Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 10: 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.

I just woke from a vivid, exciting dream where I was accompanying a (dream manufactured) friend to declare her unrequited love to a man. It was a planes, trains and automobiles type of mission, though heavily slanted towards bar-hopping, hitch-hiking and partying across a country. I woke just as we approached her lover’s location in vibrant city centre, too exotic to be London. Waking was like switching off a gripping film 15 minutes before the end. After 10 months of pandemic, I was also enjoying being out of the house and socialising. I am so annoyed my alarm went off. 😡

@soddingkitten That sounds like an excellent dream.

@alwayshappensonnye, welcome and ouch. How did you do that?

@atz333. Don't go for a Bjorn or narrow based one, get a wide based carrier. Better for your back and your DDs hips. You want her to be in an M shape with her knees the high part of the M and her bum the middle bit. Have her Close Enough To Kiss on your body (i.e not down near your hips).

I loved my wraps (huge lengths of fabric that you tie around you) but my husband preferred our buckled ones. The buckles are faster and simpler, but if you can get to a local sling library, you can have a consultant show you how to wrap. Otherwise YouTube is your friend.

For buckled slings, we had both a Rose and Rebellion and a Connecta. The R&R has a padded waistband and padded straps and the Connecta doesn't. I preferred the Connecta, my husband preferred the R&R. You can pick both up on eBay. This R&R is finishing in less than 2 hours and has no bids and starts at £12.50.
They're about £50-70 new.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193839413744

Wraps tend to be over £100 new, but price varies. I loved my Didymos, Oscha and Kokadi wraps.

sodding that sounds exciting

Thanks Helena. I guess wait til you finish work then see what you feel like.

I wss watching a compilation of Christopher Walken dancing in movies earlier. He does like a little dance. And in the music video he did for Fat Boy Slim he does a t-rex (MN obsession)

@atz333 I remember those days, when 5 hours sleep felt like a spa day! You don’t realise just how utterly exhausted you are until things ease off and you start getting those 5 hours plus all the time... which will happen, honestly.

Sling wise, I could never get on with the stretchy wraps personally - just too much fabric everywhere and I never knew if I’d tied it right. I got a Boba 4G, which had a special little pad that made it suitable from extremely young (there was a minimum weight of about 4kg, I think?). DS did used to complain when he first went in as a baby but it would lull him to sleep as you walked and meant I could go out for dog walks again. Once he hit maybe 9 months old (I think?) we moved to a back carry and then he loved it. We walked for miles and miles. I bought a giant sized cheap fleece jacket and chopped a hole in the back for DS’s head, and off we went in all weathers, just his little head peeking out in his woolly hat. I remember going to the supermarket one rainy day and asking the security guard at the door to put DS’s hood back up on the way out

The other kind of sling we tried was a ring sling - by the time I got it DS was a bit too big (I mean he was 6 months old plus) and so too heavy for my back to enjoy using it but I think we’d have got on well with it when he was little. So I’d look on eBay for one second hand, they aren’t expensive and worth a go IMO.

It's raining here (not that the weather makes much difference to me at the moment!)

Annoyingly I have had to empty all 4 hoovers today. I normally delegate to DH so this is an upset of epic proportions.

Deeply impressed by having four hoovers.
Trying to wake up, without much success (I have been at work for an hour...)

Hello everyone - thanks for the tips on strike through. @Frownette, I had tried the two little dashes in my first attempt which didn’t work perhaps because my phone joined one of them up into a single long dash? I will try Eggy’s tip which I have just used to bold her name - woohoo!
Ok, here goes: this is nonsense

Yeah I did wonder at four. I'd be tripping over them everywhere.

I cancelled afternoon telephone appointment to rest my throat, if my throat doesn't clear up after warm water salt gargling and ice cream () for a few days doc it is.

Strong coffee, Squirrel26.

Hooray! Thank you! Does anyone remember a thread from when it was all fields round here by a poster who couldn’t get her head around adding links - it was called something like ‘links are my nemesis’? It was largely made up of posts by OP trying to add the same link over and over again and no matter how people tried to help, she didn’t seem able to make it work - you can see where I am heading, can’t you?

Go on then lass: show us you can do it!

In my excitement about strikethroughs, I forgot to mention that if you are very short with short arms and have an average or bigger than average sized baby, it is worth trying out baby carriers before investing in one. Yes, that’s right, I couldn’t get my arms around baby in order to do anything.

@alwayshappensonnye, that sounds horrible - I hope the pain eases soon.
@Frownette, good news on negative test - sad times when we are excited to buy groceries. Last time that happened was when I was on maternity leave.
@Silkiechickscat, I’m sorry about the delay in the house sale - must be so frustrating!
@NotanotherboxofFrogs, that’s not helpful of your GP - do you need tips on being assertive? I’m sure between us, we can help if it is needed.

@Frownette - 1 coffee down, considering another!

Just having a coffee and flapjack break (smoothie for DS) after a morning of faffing educational activities. DS has painted the salt dough alien he made yesterday (it is still terrifying, just now it’s terrifying and orange and green as opposed to be terrifying and beige), we have read a story together and done a maths game that the school posted. Next, we will attack some phonics, fortified by the world’s densest flapjacks - I reckon you could skip up Everest one the strength of one of those things. Dentists everywhere would be clutching their faces and wailing if they saw the sheer sugar content.

It’s a grey, miserable sort of a day here - I need to go for a run later and I’m not relishing the prospect. Think I’ll do a short trip around the block (block in this case meaning the three fields closest to the house) and call it quits there. My legs feel really tired anyway after yesterday’s physio session - the exercises are obviously hitting all the right bits because I can feel that they’ve worked a bit more than usual!

I hadn't considered the profligacy of four hoovers before - it's even more astounding when you realise I live in a two bedroom cottage.

One is the robovac ("Dog"), one is the handheld Gtech for stairs and the sofa, one is the upright Gtech that lives upstairs and then there's the smily git Henry who is employed to clean around the fire place during the winter months. I cannot tell you how I long for the weather to turn enough that I can bung his smug, smirking face in the loft for the summer. For now though, he remains.

Partner got his test results back this morning - negative, thank god. I'm so relieved for him. Poor bugger has still got a rotten cough though.

I feel compelled to confess that we also have four hoovers

None is over-used.

@atz333 Thank you for coming back to let us know that you're feeling a bit better. Lots of us, including me, were concerned as we struggled in the same way with a newborn. Take care of yourself first so that you're at your best to care for your DD.

My trip to pick up my new night guard from the dentist has turned into another expensive dental disaster. It wouldn't go on properly because one of my implant crowns was tilted out at an angle. They took an x-ray and I've somehow managed to damage the implant, which will now have to be replaced. This is very, very rare. When they rang the periodontist who placed the implant he didn't really believe my dentist until he saw the emailed x-ray. They had to take out the crown, and I now have a noticeable gap in my upper teeth. And it's going to cost a lot of money to have the implant and crown replaced.

@QuestionableMouse we're getting there one by one :)

Champagne and Sunset24 to go now

MissConductUS what an absolute pain, poor love

@HildaTablet

I feel compelled to confess that we also have four hoovers

None is over-used.

Sadly the same here hilda

Ooh missconduct that sounds awful. I'm a dreadful baby about dentists (with some good reason) and the only plus side to come out of isolation is that I've had to cancel my dental checkup.

I am expecting 4 deliveries today, 3 are already here.

And I have bleached the grout between my kitchen tiles. Self isolation is proving to be a rollercoaster experience.

Oh @MissConductUS, that is such terrible news!! I really feel for you, financially and physically, you must be so disappointed - any way you can proove that

I had 2 major operations last year putting in 4 implants and 3 crowns with bone graft and all the hoo-haa to go with, (my teeth are terrible) my body rejected one implant and it had to be redone, i was beside myself with the sheer bad luck I have in dentistry, also quite a rare occurence..

4 hoovers, if i had the space i could live with 4..Hoovering is a bit like ironing to me, and something i find quite cathartic, or am i just weird

It's been raining all morning, but that appears to have stopped now.
It's sleeting instead!

My curtains are closed....

The weather says its snowing....

My heating is broken so im wrapped up in bed....

Im going to peak out soon 🌨

Our forecast also says heavy snow at 4pm but just rain at the moment and standard English January weather. Silkies have a roof now but will need to check them though appears just a couple of hours so maybe won't settle.