Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 5: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

I've started a new one. Please join us and share the boring and mundane things happening in your world. It will be calming for all.

Oh, and my logs are being delivered this morning.

The time was unspecified but there's only one left in the basket. DDog3 would be extremely anxious if she realised the precarious nature of the situation we are in.

A concrete lorry has appeared outside my window.

I went to the tip. Bloody love our tip.

Then refuel the car and took a parcel to the Hermes drop-off.

Rewarding myself with tea.

@Champagneforeveryone - love that phrase "rudely good health" - it's wonderful!

In fact I am going to try to get myself in rude health as soon as is humanly possible.

In other health-related news, I learnt that the medical term for nosebleeds is Epistaxis - isn't that a great word?
A word that sounds nothing like its actual meaning to me.

For boring work-related reasons I’m very familiar with ‘epistaxis’ as a term. But I have never ever wondered why it’s called that. How interesting. It sounds like it should have a similar meaning to ‘epidural’. But it really doesn’t.

Well I am so sad, and obviously have far too much time on my hands - I've looked up the etymology of the word epistaxis.

It's late 18th century: modern Latin, from Greek, from epistazein ‘bleed from the nose’, from epi ‘upon, in addition’ + stazein ‘to drip’.

So that's that then.

[quote FawnDrench]@Champagneforeveryone - love that phrase "rudely good health" - it's wonderful!

In fact I am going to try to get myself in rude health as soon as is humanly possible.

In other health-related news, I learnt that the medical term for nosebleeds is Epistaxis - isn't that a great word?
A word that sounds nothing like its actual meaning to me.

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The Episkey spell repaired Harry Potter's nose in one of the books, maybe that's where JK got her inspiration from? And I have no idea why my mind retained that little nugget.

I collected DS2s Hulk costume (Xmas present) from today after buying it on FB Marketplace. The main road was closed so I had to go on a four mile diversion, much to the disgust of my built in sat nav (that didn't realise the road was closed). And when the guy opened the door, the smell of smoke from the house hit me full in the face. So said Hulk costume is now in the washing machine and I'm ignoring the 'sponge wash' only label. It does have very cool giant Hulk hands though.

Sat navs do get a bit hysterical, don't they/ "Turn left at the next junction".

@EggyPegg I envy your use of the washing machine.

Ours is out of bounds until the septic tank has been emptied on Thursday.
What would have been routine 2 months ago is now urgent because dh said I was fussing and it was fine.
Just walked the dog in the rain and after reading the scratch card thread I bought two lucky dips for the euro millions.
My boring day may turn out to be exciting after all.

Just fell asleep sitting up at my desk.

I enjoy mocking my sat nav when she pronounces road names wrong. ‘Dish-er-ling road? I think you’ll find that’s Ditch-ling. Duh.’

Love etymology. It’s fascinating.

Yes they do. It kept wanting me to u turn at every side road. But I knew where the diversion was taking me so I ignored it.
I can report that Hulk costume and hands came out of the wash unscathed and now smells lovely. Realised that hanging it where the DC can't see it might be problematic so turned it inside out and hung it in the middle of the airer so it's surrounded by other clothes. They won't notice. They can't find anything unless it's eye level and comes with a neon flashing arrow.

Ack @Coffeecak3, that's annoying. I've not had septic tank. How does it work for all water-based activities?

My MIL has arrived. She's now entertaining both DC in the playroom. I'm in the bedroom on Mumsnet putting the laundry away and I think DH has slunk off to the living room.

I'm enjoying Black Cat Day on Twitter. Particularly from @TreasuryMog - twitter.com/treasurymog/status/1321027088082706432?s=21

Went for a big walk, got a bit wet, home and dry now.

@TenCornMaidens

I went to the tip. Bloody love our tip.

Then refuel the car and took a parcel to the Hermes drop-off.

Rewarding myself with tea.

Our tip is now a recycling centre. Short of fly-tipping or hiring a skip, we have no way of emptying our groaning loft.

Sodding was decreed “a different cat” this morning. No more IV fluids, just medicine at home for a few more days. The vet expressed relief at not having to get a catheter into him again today. I got the impression he created merry hell yesterday.

I had a chip off my front tooth. Had to ring dentists and get an appointment. Hoping it does not cost a fortune to sort. Thankfully had not cancelled the insurance.

I've just taken the dosing drawer out of the washing machine and cleaned it.

I’ve got a Hippo bag. Less hassle than a skip, but they still come and take it away for you. They claim you can get an entire bathroom suite in one, but I have not tried that.

I've survived the colonoscopy after four hours of sleep last night and nothing to eat in 24 hours. I've just eaten a three-egg omelet with bacon and cheddar and some toasted French bread that DH made for me. I'm still a bit wobbly from the Propofol.

My gastroenterologist says it all looks good and he removed two small polyps and took some biopsies. He's a bloody gorgeous African American man, 10 years younger than I am, and as nice as can be. So that adds a bit of a bright spot to the procedure.

The crack team of shower door professionals is here, installing the replacement door. I'm in the kitchen, listening for the sound of shattering glass.

Sodding, great news about sodding. It sounds like the prognosis is excellent. Mingus' tenth birthday is next week. I'm starting to get a bit of kitten yearning.

I bought a new doormat today. It’s an outdoor one to sit outside the back door. We really needed one for inside the door as well, but it needs to be very thin so the door won’t get stuck and they didn’t have a suitable one. I also wanted to get a thermos flask for food so we can have winter picnics, but they didn’t have one of those either. DS thinks our new doormat looks like flapjacks though, so that’s something.

Back home from work, told my boss I'd be off from the 2/12. He was relaxed about it.

DS wants 24 chocolate chip muffins for his birthday, so I'll make them for him tonight.

@soddingkitten ours is a recycling centre really. There's a still a 'general waste' section though. They are very helpful and tell you which bit to put the broken laundry airer or desk chair or whatever in. They also have a second hand shop for furniture and other usable bits people have ditched.

When we moved a couple of years ago we took carload after carload there. It was marvellous.

Also, turning off the voice on our sat nav improved our lives considerably. Ours used to warn us about 500 times before each junction or roundabout.

@TenCornMaidens

Also, turning off the voice on our sat nav improved our lives considerably. Ours used to warn us about 500 times before each junction or roundabout.

Oh yes! I silenced mine after it kept interrupting whilst I was merrily wailing along to whatever I was listening to at the time. It's got a massive screen, I can see it thanks.

I have a really terrible sense of direction. Embarrassing bad actually. So for me GPS units/sat navs have really been life changing technology. My new car has a touch screen built into the dashboard, so I plug my iPhone into the car then can do Google Maps on the touch screen.

Now my teenagers never have to tell me that I've made a wrong turn and I'm no longer terrified of taking them to uni.

The new shower door went in without incident. It turned out that the glass guy had never been to Corning glass works (where fiber optic cable was invented, among other things) and did not know about the fabulous Corning Museum of Glass. I strongly recomment it to anyone visiting New York. It's about two hours from where I live and the whole family has been several times.

Corning Museum of Glass