Bright light, bright light!!

Northern_Lassy

Streemly deep musings Nora xxx...Nothing deep occurring oop north as Santa has delivered an early festive treat in the form of an enormous bottle of Southern Comfort...HOORAYxxx
:beer:_party__party__party_:santa2::snow_laug

ZTD

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

heavens it's getting profound on here! i can feel my skin itching lol

We're always profound, even when it doesn't seem like it. :A

Northern_Lassy wrote: »

Streemly deep musings Nora xxx...Nothing deep occurring oop north as Santa has delivered an early festive treat in the form of an enormous bottle of Southern Comfort...HOORAYxxx
:beer:_party__party__party_:santa2::snow_laug

Go on...post later tonight...

Knitting_Nora

Oooo, I really wanna see Northern Lassy post on here after the S'comfort too.....go on, you know you want too!!

Apologies for the profoundness - normal shallow service to follow....especially tomorrow evening after the pubs close....

Knitting_Nora

Afternoon 'verse

As part of my ongoing plan to support and educate the world, I feel I should let you all know (just in case), that it's finally Christmas!!

:xmastree:

That's right, the halls are dec'd, there may be boughs of holly, and there's almost certainly going to be some fa-la-la-ing before the night is through....

This morning I have braved the shops and the early sales - coming back from the town with only the Dorothy Perkins jeans I went in for (I know!!).

I picked stuff up, tried stuff on, and put it all back (well, almost back....no, no, I put it on that rail outside the changing rooms...pleeese people!!).... I don't think I've ever done that before when there's been so many things I've liked (albeit not loved). I just kept thinking of the things I had back in my suitcase at mum's, and how silly it was to feel pressure to buy something new when there wasn't any good reason for it....

The jeans are a necessity having binned two pairs this week after the bum fell out of them...no Z, don't cheapen yourself by picking up on that one!! I live and die in jeans so it's simply not an option to have tried to last on the pair I'm wearing....or to patch up the old ones (seriously - I'm really not brave enough to go round with chintz fabric patched around me unmentionables!).

Which leads me onto a minor whinge (give me a break - it's how we know we're alive....) - I really like the 2 for £25 jeans from DP...how is it that they never, in all my time buying them, have two pairs in my size so I can get the deal? Every time I ask them to check their stock room, and lo...the cupboard is bare! I don't want to have to order them online taverymuch (well, I don't mind if they deliver to a store...but it ruins my rant...and I digress). *grump*

And I'm back.

For the rest of the morning I've been playing Santa's little helper and delivering presents all over the place. I am awash with tea, and am thanking the Lord that I stopped saying yes to mince pies fairly early on, otherwise it'd be a 'Vicar of Dibley re-enactment of travels by JCB..' by now.

Stopping still for a couple of hours now, and may even catch a few winks as tonight is usually a late one. Then more deliveries before trekking over to the next town for dinner with old friends (an 18 year tradition - lovely since we're spread out all over the country, and sometimes outside the UK, for the rest of the year)).

Real treat this evening as one of my lovely friends has offered to drive us this year (I usually offer as am not a great drinker)...bless her though, as I'm in a singing mood so her kindness may be repaid by a burst eardrum as I offer the evening my rendition of away in a manger....:rudolf:

Truth be told, I've been a little nervous about tonight as it's my first time out with (almost) the whole group since the breakdown and I've been a bit wobbly generally over the last couple of days...but then I remember that they're the most awesome bunch of truly lovely people, and it's like a big warm hug just anticipating the evening....:D

Righto, best get on...but before I go:

Merry Christmas to friends new and old, lurkers and even potential trolls....be happy, be safe and if you can't be good, at least try not to get caught....

:xmassign:

Nora.x

scubaangel

I love DP jeans too - they are the one brand which seems to be cut to fit my shape not matter what size I need or style I want to try out. I had the same problem in that last time I went to the concession in BHS (I don't have a proper DP near me) they only had the size I wanted in skinny styles left after I picked up the boot cut ones I wanted. Ended up in the charity shop across the road got two pairs of DP jeans (brand new) and a pair of Laura Ashely cords for under £15.

Mr S mutters about my 'dead people' clothes but with the weight loss I need alot of new clothes and don't want to spend a fortune. I'm planning to take whats left of my overtime money after we've cleared any remaining bills for the flat and use it as a clothes fund for spending in charity shops only.

RosaBernicia

Fantastic Nora, enjoy your truly lovely friends and have a marvellous time.

Wishing you a fabulous Christmas

Rosa xx

dealwithdebtdot

Hope you have a truly gorgeous evening. Soak up the love. Merry Christmas, and watch out for Santa, coz you surely have been a very good girl. x :rudolf:

Knitting_Nora

Afternoon 'verse :wave:

Well, trekked off to Kent yesterday - had lovely day with oodles of really fab family (I have the sort of family where you could really do with name tags for the thousands of kids running around...and the genepool is strong, so we all look like each other - ensuring that I spend the day saying to small children "right, who are you, and which one do you belong to?".

Car unpacked by wonderful uncles, and Grandad happy to see me...but few hours and lots of people, noise and activity later, I manage a meltdown...uncles and cousin repack car, and I follow mum back up the motorway to home....:whistle:

Ahhh, me....never mind, will try again on a quieter day...or possibly under cover of darkness in a spy-like fashion!:D

So in the meantime, I'm back at mum's for a while and right now I'm exactly where I need to be. Plus there's enough chocolate in the house to fell an elephant, and I get the sofa all to myself. Bliss.

So, with Christmas out of the way, and me living somewhat in the void, it's a good time to turn my thoughts to a new SOA and to re-establish some of those good MSE habits which I've already let slip...

Methinks this is a moment for the MSE budget planner...and maybe even the listing pad and pen...*claps hands excitedly* back later!

*scurries off*

Nora.x

ZTD

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Afternoon 'verse :wave:

Well, trekked off to Kent yesterday - had lovely day with oodles of really fab family (I have the sort of family where you could really do with name tags for the thousands of kids running around...and the genepool is strong, so we all look like each other - ensuring that I spend the day saying to small children "right, who are you, and which one do you belong to?".

That's better than me. All small children look the same to me, so any urchin off the street could be mistaken as a relation.

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Car unpacked by wonderful uncles, and Grandad happy to see me...but few hours and lots of people, noise and activity later, I manage a meltdown...uncles and cousin repack car, and I follow mum back up the motorway to home....:whistle:

:grouphug:

Why did you have the meltdown?

How are you feeling now?

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Ahhh, me....never mind, will try again on a quieter day...or possibly under cover of darkness in a spy-like fashion!:D

Remember to wear the right kind of hat.

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

So in the meantime, I'm back at mum's for a while and right now I'm exactly where I need to be. Plus there's enough chocolate in the house to fell an elephant, and I get the sofa all to myself. Bliss.

Be careful of the chocolate. It will jump into your mouth in the middle of the night...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

So, with Christmas out of the way, and me living somewhat in the void, it's a good time to turn my thoughts to a new SOA and to re-establish some of those good MSE habits which I've already let slip...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Methinks this is a moment for the MSE budget planner...and maybe even the listing pad and pen...*claps hands excitedly* back later!

*scurries off*

Nora.x

Have fun with that...

freebyfifty

Hey you x x

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a meltdown of some kind or another
Me thinks you have been doing a little too much. Too much change in too short a time????? Be gentle with yourself and stop pushing yourself
Stay with your mum for as long as she has chocolate and you can have the sofa to yourself, when she starts demanding to sit down and the chocolate runs out, then it's time to move on :rotfl:

I have spent the entire morning doing a 2012 spreadsheet/budget planner/debt busting plan.......I have now moved my already exhausted brain to the OU essay about the aforementioned brain and how our memory functions, but seeing as I struggle to remember my own name sometimes, it's not going very well.

Take care hun x