Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Indie_Kid

jobbingmusician wrote: »

WaS - you can get lactose free milk! We use it all the time in our house cos we believe it is especially good for the 5:2 diet (no milk sugars if you are naughty enough to have milk in your drink on a fast day ) So you could make yourself 'safe' milkshakes I think

PS And well done for having your tests with no problems! ((()))xxx~~~

Milkshake made with goats milk is quite nice too.

Waves_and_Smiles

That's a thought, Indie! I admit that I have never tried goats milk or cheese in my life but I think it's time to do so. She also suggested almond and rice milk but they cost a fortune! Most of the reactions were based around a specific protein, at least gluten was fine!

calleyw

Flybaby wrote: »

We had an idea many moons ago, about a ladies "handyman" service - since my mum and I can do practically anything ( single mum family - you soon learn!) and we were going to joked about having a company called "Rip it and Drip it" which catered to other single women to do things like decorating, gardening, building, car maintenance, shelves, curtains, plumbing things etc etc, charging a reasonable price and more to the point, if the customers wanted it, teaching them as we went so they wouldn;t need to send money on getting people in going forward. I still really like that idea.

Go for it. You would have a good few weeks of work at my house :rotfl:

I am not stupid but I do think sometimes because I am blonde, big boobs and ar5e that some men seem to think I am as dumb as a bag of a spanners.

I can check oil and water in the car and put air in my tyres. And even top up the oil and water and if needed change a tyre. And even change a couple of filters. And put fuel in my car. One of my neighbours gets her husband to do it :eek:

My ex would not even lend me a drill as he said if I hurt myself using it he would feel responsible :rotfl:what a plank.

I am telling you be it male or female, a reliable, reasonable priced handy person is like a gold dust. And you would always have work.

Yours

Calley

Pyxis

Flybaby, would your DH's firm consider him having a sabbatical, even if only a short one, say 3months?

If not, could you have a nice long holiday to a far-flung place, say 3 or 4 weeks?

Not the same, I know, but might let you feel more fulfilled. Especially if you could do that every year.


The Rip and Drip firm sounds brilliant! Right up your street! I've been admiring your skills for ages!
In fact, with that possible career in mind, have you thought about getting qualified in electrics and gas, then you could do anything!

whitewing

Rip it and Drip it could probably get enough work from the folks on this thread to be busy for the next twenty years.

Medical research small penguin: I hadn't thought about post mortems

codemonkey

Back from holibops and feeling rather flat now - been looking forward to this trip and now it's over. The only thing I have left to look forward to us cleaning my house and a mountain of laundry and I hate cleaning! (Also DH wants us to wait til his mum is done with work before we get DA dog).

Also, Pyxis, I failed. At no time did it seem appropriate to say 'I am not a turtle'. In fact, I barely used any Portuguese as the locals took one look at our skin colour and spoke English to us straight away, so it felt too clumsy to launch into my stilted, broken, Brazilian Portuguese. I did manage a few words and sentences here and there but I hate how shy I get attempting to speak another language.

Medical research penguin

I am a blood donor (when they allow it) and on the organ donation register. DH is neither and doesn't want his organs used, whereas I think they can take all they can salvage from me to save others - I'll be dead so it's not like I'm going to use them. If DH is ever in the position that I need to switch him off, then I will respect his wishes (I hope) rather than doing what I think is right because it is/was his body. I hope if that situation was reversed, then DH would do the same for me.

onomatopoeia99

Flybaby wrote: »

Thanks birdie - yes, am considering that as I am quite crafty and handy. We had an idea many moons ago, about a ladies "handyman" service - since my mum and I can do practically anything ( single mum family - you soon learn!) and we were going to joked about having a company called "Rip it and Drip it" which catered to other single women to do things like decorating, gardening, building, car maintenance, shelves, curtains, plumbing things etc etc, charging a reasonable price and more to the point, if the customers wanted it, teaching them as we went so they wouldn;t need to send money on getting people in going forward. I still really like that idea.

Plenty of men that would benefit from that as well! The inability to operate a spanner / paintbrush / drill / etc, correctly is not confined to the female of the species in my experience, I've seen plenty of men completely make a hash of basic DIY / car maintenance tasks too.

I do too sometimes, ended up hacking off a load of tiles I installed in my kitchen a few weeks ago as I realised the following day I'd cut them all wrong

Gingernutty

I have been triaged.

After a long conversation, it's been decided that I need high intensity one to one therapy which would last about 12 weeks.

The waiting list is 6 to 8 months.

I got to the top of the high intensity list before and was offered a place, but my then line manager (PENGUIN who is known by her many former minions as B!tchface) refused me the time off to go so I had to decline.

Now, I can go, but have to start at the bottom of the waiting list again.

There is a high intensity group therapy 'thing' which I can attend without affecting my place on the waiting list.

I'll receive a call about that within the next week.

whitewing

Codemonkey:
Also, Pyxis, I failed. At no time did it seem appropriate to say 'I am not a turtle'. In fact, I barely used any Portuguese as the locals took one look at our skin colour and spoke English to us straight away, so it felt too clumsy to launch into my stilted, broken, Brazilian Portuguese. I did manage a few words and sentences here and there but I hate how shy I get attempting to speak another language.

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And that is why I love this thread. Because we don't all have to be wonderful all the time. We only have to be human. And sometimes, being human, we can't manage to do everything.

Hooray for tiny failures!

Gingernutty

Indie_Kid wrote: »

Milkshake made with goats milk is quite nice too.

Don't get your hopes up WAS, virtually all milks contain lactose including human milk. The only difference is the proportion of lactose in the milk.