Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

shaun40400

hypno06 wrote: »

That's right.....blame me! It was YOU that started talking detox and vegetable juice, not me!!!

yes but it was you hypno that got everyone else going:rotfl::rotfl:

oops
says he eating chocolate ice cream,,,,but its not real chocolate so it does not count does it??

hypno06

That's right - just gang up on me :rolleyes:

OliveOyl_2

However I have now consumed an entire Pizza :D
And the cat has settled in my now empty filing basket, but I need to put stuff back in, cos I'm too bored to finish the job.......

OliveOyl_2

:o:o:o DS1 called late last night and asked me to pick him up from the airport 70 miles away :eek: @ 7am on Sunday :eek:


I said yes
Do I feel used?

I should have suggested he ask his gf's Mum :rotfl:

OliveOyl_2

Well tonight I have:

• dug a bit in the garden and planted a couple of shrubs that we've grown from cuttings from the in-laws garden :money:
• cleaned the futility room
• made up DS2's bed just in case he wants to stay more than 5 minutes.

I'm just about to eat my bean stew, and open my free bottle of wine. Funny how it gives me as much pleasure as phoning for a takeaway used to.......:D

Another NSD

Tomorrow I'm having my hair done, and then going to aged P's.
So yet another fun packed weekend :rolleyes:
But this time next week, I'll be on my way to Africa. :j

beanielou

It will soon be next week

OliveOyl_2

I realise in recent weeks that I have been moaning about what I have considered "my duties" Saying that although I love my parents, it can be a bind schlepping down to see them fortnightly. Resenting the demands that the children feel entitled to make on me and my time.

Yesterday for instance the journey to aged P's took twice as long as usual because of accidents, :mad: I was very ratty after 3 hours in the car, and lunch was dried out too because I was so late.:o And today I had to leave the house at 6.15 am :eek: to pick up that ungrateful son.........

But yesterday afternoon I sat in the sun and chatted with my mum. She was born in 1930 in Germany, and throughout my life she has always brushed off our curious enquiries about life under the Nazis with a light "wasn't really relevant to us, we lived in a remote rural village" etc etc. Her Altzheimers makes coversation about recent events fraught with memory-traps which distress her, but talk about her childhood is fine. So I told her about a play Popeye and I had seen which examined whether a musician could be considered as bad as anyone else for collaborating with the Nazis if he allowed his music to be used by Hitler. And we got onto how life was really like for her.......possibly the most fascinating hour or so of history that I have EVER had.

This morning I picked up the grateful son, and we had 2 hours inescapable chat in the car We covered masses, I could tell him how nice my life was with him and his Dad, and how much they had taught me. He could discuss his anxieties and reservations he has with his career and his gf. We talked cars and travel and it was great

So please next time I complain about not being with Popeye because I have to look after our family - please tell me to SHUTUP Popeye misses out far more than me.

hypno06

Remember, it takes all the crap times to make us appreciate the good bits x

Karmacat

Wow, Olive. Some food for thought there. I agree with you, basically. My sister and I were talking today (before we got going on my garage, which is now much nicer) and she was saying how, with the death of her husband earlier this year, she's got much closer to her immediate family - me, my brother and our mum in particular. We have to use what time we're given to our best advantage.... thats not quite the message you're giving out, but it certainly goes alongside it.

OliveOyl_2

Well I meant that too KC!
The Aged P's are aged (79 & 89) and neither in *good* health so they aren't going to be around as long as I wish them to be
And have you actually finished the garage? if so -WOW, I'm impressed

And yes Hypno, I'm going to appreciate the good times more now