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Herbs, I feel your designer-related pain.

I actually want to cry quite a lot today.

Oh, MI .

Herbs, a designer once threatened me with a scalpel.

Yeah, I would love a study.

{{{{{ }}}}} Herbs and MI will we ever get rid of the guilt? Herbs not everything is possible at any one time. Something has got to give. Eventually , my DC had no extra curricular which couldn't be done in school time, (breakfast club or lunchtime clubs) or at home, ie piano lessons (or drum kit in the case of DS1) ... had to find a teacher who came to the house. Non neg. DS1 did skating at Ali Pally but that was at silly o'clock on Sat mornings. The whole theatre thing couldn't start until I gave up the day job
and I've been schlepping back and forth from there ever since Everything had to be local and nearby. I never had any hobbies of my own, when I worked full time once Dc came along. I was as boring as feck. Evenings until relatively recently were very difficult as I was either a single parent and needed a sitter, or DH could never guarantee to be home on time. You poor love.

This morning, I sat in a traffic jam not moving for 50 minutes. FIFTY. I was late for lucrative private client. They were lovely about it but I feel shit. I have just consoled myself with delicious baked avocado on rye with smioked salmon and a poached egg in local hostelry. One good thing on the weight loss front (having put on a good bulk of what I lost a couple of years ago) is that I am allowing myself a modicum of bread in exchange for completely cutting out biscuits and cake. And I do feel better after only two weeks of it. Going cold turkey with the sugar fix was hard though.

I am rambling. I think I'm lonely actually. DH is not getting home before 10pm ATM on account if it being The Final Quarter. The DC are busy. I am less busy than last term. Yes, lonely. I'll shut up now.

I'm a bit lonely too - I see people ALL the time, but only fleetingly, as I rush past, trailing swimming kit or cat shit or a guitar. I don't see DP much, as I'm out at choir on Monday and orchestra on Thursdays (as well as DS's choir Wednesdays, Fridays and every other Sunday). And I don't have time to see friends properly.

DP is now saying we should get the cat put to sleep. There is often poo on the floor, and he's so wobbly and dirty (the cat, not DP). But are they are problems, not the cat's? I'd feel heartless just ending his life slightly arbitrarily...

I love your post above, Lalsy. Yes, slithering - on our bellies, vainly attempting to get somewhere. I have never been threatened with a scalpel but on occasion would not trust myself with one.

Herbs, choir practice is a bummer. Luckily dh was bizarrely happy to run our two to the church and back on a regular basis (literally run - just across the cemetery). Wait till you have to do the sewing of garments. And NEVER get into making sarnies for the church fair.

I am avoiding going into the lounge because I heard the dog being sick. I am waiting to be in the mood to clear it up. Emetophobia here I come. Re your cat, I was brought up in the remote countryside and the moral there is: "Put it out of its misery" But they had a point.

Never clear up warm sick, Molly. That's a pretty good rule to live by. I bung some paper towels on it to mop the worst of the liquid, leave it for a bit, then scoop up with more paper towels when the moment is right. Or pretend I didn't see it and wait for DP to do it.

I wish DP would/could do some of the choir stuff, but he doesn't bloody drive, does he. Mind you, it's fairly near a station so I'm hoping to get him dong at least some of the Sunday affairs.

I need to fit in some exercise. Shame it's so damnably boring.

Can you join our jolly walks in BP? Starting point is right next to a major station and the company is first rate.

Molly at slithering on bellies. My job actually used to involve using a scalpel - it is hard to believe anyone thought that was a good idea, even when my intentions were good.

Herbs, exercise seems to have changed since I last tangled with it, all about quick bursts now, short 20-30 min classes or dvds, loads of variety. Sweating profusely in ridiculous positions with some fine crepeys is a good way to combat casual loneliness and lift the spirits too...if logistics work.

I don't drive so once our dc had learned to swim (which took both of them decades of weekend slog, it felt like), that was it for extracurricular stuff not on good bus routes or walking distance.

I have a number of HIIT DVDs, and of course YouTube, but just need to actually get off my saggy old arse and do it!

I did Jillian Michael's 30-day Shred for a while, and it was SHAMAZE. Bloody awful while it was going on, but each dreadful thing she makes you do only lasts a minute, so there's always light at the end of the tunnel. And I was very fit and lost weight. Sigh. I shall do something after I get DS from school today. He can point and laugh.

That's the spirit, Herbs .

I feel bloody awful, I must say. Truly grim. I have an early choir practice which I hope will cheer me.

Grim in the head or in the body MI?

Either way, choir is usually the answer. I have Lamentable Orchestra later, which is very good for the soul.

Mainly head.

In that case, defo choir. Plus sleep. I felt very odd last night - like I was losing it - but better today.

Sorry to hear of grim feelings - exercise and singing are supposed to be good for them

I Herbs, I did the Gillian Michaels thing for a bit, but then my colleague started up circuits, which is much better as we do it together and share the pain. Shame I can only go once a week if RL isn't getting in the way.

Clearing up sick - another good reason for not having a pet!

Sorry for those on the sick list, feeling lonely or generally stressed and tearful hope music works its magic.

On train back to London after four days and nights away on intensive work trip. No exercise, daylight or healthy food involved. Missed home dreadfully. Loved the people I was working with but found it all quite draining & not sure whether I'll sign up to do any more. There was no final team meeting because an emergency cropped up, so I'm left feeling oddly unsettled.

Meanwhile, the word is that all's well at home. And I was cheered by a lovely email DD's choir director sent to her and copied to me 😁

And the appointment has come through for my epidural - it's tomorrow. Fingers crossed for some relief from sciatica. Will report back.

Auriga, all the very best for your epi tomorrow.i do hope you see some respite.
mi, Herbs and others with discombobulation, my sympathy and hand to hold. 🤚🏻Down with this sort of thing. 🔻My head is fit to burst. I am really struggling with everything today. Gp sending me for a chest X-ray tomorrow as heart still banging away for no obvious reason at all.

Lovely to see you Auriga - work trip thing sounds hard but good to do different and new things too?
Everything crossed for your appointment tomorrow - really hoping it brings you some relief. X

Still grumpy at choir. People keep helpfully singing along with my solo

I have reached the point at work of feeling that it is alright for everyone to have leave except me. I have managed to get one (1, i) day off next week for half term, and that day was after sucking of teeth and telling me precisely which day I can have off. I need to go back to Poland in March. A week would be good, but I will settle for a long weekend. More teeth sucking. Everyone else books up all the school holidays and there is nothing left for me. There is a potential week of Easter holidays where everyone else is back at school, but mine are not, where we could possibly go away, but one of my team members is away part of that week (family wedding) and there has been more teeth sucking over "not wanting both of you away at the same time."

My Dh's work is the same, Mrs S. There seems to be a conspiracy gang who know how the system works and who book up a year and a day in advance (or whatever the magic number the system allows), then by the time we've got organised, there's a really limited slot we can book..... drives me mad.

Had a mini business meeting with a friend, brainstorming what she wants to do with her company, which was really interesting, but the whole meeting was peppered with 34 texts from ds who was getting increasingly anxious at school and needed picking up

Auriga, glad you're back and home and best of luck tomorrow and hope it brings relief.

Herbs, I hope you Lycra'd up and pumped your stuff for mini Herbs

MrsS your place gives me the rage and I don't work there. We are a small (very) team and we make leave work although I do have the one who books everything up waaaaay in advance - better now her children are older.

I am knackered having spent yesterday afternoon dealing with sick student (paramedics and the works) and then evening with friend whose mum is dying. No emotional energy left.

Crem hope you are okay and Auriga fingers crossed for today.

34 texts? Beachy
Lots of anxiety here about GCSES too.

Cremo, do nothing - just lie on the sofa/in bed and read/watch TV/whatever

Rudy appears to be in Melbourne, and has done a big reveal. Of what, I am unsure.

Yes, I am agog and bemused.

And Auriga, good thoughts for today; and the same to Beachy and BTM. I don't appreciate DD1's chirpy robustness (most of the time - she burst into tears yesterday) enough.