Sunday Morning

I have not had the text saying "I am still alive" and it is nearly 11am. I guess it was a good party last night. However, on the coldest night of the year so far, I am taxi-ing Steffi dressed as Jesse from the Toy story, only wearing short shorts, to her party with her boyfriend and his friend.
There are lots of things wrong there.
First of all I thought Girls took their friends along
Second of all, I should have been saying, "you can not go out dressed like that, you''ll catch your death..." instead I was thinking " I wish I had legs as long as that"
Thirdly... oh well I will not go into that.

Mum is out of hospital now, but weak and forgetful. popped in last night and went back this morning. My Aunt was also there so it was nice to see them all. I have been to pick Steff up this morning and the countryside was so pretty, Bright brilliant sunshine but so cold. There is frost on the ground and some of the fields are white and crispy. The others are bright green from the wet dew. The trees are all bare now too. Such a lovely sight. The tired 16yr old that hobbled into my car was not such a pretty sight. LOL lack of sleep and a lovely bright blue bruise on her knee, and a mark around her neck where the cowboy hat had been.

I am cooking again tonight, that will make it Four nights in a row and FIVE times this week!

No matter how pretty the scenery is today, I am not going out again.... am even considering putting my PJs back on.

Domesticated ...Me?

Not that I don't know what has to be done, it is just every time I start to do something or even complete it, someone comes around and mucks it all up. Very demoralising I must say. Hence training to be a teacher, where BTW I have a reputation for cleaning cupboards out and throwing junk away!

So imagine Hubby's surprise when today started off with me prepping the beef and Guinness stew whilst still wearing my PJ's at 9:00am. Oh and the fact he caught me emptying the last two tins of Guinness in to the pot HAHAHAHA.

This afternoon I prepped a cabbage (savoy if you will) and THEN ...... I know this will knock your socks off, I made cherry crumble using ground almonds in the crumble mix as well!!!

I played around with a recipe!!!

I hope it tastes OK.

Ohhhhhh I have actually gone through all my shoes (to make room for new ones obviously, shhhhhhhh you did not hear that thought). I was actually smiling as I looked at each pair. What is it with shoes?

I have done all my washing but can not hang it up to dry, as I dry it all indoors and Matty has a friend around who is Muslim and I do not think it is a good idea to hang racks of underwear around the place! A lovely lad, so courteous too, he actually offers to help me unload the car without me having to threaten my kids with a bedroom invasion, black bin style if they do not help!

I am supposed to be sewing Xmas cards. HAHA whose idea was that?
Only 13 left to go..... THIRTEEN , yeah righ like that is going to happen.
Righty off to stir a stew.

Just found an internet site on "How to breed Guppy Fishes"
Why?
Just bung 'em in to the tank together et voila!*

* impressed Jo?

What I want to know is, a part from putting the hair greying son on sentry duty to tap the glass everytime they get amourous, can you STOP them bonking?

Is there a fish equivalent of a contraceptive you can put in the water?

Can I continue to ramble..Please??

• Grrr son still off school glued to the loo!
• Fish had MORE pigging babies, it will be exactly on week tomorrow when we bought FIVE guppy fish and in those 6 days we now have at least 15... FIFTEEN fishes.
• Eating cake for breakfast - not bothered if that sounds disgusting or not.
• THe hallmark channel has thrown a dippy fit on my box this morning and not working, even on the new station it is moving too, that has buggered up my cleaning schedule.
• Had to use antifreeze for the first time this morning. Did not know what to do, grumpy "I hate mornings" Hubby huffed and puffed spraying it everywhere. I then drove about 50m down the road and the whole windscreen misted over, ended up on the kerb! Now have new routine for cold morning driving.

1. Count fish in the morning.
2. Do not make jokes about flushing new babies down the loo to the "I hate mornings" grumpy hubby.
3. Do not sit in the car looking useless wondering if that is ice or not. Just spray the deicer.
4. Wait for the mist to clear before trying to drive.

• The domesticateness that I have been feeling for a while, is slowly ebbing away.
• The enthusiasm for the fish has Ebbed!

rambling

• Talking to Matty by MSN even though he is sat behind me.
• Doing Hallmark cleaning..... (watching hallmark programmes and clean at a furious pace in the long advert breaks.
• So far have 4 fish babies.... only bought the fish on Saturday! This is my Hubby's new hobby, I take the blame as I arranged the second hand tank as an early Xmas pressie. I never thought they would have babies. Hubby meanwhile, is already planning the next Bigger tank and how to remodel the lounge to fit it in, Geeeeze it is not even Xmas yet!
• Have wrapped all the pressies I have in the house now.
• When Hubby was in his last school one of the Teachers, who has a love of all things Christmas, bought Hubby and his colleague an advent calendar on Dec!st , then every school day til the end of term gave them a Xmas related pressie. Now he is in his new school I am trying to arrange this for him and his new colleague. However, I have a pressie from this other Teacher, that she sneaked into the house the other day!
• Does that all make sense?
• I got a pressie too! I am being a good girl and NOT opening it!
• Need to sweep the garden.
• Need to make dinner,
• Mum getting better, but hospital desperate to release her too early, Dad refused.
• Bad hospital, Bad hospital!
• What is a gestation period of a guppy?
• Still making Xmas cards
• Son still off school
• It is sunny this morning
• Need to clean my windows too----- dam sun!
• I have quite enjoyed being a housewife this week..... very weird.
• paying not so "poorly sick" son for every odd sock he finds in his room (aka pit)
• OOH advert break ... got to go!

Grumpy post - The Festive post is below.

Wake up- turn on TV -See a snake (phobia)
Check e-mail - Have not been paid - bank balance of 88pence.
7:15 ring agency - COMPLAIN.
7;30 HG son, comes down stairs... ILL
Ring agency - call in sick
Ring school apologise, only to be told that my servic es would not be needed for the rest of the week as the jury service I was covering had finished.
ALL THAT BY 8:30
Through the day I....
Rang the agency as periodic intervals with increasing levels of anxiety/ anger, listened to excuses and refused to accept blame for them chaning thier payroll system and expecting the royal mail to play ball!
Looked after poorly sick son.
Stressed relieved with some FRANITC housework (an unheard of event)
OOOo the fish had babies!!
I am a MUM of quads! (we only bought them on Saturday)
Told off by Dad for not visiting Mum in hospital!
4:35pm Agency refuse to advance money
%pm pick hubby up after work - his colleague has taken him to the pub so he agrees we would take him home (when was I consulted?)
Took him home
Went home
No food
No Money
Poorly sick son
Daughter gone to boyfriends
Rang in-laws
Went over, where kindly they lent us some money
Took poorly sick son home
Mercy trip to ASDA for dinner
Went to pick Daughter from boyfriend's
Ended up giving boyfriend a lift to his mate's house.
Came home
Had dinner
Hubby went ot bed shattered
I stayed up for another hour watching CSI
What was the episode about?
A frigging snake!

I would read the post below if I were you

Baking Christmas Cakes The Fizzy Way (8 at a time)

Take one large plastic washing up bowl.
Weigh out 12 lbs of mixed dried fruit.

Pour on two bottles of cooking brandy

Cover with tin foil and leave for about 48 hours

Meanwhile, collect the above items and a selection of cake tins.

Draw and cut out a piece of grease proof paper, the size and shape of the tin.

Cut strips of greasproof paper as above.

Brush oil all over the inside of the cake tin.

Line the tin as above.

Only reapeat for 8 tins. ( I hate that part!)

Weigh out all the dry ingrediants into one bowl.

Place the butter and syrup in the same pan.


Crack 24 LARGE eggs into another bowl (or in this case a pan) with the milk.

Whisk!

Melt the butter and syrup over the a low heat.

Mix the dry ingrediants

Disgard the spoon and mix the dry ingrediants with the fruit.
*Note to self... Next time remove Engagement ring first.
** Hubby walked in at this point and saw me mixing with one hand and taking photos with my right, who says women can not multi task!

Hubby took over the photography now.
Add all wet ingrediants now.
Mix well.
It is very wet and very sloppy and rather disgusting
BUT the smell is WONDERFUL!

Use a mug to pour the mixture into the cake tins.
Place in the oven
Bake for about 2 hours (depending on the size of the cakes)
Cool

Wrap in tin foil and keep until nearer Christmas before decorating.

PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW