NU, hooray for getting your independence back!
It is somehow comforting to know I wasn't the only crepey with an early morning buzzy head. But sorry to see Auriga and Rudy on the sleepless bench. I was awake from 3.30 until maybe 5. Stroppdog noticed that I was awake and stressing, so he insisted (loudly) on getting in bed next to me and snuggling up to huff in my ear. He gets back in his own bed when I stop my angsty fidgeting.
MrsS, sorry about the way the interview went.
BD, you're ploughing through those job applications.
Thank you to all Crepeys for your responses to my dd- quandary. As long-standing crepeys know, she is a tricky child/adult (kidult?) with some tricky issues. But I must necessarily treat her somewhat differently now she is 18, otherwise she will never learn to take responsibility properly or, as Auriga says, practise self-care. But as BTM says, it is tricky to stick to a plan in terms of dealing with her behaviour as normal rules do not always apply. The reason she wants me to go and collect her stuff is that all of it won't fit in her car, plus I think she feels the need for emotional support for the actual moving out (but she wouldn't admit to that second one). The reason I am prepared to go (but not today) is more prosaic: I provided her with an awful lot of kitchen stuff and I don't think it be brought home. I think if she obviously moves out, then her stuff will naturally be appropriated (it is obvs already in general use) and we will never see any of it again. I cannot afford that, frankly, and neither can she. I would suggest that she locks all her stuff that she can't bring home in her room so it can't disappear, but I know full well that won't happen.
Anyway, thanks for all your support and it does help me to talk things through so that I can be more measured in my response to dd.
I must now get on with practising the administration of tests of cognitive ability. Ds is the guinea-pig testee, as he is a bit poorly and can't run away today. 