Super cauli-veggie-tastic-Vit C in high doses ! - 10/10 club - all welcome

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and dp is here anyway so I am just sitting in bed feeling grumpy and thinking "if I could have a day in bed without feeling pants that would be quite nice"

Hello, I am tired and too busy. Lots of love to everybody.

yes i am back...really tired, just tried to have a nap but got woken by scaffolders outside the window...i have started college too

holiday was wonderful made lots of friends...reality is not quite so hot

Welcome back zippi

sorry you have the post holiday blues

is there a thread about what it was like yet?

I am having crisis of confidence. And inability to make decisions.

I am going (I think) to work party. Am currently at home. Have showered, washed hair etc. Need to put on going to work party type clothes. Stiull not sure if I want to go or not but think I am going to. Especially as DH is coming home early to pick up DS and DD who otherwise would be abandoned at (lovely) childminders. And if DH found me here this would be not good.

There is a person I would like to see there but have mutually agreed not to see sigh. Franny, you will probably know who I am referring to. Still with 2,500 people there it should be possible to not see him.

It is DDs birthday tomorrow. I am worried I will end up being worn out and not fully up to the fun of a 2 year old's birthday. Also having problems as a year ago (ie on DDs 1st birthday) I was having various problems. More sigh.

Have eaten nothing good today. This is not good. Have also forgotten where I have put the dress, but have found small evenign bag.

I am worried I sound mad, and this is before drinking any alcohol .

I don't think I am completely mad. Hopefully not anyway.

And sorry for going on like this but I feel quite safe in here. If I posted this in the main body of Mumsnet it would be either (a) ignored or (b) someone or many someones would tell me I was mad .

Do you need to go? Just because dh is coming home? Can't you tell him you aren't feeling good?

I don't think you should go, Idris.

agree, doesn't sound like the gods want you to go to this do...

Franny, sorry you're feeling low. What does dh do? ie will he be able to get another job reasonably easily?

I don't know, FMF. I doubt he'll be able to get another job where they are so flexible and let him work from home on a Wed. I do my most lucrative work on a Wed, and ds has got too old to come with me really.

Oh LOL I do know what he does

I meant I don't know if he can get another job easily. He reckons the voluntary redundancy package will be quite nice.

hmm, the reduncancy packages have a habit of disappearing quite quickly. We have been through it twice, nature of dh's work.

It is, however, a great time to do something wild like travelling or moving to a commune?

Oh I empathise. for years dh has been own boss, working 2 mins from preschool/school/my work etc. Home at reasonable time. But lease is up on building in december, and he will be travelling to sheffield 2 or 3 days a week (possibly staying over) and my nice, cosy pop-in for a coffee, ''pick-up this from supermarket on way home''/''can you collect kids from school'' days are over. And I don't know what's going to happen. And he is extremely disgruntled and often comes home saying he's looking at another job. His is not brilliant money, but so convenietnt...

I used to be so ''go with the flow'' but as i get older, I hate change. Gah!

No it isn't really

My work is going really well, it has taken me 3 years to build it up to this level

Thanks for caution re: packages, I will tell him that

sorry cross posts

I meant it isn't a good time to travel

FMF, dp used to work 3 mins from our house. You do adjust, and there are advantages.

Idris are you there? You haven't gone, have you?

Yes, I can see that would be tricky if you are at a good point. It never times itself perfectly does it. I am at a sort of crossroads where I could go off and am feeling great urges to go off and do something different but dh is just getting a new internal job and so on.

Ds1 comes out of school every day looking exhausted, I hate it more and more. I am feeling urges to move somewhere close to an laternative type school or travel for a year but, there's always a but isn't there.

Yes indeed

I am trying to trust that it will all work out for the best - he probably wouldn't be one of the ones made redundant this time, but his days there are numbered we feel

and it is a commute to the city but such a convenient one - and they are very family friendly

Oh, does he commute then? This is the first year that dh has worked here, he's always been in London before. It was very hard when DD was a baby as he only came home Wednesday night and the weekend. Looking back I think it made me depressed at the time.

ds1's friend went to South America to travel round two years ago. His mother was a travel writer but I thought it was very brave. I think maybe things feel a little converyor belty atm. I must get my friend to hurry up and open a nice woodsy school here.

He does, but he leaves at 7 am (which i like, I wouldn't partic like him hanging about in the morning and then going) and then is back at 6.20 on 2 nights and 5.40 on 2 nights. And home on a Wed. We have it so much easier than most of my friends whose dps commute.

would anyone fancy being kind and calming me down about my forthcoming weekend? It's our trip to London with Hamleys and ds is so excited and I am terrified because a) I have not been to london by myself since i was a streetwise 18-yr-old
b) Ds's expectations are so huigh - it is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to him
c) I am terrified because all the responisbility for the trip's success is on me and I keep feeling all fearful about a trillion things

Thanks

fmv, you will be fine. All your old jauntiness will come back and you will be carefree and confident. You will have a splendid time.

I have been eating yellow tomatoes and yellow cucumbers from the garden
There is a lemon, honey and ginger cake in the oven and it is smelling wonderful.

Oh FMF, I can see it is a bit daunting

I think you will love it and have a marvellous time

Here's something I made earlier - well, with lots of help - for everybody who is feeling worried or upset or shrieked at or beaten up and who find {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}} a bit twee....
here

TT, thanks- that has made me grin on a shit day and distracted my attention from my whingy thread

lol

Blimey TooT that is something else

Fmv it will be just lovely.