remembered what happened before. It will be three years in May we've been apart and I've had the boys every single weekend since. I'm not trying to bad-mouth their Mum ( but it's going to sound like I am ) but she has let them meet five different men since then :eek: so I've tried to make their experience with me a touch more stable. I met someone last year but I'd known her for seven months before I let her meet the boys. A year ago last week, because my time with them was under threat, I went to court to get parental responsibility, a contact order and joint residency. I managed the first two but not the last but at least I tried...:o . My rel'ship finished in November and I'm more than happy in my own company nowadays. The boys come to football at Yeovil with me every other weekedn, I take them to football training every week and to partied they're invited to. They're like my right hand men now....:D

Sorry for the long post, it was meant to be a couple of sentences to explain the devotion thingy. It goes to prove that a good thing can come from a bad thing.:T

twinklie

Well done Mr Hazard anyway.
I know people that would love the excuse to escape their parental responsibilities given half a chance (the joys of being a teacher), and you sound like an ideal dad. You clearly love em anyway, and if it's that obvious to us, it must be very obvious to them!!!

It drives me bonkers to know that people have kids and don't want them. I'm on my high horse a bit after spending the night with a friend after her 3rd miscarriage. She's such a good mum and just wanted a bro or a sis for the little girl. But alas no. Still, her husband is fantastic and very supportive. Just hope it doesn't affect them.