Crepeys of a consistently high standard

[Stropperella]

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Thanks all. Yes MM of course!-going to look at pm now. Am leaking again just reading replies. Mrs s turns out they twisted landlords arm to let them rent without a guarantor for dd, just one for him. oh the tooings and froings have been epic. Very High Drama has been maintained for 2 weeks. Dynasty has nothing on dd. M&d are just so sad for us and were all ready to jump on a plane and go and get her. I have persuaded them that it would be ill-advised. And that dd just wouldn't want it. I have encouraged them to email and text her to death tho. And not to expect her to reply much. Sister and family too.
I'm torn as to whether to text her today. I have only text.ed once to make sure she arrived safely and to please keep in touch.she was monosyllabic but alive.
Dh and I are clinging to each other and our house improving projects.

Oh Crem. I am so sorry.

I have survived the party. Exhausted and pissed off. Things will improve.

MrsS - that sounds just like DS's DofE hike (and we all know how that ended).

My hangover had assumed epic proportions by late afternoon, but after a handful of Nurofen and a large plateful of food I have just about regained the will to live. I'm buoyed up by having cleared over £90 on my eBay sales this evening.

Settling down to watch my favourite magicians now - the last episode of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell......eeeee, it's exciting stuff.

Crem.

Crem, I am sad to hear that you and your extended family are having to endure the machinations and drama. One would hope that your dd will have a change of heart sooner rather than later and that the UBF will prove to be an utter scuzzbag to live with. I guess that all you can do is endeavour to keep the lines of communication open and let her find stuff out the hard way. So, so hard. I am sorry. :(

Here, I am jaded after a w/e of partying. Dd is significantly more jaded, having – perhaps somewhat late in the day, compared to many of her peers – found out that there is such a thing as "too many ciders". This clearly occurred because only the day before I was telling BTM that I had never seen dd in an overly refreshed state. I should not have tempted fate

Crem {{ }}.

Thank you

Still only ddog to talk to here... although ds1 occasionally grunts at me when I serve him another meal...

Watching Dirty Dancing on the telly for the 50th time - bliss!

Crem, . Who doesn't like a bear?

Stropps

Cremo, I can recommend Lionel at Glasto on catch up to take your mind off things - the man is an utter ledge and I knew all the words Hope you saw him too, given your penchant for 80's film Dirty Dancing, QQ Maybe you could do with him too, MI?

I did see him BTM, He was legend indeed
Kanye yesterday on the other hand.... What a pile of poo!

Dh forced me to sit through 15 minutes of Pharell or whateveryoumcallhim. I felt a migraine coming on. Didn't see Lionel but may I player it sometime. Gotta be better than Florence and her machine.
Have made do with yet another Scandwegian crime audiobook. Had my headphones in a lot these last few days and totally engrossed thank goodness.
Dh glued to Jason Statham or similar.
Had an inadvisable foray in IKEA yesterday. Utterly foolish, but got a nice chair for my wretched back. It's yellow.

MI... So will "having a night in a Premier Inn" become a euphemism?

When we are shopping in Oxford Street and need the loo, we always say "I'm just going to pop into Fenwicks."

Post-exam grunting going on here too, QQ. ds is having a ball, out doing lovely stuff; eating, grunting and X-box at home. He and dh are off to Greece in a fortnight. Mmmm.

Crem, distraction and small treats seem the way to go to me - High Drama is so utterly draining, and hard to switch off from, anything that helps you do that for a while is good I think. Think getting your family to text your dd a lot is a great idea. We had a minor kerfuffle with dd this week - it turned out it was at least partly because she was angry with someone else, but obviously it was much easier to blame us. Sorted now, and nothing on the scale of your stuff, but it made me think again about this process of separation with our child-adults, and how it can distort so much.

Well done, MI. Treat for you this week perhaps?

MrsS is DH involved in the Grexit?? :)
MI well done for surviving....

Here much contemplation following funeral last week - to find oneself a single parent with no warning. Caught up with friend whose child has Hodgkinsons - all clear but the four year wait. She says it has really taken its toll. Offered a weekend in house whilst we are away.

DH all packed for India on Thursday....

Crem - I've just caught up with thread. I'm so sorry - I do hope she comes to her senses and you both look back and laugh at this in the future as in "remember when I moved in with that jerk". So heartbreaking for you at the moment though.

We had a bit of a dramatic day ourselves yesterday as DD1 mysteriously started vomiting on Saturday night (I'm blaming the Seine water the night before). She got up on Sunday morning and collapsed in the toilet. Total dead faint - very alarming and I was so frightened I called the emergency services, something I have never done before. Anyway being DD1 she rallied but she could not remember passing out at all. Apparently her very low blood pressure and hypoglycemia from the vomiting but nothing too serious. The upshot of all this is I have grounded her this week. She has to stay at home, go to bed early and her friends may come and visit her.

The most annoying thing is that when an 18 year old collapses they automatically think it's drink or drugs and I can confirm she was with me the entire day (unless she has a secret stash under the bed).

Today DD2 has her French literature oral - then we're finished for the year. Phew!

Agree with Stropps, Crem about keeping lines of communication open…text messages really do have their benefits…not too direct, but quite personalised in their way. Sorry you have all this

Hatty Never a quiet moment. Hope DD feels better soon.

I do feel a bit of all this partying going on…and the end of exams….the latter just feels endless to me…the weekend has been dominated by helping DD to learn her French Speaking CA..it did not go well . We trooped off on Sat night to Wembley to see Idina, and I was so flat…just couldn't get into it…plus being with DH for getting tickets right at the top of the Arena (and those of you who know it, it's an almost vertical climb …these days I feel a bit dizzy and unsteady on steep steps with no bannister.) And hemmed in or what…didn't realise she was now a gay icon and what with it being Pride weekend….

Echo the others, crem. She will come round, but I suspect in a manner that allows her pride to be intact. So it will be a while, and she'll have to think it's her own idea. However, seeds can be planted to enable 'own idea' to take root!

Feeling vilely fat, and horribly ugly ATM. Spent the past two weekends eating and drinking to excess, hence the fatness, and age seems to have suddenly caught up with me, and especially my wattley double chin, over the past six months, hence the ugliness. I'm going to low carb this week, in an attempt to address the former problem. I suspect little can be done about the latter. I've never been a looker, so the descent into hagdom hasn't been as traumatic as for some, but it's still grim.

Loving my neighbourhood at the moment, though. Spent yesterday afternoon at a local folk festival, which was just lovely, and with a really happy vibe. Who needs smelly old Glastonbury.

Oh god. MiL was supposed to have chemo today. She was supposed to have it last week but didn't, for still yet unknown (to me) reasons. Now she's got a rash, was admitted to hospital last night, has fluid on the lungs, and they're talking about a blood transfusion. I'm no expert, but this doesn't sound very good.

Rose - your Wembley experience pretty much sums up why I don't go to gigs. Apart from the gays. I love the gays.

Oh God Herbs - hope it's okay!

Hatty hope DD is okay too....

Shceiße Herbs, poor woman - I hope the news is positive.
Hatty hope dd is ok too and recovers quickly
Hope the week starts well for everyone. I'm cat-sitting for a friend and working out in my head if I could cat-sit for a living. Madness I know....

I bet you could catsit for a living, crem. People round here seem to. Over the holiday period, 20 cats a day, £5 a throw - £100 a day! Easy. Less call for it in March, and the like, mind you.

Cat sitting and dog walking crem?

Poor MIL Herbs. I think the most common reason for delaying chemo is low blood count, or one that doesn't recover after a previous round of chemo. Poor lady

I don't mind moderate crowds at gigs and I don't mind who's in the crowd generally, but I don't like being pressed up against people.... The DC seemed happy though. They love Idina Menzel. She did sing really well actually but she's slightly odd as a personality. She did some weird stuff on stage...

Was just about to suggest that too, BD. It's pretty lucrative walking dogs, but would your back be able to take it?

Poor MIL, Herbs - sounds hard.

I have no idea who Idina Menzel is