Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 14: 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.

Dh had bad side effects after first after 12 hours for 12 hours like bad flu then ok, second just tired,az. I had bad side effects after 24 hours with first az for 24 hours but I am allergic to everything. Friends in France with different vaccines its been the second one not the first ill after. Some people get nothing so maybe wait unless needs advance cancelling. We do Fridays so have weekend.

Just did a very thorough kitchen clean, worktops, cupboards, walls, floors and got 4 bags of rubbish. Dh was impressed, cat was like you are interrupting my sunbathing but I like watching.

@languagelover96
If you want something less intimate, try your aequivalent of the Institut français, watch French original films on netflix (english + french subtitles, french + french subtitles, without sound for the body language, French only).
Youtube videos where ordinary people do a bullet journal, some organizing etc, talk about food or spiders etc.
Read a lot bilingual editions, books you already know in English.

I bought some reduced price raspberries in the Co Op. The self scanner scanned both barcodes so I almost got charged the original price AND the reduced one. But I didn't.

I also accidentally bought some reduced price chocolate and orange torte.

@sproutsandparsnips, fingers crossed for your results next week. Nothing else to be done now so I hope you can relax a bit and enjoy your exam-free days.
Well done to you and your foot, @Spudlet
I had the second AstraZeneca a few days ago and was a bit zonko for the period 12-36 hours after the vaccine and was fully recovered 48 hours after the vaccine.
I have lots of coriander growing so may try to cut some and see if re-grows.
I made a small trial bowl of miso soup for DS and to my shock he really liked it. DH said it tasted like miso soup - I didn’t really know what I was doing as I have never had miso soup. I don’t like soups and as a vegetarian, never trust restaurants not to put some meat stock into their otherwise vegetarian soups. But mainly, I really don’t like soup.

Oh goodness I love soup. Can only have for lunch though as DH does not consider it real food.

I had dim sum in Chinatown in Boston today. I was really excited for it but it wasn't very good at all. Bit miffed.

How did you make the miso soup Nydj? I love miso soup but I always just make it from a packet.

I have got Ed psych report for my DS which was great but I did have to point out that I am not married to the senco who was listed as my husband and DSs Dad. DS thought it was very amusing and seemed remarkably unfazed by my change of husbands.

We went out in a boat on our lake today. It kind of rained although not properly.

Well, this is embarrassing - @ZZTopGuitarSolo, I am going to be exposed as having made a poor imitation of miso soup now but here goes: I had some sautéed mushrooms and had boiled noodles for the main meal. For the soup, I used the water from the boiled noodles with just a few bits of noodles and some of the mushrooms, added a teeny bit of miso paste (the end of teaspoon) a bit of sesame oil and some soy sauce. The miso paste was really strong! I bought it to make these miso aubergines but haven’t got round to it yet.

That sounds really good Nydj. I'm inspired to give it a go. I love all those flavours. I just need to find some miso paste as mine is well out of date - I'm thinking Wholefoods.

I didn’t even think to check the date on the miso paste - it’s been sitting, unopened, in the fridge for ages - well before the pandemic!

Thank you for your good wishes MissConductUS, Spudlet and Nydj. Today's exam went much better and I will have the results of the previous, disastrous exam next week. On the same day one of our number has booked 4 of us who live in relative proximity in to an actual restaurant for actual food and drinks out. This has not happened for 15 months and may be too exciting for a calming thread.
Languagelover96 this is admirable and as soon as you are able I would recommend a trip to France........

Oh and thanks for the photos MissConductUS - the trees look magnificent and the sprouts are clearly not of the Brussels variety (which I must confess to liking very much......).

I love soup, I’m fortunate to have a husband who regards it as perfectly adequate for an evening meal. I remember this causing consternation amongst some other women in my NCT group - the implication was that if I didn’t feed my man ‘meat and two veg’ his penis would drop off.

@MissConductUS I also ate 3 small leftover roast potatoes (cold, provided by the catering team) and an apple. Tbh it was the chocolate biscuit that helped me come down off the ceiling!

I got a text from my surgery inviting me to book my first vaccine yesterday. It informed me that I would be receiving Pfizer and I’ve booked for next Wednesday. Am a sprightly 36 but our surgery group has been running ‘ahead’ in vaccinating all along - they turned over one surgery in the group purely to vaccine delivery. DH, DMiL and both DM and DF had Pfizer with no significant side effects at all so am hopeful.

Hello and good morning to all,
I will catch up with you all (work got in the way), but guess what - 2 religious festivals and a traditional one today and it is raining like mad and will continue raining until the 20th.
DH has planned lasagne for today.

I am on my GP's list for my vacc. but I am afraid thy go by alphabet and my family name is not only extremely rare but way down the song.

Feeling very happy today-we had our kitchen power sockets re-wired yesterday. Some weeks ago I thought the washing machine was going wrong, as it kept tripping the circuit breaker; but it turned out to be the wall socket. So I've now got a nice line of new sockets. (When he took the old ones off, one of them was actually on the point of melting; so we got them done just in time)

Had a large crumpet with butter and milky coffee. Kids at school, DH shortly going to work.

Nice day but rain forecast most of week.

I have my second vaccine (AZ) next week. I’m hoping I don’t get any side-effects as I was a bit knocked out by the first.

I’m working from home today and staring out of the window at a horribly dreary and rainy afternoon. It’s so overcast I’ve had to switch the lights on. Bah.

No effects whatsoever from Moderna number one.

Dh is back for lunch from work and had steak sandwich with onions, Swiss cheese and peppers. DH is being told off by Silkiecat for taking the morning off and going to work. Selfish. Just having a cup of tea. Have been researching sixth forms and ehcps.

So this was a weird experience. Here they are now vaccinatng by age. So yesterday I spent an hour in a queue with about three dozen other people all exactly the same age as me. If someone had shown you the queue and said all these people have one thing in common, what is it, you would not have guessed in a million years. Some people looked twenty years younger than others. (I like to think I was somewhere in the middle...)

I suppose you just don’t tend to gather in age groups after you leave school really. I guess most of the people I socialise with regularly (lol, hark at me ‘socialising’, I mean chat to at the school gates 😂) must be roughly around my age because we have kids of the same age, but by the same age I mean somewhere within a decade or so. Not within a year or two.

I don't really know anyone my age in real life. I have Facebook friends from school and university, so they would mostly be around the same age, but I am not a friendly person and have few real life friends, so the people I see (saw) are DH's friends, who are younger because he is younger. At work I was pretty much the oldest person there (and definitely there longer than anyone else, that was actually a thing!)

I am also a very old mother so school parents generally much younger than me.