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Need to rant... not coping today

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jampot · 02/07/2004 01:28

I have had such a crap day. It started off with ds leaking a pile of crap into his pants overnight after a dose of picolax last night for constipation - he's frigging 7 and I would have thought I'd stoppped wiping arses by now! My sister rings me early and wants me to go to the bank with her 'cos she's "lost" about 2k from her account and needs a statement and is inept at going anywhere on her own. I ask her to get here quickly as I need to dose ds up again with more picolax - she takes 2 hours and arrives looking like a tramp. DH is at work until 2pm so we have to take kids. Get back and everyone wants lunch (but they all want differnt). Try to get some housework done 'cos the house looks like a bombsite - dh comes home early in a real mood 'cos he thinks I've done nothing all day and starts whining and swearing at me. DD breaks the rabbit's food bowl so I have to go and get another at the same time sister wants to go to look at some tiles she's after and asks if I can go with her too. Dd decides she wants to come too and I really don't want her to. Sister drives but decides she needs petrol and takes forever choosing a cream floor tile from about half a dozen virtually identical tiles. Get home and spend 2 hours trying to pour picolax down ds's throat in the end resort to a senna/lactulose cocktail and loads of very angry looks. Dh tells me he's going to look for somewhere else to live 'cos I'm a lazy cow. In the meantime I've done all the ironing and a load of washing, made beds, tidied bedrooms, washed up, cleaned bathroom. This evening dd and ds just won't behave and when trying to get ds to bed he insists on asking about the inner workings of the human body.. I've got a headache and feel like crying.. and I know tomorrow we've got to start all over again.. sorry for ranting.

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codswallop · 02/07/2004 01:29

think oyur sister need to sort her life out?

Lisa78 · 02/07/2004 01:30

Jampot darling, what a horrible horrible day
Tell DH to shut the f**k up and get off his arse and help you
Then lock yourself in the bathroom and have a soak and a cry

jampot · 02/07/2004 01:31

me too coddy - she's my twin and I think I feel responsible for her (we're 35!). We went out last night (usually do once a month) and her dh came and sat with my dh who wanted a nice relaxing evening to himself as he had to get up at quarter to five this morning... I got it in the neck for that too...

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Lisa78 · 02/07/2004 01:33

and agree Coddy, sounds like your sis is taking the piss too

coppertop · 02/07/2004 01:40

At 35 she should be able to choose her own tiles and go to the bank by herself!

Perhaps if your dh got off his backside to help, the house would be a lot tidier!

serenequeen · 02/07/2004 01:45

sorry you have had such a bad day.

agree with other comments re your sis and dh!

handlemecarefully · 02/07/2004 02:19

I'd like to wallop your dh for you. Any chance of doing something daring and just taking off and staying in a motel for a couple of nights so that ungrateful dh has to cope without you? The hotels adjacent to motorway services only cost around £40 per night.

jampot · 02/07/2004 02:21

would love to but don't have the guts

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codswallop · 02/07/2004 16:59

Jammy

how is life today

cant you be out when your sioter rings?

get caller id on your phone

codswallop · 02/07/2004 16:59

and IS the housework too much?
do you need a rota ?

jampot · 02/07/2004 17:23

coddy - thanks for asking

I've managed to pour another cupful of picolax down ds's throat after much insistence.

My sis has already called today to ...wait for it..... ask if they rent their house out (they have some business trouble at the moment) could they come and stay here !!!!!! 3 bed semi ffs!!! I did explain that we have very little room already which she knows but that we are thinking of buying a house to rent out if she would like to rent it from us.

Strictly speaking the housework isn't too much its just that the kids are really quite idle and they do make a mess also dh thinks the house should look pristine all the time. We are waiting for our bathroom to be done and have our base cabinets in our dining room taking up a whole wall. DH bought some brakes for the car a few weeks ago and for some reason has left them in the dining room too as well as his fuel driven model car and all the associated packaging. He also started preparing the kitchen for decorating a couple of months ago and has left a load of stuff in the dining room too so I can't quite see the point in polishing and tidying around a pile of shite basically.... Also our bedroom eventually got decorated and is now waiting for the plinth to go on the wardrobe whereupon we can then get a new carpet. There's a pile of boxes (too heavy for me) to go to the loft on the landing along with the box of bathroom cleaning stuff which will go on the aforementioned cabinets when they eventually get installed....and the list goes on...

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Janstar · 02/07/2004 17:33

jampot, why don't you come and live with me. You can do my washing and ironing at your leisure, I promise not to ever moan and you can mumsnet for hours while I cook your dinner and pour you a drink.

These men have no idea...you may have to go away for a couple of days and leave him in charge to find out about reality.

clary · 03/07/2004 03:51

Jampot your house sounds like mine...stuff everywhere...just to let you know you are not alone!

codswallop · 03/07/2004 17:34

Jampster I would SERIOUSLY keep your soster out of any finanfcial dealings you have!

can you imagine? you would hav e to driver her to the bank every mohts to hget the rent out!

have you got caller id yet?

jampot · 04/07/2004 02:35

COddy - I have no intention of having them live with us at all. Firstly I like my privacy and secondly the house is too small, thirdly.... just no.

Yes I do have caller ID but have successfully ignored 2 calls this evening on my mobile only to just speak to her to find out she had broken down and couldn;t get hold of her dh - now feel bad but couldn't have done anything anyway

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Gingerbear · 04/07/2004 07:31

Jampot you have my sympathy,
point out to DH the boxes and ask him to put them in the loft since they are too heavy for you.
Also-HIS debris left in the dining room. Can't he shift that?
Started preparing the kitchen for decorating a couple of months ago?? Tell the lazy sod to finish the job then!!
Also point out that until the bathroom and carpet are sorted out then the other clutter can't be moved and he will just have to live with it!

No wonder you feel like its not worth while doing the housework!

(PS am suffering similar domestic bliss here - building work finished 3 months ago and am still living in pigsty - boxes piled high etc, waiting for wooden floor to be fitted)

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