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The Crepey Cube

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cremolafoam · 04/02/2014 20:26

Wine
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NUFC69 · 26/02/2014 18:05

Loved the double entrendes, Herbs. I hope you have had some work to do this afternoon (or at least you have if you wanted it).

Addle, sorry to hear about the interview - it sounds awful (and just the kind of thing I would have done, too).

DH is cooking tonight so we are going all exotic and having gammon steaks Wink. This does mean, however, that we will be eating very late although he is getting better at planning what he is doing these days, instead of getting everything ready and then turning on the oven.

DGD was delightful over lunchtime; I love babies when they are about nine months old. DD's househunt is going quite well - more to look at tomorrow and Friday and then a decision to be made. It'll be good if they can get it all over before she goes back to work in June after her ML.

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 18:11

Oh god do not talk about late suppers. DP got in last night (I'd been ranting at him about how fed up I am with his habit of breezing in an hour after the rest of us have eaten) and started cooking...and took AN HOUR. It was a nice meal (if somewhat artery-clogging on the cheese front) but I bet most of us on this thread can get in at 6.45 and have something edible, even if it's just pitta and hummus and salad (which is what we are having tonight - DD1's turn to cook Grin) on the table by 7pm. DD2 is only 10, ffs.

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 18:44

Hell and damnation Sad the sodding cat almost certainly does have cancer Sad

Prognosis not good. I do realise she's only a cat, but it's still upsetting and the poor Inferiorettes Sad

bigTillyMint · 26/02/2014 18:48

NUEnvy at yummy DGD - I am already hoping to have some and be allowed to look after themBlush And hand them backWink

I dread to think what would happen if DH took a regular turn at cooking. In the past he has burned fish fingers and made a soggy mess of pasta pesto when I was out/away! He and DS can manage sushi, although it's not prettySmile I am always in before him/much faster anyway so it is easier if it's me...

bigTillyMint · 26/02/2014 18:49

Oh dear MISad

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 18:53

I know. Poor girls v sad.

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 18:54

We've had her since DD1 (who was the one who nagged us to take her to the vet) was a toddler and DD2 was a baby. DD1 has a picture of her in a frame above her bed Sad

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 26/02/2014 19:57

Poor pussy, MI. And poor inferiorettes. Sad

My cat has just enjoyed the remains of my lemon muffin. And has just bitten me because he wants to sit on my laptop.

DD1 is home and stressed because she has careers day at school coming up and has been told she has to have some idea about what she wants to do. She is 15...

herbaceous · 26/02/2014 20:02

Poor Inferiorcat. They are such a vital part of the weave of home life, aren't they.

NUFC69 · 26/02/2014 20:10

MI, sorry to hear that the cancer has been confirmed; I know exactly how your family is feeling as we lost the brother of our cat to cancer a few years ago (we had had them both since they were kittens). Your poor DDs.

MrsS - I am still waiting to work out what I want to do when I grow up, let alone decide when I was 15 - life is so serious these days for teenagers and they are so earnest. DS really had no idea what he wanted to do, but eventually happily went to university to do Business Studies which has stood him in good stead. DD, on the other hand, always wanted to study Law and that has worked out well for her. I have no idea what we would have done if they had had no idea at all, especially with tuition fees costing an arm and a leg.

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 20:12

We do have two other cats...

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cremolafoam · 26/02/2014 20:23

Oh MI heartbroken for your dds. So sorry the poor kitty is so ill.
Dd had a screensaver with a drawing of our (then) 3 cats. One day greyboycat got run over, and I caught her replacing the screensaver about a week later sobbing and in floods of tears.Sad

A wretched head cold has descended on me today complete with drippy nose and violent sneezing. I really must invest in some vitamins. Angry

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motherinferior · 26/02/2014 20:24

'kinell, Cremo, you've been through the wringer.

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cremolafoam · 26/02/2014 20:27

I am a bloody wreck.Grin Ffs

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bigTillyMint · 26/02/2014 21:04

MrsS, DD worries a lot that she doesn't know what she wants to be/do. She is 14!

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 26/02/2014 21:19

I knew what I wanted to be from the age of 13. Everyone said I didn't stand a cat in hell's chance. They accepted me on a graduate entry scheme with two crappy A levels. I'm still there. Sad

addle · 26/02/2014 22:12

so sorry about inferiocat MI. DD used to take a framed photo of our previous cat with her when she went for sleepovers, to help her feel better.

none of us around here knows what we want to be, though i went through a phase of wanting to work with dolphins

hope today was better at work, Mrs S, and snotstream reduced, Crem

Auriga · 27/02/2014 00:40

Beachy, I have a DH who shrinks things but take heart. The last thing he shrank was his special lambswool designer jumper, which was a birthday present. I was quite annoyed until I realised it now fits me Grin

MI, v. sorry about inferiorcat. I absolutely dread anything going wrong with DCat, who must be about 17 we think. It's not just DD, we all love her so much.

Addle and Crem, commiserations on interviews. And generally, hope things look up soon on the work front for those who are having a hard time (thinking of you, Strops and MrsS.)

My work not much fun atm - and by the way, Herbs, sorry you've had bad news. But we do work nights and weekends Wink.

Family problems are too horrible to discuss on here but DH and DM are well and we had a great parents' evening with DD this evening, came away glowing Grin

Blackduck · 27/02/2014 06:13

Hi all
MI sorry to hear about the cat - I'm dreading day we have to deal with something similar for DDog as ds has grown up with him.

Cremo - your immune system has certainly taken a battering!

Parents evening last night and we got told off for ds not submitting some homework for a big project. (Dp and I had not grasped the significance of this homework and it was construction - yuck) Now he's in primary so why the hell was this homework if it was so important? And second, what did the head expect me to do? Whisk out a model and go ta da here you go?! I am actually tres cross with her 'we are most disappointed BDboy did not enter anything'. Guess what, I suspect it didn't fire his imagination.
Otherwise all good, except for the girl issue which continues.

At work I would like to bang some heads together - is that allowed?

lalsy · 27/02/2014 08:32

Why can't we all work with dolphins, eh? Answer me that.

Poor cat, MI.

My week rather dominated by dd university course nonsense - her first choice appears to have dropped the aspect she wanted to do, since she applied and was accepted. I have become incandescent over all these universities' inability to provide clear, accurate information on their websites. So what if only 2.5 people a year do the course? Pah.

OTOH, addle and I tested out the free cake in John Lewis option recently, marvellous.

motherinferior · 27/02/2014 10:28

I just got a Hotters catalogue in the post.

I may just go and shoot myself.

Blackduck · 27/02/2014 11:44

MI nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

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cremolafoam · 27/02/2014 12:24

Lalsy - I am embroiled In a similar situation with dd. I feel quite stabby towards the universities.

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Blackduck · 27/02/2014 12:40

So the KIS data we have been forced to provide doesn't help?

herbaceous · 27/02/2014 12:49

MI - about 10% of the Hotter website doesn't look too bad. Or is this yet another sign of decrepitude? Along with the other one I discovered today - some of my chin hairs are now grey. I suppose this is good, in that they contrast less with the jowls.