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The Crepe Papers

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motherinferior · 05/10/2013 18:40

Did it!

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motherinferior · 08/11/2013 11:17

OPM, I ran again today. That makes three times this week. I am ignoring the alarming crackling of my knees, which sound festively bonfire-ish.

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motherinferior · 08/11/2013 11:43

My WC sweater has arrived and is lovely - v warm, fine wool: a bit boxy, but I think going down to a smaller size wouldn't work, it's meant to fit the way it does.

Thank you Grin

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wilbur · 08/11/2013 12:06

Herbs and MrsS, just adding to the instructions to go to the GP. And Herbs, go with a full bladder as I'm pretty sure they will ask you to wee in a cup.

Snort at Beachy's "standard face" - that's really not the case, you know, but I know what you mean. I have an amazing ability to make no impression on people whatsoever - I have had people introduce themselves to me time and time again, thinking we haven't met. It's one of the reasons I dye my hair red - it's got better since I have been ginger. Dh was a bit sceptical when I first told him this (it has been going on my whole life, even as an admittedly quiet child) and then after a few years of seeing it happen time and time again, he admitted I must have some kind of cloaking device. He reckons I should have been a spy. Grin He, contrastingly, makes such an impression on people that we regularly have complete strangers coming up to him to say hi and remind him that they shared a spliff for 15 minutes on a beach in Thailand in 1991. Hmm

I have exercised A LOT this week. Weights class on Monday, hour's cycle on both Tues and Thurs, and pilates this morning. At what point do I transform into Elle McPherson? What I do need to work on, I discover, is my posture - my shoulders are definitely starting to hunch forward and it's not a good look.

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motherinferior · 08/11/2013 12:18

I find the red hair does make one more memorable, though also being a Loud and Bosomy Shortarse helps too.

Herbs, talking of weeing...you're not up the duff??

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herbaceous · 08/11/2013 12:36

Well, it did cross my mind, but I've been having periods (though admittedly lighter than usual, which I put down to jolly old perimenopause), and have no sore norks or anything else. I daren't pee on a stick, as there's part of me that will be disappointed when it's negative. MAD, I know.

I'm considering taking up the C25K. I have such overpronating feet that I practically walk on my ankle bones, so will need some pretty specialist shoes, but reckon I could do it on the way back from dropping DS at school, then that's it. Job done for the day. And YY to posture, Wilbur. I'm constantly having to straighten myself up from my C-shaped hips-and-shoulders hunch. Dreadful.

addle · 08/11/2013 13:23

Wilbur, I too am amazingly unmemorable and have had people say politely no they've never met me before when in fact they have told me all about their secondary school transfer/au pair/house moving traumas... and I thought we were meeting as firm friends.

My sister told me few years ago that people often thought I was shorter than I am because of a lack of personality, which in turn led to my now DH overprotectively introducing me to his friends as 'this is addle, she has a LOT of personality' which I feel not unnaturally rendered me entirely silent

bigTillyMint · 08/11/2013 13:31

wilbur, I have the hunched shoulders too! To be fair, I don't think it's a new thing - I remember my aunty hitting me between the shoulders as a child and telling me to sit up straight.

addleGrin at your DH! You are not unmemorable.

herbaceous · 08/11/2013 13:39

I blame my posture on being tall (ish) and hunkering down. My dad too used to shout 'shoulders back' quite a lot.

herbaceous · 08/11/2013 13:44

I seem very memorable to some people (usually, embarrassingly, those who I find it difficult to recall), and totally invisible to others (usually those I wish to impress).

bigTillyMint · 08/11/2013 13:50

I definitely don't hunker down and never have. I think I have inherited mine from DM. DD has fab posture - probably down to all the ballet/gym she has done from 3. Money well-spent!

Auriga · 08/11/2013 14:38

A friend of mine told me I had a 'bus stop face' Hmm. Not, he helpfully clarified, a face like a bus stop. But people at bus stops think they know me from somewhere, or are related to me. DH told me I must look French, as when in France the natives are forever asking me for directions.

Would be nice to have a pregnancy on the crepey thread . There was a gaggle of little kids on the train this morning who were so sweet I actually cried Blush. It's going to be a long wait for grandchildren here...

beachyhead · 08/11/2013 14:41

I was certainly poked in the back between my shoulder blades by my mother to make me unhunch, but my hunch came from a teenage desire to hide ever growing norks!

Strangely, I am memorable to those who have met me, but I also seem strangely memorable to loads of people who have never met me, who are convinced that I'm a 'friend of Sally's' or 'used to work with them' or they just call me a random name and expect me to answer! (then get weirdly upset when I'm not who they thought I was!).

When we went to Greece, dh looked like EVERY man on the island (he's not Greek!) and they all kept shouting in Greek at him expecting him to answer Grin that was strange.... Maybe he is 'Standard face (Greek Version): No. 716'

BTW is anyone else getting strange adverts coming out of their computer speakers when on MN? I keep getting asked about dishwashers!

There is so much rain here I'm about to take the Ark on the school run (wearing my poncho, of course!)

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motherinferior · 08/11/2013 14:47

I got the dishwasher voice too.

DP looks exactly like most Anglo-Bengali blokes. Starting with his three brothers (they are identical - seriously, they get mistaken for each other) and going on to people like this (nice chap - it's a fellow geneticist and former MNer who says she can't take DP seriously because she gets the two of them confused).

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bigTillyMint · 08/11/2013 14:55

That definitely wasn't my problem, beachyGrin

And yes, it always rains at hometime!

wilbur · 08/11/2013 15:17

Auriga, mostly I am immune to small children but on Halloween there was a teeny girl (walking but not talking, so about 18 months) dressed as a fox, and she was tottering along, putting her single sweet vereeee carefuleeee in her little bag and I could happily have taken her home.

OK Beachy, the Darth Vader poncho was a good purchase. [contemplates monsoon outside, just in time for school run]

Blackduck · 08/11/2013 20:11

I don't think I'm memorable (except when very drunk) - actually being small I tend to to get overlooked (literally and figuratively..).

I am home alone - it's kinda nice... (Although by Sunday night when I've had no adult convo for two days I'll be stir crazy)

DP has crossed Dallas off his list of holiday destinations.... It is vying with Seoul as possibly the most soulless (boom boom) place he's been...

addle · 08/11/2013 20:20

to be fair, everyone at the meetup seemed extremely memorable and even lovely to me - and that was despite having two names a piece. and i'm sure crepeys who were not there are equally distinctive (and lovely) (and straightbacked)

lalsy · 08/11/2013 20:57

People forget who I am too, and I am quite a noisy and chaotic person - I can't glide in and out of rooms or take my coat off silently or anything like that. I think it is a form of one-upmanship, sometimes, and I do warm immensely to people who admit to remembering me when they don't have to.

originalpiratematerial · 09/11/2013 08:26

That's great about the running, mi. Are you addicted yet? Wilbur, sounds like you do loads Envy. I've had a so-so week, not been running since Wednesday, meant to go after school yesterday but not only was it bucketing with rain, there was thunder and lightning too, so I chickened out! Going to go this morning I think, once I have DS2 despatched off to dance.

I was dreaming about you last night, mother inferior. I think we were back at you know where :taps nose: . Triggered I'm sure by talking to our mutual friend whose dd has just started.

originalpiratematerial · 09/11/2013 08:27

motherinferior

I have a new Macbook that thinks it can spell better than I. The fecker.

MrsSchadenfreude · 09/11/2013 10:54

Addle, your sister sounds lovely Hmm, and three cheers for your DH! I thought you were eminently memorable, as we wobbled walked back from the last Hagfest. I can be quite forceful, which is why people tend to remember me, and was described once as "scary" by an army colonel, which I took as a compliment.

Couldn't speak to the nice woman in HR, so spoke to someone else, who was hugely unhelpful. Will try and see doc on Monday.

QueenQueenie · 09/11/2013 11:11

Morning all.
It feels like nearly all of us on here are beset with some sort of problem at the moment whether health / work / whatevever.

I am seething and sobbing (not quite literally but not far off) at discovering yesterday that tentative plans discussed with me by friend A for a particular sort of discussion group have been taken up and hijacked by fucker "friend" B and that I am very pointedly not included. Fucking hell it feels like being back in the playground. I'm surprised how hurt I feel - humiliated and upset.

I have sent B a rather full and frank email telling her how I feel which hasn't really helped but this morning realise that I am just as upset with friend A actually and the others who have allowed B to behave like this, knowing that I was hoping and expecting to be included. I really do like to think I wouldn't have let this happen around me if the positions were reversed.

I am always properly shocked when people behave very badly. In part because I would be just too embarrassed to behave quite so badly myself...

Any thoughts / stern words to get over myself?

And it's cold and raining here.

herbaceous · 09/11/2013 11:34

I'd be very hurt too, QQ. You've every right to be. I too find such backbiting behaviour shocking, and good on you for pulling up 'friend' B on it. I've had things like this happen in the past and just sucked it up, thinking it was my fault for being ineffective, or whatever. It wasn't, and these days I'd fight back. We need to stand up for The Righteous!

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motherinferior · 09/11/2013 11:41

Agree totally with herbs, QQ. You don't need to get over your hurt - they need to realise how hurtful and NASTY their behaviour is.

It's pouring here. DP has gone to St Albans to do, you've guessed it, t'ai chi.

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Blackduck · 09/11/2013 12:25

It's like being back in the playground sometimes isn't it? One thinks and hopes everyone will behave well and decently and some buggers are just nasty manipulative pieces work.

Trouble is I am too insecure to pull anyone up on it! (Spineless)