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Yoghurt_Queen

mhoc wrote: »

I've just had a good long old fashioned sob and a weep and a howl at the general misery and unfairness of life - if anyone wants to join me then put the kids and the dog in the garden first so you don't upset them as well.

Its the things that are out of your hands that you have no control over that really get to you.

Firstly my OH rang to say eldest childs presentation went OK. She's applied for an internal post, sent off her shiny new CV, her refs are OK and she was just expecting a date for an interview but 2 days ago she got a message that they wanted a Presentation from her so she worked 12 hours yesterday to get it ready for this morning. This has gone fine but she still has 2 more stages to go through so its still not a dead cert.

Then youngest child rang to say he is working this weekend so he wont be home, maybe next week but we could have done with a proper catch up. We've not spoken to him properly for nearly 2 weeks so I had to resort to sending him a letter yesterday or by the time we do see him again I'll have forgotten everything I want to say!

Then the post came with a letter from my Aunty Eilly asking for my Dads address again. I'd not replied to the letter she sent three weeks ago because I was hoping to have better news for them about my Dad but there is no improvement so I just have to grit my teeth and write the letter. Ive just got the piece of paper out with three phone numbers on, Ellys and my cousins 2 numbers but Ive decided not to ring them or it would worry them. I don't even know if the mobile number is the current one.

But worst of all a brown envelope came. My eldest son is out on tour in a month or two time and they send a letter to the familes with the name of the tour and details of the contact and numbers etc and a booklet with lovely smiley faces, uniforms and families and babies etc on the cover entitled

"A guide for the families of deployed Regular Army Personnel"

Twice I've got it out of the envelope now and put it away, cant even open the booklet.

Eldest son drives me completely demented but even so it rips me to shreds that he is going out to that place for 6 months, no leave and he probally wont even think to contact us more than the absolute bare minimum.

So I am going to go and get myself ready and have a stroll around the supermarkets and tackle some of my numerous APG/TPP/couponing/glitch/cashback
lists and then come back, clean the kitchen, make a banana loaf, do some competitions and generally keep frantically busy so I don't have to think or worry or dwell on things about the kids or my Dad or anything ...

Thank you so much for posting this. Sometimes, it helps to read of other's problems, to put your own life in perspective. I've been in tears all morning. I'm at a stage where I feel I'm losing the will to live.

I do hope that you can get yourself out of this rut/nightmare you are in and remember, we are here. There are other forums, where people don't care. But we do.

Yoghurt_Queen

Yoghurt_Queen wrote: »

Thank you so much for posting this. Sometimes, it helps to read of other's problems, to put your own life in perspective. I've been in tears all morning. I'm at a stage where I feel I'm losing the will to live.

I do hope that you can get yourself out of this rut/nightmare you are in and remember, we are here. There are other forums, where people don't care. But we do.

Also want to add. Who am I to comment? I don't have a son in the armed forces. There is no way I could even begin to console you. But know this. Everything will turn out, the way its meant to be. You will have to be strong. Keep moving forward, and put one step in front of the next. We're rooting for you, and all of those who have loved ones involved in these stupid, unnecessary wars.

tweets

:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: Guess who done level 181 :j:j:j:j:j:j:j

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Morning proud owner of a vax steamer cleaner

rudeboy71

tweets wrote: »

:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: Guess who done level 181 :j:j:j:j:j:j:j

WELL DONE TO YOU !!!!\
:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

neosi

tweets wrote: »

:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: Guess who done level 181 :j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Well done :T:T:T

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Sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two
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Chrisv

I struggle to express in words what I want to say, but I truly believe this

Yoghurt_Queen wrote: »

But know this. Everything will turn out, the way its meant to be. You will have to be strong. Keep moving forward, and put one step in front of the next.

Thinking of you both, Yoghurt Queen :A and mhoc :A

Yoghurt_Queen

Chrisv wrote: »

I struggle to express in words what I want to say, but I truly believe this

Thinking of you both, Yoghurt Queen :A and mhoc :A

Without wanting to take over the thread with Off topic conversation, I just miss my mum. Its been three years. I sometimes want/need to pick up the phone to hear her voice, and knowing I can't, just destroys me. I'm missing my mother so much today. Don't know where this came from. Its out of the blue. It feels like the first day. The day I heard she was gone.

dipdap

Sendin huge hugs to mhoc and yogurt queen (and anybody else who needs or wants one)
There's so many different people post on here when theyre down yet no matter how different the stories the elite always listen and offer support.
Some posts seem trivial compared to others but all it can take is a few listening ears on the other end of a keyboard to really make someone feel even the teeniest bit better.
I've felt down before and even though nobody replied to me there was a multitude of people clicked on the thanx button which meant I knew people had read what I wrote and that was comforting enough to me to make my mood lift just that little bit to make my day better

Sorry for rambling

rudeboy71