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WildRosie · 2022-12-23T22:06:00+00:00

Michael Buble singing some shitty Christmas song that I can't hear properly. Maybe that's a blessing but I can tell it's him. Coming straight after Nat King Cole singing The Christmas Song (chestnuts etc) it's an affront. I'm in a busy pub, by the way, and that isn't an annoyance 😉.

MrsTumblebee · 23/12/2022 23:09

The3rdWatermelon · 23/12/2022 22:36

First Christmas with a new baby (9 weeks old). I’m still suffering post-birth complications and am on antidepressants for migraines and PND. We’ve been the ones driving up and down to relatives’ houses and ferrying drunk people about every Christmas Day for the past 10 years or so. Now we have our baby we’ve planned a day at home, in our pyjamas, eating party food that you can just whack in the oven for 15 minutes. Now relatives are upset that we’re “ruining Christmas” by not visiting them on the day and not driving them about, and are making plans for Boxing Day for us to drive all over the place instead and I kind of wish we’d just resigned ourselves to a shitty and exhausting Christmas Day as usual. At least it wouldn’t drag it out!

You don’t have to do this. You really don’t have to do it. Just say no and enjoy the day as you want it to be.

ohfacksake · 23/12/2022 23:09

ohfacksake · 23/12/2022 22:39

DD was asleep but has woken up because she's hot. Now "can't sleep" and I still have fuck loads of presents to wrap and this is the last night to get it done 😩

I've now been sat with Homer for an hour and she's still not asleep. If she nudges my hand for tickles one more time, I think I might cry!! 🥲🥲

ohfacksake · 23/12/2022 23:10

*her, not Homer. Definitely not Homer 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

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WildRosie · 23/12/2022 23:10

My minor annoyances are very minor, by comparison. I wish you all strength and success.

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SaveMeCheezus · 23/12/2022 23:11

I got slightly pissed at lunchtime, had a nap and have been too hungover to enjoy the first evening of our Christmas break with DH (who is snoring beside me on the couch anyway).

gawditswindy · 23/12/2022 23:11

DH is sick. Not really sick, just a bit of a cough, slightly raised temperature, dressing gown of doom level sick.

I don't really have time for DH to be sick atm.

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 23/12/2022 23:19

dogtheted · 23/12/2022 23:04

I request 4 in mine 😂

DH tells me it's against the cocktail rules. Then I ask for 6.

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4 seems completely reasonable. 6 is approaching fruit salad, and that’s just looking after your health.

ILoveNigelTufnel · 23/12/2022 23:32

My partner (13 years living together and he doesn’t often get ill) has a really bad cough. He has had it since last Saturday.

He won’t take anything for it and he won’t stop f-ing coughing. It’s not a quiet cough either, its a really loud bark. We’ve got cough mixture, paracetamol, ibuprofen and a whole heap of other stuff but he won’t take any of it.

I’ve come to bed and I can still hear him downstairs.

My sympathy has worn so thin, it has now gone. Not because he is ill but because he is doing NOTHING to help himself feel better and then complains that he feels really poorly. If only there was something he could do to help himself feel better…
🤬
Obvs I need to LTN (leave the nitwit)!!!! ARGH!!!

Gruffalo101 · 23/12/2022 23:36

My puppy keeps eating my clothes/cardigan and I just want to cuddle him.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 23/12/2022 23:50

I thought my cough was getting better but I'm now in bed and it's back

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 23/12/2022 23:51

Oh and my new kitten would rather keep attempting to climb the Christmas tree and chase his 2 older cat sisters than just come and snuggle on my knee like a "normal" cat

monsteronahill · 24/12/2022 00:01

There's a baby on my flight currently - about to go into two hours of turbulence.

NannyGythaOgg · 24/12/2022 00:05

My toilet roll perforations only go 2/3 of the way across the roll. Every single sheet won't tear correctly. Second roll in the pack to be like this, so all my guests are also going to have to cope with none tearing toilet roll. AND those who just expect it to tear easily will undo half the roll, giving it a tug.

Chickydoo · 24/12/2022 00:07

DH just informed me he is playing golf tomorrow. Apparently he will be back by 3 & do some jobs then.
Meanwhile leaving yours truly to prepare for the onslaught of guests. Making beds, cooking etc.
I would like to shove his fecking golf club where the sun doesn't shine.
He is in the spare room tonight!!!
Probably for the rest of 2023 at this rate.

ChristmasSparkleTastic · 24/12/2022 00:16

Evri not delivering. So so sick of them.

plominoagain · 24/12/2022 00:26

Having to go back out to Sainsbury’s for some bits left off the online order , and then the in store music at about 300 decibels appearing to be the experimental jazz Christmas playlist . Trying to find sage leaves to the sound of some bloke jumping up and down on his trumpet is not conducive to goodwill to all .

Yayyayitsaholiholiday · 24/12/2022 00:28

Husband keeps leaving stuff on the side in the kitchen, then claiming it’s ‘decorative’.
I took the bottles of balsamic vinegar up to his room and dumped them on the shelf there and told him that anything ‘decorative’ could be so in his room. Anything that was a consumable needs to be in a cupboard in the kitchen.
He took them down and put them away in a cupboard……..

I’m also taking the tactic of hitting him over the head with toilet rolls he takes and then leaves on the side in the kitchen. He told me that I’m ‘nagging’ when I ask him to use tissues, not rolls of bog paper, in the kitchen, so rather than subject him to my voice, a loo roll on the side of his head it is………..

yourjustnotfunny · 24/12/2022 04:19

Someone calling me a tosser on Mumsnet🤭

demotedreally · 24/12/2022 04:26

We were expecting a bathroom delivery to be collected. Returned because it is all wrong. We put it in the hall.

Apparently the delivery company "probably went home early" yesterday.

It will be nice for our guests to walk over a bathroom to get in. We can't easily get it back into the loft to store....

Ozgirl75 · 24/12/2022 07:42

My 22 year old has been on and off grumpy today and I can’t figure out if it’s:

Because he’s 12
Because we’re spending a year in the U.K. from Aus and he’s worried about it
Because he didn’t sleep all that well last night
Hangry

So could be nothing or a big thing and I can’t tell.

Ozgirl75 · 24/12/2022 07:42

12 not 22!

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The3rdWatermelon · 23/12/2022 22:36

First Christmas with a new baby (9 weeks old). I’m still suffering post-birth complications and am on antidepressants for migraines and PND. We’ve been the ones driving up and down to relatives’ houses and ferrying drunk people about every Christmas Day for the past 10 years or so. Now we have our baby we’ve planned a day at home, in our pyjamas, eating party food that you can just whack in the oven for 15 minutes. Now relatives are upset that we’re “ruining Christmas” by not visiting them on the day and not driving them about, and are making plans for Boxing Day for us to drive all over the place instead and I kind of wish we’d just resigned ourselves to a shitty and exhausting Christmas Day as usual. At least it wouldn’t drag it out!

Oh god....tell them all to fuck off.

Stay at home. turn off your phone. Eat food and DO NOT FEEL GUILTY.

Essexexile · 24/12/2022 10:53

00100001 · 24/12/2022 08:16

Oh god....tell them all to fuck off.

Stay at home. turn off your phone. Eat food and DO NOT FEEL GUILTY.

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Absolutely this ^^

Anotheanon · 24/12/2022 11:13

@The3rdWatermelon please take the advice given above.

Jules912 · 24/12/2022 11:26

DD has been ill but recovered today, so of course DS now has whatever she had.