Quit everything , and start again over 50?

wendym

It's worth a lot, Smodlet. Thank you.

Verbatim

I think AC must be sleeping better! If I'm on here before him I mean. Good.

gallygirl

wendym wrote: »

Hi again gang. I am just emerging from my own 'sabbatical ' - dentist, jaw, pred increase, haematology issues, generally feeling rubbish etc etc.

Aw rats

wendym wrote: »

First, please stop insinuating that 25th is close. It simply isn't allowed to be.

Not only that Wendy - but there's another one next year :eek:
:eek::eek:

dreaming

Verbatim wrote: »

I think AC must be sleeping better! If I'm on here before him I mean. Good.

Totally agree (with the good comment). Much as I enjoy hearing about AC's adventures in moving, and the good advice by others on here, I am sort of glad that he is not posting on here several times a day and in the middle of the night. Makes me feel that he is settling into his new life with much more confidence and positivity, and getting into some good habits with the gym and getting out and about.
Grey, foggy day here today and I am off shortly for the last couple of things I have to buy for Xmas. Large shopping delivery coming on Sunday (much of which is store cupboard stuff to see me through most of January) then just the "fresh" stuff to get next week. Need to do the marzipan for cakes this weekend, then ice them sometime next week (not Xmas eve as usual). Then I'm all done. Apologies to those not ready, I don't wish to sound smug - I have had plenty of years like that but found that it all somehow worked out in the end, and no-one ever said "I wish we had more.....(insert as appropriate), although I used to get myself in a tizz thinking I had to have every known cheese and cheese biscuit known to man "just in case".

Smodlet

Christmas is not compulsory... <Awaits fall-out>

wendym

One of my daughters announced in August that the one available date for a visit to collect birthday and Christmas presents would be 5th November. As I had collected things all year, like an idiot I wrapped them in October. That persuaded my brain that I had pretty much cracked it.

I am now ridiculously unprepared. Food planning includes a newly diagnosed lactose intolerant SIL, a fact and sense intolerant other SIL, a 12 year old granddaughter who is at this moment having major but cosmetic and postponable dental surgery (I could slap her mother) and some 4 star faddiness. All at intervals spanning ten days.

No tree, no decorations, no cake, no sense of urgency........Noel! But I am up to date with opening my Lego advent calendar.

Smodlet

I hope the purpose of your daughter's visit is primarily to see you, wendym, not just for material gain!

As for the rest of your brood, I'd tell them to bring their own :rotfl: Either that or point them in the direction of the nearest drive-through. The twelve-year-old wannabee Kardashian can have a milkshake. Sussed it! :D :beer:

wendym

The twelve year old is the only one who has my sympathy. The dental stuff is not her choice, poor thing. Her mother and an orthodontist ganged up on her. Nuts. Unkind nuts at that.

Smodlet

OMG, wendym, trust me to get it wrong. I am so sorry if I caused any offence. It never occurred to me that a parent could do that to a child, I assumed (!!!-u-me!) she must have instigated this... Words fail me, as does MSE's paranoid filter thingy.

dreaming

Back from shopping!
Oh Wendy, I do feel your pain as I have had guests whose dietary requirements put them on a par with Mariah Carey's alleged "rider list". I just tended to do a variety of meat and veg plus accompaniments and let them help themselves. I was amazed that our town centre wasn't heaving as it usually would be the week before Christmas. The decorations (both council and shop's own ones) are very restrained, and hardly a Christmas tune to be heard blasting out. Maybe it's post-Brexit (it gets the blame for everything else, I've noticed), or the fact that there aren't that many proper shops left (see earlier posts re nail bars/phone shops and pound shops). There was some little school-children singing carols in the centre, which always brings a tear to my eyes. They did look cute with their Christmas jumpers but I can't help feeling sorry for parents now with all the new "traditions" - Xmas jumper, pyjamas and dvd's for Xmas Eve, plus all the latest electronics for presents, plus shopping on Boxing Day - it might just about be paid off by July! Right, I'm off - I'm beginning to sound like my dad who only got a pair of socks with a tangerine and some nuts stuffed in the toe. No humbugs!