Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

BD, I wish I was feeling sick and not wanting to eat!

Yes, I get all the symptoms but no visit. Or a visit at a different time. Black mood / red mist seems to be on me nearly all the time And my waist measures 2" more than it did a year ago

Also feeling restless, but not really sure why.

I am hyper-critical woman on a short fuse. I am a delight to live with, I'm sure. I also suffer from hellish anxiety and worry about anything and everything and this makes me even more crabby. I remember my mother being EXACTLY like this, and then coming out the other side of the menopause as a more reasonable human being. I dare not try HRT, though, as hormonal contraception and I do not get on, so I avoid any kind of hormonal interventions like the plague.

I try that serenity (hahaha) thing of accepting the things I cannot change, trying to be brave enough to change the things that I can and hoping for the wisdom to know the difference etc etc blah blah blah. This usually lasts for the duration of a dog walk. As soon as I am back in real life, I change back into an anxiety-ridden evil old bag. O joy.

Me too

I am just praying the HRT works

Strop, have you thought about trying homeopathy? One of my post-menopausal friends swears by it for the meno.

I tried homeopathy once, but I think the fact that I believe it to be a load of old bollocks stopping it from working

Gah, "stopped" - my poofreading skills are deteriorating :)

Oh bum, I also forgot who I'm talking to. Before anyone jumps on me for non-PC language to: "poofreading" is an in-joke from a forum I am on to do with my work. Some guy asked for advice for rates for a "poofreading job" and has never lived it down...

I can now add "dithery-old-lady confustion" to my list of woes.

we sound a lovely bunch! I am secretly heartened that I am not the only one!!

We should congratulate ourselves on not having had a flaming flouncy row, you know.

confustion? Jeez, I'd better go back and proofread this morning's work output again. And book a sight test (overdue).

poofreading

Stroppy - I also think homeopathy is a load of codswallop; I bought some arnica after I had DS1 and couldn't sit down, but the moment that I read that you shouldn't handle the tablets as it "reduced their efficacy" the scientist in me went .

Herby - I am also detail-obsessed and cranky at the moment, liable to have melt-downs about the way DH has stacked the dishwasher, or some such trivial issue. He is encouraging me to make a doctor's appointment, but I rather think that's because he half-believes I'll come back with a lustful look in my eyes and drag him upstairs, libido miraculously restored.

I'd been wondering if my 'do sweat the small stuff' mindset is because I have a set amount of anxiety to expend, and now I expend it on NCT group politics, or DP starting yet another jar or may before he's finished the last one, or what to wear to the pub, rather than office politics or deadlines. Don't want to hear it's because I'm a hormone-addled crepey.

I too think homeopathy is a load of bollocks. I do however believe in the placebo effect!

I am writing about eyes and gene therapy today Also have urge for [[http://www.wallis.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33058&storeId=12557&productId=2503672&langId=-1&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=209175&parent_categoryId=209165&pageSize=20 this top] to go with the black trousers if I get the job (little matters like paying for food aside)
I am reliably informed that our friend MrsSchadenfreude is having scorchio time in Bordeaux

soddit

Gah! I'm at it too. 'Jar or may' was meant to read 'jar of mayo'.

MI - more cherries! Very cheering.

The other cherries are ahem not exactly suitable for office wear, revealing as they do my cleavage to all and sundry

Fruit is very fashionable this season! That top is lovely.

Woohoo, no typos! Wish I was doing eyes and gene therapy. Instead I have some stuff to do with holidays in Italy. MrsS' scorchio Bordeaux hols...

Oh like top....but having mortaged self to Japanese Railways for the foreseeable future I will desist.....
I sway between worrying about everything to thinking 'sod it'. I picked ds up from school and he looked like he had been through several hedges backwards, his shoes are hanging by a thread, he has lost his coat (for the umpteenth time), his trousers are having an argument with his ankles - now normally this would have invoked full-on off the ricta scale meltdown and ended up with me with a thumping headache and ds in tears.....instead we calculated number of days (bit of maths there) he needed to carry on going to school looking like some urchin out of Dickens and shrugged our shoulders, picked up rapidly disintegrating school bag and headed for home. (I even turned a blind eye when he wiped buttery fingers on his top) I have clearly hit 'I don't care' (won't last....) :)

I have also, despite lack of money scenario, bought a new pair of sandals in the John Lewis sale because my old ones were falling apart, literally. Because they are only a fiver here.

My purchases today have ranged from the sublime ? bargain Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser in Space NK sale ? to the ridiculous ? a poop scoop from the PDSA shop.

MI I actually like those sandals although I don't usually like gladiator style! I have just bought []www.clarks.co.uk/find/onsale-is-onsale/gender-is-women/producttype-is-sandals/mcrproductsubtype-is-wedges/product-is-20343856 these]] because my colleague has just got them to replace a very old pair (we both had the same, by chance!) from Office!

I like the cherry top too!

Ruby, after-school and weekend clubs are the bane of my life - soooo difficult to fit in taxiing them all around etc.

Oh don't get me on afterschool and weekend clubs...dp and I added up the money on these yesterday and went 'ahh' that explains the big hole in my salary...
After my embarassing moment with swimming cos (see further up thread) I ordered one off net which arrived today - it has a clip fastening at the back so I won't get stuck in it, is shorts style (someone else mentioned such a thing?) and I look like I am about to swim the channel.........

I think I am a Slack Mother. My two do a few after school things - pottery for DD2 and ICT for DD1 today, and choir on a Thursday, and DD1 has been having to stay on Wednesdays to rehearse her starring role as a hyena in the Lion King...but DD1, being 10, can now walk back on her own in any case.

I suppose I am ignoring Saturdays because DP takes DD2 to dance, where he has the onerous task of sipping espresso in the Laban cafe surrounded by parents even more Guardianista than us, and then he takes them down to the end of our road for swimming.

Yep, slack, that's me.