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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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The only diversity I can offer is hailing from Yorkshire, which is hardly a foreign country, (feel free to disagree if you have never travelled north of Watford Gap:p.)
Positive thoughts for LJ and the Michaels`s
I think that geographic diversity is as important. Different lifestyles, views, politics, perspectives and ways of talking and thinking.
Glad you're back!:)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Earache is still here btw. Not gone, but not as severe as last night.
As mentioned, I have had a bug recently, & I think that + exhaustion have combined for me to be run down. Feels sensitive now, hoping that it doesn't return with a vengeance!It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
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When the kids got ear-ache, we would queue up at the doctor, who would invariably prescribe a decongestant. What is more, it worked! After a while, we cut out the middle man, so to speak, and dispensed the decongestant ourselves.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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Michaels, I am thinking of you and your family. I wish I could make it all better.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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Michaels, I hope all goes well for you and the family.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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Oh my! So many of you have said things that I want to reply to. Now, shall I do one long reply, or lots of little ones...
Hugs. I am so sorry things have turned out they way they have for you. Here’s hoping things get better from here on.PasturesNew wrote: »My burn out is from years of striving and achieving nothing, then the numbness of feeling lost and insecure.
Good plan. Let us know how it goes, please, and if by any chance you don’t get this first one, then keep looking, and keep us posted.PasturesNew wrote: »Plan B for house-hunting.... also apply for jobs. Maybe if I got a job it'd help me to focus my mind on the "where" outside of the current focus on one desirable area. So, just applied …Chuck Norris may be able to delete the recycle bin but only Lydia can multiquote more than three people in one post
I may have been an overachiever at school. I haven’t been for a long long time, though.The problem with having been an over-acheiver is now that you can only acheive as muc as if not more than most people you feel dissatisified.
:rotfl:Despite being a two parent household we have not acheived sorting and tidying the kids toys in the many months since our extension was finsihed and still have mountains of junk in the shed and in a friends flat whereas you have managed to get the jobs worked through and even done the shelves and sorting.
You flatter me, but it’s not real. I still have mountains of junk in boxes and piles in most rooms in my house, and an extremely full garage. It’s true that I recently made significant progress on the playroom, but that consisted of (1) dealing with about 6 big packing boxes of stuff and sorting what needed keeping into little boxes because my sister-in-law came to visit for a whole day to help me do it, and (2) watching my friend put up shelves, and occasionally passing the drill or some screws or something. None of the credit for any of this is actually mine.
You may be right. Subjectively, it doesn’t feel emotionally charged to me, just logistically demanding, which is what I find hard. When the relationship ended, I slogged my guts out with a counsellor and other help, and processed those feelings pretty thoroughly. I was just about on the point of coming to terms with the divorce when it didn’t happen. Besides which, while I do still have lingering feelings for the man he used to be, I do not miss the man he had become.lostinrates wrote: »i think you have been amazing throughout. I actually think you ate in a more complex and potentially more difficult to process and handle situation because of the nearly bit in the relationship. Feelings don't just end, but a lot of people will have assumed that they should have done.
Thank you. I’m not arguing with the idea. I usually fall asleep without too much trouble when I choose to go to bed. Mine is a self-discipline problem, not primarily an insomnia one.lostinrates wrote: »studies are clear i believe that those with seven to eight hours sleep live longer and are healthier. … maybe see if there is something on the radio …. I find switching off hard.
Those are great ideas, but they involve thinking about food and doing something about it before the deadline for putting it on the plate. This kind of proactivity is what I cannot do at present.lostinrates wrote: »<Lots of exciting ideas about food>
Good plan. I am fine for balanced diet in term time when I get fed excellent and well planned meals at school, but will take one in the holidays.lostinrates wrote: »Until then....why not take a broad spectrum supplement. If nothing else you will feel like you are doing something
Thank you. I hope you are right. Only time will tell.lostinrates wrote: »You also need to take stock of jus how amazing you have been in recent years. Huge life changes, keeping things stable for two highly alert little people, neither of who miss a trick. You are bringing up two lovely, lovely children. Seems to me you do more than average right to have such result.
Thank you. Actually, although I will be missing the comfort of being in my own home, as you say, I will have instead the comfort of being looked after by my amazingly wonderful brother and sister-in-law, and won’t have to worry about cooking and sorting kids out and that type of thing. That freedom from domestic responsibility is a different sort of comfort, and possibly just what I will need when it comes to the point.I never even thought that it may be far away; so the comfort factor of being in your own home is gone.
Not sure if you will feel I know you well enough to send you cyberhugs, but if they’re welcome, then have some. I too have done losing everything I’d built up – not financially but in other respects – and I agree that starting again is agonising.I've had to sort of start again and that's really painful. I should be earning a lot more than I do which means I can't afford the stuff that makes working hard a bit easier.
Interesting that you feel that way. I don’t feel that you are an outsider at all; I think of you as “one of us” – one whom I would love to see around on the thread more often. And I don’t think you’re different from the rest of us, because we’re all different in lots of ways anyway, and I don’t perceive you as any more different than anyone else.lemonjelly wrote: »I do personally feel quite different from many of you. I appreciate part of that may be as a result from my enforced break. However I can also see your point, because a part of me sometimes feels s little more of an outsider than others in a way. But that could be more about me & my perceptions than you lot...Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
In this thread everyone brings interesting things to talk about so the more and the more diverse the better (within reason, I have tried to keep up with the Mr T glitching thread at times but it becomes a full time job in itself and is then a chore rather than a pleasure. SC if you are over there make sure they know that double nectar can be doen with multiple cards on one account and for each category up to £50 rather than £50 total)
That is the thread I said I was taking a break from, I could quote your post over there, but then it may have already been said. A quick thread search and they seem to know about doubling points with vouchers. Is that what you mean? Maybe you should post there and they could then field questions to you. You could even invite them over here - but limited in numbers please or I won't be able to keep up there or here.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
I still have mountains of junk in boxes and piles in most rooms in my house, and an extremely full garage. .
If it makes you feel any better Lydia, I still have an attic full of boxes that were packed in 1998.
And just last weekend finally got around to unpacking an entire room full of stuff that has been boxed up since we last moved back from overseas almost 9 years ago.
Around half of it went straight into other boxes and then down to the tip.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »If it makes you feel any better Lydia, I still have an attic full of boxes that were packed in 1998.
And just last weekend finally got around to unpacking an entire room full of stuff that has been boxed up since we last moved back from overseas almost 9 years ago.
Around half of it went straight into other boxes and then down to the tip.
Thanks Hamish. My sister-in-law and I filled two large packing boxes with rubbish and one with cardboard for the tip. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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