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Are you all nursing hangovers or just clearing up the post Christmas mess?

Strops

Herbs, I'm sure he/she has seen you many times before without their beer goggles if they have known you for ages - hence you MUST look in your early 30's.

I have been making curry (chickpea/spinach and paneer/peas) to eat for supper with defrosted chicken curry. (There will be a lot of leftovers of the veggie ones, I hope, for Future Usage.) We have been to the park. DD1 attempted to leave house wearing cotton layers instead of woolly jumper, prompting a lecture from me invoking Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England (he talks about how the Manchester millworkers were so poor they had to wear cotton not wool). Am not sure if this is exemplary Educational Parenting, or merely deranged...

I have been instigating a Regime at Work, btw, of going up and down the four flights of stairs every hour (actually down and up, as we are on floor 4) and also trying to get out and look at Pictures in the National Gallery at lunchtime. These are both good for the body and soul.

OTOH got v cross with DP last night and told him how unhappy I was at living with someone who doesn't actually talk to me. I find it really wearing to live with someone who is completely happy - more than happy - to spend virtually all our time apart. Things like, you know, watching the same TV programme (he tends to say politely 'It's not really my kind of thing' and leave the room) and maybe even going out sometimes.

MI, deranged, I think I was silently congratulating myself when I managed 12 flights up to DS's teacher on Parent's Evening withourt panting, and DH was lagging behind!

We have managed to avoid any snow outings today, which means all our skiing gear is still clean and dry

Oh and MI, I frequently moan at DH that he does not talk to me

Deranged, but educational MI :)
I, too, live with someone who doesn't talk and is quite happy that way and the last 6 weeks since Term restarted have been particularly bad. We exist to service ds and the dog......
If you work out any kind of answer let me know.

Girls, we're on page two again!

Belated happy birthday Mrs S. Hope dinner tonight is lots of fun.

Fun catching up with the dancing and the cooking and the whatnot. I challenged myself to a day without the computer on Saturday. It was odd. I felt a bit rudderless and not sure what to do nowish a few times. Spent a lot of the day in bed with electric blanket on reading Little Women to DD1 who had a throat virus which was bliss. DH and DD2 were out shopping for my birthday (having learned from Strops' scenario, I pretty much diarised it). I had written a list of ideas: pants, pj bottoms, ski gloves... to be cherry picked from but DH appeared to take it as a shopping list and got everything which (at the risk of sounding like a bloody woman) is lovely but also smacks of lack of initiative, I feel

BigTilly the dress was from the Isabella Oliver site and just happened to have been £57 that day. If it hadn't been, I would probably be out now getting all staticky and depressed in a changing room somewhere.

Strops, please tell me level 2 of the Shred made you brake a sweat? I moved onto it this morning.

'brake' a sweat?

Am fortunate that DH is so chatty. He saves energy for it by not cooking and dropping things right where they are, I suppose.

Dukes, I am alternating L3/L2 and did L2 this morning, and I definitely broke a sweat! Plus my knees - just on the tops pf my knee caps - are killing me when I get up/sit down, which seems strange seeing as it was day 28 today.
Will have to keep checking the IO site for sales!

DH is pretty chatty, but mainly to DS about footy, etc. Our conversations seem to revolve mainly around domestic arrangements. He definitely doesn't do deep and meaningful conversations, ever

Hope your cheese pierogi go down well tonight MrsS!

Dukes, I have not yet tried out L2, but when I do, I shall note the sweat quotient and let you know :) Are birthday wishes in order for you today, btw?

I have to admit that I have spent a lot of time feeling guilty since my über-strop on my birthday. I woke in the middle of the night thinking that, really, in the big scheme of things, it wasn't all so bad and I had been a bit of a witch. And sometimes it probably is just best to (sorry) keep calm and carry on whilst implementing mid- to long-term re-education for certain persons.

At that point, I also suddently thought that I should make a dr's appmt for dh, because I have noted a few symptoms over the past couple of months that I think need checking out and he, being a typical male, pretends not to notice and won't go to the damn dr. Long story short, bloods taken Fri, dr on phone this am. More tests required, referral to hospital. Dodgy family history of this male-specific cancer (that dr doesn't even know about yet). Maybe is nasty thing, maybe is not. But investigations will not be pleasant, poor dh.

Oh Strops, that's not great news for you. Still, at least you are getting it checked out and hopefully it won't be a nasty thing.

Why are men so reluctant to go to the doctors?

Sorry to hear your dh has got to go to the Dr, Stropps, but always best to get it checked out, now matter how unpleasant. But, you know, I wouldn't feel guilty about the birthday meltdown - yes there are other big scheme things that matter more, but every now and then families really need to be reminded if they are taking people for granted. Look at it as valuable training for the dcs not to neglect other important people in their lives.

Oh shit Strops. Hope is just a blip, high reading or somesuch.

Agree with Wilbur re meltdown.

Agree re meltdown. It was a NECESSARY meltdown. But also v sorry about bloods.

I noted, today, that the local 'seniors' centre' is having a Valentine's dance next weekend with posters with hearts and arrows. Am somewhat heartened by the optimistic prospect of Romance in the Elderly (mind you I will be a candidate for said centre in 17 months' time ).

It'd be like a school disco, wouldn't it, though, I'd still be a frumpy wallflower. Watching the octegenarian of my secret fantasies dreams copping off with a sexy sixty-year old. I can just tell.

MI - wallflower? I don't believe you for a moment.

Strops - fingers crossed it is nothing sinister. My DH is rather different, in that he feels he simply must bother consult a medical professional at the merest hint of any unwell-ness. He once took himself off to casualty because he had constipation (and was speedily despatched from the hospital with a doctor's size 9s up his backside), and is not familiar with the concept that if you have a minor cold you just have to wait it out.

Dukes - I also sent my family birthday shopping at the weekend, dropping hints galore! We shall see what they come up with.

Stropps hope dh is okay. At least he's now being seen which is good.
I am loving the list giving for birthdays - have to say dp isn't bad at it at all, but we generally have had a moratorium on big/expensive stuff because of other commitments - house this year...which less said about the better. Dp, now he has cleared the work backlog and actually has headspace for all this is seething and it isn't fun.

Thank you! I am an appalling catastrophiser, so I am not quite thinking straight at the mo'. Good that there is plenty of work to keep busy with. You are probably all right about the meltdown. They did all need a kick up the backside (I could make a bad taste joke here about the state of dh's backside, but I'd better not ).

MrsS, how did your dinner party go?

Bet she's still hungover

Actually, I am, BTM.

The last people left at 2.00 am, so it must have been a good night. I have had a terrible upset stomach all day (so worked from home) - both ends - which MI assures me is a bug, not a hangover. But still feeling a bit rough.

Strops, my DH had "investigations" a few years back for what sounds like something similar. He walked a bit funny after the investigations for a few days , and was diagnosed with a congested prostate. The doctor prescribed lots of sex. Fingers crossed for your DH.

I've told DH I quite fancy a watch for my birthday - I quite like these Skagen ones. They are very slim and minimalist. Or maybe a Swiss Railway watch?

I don't do twee and girly where watches are concerned.

Other S&B news: I just bought some ankle boots to wear with skinny jeans, as a break from the knee-high boots I have lived in for the last x years. I wasn't sure whether I should have gone for a heel, but I always feel more comfortable in flat shoes when I'm "off duty". I have yet to try them with jeans (I looked a right numpty with my work trousers on).

I wonder if MrsS is up yet?!

Oh, there you are!

Upset stomach....

I have a Swiss Railways watch, CV.

I like this one cv. Generally prefer the skagens actually, nice.

www.shadestation.co.uk/Skagen-Watches-233XLTTM.html

MrsS, you can't blame it on the cooking - must be the !

I like the swiss railway watches - better for without glasses
And I like the boots too - will look great with skinnies!