Crepeyistmas Time, Camel Toe and Whine...

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Pandering to the uncouth...

Mr Inferior is not drunk but is exhausted and filthy-tempered.

Oh, I have the solution to that, MI! Tai chi!

He does in fact have more effing blinding t'ai chi tomorrow. Perhaps it will stop him listing my many failings and then, when I say I'm keeping quiet to stop him listing any more, adding that clearly I can only think about myself.

I do quite often wish I lived with someone who actually liked me.

That sounds very despondent, MI. Does he realise what a godawful time this is for you?

Come over to us and play board games at Xmas if you feel unloved. Bring any dds who can play Boggle/Scrabble/Game of Thrones Risk.

I found another charity shoppe I want to show you, as well.

QQ fab news
NFU sorry to hear that.

Getting ready to set off on the tour of London - would prefer to stay in bed.

MI why does he do that?

Sending strength BD. (The very words Tour Bus make me think of that episode of The Apprentice).

MI - DH needs a good telling off. I hate it when husbands mysteriously find the time to do sports yet cannot give the most basic help at home.

QQ, excellent news about DS - it's such a relief when something comes in for them, however good you know they are.

Sorry to hear about your rubbish DH, MI. I hope he appreciates you more today. My DH has just announced in a weary voice that he has two (2, ii) presents to wrap for me, quite forgetting the hundreds of presents I have already wrapped for the family, not quite but I am sure that you get my gist.

I have my breast cancer scan on Monday and am now feeling very wobbly about it because of my friend - we had our boys on the same day in the same hospital in Essex.

Thanks for all the commiserations, by the way. .

MI - someone needs to tell him he's being very twattish.

BD, Good Luck!

QQ, great news!

NU, wishing you strength.

I have a quiet day of Christmas preparations planned - wrapping, assembling the gingerbread house, making more mince pies, marzipaning and icing the cake... and friends party tonight

Sorry for all your sad news, NU. Sending you strength for Monday. I hope it goes well. Will you get the results on the spot?

Well done young QQ! Is he holding other offers too? Any news from the Fens? Most impressive as they are no doubt v competitive courses.

MI, are you able to ask DP to do specific tasks before he goes to his thing? I find that can be more productive than asking DH to help, as he just doesn't see what needs to be done unless it is writ large.

I am off for a ladyjog then I must do a Christmas present audit. Have a good day

QQ great news. How wonderful to have one in the bag. Well done to him.
NU sorry you are on the receiving end of so much distressing news. Hang on in there for the scan

All these annoying and ratted DHs/DPs!!! Honestly. Xmas seems to bring the worst out in them. Like I said in a previous post, I'm sick to death of all of DHs dos and parties and after work drinks. Probably because I'm not doing anything similar. MI .....LTB

I had to make a mercy dash to DM yesterday afternoon who called very wobbly and anxious about herself and some nebulous symptoms upon which she'd ruminated and built up into something terrible. I took her to her (lovely)GP who hopefully reassured her and prescribed beta blockers. She was certainly less shaky by the time I got her back. The DCs put on the dinner as I was so late and stressed. We're supposed to going to DParents later for candle lighting but I'm not sure DM is up to it.

Otherwise a lazy day and Hampstead theatre play for DH and me tonight followed by a late nightcap at a friends house on the way home. Gotta get ready for going tomsussex on Monday. Feeling a bit meh.

To Sussex. Bloody autocorrect ...

Monty, I agree re men and jobs. DH has set jobs and then I just tell him (in no uncertain terms!) to do specific tasks as necessary. God knows how he holds down his Very Important Job

Rose, well done on the mercy dash. Sadly mine has to make do with mercy phone calls (and I am not known for being particularly sympathetic!)
Sussex sounds good though!

I need to get the Christmas presents out but they are in the loft storage space, next to the loft bedroom where the teens are still sleeping...

BTM - same here re' presents and I also need a present audit.

Rose - hope DM is feeling a little calmer.

On DH's - mine has been wiring computer stuff behind the TV - I pointed out he might hoover there at the same time - and he is .

QQ, great news. Is soooo good when you get the first one in.

NU, be kind to yourself this weekend, no wonder you feel wobbly.

MI, pah.

To be fair DP does do a fair share of the old housework (probably more than me) and parenting (less than me); and these days it isn't as if his absence makes huge logistical problems - though I have just realised that he will be away for the week of 5 Jan so I will have to trek up and back to school for 'progress day' appointments at wildly disparate times. And he is knackered and feels he is Doing Everything (ha!).

Any bets on when my lovely daughters will arise? DD2 and I had vague shopping plan but I knew it wouldn't happen. We may all go to the Hobbit movie later.

NU, I do realise why you must be dreading breast appt - you know as well as I do that anything they might find would almost certainly be benign and that treatments are v effective in any case, but that doesn't shift your anxiety.

And I'm feeling guilty because I've caught up with a gay university friend and I was bewailing the tedium of GCSE options and I've realised he would have loved children (wonder if they would adopt? They're outside the UK). The foot in mouth syndrome around pregnancy/babies/kids never stops, does it.

Haha, Molly. I too attempted Sensible Conversation with DP last night. It was only when he repeated something he'd told me five minutes ago that I realised such behaviour was futile.

He's now doing aggressive tidying.

First batch of mince pies are in the oven

Result, Herbs!

I always find that Sulky Cleaning follows Aggressive Tidying...

I was in M & S at Marble Arch (and Primarni) for 0830. Now home and avoiding the marauding crowds.

Loving your work on Oxford Street there, MrsS. Primark is only worth going to as soon as it opens otherwise it is just a jumble sale with everything on the floor.

Lady jog completed. Now for Christmas present audit. I want one of Herbs' mince pies to go with....

Sorry, Herbs has aggressive tidying - BTM with the pies

I have done bog-all bar long gossip with DD1.

AIBU in thinking it's still ages to Christmas?

That's impressive, MrsS!

Some of my mince pies are a little browner than others, but nothing that a sprinkling of icing sugar won't solve, I hope!

MI, it is NOT ages to Christmas! 5 days, isn't it?!

5 days is more than enough. A few presents, a Sunday lunch (with more wine) and a few bits of the faaaaaamily over. Simples.

Sulky cleaning under way. Complete with sad look. Would that be Martyred Drudgery? I am in the post office queue, trying to weigh up whether its worth giving up my place in the vast queue for one of the no-doubt malfunctioning self-service machine.

I may take my time going home.