Beware the Crepes of March!

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it as my last post was number 999...

MrsS, it sounds fab If it is what you would like to do and you feel the family could withstand the impact of you not being there, go for it!

Cremo, that is great advice.

Stropps, well done! And a big fat gold medal
As another with an anxious, dramatic DD, I so know how you feel and what a mammoth task parenting them is. Fingers crossed your DS stays low maintenance. My DS has never been "easy" but he is at least very resilient and fairly independent, which is a massive bonus when you have a needy DD!

MrsS - would it do you good? I don't mean financially, career wise or any of that stuff, but in some deeply hippy shit soul way - IFYKWIM.....

If it benefits you somehow, and doesn't screw the family - do it

Stropps you are a f&@#ing star

MrsS! I thought you and I were running off to St Lucia! I see I've been binned for Stropps - humph....

St Lucia in the winter, BD.

And I don't know if it would do me good. I might be deeply unhappy there and hate it.

Is your DH supportive of the idea MrsS?

He is neutral, BTM, in a "go if you want" sort of way.

Looks okay to me MrsS!!

I think that alone would make me go frankly. Full-blown selfless support or declarations you are Too Necessary To His Happiness are much more flattering, surely?

(Actually I would hate the latter. Was v chuffed when Mr Inferior virtually chucked me out of the door pressing my ticket in my hand to go to India last year.)

Agree MI - they won't die. And sometimes we need space.... I'd go...

I am still dithering, but more on the point of it being a No. No financial gain, no career (ha!) gain. (As a friend of mine succinctly put it, "none of the Cs: Cash, Career or Cock" - I think her fourth C was Cannabis, mine are probably Children and Cats.) I didn't much enjoy being on my own for 10 weeks last time, so this probably wouldn't be much different. But I think the main thing for me is the job - it would be more of something I can do standing on my head but don't particularly like.

Stropps, I am being self indulgent here, but sending you for your dealings with your DD.

Ooh Mrs S, I would be very tempted to go. Your life does seem rather full of doing stuff for everyone else, and surely it would be rather marvellous to have a break from all that, and for everyone else to realise that in fact they can do stuff, survive and make decisions without you. And just think how grateful they'll be when you come back!

I seem to have a weird minor lurgy, mainly involving a headache and slightly upset stomach. I have been half-heartedly low-carbing, but can't believe that would have any effect...

I was going to say "go for it", MrsS, but your heart doesn't seem to be in it, so that would be it as far as I am concerned. Mind you, I can see the benefit of the family having to do for themselves for a while.

Herbs, sorry you're not feeling too well. Whenever I low carb I get headaches at first.

Stropps, I am in awe of your parenting skills with DD; you are obviously getting it right.

It's a really miserable day here so DH isn't going cycling, but he's going to get the weekend shopping so the house will be a husband free zone for a couple of hours. I am off to the gym and swimming pool later and then clothes shopping, although I have no idea what I want, I just feel like buying something. What an admission!!

Oh and yes, Stropps. I am totally in awe, too. I would have entirely given up by now, and probably been extremely horrible to DD on the way. You truly are Wonder Woman.

Just googled 'low-carb headache', and it seems it is a 'thing'. Not going to help the assignment I've got to draft today...

Is a career gain that important at this stage? Happiness in the job seems more of an issue to me.

I am still inclined to suggest you:
(a) go
(b) do the day job standing on you head
(c) spend the rest of the time Not Being Ground Down Domestically, writing, and sipping wine in the Maltese sun.

Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!

I note we'll be needing a new thread title soon. I gather that 'bumcrepes' is deemed too rude?

Bumcrepes sounds like flabby, wrinkly bottoms, so that would be a No from me, Herbs. Sorry.

For me 10 weeks on my own sounds like bliss! But if you don't like doing the work I guess it's a no.

Here it is the trauma of having to play inter form football today (as they are currently the winning form) and it's NOT even PE day! Oh the drama......

Meanwhile dp has dragged his sorry hide into work for the last time this term and I am WFH with a tiny hangover.....

Mrs S - sounds like you're talking yourself out of it.

In S&B - I have just tried a sample of Clarins BB cream - I'm not exactly sure what BB cream is and was looking for a foundation but I seem to look fabulous and it has SPF 25. I'm going to wait for promo and then buy.

I'm going to lunch with friend who came back from London. She has form for sending things back in restaurants so it is always a bit of an ordeal.

Herbs - I could never low carb. I like my bread too much.

And definitely a NO from me as well - my BTM is not a subject for discussion.

The post has just arrived and DH has an appointment for an angiogram on the day we're going away for my birthday so he'll have to rearrange. Why do hospital letters include all the things that could go wrong? DH will have kittens when he reads it. The letter also includes mention of a pre op assessment but gives no appointment.

Another in awe Stropps .

MrsS, I can see why being on your own doing a job you don't much like isn't that appealing. If the joy has already been sucked out of the day, it s hard to enjoy yourself come six o'clock martini or no martini. OTOH, if you do want to go, with the odd weekend back and the dds coming to you for a long summer break, it wouldn't add up to many weekends of not seeing them would it?

Wow MrsS decisions, decisions. Why not apply…you can always pull out. From where I'm standing, behind the iron bars of my everlasting, interminable imprisonment it sounds fantastic. But then, I have indecent fantasies about escape from my dreary little life.
BTW DS would always have been doing French…he's got a real flare for it but lots of the degrees he's looking at have options for many languages from scratch as part the same degree.

All respect to you Stropps …you need to arrange a treat for yourself this weekend. Doesn't she, Crepeys?

Thanks Monty DS sees a Spanish tutor about once every three weeks, mainly for the oral…as he also hates the Spanish oral assistant, who never smiles unless he's laughing at you, iyswim. BTW that's so lovely, about the bloke whose car you hit…there are still some nice, honest peeps in the world including you and him!

Herbs no low carb headache on SW…just sayin' hope the dodgy stomach calms down.

DS seems a bit calmer. He spoke to the music teachers who still think he can get an A despite the lowish mark for his composition. He is in Cambridge as I type….let's see what he makes of it…

DDs drama teacher has come back with a very breezy email confirming a meeting early on Wed. I have such a bad feeling about this….

ConS is throwing up. So glad he cancelled this morning….

I love bread too, but it doesn't love me (as I discovered last summer), making low-carbing much easier!

Re thread titles, I'll put in my usual bid for 'wattle [as in neck] and daub [as in bb cream]'.