Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Masomnia

I'm guessing the GCSE Chemistry option of just making up the figures isn't available to you?

Yorkie1

Generali wrote: »

The pain seems to have hit a plateau at a point where it's quite annoying but quite bearable too.

I'm really trying to get some fitness back and that's yielding some great results. I'm down to sleeping 8.5 hours a night now and I can run for the train without needing to have a nap at work.

Getting there.

I really love my new hat.

:j Good news

Masomnia wrote: »

Had a bit of a cold the past few days but starting to feel better. Still a bit head achey, and not much appetite.

Applied for the dream graduate job yesterday

Hope you feel better soon - really well done to get through the test if feeling under the weather. :beer:

chewmylegoff wrote: »

A small baby (or more accurately babies) bump has appeared

:T

Doozergirl

Poor Nikkster. I hope you get it sorted soon.

Nikkster

Masomnia wrote: »

I'm guessing the GCSE Chemistry option of just making up the figures isn't available to you?

Nope. I'd copied the spreadsheet and forgotten to update the experiment number. No-one to blame but myself.

Grrr.

Making up the figures would be a whole lot easier than this nonsense!

Yorkie1

Nikkster wrote: »

If/ when it happens and you need a little extra help around the place (at weekends, most realistically), please let me know. I charge a very reasonable hourly rate and can provide references.

And my own marmite.



Edit: and I'll even give cleaning concrete floors a go - I don't mind about lack of satisfaction :cool:

What a fab offer to make :T

Nikkster wrote: »

I need one that says the opposite 'No buns, just pies'

So do I, after going on one of those machines which does your weight / blood pressure / body fat content

Not too much that surprised me, except for the fairly high b/p which is unusual for me. Grr.

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

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To put rough in context, nothing like a couple of years ago. Just.....not like through summer has been. I have a pain that I thought yesterday was appendicitis but it went a way and I think its just one of those things, or a nerve twanging, nothing else feels weird, and it went away all of yesterday and today but came back this afternoon. I have cranky GOOD foot, and intermittent hearing in right ear, nothing crippling, just annoying. I also need to clean my kitchen, but when you feel so tired that feeding the dogs saps your energy, walking them still takes priority over kitchen cleaning.

I'm going to try a shower after bake off, and see if a more fragrant lir cannot sleep it all off and feel fighting fit tomorrow

Oh LiR, I'm so sorry you are having these problems. Big hugs from Liverpool. :grouphug: I see you're talking about a sleep - maybe that is what you need, and hopefully feel better tomorrow. Vibes coming your way anyway. I know we don't always see eye to eye :rotfl: , but I care about you very much, hope you know that, I regard you as a good friend.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Finally, a new issue. Its not yet clear if my op /s will be funded by NHs. Insurers certainly will not be funding it. So its likely or possible we're going to have some financial outlay over next few years we had not really expected, because this surgery ( other than the ...um, forgotten word....tube thingy, which was expected and will be funded) was not planned, expected by anyone.....you don't plan experimental surgery like this I guess.

So if we get go ahead we still might need to pay for it privately ourselves. We can do it fir is certain, but it will mean no jam on our bread for a while

This makes sense and is a good reason for being careful what you spend.

lostinrates wrote: »

I am here all day and i should be able to manage it. Its normally within capability.

Its certainly money well spent in a busy household, here, I'm not so busy. If I were I'd consider it.

This, I'm afraid, makes no sense at all. It would be entirely reasonable if you were fit, but you're not. You have significant limitations on your resources of energy and physical ability to see, move without pain, stay awake, etc.

Yes, I get it that you have many weeks when you are perfectly capable of managing. But what about the weeks when you can't manage? And anyway, if you do have a good week, you're still not brimming over with the kind of "energy all day every day" that you had before you got ill. You can only achieve a limited amount - why would you want to waste part of that limited allocation on cleaning??? Overdoing things can make your health get worse. Cleaning your kitchen yourself just isn't worth that.

You have all manner of special skills and abilities - with animals and in other ways - and surely the best thing for you to do, if the operation funding weren't in question, would be to invest the energy that you do have in doing those things, which only you can do, and bless somebody else by giving them gainful employment cleaning for you.

lostinrates wrote: »

Its just not fair to ask some one to clean concrete floors etc. its not easy, and its unsatisfying.

So the job is too hard for an able bodied person to do, therefore the person with the health problems ought to do it??? If the surgery funding gets sorted and you can afford a cleaner, then don't let the type of floor stand in your way. Pay 'em extra to make up for the lack of satisfaction, or bung down some cheap lino in a hurry just to make the room more cleanable in the interim until you can get it done how you want it, or buy a special cleaning machine for them to use that'll make it easier, or, or, or ... there are all sorts of possibilities.

lostinrates wrote: »

jUST, as the content of the house became sort of decent non RP starts arriving with stuff to keep here.....stuff like linens cannot go on the barn and is the hardest to store as we really have not so much upstairs space yet.

I have a cleaner despite living in a house with a pathological hoarder. DD currently has three rooms (2 upstairs and 1 downstairs) so crammed with stuff that I wouldn't expect a cleaner to get in there and clean them, and DS doesn't like the cleaner in his room so she doesn't do in there. It doesn't matter. She does the bits we want her to do, and doesn't venture into rooms whose doors we have left shut. Frankly, if she did nothing but the kitchen and bathrooms, she'd still be worth it, although actually I love it that she does the conservatory, living room, dining room and my bedroom too.

OK, I'm going to stop ranting now. I'm sorry if I've said too much. The thing is, lir, that I care about you. I want you to stay as healthy as possible. I want you to continue to be able to walk your dogs and look after your other animals, cook amazing food and be a delight to fir. I want you to continue to be able to see, and to stay awake for a decent amount of the day, and to have fun and enjoy life. So I get upset when I think you are unnecessarily putting your body through tough stuff that might make it harder for you to get better. I absolutely respect your right to make your own decisions even if I don't like them - I am just expressing what I think. And if you do end up paying for the operation privately, then the money will answer the question anyway.

Nikkster wrote: »

Right.
I need to sort at least one results Figure tonight. No bed before it's done.

Well done for setting the deadline and well done for sticking to it. :T

Nikkster wrote: »

Nope. I'd copied the spreadsheet and forgotten to update the experiment number. No-one to blame but myself.

Grrr.

Making up the figures would be a whole lot easier than this nonsense!

Yay! One problem sorted. That's one fewer left to deal with.
Go Nikkster! :j

silvercar

Anyone have a friend who does "the right thing" to such an extent that you feel totally put to shame. Always.

Nikkster

I've given up for the evening. Have a plan for getting round my little problem tomorrow. Early start as I'm treating myself to a day of annual leave. Oh yes, in the office. Giving a colleague (soon to be lodger...) a lift in, but they need to be in for an early meeting, which is good as a lie in is therefore not an option.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

Update - needed to work out which experiment some data had come from. Couldn't find it. :mad:

Figured I could just go to bed now and deal with it in the morning

Reminded myself that wasn't an option.

Think I've found the spreadsheet I used to make the graph...

Oh Nikks. So sorry. Please be careful not to work too late as mistakes creep in with tiredness. Sometimes sleep is the best option. It's what I'm trying to do but I've only just finished work for the day, hence talking on here, I can't switch from working and mentally alert to sleeping, just like that. Still, I've got Piers Morgan's latest autobiography by my bedside, that normally does the trick.