Thread 25 - Covid Cohort - Christmas Trees, No Omicron Please!

I would love a robot vacuum which works. I got one from Aldi years ago and it sort of worked but the battery died. Have they improved a lot? Are there any that are good at stairs?

I see face masks are back in classrooms now. I ordered a load more on Amazon early hours before they sell out.

I have a Eufy. I bought it when there was that big thread on MN about a year or so ago when everyone raved about them. Mine is a pain as it loves to get stuck on things and never seems to clean everywhere - DH hates it and thinks its useless. It's OK, it serves a purpose if you want to just leave it go around a space for a bit while you do something else and if you have a nice square room without lots of things in the way. Ours is in the open plan living and kitchen and just bumps into everything sending it away from where you need it.

Lovely New Year’s Day yesterday: long walk with the family then Spider-Man at the cinema.
Ds is not tidy, but both of mine are in charge of their own rooms.
@Oblomov21: would you recommend the eufy? I’ve toyed with buying a robovav before…

@crazycrofter yes definitely a good thing.

Ds is just going to bed after 30 hours up! Let’s hope he doesn’t feel dreadful tomorrow. I do think being laid back is a good thing though…

@crazycrofter I like to be quite organised...so I find him frustrating. But I'm sure his laid back attitude will get him far. I'm a stress head. Yes mine will be gaming too. He often has his Xbox going with a fifa match while he's doing homework. Ds2 has said exactly the same about staying awake all night too as he'd been gaming till the early hours, then sleeping all day. Though he got himself up at 8am yesterday morn. He can't stay awake 12 hours so was asleep by 8pm. Then up again early this morn. So I'll make sure he keeps that routine up ready for school.

Oh dear @icanbewhatiwant, he sounds like ds! He’s only concentrating on particular GCSE subjects and is quite happy with a 4 in the others! Currently he’s still xboxing, having been awake for 27 hours! I heard him say he’ll need to go to bed at 12!

I just reminded Ds about getting his room tidy. He replied with he doesn't have time. He needs to do his EPQ. I can't believe it's not finished yet. Then he said he's not really going to bother to do it well. He says Sussex have already made the offer and didn't mention EPQ so no point in getting a good grade. He said as long as he gets a C. I give up. No point in arguing.

@Zebracat the at home test ds1 ordered arrived quickly, next working day. But it was waiting for results that took ages. He posted back Tuesday afternoon, results came on the Sunday night. He needed to see a gp but they wouldn't see him without negative pcr. But a friend sent her one off a couple of weeks previously, she had a text back the same day as she posted it. So it must depend how busy they are. I did wonder whether positive tests get processed quicker too as hers was positive. Ds's was negative.

I had to google eufy.

Zebra, robotic hoover.
You set it, it hoovers downstairs. Move it upstairs, it does upstairs.

Might have a baileys too. What is a eufy?

Happy new year everyone! We were out last night but I stayed sober as the designated driver (I volunteered to be fair) had a lovely evening and we’re home by 12.45. DS1 got home after 4am and had not been responding to any messages or phone calls, as you can imagine things are a bit tense today. 🤔

Both ds's very tidy and I regularly hoovered their room. Now, I have a eufy. I didn't even get a big Christmas present other than a bottle of baileys from Ds1 and a bar of cadburys wholenut Ds2 because I'd had summer eufy.

Saying that I stripped ds2's bed and the White Mattress protector was yellowy and made me heave, so my Christmas present to myself was 2 x single and 1 x king Costco mattress and pillow protectors. How sad is that?

I've poured myself a baileys.

Happy New Year everybody. Just booked a PCR test for Dd. It’s an at home one, no walk ins available. Does anyone know how long they take to arrive? she’s really coughing. I just wanted her to get into school on Wednesday with everyone else. They are so pissy about attendance even in these times and her asthma was out of control for most of last term, so hers looks poor.
I’m kind of itching to get the decorations down and life back to near normal.. The house is full of stuff. And the weather has been so grey and mucky and we have dogs. So it’s all a bit dirty and grim. I have washed all the floors but I’m ready for a proper spring clean.These are not normal sentiments for me, generally I would rather read a book.

Happy New Year. Couldn't believe how much fireworks there was. We had Costco curry and duck in pancakes. I was in bed by 11.
We've done nothing other than sleep and watch football this holiday, as we are now New Year's Day, as I roast a leg of lamb. Ds's watched Spider-Man, took them to coral reef water slides yesterday which I loved, then Ds2 did bowling and laser quest.

We are totally relaxed. Ds's were very tired, I noticed. I've barely got out of my dressing gown. I start my new job - 4 days, in a couple of days, and still my old one - 2 days, stupidly working 6 days a week. Dh has made me promise to review at the end of Jan.

Ds's both had fab school reports. I'm so glad I'm having an easy ride with them, for a long time now, both thriving and happy. Ds1 seems completely calm about February mocks. He says they are starting revising in class immediately this week.

Let's hope all our January's are calm.

Sorry - happy new year!!!

Congratulations to @BlueMarigold dd and welcome to Birmingham- hope she makes it, she’ll love it here! We’ve Southampton and York offer days booked in for mid Feb/early Mar and waiting for an email from Nottingham. Manchester don’t seem to be doing them. I’m wondering how late Bath will be in getting back to dd? She could do with seeing all options in a fairly short time frame to compare.

I told ds that he’ll have to be up to go to church with us tomorrow at 9.30, which could be problematic given he’s been staying up with friends on Xbox til the morning and sleeping all day! He decided the best way to fix his sleep pattern is to stay up all night and all day! So he’s been awake since 3.30pm yesterday! He’s done this before and I’m sure it will work but I would feel ill!

Happy New Year lovely ladies!

I hope 2022 brings good health, lots more offers from favourite choices to this thread and that we get certainty soon on whether or not our poor DC who have had to deal with so much uncertainty will be doing "proper" exams.

Congratulations @BlueMarigold DD on being the first to have decisions all made!

Happy New Year to one and all!

@OrangeCinnamonCocktail Yes to it being their year. Hoping for brighter times for everyone.

@Piggywaspushed thanks I think she put Valentine courts as one of her options.

Ah, OK, phew! I was having NTU flashbacks there. Their accommodation booking is a bunfight.

If yous till aren't fully decided on Lincoln, can I recommend Valentine Court? It is really nice, a bit cheaper than the fancy ones nearer the uni and they have washing machines! It is also near Morrisons. I think they may have nudged the prices up a bit mind. It also ahs car parking.

@mummyinbeds Every year my mother reminisces about heading off to hospital in a taxi & passing NYE revellers!

@Piggywaspushed sorry tagged Volterra by mistake. That last apology was for you. I am still a bit hungover and not with it at all

@Volterra I am so sorry… when I said she’s booked it I meant she’s made some choices.

The accommodation deadline is in May but just wanted to get stuff out of the way so she can focus on exams now. The actual accommodation is allocated after results day but she was able to put in 6 choices.

I didn’t think she would be allowed to choose accommodation for her insurance but she was sent a link asking her to choose some options so she did that too.