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Crepe Expectations

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Cremolafoam · 03/08/2013 07:32

Will this do?Smile

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aftermay · 01/09/2013 23:00

CV - ice skating and then shopping in Kingston sounds like one of my weekends. My DDs are starting skating lessons this autumn and they are overjoyed.

I don't have any flouncing places but for time off my ideal would be to go swimming alone and spend as l

aftermay · 01/09/2013 23:01

...long as I want in the sauna.

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Cremolafoam · 01/09/2013 23:18

Sounds like bliss AMGrin

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aftermay · 02/09/2013 07:04

It rarely happens Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 02/09/2013 07:49

I think the only way to get through this week is to break it into little chunks. So this morning, I will go and get another suitcase. I will then put all of DH's papers and files and telephone in the case, and take it into the office, and get rid of them. Then I will do a day's work, which will mostly be admin. I will go and meet my successor and go out to dinner with her. Then I will bring the suitcase home and pack DH's and my stuff in it. Tomorrow I will either go in very early or work late to get everything done. The fact that I have job interviews this week is not helping with my stress levels either.

motherinferior · 02/09/2013 07:58

MrsS - does it really matter if everything does not get done? Really? As long as it looks vaguely finished?

Do NOT do extra hours, dammit. Focus on the interviews. And have a really nice dinner.

herbaceous · 02/09/2013 08:04

Call courier to collect all DH's shit belongings, on his credit card. Mentally wash hands. Do bare minimum at work. Use work computer to help prepare for interviews. Have nice dinners.

hattymattie · 02/09/2013 08:19

Very nervous this morning as DD1 has her LNAT test. It seems very unfair that the universities get the results before we do. Her friend who did the medicine test knew her results immediately and so can target her uni's accordingly.

Have a pre-rentree meeting at DS's school. I'm so worried about my baby going into secondary school. I do get the impression though that my boy has been babied more than my DD's where getting the bus by themselves etc seemed to be water off a duck's back.

MrsSchadenfreude · 02/09/2013 08:21

MI - the apartment needs to be a) empty and b) spotless. I am supposed to wash the net curtains, but the windows are too high for me to get them down, so I am going to leave these, and if they don't like it, they can lump it. I have paid someone to clean the place this weekend, so it is all done except my bedroom and bathroom. And the air freight luggage is being collected on Friday, and needs to be good to go. The thing is, getting all of the shit out of the flat. I keep finding more and more stuff that has been left behind (this morning's discovery was a load of extension cables, which I shall leave here, and some tools, which need to come back, but cannot, I think, go in the air freight).

I am slumped on the bed at the moment and keep stretching out my foot to stroke the cat, and then realising that he isn't there. Sad

motherinferior · 02/09/2013 08:51

Hattie, good luck.

I have a number of things I need to do on top of earning a living. Like take us all (minus DP) to the optician. And school still hasn't started (sorry, Herbs, I realise your feelings are slightly different!)

herbaceous · 02/09/2013 09:12

I'm all churned up about him going to school, which makes me snap at him, which makes me guilty, which makes me want to hug him to my bosom for ever, which churns me up about him starting school, etc etc.

Blackduck · 02/09/2013 09:15

MrsS I like Herbs way of thinking. In fact hire someone to pack the stuff and ship it back - on his credit card. And then I would be having serious word, because this is beyond taking the piss. We all know you are wonderfuckingwoman but there are limits....
And breathe....

bigTillyMint · 02/09/2013 09:22

MrsS, do what Herbs said and get a courier or something on his account.
Was the flat spotless when you arrived? If not, then don't sweat it too much. And why can't tools go in air freight? Good Luck!

Hatty good luck to you and your DD.

Herbs, I still feel like hugging my PFB to my bosom (or lack of) now, and she's 14!

It's my last day of the hols today and as tomorrow is my birthday, we are having a day out today - going on the cable cars and for a bite to eat. Fingers crossed that the DC can hold it together without bickering for at least some of the time!

hattymattie · 02/09/2013 09:23

Well - I got off to a very good start this morning by turning up on time for a meeting that is actually on Wednesday Confused. I've lost the plot and the term hasn't even started. Luckily DD1 is in control of the situation.

Herb's - I want to do this but he's 11 so no longer possible.

bigTillyMint · 02/09/2013 09:34

HattyGrin

QueenQueenie · 02/09/2013 10:21

Oh don't give up on hugging your boys! Ds1 is now 16 and handsome but hulking... still likes to sit on my lap for a hug when he's in the mood. Tell him it's compulsory to let your mum hug you.

QueenQueenie · 02/09/2013 10:24

Mrs S. I swear if I wasn't chained to my desk churning out 15,000 words by 16th September I would come and help you. I feel for you and know if it was me I would be so furious and so feeble that nothing would get done. Your spirit is admirable.

Herbs, your and your ds can have a big hug too.

Blackduck · 02/09/2013 11:39

Herbs It'll all be fine - really.
BTM - have a lovely day.
Hatty :) - had to smile....

I am back at the desk too and have lost the plot with the new Dean's 'Plan' - it is rubbish, it ignores Regulation and people like me just don't count :(

QueenQueenie · 02/09/2013 12:15

When does he start Herbs?
Sympathy BD. Sounds very dispiriting.

herbaceous · 02/09/2013 12:26

Thursday. Gulp. Just phoned the school to find out when the day starts and ends, whether there'll be school dinners in the first week, how to get the uniform, and what he needs to bring with him. They only knew the answer to no1, and couldn't get me off the phone fast enough. The teacher will apparently call me back with the other answers. The last four times they promised someone would call back, no one did. Sigh.

motherinferior · 02/09/2013 13:00

Oh, Herbs. How goes the appealing?

I have instructed DD1 to sort out everything for the start of term today. But school doesn't start till Wednesday, she said...

To be fair the dynamics in our house are rather closer to those chez Hattie most of the time. I myself am slightly longing for proper work to resume, though I shall miss having them around. This morning we have done eyes, driving licence renewal (a Nice Asian Boy in the post officeGrin) the library and various cheap and/or charity shops..and now I'm going to write about stroke and vision loss. Ahem.

motherinferior · 02/09/2013 13:04

Oh and lots of tester pots of paint shades that will annoy DP (who is quite convinced walls should be white. Or, if v daring, a faint hint of unassuming colour). If they'd had gold spray paint I was going to get some too. And girls thrilled to discover the existence of blackboard paint.

herbaceous · 02/09/2013 13:27

Forms arrived today - letter to be written tonight.

Blackduck · 02/09/2013 13:31

Herbs that is absolutely rubbish.
When we changed ds's school (tres last minute) last year, I had a pack with all the info in. FGS they should know about lunches and uniforms and all that....

Get on to appeal asap.

Ds goes back Wednesday - have done uniform and everything is good to go.

herbaceous · 02/09/2013 13:36

I can't believe that only the teacher knows about school dinners, etc, or indeed why she should have to. Grr.

Slight fear is that MG will prove perfectly competent with DS's eye, and my special medical needs appeal will have no argument.

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