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Looking Good, Feeling Crepe.

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CointreauVersial · 23/01/2017 12:55

New thread, anyone?

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bigTillyMint · 08/02/2017 09:04

Sorry to hear of continuing job woes - will lend a shoulder on Saturday.

Addle, that sounds goodish news re your DH.
And Grin at your poor MU record!

Here things are tentatively a bit more positive. Which is good!

Rosebag · 08/02/2017 10:23

That's good to hear BTM. Smile

I too am sorry about MrsS's, Addle's and indeed Crem's work woes...I'm useless to suggest what to do...I haven't had a work place as such for so long..which of course brings it's own problems. I am however cheered to hear that Addle's DH is doing better.

DD slept much better last night having got through a day at college somehow, and has gone off reasonable happily. This has shades of her old soya tolerance which caused a lot of problems for her as a younger child. I suddenly twigged yesterday when I got a whiff of a funny fermented smell coming from her and the saw the black shadows under her eyes...It was what I used to diagnose it in the past. Trouble is we can't work out what it was that might have triggered it after so many years of being fine.

I am home with an architect measuring up for some plans which we will probably never actually use if previous form is anything to go by to sort out the kitchen and converted garage space into something more functional for a family which no longer needs a playroom... And later I am off to the mall in search of some proper long layering tops. I buy the M&S heat tech ones which I love, but they have made them very close fitting compared with the ones form a few years ago, and I want something looser. Prob have to size up...

Blackduck · 08/02/2017 13:24

MrsS sorry I won't be there to offer a shoulder on Saturday

Lalsy · 08/02/2017 13:36

Ooomph! Productive morning - satisfying work project, gym class, two very nice coffees. Just need to ignore the state of the house.

MrsS, the recruitment policy at your place beggar belief. Sorry to all with work woes. Pah.

BTM, good news about ds, fingers crossed.

Rose, I wear Uniqlo Heattech pretty well every day Oct-April (all about the S and B, me). They are thinner than M and S, more like vests, you can wear two (or three) at once, and they come (or have done over the years) in lovely muted and jewel like colours with nice scoop neckline.

NB for the large of nork - I realised today I have three Gap jumpers, all bought heavily reduced (under a tenner) in the sale. I reckon I am a Gap misshape Smile.

bigTillyMint · 08/02/2017 14:25

Now feeling a bit nervous having had a phone call with a nurse on his team about quite significant changes to his med plan - he has agreed to it but I'm not sure he's really ready judging by his texts...

I seconditions Lalsy on the heat tech, although I haven't really worn them so far this year - not cold enough!

Rosebag · 08/02/2017 14:53

Sadly, I don't have a Uniqlo nearby although there's always online of course. My problem is I like a long line, and non clingy which the M&S ones used to be ...now there're long line but too clingy. It's more about S&B with me than warmth. I like the look of a base layer underneath. Back to the drawing board but may order Uniqlo on spec. Lalsy Should I size up to get a looser fit?

Today I have bought these as a consolation prize... which I think I may get in another colour as used birthday voucher from DM

this but stripes are black

and a long back V neck knit which I can't find online.

BTM Is it because they want to reduce things too soon? Flowers

bigTillyMint · 08/02/2017 15:53

Its more about progressing the med plan. It feels like quite a lot of change all at once which is a bit scary!

BeachysSnowyWellieBoots · 08/02/2017 18:14

I think I would share your concerns with the nurse, BTM....if ds isn't able to. So hard.

Ds is ok. He was supposed to have a very longstanding appointment today which he was really geared up for......and they cancelled it yesterday. He was really disappointed so I think we're back in limbo land for another couple of weeks....

We've culled a couple of GCSE's to free up some time just in case the revision bug hits at some point!

But, we've book our holiday Grin Central America, whoop whoop and arumba Wine

Lalsy · 08/02/2017 18:51

Oh no, Beachy...how frustrating...fab about holiday though!

BTM, Flowers....so much worry....fingers crossed t works out.

I like those tops, Rose. Not sure about Uniqlo then - mine are quite thin and clingy, vests rather than tops I would say (on people with boobage anyway). But they are doing a new, warmer and perhaps more structured version which might hang more? A L is abt a size 14 I would say.

bigTillyMint · 08/02/2017 19:06

Wow Beachy! Envy
What's the itinerary? I went to Mexico, Belize and Guatemala 21 years ago (and made friends on the trip, who we are still friends with now), as well as Nicaragua and Costa Rica a couple of years ago - it will be great!

So sorry to hear his appointment was cancelled - it's so hard when they are all geared up and then it doesn't go to plan. Good news about less GCSES though.

I'm OK, I need to put my Big Girl Pants on and Woman-up Grin

motherinferior · 08/02/2017 19:40

Just out of interest how likely is it that DD1 is really out 'doing RE revision'? HmmGrin?

Blackduck · 08/02/2017 19:51

Do you need a dog sitter Beachy Grin

Blackduck · 08/02/2017 20:09

BTM GinFlowers
Hope all is okay.

Sorry for short messages - feeling swamped a bit. Would love to be there Saturday, but if anyone is around 18/19? Could do a D'n'S

BeachysSnowyWellieBoots · 08/02/2017 21:01

Belize it is, BTM. Can't wait! It's taken an age to put together though....

Sorry BD, my regular down the road lady is covering it, though I can imagine Flash having a fine old time with my idiot hound!

herbaceous · 08/02/2017 21:04

I just found this unposted post from yesterday... My panic hasn't abated in the interim.

I asked the vet when/if I'd 'know', and she said that he'd get a swollen belly, and stop eating. Neither of these things have occurred as yet.

I too am feeling a bit panicked by work, but am rather prone to panic and everything is probably manageable. Probably. Life is just such a series of bite-sized activities, all unrelated to each other. e.g. today - drop DS at school ensuring he has guitar, breakfast with pal, shopping, writing feature about regeneration and leisure facilities, pick up DS, take to swimming, email to client while watching swimming, home, put shopping away, write more of feature, cook DS tea, plan lesson, run bath, plan lesson. I should cook dinner, though don't know what. Later, I will do marking while watching the telly.

Today's pal has offered to have DS next Monday so I can get a load of work done, which is ACE. She is also an ex-HR head and was encouraging me to write a stinging letter to the organisation with which I had an arduous interview in December, and which didn't even reply to my many emails asking if I'd got the job. I may do so, if only to vent my frustration at the entire world.

herbaceous · 08/02/2017 21:07

In other news, I now reckon I could swing by for some crepey brunch on Saturday - my thing is now starting later in the day than first mooted.

I have been racing around all day, am just back from DS's choir, am working and applying for a job. Neither very well. I have wine. DP is cooking dinner.

Hurrah! For Beachy hols. Cautious hurrah! For BTM's DS. Big Hurrah! For Uniqlo's heat tech tops, which I have under my thinner garms from October until March. (You can tell BTM's a hardy northerner if this doesn't count as 'cold!)

MrsSchadenfreude · 08/02/2017 21:50

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, Herbs. Do you know where we are meeting, or do you need a PM?

bigTillyMint · 08/02/2017 22:04

Ooh Beachy, Belize was fab - we went out to Caye Caulker for a few days and it was so laid-back and relaxing.

herbaceous · 08/02/2017 22:22

Mrs s - could you ping me a PM? I feel in need of clarification.

Cremolafoam · 08/02/2017 22:52

am feeling fragile and fatigued but have taken the next few days off to think about things. Still feeling under the weather and can't actually believe I thought I was ok to go back to work in spite of recent holiday.( which was incredibly sedate and slow moving all in all) I think I thought I'd return refreshed, when I actually feel the opposite.

Herbs, I think you are Wonder Woman, fitting all the things you do into your day.with regards the puss, there are no words of wisdomI think. We were there at the end for our chap , and I was and am still glad about that.
Addle, I am heartened to hear that dh is doing a little better. And I like your 'trigger' word. Sorry work is a bastard. You too Mrs S. Surfing the net when there's work to be done is a sackable offence in my book.
Beachy -wowsers, sounds like perfection. And good about the GCSEs too.
BTM hope ds can give the new regime a go. Hopefully it is worth a try.
I have my fingers crossed for you all.
Thanks Monty for kind words. And thanks squad, for propping me up about this job and wibbly illness crap. Flowers

bigTillyMint · 09/02/2017 06:22

Cremo, GET SIGNED OFF!!! You are clearly not well enough to be going in - your health and well-being is the most important. You need time to get better before you plan what to do next Flowers

Lalsy · 09/02/2017 08:42

Crem, yes, you are not well. How is the anaemia? Hoping you can take some deep breaths, and get some rest, while you think about what you want to do and establish what the exit routes are.

Herbs, yes, that rings a bell. Bite-sized chunks....very unsatisfying/impoverishing in some ways, variety, fun and getting more time with dc when little in others...... I think the problem is it is impossible/very hard to ramp it up gently - the next "level" requires proper full-on childcare, disrupted routines and roles etc etc. So hard to slither from one to the other, but so easy to overestimate how much you can get done invisibly in the gaps. And it isn't just about the physical work with young dc: I often have to leave the house to work when my dc are around - mainly because of the size of our house/internet but also to get my head away from them. I know MI manages it better. Sorry, rambling off the point there, but I think you are amazing to fit all that in too. Did you go for the job in the school (sorry if I have missed that)?

herbaceous · 09/02/2017 09:25

I am applying for it right now! Deadline noon... I thought I could just resend a previous application, but sadly they've changed the criteria. DAMN THEM.

motherinferior · 09/02/2017 09:38

I manage it mainly by being unmaternal and ruthless. I go to my office and shut the door. When the kids were small they went to after-school care (including a dreadful year of a club I still feel guilty about) and indeed breakfast club. I very rarely do anything non-work-related in the day.

This has its downsides and at the moment I hardly have any work anyway! But it's the way I operate. Now they're bigger it's usually run, hit the desk, novel for an hour, attempt to do work.

And I've just been turned down for something else.

herbaceous · 09/02/2017 09:47

I think it's this choir business that has broken the camel's back. Two or three nights a week, a 20-minute drive each way, means very little downtime.

Extra pressure is on at the moment due to Precious Designer I'm working with on this mag. In My Day, I'd give copy to the designer, he'd lay it all out, then I'd do tweaks - adding commas, removing widows, tightening up stand firsts, etc - on the page. This worked well for the 15 years or so that I was in charge of this sort of thing.

PD is refusing to give me the pages, 'as I want to maintain control of the design', so we're going to have to do a complex to-ing and fro-ing of marked up PDFs, etc.

PS MI - BOTTOMS to the lot of them.