doing stuff for the nippers first birthday, culminating in today's end of the gurdwara dissapointment when 55% of thepeole who were supposed ot turn up didn't

thursday:
finished work in a bit of a hurry and went to get stuff for the food prep and set up
nothing too bad but a little on the complicated side because i didn't know what we were supposed to get
my cousins father in law sorted things out so big up to him

friday:
everyone went to the temple at 7 and i went to work, on my day off , had a row with the mrs, and arranged stuff, failed the mot and
got home later than i should of (past 10)
the old man had to stay there and he came home sat moring at 4am when his replacement arrived

saturday:
back to the temple at silly o'clock and did stuff
then went to work from 8 till 3, then back to the temple till 11.30, along the way i was blamed for everything that went wrong or didn't turn up or had been missed in the original list of stuff to get and things to do and money to be spent

sunday:
a 2.30 start meant not enough time to sleep but a 4am finished sort of made up for it
then back for 8 in the morning after things got done, wandered about for a bit, did a few things, spent more money than i had in my account, bailed the old man out for paying the peeps who needed to be paid before things could finish, generally made myself usefull, then stood there serving food in my white shirt with everyone saying "you'll never get away without staining that" but i did
and then made a few trips to and from home to cart away the food we'd made for the 90 people who didn't turn up who were supposed to (and also the £150 worth of sweets we'd bought that were surplus to requirments too

end of day costs compared to getting someone else to arrange it all were only £20 more, but the endless running around means i don't think i'll be partaking in this sort of thing again, 4 days worth of hassle for the whole family, not to mention the cost of being there 24/7 and the lack of sleep

it was a happy occasion and i'm glad i did it the way i did and the way that everyone chipped in to help out and lend a hand throughout the proccedings, but it's too much when you can get soemone else to do it for you, especially if you have a young child to look after and one of you has to be looking after him at all times

overall? i've spent £600 that i dind't need to spend (and, quite frankly can't afford to spend) but it was worth it in the end

 

one more thing, caught an enzo on camera so

 

video of it as soon as it's uploaded

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0DGVNe6vsg

 

that looks a bit like luton, where is it mate? gutted about the party tho, been there done that, tis a pisser when people dont let you know if they can make t

 

£600 on a 1 year olds birthday

You must be mad

Not nice when people don't turn up

Steve.

 

western road in southall mate
we've got 48 boxes of stuff left over that were supposed to go to the families that were turning up , i'm just glad we bought 80 boxes rather than 100 we were originaly going to get

thats the money I spent, not the money the thing cost to do in the first place, a weeks worth of planning, 4 days worth of hard graft and practically no sleep
probably cost closer to £1500 all in, and thats with around 20 of us giving up the past 3 days to work on the prep for the food and stuff

you're right, we must be mad