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Shopping in Aldi can reduce the cost of your shop enormously, especially for fruit and veg but for other things as well.

Scout sorry I missed you - I hope you are feeling better now.

I am just back in from taking dd's friend home and then taking dd to the stables. I am frozen to the core but dh has made tea (omlette, chips and beans - Yum!) so it shouldn't be long until I am warmed up again.

Before I went out I was frantically listing on ebay, scheduling them for Sunday night. I am determined to get this clutter out of my house!

I have just shot myself in the foot and I am mortified. Dh's omlette was a sort of greenish colour and I just couldn't eat it. If he did that to me I would be pretty offended. I just knew I wouldn't be able to swallow it. I have a very easily triggered gag reflex and it would not have been pretty (sorry if anyone is eating). I feel soooo bad.

Green eggs and ham?

Sam I am?

Sorry, got caught up in a moment.

MrScout got home early tonight, while I was reading Toddler is bedtime stories so he took over and I made dinner.

I still feel a bit bored and restless.

Maybe you need a night out Scout?

I like the book Green Eggs and Ham, just neither of the actual foods

Dh seems to have forgiven me.

I ended up all shivery and weird and had to take a bath. I think I got chilled at the stables and it made me feel horrid. Either that or I caught something from bessie

I have been listing on ebay, which I count as decluttering as it leads to things leaving the house.

I need to tackle the house with four guns blazing. But I'm slowly doing things. A little too slowly.

I'd like to go out with friends, sans MrScout and Toddler. I just don't see it happening any time soon since MrScout is rarely home before 9. I can't justify a babysitter to go out in the evening alone (which is what some of my Guiding friends thought I should do so I could keep on with Guides -- get a babysitter each week).

I think a babysitter to go and do Guides is a bit unfair but a babysitter to go and let off steam and have some fun with a friend is another matter.

I totally underestimated the importance of getting out in the evenings until dh and I started getting a babysitter and I also started going to book group and meals out with female friends.

If your "work" is in the house it is refreshing to leave it.

I read (my copy of) green eggs & ham to DD1 yesterday, i still love it, but she's still not very impressed , but did like one fish, two fish (to begin with at least)

DD2 had a temp of 40.1 when I put her to bed tonight. Just snuck in & took it again & it's gone down to 38.2 Anything over 39 worries me (I have been reading the NHS pages to calm my nerves) so had started to make emergency plans in my head! (DH is out tonight!)

I am gutted that I have achieved so little this week (due to illness) but I managed to have visitors over this morning without panicking, so the house can't be in that bad a state!

To do Guides I probably would have been looking at £15-£20 per week. Plus most of the girls I'd have to babysit live in Guiding village so would need lifts which means having to get Toddler up to take girl back or having girl wait until MrScout got home so one of us could take her back. I thought the two women (both aged 65+) were cheeky to suggest such a thing.

Could you "book" mrscout to come home early occasionally? DH always used to get home from work early on a Monday so I could goto yoga.

I am glad you are feeling better bessie. I hope dd doesn't have what you had.

I have just removed all the Dr Zeus from our bookshelves this week.

The Grinch will still come out at Christmas but I have to be realistic about the fact that my dcs aren't going to ask for the others again until they have their own dcs.

He would on Tuesdays, when I did Guides, as often as he could but because of the nature of his job/clients it's not always possible. Right now his client is based, and therefore his commute, is 100+ miles in one direction (so just over 200 miles round trip). With this current client/project he's going to be staying at his parents (who live about 20 miles from the new office) overnight several nights a week (to save petrol, time and allow him to sleep because right now he's leaving by 5:20 a.m. to get in and not getting home until after 9 p.m.) I normally don't mind. I'm supportive of his job/career because it means I can stay home but days like today I just feel flat.

bessie, have you managed any more food?

carrots, about loss of Dr Suess.

Store them carefully carrots, my mum had all my old books stored in boxes, but they got damp & ruined (she cried). Luckily my WTP & Dr Zeus had never been put away so they are safe on a (high up) shelf here

scout, prob none of my business, but when you start your treatment will DH continue to work the same hours? Will you have someone to help you with TS? I (think I) remember you saying you were very tired last time when you tried to carry on life as normal? (forgive me if I have remembered that wrong)

Awww Scout ((((hugs)))) I think we all have days like that. Can you treat yourself with something? Cosy bath? Film MrScout would never watch? Something yum? Good book?

I am eating small amounts now scout, however since starting to eat, it has become apparent that I am not yet, completely well [clench]

I need to have a think about it bessie. I have hundreds of books from when I was a child too. The dcs have all my Mr Men books and I am soon going to hunt out my Malory Towers and Trebizon and all of those books. She has different taste to me although we do overlap in places. Judy Blume is her fav just now. I wasn't bought them but had them from the library.

Oh bessie that is not good. Poor you. This has gone on for a few days now.

Ha ha! "Forever" won't be appearing anytime soon. We are at the Tales of a fourth Grade Nothing stage and she has read Deenie too.

bessie, what is WTP?

When MrScout has late nights or nights he's not home I spend hours watching "cheesy" tv -- American Crime Drama (NCIS, CSI, Law & Order, that sort of thing) or some of my American DVDs/series that MrScout doesn't get or isn't fond of. It's bliss. I haven't had a soak-in-the-bath bath since just before Toddler was born (I was given special medicinal bath stuff to use because the blood stuff made me incredibly, horribly itchy. To be honest I haven't been able to face the bath since.

I never know from one project/client to the next what sort of hours MrScout will have. He was almost meant to be working in the States for the last third of 2011 so I would have been here myself. My PiL have said I can go and spend extended periods down there if I want so they can help. But while I'm still committed to Seniors it's a bit of a challenge. I won't give up swimming, either, so will work staying down there around that (we've done it for two years now and love it so don't want to take that away from either of us).

I do have a couple of people that could help during the day if needed. However, and this sounds selfish, I don't want to call too much on them, especially my one friend who would be able to help the most -- she's really pushing me to send TS to nursery and we're not sure we're going to send him, especially not yet, and if I ask her to help a lot she's going to push the nursery issue more and more. I can't face the pressure if I'm not myself.

Ah well, I'll be alright. I think I just need a weekend with my boys (and maybe a pizza tomorrow).

They were brilliant books & I must have read them hundreds of times (only slight exaggeration)

Must goto sleep now before DH staggers in from the pub & keeps me awake with his snoring!