Please cheer me up with your first world problems (light hearted)

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I'm self isolating with a cold (as far as you can when you have kids who keep wanting to see you)... so entertain me... this thread is light hearted please so exaggerate them all you like Only on day 2 and ready to cry

I'll start

I am very distressed, in fact utterly distraught because Gousto have just emailed me to say they can't get enough balsamic vinegar to go with my recipes so they're sending me red wine vinegar instead... my world is ruined.

The carnivore dinosaurs.

It's rather scruffy... As a further first world problem, I've had to use glace icing instead of fondant or buttercream. But needs must!

I've got 3 books I really want to read on my Kindle. I can't decide which to start first.

Love this thread

Solasum beat me to it. I was going to say that our cleaner can't come so we have to clean our own house 😭

Along a similar vein:

• We can no longer get Ocado deliveries when we want, so we have to go to Tesco 😱
• Nursery is closed so we have to look after our child 24/7 😭 (I don't think this is a middle class problem but it is the main problem right now)

Interesting how the privileged outsource the most boring and/or difficult tasks!

@Princessfaffalot Yes. It's an alkali and will neutralise stomach acid. Just a teaspoon in a glass of water will do

This thread is brilliant and just what I needed.
I really fancy a chicken schnitzel with a mushroom sauce and have zero of the ingredients to make it 😩

MinnieMountain

I've got 3 books I really want to read on my Kindle. I can't decide which to start first.

And you're just going to leave us hanging?!

That sort of discussion could while away hours of lockdown. And you could have scads of unwanted incredibly useful advice.

Come on: cards* on the table!

*Well, you know - "books" on the table.
Got carried away...

That is stupendous @Aroundtheworldin80moves

Oh I have another one.

I asked DH to buy me Seedlip (alcohol free gin) and Fevertree tonic. He bought me a big bottle of Seedlip and just one bottle of tonic. I'm going to run out of tonic in no time 😭😆

KitKatKit

I really fancy a chicken schnitzel with a mushroom sauce and have zero of the ingredients to make it 😩

Tsk!

Just replace "mushrooms" with carrots, "chicken" with a loofah (preferably organic) and "schnitzel" with your neighbour's cat.
And Robert's your mother's brother!

(Umm.... "schnitzel" is a kind of dog, right?)

I've just said on another thread that I'll be doing a Beauty Pie order this week, I've just realised I've run out of retinol.

I'm most certainly not doing all my own bloody cleaning with shit skin. If I'm having to clean my own bloody bath because I've got nothing else to do after being furloughed then I want glowing skin

I’ve been informed the lack of skinless and boneless salmon means we have no food for lunch.

He had shop brand spam in the cupboard when he met me. And tinned chicken roll.

How times have changed 🙄

I am running out of things to watch on Netflix.

I made scones today but had no strawberry jam and had to use fruits of the forest :(

I'm going to have to cut my own fringe. Like an absolute savage.

I was forced to cut my own fringe this morning. I look a sight but scared to take any more off!

Cooking haddock right now and I’m fuming that I’ve no Lemon juice to go with it and I’m not going to the shop that’s 15 mins away just to buy it, I cannot be arssed walking there even though I’ve been cooped up for days, and it’s hardly essential.

I’m dying to get Botox done and my hands look old AF and I can’t handle it so I’ve been googling cosmetic procedures that you can get done to make the loose skin disappear, why do I feel I need these things right now, vanity is why and I don’t care.

I want my hair done now too and I’m seething inside that hairdressers are non essential, part of me thinks they are fucking essential and why can’t they just wear PPE suits I’m half kidding...

Have zero concentration with what to watch, Netflix, Amazon Prime, You Tube, normal tv and I will put something on for 10 mins and then think nah, fuck this shite!

My next order isn't coming and DH didn't buy any avocados when he went shopping 😱

I cut DH hair with clippers (and it looks ok, though Self Praise Is No Honour )
DS has wavy , thick hair that really really needs cut but he's resisting .

My FirstBorn will look like something from the Vikings before the end of March.

I am onto the UHT soya milk ( it's a bugger , it curdles out of spite if the water is too hot) . Tomorrow I will (hopefully) get my fresh Alpro.

I actually had to clean my own bathrooms today (yes, we have more than one) for the first time in about seven years because our lovely cleaner isn't working. I hated it. As J will be cleaning them for the foreseeable future I've just ordered a load of lovely smelling Method products and some frivolous leopard print rubber gloves.

I've run out of parmesan

My cleaner isn’t coming which means dp is having to do it (chorionic illness means I can’t). He doesn’t do it right, might have to ltb.

I have a really great short haircut at the moment. I was due a colour - no problem, I can do that myself. I cannot, however, cut my own hair. I cannot even style hair to save my life. I'm going to look like some kinda tramp the cat dragged in from the vegetable patch when this is over.

My hair does not hold a style. Even when it's long enough for a plait or ponytail, it just drops straight out. I can't even put a bobby pin in my hair without it dropping out.

@peaceanddove WHERE have you found Method products online? I've almost run out of my rhubarb cleaner and I flatly refuse to buy any inferior products