Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

onomatopoeia99

It makes sense to me. There was a lot of drama around my parents' 50th wedding anniversary a couple of years back and I got caught in the middle and really stressed about it. So I get your "arrrrrgh" comment!

Waves_and_Smiles

Thanks for being so kind everyone, I still feel very shaky but better and still extremely embarrassed.

In more cheerful news Milliefleur bought us a slow cooker for Christmas. We have no idea how to use one but I know there are lots of recipes in the Old Style forum. I am hoping it means I can cook a bit more as it's safer for me than hot pans and an oven, most food can be put into it cold and then WaSp can serve it. Not that I can eat right now because I am scared in case yesterday happens again but it should come in handy for the future.

calleyw

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Thanks for being so kind everyone, I still feel very shaky but better and still extremely embarrassed.

Massive hugs

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

In more cheerful news Milliefleur bought us a slow cooker for Christmas. We have no idea how to use one but I know there are lots of recipes in the Old Style forum. I am hoping it means I can cook a bit more as it's safer for me than hot pans and an oven, most food can be put into it cold and then WaSp can serve it.

You will love it. You bung in everything uncooked and turn it up to high and then later have a yummy meal. I drove action man mad twice in the last week by cooking gammon's in it. As the smell was so nice :rotfl:

Yours

Calley X

codemonkey

WaS, slow cookers are awesome. I use mine all the time. You can even make cakes in them, although I haven't tried that yet.

I've been thinking about the CV situation and I think that if I end up in the position I think I'm going to, then I can spin it as a short career break to experience systems in a different sector. I have to admit there's already a certain amount of fudging of dates on my CV, largely because I can't remember start and end dates, and there are jobs I don't include for brevity. Anyway, can everyone send heavy interview codemonkey vibes to the old place.

One more day until I have to go back to [STRIKE]hell[/STRIKE] work and I'm hoping for a meteor to hit the earth or the company to go bankrupt or something so I don't have to go there.

Have you decided whether to apply yet tea?

elsien

I think I may need to make more use of a slow cooker. I left a little gas ring on under a saucepan all night and only spotted it when I was making breakfast. Not sure how the bottom didn't burn through, but I've worried myself now that I forgot to turn the gas off yet again. Can't even blame it on stress either.

Many interview vibes coming your way code, any idea when you might hear something?
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tea_lover

Ooh I love my slow cooker - haven't actually used it lately (purely due to laziness), but it is great. I'll be using this as a reminder to drag it out of the cupboard and start using it again.

Code - I will be applying. It's an actual application form with questions though (haven't done of one of those for ages, am used to just sending my CV)... have done most of the form so just got to work out how to answer the important questions now. Am clearly not going to get any work done today so I may try and finish it here Am sending lots of good happy interview vibes your way x.

ETA: my boss is back in tomorrow and I'll have to confess that I haven't arranged the v scary overseas thing I should be doing the week after next. Am absolutely dreading that conversation.

onomatopoeia99

Vibes sent code.

I'm another that's guilty of leaving a cooker ring on sometimes, or missing the off button when I go to press it. With induction you can't see the ring is on, so I only realise when I wander out to the kitchen for something later in the evening and can smell burned dinner :rotfl:

What I should do is not place the saucepans back on the hob after cooking as it automatically turns off rings that have no pan on them. But I never remember to do that either

calleyw

Morning my Lovelies,

Hugs and squishes and handshakes all round.

I have come down with another cold. After not really shaking the last one :mad:

WaS here is penguin along similar lines to yours. most of the time when I laugh, cough, sneeze or get picked up in bear hug by action man I wet myself
Penguin end

I am only 44 and its been going on for a while, got the dr's monday and not sure what issue I should discuss that one. The fact that I feel run down and all my muscles ache and I feel a 104 :eek:

To all forgetting turning off hobs. Because of his stroke. I really hated husband using the gas cooker in case he wandered off. So got a microwave. And I am being serious. I use to when coming home from work, look towards where we lived to see if I could smoke:eek:

Washing up still on the draining board from monday so need to get rid of that. And just bits and pieces of tidying up to be done.

Could just go back to sleep the way I feel :rotfl:

Don't ask me my started to watch the fresh prince of bel air on netflix. Blast from the past or what

Onwards and upwards

Yours

Calley X

Pyxis

For hobs that you can't see are on, do the control knobs not have a little red light each, to show that that hobplate is on?


If not, you'd think that would be a good idea.
I'm sure electric hobs used to.


I've got a gas hob, and if it's on very low, you can't see or hear the flames under the saucepan, and once or twice I've left it on by mistake.
I even left it on once when there was no pan on it. The flames were so small, you could hardly see them in the bright light.

codemonkey

Hello Team WaS. House is officially deChristmas which is usually sad but I just feel relieved.

I could use some advice. I think I've mentioned my friend who married someone I introduced him to and they moved away and he's not allowed to talk to me.. Well, despite also being 'friends' with her, she doesn't bother with me anymore but I got a message (along with another couple of friends) from her before Christmas saying they were going to be in town and did we want to meet up. So we agreed and said we'd sort a date nearer the time. Only she didn't get back in touch. So today she sent a message proposing this afternoon (even though we'd all said we couldn't) or another day. I honestly don't want to - it feels like an afterthought, like we're the friends she drags out to show people at home what a great time she's having. It's not even like if we meet up anything will change, because once she's home, she'll go back to ignoring us again. Is it OK to say no?