Confessions of a very tired old styler. Please join in.

Apricot

My confessions:
The lid won't fit on the washing basket because there is so much stuff in there (I live alone)
My bf wrote me a message on the bathroom mirror in the steam - six weeks ago - when he mentioned it I told him I just wanted to remember him when Im in the bath.
I went shopping today, frozen & fridge stuff has been put away - non perishables are sitting on the kitchen floor (im hoping they'll put themselves away)
I hoovered the living room on Tuesday - hoover is still in the living room, still plugged in.
Lastly (for today anyway) even though I have been shopping, it tired me out so much that I have just ordered a pizza (no dishes to do) and am laying on the sofa on MSE.

Omg when I read that back it sounds really bad but it still hasn't motivated me to do anything.

purpleivy

princessleah_ wrote: »

My confessions:
The lid won't fit on the washing basket because there is so much stuff in there (I live alone)
My bf wrote me a message on the bathroom mirror in the steam - six weeks ago - when he mentioned it I told him I just wanted to remember him when Im in the bath.
I went shopping today, frozen & fridge stuff has been put away - non perishables are sitting on the kitchen floor (im hoping they'll put themselves away)
I hoovered the living room on Tuesday - hoover is still in the living room, still plugged in.
Lastly (for today anyway) even though I have been shopping, it tired me out so much that I have just ordered a pizza (no dishes to do) and am laying on the sofa on MSE.

Omg when I read that back it sounds really bad but it still hasn't motivated me to do anything.

bad? Bad? You sound normal to me. Except I never order Pizza. The only reason I don't do that is cos I'm not that keen!

Mags_cat

The only thing I have ironed this year has been......

.....my rememberance poppy :eek:

(Before you all shout at me, it wasn't last years! The one I bought this year had got crumpled while attached to my coat and I was going to an important meeting - I just didn't have time to get a new one. I made an extra donation to make up for it.)

My clothes? Naaaaah - I buy things that don't need ironing :rotfl:

charlies_mum

Handknitted a jumper and realised that I had knitted a cuff on one sleeve and not the other. Asked a friend if she could tell, and she said no, but she could tell I had sewn one sleeve on inside out :eek:

Can't be bothered to unpick it so am wearing it and telling everyone it is the design :rotfl:

Bargain_Rzl

Mags_cat wrote: »

The only thing I have ironed this year has been......

.....my rememberance poppy :eek:

(Before you all shout at me, it wasn't last years! The one I bought this year had got crumpled while attached to my coat and I was going to an important meeting - I just didn't have time to get a new one. I made an extra donation to make up for it.)

Mine was last year's :eek: Though don't get me wrong, I did later slip a donation into the pot without taking a poppy, to make up for it. I needed to have one to wear on my choir robe on Remembrance Day morning, and for the 5 minutes I was in Sainsbury's the previous day, it completely slipped my mind even though I know they have the blue boxes on the tills!. When I got home I found last year's poppy, so thought "well that'll do... provided I make the appropriate donation at some point".

ampersand

smeeinnit wrote: »

I have found that I am spectacularly good and being really busy, doing things that avoid the ummm housework. For example a couple of weeks ago I made some sloe and apple jelly, turned out beautifully. Laundry basket untouched of course...and now I have made the jelly I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with it as its meant to complement game...which I don't eat.....procrastination at its best lol

Laundry basket still mostly untouched and overflowing....

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So glad this Thread is still up and about...or should we say happily stalled?
Much friendlier and surely more accurate.
Just underlined and emboldened enough to say I Inspired That T-shirt
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Must add my own congratulations to blackcrow for an exemplary first post.
Permission or no, I've already sent it to the '5 old style pleasures in your day' Thread. Some of us, I now see, are on both.
What does THAT say?

Especially gratifying is the arrival of early entries for the 2009 Seasonal Fruitbowl Challenge.

I insist I won last year's, especially with photo so large I wrecked page size.
I am unable to offer a photo of this year's fruitbowl, it being completely concealed and very possibly fruitless in all but name.
Of course, this may not be so - 'lurker' may well have a new definition.
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Stop Press:
Just went out and had a look - FRUITBOWL QUALIFICATION RATIFIED.
Fruitbowl contains 6 bars of 'LINDT EXCELLENCE.DARK NOIR/ORANGE INTENSE - fine dark chocolate with pieces of ORANGE and ALMOND slivers.'
[I must inform Jeannette Winterson that oranges ARE the only fruit.]
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In the meantime, it also harbours:
-John Humphreys' Lost for Words[a great Poundland buy last week]
-Box of M&S chocs[they're for a.n.other...so far]
-3 choc Advent calenders to send to a.n.other[who pleaded choc w/d d.t.'s on Skype last week]
-cod liver oil capsules,
-non-smoker's chewing gum[what???when???how???]
-an XXX Historical Society's report, now a Listed Document[it's been there 4 years]
-one New Zealand shoelace
-assorted paperclips
-7 used stamps[kept for a Charity, but haven't found one yet]
-2 prescription tablet blister packs[one used up]
-1 new pack to be started tomorrow, still in bag
-unopened official NZ letters from over 2 years back, since superseded
-a pre-digital Canon camera with unfinished film still in
-brown parcel tape
-clear sellotape
-various printed out recipes for chocolate beetroot cakes and muffins[they were superb]
-an elderly Grauniad giveaway OS map,
-handwritten 7-page letter to N, unsent,headed: wee small hours, 3-ish, samedi 14 juin,2008'
-'Win a Honda 1.4 Civic Hybrid' entry form - doubt that I've won.
-Quilted Liberty glasses case
-Boite au sucre, pleine
-reel of pink gift ribbon
-empty vintage morocco leather photo frame
-flattened roll of kitchen towels
-a cuttle fish
-a long teal emery board
-a neon yellow highlighter
-green post-it pad
-2 Carrefour loyalty key fobs
-an s-hook
-receipts, various[receipt spike is about 28cms' distant]
-paper slips for book values
-French autoroute paper towels
-Archaeology Events calender 2009[Current, so scores Brownie Point]
-Leaflet for The Gibberd Garden
-leaflet for The Devil's Dyke
-3 photos of Big Boy pheasant on roof - 3 years ago.
-blank postcard -'Au Pays des Oliviers'
-Collins Streetfinder Glasgow - put it there on return, early May.
.......that's more or less it.
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No room for fruit.......
[I'm going to eat one of the Lindt's now - 3 for £1 @ ThingMeBobs]with Chai tea.
'Night all.

Agapanthus

OK. I haven't ironed clothes in 39 years of marriage. What's this all about? It's perfectly simple to buy clothes that don't need ironing. Years ago, I gave my family the choice: iron it yourself or go crumpled. Without hesitation, they all chose to go crumpled, so I thought, if they don't care, why should I?

As to cobwebs, I live in a cottage with beams. Twenty times as many corners for cobwebs as most houses have. I've long contended that the cobwebs are structural: if I remove them, the house will fall down. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I try to cook from scratch, but there are times when it just isn't possible. I haven't even got the excuse of children at home - mine have grown up and left. I'm retired and still can't always retain a grip. Don't dare enquire about the mould in the fridge - there are more interesting things to do, for heavens sake!

babyshoes

My confession? The house is so bad the OH has stopped bugging me to sort it out and has started bugging me to get a cleaning service in!

dogcat_2

I Looooove this thread...it has me in stitches.:D.....thing is I can sooo relate to it.!!:eek::rolleyes:

Bargain_Rzl

Flipping heck, ampersand... HOW big's your fruit bowl? :eek: