Here are the Hushistas - counting down for a Very Meryl-y festive season

[Laska3Meryl]

Continuing the Hush (and other nice stuff) love...

Peri is a bitch. No wonder we all indulge in lovely clothes. It's like having reverse puberty I think. I've had awful hot flushes and brain fog for a year (not commenting on the irrational hatred of the smell my DH who doesn't smell?) but it has calmed down for now. Until the next time...

I am still peri I think but I do think my libido has changed over the last few months. Gutted tbh. I cannot stand the hot flushes/night sweats. Its better since taking evening primrose oil though.

Always totally get what you mean as well, it does indeed feel a bit like grieving it’s a though you have to sort of reinvent yourself & face up to getting older, very tough emotionally.

YesDave we got a bit silly one evening on the name changing. It all started because of the Mad Meryl jumper chase , when some of us were pinging sizes back and forth to Hush .. and searching for the small ones ( they were all huge!).. The guy on Hush customer services phone said people were actually begging him for pink Meryls at one point . ( not me!)

@whiskey - what is a brain fog? I have a terrible memory at the moment. Is menopause the cause? Please tell me it gets better!!!

... although I did get a pink one luckily and now a grey (though at one point I thought id end up with three! hence new name!)

..and you are NOT allowed to change it @Laska cause it makes me smile everytime I see your name because its so funny about the Meryls and the chase over them.

Lovely jumper and, as everyone else has said, amazing dress @ella! Definitely wear that more....you look stunning (in a good way, not a weirdly creepy way).

@laska - ha! I knew you would keep the second Meryl. It does look great on you, and is a bit of a no-brainer with the code (I'm annoyed that I ended up sending back the one I bought with the 10% halloween code as it was too big, so ended up paying the full going rate of 1Meryl for the one I've actually kept). I've done the re-ordering and sending back thing when a code has been provided just after i've bought something dont blacklist me please, hush. And it sounds like you are being sensible with the other things you ordered.

I love the jumper for your DH - it is a fab colour. I'm going to see if I can subtly gauge how well that would go down with my DH... he does suit bright colours and bought himself a lovely mustard jumper recently, which i wouldn't have thought he'd have gone for. I'm so proud of him .

@Dave - sympathies . I'm not struggling too much at the moment with heaviness, but my periods have definitely gone really weird for the past 3 years or so (I'm 41). Very variable in cycle length so utterly unpredictable, much more painful than in the past, and PMT ALL THE F*ING TIME. And flipping foggy brain and general loss of concentration and motivation which I really could do without. Its a bastard, frankly. My mum and gran went through it early (by 40/45) so it wasn't really a surprise...but I keep making excuses not to go back to the GP (they confirmed my hormones were doing perimenopausal things, but said to see how i could cope without HRT) because I refuse to believe it should be this much of an issue and I should be able to cope with it myself. Also I don't want to admit I'm getting old .

My package from MV arrived as i was making dinner and I'm not sure about any of it. I ordered the leggings and ponte/leather treggings to compare, and I'm not really feeling the love. I'm thinking they are too sausagey. But I'm not really in the mood to try stuff on at the moment so will give them another go in the morning. I also ordered this star knit as a dupe for the hush ones - but it seems weirdly short on me, and a bit of an odd shape. I may have reached jumper saturation, tbh.

and in a way, it captures the essence of this thread....
We wont forget the meryls in a hurry.

Always I find brain fog, sort of as though I have a hangover & can’t quite get my thoughts together, also forget names & daft things that I know that I know, it’s sooo frustrating, apparently it does improve.
Does anyone else have mad dreams, when the hot flushes are really bad? Last night I dreamt I was kidnapped in India by dwarfs, I had to go downstairs & make a cup of tea I woke up terrified & soaking 😫

Sausagey great word.
Jumper saturation made me laugh out loud. I think we all might have a bit of that especially laska

Yes Brain fog = terrible memory.. I do worry sometimes , I mean I used to be intelligent and switched on and have degrees and post grads and everything..I'm employed as a ruddy researcher/stats person FFS (when im not on building sites) . But just now (once again ) I found I had left the oven on all evening.. and sometimes its the tap, sometimes its the gas ring .. DH is always picking me up on it

I have had weird dreams. I had a dream that I was sitting in my living room grieving the loss of my younger brother as I looked at his picture on my phone crying its not fair then to say 'he isn't dead' then I woke up!

Aaaargh - seemed to have missed a page... @ella and @missb - sympathies to you too. We all seem to be going through the same, and with the same psychological issues as well re "moving on". It just seems to be something that isn't talked about at all...

@Laska - I was worrying about it too. Just forgetting a few little things like you but mainly down to not concentrating. Putting something down and going to do something and forgetting what I was going to do..freaks me out tbh.

And whiskey too! to everyone.

Well me too degree wise and was honestly considering a post graduate cause I feel I need to keep my brain active. Scared i'll loose if I don't use it.

Oh I left the tap on @laska just the other day...OMFG!!

I have started writing list, then forgetting where I put the damm list have little notes to myself all over the house.
Yy leaving things on, also went out one day last week completely forgot to lock the back door & left the kitchen window open.

One of my children distracted me but I don't think I have ever done that before!

Always brain fog is like being half your usual self. I've always been known in work as 'Ask Whisky, she'll know' whether it was about work-related specialisms or recipes, DIY or dog training. But now I can't access that info in my brain and have to wait for it to come back into my head. I lose things and can't keep track and it's just not me. I am an organised, list making person and I can't remember where I have put stuff any more! Frustrating

Last night I dreamt I was at a house with my parents and they had decorated the house with really weird christmas decs and I wasnt allowed to put any up myself ..So I said going to make the mince pies and they said I couldnt because they had bought some .. a massive box of supermarket ones ( about 100!. ) and that they were so much nicer than mine (I am the official cake and mince pie maker for family and have been for years ).. I dissolved into tears (In my dream) .and woke up heart pounding! ...at about 2.45..

Come on then Freud....

I have started writing list, then forgetting where I put the damm list
@Melen, I also did this with a shopping list.

Reassuring me though that when I write the list I can remember everything on it when im shopping so im not losing it right yet!!!

@Whiskey that's exactly it. That's what I have been experiencing. It upsets me. Its like there is just wool in your head.

It's a wonder that we all find ourselves back here regularly with our failing brains...