Crepeys do Christmas...

[oldqueenie]

Will this fit the bill. Dull but seasonal?

Awww!

These things bring out the worst in people, including me. Jostling for position, blocking others' views with phones, etc, and getting cross that one's Little Darling only gets one go to sing a song, when he is plainly the best singer, while others get two goes.

I am counting my blessings regarding DP and his Christmas competence. He even bought the cards this year. And stamps. And is entirely in charge of presents for his family.

Have just had the formal notification that I've been shortlisted for interview for the job I really, really want. They are interviewing three people, and the interviews will take place in London, in January. Let's hope that they really, really want to employ a fat middle aged woman as much as I want the job! Feel v pleased to be in a short list of three though - not bad?

Took today off, and think have now got all the dosing right, as am feeling much better, no longer puking or feeling nauseous. Still a bit dizzy, but not as much as before.

Wooo Hooo SB! I'm sure your enthusiasm will shine through

Yay SB! Imagine the resignation speech you can give to AB! And you'll have to have a cheering post-interview drink or five with the crepey crew!

One thing I'd forgotten to tell you ladies: my niece has rather worryingly started having seizures. Started about a month ago, with one or two a day, on one side of her body, but have got lots worse in the past week, with about 20 a day. She's had a CT and MRI scan, and they can't see anything in her brain, which was the big fear, so assume it's epilepsy, but controlling it seems to require massive doses of strong drugs. She's only 5. It's all very worrying.

Oh MrsS fab! When's the interview? My birthday in Jan and seem to recall other crepeys around the same time, perfect excuse for a meet up!

Good thinking BD

Oh Herbs, that's worrying

Oh Herbs. But at least not a brain tumour, so that is the good bit...if you know what I mean

I am supposed to be conducting a phone interview. Either he's given me the wrong number or he's gone AWOL. Have been phoning, and told 'it is not possible to connect your call'. I really, really do not want to do this interview later tonight. It is a FRIDAY. I do not madly want to do it over the weekend. Other specialist who said he'd be available has also gone AWOL. I am ANNOYED.

DH is middling in terms of Christmas usefulness. We divide the card list up, and he does his (although I have to seer him away from the 99p budget boxes of cards - you know, the ones with naff Santa cartoons, made of paper so flimsy they don't actualy stand up). He doesn't exchange gifts with his siblings so it's just his parents, which usually means a quick dash around Bon Marche or Edinburgh Woollen Mill. I'm not sure if anything would be done if I didn't kick it along, though.

Worrying about your niece, Herbs. I suffered very badly from epilepsy as a baby, to the point where they told my mother not to expect me to make it to mainstream school etc, but luckily after a few months of steroids the fits eventually stopped and never came back.

YY to Jan meetup! Best not get MrsS legless the night before the interview, though....

MrsS, hooray hooray!! And toi toi toi! Also, make sure to give yourself a bit of tlc over the Christmas break - sounds like you need it. Btw, if you need a short-term stand-in for MrS, you can certainly borrow MrStrops: he is undoubtedly older and shorter than what you are used to, but other than that you will probably not notice much difference.

I have work from two sources this w/e, so dh and I will be working in shifts, although I have already taken some time off to neck some sherry and put the placky Christmas tree together. Am now going to throw some decs at it. I have still not written any Christmas cards. I bought a panforte for the Christmas comestibles pile, but then I ate it (well, most of it). I am soon going to be able to rival dh in "being crap at Christmas".

Oh Herbs that is worrying.
I finished mini break with a girlie curry (round a friends as she has had her bunions operated on and is currently housebound) 'twas lovely. I am off home this morning to see what mess has been left for me. Ds only just made school yesterday as dp didn't wake up until 8.35 - luckily we live literally five mins from school.
I have written cards, just not posted them - does that count?

Tree to be bought today, after I sing carols in the town square to put me in festive mood. We went through the Christmas card list last night, adding and crossing off. However, we don't have addresses for most of those we want to send cards due, what with the modern age of Facebook, email, etc.

How do you all display your cards? We run out of horizontal surfaces pretty fast round here...

Stick 'em on the hall wall with a bit of blu tack, Herbs.

Buggering buggering arseholes, the jumper I bought - with 15 per cent discount admittedly - less than a week ago is now on sale for rather less

Oh MI I feel your pain, I HATE it when that happens....

Admittedly I did wear it solidly after last freezing weekend...

Think it would all get fairly complicated. There's only eight quid in it, so I'll stick with it...

Re: displaying Christmas cards - I have an old whip rack (ahem, no really, I do) which I put gold string on and have lickle gold clothes pegs holding the cards on the string.

This probably tells you all you never needed to know about our eccentric home decor

Get much use outside of Christmas Stropps?

I got call from drs re bloods - apparently red count is low and cells abnormally large, so doing B12 test. Might explain my extreme fatigue.
My two day break was fab, but I so don't want to go to work on Monday...

Oooh BD, I have abnormally large red blood cells too! Have been under the very nice consultant for a few years now... Am also low on iron!

I was rejected for insufficient iron when I tried to give blood last Sunday, did I tell you? Got helpful leaflet all about the stuff. Then they asked what I did for a living...

BTM, glad to see you got those boots

I still haven't written any Christmas cards or done as much as I should have (tomorrow will be a long day). However, we did go out for a nice lunch today, courtesy of points collected from Tesco. And then I made cranberry muffins, which were not too bad at all considering my rubbish baking skills.

Had a long discussion with my cancer-afflicted cousin about how he is not doing Christmas at all EVER again, because now he has re-evaluated his priorities he feels he must stand up for his right to hate Christmas. This conversation did not cheer me up much, but seemed to cheer him up quite a lot.

Then I had quite a lot of ...