OS Daily Thread for Thursday 1st March

MimiF

(((Lilmisskitkat))) - you and I seem to be suffering from the same thing today!!!

CCStar - glad you're okay, take it easy.

(((Snoozer))).

HariboJunkie

Maybe we all have PMT.

They say when women live in close quarters their cycles synchronise so perhaps we spend so much time together it's happening here too.:D

Math it may be advisable to keep a low profile on here today

Ps Thanks for the hugs but a kick up the bum would probably be more effective.:o

NHSslave_2

Hi! everyone. Have just made my first post on grocery challenge but thought I would come and introduce myself properly overhere as I have been picking up tips from all the OS posters for the last couple of weeks. I work strange shifts (see username for my employer!!) so may not always post in the morning and some days not at all (occassional 15 hr shifts with not much lunch break). Am hoping to change working hrs so I work longer hrs on less days so should be able to start the flylady stuff I have been pouring over too.
Anyway mainly I just wanted to say a big thank you for the tips on the chat site and hope by joining in with you all I can stay motivated!
Katie

HariboJunkie

:hello: Welcome NHSSlave

SSB

Hello

Warm thoughts for all of you fed-up, poorly footed, de-motivated people out there and good luck for those awaiting school results. It is so windy and horrid here but I must go and do some shopping and posting :mad: , I would love to stay in and just indulge with some tea and cake:p .
I am working today from 17.00-22.00, because of the severe staff shortage ( there is no end to our clients though, homelessness just does not seem to reduce in Derbyshire). OK, now I must go, have a good day all and talk to you later.

Horasio

mrs_mix wrote:

Morning everyone
I hope all the children get the schools they are hoping for
feel a bit rough think I've got that nasty cold everyone else has had and I've managed to avoid so far it may be just a chill though where I kept getting wet yesterday why does it always rain between 8 and 9 in the morning and again between 2.30 and 4 for the school runs and is nice inbetween
the kids went to the opticians last night ds1 has to have new glasses last time we get them free
ds2 is shortsighted but they are going to wait another year before they decide for certain
dd7 has got to have glasses for reading it took half an hour for her to choose so on saturday we have to pick up a pair of spongebob glasess in a sort of burgundy pink colour have to admit she did look cute in them
and dh has to have 3 new pairs at a cost of £264.00 thank good for me budgeting for things like that
got to do the packed lunches and get the kids sorted and I will worry about the other jobs later
(((((((((hugs)))))))))) to everyone espcially catowen you will soon be able to see your friend
pam xx

The price of specs is shocking:eek:

Good luck with anyone waiting their 11 plus results - I didn't realise it had come back.

My mum has this nasty cold too and she NEVER gets ill - fingers x'd I am OK but after standing outside in the cold for a hour last night...

lil_me

Morning all, just got back, been to docs, been down the high street for some bits and pieces, docs sending me for blood tests next week (family full of diabetics so routine) got prescriptions sorted.

DP still in bed as was working again last night, so not vacuuming just yet, waiting for delivery from goodnessdirect, thought would try them when offer was on.

NHSSlave welcome

lilmisskitkat hope you feel better soon, my partner used to think I had PMT but now just says I'm a moody sod 365 a year :rotfl:

CCStar sounds like you've had a lucky escape, pleased to hear you're ok, take it easy

Only had chance to skim this page so far, so hugs to those who need/want them, hope everyone is well. I must get a wriggle on and get something done as the houseworks been a little neglected with me trying to study plus all the appointments etc.

Paulie'sGirl

Hey all,

Big hugs to Pink and CCStar and the others I've forgotten

Congrats to the hardworking kiddies (and their mums) who got the grades they needed

Started out lovely and bright here, but now its a bit cloudy.

Got tomorrow afternoon off to go register with agencies and generally try and find a new job...

M&D's anniversary today, so big meal out tomorrow - yum!!!

Love and hugs!

PG

clairefun

hugs to chickadee, my sister's first child (the teenager who is having heart surgery next week) has to be picked up & dropped off for his 'dad-weekends' at my mum's house, at his dad's insistence. Luckily he likes it there but it still has been awkward, it took quite a while to agree to that. I used to go with my sister to drop him off at 'an agreed neutral place, without new partners' which was bloody ridiculous - passing him over near the park, and all that rubbish. It isn't fair on the child involved, usually. :mad:

My sister's 2 year old doesn't appear to have the same issues - he left her in a row when she was 8 months pregnant and he's never seen the little boy - in a way it's going to be much easier. Annoyingly though his dad is an ex con and a bit violent and they've (my sister and my mum) decided already that he's going to be a thug, and it means they treat him differently - 'oh he doesn't like books' for example. (well he does when I read them to him!) The teenager has shown him some karate moves and so he now punches everyone when he sees them, and they don't even try to stop him 'because that's his nature' .:mad: He also watches doctor who and star wars and harry potter etc etc (everything the teenager likes) and so tries to hit my son with his light saber / wand or shoot him and 'make him dead' - it really disturbs me! I know my boy will pick it up soon enough but let him be my little boy as long as he can, please!

He counted to eight by himself this morning! I'm very proud. :T

We've also had it with my OH's mum and dad - mum left dad for another man, and now, 7 years on, is still living alone waiting for the other man to commit! Dad however is remarried (to someone who is 4 years older than we are!) with a 3 year old baby and another on the way - and yet, guess which of the two of them threatened to not come to our wedding if 'he' were there? Yep, the one in the successful relationship. I mean, I can see his point, but you'd have thought (especially as he was getting married 10 days after us!) that he'd have been over it!:rolleyes:

We realised today that in August this year, we'll have been married for 5 years, anyone know what the 5 year anniversary gift is meant to be? Hopefully we'll be in the new house and can have a big garden party!

Ooh congrats to Pooky and chickadee - well your children, I suppose, well dones all round! Pooky, whereabouts in Kent are you? I'm in (for my sins) Medway...

Hugs to Pink, Catowen, and Haribo (ooh, I want sweets now) - oh no a kick up the bum to you instead! CCStar, that sounds scary. A swift shot of whisky is in order! I've been in a couple of 'smaller' accidents that could have been a lot worse, it's not nice, is it? When I was 7 months pregnant a car went into the back of us as we were on our way to Ikea to buy nursery furniture, I couldn't stop crying even after scans showed that everything was fine, I was so shaken. Good luck with the repeat viewer though, that's a good sign. Mind you our buyer only viewed once before offering full asking price, so you can never tell!

Today in the post I got The Book People's new catalogue and if I hear today that we're exchanging I'm going to treat myself to the self suffiency book and a 'planting your allotment' book. My 'Grow Your Own' magazine arrived too - cheap offers on sugar snap peas which I love but didn't buy seeds for some reason - I've very much going to do that, and it comes with a free allotment booklet so I'm well excited now - I just want to hear! grrrrr!

lilmisskitkat - I heard Sky was going, I didn't know when - they're going to lose so many customers aren't they? I'm not too bothered as we don't tend to watch it, apart from sometimes Lost but we download that generally anyway. Still, it's a big move...

anyway I'm required to 'mummy, be a rabbit' so I have to go off and jump about like a loon...ah well, it's all excercise, isn't it! :rotfl:

Sweet_Pea_2

Hi All,

Well done to all the others who got their school places. Grrrrrrrrr! Birmingham City Council are very slow and our letter has not arrived, we can't look on the web either we just have to sit and wait. Its so frustrating! I had DD1 here this morning as she had to go to the orthodontist. She has to have 4 teeth out then train tracks fitted top and bottom, poor kid. And no news about her school place either. (Although she does not seem too bothered!)
I bought her one of her favourite horrible sweets that I wont normally buy to cheer her up, as from next week she wont be able to eat them as they will get stuck in her braces!
Plans for this afternoon are to finish off spring cleaning my kitchen by getting stuck into the pantry. Its fish pie for tea as I have a couple of salmon fillets to use up, then we need to sort out what DD's are wearing tomorrow for world book day. (DD1 has bought herself a black curly "Tracy Beaker" style wig but has decided she doesnt like it, so I need to have a go at plaiting it for her to see if it looks any better, otherwise it will be just jeans for her. She cant really "do" Tracy Beaker without the wig as she's blonde, and doesnt really have the attitude either, although DD2 has it in spades.)
Hugs to anyone who needs one, especially Catowen, I'd save your friends letter until you have a nice glass of something in one hand and a box of tissues in the other.