MARTIANS 2014 thread 12: the one where we do nowt but eat.

[prambo2thereturn]

Oooh, double Corrie tonight!

Fox - I have found in the past two years of commuting that by late winter/early spring after several months of leaving in the dark and getting home in the dark that I get really down too, and I'm sure it's to do with lack of daylight.

Ice - I'm a bit like you in that sense I suppose. I don't know how I'd fill my day if I had 4 weeks off. I'd probably end up making myself worse. Too much thinking time, not enough doing time. And idle mind is the devil's play ground and all that...

Rock - thanks so much for sharing your experiences. I'll take your setting goals advice as the doc didn't give me much on how I should help myself, just said it was a good sign that I recognised taking time off might not be the best option and said he's hoping the symptom will settle once I'm more used to the hormones.

Welcome dizhin. I'm expecting to get my energy back when I give birth. (Although I have had an improvement recently which is very welcome.)

lyra, that's so lovely that the boys are really pleased about having a baby brother. And I hope the restaurant thing and house hunting/move go well too.

Jolls, I'm sorry to hear you've got those things but glad you've at least been diagnosed which hopefully means you'll get the right help/treatment for them both.

lumpy, I don't have SPD myself but having found HG support very helpful, I was wondering if you could share a link to the SPD support site you found both for the benfit of anyone here with it and so I can pass it on to friends with SPD?

Hugs imeg, I guess it is still hard to deal with no matter whether you knew it was a possibility or not and I'm sorry you were there on your own. Will your husband be able to be there when you see the consultant.

Comms - I do feel slightly reassured that I can now put a name to what's wrong I suppose. I'm supposed to be working from home today but have decided nobody will miss me for the afternoon while I have a look into coping strategies.

Fox - I was doing the unintentionally cheery thing when my face started leaking so know precisely what you mean. Must have been a right sight. The seasons do affect a lot of people...I'm infinitely happier in the summer, but am generally a really cheery person anyway. That's why this is so out of character for me.

Sorry I haven't replied to everyone individually...it's difficult remembering who said what while I'm on my phone. I truly appreciate everyone's concern. x

Imeg - sorry to hear you've had bad news.

Not sure if I've missed something but has Saggy been about recently? Hope she's ok.

I'd missed saggy to Jolls but I have a bit of a mental block sometimes with names and couldn't remember hers to ask.

Viewings went well this morning. I think we're going to take the first house. It's a bit on the pricey side but all houses are round here and living space is paramount for me. Hopefully taking the boys to see it this evening.

Any scan news due today> My memory is shocking at the moment.

Imeg I'm sorry to hear you've had bad news. I can totally see where you're coming from on postponing the next appointment.

Jolls I completely agree with Rock on setting small goals.

As for me, it's all mundane here except for baby clearly being in need of some chocolate

Imeg I think you are totally making the right decision waiting a bit before going for another scan. How is your DH feeling?

Jolls At least now you know and can work towards feeling a bit better. What has the doctor suggested you do by way of coping (apart from taking time off)?

To everybody else who's feeling ill/down - - I've only got one of each so you'll need to share!

Is it just me and Coolhand scanning tomorrow? Statistically speaking we should be having boys, but my (expert) nub theory looking at my own scan is that I'm having a girl

Oh and Lyra , glad to hear the viewings went well. Go on, let us have a nosy of the one you are choosing!

Right..I don't have long (I don't mean I'm dying, just that t'internet may well pack up any minute) so I will clarify a few things about home made gifts, seeing as Muddle & F&T now feel a bit crap:

1. If I know someone earns more than £13.5k per year I would consider their home made gift an insult. Spend some money, you fucking tramp. If the Kirstie Allsopp wannabe earns more than £25k and still thinks it is 'thoughtful' and 'original' to make her gifts she needs to know that the recipients are most definitely calling her a plethora of unsavoury names behind her back. And no, you are not an exception.

2. Fudge is the absolute pits and should only ever be gifted to musty-smelling octogenarians.

3. Dizhin, get your MIL tested for dementia. Welcome, by-the-way.

4. It is not 'quaint', 'kitsch' or 'original' to give someone under seventy home made jam. It is a fucking insult. Same with chutney. I do live near Tesco's, you know.

5. When the three wise men visited the baby Jesus they took gold, frankincense and myrrh, not cookie dough, a sock or fucking fudge.

Congratulations, Maybe!! Are you chuffed?

MummyPig, I am so sorry you are so stressed and this cyclist thing sounds a nightmare. Poor DH.

Lyra, your ex doesn't do stuff by halves, does he? Great that you have a cash solution; don't let that restaurant slip through your fingers. I hope you resolve the re-homing issue.

I will be cluster posting until I've read the entire thread up to date...

Lumpy, lovely, how is the bleeding?

crosses Pram off fudge list

Pram I'm not sure if your post will have made Faith or muddle feel any better... Welcome back, glad your internet is (maybe) fixed :)

PE kits: we didn't have them at our school 'cos no-one would do PE, what with all the female PE teachers being lesbians

I beg to differ Pram. If someone made me fudge whether they earned £10K or £100K I would be well chuffed. I love fudge, me.

I actually once was given shop bought chutney as a Christmas present. I had been telling my friend about a specific type of chutney Sainsbury's used to do and had discontinued and how I had really loved it an missed it and she happened upon it in her local speciality shop so bought it for me. I really appreciated it.

I was also once given a HM Christmas pudding by a friend who knew I was too ill to make one, that I prefer HM ones and that for various reasons having the "right" Christmas pudding was especially important to me that year. She even tailored the recipe to what she knew about my family's tastes. It was honestly the best present I received that year.

This is why it is about knowing your recipient.

And personally I hate fudge but I don't mind receiving it as DH loves it so he can eat it.

Happy anniversary, Marbie!

Imeg, I am sorry this news appears to be worse than you thought. I'm thinking of you and a bit ashamed that I really don't know what else to say. I hate platitudes x

Jolls, sorry to hear you're depressed. Don't knock being off; it's fucking brilliant. Not stretching one's intellectual capacity is astonishingly liberating. And just think of all the fudge you could make....

BWP, your friend sounds exceptionally thoughtful and not the knid of person I was slagging off at all. Nor would I slag off F&T (because she once pm'd me a very kind message and she is lovely) or Muddle (because she is, after all, a supermodel). I hope, by now, you know that my most sardonic and intolerant and judgy-pants posts are largely tongue-in-cheek. I myself find them hugely amusing. I am sorry that some of you do not.

I still think jam, fudge and chutney gifts are shitter than shit. I hope there are no 'trigger words' in this post...

Lyra, Game Of Thrones: what the bloody fuck??! Ned's had his head chopped off and Drago's a fucking cabbage?!