thread in which the Mentally Normal sustain a stream of fascinating chat

[Mitchy1nge]

and die of being cold

Haha. Yep. That did make me laugh. Sorry.

how is #3 home already? have only just finished lunch

didn't I drop her off a minute ago? is a 35 mile round trip

Did she do her exam?

• how is #1 doing now?

Therapiat just texted me and put a x at the end. Awkward
I once put a x at the end of a text to her, but I was off my tits on morphine at the time

LT does that for me if I'm upset/a bit needy/not in a good place - could it just be that she thought you would appreciate it?

Funny: OH once asked me to text his mate from his phone (he was driving) and pretend I was him
I accidentally put a x at the end, thought "arse", then decided to keep quiet so deleted the sent tect
Friend then replied to the text with a x at the end and OH commented it was odd, but now they just sign off x
I still haven't fessed up....

she missed one exam but did the other, said it was shit and that she did not answer the questions

things have been tense with #1, we had a big row and she has only just started speaking to me - she had a psych appointment yesterday and I hope she went

Oh dear, hugs for you.

Is #1 doing GCSEs? They are rubbish, I have hardly any yet have postgrad degree.

thanks :)

yes, she missed all of yr 9 and chunks of previous years, but started at a medical unit with other anxious and autistic types for yr 10 where her attendance has been much better (but is still shit) and now yr 11 is same sort of place but in a different place

the awkward thing is that she is very able but can do only a few of the subjects she wanted, and her results probably won't reflect her abilities and as someone with a bit of an obsessional, perfectionist streak she finds this hard and tends to shut down completely rather than risk a mediocre result

^^ I used to do that (still do in fact)

I missed masses of yr 6/7/8/9 to care for my mum.
Being a teenager is shit, too.

Can you teach her to knit and then make money from her not being in school? Have just sold booties for £££ which have taken v little time.

What's the latest job/car/mentally Millie?

((( mitchy )))

Those jokes were amusing. I've got QI on now.

Car passed MOT :D
Have been signed off for another 4 weeks, have to make an appt to see Occ health, want to finish work in the longer term

That's great to hear re: car Good luck with occy health.

Hooray for car! Is there any more news since yesterday about work/dh?

I'm winding the friend up about her hairdresser because I'm in a pissy mood. Usually I am a lovely friend, but have stopped being nice to this one and so being a bit ruder than I should.

Snowy we have all the QI books, they are great fun to read when you need something short. I have learnt a lot. The podcasts are good too.

Thanks for the tip re:podcasts and books, I didn't know about those

The books are often in charity shops- I think they are given as Christmas gifts a lot. V popular here.

It's going to snow in 14 minutes according to my phone. SO exciting.

Rain here soon, snow is definitely more exciting.

My work here is done. I love slacker half days.

Snow forecast here tonight. I'll believe it when I see it.

3/4 of people in my house are home, we are all on slacker days here.

we might possibly have a tiny bit of snow in the night

just had small mental breakdown over notice on running club's FB page that tonight will be cancelled if temp not above freezing but that only referred to the juniors - phew

am definitely not in the junior group

although surely they are much less likely to crack a hip if they slip on the ice?

Haven't left the office yet but I'm on my way. My turn to cook tonight. Might do my take on The Omelette.

They will be smaller and so will suffer more with the snow.