Crepes of Froth

[MaybeBentley]

Bum! Just join a thread and lock it down! So I'll start the next one.

Pass the crepey revival juice

Commiserations to all crepeys feeling fragile. It's the heat. I've been extremely short with my darling boy today, and felt super guilty, as it's his birthday. It may be connected with having seemingly been on the go for a week, rueing the passing of the years, and having to assemble an infernal Hot Wheels track in a stifling bedroom.

DS had a mini-party at his nursery today. Very mini, as it seems it was cut short to take the guinea pigs to the vet. They'd left them outside for too long in their hutch, and it seems they were dying of heatstroke. Doesn't fill one with confidence!

Herbs when my dsis was a nursery SN assistant she had a story every week about the guinea pigs.
Once they got heatstroke too and the local gp was collecting his dc and had to do CPR
Didn't end well

I think there's a funny moon today - probably driving us all a bit lunar .

Crepey cupcakes: with a slightly wrinkly top (or icing) and the cherry near the bottom of the cake, not in the middle.

Fnar
Saggy cherries

Felt very crappy today, with the remnants of my cold and STILL a huge amount of flooding. Day 25. I was in and out of the loo all day at work, and counting the minutes until I could leave. It has now reached the point where I am concerned it isn't a period at all, but something more sinister (but WTF?). I am seeing the doc on Wednesday, and will demand something, anything (heck, I'd even consider an on-the-spot hysterectomy) to make it bastard well STOP.

Can you speak to the pharmacist, CV and get some tranexamic acid to slow down the flow?

I have the, err, opposite problem...

Oh cv that's worrying . Just wondering is it fibroid related. You must be wrung out. Can you consult gp by phone at your practice? I'd try doing that tomorrow and at least find out if he can put your mind at rest.
You poor thing.

Oh CV, make them sort it! Your vitality levels must be in your boots, you poor thing.

Guess, I'm going to have to jump on the bandwagon and make That Cake. Although anything with jam or fruit in is usually met with a flat refusal round here.

Have been up since 2am worrying about my DD. Had a meeting (together with her) at school today, but, as usual, she says one thing whilst there (or to be accurate - mutely agrees with all sensible suggestions put to her in the meeting) and then something completely different at home. The meeting therefore got us nowhere and may even have made things worse.
It is incredibly depressing to realise that you have probably passed on a gene/talent for self-sabotage.

CV, that sounds dreadful - I can't believe it's been going for 25 days Sounds like you need to stage a sit-in at the GP's to get seen this morning.

Stropps {{{big hugs}}} There is no knowing where teens get their "troubles" from... I definitely don't think it's a simple question of genes. And judging by the news, it's nearly all of them at one time or another. I even got an email from an educational training set-up yesterday doing a conference on teen mental health - self-harm, anxiety, body-image, depression. It's soooo common now
I am hoping the summer hols will help, but I am probably sadly deluded.

CV - get thee to the GP - my longest was 21 days and was ghastly (without even thinking about the cost of sanitary products), so god knows how you feel.

Stropps - sorry to hear it's still not good, you are trying to be supportive and there for her, like Ruby I am not sure how far it is gene related.

Ruby - I am not far behind you!!

Right - re crappy body feeling - back on 5:2, cutting out white carbs and the vino will have to go too weeps

Re the rest unless someone can take me back 20 years so I can make the right decision I'm kinda stuck with the not feeling great. My lack of self worth has a lot toanswer for, and I have not fulfilled my potential. Now I feel I am too old and get all crabby when I look at people around me and realise I am as a good, if not better, than them....gahhh....

It is something I am determined will not happen to ds.....

Ruby, congratulations! What did you do to celebrate?

I feel so lucky to have a job I enjoy (and means I can forget everything else whilst I'm at work, even though it is exhausting at times!) I hope my DC are able to find something that is as fulfilling.

There's a lot to be said for that BTM - eyes dp who has BDs career.....

Ooh BD - I know just what you mean. I'm a chronic under-achiever, and it leaves me bitter and twisted about having to work for utter fuckwits. It's one reason I want a change of career - at least by starting at the bottom there'll be a reason for being junior at pushing 50.

It's my turn to feel out of sorts. I had total chin-wobbly cry at DP because he told me off for getting the wrong duvet out of the loft. I can't explain to him, but if I say anything to him that he takes as critical (even something totally minor) he goes off into a sulk, whereas he's pretty vocal in telling me my shortcomings, along with eye-rolling and tutting if I don't hear him say something.

But of course last night I couldn't think of any examples.

Put like that he sounds a total abusive shit, but it's not really like that. A mild version, I guess.

Not helped by feeling totally over-emotional about DS's birthday, school, end of childhood, WTF do I do now, etc etc...

Stropps - very sorry you are losing sleep over dd. I do think its not just genes. We went through hell in this house with dd. I don't want to go into it on detail on here for obvious reasons. Suffice to say there were elements of running away/ wanting to be dead/ self harm / police involvement due to a 'relationship' with a man who turned out to be on the register.
I spent months blaming myself for being a crap parent / blaming her background ( loss of parents at a young age) bad influence friends/ genes/ etc
A counsellor finally said to me that it was now very common it was like a fashion. That a great deal of what they pick up is online and what has become almost acceptable ( suicide / self harm) is based on having so much information available to them yet NO life experience or way of processing it.
We started by completely closing down all boundaries . Computer was limited and she had to ask to use it. Mobile phone removed. Dropped to school and collected from school( no messing about on bus)
Tough love in other words. It was really hard and intensive, but after 6 months we had her back and she had grown up a bit .

I've never been so lonely or sad while all this was going on and I feel for you strops I really do
Pm me if you need to vent.

Happy birthday dear Rooo-beeeee
Happy birthday to you!

Stropps, it isn't you.

Herbs, shall I come round and biff DP? My DP can be similar. And look, there are many lovely years ahead of you - honestly, primary school is lovely - before you have Great Big Stompy Creatures like the rest of us I want to pick up the reception children (the non-soggy ones) and just cuddle them but would get arrested

I am determinedly having a Much Nicer Day as (a) am not fasting (b) have been swimming (c) have daringly put on a shortish denim skirt (when I say shortish I mean just above the knee, which Mr Inferior says isn't nearly as short as it should be ).

Herbs, it is NOT the end of your DS's childhood, just a new chapter! Embrace it, because before you knowit, he will be a teen

And my DH sometimes speaks in an extremely patronising way to me Plus he has the hide of a rhino and cannot understand how others (mainly me and DD are so sensitive) at all. Plus he just wants to give a quick solution and box things off, whereas I need to talk and talk and talk....

Cremo, how interesting that you say the counsellor said self-harm is now something of a fashion. I was wondering if this was the case myself.

Happy birthday Rubes

( tis dds 18th today too)

Happy Birthday Cremo's DDS :)

Oh, yes, Mr BD has been known to be a tad patronising and cutting. He also works on the principle that if we don't talk about things it will go away. This has not been a helpful strategy in the past.

I have decided to take Friday off and have a day to myself (suspects it might mostly involve fighting with the garden and doing laundry but hey ho.....)

sympathies to everyone and congratulations to ruby and crem's dd

just to add that though nothing like crem, i've had a horrible few years with my lovely DD which has aged me no end, accompanied by a similar DH to those mentioned above, and not-so-well parent and to cap it all am over 50 underachiever and can't have HRT due to breast cancer worries which means I'm ageing twice as fast as anyone around me (and yes, of course I do know that that is a stupid attitude, it just sometimes comes over me when I look at my upper arms)

(MI - I do editing of reports, guides, etc for educational research agencies and charities - most of my clients were closed down by the coalition govt)

BTM - what do you do? i know you are a teacher?

sorry everyone - incredibly self-indulgent splurge there - ignore except for the sympathies and congratulations x

(Ah, Addle, yes, I know the territory well. I have edited numerous reports for Organisations That Are No More.)

Actually I've met Addle and I thought she was rather gorgeous. Though admittedly did not inspect her upper arms.

Ugh. Upper arms. That inside bit that's all puckered and doughy. Bleh. Mine, that is.

I too am an editor. Previously of actual magazines, now of other people's work.

Don't apologize for ranting. It's what I do all the time, tho shouldn't.

I'm taking DS to the playground and paddling pool at Parliament Hill Fields today. Getting in before the school hols!