Been a busy weekend, and going to be a busier week!<\/p>\n
I got back from Belgium very late at night on friday and spent most of saturday cleaning house in preparation of Katy's return from Leicester. She'd gone there to see some friends for a pre-birthday tea and cake party. On sunday, we went grocery shopping. It was The Big One!<\/b> where we got all the stuff we'd need for the xmas entertaining we're doing. As such, it cost an arm and a leg, and even a bit of left kidney thrown in for good measure. I kid you not, it was 4 times our normal weekly shopping bill. Funny little tidbit though. I was planning on paying by cash, but I was missing 49 pence and Katy didn't have her purse. The only coinage I had on my was in euro, not pounds. I didn't want to put 49p on my debit card, so I decided to part with one of my lucky two pound coins. Now, a bit of background here. I've had two £2 coins in my wallet for the past year and a half. They're my lucky coins, and I wouldn't normally even consider parting with them. Except that time, it seemed like the most natural thing to do. So I paid with one of them.<\/p>\n
The bill was £210.49 and I gave her £212.00. I got back £2.51 in change :) My lucky two pound coin came back to me :D How serendipitous is that? That made my day.<\/p>\n
Today, so far, I have:<\/p>\n
– called the garage that did all of our repair work on the rover. The front left tire is making such a god-awful amount of noise (but only intermittently) that we were ashamed to drive through the village yesterday because people were looking at us! He's going to pick up the car this afternon and look at it. He thinks it might have picked up a stone. Hopefully, it won't cost much to repair. <\/p>\n
– called the cattery. The monster is booked in from thursday morning to saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Even though I'm on vacation this week, I need to pop in to the office and drop off my travel expenses paperwork and hand out some choccies and xmas cards for people at the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Been a busy weekend, and going to be a busier week! I got back from Belgium very late at night on friday and spent most of saturday cleaning house in preparation of Katy's return from Leicester. She'd gone there to see some friends for a pre-birthday tea and cake party. On sunday, we went grocery…<\/p>\n