How To Really Annoy Me ...

To say I'm spitting mad is an understatement of enormous proportions. I took the kids shopping this afternoon so that I could take advantage of some of the sales. I've had a nice afternoon, and come back with one pair of fancy knickers, two t-shirts, two shirts, two bracelets, a necklace and a funky bag ... and spent a grand total of just £39. Hardly a fortune, wouldn't you agree? We get back home to find that Colin is already home from work. He asks me how much I've spent, and when I told him he's just hit the roof. I've had chapter and verse YET AGAIN about our financial situation and how dare I go out and spend money blah blah blah.

This is the man who went out the weekend before Christmas to buy his own Christmas present. He spent £100. What did I get for Christmas from him? Nothing. "You can go out and buy whatever you like" he told me, so I decided that I'd shop the sales to get lots more for the money. Seems that was a big mistake.

Another comment: "you're always buying loads of stuff on Ebay, you just bought a coat" ... well, actually I bought a jacket. It is brand new and tagged, and cost me just over £5 including the postage, and the original price in the shops was £33.

Whatever. I'm going to take everything back tomorrow. If I can't go out and buy myself some new clothes it's a bit of a poor show, dontcha think? I wouldn't mind if I spent a fortune on clothes, but I don't. The majority of my clothes are from Ebay or from sales in my favourite shops. I wouldn't mind, but I could've spent a whole lot more than I did, there was loads of stuff that I really liked.

Just got one thing to say about him ... BASTARD! There, that feels soooo much better now.

Moving on really swiftly ... a layout I did yesterday about me:

I really like this picture of me. Usually I hate any photographs of me, but this one is really flattering, it makes me look quite slim, and hence it had to be scrapped!

All papers, the staples and ric rac were made by me. They're not from a kit, they're all just random things that I've made.

It feels good to have managed to make a couple of layouts this week. I'm definitely going to have to make more time for that next year, even if it's just a case of putting aside one evening each week to do nothing but scrap.