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Crepeys of a consistently high standard

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Stropperella · 24/06/2015 20:37

So there. :)

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Blackduck · 09/07/2015 19:09

MI - sorry :(
Here DMum was on the 'I am fed up of everything wish I had died' trip. Sometimes I wonder if maybe it wouldn't have been better all round.

Ds meltdown, me meltdown - very tired - thank god I can take my time tomorrow.

hattymattie · 09/07/2015 19:16

MI - not fabulous but not disastrous either. At least it sounds like they're across it. Wishing you a calm evening with gin and Bombay mixSmile.

BTM - lovely prom pics on FB (can't see the shoes thoughWink).

I think I'm in control of packing and am ready for the early start which DH will inevitably inflict on us tomorrow. DD2 gets her French literature results tomorrow and will have to go online from the carConfused .

hattymattie · 09/07/2015 19:18

BD - xpostSadThanks and strength.

addle · 09/07/2015 19:22

I can confirm that BTM's DD and friends looked fabulous and happy - you would never have known there had been kerfuffle, palaver and whathaveyou

Stropperella · 09/07/2015 19:40

You did good with the prom dress, BTM Grin - lovely pic.

The head at the school today was very helpful - turns out he just wanted to give me some hints and tips about what he thought I should do. He made some good points, but interestingly some of them were very different (read: completely the opposite) to what the SENCo of the school where I was yesterday said. He also showed me round his school, introduced me to someone who is doing what I now think I want to do and I got to spend some time with her and she was kind enough to show me the sort of work she does. Turns out there is a broader variety of work out there than what is advertised. He told me to put together a letter and approach lots of local schools - and do some voluntary. He also told me to get a new email address - fair comment, the one I use now is for my current business.

I think I may possibly be doing some supply next week...

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Stropperella · 09/07/2015 19:41

BD - sorry to hear your mum is so down.

And MI, sorry that the news is not as good as one would have hoped. How are they going to manage things? Will there be more treatment in the near future?

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bigTillyMint · 09/07/2015 19:43

AddleGrin I have had a few glass of left-over Prosecco and calmed down a bit, thank God. All to do with them not liking the make-up job and DD gets so anxious... I can confirm that Addles DS had scrubbed up very well tooSmile

Hatty, the front of the shoe is just about visible, I think!

MI, sympathies, DM has said that she would rather die than have the carers, etc. It's not easy, is it. But Prosecco always helpsWink

bigTillyMint · 09/07/2015 19:50

And I just want to big-up DS who called DD to check she was OK and I could hear her saying "can't you come home?" (he was doing prep for a Science ISA) - he is her rock

motherinferior · 09/07/2015 20:11

I am on last leg of long journey home (London bridge): thank heavens for the anaesthetising effects of ginGrin.

Stropps, go you!

At the moment there's nothing anyone can do. She'll be tested again in November. Consultant (who was clearly hugely relieved I was there as last time he got my dad weeping all over the shop) says one main worry with more chemo is, yes, the fact she is SO THIN. And once again I tried to get the eating issues across...

Blackduck · 09/07/2015 20:42

Crepeys on an S&B note can I recommend these: skinny jeans. skinny but forgiving :) loving them...., but darker blue than pic... The ecru is nice too...

Stropperella · 09/07/2015 22:02

Gah, crepeys, one of my work FB contacts has gone v weird and has started sending me highly unnessary messages. Christ knows why he thinks I might be up for a bit of virtual hanky-panky. I told dd and she said "Well, I have to put up with that every day". Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

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Blackduck · 09/07/2015 22:10

Oh Stropps... Yuck yuck :(

Auriga · 09/07/2015 22:11

Hope you're home having a breather by now MI. Difficult to take in such a guarded prognosis but good that you got to talk to the consultant.

MrsS, that was tough, having two wounded children at a distance.

Stropps, many congratulations on pacing yourself. You sound balanced about it but no doubt that took you considerable effort. Keep on protecting yourself. I've just (last week) left a job that has made me ill with stress. I kept going when I should've stopped, because I was afraid of leaving colleagues in the lurch. And now I'm kicking myself, up shit creek with insomnia, horrible migraines, a flare-up of autoimmune disease, & hypertension. And I can't close the chapter because an incident on the last day means that I'll have to give evidence at a series of inquiries :-(

Prom pics are lovely. DD doesn't have one, or rather there was one but she didn't want to go. She's going to some parties with her friends but nothing dressy (there was a bouncy castle at the last one).

Herbs, hope all the child-wrangling worked out at the party. Smiled at your DS inviting Little Shit. DD used to do things like that with people who picked on her. If they were nice to her for a minute she'd instantly forget all the bad stuff.

Surprisingly good fun picking poems for FB. Made me remember many I hadn't thought of for years. Like yours too MrsS, love today's. Anyone else care to be nominated?

More baby scan pics on FB today. I need to find some babies to be a surrogate auntie. Too long to wait for grandchildren.

Stropperella · 09/07/2015 22:21

A big hug for you, Auriga. Really sorry to hear the job has taken such a toll. I hope you can get some R&R to help get your strength back.
I am enjoying the poems too, although I have decided that posting them every other day is all I can manage.

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Blackduck · 09/07/2015 22:38

Auriga :( re job... I thought all was okay?!

I was thinking of doing poetry thing - have loads in my head...

lalsy · 09/07/2015 22:57

Oh Auriga, how awful. I really hope you can have a rest now, closure or not.

BD, I like those jeans a lot but who writes M and S copy? I clicked on "More details" for the gem that denim is an essential all-round wardrobe item....

Lovely prom pics, hope they enjoy it.

MI, I am sorry the news is not better but I suppose it could be worse too. It doesn't sounds like anything will knock some sense about food and water into your ma. You are a damn good egg to keep tryingFlowers.

Stropps, how interesting they had such different advice. I'm so glad you are having the chance to snuffle around lots of different schools and talk to people - I am sure that will make future decisions easier.

On summer holiday activities - my dd did youth volunteering weeks with the National Trust twice and enjoyed them a lot - stunning locations and quite a small age range and they don't let you book more than two places at once, so lots of people go alone or in twos. They sell out very quickly for the main summer hol weeks.

By the way, MI and anyone else at the mini meet up who heard me gibbering about "the moss book" (about moss not by Mosse), it was The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

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herbaceous · 10/07/2015 10:41

Yes! I've finished! Well, I have to hand the hard copy of my final assignment in today, and then... PARTY. In fact, I expected to feel more elated. I just feel a bit... meh. What now.

But I am very pleased with myself. I have a tendency to think that anything I did well was a fluke or a one-off, and that I can't really apply myself. But I have been a Crepey of Consistently High Standards, and got through it all even when I thought I couldn't go on. Please remind me of this!

Glad you had a good birthday Rudy. What did you do?

And Auriga - work-related hell is a particular sort of hell. I had a job once where I hated my boss so much I had a constant lump in my throat, and frequent crying in the lavs. I was lucky, in that I had a redundancy lump sum sitting in my bank account meaning that I could just chuck it in. It's never wrong to quit if it's making you ill.

DS gets his end of year report today! I foresee a flurry of stealth boasts on Facebook. Including mine, natch.

lalsy · 10/07/2015 11:31

Herbs, well done, that is a brilliant record.

I once had a boss I loathed. He kicked me under the table at a meeting once. I was doodling and chewing a pen lid at the time. His kick made me bite the pen lid, shooting blue ink mixed with dribble over quite a lot of the table. Missed him, unfortunately.

motherinferior · 10/07/2015 12:23

I had a boss - now a People's Peer - who bullied me to a point where I fantasised about developing a serious illness that would prevent me going to work. Well done for quitting, Auriga.

Blackduck · 10/07/2015 12:40

My nightmare boss would say 'I want to share this with' as a prelim for dumping a shedload of work on you.

I never had one who bullied but have had a fair few incompetent ones in y time....

Auriga hope all is okay today - and sorry it will linger on because of the last day incident.

Here I am busy telling HR that the current environment is unhealthy.....

cremolafoam · 10/07/2015 14:17

Hi everyone.
Auriga well done for packing it in. I think there is no other solution when the job is making you ill. So often we end up living to work and not working to live.
Herbs and Stopps well done on the old end of tern Big Finish. I think you are both an example to us all. gold StarsGrin
MI glad you got home safely from seeing the dps. Very sad to hear of the situation. Sending you a pile of strength and patience.
BTM glad the prom went well.

Very very quiet week here. Just trying to get on with little jobs around the house. going to bed early, dithering around the garden etc.
Dd was delighted with her tea towels. Ffs -enough said.
I am drawing a line under the whole thing.
Have applied for a couple of jobs I don't really want to do. Pah! The HR situation at work is getting to the joke stage. NI is famous for going round the houses, and naturally there are committees involved, and a variety of councillors with different agendas. I am closing my ears and singing lalala. Load of poo frankly. A large part of me will be delighted to go.

I definitely need a MU with you lot soonish.

motherinferior · 10/07/2015 14:45

Cremo, any time!

Blackduck · 10/07/2015 15:06

Cremo I suspect we could swap stories.....
There's a bit of me that thinks what is the worst that could happen? Because it can't be much crappy than it already is....
Pinny for Christmas then Cremo? (Assuming loves young dream hasn't turned into a nightmare by then....)