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MrsSchadenfreude · 22/08/2015 10:52

New thread...

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Blackduck · 06/09/2015 14:14

Oh MI :(. So sorry you are feeling down.
You really are most lovely, and I am sorry everyone is making you feel boring :(

Like you I don't do debt and neither does dp now, but he will still spend his entire salary rather than save some.... And I am paying for the majority of the holiday.

Cremo · 06/09/2015 14:23

MI so true what BD says. I'm really sorry you are in a dip, and dhs behaviour is selfish really. Flowers maybe you deserve a week without lady jogging and step up the chocolate instead. Sad xxx.
I know I am in for a terrible crushing dip on my return home. dreading it.

Rosebag · 06/09/2015 14:25

Zedel sounds great!

mi I am torn between Shock Grin about the mid life crisis red shiny machine and just thinking good on him...you only live once...what are we all waiting for...go for it, sort of thing. That's assuming it doesn't put the rest of the family into penury of course. As women we seem quite bad at giving ourselves large treats....I tend to make up for it by having too many small edible ones and get fat....I would never again have a joint account with anyone... ( legacy of former relationship.) DH discussed expenditure like that...he'd look such a fat git silly old thing in a sports car, though. Grin

Am on train home. Good conference but bloody freezing. They handed out extra duvets but there's only so much you can do to make a nonheated hall of residence student room cosy. Am working hard at trying to get over my inferiority complex about other delegates but it's hard. I always feel such a fraud. But I did meet a few people who admitted to feeling the same. Ah well.

Off to check FB and Mi's picture. Sure it can't be as bad as all that!

Rosebag · 06/09/2015 14:40

I think you look lovely in that FB photo...really. Sorry you're down. Flowers

addle · 06/09/2015 15:26

MI, I think you look lovely in that photo too.

And I've noticed the same thing as Rose - women tend to be bad at giving themselves big treats and compensate with food or small trivial stuff that the rest of the family can then mock - or at least I do. Hard to reconsider when you are freelance I know.

In other news the the poster/swing thing outside our local Sainsbury's suggests you add instant coffee to your spag bol. WTF??

Lalsy · 06/09/2015 15:43

MI, I agree with others. You are not seeing what we see Flowers. I think that's true about women and money, and also once you have teens, there is big change money-wise on the horizon, more shifting goalposts to contend with.

Rosebag · 06/09/2015 15:43

Interesting addle. Someone at the conference this weekend said that one of the dishes at supper was pork with coffee sauce... Confused

Blackduck · 06/09/2015 15:59

Agree - almost like we don't 'deserve' a big treat.

Dp doesn't worry about going away (working) and then eating out in nice places and doing nice things. I spent most of my weeks away eating M&S takeaway salad.....

Biggest single purchase for myself? Hmm 120 quid on a pair of boots....

motherinferior · 06/09/2015 16:00

Instant coffee?????

How interesting re large v small treats. I know I am perpetually worried about starving in the gutter.

Blackduck · 06/09/2015 16:25

I'll join you in that gutter MI.....

Stropperella · 06/09/2015 19:20

Reporting in after a very busy weekend.

I'm afraid I did Grin Grin at the red sports car. Not least because only 2 days ago, I was standing in front of a rather nice looking red Merc 2-seater and saying to ds, "See, that's my kind of car." Ds (and yes, I do mean ds) said, "Well, it's not very practical, is it?". Spoilsport.

We have only a joint account. And I am the credit controller. And there is no credit. However, dh has already had his midlife crisis and I was it. And I cost him a bloody sight more than a sports car. Grin

Ah, MI, I have not been on FB today, so have seen no photos, but you are very lovely and I only wish I looked like you instead of like someone's nan. Note: I do not even manage to look like someone's granny. Only a nan. We don't have nans in my my family. If you get my drift.

You may not get my drift as I have had cider. I have spent all of today at the county agricultural show and, you know, needs must. Dd ended up working there all w/e for her erstwhile employers, serving gourmet burgers etc. They had an excellent pitch, right next to the beer tent, so she claims she has heard the same 8 songs on a loop all weekend - starting with "I've got a brand new combine harvester", moving on to "I am a zoider drinker", through to "Blackbird, I'll 'ave 'ee", etc, etc. I have been looking after said employer's dcs (friends of my ds - so also had one for sleepover last night) and have been round the damn show what feels like 350 times. I had to go on the dodgems with an exuberant 8 year old driving. I have possible whiplash and a massive bruise on one side of my face. Hmm However, on the plus side, dd is the nicest she has been all year and for this evening has apparently forgotten than she is not talking to dh. And she has now got regular Sunday morning employment again, if she wants it (at the posh butchers).

ps: it has been blardy roasting all day here and I forgot to put suncream on the back of ds's neck until lunchtime. He is a tad pink.

pps: Ooo-aaarrrrr.

motherinferior · 06/09/2015 19:51

Oh Stropps, you do sound cheery. Grin

DP is offended that I have declined the offer to go for a spin in his Midlifecrisismobile. I have instead hammered the keys and have made Considerable Progress with my narrative. This has cheered me hugely.

GiddyGiddyGoat · 06/09/2015 20:05

Very pleased you're cheery Stropps.
And very pleased you're cheered MI!

Cheers.

bigTillyMint · 06/09/2015 20:06

Yes, Stropps, glad to see the cider has worked a treatWink!

MI, well done on the progress. Are you allowed to drive the MLCmobile?

motherinferior · 06/09/2015 20:23

I suspect not, BTM, but this causes me no grief. I am not partial to driving.

RudyMentary · 06/09/2015 20:28

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Lalsy · 06/09/2015 20:55

MI and Stropps, cheers to you both Grin.xx

MrsSchadenfreude · 06/09/2015 20:56

I think Rudy is right re the photos, and what people see, MI. All I see is my wonky eye, getting wonkier by the day, plonked in a fat face with frizzy greying ginger hair. Would you have objected less to the photo if you had been somewhere else in it, say, within the choir rather than standing in the front next to those enormous men? DH saw the photo and commented on the "odd positioning", but thought it was a good photo of you - you looked cheerful and happy.

I have wine. WineGrin

Stropps, sounds like a fun day. I love cider.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 06/09/2015 21:38

And wine.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 06/09/2015 21:38

And gin.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 06/09/2015 21:39

Mmm, gin.

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Lalsy · 06/09/2015 21:50

Bet those giant, hairy men are thinking how swag they look Grin.

herbaceous · 06/09/2015 21:56

Lady Chatterley. Phwoar, eh girls?

CointreauVersial · 06/09/2015 22:02

Blimey, quite a lot of alcohol talk for a Sunday evening. Grin

I haven't seen your pic, MI, but I've never seen a good picture of myself, which depresses me mightily, so I sympathise.

Here, I have been mostly taxi-ing my offspring around. BTM - the football season proper has just started - there were a few friendlies and warm ups during the last few weeks, but as DS has been on holiday since mid-August he'd missed them all. Luckily he wasn't too rusty - they played (and beat) a local U18 side.

And the bloody dishwasher has stopped working again, a mere 48 hours after I shelled out a substantial amount of money to have it fixed. Same fault. Angry I shall be voicing my displeasure at 9am tomorrow when the helpline opens.

bigTillyMint · 07/09/2015 07:13

Oh no CV! I would be Angry Angry Angry
Glad your DS hadn't lost his skills - my DS's team won too yesterday for first match of the season. It was against our local U15 team who have just moved into their league and quite a few of DS's old team-mates from their earlier years were playing. My, how they have all grown! DS is now not the biggest on the team and DH said to me that if he doesn't grow taller, he might not be big enough for a centre-back at this level in the futureShock, but he could play mid-field.

Here I have an ongoing problem with paying a deposit for a chalet in euros. Apparently a cheque wont work and they are an old couple who don't have the internet/understand these things, and the money I sent hasn't arrived.... Any ideas?