OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

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Byatt wrote: »

I've just realised I'm not an authority on hen parties :rotfl:, having only ever been invited to one, which I didn't go to plus I didn't have one of my own! Not sure if it's a generation thing or I'm just weird

Mum2one, isn't it funny how we avoid the opposite side on the car when getting petrol...I've just started to do it, after realising I was waiting ages for a pump for the same side! It still stresses me though as I keep thinking it won't stretch! :eek:

Aye, I've never had a hen party of my own either, but I know I would make it a cheapy and only invite close friends :rotfl:, so it would be very small and intimate!

But I was thinking as I was driving into work (dangerous, I know! :rotfl:), that this is a true singlies event, isn't it, really? There'll be no one there with a partner or kids in tow, so from that perspective, could be quite pleasant.

On the petrol pump subject, I've never understood people queueing like this, the hose always stretches enough, sometimes, just enough ...BUT I always worry that the hose will stretch and then ping back imprisoning me in the middle.:rotfl:

8 more gettings up for work before my hols....starting to get excited now my beach towel has arrived :T

Horace

Had a lie in this morning. Did a little tidy up, had planned to go and do a bit in the garden but a) it started to rain and b) I don't want my neighbour coming out and chatting over the fence because I don't feel like being polite to her at the mo.

Cooked my steak for dinner, with some fresh tomatoes and a jacket spud and followed it with sliced banana and cream. Tonight's little snack will be alpine eggs which is essential 2oz cheese grated into a gratin dish with an egg broken on top with a sprinkling of cheese on top of that - pop in the oven til golden - it is lush.

I have never filled my car with petrol from the wrong side. I put hooks up and I do have a fancy cordless screwdriver with about 200 bits (it was a secret santa present only I think the presents got muddled, anyway I refused to part with the gift and it has been used a lot since then). Spending some time today, looking for work and filling in poxy forms (I hate it when they ask for my date of birth when these days it is not relevant when looking for work).

Might see if I can see my GP because these days I cba to do anything and wonder if my depression is returning?

LavenderBees

calicocat wrote: »

Lol, no, nothing to do with the dyslexia, a friend just mentioned the date...?, i'm assuming they have got it wring then. Odd....his wife is in pj's 24/7 when not at work so I figured he had date right and didn't check it out.....lazy mare....lol.



Edit... just google it and found it, it's obviously when the schools had a national pj day....cant post links on a phone, but if you put date in first and the pj day it comes up.....maybe the date changes every year then.

April 16th is the date that comes up most often - perhaps we Singlies could have a date of our own, preferably one that lands on a cold wet Sunday :rotfl:

LavenderBees

Horace wrote: »

Had a lie in this morning. Did a little tidy up, had planned to go and do a bit in the garden but a) it started to rain and b) I don't want my neighbour coming out and chatting over the fence because I don't feel like being polite to her at the mo.

Cooked my steak for dinner, with some fresh tomatoes and a jacket spud and followed it with sliced banana and cream. Tonight's little snack will be alpine eggs which is essential 2oz cheese grated into a gratin dish with an egg broken on top with a sprinkling of cheese on top of that - pop in the oven til golden - it is lush.

I have never filled my car with petrol from the wrong side. I put hooks up and I do have a fancy cordless screwdriver with about 200 bits (it was a secret santa present only I think the presents got muddled, anyway I refused to part with the gift and it has been used a lot since then). Spending some time today, looking for work and filling in poxy forms (I hate it when they ask for my date of birth when these days it is not relevant when looking for work).

Might see if I can see my GP because these days I cba to do anything and wonder if my depression is returning?

HI Horace! :j

A cordless screwdriver...get you! . I am very impressed :T

You know how you are feeling better than anyone so a chat with your GP may be a good idea, to try to get some help early. If you are struggling to find work, and potentially feeling isolated, then it's not surprising you are feeling low.

LB xx

Joanthebone

Hi, how nice to have found you! I have been single for a long time, newly retired, poor and waiting to move house ..... no stress here! (would like to put a horror-struck smiley here but can't find them!)


I too find 'going out' a bit too much of a 'faff' right now, and sometimes (well most of the time) I am completely happy with my own company ... and NOT doing the housework!!

calicocat

Morning!!.......

Hello to newbies now I am in the land of the living.....well kind of as haven't had a proper kip yet.

Re: pj day.......erm hello.......we need more than one, and I think they should be random and at will....as that is one of the treats us singlies have.

Re: flat pack furniture......lol......it's amazing isnt it the sense of achievement us girls get from completion isnt it . Not so long ago I got a male mate to stick doors on for me on a unit built....he was totally miffed when weeks later he came round and all the rest were done by yours truly and I didn't phone him to do it.....yay...........team calicocat rules....lol.

Re: hen parties, I have been to a few, only one was really good fun, and that was because a friend and I got sick of trailing the pubs and nicked off for an Indian meal on our own when it all got really stupid.

I haven't had a hen party myself, but have had a couple of engagement ones, one in a nightclub which eventually apparently got shut down by the police but I had left for an Indian meal again by that time with the fiances best mate as they were all annoying me, and another in a friends pub in Newcastle...that one was a good do, everyone had a fab time, but it was a brilliant mix of people that time.

Re: petrol pump.....for some odd reason I never trusted it would reach, and that I was going to look like some 'idiot female driver'..so avoided it for years....lol.

Marvellous......another one joining not too keen on lots of housework...(smiley face).


Today's news is had to get up for carpet being put down so haven't kipped enough yet....but it looks fab, funny carpet is totally fine..! Room now looks like part of house.

Asbo-cat loves a bit of chaos, so is going between sitting on old carpet in garden and doing a sit-in on the extra bit in lounge that i'm keeping to chop up as bits to put under her litter tray. It is making me think also whether to rethink which room I use as the one as generally a dressing room , and which as the main guest now. Will do the usual , and live with it a bit before I decide.

Yay....feels like house is coming together more now.

Now need to sort out all the junk that is in my room from the non-barbie room....it looks lovely...I keep going up and having another 'look' at it....lol.

Off to sort some more junk for a while whilst i'm still awake.


Oh...and a cordless screwdriver is on my 'want' list too...all DIY blokies seem to have one...and I wanna get tooled up.

BookWorm

Evening all

Just been catching up on the days posts and to answer some of the questions raised about the hen-do:

- I don't know the full make up of the group but mother of the bride and sisters all going. There is no future MIL. The rest I assume is made up of friends (and possibly other relatives).

- Details re: activities won't be decided until later on. I have to respond purely on attendance for the time being. Deadline is looming

- the hotel has also not been agreed so don't know more about type/facilities/etc

- hen is early 30's and likes to party .

Thanks for the various thoughts and comments so far. Much appreciated and certainly giving me some food for thought.

Re: the PJ day - that sounds much more like my kind of thing :T

Re: petrol pumps and the odd side... makes me wonder if you were all watching me this morning I did that very thing as all the other pumps were in use and I hate queuing if I don't have to

Re: flat pack stuff. Necessary evil but I would far rather have a man in the cupboard to deal with it :rotfl:

Last but not least - hi to the newbies too

Horace

I have been quite productive today, mooched on the internet for some jobs (now found some and have downloaded the application forms to complete tomorrow). I have done all the washing up and I baked two cakes - the first cake was a coffee & walnut cake but couldn't be bothered with the coffee butter cream and the second was something that I made up - I called it the golden jewel cake, please don't ask for the recipe because I have no idea what it is - it contains large lumps of dried apricot.

In the end I had jacket spud with baked beans and a lump of cheese - the baked beans needed eating. I even laid the table and sat there with the table cloth, a placemat, knife and fork but I did have the telly on.

Being skint and job hunting sucks but thanks to MSE I signed up with John Lewis (I rarely go shopping) so when I have a free all day bus ticket, I shall make sure I shall get as much use out of it as I can and will nip to John Lewis in Solihull where I know they have a coffee shop. As part of my membership I get some vouchers for a free standard hot drink and a cake - that will be my treat. I also have a voucher for a 2 for 1 meal at a local garden centre so I might persuade a friend to come with me and we will go halves on the cost of the one meal, that way we will both feel as though we have gotten something for very little.

Tomorrow I plan to go to Tai Chi (not been for a few weeks due to a nasty insect bite) - Tai Chi is free and I have missed going. Need to speak to the instructor anyway and make arrangements to shift the class from the park to a different location for 2 weeks whilst a music festival takes place in our park (they are using the car park and all the flat bits).

Jobs for tomorrow: Tai Chi, application forms, some housework, ring my parents.

LavenderBees

calicocat wrote: »

Morning!!.......


Re: pj day.......erm hello.......we need more than one, and I think they should be random and at will....as that is one of the treats us singlies have.

Oh...and a cordless screwdriver is on my 'want' list too...all DIY blokies seem to have one...and I wanna get tooled up.

Re PJ Day....OF COURSE, these are random and we all need plenty of them BUT I was thinking more of a Singlies Celebration of Slothdom kind of PJ day, where we can join together over t'net, and celebrate together the fact that, as Singlies, we can just vege out together in our PJs.. with no one to answer to other than ourselves. All housework banned. Only eating treats with feet up allowed. Anyone with me on this one?? I think November 23rd is looking like it will be a wet cold Sunday ... :rotfl:

And as for the cordless screw driver, please buy one, master the use of it, and then come and do my wee jobs :T. Who needs a man in the cupboard when you have a tooled up Calicocat?? :rotfl:

Welcome other newbies

LB xx

LavenderBees

BookWorm wrote: »

Evening all

Just been catching up on the days posts and to answer some of the questions raised about the hen-do:

- I don't know the full make up of the group but mother of the bride and sisters all going. There is no future MIL. The rest I assume is made up of friends (and possibly other relatives).

- Details re: activities won't be decided until later on. I have to respond purely on attendance for the time being. Deadline is looming

- the hotel has also not been agreed so don't know more about type/facilities/etc

- hen is early 30's and likes to party .

Thanks for the various thoughts and comments so far. Much appreciated and certainly giving me some food for thought.

Re: the PJ day - that sounds much more like my kind of thing :T

Re: petrol pumps and the odd side... makes me wonder if you were all watching me this morning I did that very thing as all the other pumps were in use and I hate queuing if I don't have to

Re: flat pack stuff. Necessary evil but I would far rather have a man in the cupboard to deal with it :rotfl:

Last but not least - hi to the newbies too

My final thought on this hen weekend is that I wouldn't spend or commit to spending such a lot of money on something that very little is known about. That's like buying something blindfold.

Why not have a chat with the hen and ask her for the sorts of info we've been discussing that she probably has some idea of, but doesn't want to commit to until she knows numbers? Does that sentence make any kind of sense at all? :rotfl: Sorry, very tired now.

Sleep well, All

LB xx