Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

fc123

michaels wrote: »

Call me a miserable old !!!!!! but I just find life so much more straight-forward at home.

Not at all.......I don't like staying in anyone elses house, even family. Don't know why but I think I am a real 'prefer own cave' sort of person. I don't mind self catering places but don't like staying in hotels either.
Worse, as a....errr.... regular person, I stay in a strange place and can't 'go' all the time I am there. It has to be pshychological.:o



Gosh, I have had the most exhausting day and come home, log in.........how totally relaxing it is to read what everyone ate yesterday :rotfl:Fascinating, though I struggled with Gens list as didn't know what most of it was but I am sure it was tasty.


I feel I am missing out on morning Ibuprofen on toast though.

LIR, how little do you eat....especially with all that physical work you do....and NDG though you aren't feeling well so guess that's why.

May as well add to todays;

1 Apple
1 goats cheese and roasted vegetable sandwich, from the devil shop known as Asda so it could have just been flavoured mush coloured to look like goats cheese and veg and not been a real sandwich at all.

Fish and chips and salad after a very very long and very very wired day. 1 and half glasses of beaujolais.

3 coffees and 1 tea. Lots of water.


*big sigh* Set up the stand, unhappy about our position , unhappy with the 8 mannequins we had to buy (as ours are still in Holy Grail store) as they are really shapeless and too skinny minny, unhappy with the display I did, unhappy with the new range and how it sits alongside the current one, unhappy in general.:(

Tomo have to leave house @ 7.30 am and OH, poor thing, has to go to Holy Grail afterwards to relocate our stand into it's new position.
I will have to meet shopfitters doing the un-install @ the studio at about 10pm to unload.

It's going to be a long day and I will have to wear really high uncomfortable shoes and a really tight, uncomfortable dress and won't even be able to rub my eyes all day as they will be clogged up with mascara....and I will have to be smiley and chatty to everyone...which is fine as I like a good jaw with strangers.

oh, and I have to sell lots of stuff too....which is always very stressy.

Back to Michael S's point, I would love a holiday at home...just time to potter and get stuff done. I never seem to be in at the mo.

We are off to Portugal in 2 weeks time for a week. Sister arranged it all and booked 2 villas. My brother is coming too now and will share our villa so I will be woken every day by my 5 + 6 yr old niece and nephew and, no doubt my sisters small ones (5 + 8) will come into ours as soon as they wake up too. It's going to be exhausting.

misskool

we ate overpriced, but delicious, food at the chilli fiesta and nosed around West Dean gardens (stunning) and ogled how my friend wakes up to the views of the South Downs every day.

fc: the sales will be fine, your clothes are good enough to sell themselves and you have an amazing product.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

LIR, how little do you eat....especially with all that physical work you do....QUOTE]

doing a LOT of watching atm, had a bit of a fall today and haven't done much physical all week, exhausted by last weekend. I've had to be REALLY strict since I got ill. My weight is massive, and my ''metabolism'' ...even the endocrinologist used that word though it makes me cringe, is f'ed. I ''hoard'' calories to use when really wanted...not that that is healthy or working. e.g. next week friend with jerk husband wants to go out for a meal, so will eat well then. tomorrow we're having a bbq, grilled meat, grilled corgettes (guess the successful veg this year!) and some grilled pinapple if I get to the shop and gen isn;t there

I haven't felt ''good'' and have consistantly put on weight since those speed diet pills were banned, they were quite frankly the best thing that happened to me since I got ill.

Usually I have porridge in the morning, because its uber filling and good. (with different fruit, I really love apple sauce) I also usually have a lot of milk, because it agrees with me. And in winter I have a veg soup always ready for liberal noshing. I LOVE apples but haven't had one for ages it feels.

Plus we just ate a WHOLE LOAD of courgettes, with haloumi...and none of my clothes are fitting atm which is really, profoundly depresing. (whoich makes me hate myself because there are a lot worse things to happen in this world!)

fc123

misskool wrote: »

we ate overpriced, but delicious, food at the chilli fiesta and nosed around West Dean gardens (stunning) and ogled how my friend wakes up to the views of the South Downs every day.

fc: the sales will be fine, your clothes are good enough to sell themselves and you have an amazing product.

Sounds like a lovely day out.

I am angst'd up at the moment...to the max.

I have come across a not very nice human trait over the past year too.
We 'know' a lot of people all through our sector at all different levels (from brands to cheap own label suppliers) and some we have known in passing for years.

What happened to us this summer with the P up is common knowledge in our circles and some people we know are genuinely pleased and say so (not that we crow or anything but it comes up in chat) but others have been really off and a bit snide about it.

We have known a company from a decade back who built it up + did really well, then had to liquidate as it all went t*** up. He started up again from nothing and didn't make the same errors as before (his bust stemmed from being really popular so he got caught out by over -trading) and he is now flying high and I am so pleased for them.
Others just dig them out and make nasty remarks about them.

Dreading tomorrow now as everything will be judged and not just by customers.....but OH isn't bothered one jot...doesn't bother him what people think or say. I wish I could be more like him sometimes.

michaels

FC it is always good to hear from you and your high flying problems. Somehow being in some one else's house and knowing that while my parents like to see their grandchildren they are also disrupted in their own home just makes me feel uncomfortable. I used to get acne as a teenager and having been here for a week suddenly a few zits have come back - not sure what it is in about them / the house / the diet but it must be something.

Lydia my parents have a 4kw solar install on about 30 degree roof SSW facing and reckon since March they have done about £1300 worth of electricity (based on an average price of 56p/unit which includes all fit, own use etc), install cost was 14k. For those of mains gas they have also installed an ASHP which they run using the solar elec in the day to heat the swimming pool...

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

fc123 wrote: »

LIR, how little do you eat....especially with all that physical work you do....QUOTE]

doing a LOT of watching atm, had a bit of a fall today and haven't done much physical all week, exhausted by last weekend. I've had to be REALLY strict since I got ill. My weight is massive, and my ''metabolism'' ...even the endocrinologist used that word though it makes me cringe, is f'ed. I ''hoard'' calories to use when really wanted...not that that is healthy or working. e.g. next week friend with jerk husband wants to go out for a meal, so will eat well then. tomorrow we're having a bbq, grilled meat, grilled corgettes (guess the successful veg this year!) and some grilled pinapple if I get to the shop and gen isn;t there

I haven't felt ''good'' and have consistantly put on weight since those speed diet pills were banned, they were quite frankly the best thing that happened to me since I got ill.

Usually I have porridge in the morning, because its uber filling and good. (with different fruit, I really love apple sauce) I also usually have a lot of milk, because it agrees with me. And in winter I have a veg soup always ready for liberal noshing. I LOVE apples but haven't had one for ages it feels.

Plus we just ate a WHOLE LOAD of courgettes, with haloumi...and none of my clothes are fitting atm which is really, profoundly depresing. (whoich makes me hate myself because there are a lot worse things to happen in this world!)

awww.....must be hard but maybe it would make no difference if you ate a 'normal' amount (is it about 2000 cals a day for a woman?) as the weight gain isn't through eating too much but other factors?

Does that mean you are really hungry a lot of the time too or has your body adjusted to a really low calorie intake and doesn't 'need' as much fuel?

fc123

michaels wrote: »

FC it is always good to hear from you and your high flying problems. :rotfl::rotfl:

Somehow being in some one else's house and knowing that while my parents like to see their grandchildren they are also disrupted in their own home just makes me feel uncomfortable. I used to get acne as a teenager and having been here for a week suddenly a few zits have come back - not sure what it is in about them / the house / the diet but it must be something.

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That made me laugh......I don't feel very high flying right now as we aren't really.
Could be we have been in the bottom of pond for so long, I am not liking being on the pond edge/shore as much as I thought I would. It was nice being in the dark all hidden away just getting on with your own thing and hanging out with everyone else in the bottom of the Pond....just rubbish being skint some of the time.

Wonder where the spots have come from. Fizzy drinks maybe? You say you don't normally have them and I know some of DD's friends who have spots also have a diet coke (or similar) habit.
Otherwise, it's your brain morphing back to being 16 again and it's tricking your skin into thinking it's a teen again.

misskool

fc123 wrote: »

Sounds like a lovely day out.

I am angst'd up at the moment...to the max.

I have come across a not very nice human trait over the past year too.
We 'know' a lot of people all through our sector at all different levels (from brands to cheap own label suppliers) and some we have known in passing for years.

What happened to us this summer with the P up is common knowledge in our circles and some people we know are genuinely pleased and say so (not that we crow or anything but it comes up in chat) but others have been really off and a bit snide about it.

We have known a company from a decade back who built it up + did really well, then had to liquidate as it all went t*** up. He started up again from nothing and didn't make the same errors as before (his bust stemmed from being really popular so he got caught out by over -trading) and he is now flying high and I am so pleased for them.
Others just dig them out and make nasty remarks about them.

Dreading tomorrow now as everything will be judged and not just by customers.....but OH isn't bothered one jot...doesn't bother him what people think or say. I wish I could be more like him sometimes.

IT's more of a female trait though isn't it? The Queen Bee syndrome.

People will talk, nice or not, all publicity is good publicity for brands :rotfl:

fc123

Last post for tonight (can you tell I am wired as I am needing therapy tonight?:D)

Driving today from SE London via the sth circular all the way to Earls court via Chelsea was interesting. The traffic was really slow both ways and we had more time to watch the changes as we drove in and drove out...how the smart 3 million pound house gradually changed into the 300k stuff in the outer suburbs. The change in the shopping strips (West Brompton is such a lovely local st compared to a strip in Catford) and how the people on the street changed too.


As we drove along the river in silnce to our super grot suburb, OH just mentioned 'we don't live in a very nice place do we?''.

fc123

misskool wrote: »

IT's more of a female trait though isn't it? The Queen Bee syndrome.

People will talk, nice or not, all publicity is good publicity for brands :rotfl:

Actually, now you mention it, that adds up.