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I'm feeling really low atm - please cheer me up

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:19

Don't know what's up with me - but I'm going through one of my "nobody likes me" phases at the moment. I suppose it's down to a total lack of confidence which, to my surprise, seems to be getting worse as I get older. The problem is, I see every little slight as a deliberate attempt to shut me out, even when logic tells me that it's simply not true! Please can you cheer me up a bit - even telling me to shut up and stop moaning may do the trick!

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Turquoise · 20/09/2004 18:21

Have a look at the school gate thread Miaou - you are not alone!
How's your hall turned out?

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:23

Turquoise - are you mixing me up with Mieow? My hall remains untouched....

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fio2 · 20/09/2004 18:24

i am sure lots of people like you, you just havent met them yet

fio2 · 20/09/2004 18:25

or you have met them but they havent said how much they like you, which i am sure they do

Turquoise · 20/09/2004 18:25

Hell - I'm sorry ! I am a cretin.
But I do empathize - I even feel "everybody hates me" when I kill a thread on MN (very, very often).

sweetkitty · 20/09/2004 18:26

i'm feeling the same today miaou, DD grumpy, me coming down with cold, phonecall from my mother telling me about her friends daughters wonderful twin boys, fabulous 4 bed home, i'm stuck in cramped 2 bed flat that no one wants to view.

Feeling really sorry for myself today - we can be miserable together.

roisin · 20/09/2004 18:28

Is this the Miaou who lives on a remote scottish island with not many people?

I sometimes think only about 10% of people I know particularly like me, so 10% of 36 - or whatever it is - would not be very many in my case! I can't imagine how the 'social-thing' works with such a small community ...?!

PS I like you. (And when I mentioned to my dh the other night a mumsnetter and a remote island, he said "So when are we going to visit, then?"! Do your mum's holiday cottages have a website?)

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:28

Thanks sweetkitty - we could set up a misfest.

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carla · 20/09/2004 18:29

Miaou, FWIW, I like you . Know what you mean though .. if a mum at school doesn't talk to me on a particular day I'm convinced I'm horrible/saddo. Hang on in there!

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:31

roisin

Aw, you were talking about me.... now I feel loved!

Here's the web page for the holiday houses on the island (not my mum who owns them though)

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twogorgeousboys · 20/09/2004 18:33

Miaou, I felt like this about a week ago. Funnily enough, I was going through a particularly bad "thread killing" patch. The more I posted the worse it got!

Am more philosophical now - it may be that having said something profoundly witty/funny/intelligent/insightful, others were lost for words .

nutcracker · 20/09/2004 18:33

My confidence has got worse with age too, weird isn't it.

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:34

Glad it's not just me Carla. Felt very left out this afternoon when two parents were arranging a playdate for their kids (there were only 3 of us picking up kids), particularly as one parent had offered to have mine over the weekend but then didn't (for various understandable reasons, it's just me being a miserable old cow)

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Turquoise · 20/09/2004 18:34

But that's who I thought you were! Now I don't know who I was talking to, and obviously should lay off the booze. I like BOTH Miaou/w s.

colinsmommy · 20/09/2004 18:35

Miaou- I absolutely adore you in a never met you but think you're quite amazing kind of way. I think it must take a special kind of person to live on the Isle of Muck, and I know I'm not that special, but you are.

Now SHUT UP AND STOP MOANING. You said to say it, so I did.

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:36

Wow nutty there's no hope for you when you hit my age then!

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sweetkitty · 20/09/2004 18:36

oh and my mum said "x the friends daughter) got a present for her babies from everyone in her street she must be well thought of, as opposed to me who got no presents from my neighbours cos I'm not liked (i am in London in a flat don't know my neighbours other flats all rented to foreigners another reason for the move)

I always phone/e-mail my friends more than they do me.

colinsmommy · 20/09/2004 18:36

Oh, and if it makes you feel any better DS keeps saying your name over and over right now. (He's busy yelling at the cats. He knows they say meow)

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:36

CM

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:37

tgb, I get like that about posting. Tbh it has taken me about 3 days to pluck up the courage to begin this thread because I was worried about how I would feel if no-one replied

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:39

Ouch sweetkitty - yep I know how you feel. On my birthday last year no one remembered at all, this year one person said happy birthday and one other person gave me a card. Yet everyone else here gets presents from others (I give them too). I know it sounds materialistic...but I can't help feeling sad about it.

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roisin · 20/09/2004 18:40

I'm relieved it's you! I was shocked the other day to realise there is a Mieow on here as well, and I was worried that I'd been mixing you both up for months!

Thanks for the link ... I must admit the replica Mongolian Yurt and the American Indian Tipi have got me in hysterics. Not the sort of accomodation I would be looking for in that part of the world!

nutcracker · 20/09/2004 18:40

I know Miaou, i'll be shutting myself in a box at 30 at this rate

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Miaou · 20/09/2004 18:43

Roisin, the yurt and the tepee are....interesting. Not for the fainthearted!

But the cottages are nice. And spotlessly clean (I should know, I clean them )

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kalex · 20/09/2004 18:43

MIaou,

I for one think you are fab, to move to a tiny island takes a very special sort of person, Isle of Muck is on my list of placs to visit, and you sound like my kind of person, if I ever manage the thought of taking a trip to anywhere with just me and the kids, I promise I'll arrange a play date with u. The one that includes wine for us and ignoring the kids