The Crepey Cube

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Ladyjogs are having to take something of a back seat this week, as I am encumbered with Small Child. Might head out tonight, once DP comes back. But only if it's not raining.

Will take trainers back to shop today to see if they've got anything to do with my knee pain. Which isn't nearly as bad now, anyway... Then trying to persuade DS to buy some new school shoes, as he's already grown out of the ones I bought at Christmas!

All this after his swimming lesson, and meeting a friend at soft play.

Gah.

Happy Birthday CV!

I did my half term child care yesterday - book shopping, eating, Lego Movie....dp's turn today then off to the grandparents, so I am back at work today and catching up on the backlog.... The last four days have cost a fortune!

Awk happy birthday for yesterday CV sounds like you had a lovely meal.
Auriga that sounds great and you are right about the time stretching thing.
Sometimes I feel like I'm on rails going in a perpetual triangle between work , sainsburys and home. Just fleeing from that for a few days is often a tonic in itself. I certainly felt like that after copenhagen - the world looks different from a distance
Philosophical this morning innit.

Belated birthday wishes CV. Sounds like you had a good one.

Glad to hear your German weekend was an enjoyable one Auriga!

Am mighty of BTM, although we do currently have sunshine and blue sky here. But with mud. Lots and lots of mud.

Stroppdog is at the vets for his v. expensive op. He is having 7 cysts/lumps/suspicious-looking crusty things removed, poor little blighter. He has had so many of these blasted things and they grow huge and ulcerate, so the vet just now wants to take off every single one he is currently sporting. Unfortunately, the one on his tail will have to heal by granulation rather than by being stitched, so I foresee several weeks of fussing around with dressings etc. And can kiss goodbye to any time away for a while due to vet/household expenses. Boo.

Work, Sainsbury's and home...the Crepey motto

DP and I have an evening alone on Thursday when the girls are staying overnight at a friend's. We estimate our energy levels will be about up to staggering to nearby gastropub for steak and chips and then back to watch Nashville.

After last week/weekend's marathon I am wiped. The Briefs are so far Rather Skimpy. Ahem.

We are all still recovering from ds's birthday "sleep"over party on Saturday. Took several boys to the Lego Movie, then back to ours for food, one guest went home and 3 others stayed the night. So four 8/9 year olds on inflatable mattresses in our sitting room. Dd was woken by someone playing the piano at 4am and then I went downstairs at 4.30 to find all the lights on and all manner of riotous stuff going on . They hadn't been to sleep at all at that stage. They apparently had had a special plan to stop themselves from going to sleep with some sort of card game marathon interspersed with bouts of wrestling. The plan was remarkably well-executed, given that none of us were alerted to any of this until they started to lose the plot through tiredness and think that we wouldn't notice anyone playing the piano at 4am.

Was funny that teen dd moans about being kept up at night by her 9 year old brother. I dread to think what he will be like by the time he's her age..

Poor old crusty Stroppdog. And the sleepover sounds hellish. I bet your DS was positively vile on Sunday, if he's anything like mine.

I have two extra 10 year olds sleeping over here tonight...

I have eight 16 yo's sleeping over tomorrow. If there's any wrestling at 4am, they'll be all sorts of trouble

Have treated myself to a new pair of Merrells on the assumption that the mud will be here for some time! Still in the sale.

8, eight (VIII) 16 yo's?! Beachy do you have a mooosive house?

I am already quailing at the thought of two (2, II) extra quite small ones.

Have completed one page of reasonably comprehensive Briefs and am moving on to the next one. Will bribe self with more online books.

In Westfield, rewarding DS with ice cream for trailing around shoe shops. Also survived riotous Essex soft play, and noisy swimming lesson. Need lie down in anechoic chamber.

beachy, good luck - I had eight 16yr olds for DDs 14th birthday. Not a lot of sleep and quite a bit of shrieking and running about. At 3 in the morming.

Knackered. Lovely weather again today - survived skiing en famille this morning, took it a bit easier this afternoon. DC are boarding tomorrow

DD and the children have just left. Pipe now mended and they have heating and light. Damage over three floors, though.

It seems a long time until table is booked at restaurant and I am already hungry.

We used to find sleep overs were better in the summer (at least if you were having several children) - conservatory came in handy. It is easier when they're older, though, as you can just get food in and they can cook it themselves.

First day of holidays almost gone!

Surely it's Tuesday? Mind you could be any day, have lost plot.

But - and I have to say this, just bear with me - the Briefs are Off.

MI. And yes, it is undoubtedly Tuesday.

I am a bit meh as I have just shelled out £400 for the patchwork dog (7 holes and a bandaged tail) and have had the only sniff of work that has come my way for the last few days cancelled. Dh's computer has just given up the ghost (dead motherboard or somesuch) and he is trying to restore his system onto my old computer - luckily we have a backup puter just lying around.

Re: sleepovers - our house is small, so it wouldn't matter where we put them, we would still hear several loud people in the middle of the night. As dd is very antisocial these days, I have never had to have several teenage girls round at once. Her last mass sleepover was when she was about 11, I think. And they were all rather quiet and well-behaved.

Oh dear God, I must stop reading MN. I have just made myself feel bad by reading on another thread that as a parent of a GCSE student, I should be overseeing dd's revision timetable. I doubt that dd has a revision timetable. And I can just imagine the atmosphere if I try and ask about it. Oh dear.

Always been grateful for dds summer birthday as all sleepovers have been hosted in the family tent with limited access to ablutions. Beachy you deserve a medal or a sleeping draft perhaps

Stropps, I feel in your situation a tactful silence is best.

I am so tired. I don't even want to cook stuffed pasta with pesto. Salad, yet, is beyond me. I shall force the girls to unload the dishwasher...

I think it will be 4 in dd1's room (2 on the bed and 2 on the floor) and 4 in the spare room (again 2 on the bed and 2 on the floor), but I'm not entirely sure of the split in sexes and I'm not sure whether I can be bothered to find out! I suspect that only half will turn up and it will be a very peaceful and well behaved affair (she said hopefully).

Wine will be involved for all participants and bystanders, I'm sure!

I want gin. Really quite soon.

About Stroppsdog.
Why did I not do veterinary science as desired by my 10 year old self. I could be bathing in gin MI

Now watching Toy Story for the 10th (X, ten) time since Friday night. It's good, but I'm not sure I need every line committed to memory.

Shafted after my sensory overload day, but really should do lady jog, once DP returns...

No ladyjog today, owing to overconsumption of prosecco last night. Tomorrow I have a one hour Personal Training session, courtesy of the PruVitality thing, which I'm actually quite nervous about. I'm worried that "Nick" is going to make me do things I don't want to do, like run fast up hills or punch things.

I quite often want to punch things...