I Started Pumpkin I Couldn't Finish - 10 / 10 club

[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

*Not in an aerobic sense, although that would scare them off pretty quickly.

Perhaps you need to go out and find some new ones? Do you think? Are you doing playgroups and things? Sorry, I forget how old your dcs are.

Lionheart

lol @ aerobic movements. It was the lycra and the exercise mat that did for you.

Do either of you want some friends? I quite like having them, but I only have a couple of very, very close ones.

Though other people can be a strain. Hmmm. I think we need to get you out there Lionheart.

I'm partly sad about it but also fortunate to have lots of family nearby (a sorority, in fact).

It's finding friends you can be really comfortable with. Friends you have to worry about and tidy up for are hard work.

Worry about socially, I mean.

Oh yes that's good. I have a useless family.

Worry in what way? What will they think of me? Or - OMG I do hope Mary won't strip again like she did last time?

Oh, I don't know. I suppose I'm just scared of some people. I'm not really very sociable. And I hate feeling obligated.

I suppose the good thing about MN and the like is that you can cut straight to the conversation (and daftness) without worrying about one's personal appearance, or the state of the carpet, or whether the cup of tea you have made somebody is actually vile and they are too polite to say. And if you can't think of anything to say, it doesn't matter because people are not waiting in such an immediate way. And for all they know you could be attending to a child or answering the telephone.

Yes, obligation is horrid and also lots of people are very boring, and not worth anyone wasting their time on.

Someone is letting off fireworks outside. FGS it's one celebration after another

Oh yes, some people are boring. Isn't that awful?

I know I'm crap at making tea. I know it.

Yes. But then I'm boring to some people, and other people think I'm okay, so I suppose it all goes on like that. The man who is talking about roads and whose eyes I want to rip out, is considered a fascinating conversationalist by somebody else. I comfort myself with this thought.

i think I'm being boring now. I must go to bed and continue on with the dire book. I'm near the end. After last night I skimmed it, and that was quicker and less painful.

You're not boring. You make me laugh out loud.

Like this:

And I Very Rarely laugh out loud.

Oh FGS woman, your tea is delicious, your baking frankly dreamy and all your decisions are sound and perfect.

You are fine.

Besides doesn't everyone have stains on their carpets? Don't they? I do, all up the stairs, dh's coffee, up he goes, slop, slop, slop, then mud and play dough and more coffee.

We will only be friends with people with stains on their carpets.

Oh dear, x post where you were being nice and generous and I started getting Anne like with you.

Ok. Good night. I am going to count the stains on my way up. I may be some time.

And your moustache suits you beautifully [winkj]

That is obviously some kind of Eastern European wink.

Oh no, you're not boring, 100x.

I know what you mean about being obligated, TooT.

I like MN for those reasons too.

And is feeling obligated worse than thinking you may be obligating somebody else? It's a minefield.