A Crepey Advent-ure

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Over here, my darlings....

I do huggles Cocoa, but only when I'm not infested with cold germs. More chills last night, to the extent that dh was woken up by bed shaking. He piled Blythe our dressing gowns on the bed and clung to me until I fell asleep. Now up and about but still vaguely swoozy and giddy. Temp down to 37ish today. Am getting there, but still feel dreadful.

So in Christmas shopping news , which is excellent thing to do when you are a bit under the weather as the amount being spent doesn't seem to matter, I have achieved a leather bag and wallet for DM on the Jaegar Outlet website. Great things on there if anyone wants to browse.
I have banned self from Anthropologie because I only want ten sqillion things for myself. I really just have boy gifts to get now, and they are all impossible. I have 2x 13 year olds, a 21 year old , 2 50year olds , a 75 year old & dad at nearly 90. No clue for any of them, and dsis has banned Xbox games from the picture as nephew is turning into a couch potato. Helpful, not.

Ironically, I have a doctors appointment today about the hrt. I will have to be determined so that it is not derailed by the hacking chest I have developed.
Dd is doing no better, but her pharmacist told her that she should never suddenly come off her ADs and that's the GP she saw was a wanker wrong. She's back to another GP today to get another AB that doesn't interact with her meds.
it is nice that she felt happy enough to offload this on me. This is a good thing and a bit of a turnaround tbh. In the past I'd only have found out she was ill later on.

So many welcomes. Thank you. Seems so many of you are full-timers wanting to decrease. I went back to work 2 years ago after several years as f-t carer. Am in a p-t post several grades below what I used to do. I do love it but feel I should be looking for something 'more'. But then I worry that my brain is no longer up to that. Will probably stay as I am. Feel lucky to enjoy going to work (and the buck not stopping with me).

I am a little less panicky after an hour of singing Mozart operas with my lovely singing teacher. No calls from the GP...I now have to rush to lucrative client in slightly outlying area ...helps paying for the singing lessons, I guess.

can only dream of sounding like this one day

crem

Crem, and Lemsip, your poor thing. Very glad dd is telling you Stuff.

Reggae, it sounds like a reasonable compromise if you love what you are doing and it isn't buck-stoppingly stressful? Is it "just" the feeling of not--being-superwoman (tho after time as a FT carer, I am happy to nominate you in that category ) guilt and unease that makes you feel you ought to do more?

Cremo, how crap for you being so ill on your time off. But go you with the Christmas shopping and positive outlook on DD telling you stuff

Cocoa, that is indeed a marathon

Thanks to all the menu choosers so far. Who will be coming for the D&S on Sat as well as Stropps, BD and myself?

ME.

My day has improved. I'm in the running for a bit of lecturing...

....though obvs may not get it.

Herbs, would this be within your budget/taste, with the 20 per cent reduction?

I also rather yearn for this though would need to be seriously on sale.

lol freaky thread this one. I

have noticed almost everyone wearing a fitness tracker is a tad on the chubby side - some correlation there somewhere I am sure.

Just posted that I have noticed most people wearing fitness trackers are a tad chubby but post disappeared. Maybe I was being chubbiest! Soz!

MI - that Boden tunic should last quite well as no horrible artificial fibres in it.

Reggae- you are exactly like me - settling for a part-time less stressful job - although I do feel like wading in and sorting stuff out sometimes, I prefer at my age to keep out of the politics plus I think my brain's gone a bit dead as well.

BD - is there not a complaint procedure where you work? - very annoying re' promotion of male with no recruitment process .

Rose - you are definitely still Somebody. For the cholesterol - I had mine tested here and there is a breakdown of the good and bad cholesterol and your results for each has to fall within certain ranges (which I have on my lab results). Your results mean nothing unless contextualised. In France we get handed the lab results or can look them up online - I often wonder how this would work if I had something really serious.

Love and hugs to Auriga, Crem and those feeling generally below par.

Herbs and Rose - I would love to either play in an orchestra - which I think must be the best feeling or be able to sing Mozart - everything seems better after a good piece of music.

I have just passed the email of my sister's best friend from school (male) to a friend whose mother was a friend of my mother's (she's half Indian half German, has lived in the UK since sixth form). They met at my mother's funeral which is possibly a ghoulish way to meet but would have chuffed my mum no end.

Creeping in to offer vats of hot lemon toddy and chicken soup to all peelywally souls.

I came to the conclusion 5 months ago that work-related stress + substantial parent dependency on moi = high likelihood of complete meltdown so decided to opt out.
It's not easy going from high flyer to zilch and it's taken a while to adjust - Christmas will be frugal but my brain's beginning to recover thankfully.

Rose re cholesterol my GP was decidedly 😱 at mine being 6.1 and does he utmost to get me on statinsnot bloody likely, it's only because they get ££/patient prescribed

Have a fabulous meet up x

MI, all the Welsh funerals I have been to have involved people meeting with great gusto - it seems to be considered the mark of a good one and in some way a tribute.

Poppy, nice to see you, I can see why you took that decision.

I have to admit to huge relief that my surviving aged parent is several continents away.

DD2 is in an unspeakably filthy mood and I have to drag her to parents' evening later.

Really love that red Boden number MI, but fear it would nothing for me at all.
Have been to doctor , who has upped my hrt dose to counteract the misery , sleeplessness and volcanic eruptions. She also had a look at my throat and put me on an ABX and ordered complete bed rest. I had to slink out to my car and drive away quickly before she took the keys off me and asked me to get a taxi. Am back in bed fgs.

Hi PP, and back at you RShark. I also took a pt job about 10 years ago when I had Life stuff going on and now I'm still there , although in kind of In charge, and hating it. No where to aspire to, awful company, contributing nothing to the world. But what's the alternative? I still have 17 good working years left, but the ageism that goes on here would be hard to beat. That plus the various health things I have mean that I have to be very careful who employs me. ( not all laws are equal in NI)
Anyway, I'm off to sleep now as thinking about all this makes me feel liverish.
rant over

Hello from Derbyshire where we visited the Christmas Tree Festival in Chesterfield Parish Church, such fun. DH and I had a giggle when we read one of the labels on the Chesterfield Visitor info Tree (your favourite places in Derbyshire) and someone had written "the pub"!

So many people in Emergency award 10; I do hope you feel better soon. Rose, DH went on statins last year when he had the stents fitted, although his cholesterol count was low. He is now suffering with joint pains and I am almost certain it's a result of the statins.

Hello, Reggae.

Reasons to be Cheerful:

1. Met Colly for lunch and had a v jolly time
2. It's stayed dry all day
3. I have managed to print off all my address labels for Christmas Cards - no mean feat, as I forget from one year to the next how to do it.

OK, Crem - Huggles it is...

What cheering photos NU, thank you.

Cocoa, printing labels - respect. I hate printers.

Crem, lordy, you sound poorly. Bed sounds like best and only place for you.

Crem - what Lalsy said - lots of R&R .

Glad mini-meet up went well. Address labels for Christmas Cards [shocked]
I haven't even thought about Christmas cards yet.

Crem - sounds ghastly. Back to bed with you. Quick Smart! < chases Crem down the ward at brisk walk, clapping hands >

Re what cocoa was saying earlier re the employability of crepeys, maybe there's a gap in the market for an agency selling people like us into right-minded companies. The No 1 Crepeys Employment Agency, perhaps.

Or we could form a company, doing.... something or other. We have a wide range of skills and experience in all sorts. Or a political party? Sort out these other fuckwits.

In crepey success news, I have an interview tomorrow for tutoring (the £30 an hour one), and on Monday for the freelance online editor post. And have a tutee starting with me on Tuesday to learn academic English. Though quite how I'm going to teach that, I haven't established.

Lovely lovely surprise birthday thing last night. My cunning friend had invited me out for drinks, and when I got there four other friends were there too! She'd got the NCT gang together in my honour. This doesn't happen for any of the other gang members, so I felt super-special. Really lovely.

And Christmas can sod off. It is not even December yet. I shall write my cards on 22 December, and miss the posting date, as is traditional.

Mini-MU was wonderful - thank you, Cocoa! I can confirm that Cocoa is a most cheering companion, willing to offer loads of helpful advice. Hooray! I hope I have impressed her enough to encourage her come to future MUs.

PinkPoppy, I have had similar convos with GPs re statins. I am not very good for their pockets.

Crem, hope you're in bed...and all other sick Crepeys.

Lalsy, do you think this poster is trying to fill in her UCAS form?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2788041-Can-anyone-talk-to-me-about-Mooncups

Well done on interviews Herbs and at late Christmas Cards.

in years to come we will wonder vaguely how and why mooncups and UCAS became so linked.....

Herbs, great idea.

Glad mini MU fun.