Old Style Daily Thread for Wednesday 9th November 2011

taplady

morning all!

Happy Birthday Adelight:bdaycake:

nmlc - good luck to your DS in his exam x

JackieG - hope you soon feel better x

JulieG - take it easy x

FarmersWife - I'm saying it again - Good Luck x x x x

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Tappers, glad you went to the doc, hopefully it will be nothing serious, and the action of dealing with it will help. What happened about your shifts?

Jackie xxx

I left half way through the meeting but my friend phoned last night to say the bosses were going to look into vaous points we brought up plus we have all been given Staff Wellbeing Questionnaires to fill in - not too hopeful about these as they totally ignored the last ones we filled in:mad: Anyway - we've another meeting soon to discuss the findings.We've tried our best to get them to understand how we feel now its upto them to listen.

Plans today -

Mums coming up for a week today and stopping up the road so need to get a few things for her. Its Poppy Week and she's always organised it all here for the British Legion so she'll probably be helping out a bit but it will be the first year she's not Standard Bearer.

Work later but at least I'm on with a couple of lovely ladies and we're taking the service users to a disco tonight which is always good fun.

I've cleaned and tidied through - got a washing mountain and could really do with some good drying weather.

Going to make some mushroom soup for lunch.

Got my feet up now with a coffee, might do my nails later.

have a great day all x x x

Shalva

Just popped back to say happy birthday adelight:beer::bdaycake:

jackieglasgow

Happy birthday adelight, still can't post on your fb wall, but I hope you get spoiled and have lots of :bdaycake:

NoahsPennilessMummy

morning all

Operation get Noah to dress himself is still ongoing, he is still putting his undies on himself (takes ages and much licking of hands and shouting:o) then I put the rest on for him. Next week he puts his vest on as well as the undies then I do the rest and will increase it each week...that is the plan anyway;) It is a slow process but have to try as he is 8 now and it is more or less like having a baby still, I still have to dress him, wash him, he can`t use cutlery, either I feed him or he uses his hands..can manage a spoon but he loses patience and ends up scooping the food up with his fingers which I want to stop but one battle at a time:cool:
Got a batch of rolls in BM and making shepherds pie for tea later.
The last of noahs Sylvanian Families stuff for Xmas arrived today along with some stocking fillers to do with chickens lol. They have sent a new Sylv fams catalogue too so he will be thrilled with that later:rotfl:
DH has had hassle this week as the engine snapped on his van on Mon night. We didnt hire another car in the end as the garage sorted it out yesterday for him and someone drove him around yesterday.
There may be some changes afoot for us in next few weeks. DH is a plumber and gas engineer and he is strictly speaking self employed but for last few years has ended up working more or less full time hours for a plumbing shop up the road from us, he is still registered as self employed though and sorts his own tax and NI etc. He is thinking of moving towards just doing his own work as the bloke in charge of the shop is being a pain. It will mean no more guaranteed money of same amount each week but there is lots of work out there..apparently...he is going to put some feelers out amongst local landlords/estate agents etc and see how the land lies.
Right better go and sort the chicken ladies out:T
Adelight happy Birthday:j
Beth slow down a bit, you are doing too much when you haven`t been well, I know you want to help DD2 but you need to rest too you know, I am sure she can make her own meals some nights..most other new mums have to. I hope you don`t take that the wrong way, am just concerned about your health.
Redruby glad your dad got a decent dinner yesterday:D surely they realise that as a big tall bloke he eats more than a little old gran would iykwim. Before I sent each of my patients home after doing their scopes I always gave them tea and toast as they had often been without food for 24/48 hours. It was supposed do be 2 toasts and a drink ( as per NHS rules yawn) but if it was a big burly bloke that isn`t going to touch the sides:rotfl: so I used to do them 4 bits of toast and 2 drinks and mooch around to find them biscuits too;)

Bitsy_Beans

Morning everyone
another pants sleep courtesy of killer cat. Yep she did it again (brought in a mouse to eat) so cue more running about from me and H in the middle of the night :eek::eek: Tried and just a little bit grumpy this morning

Plans today are to clean kitchen, make a bauble wreath (this could be a total disaster :cool:) and go with DD and her class to Forest Schools. then the afternoon school run starts. Tap class tonight aswell.
Not sure about tea, probably something with chicken I think.

Apologies for the lack of OS, seem to just about treading water lately, mind you it's not having H at home this week again I just lose all motivation when he's home as he's just sitting about on the sofa I want to too

Adelight - Happy birthday :beer: have a great day

NPM - well done Noah on his putting on pants. For some reason DS hates doing his socks. He's done it a few times by himself but most of the time he refuses <rollseyes>

Hugs and spoons all round. Have a good day OS or not.

Loulou2010

hi all. just want to thanks for hugs and pm. i didnt believe jackieg when she passed them on and had to check for myself. i really dont like myself very much at the moment and struggle to see why anyone would.

things are really difficult here. still staying with my friend. i'm stuck in a horrible place at the moment and cant see many ways out of it. i'm not eating again. i am sleeping all the time. still havent managed to fight off this chest infection and cold.

the drs have warned what i am doing to myself but have offeredl ittle help in dealing with it. i see a counsellor but just havent been well enough to go. i've done cbt but it just wasnt for me. i guess they have run out of all options and dont know what to do with me.

to be honest, the perfect answer to me seems to be a huge box of pills and a bottle of vodka. the only thing that stops me is i dont want ds hating me for it and that my friends have put so much effort into helping me (ones in real life as well as virtual ones)

i dont really know what i hope to achieve by writing all of this here but i know you guys will offer support and wont judge. felt the need to be honest with you all.

sorry i havent read the thread but know jackieg deserves a few big hugs (she puts up with me after all ) she has been with me, supporting me throughout all of this. i owe a lot to her. i really do.

sorry there isnt any os in this (well i guess there is if you include little food being consumed).

Bitsy_Beans

Loulou2010 wrote: »

hi all. just want to thanks for hugs and pm. i didnt believe jackieg when she passed them on and had to check for myself. i really dont like myself very much at the moment and struggle to see why anyone would.
That's the beauty of other people, they see what WE can't about ourselves.

things are really difficult here. still staying with my friend. i'm stuck in a horrible place at the moment and cant see many ways out of it. i'm not eating again. i am sleeping all the time. still havent managed to fight off this chest infection and cold.

the drs have warned what i am doing to myself but have offeredl ittle help in dealing with it. i see a counsellor but just havent been well enough to go. i've done cbt but it just wasnt for me. i guess they have run out of all options and dont know what to do with me.

to be honest, the perfect answer to me seems to be a huge box of pills and a bottle of vodka. the only thing that stops me is i dont want ds hating me for it and that my friends have put so much effort into helping me (ones in real life as well as virtual ones)
If you EVER feel like that's an option please ring someone, jac, other RL friends or even the Samaritans. You have an illness, are you taking any meds for it?

i dont really know what i hope to achieve by writing all of this here but i know you guys will offer support and wont judge. felt the need to be honest with you all.

Keep posting, it's a toe in the world, even if you don't feel you have anything good to say, post it. No one minds and we don't judge.
sorry i havent read the thread but know jackieg deserves a few big hugs (she puts up with me after all ) she has been with me, supporting me throughout all of this. i owe a lot to her. i really do.

sorry there isnt any os in this (well i guess there is if you include little food being consumed).

Lou take care of yourself, there will be light at the end of the tunnel I just wish you could see it xxx

jackieglasgow

Big hugs lou. You dont owe me anything, I am your friend, but if you really want to pay me back, then do me a favour and eat something today, please. I am just going for a nice hot steamy bath to see if it helps my chest. I have been unable to sleep and made the base for sheperd's pie and some pasties.

X

cat_smith

Loulou where are you? If JG is around you can't be far from me. I have similar problems. At the moment the wine bottle is far too prevalent. Whatever you think - you are worth it. Eat something!

bramble1

Lou x x x

Happy birthday Adelight

I'm trying to plan a shop for the weekend on as little money as poss as not sure when OH is getting paid again - with any luck this week, but if not i need to resourceful. Lots of veg to bulk up main meals and sweet treats for desserts to make up for small portions of OH i think! It worked yesterday