Crepeys do Christmas...

[oldqueenie]

Will this fit the bill. Dull but seasonal?

MI - would you like to go to Disneyland when you visit? I have a special pass and can get you in for 20 euros.

(I can see the expression on your face from here...)

GOTCHA!

I was just heading off to bed when I heard the mousetrap in utility room go click.

I than had to put on my coat and drive the little fucker up the road to release him, as I thought might be a bit unfair to leave him overnight whereas dropping him onto a grass verge in the middle of nowhere at 1.30am is kindness itself

I'm hoping he was a lone operator. He was certainly massive; hardly surprising what with all the chocolate he's been scoffing.

Does MI feel like I do about Disney? (Would rather stick pins and all that?)

Ds goes back Tuesday too, by dp is back Monday so I am wfh on Monday (and I do actually need to work, have just spent the last hour mulling over all the things I should have done before Christmas that are now mega urgent).

CV I had a family of them - got rid of mum and then had to get rid of the babies - I felt really mean!

Alto so to hear about the bug (and the anniversary). Everyone at work was ill over Christmas. I now have a cold that seems to have come out of nowhere.

MrsS, it's so kind of you...but really, it's more than I deserve. Truly. No, really. NO, REAAAALLLYYY......

The latest evidence from the BMJ and suchlike is that lowcarb isn't really the way to go (long-term, you're likely to increase your risk of heart disease and stroke) but low-fat is. Just saying.

Ah well, sod it, I'll die young but thin.

Hey, what do I know

Well, I've just signed up to WW. TBH I think any diet is utterly joyless, but hopefully I will knuckle down, so it won't be forever.

Have just helped DD make a chocolate donut withwhite icing and sprinkles.... for her textiles homework, so no extra carbs/points there

Oh dear. Sounds as if Mr Inferior has, ahem, norovirus (or a variant therof) at his hippy t'ai chi camp...

When's he due back?!

Next Saturday.

Ahem.

I am almost at the slimness, obvs...

Me too

Am now engaged in war with DD's ipod touch which is failing to sync with the music she just payed me £13 to download. I do not want Now 83, but she does!

DD1 informs me she's lost touch with one of the boys in her Y6 class "because he always texts back. Even if you're just saying 'bye' he texts back 'bye then' and it's very tiring". Poor lad. And he is - or was - one of the cool blokes. Clearly he's fallen prey to the lure of Bad Boy Charm, hasn't he...DP was most affronted on his behalf .

Awww!

Dd is back to school today, but ds doesn't go back Wed. This has ensured that dd is feeling even less positive than usual about the start of term. Ho hum. She has made no effort whatsoever to get her stuff ready, so her friends have been waiting outside our front door for 10 mins whilst she remembers where she left everything at the end of last term. I did enquire yesterday as to whether she had sorted her stuff out, but she was too busy pursuing avoidant activities to bother with anything so mundane.

I just know that I will be facing this tomorrow....
I am wfh today, and will try to chivvy ds into getting things ready.....

Re low -carb I just need to cut my carbs - I am a carb monster and I know that if I can get them under control I will lose weight (she says optimistically)

Re: weightloss - I am an advocate of the old-fashioned idea of sensible eating and moderate exercise. I have ferociously strong views on the necessity of modelling a healthy attitude to food (and exercise) for the dcs. I was cured some years ago of the desire to be thin - I just want to be healthy. I have been very, very thin and I have been vv fat, but since I gave up the diet/binge cycle 17 years ago, I have consistently been a vv average size. Porridge for breakfast is key to my happiness and stability and I don't do low fat anything, but I never (and I do mean weirdly, obsessively NEVER) eat between meals. I also exercise portion control, but you'd never know that if I didn't tell you.

Oh and I try to only eat wheat once a day because it upsets my insides, but I love bread and pasta so am not prepared to give it up. I am possibly the most flatulent person in the known universe. I have to avoid wheat on days when I am working in the big wide world rather than in my home office.

Strops, I am a porridge for breakfast person too! But my downfall is eating between meals I am heroically trying to stick to being sensible today, despite all the Christmas leftovers at work today!

DS has gone off to his friends I think and DD has text me that she is off to the cinema. With a boy They are, apparently, just friends, but I think he's been sweet on her since they started in Y7...

So, we have a lovely new kitchen, and the drainage in place for a downstairs lav. I can forgive paint on the windowframes, not entirely glued-in worktop, chip out of the floor, etc etc. But now downstairs smells of poo whenever anyone flushes the loo, as I don't think they capped off the soil pipe properly. And they haven't plumbed in the boiler's condensation pipe. Or sealed the sink into the worktop.

And they left on Saturday. Luckily, I still owe him money, but still don't give much for my chances of them coming back.

Oh s**t! Herbs, what a disaster. Name and shame those builders!

I shall be naming and shaming, but only once the work is finished! I rang him, and it was all 'oh yes, those are small issues'. Not so small that you could actually do them when you said, then.

Re DC and heartbreak, DS has been best friends with a little girl at nursery for about a year - aeons in toddler terms. Whenever we talk about 'big school', he looks brightly at me and says 'will x be coming too?'. Sadly, she won't as she lives miles away, but I haven't told him this yet in the hope their friendship wanes before it becomes necessary...