Come and tell us your dull and unexciting news 32: 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.

Here is a link to the prior thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5148913-come-and-tell-me-your-dull-and-unexciting-news-31-calmly-through-the-day

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

Note there is one minor change to the thread title. "tell me your dull news" has been changed to "tell us...". I thought it was more in keeping with the spirit of the thread.

Mmmm frangipane. 😋

The belief was that holes in teeth were made by worms so they poked them with a red hot poker. This was to kill the worm but in actual fact killed the nerve so the patient didn’t feel the tooth ache anymore.

Oh. My. God.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it now.

Welcome to the newbies and returners.

Love the pictures Havoc wonderful events you go to.

Busy few days here, 2 days on a conference then sorting out lots of things. Went to lovely Christmas lights at the botanical gardens and met a neighbour there and had hot chocolate and cream after tartiflette there. Cleaners came today, Floof poked their hair from his shelf whilst they were doing the stairs but luckily they love him a lot and he loves them. Collected some things but having a nightmare with Currys who claim we collected an expensive item we ordered which we did not but have been charged for it, they won't refund or give item and also say we have finance on our account which we never have had. All very odd but rest of bank account is fine so suspect issue is Currys, have complaint in and one with bank but bank won't look at for 2 weeks. Never had issues with them before. DH went to Currys and said it was lots of bored 17 year old boys who didn't care about much running the store. Just hope can resolve it. I got a very chilled out webchat person who told me always be happy and just chill and enjoy life but couldn't solve it.

Pics are gorgeous, Penguinsa. But,
I got a very chilled out webchat person who told me always be happy and just chill and enjoy life but couldn't solve it.
I would likely see red, reach through the phone and slap them silly. 🤬🤭
Will post again after dinner...🤗

DD is making snickerdoodles to send back with DS, who is driving back to the coalface tomorrow. I have made up a package containing a third of the pumpkin pie and the pecan pie, plus the turkey drumsticks and a big chunk of dark and white meat. It's all out in the porch staying very cold overnight. Its -5 C tonight (22F).

The weather forecast for the western Appalachian states looks bad. I'm going to try to persuade DS to drive to Nashville and then east, avoiding snow on the mountain roads in Kentucky. He probably won't change his route all the same.

Math, safe trip to your ds. It sounds like you've given him quite the care package. 😋
I really should make pecan pie. I love it - especially chocolate pecan. I'm quite particular about it... I like more pecans to filling, ie 2/3 pecans and 1/3 filling.

Drove over to the North Shore, to West Vancouver, this afternoon for the Dundarave Festival of Lights at Dundarave Beach. Have been going to see the Christmas trees for years, but not always on the tree lighting day. It was nice to take the dc. Went to the Beach House restaurant afterward to treat Havoc to Ftench fries. I'm teaching how to behave in restaurants 😬 and Havoc did fairly well. Mind you, we don't stay for full meals yet. It's French fries only and we don't linger. Baby was pretty good, too. 😅

https://www.dundaravefestival.com

https://www.thebeachhouserestaurant.ca/menu/#food

I’m guessing you don’t have a feline overlord Maths, if I don’t lock up meat in the fridge I suspect it would disappear. That said I am well trained so they generally get their share. I had to google snickerdoodle but they look delicious.
Hope you get your Currys saga sorted Penguinsa, why do these things always happen when you super busy and want these things to run smoothly.
Eating out gets easier as they get older Havoc. There is a sweet spot where they will sit nicely colouring and are still young enough to eat from the children’s menu. Mine are now taller than me and like to try new things from the normal menu. I quite often get slightly puzzled looks from waiting on staff when I order a sausage butty and they order some weird fish dish.
It is December 1st and I have various advent things to open, hang and burn but am the only one up. Perhaps I am now the biggest kid in the house.

Hello new thread!
Havoc all your pictures look amazing and very festive.
Penguinsa hope the conferences were ok and job prep is going well, hope the Currys drama gets sorted.
Math hope your DSs journey is ok, he can snack on leftovers all the way home!
Dandy your story reminded me that in my last job I was looking elsewhere as I couldn’t afford to stay on current salary, had asked for a raise and been refused. I found another job and went to hand my notice in when lo and behold my boss suddenly found the means to pay me more! DH worked in the same place and it was after that we got together so I’m not sure whether I should thank my old boss or not for getting me to stay 🤔😁😁.

Hope all the Thanksgiving celebrations went well, sounds like you all had lovely days.
I have no real news, I’m very much enjoying reading everybody else’s though!

@MissConductUS
Those pesky apple pie eating kids!!!!!!

@sproutsandparsnips

Sadly I am not allowed to work much more than 6 hours a day 6 days a week max! They believe you should have a rest!!

In th epast I had done 7am to 8pm but not very regularly and they would not be willing to pay for anymore anyway.

@Penguinsa

Floof again has made me laugh! That reminds me when a friend of my mum's came around (Dad's boss' wife). She had a lacquered helmet of a hair do (think Ronald Regan's wife). Our cat that was around then was fascinated and kept patting her hair. She of course never noticed as nothing stopped her from talking mainly about her new kitchen and how much it all costed!)

@mathanxiety, I've just checked the weather radar. Eastern KY is getting light to moderate snow in a diagonal band, but the rest of the state looks clear. It sounds like you sent him off with a feast.

Penguinsa, when we get a delivery, the delivery person has to take a picture of the package, which is recorded with the GPS coordinates, just to prevent this particular nightmare. Good luck getting it sorted.

Shoes, I'm glad you found the new thread.

There is not much to report here. I did the readings in church this morning, and they were mercifully short and easy. I also decluttered two more cabinets in the kitchen, including the cat supplies cabinet. There was a lot of expired cat food that we tried at some point, and they didn't care for it.

DD made it home last night at about 11:30, which means that her flight was on time. Today is the peak travel day for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, so it's good that they got out yesterday.

Dandy I do indeed have a feline overlord, but the porch door remains firmly shut, not just because of Dcat but also to keep the cold out. We normally have to put the covered turkey back into the cooled oven after carving and while we're eating.

MissC yes, if DS ends up playing the game of 'am I still on the road' that is so often played on the wintery highways in this neck of the woods, he'll have plenty of highly calorific supplies to keep him going share with the bears. I added the majority of the mashed potatoes to his cooler.

Catching up on everyone's news 😺.

I am waiting for visit from 2nd rail person .

Inside rails got done this morning.
Unexpected 8.25 am visit !😲😲😂..

The phone number they have on record has 1 X extra number in it so we're unable to let me know in advance !

Then it turns out , that all the measurements and photos did not get passed on ...so the workman did not know where to put them !

I spent ages with the OT lady a few weeks ago working out the different heights and things ...
And then had to do it all again off the top of my head !

Using my height vs ds 's height!

One rail ...not quite how I would have wanted it aesthetically...
but ...I can't really complain .

Waiting for the outside people to come now.

Not got a clue what they are going to do !

Has a quick visit from ds and gf over the weekend .

It was gf birthday and ds has booked them meal and theatre tickets up town .
(He is such a sweetheart 🥰)

Mind you....handy doing West End Theatre and meal tickets when you have a free B & B down the road 😂😜😜!

Checked the time of visit ..
1pm -5pm.

So I am now in that really awkward stage if making sure I do not need the toilet any time soon 😂!

I can smell the untreated /unvarnished wood if the banisters !

I presume I need to wipe it over with some oil/treatment/varnish/colour???

I absolutely have no idea about aesthetics or homemaking !!

I can whip up 3x homemade world book day costumes no problem though! ( And win !! 🥰!...)

Ah, bizzey, you are so impressive! One of the things that makes me really grateful I never had kids was that I never had to make World Book Day costumes. The "requirements" for mothersparents to also be designers, seamstresses and the rest, compared to the demands on my mum in the 1970s are much higher these days.

I kindly asked my GP to change my HRT to a named oral version and spent more time than I wanted arguing for it online than I expected. It turns out the brand recommended by the doctor on Saturday was not on my GP practice's list. Having sorted that out, she wanted to warn me about blood clots (no family history, tiny risk) because my BMI is overweight. Let us not dwell on the application of a population measure invented in the Victorian era on an individual in 21st century Britain. But I had to point out I've lost 4st 2lb (58lb) in four years, and 2st (28lb) since May this year.

The end result is I have been prescribed oral HRT, just not the bioidentical version my other doctor recommended. I can pick up the prescription tomorrow.

DH had worked late last night to finish the coding necessary to demonstrate some software this morning. Apparently I woke him at 3am with an anxiety dream by sitting bolt upright in bed to look at the clock on his side. He decided to get up at 4am to finish the code. This woke me up but I was able to get back to sleep at around 6am.

The anxiety dreams are much more infrequent now and I shouldn't feel guilty but I still do. He has been a great support in the last six months and I hate that my severe anxiety has had an effect on him.

He then had the dressing on his hand changed today, which is a blessing because it really looked tatty after Wednesday's change. He arranged another dressing change for Friday at 10.45 but forgot that I have the car between 9.45 and 11.15 on Fridays. He was able to switch his appointment to Saturday at a local practice in the next town over that's part of the GP medical group.

I think I've become more than slightly agoraphobic since Covid. If I have to go out to an event, or to see someone, or for an appointment I can, but it's difficult to decide just to pop out to the supermarket if I haven't planned it.

Spent the rest of the day playing a computer game. Two tree surgeons coming tomorrow to quote to cut back the rowan.

Myrtle, that's sounding a bit challenging. Hang in there.
Bizzey, how's the progress with railings etc?
Math, Miss, have you recovered from your full tummies?😃

Christmas lights up on deck. Sorted lights last night for a few hours. Too many lights. Must decide to donate or recycle. Going to get tree today. I put a real one out on the deck instead of a tree indoors and cover it in lights and put a star on top.
Made ginger cookies on Sunday with Havoc.
Both dc have colds since last Thurs, but seem to be over the woest of it I think. 🤞
Has hampered getting Santa pics, though and Havoc hasn't been to "school" since early Oct as we were all sick in turns for about a month into November, then got busy, now sick again. 🤦‍♀️ It must've been covid in Oct because it lasted so long and the cough lingered.
We had 24hrs fog that has finally lifted and it's nice and sunny now. Temp is 5c.
So much snow back east, though!

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/ontario-town-still-digging-out-from-140-cm-of-snow-highway-to-reopen-soon-gravenhurst-opp-bracebridge-muskoka-snow-squalls

ps
Math, did ds make the drive okay?

Two tree surgeons visited today. One sent the quote before the second arrived but it was higher than last week's. We have now had three quotes and this afternoon's quote has to beat quote 2 from last week to get the work.

This afternoon's quoter also looked at the landscaping aspect and offered some thoughtful advice. I have now chosen my patio slabs, gravel and edging which will be yellowy/cream and terracotta to match the brickwork of the house. My DH is cautious about using this chap because he's a one man band and keeps his income below the VAT threshold whereas the other company is a full-fledged company. We'll see when the quotes come in. It won't just be the money but the cost is a factor.

Did the laundry today and bought a hanging mesh laundry basket to dry jumpers etc flat. It will really help as currently they dry on the table and take ages.

Tomorrow is an online coaching session and an evening online chat with a social group. It feels very 2020. DH is out at his work Christmas do, so I shall drink chardonnay and enjoy my social.

As it turns out the HRT prescription was dispensed with the very same drug I was fighting my GP for, so a very good day indeed.

Myrtle that sounds like a win!
My rule of thumb about quotes is to go with the second lowest.

havoc we've just about recovered, though we're still eating leftovers. I'm going to have to freeze some of the turkey. Tomorrow I'll have the last of the sweet potatoes and sprouts, some turkey, and cranberry sauce. Plus the last slice of pecan pie. There is enough pumpkin pie left for two sensible slices or one very filling one.
Ontario is certainly being socked. Hope your weather remains mild and hope the colds clear up

We have a howling wind tonight and it's below freezing. There is a dusting of snow expected between now and the weekend, and even lower temps than today for a couple of days, but the weekend will be above freezing and I can't wait.

Someone always needs a diaper change the moment I sit down to eat a hot meal. Why, God, whyyyyyyy? 😩

Lovely Christmas trees Havoc

Enjoying new job. Went swimming for first time since surgery tonight, its still quite restricted on what you are allowed to do and 11 weeks rather than 12 but managed 50 lengths (only 15m pool). I am only allowed breast stroke by surgeon as they don't want me stretching arms too much but I also did my chicken backstroke where you go on your back kick like backstroke and flap your arms. And doing chicken backstroke I was still faster than the men either side doing breaststroke. 😂Went to jacuzzi as well. DH just sat and watched on his phone as his hearing is bad again but seemed quite happy on his phone.
Still nothing solved with Currys.

DD home on Saturday which will be lovely and here until mid January. After swimming was walking up stairs at home and felt a strange sensation on my arm and looked round to see Floof on the shelf. Our Christmas tree has a trail of robins on the floor as he likes to knock them all off especially the one at the top.

Had a lovely evening at my online social with wine, chocolate covered ginger biscuits and sweet and salty popcorn.

DH has returned home after a Christmas meal etc and is snoring gently on the sofa. I'm seeing a childhood friend in London tomorrow lunchtime (after the dentist fits an onlay) so I suspect it will be me snoring on the sofa tomorrow night.

No discernible difference with the new HRT, but let's give it a chance.