Creme de la Crepe

[MrsSchadenfreude]

New thread...

Woohoo, excellent, Giddy Hope your dh will at least have a celebration drink with you!

BTM, how is dd today?

MI, Believe In Yourself!

Herbs, the right job will turn up eventually, but seize any opps for voluntary that come your way. Experience and networking are v important. I am going to nudge my contact at ds's school next week to get some voluntary shifts in.

Just as well I didn't have to go into school this week as half of my face is black and blue, thanks to unfortunate dodgems incident last w/e. Met a neighbour who is an eye surgeon yesterday and he took one look and said I should go to A&E to get it checked out because my zygoma could be fractured. So I spent yesterday afternoon at A&E having x-rays and being poked about. Luckily not fractured, phew. But I am getting a bit tired of having to tell everyone I meet the story as everyone asks what on earth I've done. And then last night at circuits another medic told me I had an "old lady bruise" because the bruise is spreading from my cheek into my jawline, giving me purple jowls. This cheered me up no end. Not.

Cluster headaches diagnosis for dd is now confirmed and the GP is on the case with trialling various meds including nasal sprays and self-administered injections. Ho hum.

x-posts, BD. Keeping my fingers crossed that you get it!

In other news, DP got in last night and took his new car for a spin. I would suspect another man of using this as cover for an affair. Which might be perversely reassuring.

MI is this the teaching gig in my territory, geographically speaking? How could you not be good enough? We're all yokels in Norf Larndan, don't ya know?? You'll be amaaaaazing. I will wave a banner from a discrete street corner??
Now what you want is for him to take you for a spin in it??..assume it's got an open top option? Right then , you need a scarf and sunglasses like Audrey Hepburn

poor stropps what on earth is an old lady bruise anyway??.. dunno??you could try arnica?

BD still rooting for you??you never know?? hang on in there.

Don't lose heart Herbs??the right job will come along. A small caveat about voluntary work??I have done a lot and I mean A LOT. I got myself thoroughly networked in the process??and known for being a mug volunteer. I have learnt the hard way that in the end no one is a mind reader and I should have made it clear that I was looking for paid work in the long run.

After a day of doing not very much I have made Carrot Tsimmis. Yum

Ignore the question marks??I am having problems switching among devices, I think.

Well, Rose, I see your carrot tsimmis and raise you my marzipan cholla!
(But i bought it rather than handcrafted it..)

Fingers crossed BD.
Are you there Mrs S?
Patience Herbs.
Confidence MI!

Where do you get that *Giddy? Marzipan and cholla. What's not to love?

Gail's Bakery - Belsize Park... many types of cholla on a Friday .

Well here's a thread I'm surprised to find myself starting!
Here!

GGG, have you been drinking?

I have never watched Corrie. This is due to Early Years Conditioning. It is likely that my fingers will prob turn black and drop off if I press the button to change the channel to ITV at that time. Fact.

Not yet BTM... but it is a rather nice top!

I LOVE Corrie. I used to find myself feeding ds1 when he was a baby and watching Corrie. After a while I realised I'd conditioned him like Pavlov and his dogs - when he heard the opening bars of the theme tune he'd demand to be fed!

Did someone say cholla?

I have had The Mother of All Shit Work Days.
I cannot even write it down without jabbering. I need to have a sit down chill out for a bit first.

Dh divorced his first wife for "unreasonable behaviour" and one of the unreasonable behaviours (appaz accepted by the judge) was that she monopolised the tv and watched soaps all the time in a an obsessive manner. Dh develops a nervous twitch if he hears the Corrie theme tune. As do I (for different reasons). We can bond over this.

ps: dh was totes scraping the bottom of the barrel with that partic reason for divorce. There were other more reasonably unreasonable ones further up the list.

@ Stropps. thank you

Cremo.... {{}}

Interview this afternoon went OK, I thought. Told me they wouldn't be able to let me know until early next week. Got back to the office and had email from other job interview (job I didn't want) telling me that although I had done well in the wanky competence based interview, someone else had been given to the job because of their knowledge of the subject. So what is the point of competence based questions, when they really just want someone who knows about the machinations of government?

Got home, checked crackberry and had email from hiring manager of today's interview, saying "well done on interview", that they would speak to me on Monday morning, first thing, with the outcome, and please to not accept any other job offers without discussing it with them first. So they must be going to offer me the job, no???

Ohh MrsS fingers well and truly crossed.... Let's hope that is positive!

I cannot believe how fucking stressful the interview was, I was completely wiped out afterwards and unable to cope with my spreadsheets and Gantt chart shit, and just sat in the office like a zombie. Fortunately someone thrust a glass of fizzy in my hand at 3.30 so I gave up on work then.

Crem - have a commiseratory glass of vino with me, as I am chugging down a bottle of Touraine as if there is no tomorrow, while the cat lovingly washes my hair. (Ugh.)

Had huge row over food, and DH has gone to the Chinese with a right bag on, and a face like a smacked arse, as I am refusing to cook. He and DD2 claim there is "nothing in the house to eat". There are eggs, fish, cheese, there is hummous, there is pate. There is bread, salad, tomatoes. Asked what they wanted me to get in to eat: pork pie, ham, pate. Crackers, crisps, snacky things. (This was for a post work/school snack, not full dinner. I think this is sufficient; we also have apples, oranges and grapes.)

I used to live near a Jewish bakery in Warsaw, and used to buy two loaves of cholla (called "chalka" there) on a Friday, and eat the first on my way back to the office. Om nom nom.

MrsS your 'what's there to eat' rants make me murderous... If there is cheese and bread there's a meal...

Well Done Mrs S! Sounds vair vair promising.

Stropps, I once saw a divorce petition in which the first particular of the unreasonable behaviour grounds was that the Petitioner's wife wouldn't let him eat pudding... ... and that was one of the stringer particulars.