Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 29: 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.

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4967206-come-and-tell-me-your-dull-and-unexciting-news-28-calmly-through-the-day

Welcome to all regulars, lurkers, and new contributors! Everyone is welcome to join.

Wishing you well for tomorrow, MissC.

Very belated birthday wishes, Penguinsa.

Hope pre surgery goes well MissC

Floof loves attention and counts 3 out of 4 being home as home alone unless all 3 are by him. Loves attention so much he trills if you wake him in the night to stroke him. He is coping better than expected mainly as I gave him 2 tunas and he slept by me last night and he has been trilling but not as much as when we were all home. Start of the night he was sleeping by DHs soft toy sheep 🐑 like sheepy didn't leave me but I called him to me and then he was in with me and happy.

Done some hoovering and watched Below Deck. DH and DD will be back from Oxford around early evening hopefully with a Toby carvery roast dinner.

Glad you had a lovely time with your friend Havoc DS copes very well with people leaving during the day, need to leave food and drink, infact he seems to make most progress when less people. He takes baths then, brushes his hair, shaves and appears to have used the oven to make garlic bread when we were out for a walk. So he's up to toaster, microwave and oven now. He's been looking up murder / romance books again though doesn't seem to have read them but might mean we can work on books next. He seems to do one thing at a time. He may have stroked cat as well as Floof had a very buttery fluff at his back. I wish he would interact more but I think that will come later, DD and I have both had eye contact recently but quite starey / anxious.

Thanks Maths Glad you had a good Easter. Love Thai curry.

I sadly never heard back from Prok and just did a search on her name and sadly she passed away on 23rd January at 61.

So desperately sorry to hear about Prok. What a lovely woman she was. I have missed her on this thread. Sending condolences to her family.

I'm also so sorry to hear about Prok. She added so much to these threads. I pray that she is at peace.

Havoc, my surgery is scheduled for April 18th. They were able to book me in very quickly, which is why I had to get the presurgical exam done with anyone available to do it.

After the physical exam, they will probably send me off for blood work and an ECG, so I'll likely work from home for the rest of the day. It's still raining here. Upstate New York and parts of Massachusetts are supposed to get a foot of snow on Thursday, but it's almost all rain here.

Lovely to hear about other people’s Easter. We had a very quiet one, I was so looking forward to roast lamb, but searched two freezers and realised we had already eaten it last month. It was slow cooked beef for us then. I think I missed the mint sauce more than anything.
MissC hope the presurgical goes Ok. My blood pressure usually shoots up on these occasions. I have to have it done after I’ve calmed down for a while.
ooh Penguinsa we watch Below Deck as well. Is it the one with Jill Z being an obnoxious guest (not primary, as it kept saying 😂)? Just watching Pilgrimage at the moment. I have quite eclectic tastes when it comes to television and books. I was up until 4 this morning, reading a great book on my kindle app on my phone, in bed. I finished it this afternoon 24 hours after buying it. I have got another 5 on the go, real books and kindle, 3 children’s books and 2 adult books, upstairs and downstairs.
Tilllly I’ve got a couple of Chalet School books on the go, one EBD and one fill in, which I really enjoy. In between I’m reading The New Chalet Club Journals.
This afternoon I went to get some mince from the freezer and grr, someone left the door ajar yesterday. Thankfully my OH went and sorted it out for us, emptying the drawers, throwing out the thawed food and mopping the floor, so it’s thawed pizza and garlic bread for him! I’ll stick with soup and a sandwich!

Very sad news of Prok. I hope she felt at peace and had no pain.

We have a dreary day of sleet here, with snow north of us. I'd prefer snow tbh.

I'm heading out to see if I can rustle up a pair of eclipse glasses at Walmart. I took the afternoon off for a mammogram and potential ultrasound, which they warned me could take up to three hours (no ultrasound needed in the end). I'm hoping to get the special glasses before they're sold out.

So sad to hear about Prok I have missed her gentle wit and wisdom. I’m glad she is at peace and no longer in pain.

math love a good prayer to St Anthony, glad the saintly intervention came through for you!

Sorry to hear about PROK. I suspected as much. My friend passed back in February but she could be quite toxic so it was hard but it went well in the end. I still have some flowers over from the funeral - those small white ones Gypsophilia? but I should chuck them now.

Well I am going to give myself a pat on the back as today I decided to go for a walk (not done that since before Covid). I walked along the river and cross the road to King Street but by them my knees had had it (before, I was crossing through Ravenscourt Park and through to Shepherds Bush). But I guess I could not push myself today. May do the same tomorrow!

Before I was so unfit I would dive onto every bench along by the river and I knew I had done well when I no longer needed to sit down. I will never be a runner/jogger as I am too clumsy and tend to veer from side to side whilst walking. Mum did this too so we nicknamed her 'Vera!'

Bloody hungry but soon be racing home to watch Married at First Sight AUS version. I won't get home until 08.45 so have to watch it on E4 plus one but even so I miss bits but can catch up at weekends when they repeat it! Dinner will be yet another pouch of rice nuked!

Yes its very sad about Prok and miss her too.

Well done on your walk Death that's a great achievement.

Yes that's the one Uman

Hope surgery goes well on 18th, impressive how quick it all happens over there MissC

DH and DD have been in Oxford today and arrive back in an hour or so with a Toby carvery roast. Just hoovered all the upstairs mainly Floof's fluff. Got a TV licence again so can watch BBC again and have been watching programmes about trains in Scotland / UK Great British Railways and also University Challenge.

Really sad to hear about Prok's passing. F-ing c.

That's v sad news about Proks passing. May she RIP.

A very very belated happy birthday to you @Penguinsa . Glad you enjoyed it.

Am commencing my annual springcleaning this afternoon. A couple of hours weekly until the deed is done.

Welcome, @Augustus40, and thanks for sharing your spring cleaning news. You have inspired me to plan out mine, but with all of the wedding tasks at hand, it will not be a top priority.

We had some wet snow here, but it was too warm for it to stick. Upstate New York did get a foot of snow, and DD probably got quite a lot at uni.

My presurgical exam yesterday was normal, the EKG was normal so just waring on the blood work to come back to be cleared for surgery.

Penguinsa, regarding the quick scheduling, this area of New York has excess hospital and surgical capacity for a variety of reasons, so it's normally swift to get things booked. Hospitals here compete for patients, and some even advertise on television to attract patients.

this area of New York has excess hospital and surgical capacity for a variety of reasons, so it's normally swift to get things booked. Hospitals here compete for patients, and some even advertise on television to attract patients.

Wow Miss, sounds like a dream come true for healthcare.. here in Ireland we have the complete opposite- people are genuinely afraid to be referred to hospital as it has been one horror story after another.
University hospital Limerick is close to me and is the worst in the country at the moment.
The corridors are full of people waiting on trolleys, not to mind the wards.
Wishing you well for the next procedure.

halfpast, we get a lot of well-to-do patients from the UK and the Republic of Ireland who fly to New York for medical care. It's actually a big business here—most wind up at either New York University Medical Center or Mount Sinai Hospital. The Hospital for Special Surgery is also a popular destination for specialized orthopedic treatment.

The downside is that maintaining that excess capacity is expensive, which is why we spend much more per capita on it than you do. If you have good medical cover, like I do, it is a nice place to be when you need care.

DD has just texted me to let me know that her crew meet this weekend has been canceled due to the snow in upstate NY. She's thrilled, as it spares her a very long bus ride on Sunday.

The replacement driver's license that I ordered arrived today, so now I have an embarrassment of photo IDs.

DD has sent me a few videos of wild weather in Boston. Very few of her classmates made it to class today, apparently. The sleety rain continues here.

I managed to find the eclipse glasses so DD and I have a pair each. I hope the weather will improve by Monday.

We've just had a bloody earthquake.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-new-york-new-jersey

They're pretty rare here. The last one I recall was about 10 years ago.

MissC, Whaaaaat? 😳

It's probably off-topic for this thread. 😄

Apologies.

Yes, an earthquake is definitely a bit exciting!

We had one once, in the Home Counties. We were having building work done at the time and there was scaffolding round the house outside. I was woken up in the small hours by the sound of it rattling. Apparently the epicentre was in Shropshire somewhere (a long way away from us).

I'm about 100 miles from the quake's epicenter this morning in New Jersey.

It wasn't that dramatic. The building shook a bit, but not enough to knock anything over.

I remember one in the UK. I was sitting up in bed breastfeeding in the middle of the night, it felt and sounded like a train had passed through the room. We have a tall house and I could feel the sway. I shook DH awake in a panic and he said sleepily ‘it’s just an earthquake’ and went back to sleep!

We had an aftershock, about an hour ago. It was much less severe than the earthquake this morning.

I've discovered a leaky pipe in the basement, but it probably has nothing to do with the earthquake.