What is the difference between snowmen and snow women? Snowballs! It’s countdown to Christmas thread 5!

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45! ( from midnight. Three glasses of wine and a tub of pringles means I’m falling asleep!!)

I just want to buy stuff. But I have nothing to buy. Sad times!

OMG! I just managed to get an online shop slot for 21st Dec!! They're usually only released for the week ahead, but they must have just released all of Dec, so when I went in to do tomorrow's shop, I got lucky and stuck a basket of usuals in for 21st as well. So we'll have milk, bread and fruit/veg at least, and I can now mess around with that depending on what we need, and avoid the supermarket that weekend! YAY!!

Yay! Well done. 😁

Well done Biddy!
I have a cleaner too my dh LOL he is such a hoarder so he should really do the cleaning it is only fair !
Have been for a nice long walk today but came home bloody ravenous and scoffed and scoffed !
Fluffs you are so lucky you have finished buying
Sprout you too! I need a kick up the backside
Fridge glad pay day is tomoz for you my dear and you can finish off your pressies
Hairspray work is good for the deliveries lol well done great plan!
I have ordered 2 birthday bouquets for my mums friends off her
a metal detector for my db off my mum as well
my DSIS 65th birthday is Sun so I bought her a lovely afternoon tea for 2 at Gliffaes in Cwmdu for my dm to give her too and got mum 5 cards from card factory, a very detailed list, one for Bighead, a funny one, one for Molly who is 14 and has special needs bless her she's a lovely girl.... her words not mine , 2 for dsis ....naice ones by naice she means very flowery and vomit inducing at the amount of cheesiness they contain , the more cheese the better my DM likes them and one for Doris , this is a friend from dancing,( no dancing anymore just gossip and tea and raffles,) who she doesn't know her last name and doesn't know where she lives and I had to work a miracle and find her last name and address to send the flowers and card to her ( how good a friend can she be I ask myself) so have been busy but nothing done for myself . Tonight I finally found Midnight caller episodes on you tube. I have been looking for years for them , the opening music is fantastic, I am over the moon !
Take care everyone hope all feeling better today

Wanders into Brand New Day

Leaves this ...31... here

Bum what happened to my bold?

31

Holding doesn't like to be attached to other punctuation, 70!

It's crazy how fast it's going and that it's December next week!

Bolding, even. Autocorrect gets me!

Day 31
I am up early looking at the black Friday deal watching a xmas film, Naughty or Nice and trying to get going!
I have to get my behind in the dining room somehow and get cracking but ......... the mind is willing but the flesh is weak espseh having to wrap all the sweeties and chocs ......So I have to avoid the food today as well hey ho this will be a fun day lol
I hope all are well today and get loadsa bargains
take care all , I think it is Rudolph day tomoz???

No shopping for me today unless you count the apple juice I've just bought . Off to DD1's graduation later.

I'm calm about Christmas - it's everything else that is stressing me out.

I set an alarm (on my old fitness tracker, so a vibrate, not a shouty one!) at midnight last night to get my Sainsbury's slot for 21st Dec. I'm doing the same again on Sat night to get a 23rd Dec one!

23rd is the day of shopping: collection from M&S and Booths and hopefully the Sainsbury's delivery! Anything which doesn't get delivered we can collect from Booths. 😁

I cleaned the dining room carpet last night as we've moved the table into the middle of the room and you can see the track from door to the hall to the kitchen door where we used to walk round it! I think it'll need another going over tonight, so my job at lunch is to find the nearest Tesco and buy more cleaner!

Then tomorrow I need to make sure DH does the sealant in the bathroom as it's driving me mad now. So hard to get him to do stuff at home! Typical builder! 🙈😂

I just booked festive afternoon tea for me DM and DAunt for before the ballet, on the 9th, then we are going for a cocktail master class in a tres chic bar round the corner!

Right I'm almost done. Need to get my sister and bil theirs. They want Harry Potter tea towels so will see if the primark near Tottenham park corner has them when I go to London in a couple of weeks.

Ds' birthday cake is baking and I've just wrapped his presents

I just slept through most if not all of it as well!

I've just ordered the new sleeping bag I need for DD (her old one is falling apart, zip no longer works - but she still sleeps in it most nights on top of her bed...). So now her "old" proper camping one can migrate to the bed, and the new one will be for camping (earlier in the year and for far longer with Scouts than Cubs (or me) so it needs to be better!).

I may have added a couple of stocking fillers, mostly intentioned for me...(one was reduced and the other was seriously handy that I hadn't seen before).

The other thing I am looking for is interesting BBQ tools - I have re-instated a project in my head to make a useful BBQ apron (DH will go spare at me starting a new project - but I have all the bits, I just need to cut and sew it, 2 nights, MAX!).

Last night, I did nothing on the house - I cooked dinners, cleared away afterwards, organised the Cubs Hike tomorrow, peeled potatoes (for our Thanksgiving turkey dinner tonight), read to DD in bed, and slobbed in front of the tv for half an hour when DH got in.

After the hike tomorrow, I have more clearing in the spare room to get to, and I need to get myself organized to send a parcel overseas as that has to go next week. So I need to buy 1 more present urgently (for a new baby so relatively straightforward), and sew 1 seam on a crayon roll (10 minutes - 8 of those setting up the machine!). DD and I might go to a garden centre on our way back from the hike though, for her to get a few things, or we might meet DH for lunch/afternoon coffee & cake somewhere.

I think I need to make a list of parcels I am expecting too - the credit card has taken an online splurge this week (all on it's own - imagine !!). And some I ordered a while back from the US are slow getting here - I think 4 Christmas present and clothes parcels and my food shopping for delivery tonight....I'd better buy some chocs for the service officers too....

I feel tired just thinking about how busy you are, Biddy!

I'm excited!

Our estate is doing advent windows. I am going to decorate ours with pom poms and paper snowflakes and some fairy lights. Hoping that will pass muster!

Someone scraped my car. I've only had it a week 😭😭😭

Fridge that sounds lovely! I'm going to put our lights in our window next week. The only thing is when they're in the window I don't actually get to see them 🤔

Oh no, Wreck! Did you see who?

I get the glow from our lights round the window. Can't see the actual lights though!

Yes it was a man in a white van I was in the car at the time but didn't realise he scraped it. I live off of back roads and we were passing but it was really tight. Just one of those things I suppose but it's a brand new car! Will have to get it sorted.

Rudolf day tomorrow!

Not feeling too good this evening so may have to be a super early night again

Wreck that’s awful. Did the van have any company writing on it?

I am finally feeling well which is a relief as I hate being ill.
I am having a quiet night tonight ready for braving Cardiff tomorrow for the rugby. Fingers crossed for Wales ladies!

Ouch Wreck that's a git .
Any chance of CCTV in the area? Any of your NDN got security cameras?

We're 30 days now.
Rudolph Day - the last Rudolph Day of 2017 which should mean I have planned things (I haven't)

DH ordered his Christmas Present on Black Friday (no idea what it is, I know it a tech thing)

I ordered myself a silver CZ dress ring

Shopping with my DD tomorrow - she has A List

It was literally a single track road and we were in a passing bay, no road lines, street lights etc. No writing on the van. I think it's just one of those things and now I'm doubting myself as to whether or not I was my fault as I'm not sure when exactly it happened and if I was moving at the time. Oh well.

Taking dd to see little mix today, am going with a friend and her two dds then afterwards we're going to drive through London to look at the lights!

Ooh, A List, 70?! I've not worked off one of those for ages. I have a random, scattergun, approach! I buy far too much from the bargain thread

Enjoy LM, Wreck. I've heard they put on a good show!