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

Laydeeez! Do you have lives?
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I have no life

Blackduck, I think being Zen in relation to house-buying/selling is overrated. As far as I recall, it seemed to pay off badgering everyone as much as possible. Then again, then-husband and I found this knackered hovel dream house in January, having (we thought) secured buyers for our old house in December, but only finally managed to move in July, after changing buyers twice.

This seems to be the half-term of "meh" and poorly. Dh had a dr's appmt yesterday that had him walking a bit funny for a while afterwards (as per MrsS's reports of her dh's experience) and it looks like he will get referred on, but we shall see. He is feeling fairly OK about it and I think the referral is just the doc being extra careful. Fingers crossed.

Dd has suddenly developed a fearsome pain in her hip and a temperature and is complaining of feeling dizzy. She is the queen of weird symptoms and these have sometimes turned out to be bloody odd health conditions so she always has me over a barrel with her aches and pains. There is always the memory of "the time I ignored the pain because I thought she was hamming it up and then it turned out she wasn't and she ended up in hospital". Which has happened more than once, unfortunately. When I say "ignored", I mean "dosed with paracetemol/ibuprofen/given tlc and sent to bed". I was out with a bunch of mums yesterday (soft play hell etc) and comparing how many times our kids had been ill/gone to the docs. Jeez, I feel baaaad. Other people have 7 year olds who have only ever been to the doctor's once. Ever. My kids have had 8 hospital admissions between them. And have had more antibiotics that all the other children I know put together. What crap immune systems I must have gifted them...

Ha, x-post. No, not much of a life Today, I went to Salisbury and encouraged dd (before she started hobbling) to buy herself some green skinny jeans and a v. nice droopy blue jumper from TopShop. Mainly because I wanted to wear them myself. But obviously I cannot, as I am a droopy old laydeee.

Also dd is a size 8-10. And I'm not. Despite all those bastard press-ups.

Ah yes, the ignoring of symptoms at your peril. Know it well. When DD1 was about 5, she had "a painful chest." No coughing, no asthma, no temperature. As she wasn't eating much, after a week of this, I took her to the doctor. Double pneumonia... So now I err on the side of caution, which meant that we went several times to the doc before and after Christmas, and it turned out to be bronchitis.

Stropps hope dh is okay.

Ds has the constitution of an ox, but we did A&e several times when he was younger (tv on head, drinking printer fluid...we are not bad parents, honest! I was waiting for SS though)

We are going for pissed off today, sod zen. Telling them if contracts not in place ready for signing by next Friday it is all off. We think they are strapped for cash and are trying to get us to drop price which isn't going to happen. Dp is going to ask for that message to be relayed in words of one syllable. Tired of having my life held to ransom.

MrsS better week??

Ooh, symptoms and trying to decide whether it's a possible fatal condition, or a cold. DS had been coughing in the night, and sometimes day, for a couple of months. I just thought it was a lingering post-cold cough, but took him to the doc yesterday just in case. She reckons it's asthma. Great.

Now he keeps holding his ear. Is it a mild ear-ache I treat with calpol, or imminent acute ear infection that if untreated will cause him to go deaf? How to tell?

I took ds to A&E with chickenpox

to be fair, it was a Sunday, and he had very localised spots.....

Dd went to bed at 8pm (which I can't remember happening for several years) and slept 12 hours straight. Still hobbling a bit and full of cold, but I am now sticking with the ibuprofen plan and hoping the hobbling is a red herring. Dh is chirpy as he has convinced himself that his symptoms are normal for an old geezer like him - and he could well be right, we'll see what the consultant says. Glad to hear I am not the only one who has done the "ignoring and oops it is something after all" thing with their children. That makes me feel better!

Herbs, due to my crap track record with symptom recognition, I hardly dare give advice. Although ears are one of my specialist areas as dd had glue ear and is a big collector of ear infections. We never got antibiotics unless her ears were actually discharging. Sorry to hear about the asthma diagnosis. Mind you, ds was diagnosed with asthma after pneumonia at 18 months, but he doesn't have it at all. Was just "viral wheeze" or somesuch.

BD, good luck with house.

Ah no, dd has just tottered in clutching her head. Off to the medicine cabinet I go..

DD1 just wandered in and informed me that she was hit on the head by a tennis ball in PE and had to have an ice pack

Given that this was at least five days ago AIBU in pointing out she hasn't died yet?

Will catch up props tomoz but just staggering in to say hello. Half term has been a whirl of flumes, IKEA and parks with bikes. I had a lovely birthday, curled my hair, wore my lovely wrap dress and got reet drunk.

My entire household are fecking off to PILs tomorrow until Sunday. Literally don't know what to do with myself but will enjoy every second.

Ah yes, MI - we have that as well, notes produced from school bag several days later "The Schadenfraulein fell and hit her head today, please keep an eye on her overnight."

Actually, the Schadenfraulein (Kleine) is always at the school nurse for some reason or another - hit head, potential broken wrist, running a temperature, throwing up. The school nurse disapproves of me heartily, as she always asks if I am coming to collect DD, but she never calls until after lunch, and it would take me at least an hour to get to her, so I always say cheerfully, no, keep her with you and I will meet her from the bus today. I can hear her pursing her lips in disapproval - but really, she phones me at 2.00, school finishes at 3.30, she is much better off and staying where she is, rather than a convoluted journey home involving train, metro and buses, which takes longer than the school bus.

Changing the subject from child illness to the much more important one of my vanity - thank you to whoever first recommended Pixi lid and line - I know Stropps went for a makeover but someone else also said they were good. Anyway, bought one in mink/taupe and it's bloody marvellous. 3 people have commented that I look smart today and all that is different about me is new eye makeup - marvellous.

Less successfully, I left the dye on my hair a little bit too long, and now I look like Aladdin Sane.

I dyed mine this morning too

OTOH did not manage to pick up mascara when out with Inferiorettes today (want to try a different tube mascara, the Clinique one) and my Blinc is getting quite ancient flaky.

In other perimenonews, my period finally arrived and is doing its current thing of flooding madly for a couple of days.

My periods are bizarrely regular - pretty much every 28 days - and so far lacking in inconvenient flooding.

I must must must dye my hair shortly. Dark Golden Blonde has gone Straw-Like Vileness, with mouse/grey striped roots. Class.

Need my hair cut, too, but having usual dither about what to do with it. Any ideas, those who have set their eyes upon my hideous visage?

No dye here, but in desperate need of a haircut.
Had major strop at dp re house thingy yesterday - was ranty and unreasonable, but we have a plan and can at least get on with our lives for a week or so without endless phone calls /emails.
My period has vanished - last one back in December, no sign since....
I was going to done non buy thing, but have failed miserably - might try from now...

I get root touch up in dark blonde. It works a treat, I think. Had mine cut the other week, and highlighted, and what with my new BBH, I look almost groomed. (I was known as the Wild Woman of Borneo at school as I had to cycle three miles over rough terrain to get there, so you can imagine what I looked like when I arrived - my hair was very long and curly back in them thar days. And ginger.)

I have always flooded for two days, then a bit of a trickle on the third day, then nothing...and sometimes it comes back with a vengeance on day 6 to catch me on the hop.

Come on Hags, another few posts and we can start a new thread as Planet of the Crepes!

Hair? Aaaaaargh is all I can say on that subject. Is currently like a Brillo pad, but not as nice. I had a haircut, but it made it worse.

Wilbur, yes that Pixi lid and line is fab! I have it in Bronze and I lurves it very much. And I - previously a make-up avoider due to the sad failure of many previous experiments - also love that tinted moisturiser that I got there after the make-over. It took me a while to get up the courage to use it, but it really works and is way easier to deal with than any foundation I have ever tried. Plus it comes with a concealer, which is blardy marvellous. Usually, concealers just work to highlight my giant pores, but this is the business.

Looking forward to being on Planet of the Crepes.

ps: Am now the proud owner of my very own gloves for punching (at circuits class). I love them possibly even more than the Pixi lid and line.

Drums, punching gloves....are these really the things laydees of our age should have :)

Off to see STOMP tomorrow - hope it is good. Otherwise quiet weekend!

Strops - I think I'm just going to buy a Lid and Line for all my friends' birthdays this year, I'm hoping that might do a special offer at some point. And then I can get some more colours for myself. Will think about getting the tinted moisturiser too, although should probably go to the shop for that to get the right shade.

Have bought a little pot of grape hyacinths to make me feel like spring is on the way. Bulbs are good like that. And daffs.

Got a wedding to go to this weekend and apart from a tights crisis, my outfit is sorted, which is unheard of for me. It's going to rain all day though, which is a shame for the bride and groom, but the place is very pretty inside, and there's a bar and food, so I will be fine.