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 chris came down with fire in his belly to sort the house out. he really wants to get rid of the olive tree in the garden, i do not necessarily, but i can also see the bonus in doing so. the garden is about 120ft long, but only about 9ft wide, so the tree takes up a lot of space. the key thing is we really need to build a garage, mostly because on street parking sucks, we don't have much space for storage in the house, and the tiny shed we have is full of camping equipment, but because its so tiny, the camping equipment is also in the airing cupboard, under the stairs, under the attic eaves... you get the picture. 

chris left to take the boys home, i did the dishes, folded some laundry and then took moose down the beach to try out the long lead. he is not sure at all about not being able to roam free! we walked up and down a bit while he went loopy, i had to tie the long line around my waist to counter balance his strength! our neighbour irish john came over with his tiny dog lola, and laura got to hold lola and john made a huge fuss of moose. it was very sweet. 

came home after an hour and finished up the kitchen, then my tesco shop arrived. i have definitely been better about spending the grocery budget since doing the online shop with tesco, as much as i hate to admit it. my food bill has gone from about £120 a week to £80. we aren't really buying snacks and we aren't buying alcohol which is helping, but it's been a bit of a relief to see the spending slow down. unforunately laura forgot to tell me that she had food technology class tomorrow so we had to go to the corner shop to buy fruit for a fruit salad none of us will eat. how fun. 

i decided to spend a couple of hours doing a new cross stitch pattern, here is how far i have got. that was two hours of stitching. its a shame because this is an older kit from the subscription box, and you can really feel that they have downgraded their supplier since then. the aida is much stiffer and the hoop is holding its shape with this kit, which was not the case with the last one i did. another reason to cancel it i suppose. 


watched some youtube while i sewed. i don't seem to have the attention span for a series or a movie at the moment. i just want to dip in and out of things, or have something comforting on. i watched some morgan evelyn cook, a 90 day fiance roast video, and a caleb hammer episode. posted my reading wrap up on my book instagram, then went up to bed early to read, and as much as i hate to admit it, i think i am now invested in celaena sardothien's character arc... 

currently reading: assassin's blade
 
weekly average screen time: 8h 26 min (most used is FB, YT & drop the bloody cat)


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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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 very productive day today. 

walked moose and got 10k steps in, almost broke my back on the ice, met an old lady with blue hair who fell in love with moose, came home and drank three coffees so decided that i should tackle the bedroom. i put away all the laundry, hoovered, sorted the airing cupboard out, sorted out under the bed, sorted out the wires, damp dusted, and changed the bedding. not content, then tackled lauras room, and the kitchen, and did a tesco delivery shop. finally found my switch dock whilst sorting out the airing cupboard, and got it set up after the liverpool game. laura and i spent a couple of hours playing overcooked - incredibly stressful but also fun - and had chicken nuggets and chips for dinner. i then made an apple crumble, because why not. found my water bottle too, so i am more hydrated than i was yesterday. 

finished throne of glass, now waiting for the girls to catch up to me so i can start crown of midnight. in the meantime i am reading alchemised - which i have just found out is over a thousand pages long, so ought to last me three or four days.

i was naughty and bought myself leopard mary jane style crocs... and i got chris a watch because i felt bad that i was only getting myself something. i ony went on amazon so i could buy replacement toothbrush heads for the phillips sonicare toothbrush i found and recharged. 

i am utterly exhausted, so i am going to lie on the sofa and watch the gilgo beach killer: house of secrets because i saw something about it on reddit and play on my phone like the mature adult i am. 

currently reading: alchemised
currently feeling: COLD. 
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 i am now the proud owner of a split dyed fairy mullet. i think next time i go back i will ask her to cut the top shorter again. its such a relief to not feel it touching my face. annoyingly some of my hair is still pretty stained from when i dyed it pink a year ago, this means that my hair is like dark dark brown on one side, and platinum blonde reverse ombre into orange on the other. it looks a bit like a scruffy fox. i also don't understand how it looks more orange since adding extra bleach than it did this morning but there we go. 

walked moose around the park this morning and it snowed. it snowed again whilst i was waiting for the train to town, but sadly nothing has settled. once i had my hair done there was time for a quick stop in m&s for period pants and more white coconut edp (my signature scent), and then i nipped to boots and grabbed some the ordinary granactive retionoid 2% something or other. i am so sick of having bumps along my jawline every 4 weeks - i thought the snail mucin might have done it but honestly i need a proper skincare regimen and also to remember to drink water.

came home and had to get straight into the shower to undo the blowdry from the hairdresser, then laura wanted to play switch so we played some overcooked together - what a frustrating game that is!! very fun but we were both shouting at each other the whole time. made paella for dinner, then parked up on sofa. 

had a hoohah over whether one sip of peppermint and licorice herbal tea breaks a fast or not, determined after some cross words that it did not. 
watched the traitors - i am voting amanda or fiona as secret traitor and hugo is an idiot who shot himself in the foot; i also really like harriet - ate some very good homemade fudge, and am now sat here debating if it's too early to go to bed and carry on reading. i'm 75% done with throne of glass and the two girls i am buddy reading with are on chapter 6... 

i'm gutted i missed the full moon dip tonight. another couple of days and then i can get back in the water. 

currently reading: throne of glass
currently feeling: dehydrated
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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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