Listened to that 13 times in the car today 🙂
For the first time in several weeks the phone has not rung with anyone chasing money and the post brought nothing but Christmas cards and the vouchers for my shiny new laptop which I will be heading out to purchase as soon as Ady arrives home. 🙂
I have spent ages on the phone today though, just as we were leaving the house I had a phonecall from a woman I used to work with years ago. She’s about 60, completely loony, northern and exactly what I would like to be like when I grow up! Spent about an hour on the phone with her catching up on gossip, throwing insults at each other, bitching about people we both know and debating the pros and cons of men and rabbits! Apparantly all she wants for Christmas is a rich and ailing old man to marry! 😉 She told me not to be so bloody stupid about HE and to send ’em off to school so I can drink wine all day and watch daytime TV – and on a bad day she probably has a point! 😉
Headed over to Chris and Julie’s for an Activeo session held there with two other families aswell. The children headed off into the throng and I sat around chatting with Chris and the other two mothers who came. One was the woman who’s little boy always dresses as a girl – she’s lovely as are her children but she is so funny about labelling them and then discussing them at length infront of them. She was debating taking a council flat in a tower block today and saying ‘well it might be awful with all the homophobic beatings that D would be subject to!’. Mind you I suspect if one of my children had quite such an obvious trait I would be inclined to harp on about it all the time before anyone else could too! It was nice to be there with HE folk again though in a group and made me more determined that in the new year I will get more involved in Activeo and try and bring it more over to West Sussex. WAG was obviously not the right thing but Activeo is fairly alternative with lots of automous educators and I notice several new members from Worthing joined when WAG finished so if I organise a couple of events over this way hopefully we can grow that arm of it – all of the socialising and contact making with none of the responsibiilty – result! 🙂
While we were there the children played outside for about an hour, Davies had looked out of our window this morning and seen ice on the sandpit which has no sand and is full of water and wanted to and explore it but I’d said no. So he was delighted to discover ice on the sandpit lid over there and do lots of science-y type stuff with it including smashing it to pieces! So they got lots of fresh air and exercise, plenty of socialising and free – ooh how I ticked those boxes ;-).
Came home via four stops to drop off the last of the deliver by hand Christmas cards – I have two left here now – one for Ros and one for some friends who live the other way which I will probably deliver on the way to Ros’ tomorrow. Listened to Frosty the Snowman another 8 times, I think all three of us know all the words to that now!
Ady has rung me about 20 times today as he was out doing the very last of the Christmas shopping as he was doing Lakeside B&Q today – for anyone who does not know Lakeside is the shopping mecca of the South probably – it’s just the northern side of the Dartford Tunnel and is the destination of many an Essex lottery winner ;-), so was able to brave Argos, ELC and Toys R Us on my behalf :-). He managed to totally finish all our Christmas shopping which is – with the exception of the year I had Tarly when I was organised for Christmas by October in preparation for birthin’ in December – the most organised and stressfree it’s ever been – hurrah for being poor! 😉
As soon as Ady arrived home I headed off to PCWorld to redeem the insurance vouchers which arrived this morning and this blog post is brought to you with my new shiny, so small and pocket sized it looks like something Ros would have laptop :-). Love it! And no it’s not an ibook – I decided I was not in the mood to be learning new operating systems and all and it has been very straightforward to set up – it asked me whether I wanted to connect to the wireless connection it detected and the most arduous task has been copying across the address book from the laptop – which has necessitated a further cull! 😉
Arrived home with my pretty little box to find my mother here making sarcastic comments about how my lifestyle hasn’t changed much considering our new financially challenged state – WTF!!! – shortly replaced by our friend Bruce who had brought over some pressies for the children.
Job list for the week is going well – mince pies to be made tomorrow before heading over to Ros’ for mince pies and carols 🙂 Present wrapping in the evening and then we have two days at home to do present and card making / abusive mother yelling at children to leave me the hell alone while I play with my new laptop!!
so what is it then? I’m disappointed, thought you were going to join me and Ros in iBook adoration – never mind though, as long as you can blog, and IM, I’m happy 😉
Comment by Sarah — 20 December 2005 @ 10:26 pm
grin… couldn’t wait for the sales then!
Comment by Merry — 20 December 2005 @ 11:00 pm
Stuff the sales! This was URGENT!!!!
Can’t wait to see you tomorrow. I’m feeling crap and need a decent drinking buddy. The only wine we have is French stuff 🙂 If this isn’t ok- bring your own!
Christmas music/ DVD/videos also please to add to the pile.
Comment by Roslyn — 20 December 2005 @ 11:38 pm
Oh, I love new laptops. I wish they came coloured though. I fancy a purple or and orange one.
Comment by Joyce — 21 December 2005 @ 7:58 am
Coloured would be so cool!
Comment by Roslyn — 21 December 2005 @ 8:08 am
You have resisted the dark-side, I am immensely proud of you. What did you get then?
Comment by Chris — 21 December 2005 @ 8:19 am
funnily enough the one you linked to Chris – http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/956042
I compared about 4 and it was between the one they recommended a HP and this one, when I went in to look at them I preferred this cos its smaller and prettier (I know, I’m shallow!)
But best of all cos I was supposed to pay a £60 excess the vouchers were worth £839, the laptop was £799 and I got a protective sleeve for a tenner, which meant that I got £30 worth of vouchers as change! 🙂
Comment by Nic — 21 December 2005 @ 8:35 am
Excellent. I am now nervous that it will go kaput and I shall get the blame from the Mac fans – or even the Macca fans.
Comment by Paul McCartney — 21 December 2005 @ 9:43 am
Are we mulling Ros? Do you need any mulling stuff?
Rest assured Paul it was not just on the basis that you said it was the only one you’d buy from there – as I said, it looked pretty too! 😉
Comment by Nic — 21 December 2005 @ 10:13 am
Mulled made 🙂 Just bring mince pies as I haven’t got any!
Comment by Roslyn — 21 December 2005 @ 11:17 am
been baking ’em all morning 🙂
Comment by Nic — 21 December 2005 @ 12:27 pm
sorry but no, the shopping mecca of the South is Bluewater. Kent definitely has the edge 😉 Having said that I went to Lakeside for the first time in about 5 years the other week and it has got slightly better than it was when I gave up going. Any lottery wins would definitely have to be Bluewater though, we have designer shops there don’t you know 😉 😀 And it doesn’t have TRU which is a huge bonus!
Comment by SallyM — 21 December 2005 @ 4:36 pm
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Comment by Nic — 21 December 2005 @ 9:01 pm