April 2009 Episode 14 "Operation Kill is standing down."

[AuldAlliance]

Voici FWs!

Holly has said a few choice words recently

Don't want to say too much, but DH's bastard ex-boss spent last night and today being questioned by the police in connection w huge corruption case currently making national headlines. DH is well out of it.

Eek [off to google]

sod it, can ask for link to be deleted later:
here
ex-boss is not EC, but the legal bod mentioned in article
( by "national" headline I meant French, btw, not UK...)

Aha.

naughty boy

Oh wow, lots of good news! I'm so pleased for you bebe! (I just got home, after not eating all day, & I turned my laptop on to check on you before anything else )

& congratulations, BB :) So happy for everyone with good news :)

I've been at a funeral today. My first ever. It was for my great-uncle, who I didn't know very well at all. I didn't think that I'd be particularly affected. I sobbed. & now I'm crying again & I don't even know why. I don't even think it's about him. I'm 99% sure that it's not. I cried at the funeral because people I love were upset, & because it really brings it home that those people are going to die too. & my Grandma couldn't even go to the funeral, because she's at home as yellow as a Post It (not exaggerating) with some sort of undiagnosed liver problem. It doesn't feel like that's why I'm crying either, though. I'm just feeling really low right now. Everything all at once, I guess.

Also, I've been having fortnightly periods, with what I'm almost sure (apart from pesky logic) are ovulation pains. Which would make sense, but I have the Implanon thing in my arm. & as I understand it, they're supposed to inhibit ovulation, aren't they? Not that it matters, because I'm not having sex. Perhaps that's why I'm crying

Good gracious, it's all kicking off ;.)

Auld, that is one big news story.

Respect, this is normal. It will feel better in 1-2 days' time.

Bebe, so glad you have sorted the machine out.

OK ladies, a question. I had a really bad nightmare last night and I am still wobbly about it. What do you think this can mean??

I'm glad that it's normal, but nobody else seems to still be like this. & I was one of the people with the least 'right' to get like this. I don't know. Partly I just wanted to come home & cuddle George but he's with H tonight & I won't see him until tomorrow afternoon :(

What was the nightmare about? I sometimes have ones that bother me for quite a while. I had one 6 years ago that can still give me the heebie jeebies now.

I'm almost reluctant to say, but it involved three drunk builders breaking into my flat and they were about to assault me when I woke myself up.

I have had a run in with a sociopath recently.

Ooh, that sounds nasty. I suppose it's just a perceived threat to your boundaries, whether physical or not. Could it be that that threat from your real life is what's bothering you more than the dream itself?

Actually I was pretty cool about it in RL. The dream is probably telling me one bit of me isn't.

Where are all the Jungian therapists on MN when you want them?

Haha, I don't know. Put a shout out for them? How did you have a run in with a sociopath?

Can't discuss here.

How's your course going btw?

Ah, okay. Sounds intriguing. & meh. It's going. I don't like it. Hate it, in fact. I hope that'll pass. Apparently it happens a lot in second year. Especially when it's your 3rd year It just has no relation to what I want to do, which I'm only just beginning to figure out now, I dislike most of the people I come across on the course & it's destroying my love of reading. But other than that

Managed to get registered at the town hall so we can get a German Bank account (and Dh can get paid), and hopefully that means we'll have Germn health insurance soon too. One of Dh's colleagues said he'd translate and met us at the hall. And even tho we some how have lost our marriage certificate!! in the drive from home they accepted that we were married in part because my passport still has my 'father's name' on it as well as an amendment with my married name, and 2 visas (one expired) which I used to get into the UK which stated I'm married to Dh and thus allowed to enter the UK.
-So something worked for us- Yay!

Boff that dream sound dire. I have had dreams like that in the past because of past history I have. The last time I had one I could not sleep in the bed next to dh for 3 days I was so shaken up again. :( Poor man was very understanding and reassuring but hurt too that I was acting like I couldn't trust him. Deal honestly with your feelings, talk them out and see what steps you can take to make yourself feel more secure. (hugs)

RTD- thanks for checking in on me :)
School sounds drab. I went through a stage like that too where I was reading so many books and doing so many papers that all my joy for the content really left me. It does get so much better when you can finally get back to the content you love. Maybe take a little time to read a little bit of one of your favorite books to remind yourself why you love literature in the first place.
Funerals are strange things which can get under your skin in so many ways. They do as you suggest, make you aware of mortality, and how sad people are when others they love leave. I think after having Moo I've become even more sensitive to the fact that even she will be in the position some day and I feel sad. It can fill me with dread if I think too much about it. It is a good reason to give everyone you love a good cuddle and tell them you appreciate them. Take heart.

Moo's been very difficult these last couple days. Usually she's quite independent and will play for hours without much more than an occasional cuddle or reassuring 'good job.' With the sickness and the move however, she's clingy and whiny and very 'terrible two.' Not having all of her typical options has made her cranky....especially the forced exclusion of smoothie in her life; (I cannot find any anywhere -we're seriously considering getting a juicer so we can make some for her- but need to wait for money to come in) she's like an addict without her fix. It's not helping with my own stress levels. I've been trying to get her outside more too, but she's a bit meh about it as there's snow and ice everywhere in the parks (they're only tiny little things with a random climbing toy -not even a slide- which typically is too old for her to play on much) and she gets bored with it all. Hopefully we can find something to occupy her more.

Hope everyone has a good day. My little sister had her first baby last night via c-section and we're all very excited :)

Good morning

Do tightening pains in my chest indicate a chest infection? I have had a cold for past few days but keep getting this wierd sensation in my right side. Have never had one before so don't know.

Crossed posts. Good to hear things are looking up Bebe. Small steps forward.

i have had tightening pains or restricted chest/a stitch in my side with a chest infection/bad cold before.

GAH! Meg has some sort of rash on her torso...FFS

And now I've put the cheese in the dishwasher...and TURNED IT ON!!! might need to change my name to bebemoogoesbonkersinGermany

How's Meg, has the rash improved at all?

BB Congratulations
Bebe, thinking of you

Hi everyone else