Old Style Diary Archive - JAN 06

kiwichick

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

I think from now on it maybe better if I stop posting, as the last thing I want to do is offend someone

Dont you dare PP. If posting/we help you to get through the day and feel better about yourself then you'd better keep blimin posting girlie.

tootles_2

I am off too, its getting too hot in here..............

tattooed_lady

PP we all come on here and say how we are feeling so don't think it's just you.

black-saturn

We all have our off days :rolleyes:

Treated myself to a baguette in a cafe this morning which was really nice. Had a quick walk round the town centre and bought a few things I need from the supermarket. Bought a yogurt maker from the charity shop.

Tomorrow I am off to my boyfriends in London for the weekend.

The puppy had her first walk out today since we got her and it went really well. She runs around all over the place but it tired her out and she hasnt been as hyper today.

Dinner tonight is HM steak and kidney pie, mash, cauliflower, broccoli and gravy followed by flapjack.

MrsB_2

Oh dear, what a day. It's really sad when we have days like this, with people's feelings being hurt, and people taking comments personally that were never meant in the way in which they have been interpretted.

I think it's time to draw a line under today, to accept and understand that we are all here for the same reasons, we just look for what we need in different ways, and to lay our hurts to one side so we can come back to the board refreshed and renewed tomorrow.

Please dont ANYBODY feel that they need to change the way that they post, or the fact that they post at all. Please lets all try to understand that it's very very easy to misinterpret the written word, and lets try to make allowances accordingly. Please lets remember that the vast majority of us are women, and although that makes us uber fantastic, it also makes us at the mercy of the dreaded hormone. PLEASE lets remember that this is a forum which tries to offer support and understanding to ALL posters in ALL circumstances, and that we have ALL benefitted from that at some time or another and it's what makes OS the place that we all know and usually love.

And above all, let's all remember that we ALL HATE to be judged. Many of us come on here as an escape from the 'nasties' in the real world, and we need to be able to rely on our 'safe haven'. Most of us will never even imagine what goes on in the lives of the people we think we know on here, and that's part of the attraction for us.

The last thing I want to do is to belittle anybodys feelings, so I hope it doesnt come accross like that. But hows about we sleep on it and hope everybody feels better in the morning?

Goodnight, sleep tight, and dont let the bedbugs bite. xxx

PS - I know it's only 6.45 but I'm off for an early night!!

MATH

MrsB Thank you for that sensitive and soothing post, I agree with every word.:A

SnowyOwl_2

Hello everyone

Seems I have missed a few threads which have now been removed (don't wanna see them!!) and so don't really know what's been happening. However I hope that everyone who contributes so much to the Old Style diary all come back tomorrow and that everyone will be as honest, open, funny/crazy, funny/ha-ha, sleepy, grumbly...or whatever the person they are is tomorrow. Everybody is important on here, and nobody needs to make excuses for being who they are. To go with our lovely regular posters we have some lovely newbies who have been joining in the spirit of this tread, and wouldn't it be a shame if lost our new friends?

So please please please, everyone have a good sleep tonight and business as usual tomorrow!

My day today was spent parked on my (over-substantial) butt gawping at a work pc screen. I literally went to the loo once, went for two cups of tea and had lunch (biscuits and a bag of crisps hence butt spread!) at my desk. We are crazy busy at the minute but as I have exams coming I desperately need tomorrow off so I crammed as much into today as I possibly could. Luckily I have tomorrow off, but will be up with the lark to try and learn enough to pass the exams.

Unfortunately last night was another insomniac affair - did my usual trick of sleeping for three - four hours, then woke up at fourish, awake for a few hours, then off to land of nod for another hour. Had no breakfast, only had time to get dressed and throw water on my face before running off to work. Kitties got some biscuits chucked in their general direction, the poor wee fat things.

***Whispering....

Would I inflame the situation if I said I need to put my DW on? Yes, I live alone, yes I walk on the Old Style side of life...but I am at heart a slovenly mare and doing dishes is not something I enjoy, and I just end up letting them pile up all over the place. It's a weakness I know, but I've arrived at an answer, even if it's not an economic answer....


Apologies again to everyone for the confusion I caused yesterday by giving the OS diary thread the wrong day or date (don't even know what I did wrong!). It appears someone hid Tuesday (or perhaps monday) as I seem to be a day behind the rest of the world. Sigh, gettin' old...:o

Johanne, I am so sorry to hear about your house, I've been through similar in the past myself and know how much crying in the corner seems like an attractive solution. But please see this as a set back rather than the end of the line with regard to getting a new place. You will get somewhere, keep working on it and enquire about more places and NOT less...this way you will create the luck you need. There is a lovely little house with a beautiful garden out there just waiting for you to find it...


That's it, need to do some book-learning. See you ALL tomorrow!! Bye!

SnowyOwl

skylight

Chipps wrote:

I wish I had had such sensible teachers in secondary school. Whken I first started school, we had an interview with the headmistress who said to my mum, "whatever you do, don't teach her to read!" Too late! My mum sent me on my first day with the instructions "pretend you can't read!" Fortunately the teacher was pleased that I could read (less work for her, I guess) and within a few months I had read all the books in our class & was being sent round the school where I plundered the books from all the other classes! However, by secondary school I was so bored & fed up with school that I really couldn't be bothered, so after passing O levels, opted out part way through the sixth form. I got an office job & did secretarial studies part time at college, (such things were totally frowned upon by my school - girls from that establishment were not supposed to aim so "low"!!!!) then got married & had children: my full time career! I did start an OU degree a few years back, but have stopped that since home educating our 2 youngest children. Oh well, may get round to it again one day!

Crikey - that is almost an exact ditto for me!!! I ended up seeing a child
Psychologist at 5 becuase I was too naughty and did things like eat the paint... They had me listed as an unruly child who was ignorant, becuase I wouldn't read. I wouldn't read their books - My name is John type books - because they were so boring. The Psychologist spotted this after session 2, when I was caught reading his patient files and asking what the big words meant! The best bit I remember was my Dad and his smug look when he told the head!

Bored, bored bored was the extent of my whole school life (found boys more interesting eherm...) - got a simple office job and stayed there too - and just started an OU course - in psychology!!!!!

Essex-girl_2

Wasnt gonna post today coz not been up to anything os at all but thought s*d it I will come on here and tell the truth about my day.

Basically have eaten mainly chocolate, some more chocolate and just then for tea I have just finished a packet of chocolate buttons (didnt actually want them but still ate them). So have stuffed myself with sugar and additives but dont care! As you may have gathered it is near a certain time of the month and apart from eating chocolate I have done nothing other that throw a load of washing in.

I used to really beat myself up about days like this but now Ive learnt that its only a couple of days each month and the housework will still be there tomorrow and the next day.

Anyway I am going to have an early night tonight and tomorrow is a new day.

Have a good evening all.

chardonnay_2

hello everybody!!!!!!!

glad i missed the controversial posts.

just wanted to say i went for years with out a dishwasher, got one and loved it, moved to a house without one and missed it so got another one. each to their own and all that.

on another note my washing machine seems to have gone on the blink!!!! think the circuit board has gone again, it just keeps clicking round all the numbers when it's finished it's current task rather than move on to another one. so new washing machine is needed.

today i have been mostly sleeping after an insomnia filled night, parcelling amazon + ebay stuff. made the boys dinner - chicken wraps. peeled a chicken for our fajita style wraps later. fought with the washing machine, emptied dw, cleaned fridge and the fronts of fridge freezer, dishwasher and washing machine - which does not seemed to have appreciated being cared for and is currently clicking and driving me mad.

thanks to smokey for forwarding math's paid 2 click pm and to math for compiling it. will hopefully get round to it soon.

bye