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i was watching a caleb hammer video and one of the guests just said "if they cant catch you what is the point" and i have got NO idea what it is supposed to mean.

today has been a bit of a wet blanket all the way through. laura's dad brought her home last night at almost 8pm, so she had to go to bed pretty much straight away. she'd had a filling so when she woke up this morning i checked in with her, gave her some painkillers and sent her to school. i got a message about five minutes after she'd left demanding to know why i'd sent her in, and then spent all day thinking that she had rung him to moan about me, which really hurt my feelings. came home, and asked to see her phone. she'd text him to say SHE WAS FEELING BETTER. so i sent him a photo of his own text exchange with her and just said "this is why i sent her in". he was obviously poking for a reaction and i just cannot deal with the fact that we have been broken up for almost a decade and he STILL tries to manipulate any situation to get a rise out of me.

training day 2 was good - although one of the computer based courses didn't work for me, so i have to do it again tomorrow. annoyingly its one of the older training videos so they insist on it reading the text out to you and you can't skip until its finished but i read about 15x faster than the voice speaks. argh.

made chicken beer camel for dinner. laura tried to read the word bechamel off the meal plan and failed. much giggling ensued. spaghetti, white cheese sauce, chicken. simples. spent an hour with her having a laugh and a chat about things, did the washing up. i have taught chris about OHIO and he is almost getting it, but not with washing up his dinner items. i did use it to finally put away a load of laundry today though! and i have had the tumble dryer going ALL DAY but everything is still damp and i have no idea why. pulled the trap out of the machine and flooded the kitchen but there was nothing stuck in it, so that was a waste of time. 

then i got advertised to! i was influenced. A pattern I have saved on my Etsy went on sale from £5 to £1.50... and I bought it :( I didn't need it! I have loads of kits to get through. But it was a dragon asleep on a bookshelf. And now I have regrets because upon opening the pattern, it's clearly from a pattern mill (AI) and has soooo much confetti that its going to be a right pain to stitch. Gah. Absolutely my own fault, I should have zoomed in because if you look closely you can tell. Plus the thumb nails don't match. I might try and stitch it up anyway because apparently I don't hate myself enough.  

sleeping dragon cross stitch

my feed is full of people decluttering. its very satisfying watching people throwing things out but i am rocked every time by just how much STUFF people have. like i have three or four large doom boxes (ikea kallax box size) and i should probably reorganise my shed and attic eaves... but thats about it? whereas these people seem to have basements and attics and garages full of stuff that they just don't need? and the closests. give me strength. the consumption is wild. 

my book club is going strong. i am posting something snarky for every chapter i am reading and very much enjoying doing so. going to stop looking at bad screens now so i can look at good screen instead (kindle) under giant blanket. i wish i had the money for the new miffy fruit blanket from the oodie. its so cute.  

currently reading: crown of midnight
currently: freezing even though the heating is at 19.5C and is bankrupting me

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i took the loan. it came through this morning and i promptly paid off four credit cards, and the skip and transferred the rest to savings. feel very pleased about it as it will save me about £45 a month. i then went into overdrive mode on sorting out the finances for 2026, and treated myself to a new spreadsheet set up from etsy. it's got everything including a net worth tracker, investment calculator, automated emergency fund target, debt snowball calculator, monthly budgeting and transactions and two different annual overviews. it has made me very happy. i've decided to put £25 into investments each month from the £45 i was saving by not paying the credit cards. hopefully i've picked smart funds!

took moose for a walk to work on his training. he was less pully than usual and quicker to "leave" other dogs, but he wouldn't sit for anything. i think he doesn't want a cold bum because he hates sitting on the tiles in the house too and is more likely to respond to you if you ask him to sit when he is on the rug. 

i cleared out the majority of the upstairs landing although i still need to finish vacuum packing things away and putting them in the top cupboard. it looks a lot bigger. the whole of the house looks bigger since taking down the christmas stuff. i'm going to need to start building a list of things that i want to do to make it snug again, starting with painting the wall my desk is against, and getting my gallery wall and skulls up. i don't think many people would say that skulls are snug, but i kind of like them interspersed with the cross stitch and silly quotes. 

wanted to play switch with laura this afternoon but i can't find my switch dock anywhere, so that is something i will have to dig through the airing cupboard for tomorrow. we ended up propping my switch up on the table and connecting both sets of joycons to it and played lego harry potter for an hour. it was pretty good fun!  made dinner (haha, i didn't make anything at all, i just dug a bag of some chicken pasta concoction out of the freezer) and then decided to make fudge. very pleased to report it has set for once, although my arm is absolutely killing me from beating the daylights out of it for 14 minutes. ouch. 

laura and i then watched the traitors, i read a thread about how george r r martin will never release winds of winter, and now i am sat here. chris has just come down for an electrolyte pill being two days into his seven day fast, and asked me what i am doing tonight. i told him i was going to be reading throne of glass, and he was pleased because it means he gets to carry on watching boardwalk empire. i would go up to bed to read, but i am in mortal danger of falling asleep and i want to eat fudge!

currently reading: throne of glass
  
current vocal stim: i have thirty thousand dollars of credit card debt (credit card debt)

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