Crepeys on the Verge of an Examination Meltdown

[whattodoforthebest2]

Not sure if I should be starting the new thread as I'm the last poster on the old one - is this how it works?

ps DP has hoovered and put on self-righteous baked potatoes. A fiver says he'll put the breadmaker on too.

BTM, I have never been to a school reunion either. Not that it was a happy time, but I'd be curious to see what everyone else (those I haven't stalked on Facebook) are up to, and to lay some ghosts to rest.

DP did some Look How Helpful I'm Being Hoovering this morning, while I randomly inserted more academic-sounding quotes into my assignment, as my arse grows ever larger across the chair.

Crem, trust me, you'll be pleasantly surprised by how "normal" a lot of your ex-classmates will be. And quite a few will be having the same thoughts as you right now.

BTM - I've only been to the one reunion, mainly because it was a Big One (30 years on), was fairly close by, and there were a couple of people I really wanted to meet up with. It was interesting how people had changed - I certainly wasn't playing the same role that I played at school, and I came away with very different feelings towards people I wasn't at all close to back then.

MI - my parents eat plenty, but are continually taken by surprise by the amount their grandchildren consume, and always tend to under-cater .

I just realised it's Derby Day today. There are helicopters going over every five minutes and the village is full of Orange People.

And my time was.... (drumroll).... 38 minutes 16 seconds. Nearly 10 minutes behind DH, but not the slowest. Next time, I'll suggest the Park Run near Cheam, which is flat, apparently (err... did I just say "next time?" ).

Cremona QQ speaks much sense about not putting yourself through something if the outcome, for you, is more pain (I am hiring QQ for when I have those kind of issues :) )

Ah, so that's why the High St is full of Morris dancers....

CV that's excellent, you should be very proud of yourself. Yes I wondered about doing Cheam, as it's flat. My other option, if it ever happens, is Reigate, which isn't flat.

I've never been to a reunion. I have no idea what people have done since they left school, other than one mum living fairly nearby, one in Herts and one who is a Labour MP in South London.

MI, your DH is a Rare Commodity.

This evening's party will be populated by young farmers and horsey people, so I shall be on the sidelines, not understanding much, being a townie.

CV at the Orange People!
And 38mins sounds good to me, but next time?

Cremo, there are probably going to be plenty there who have not got big shining careers - I am getting less and less surprised when I hear of the girls who were the really high achievers at school now doing jobs where I would be their line-manager (and would have been their boss pre-DC). So much for academic achievement being so highly prized!

So where are you, What?

My brother has done the Cheam one apparently (I think). Said it's great for starting out. Why don't cv and what meet there? We will all cheer you on from cyber space!

To be fair my DH is pretty handy round the house (borderline anal). Can't complain too much!

Gosh much Crepey posting this morning.

First, CV - well done on the run - the time sounds excellent to me.

Crem - the solution of own room for DD where she can be independent but see BF sounds an excellent idea - surely she must see the sense in that. Maybe ask DH to spin it from a feminist, strong independent woman point of view.

BTM - nose piercing fills me with horror. I think I've come off quite lightly so far as DD1 has only suggested she might get a second hole in her ear and asked what I thought. I get the impression as soon as they arrive in the UK they want to pierce themselves full of holes!

Stropps - your DD sounds like she knows her own mind, has her head screwed on and will be alright.

Ha, yes, my dd is very sensible. Except on all the bazillion occasions when she massively, hideously, isn't. Aside from the anxiety meltdowns, she frequently makes crap decisions when under the influence of her hormones, suffers volcanic rages and has inherited bin-jumping tendencies. Ho hum. Actually, it's not just the bin-jumping that's inherited.

Crem, the flat/independence from bf sounds very positive. (Liking your feminist spin idea, Hatty!)

MI, glad to hear your dm is out of hospital. Shame about her inability to ever grow out of her food hangups.

Dh doesn't do much cleaning, self-righteous or otherwise. However, he took ds to his swimming lesson this morning and he is now fixing the hole left in the kitchen door when ds kicked out the redundant catflap.

My assignment is soooooo boring. It's just a re-hash of one we did after the first teaching practice and it's a formulaic pile of crap, but is taking ages and ages even so.

DP has just sighed deeply and said he will go to the supermarket later to get things we didn't put on the delivery that has just arrived. I asked briskly if he is going to tomorrow's meeting by car, to which he responded in putupon manner that he would like to go by public transport if that was OK. I explained - still in brisk but kindly manner - that no I meant I could do supermarket run. He sighed and said well if I really wanted to but if I didn't mind he had planned to go.

I may actually kill him. Or send him to live with my mum. Who thinks he's perfect, what with being a Nice Asian Boy.

Brisk but kindly. Love it.

Anyone else a fan of the Meaning of Liff? It assigns meanings to place names, that otherwise 'sit about on signposts doing nothing'. Anyway, a particular favourite of mine is Clixby - 'briskly vague, politely rude, firmly uninformative'. A good way of dealing with irritating but persistent callers, bored receptionists, and irritating spouses.

Love that book, Herbs. For many years it was a fixture in DDad's downstairs loo.

I am now Feeling Stiff and Want Cake.

It's brilliant, isn't it. I find it a good arbiter of the Right Type of person. If someone doesn't get it, they are generally the Wrong Type.

I bought a copy for my last teaching mentor. Went down a treat.

Crem, sorry to hear about the problems with DD and the BF, the accommodation solution seems ideal to me. DD met her DH in her first year at uni, but they always had their own accommodation.

CV, well done on the run: this week 5k, next week a marathon? MI, glad to hear that DM is out of hospital. The food thing isn't related to money, by the way? Just wondered as the number of pizzas she wanted to order seems very low.

BTM, you will never stop worrying about the DC, it's just that you worry about different things: their partners, their work (will they lose their well paid job putting their large mortgage at risk?). Just saying ...

I need to confess my sins. I had to take a break from the extreme dullitude that is assignment writing so I took ds to the library and then sidled off for a bit of window shopping in the local footwear emporia.
sin 1: I entered the Hotter shop
sin 2: I tried on several pairs of shoes
sin 3 (and the most heinous): I liked 2 pairs.

Stropps links please :)
Here it's the Crusades and Simon deMonfort.... Oh joy.

But last two episodes of 1864....

Nooooo, BD, the shame would be too great. I worry that I am edging out of crepeydom and into the crumbly zone before my time. I will be all mottled ankles and serious support garments before I know it...

Psst, Stropps, I rather liked a pair of Hotter shoes someone started a thread about recently. Now a Hotter ad comes up in my feed, and one of these days I shall be tempted.

I avoid Hotter in case I sin in my heart.

NU, no, not money at all - they're quite well off. It's her concept of what people will eat - especially females.

The Inferiorettes and I went shopping. They've done rather well out of it with a check shirt (charity shop) for DD1 and a pair of half-price Converse (TKMaxx) for DD2. I got some jeans in the new Gap outlet shop. I've been spending quite a lot of money recently but I have v much gone for bargains/offers - and I desperately needed some lighter weight jeans as most of mine, bought for a tenner each in the Toast sale, are in quite heavy denim.

Gap sizing is HUGE.

MI, avert your gaze.

These could look quite stylish, if worn with the right outfit and sufficient aplomb.

Herbs - I don't know why, but I see those with a powdered wig and Marie Antoinette style dress.

Crem sounds like part way to a solution or at least an acceptable compromise

CV really well done…bet that fry up tasted good.

Tilly I too have shunned reunions with the exception of a very informal one at an old friend's house which I was nervous about but quite enjoyed in the end…particularly as the (then) so called "in crowd" (of which I was not part..) in one's early 40's definitely had become the "out crowd."
and spent significant amounts of time in the loo, emerging somewhat bright eyed, and red nosed
Crem you might be surprised at how crap some of them look...

What outfit sounds lovely!

MI small and shabby are not terms I would use with you in mind…try 'awesome' . re pizza…my DM is the diametric opposite. She will over cater to the point of madness, and then says "Vot? You don't vont to eat?????"

DH and DS are on the way back from Exeter and DS says the Uni us amaaaayzing. DD has done homework after a fashion and we have been on a good long walk including a stop in M&S so that I can get tights for tomorrows do in medium…happy to report I was wearing Large this morning and the ankle wrinkles made me look like Nora Batty. Quite pleased though…

Nose piercing? Quite like a sparkly, jewel- coloured stud actually. But not too close to the edge otherwise the butterfly seems to poke out like a bogey.

As the oldest Crepey by a long mile, I think those particular Hotter shoes are horrible, and remind me of powdered wigs, too, Hatty. Which probably means that they are the height of fashion.

Rose, I am an over-caterer, too, which I probably picked up from my DM, a redoubtable Yorkshire woman. Congratulations on the purchases, MI.

Coincidentally, talking about reunions, an old school friend of DH's rang today and said they would be in the area tomorrow and could they call for a cuppa. We last saw him and his DW about five. (5, v) years ago - before that it had been 35 years. Unfortunately we won't be around. Miserable here now, it's raining.