Frugaleers Frolick Frugally through February

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mammy girls is ok. The main girl (Hannah?) annoyed me though.

Omg wreck pop tarts sound great.

snuggly I just feel wiped out. Am out of bed now on the couch. Felt a bit sicky earlier so didn't eat anything which made it worse. Am making rice cooked with chicken stock and peas and a smudge of cheese (my go to day off sick food). Hoping that helps.

Have drunk a lot of water though and am staying off the tea and coffee.

After the soup I can't be bothered to do the sauce will do it at the weekend! I would be surprised if mine like it tbh.

Any recommendations on easy viewing boxsets?
Thanks em I thought that character would get annoying alright but I'll watch a couple of episodes to see what I think anyhow.

mammy im currently watching Gilmore girls on Netflix. Sadly I'm don't seem to be the "easy viewing" fan. A lot of the things we've watched are a bit heavy:

Breaking bad
Orange is the new black
Stranger things
Better call Saul
Narcos
The man in the high castle

mammy I have amazon prime, and watch, well listen to stuff while I work from home. Liking non-highbrow historical stuff I watch Black Sails (Toby Stephens is really rather dishy good in it), and Outlander (um, lots of kilts). Have yet to tackle The Man In The High Castle, as this looks complicated.

Spent £25 amazon on a fence post driver. Does what is says on the tin.
And about £25 in tescos on things I forgot yesterday, dishwasher tabs mostly. Have eaten a whole bag of Ritz thins (s&v), feel a bit sick now!
Oh, and £195 on dd1's picollo. The bloke in the music shop wouldn't let me pay for it until dd was sure she wanted it!

We've been watching the affair but I wouldn't say it's easy watching. It's a bit slow, we haven't watched it for a while. Love NCIS for a nice easy watch Ds is currently watching room on the broom if that's of any interest?!

I must of read Room on the broom a thousand times (like many parents). Do any of you get twitchy that the pace is slow on the cartoons? I read them like Dr Suess, rattle through with barely a pause, I like the rhythm that way. Loved the Revolting Rhymes at Christmas too, but kept getting told off for doing the next line before the wolf!

Yes! Especially with RotB as you build up speed as the dragon comes

Yes I know what you mean mean, some books just have a fast rhythm. It's all about the Snail and the Whale here at the moment!

Happy anniversary Need,
NSD here today. Not feeling too good and it's heavy rain so feet up on sofa.
Hope you feel better soon. It's a good idea to take the day off and rest. You are growing another little person after all. Why do you think it's a girl?

knitting yes I wasn't that keen on that series of books. For rhyming I must preferred the Usborne apple tree farm ones and fat cat on mat and all that set. Fortunately after a brief period of room on a broom we got onto non-rhyming books, which was a great relief to me.

I want to watch Series 1 of 'The Missing' as we watched series 2 at end of last year, but I'd better wait for dh for that.

I am open to series like those you named too but also looking for something 30mins or so, for evenings where I'm too tired to wag

I'm part of a facebook group for Unislim and someone mentioned that she's always tired, grand while she is on the go but once she stops wiped out. Another girl recommended red box of Korean Ginseng from Tesco €7 for a month's supply. It definitely looks like it could help me but might be useful to cag & need maybe all of us!

Korean Ginseng WebMD Link

I've read Jack & The Beanstalk 3 nights in a row now they've lots of other books but love the old ones like The Three Little Pigs/Sleeping Beauty etc

Inspired by scientist frugaleers we took DD to a science centre today. Was a nice time out and likely to be our only paid trip out this week

£26 entrance fee
DP bought lunch which was yummy on the way home

I'm currently into Grey's anatomy but only on season 8. Love Scandal and the Good Wife too. I'm a bit behind on box sets which means I can obsessively watch numerous seasons.

Slowly watching Game of Thrones (season 3) and the Blacklist (which is improving) with DP. I really don't get the hype of GoT but normally only half watch it and do the ironing so we can spend time together

Happy Anniversary need

Em I don't think you're allowed to move cats off beds. It's all kind of wrong.

NSD.

Netflix -
Grace and Frankie (brilliant)
The good wife (brilliant)
How to get away with murder (pretty good, I enjoyed it)
Braking bad (essential viewing)
Kimmy Schmidt (very funny)

On amazon prime
Family in pieces (very funny and only 30mins long)

So the dreaded brown envelope of doom came - they awarded me 2 points for reading, and 0 for everything else, so no PIP. Cried my eyes out for ages but DH perked me up again. He is going to call tomorrow to get the ball in motion for mandatory reconsideration. The decision letter is atrocious, it's completely wrong and they copied and pasted the same two sentences about 3 times in different places . They said I can't have trouble with any of the things I have trouble with because I am "intelligent" and because I take a "moderate amount of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication and have no specialist input" . Even though they parrot out that what your diagnosis and medication are doesn't matter as it's all about how your disability actually affects you. They also said they made their decision based off the 'how your disability affects you' form and the report written by the lady from Capita who did my assessment. Except I sent in pages and pages and pages of supporting info with the original form, in the same envelope, but they haven't wrote down that they used it to make their decision, so they clearly never read any of it. I'm talking consultant report with my Asperger's diagnosis, GP letter, GP records, prescription lists, ed psychs dyslexia report and much more. Erghhhh so tired of all this crap.

Spends today: £10 on a pole fitness class that I turned out not to enjoy very much anyway because instructor was focusing on choreo again and kept wanting us to freestyle but I can't dance at all so found that just stressful and awkward.
£1 contribution to taxis for the class.

Then I got wet walking home in the rain and I despise the rain as being wet makes me feel awful for sensory reasons which makes me anxious. So yeah, not a good day.

Happy anniversary Need.

Netflix recommendations from me:
Jane the Virgin (DH and I are partway through this)
Friends (classic)
How to Get Away with Murder
Call the Midwife (that's what I'm mostly watching atm)
All the Louis Theroux documentaries

Sorry to hear you had a hard day Meadow. It does sound very frustrating. Nice that they think you are doing well at least, I suppose.

No reason why we think it's a girl. We just do. We both just have the feeling.
Not that it matters either way.

I didn't boot the cat off the bed. She stayed on bed and I got up about lunchtime.

Sorry to hear about the rubbish day meadow

Back home again now. Had a horrible journey last night/this morning as the M5, M6 and M61 were all closed in places for roadworks so we didn't get back until 3.40 am. Still, no work today so we were able to have a lie in.
Have made bolognese this afternoon, so spag Bol with garlic bread for tea and plenty left for a lasagne to freeze or to have at the weekend.
Our pc crashed this morning but we've got a friend who is great with all matters IT so he's taken it away to hopefully sort out. It may be a loose connection as it happened when I moved the base unit. It'll cost us nothing more than a home made cake hopefully.
Dh has spent a few hours putting together the desk and chair that arrived today for the loft room.
Going to do some more squares for my quilt project today.

Oh dear Meadow, that so horrible. A lot of people win at appeal I believe so it's definitely worth appealing. I think the trouble is you don't know exactly what they are looking for and I'm not sure they do either, that's the problem.
Hope you're feeling better Em. Sounds like catface won the bed, then.
Snuggly, you must be due soon. Are you having a planned C section? Hope you are ok. You sound amazingly normal to me. Don't think I would be with a 2 year old and "nearly twins" .

Sorry you had such a rubbish day meadow

I've just sat and cried at the tv. For seemingly no reason at all. So the hormones have kicked in then!!

Meadow sorry to hear that it must be horrible for you. I hope the appeal is sorted quickly.

Em I cried when a slow driver pulled over to let me go past and when everyone pulled over for an ambulance I also complained to Dh that there was hardly any meat on the rotisserie chicken when he informed me that I had it upside down. Pregnancy does funny things to you!

Sorry to hear about your rubbish day, Meadow. Hope you can successfully appeal.

Trying I only have a couple of weeks to go. I am extremely uncomfortable, my skin is so tight over the bump and turning over in bed is a major operation. I think the QE2 has a smaller turning circle! I am starting to stress about how we'll cope, in particular the logistics of going anywhere and if we are ever going to sleep again! I'm also worried about DD. She has been a delight lately and very understanding when mummy falls asleep on the settee every afternoon!! She's really excited about the babies but I think she might struggle with the reality of tired parents who suddenly have to spread their attention out. Expect we'll muddle through!

North I'm afraid the M6 is going to get worse before it gets better, J10 is closing soon for major roadworks. I am avoiding it, I currently don't have the bladder capacity to get held up in traffic!

£3.75 hospital parking and £6 I think on coffee and cake. I wasn't actually paying any attention to how much it cost, I'm not with it today at all!

Hope you are feeling better, Em?

Yes thanks snuggly I'm ok. Apart from feeling sad. I just cried telling dh. I think maybe I wasn't prepared for how I'd feel (who would be if is all new and unknown?) so am not sure how to react.

I'm going to the doctors tomorrow morning so will speak to them about all of the feels. So many feels today. A bit much to cope with!

Nsd though. So on the plus side I didn't go crazy and spend because I was emosh!