Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

hypno06

Bob, I could have written each and every one of your "snoring" posts! My OH has had the uvula cut away too - it worked for about.....urm......10 mins :rolleyes: You name it, we have tried it, been tested for it, wired up for it.

The sofa is our current method of sleep preservation too.......crap, but at least we get some sleep!

GettingThingsDone

Morning all!

KC - I didn't commit to burn notice just in case it was rubbish; if you think it's good, I'll add it to my 'box-set wish-list'...

re: Snoring - I only know about sleep apnoea, so fat lot of use I am to you lot ho hum...

GTD - I read it a couple of times before it all really sunk in

boredofbeingathome

Keeping_Positive wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the lack of sleep BOB long term it must really drag you down. It may sound cruel but why do you get the couch? I would share that so at least you get a proper bed for a few nights. That with some earplugs might help.

Well some of it is to do with the fact that he konks out on the couch early on in the evening. Usually set my clock for 9pm, so he staggers upstairs and he is shattered especially as he has a couple of other health issues at the moment.
Last night i did boot him down on the couch as i couldn't sleep and after coming in here again i thought nope he can get up and go on couch. Had to laugh this morning as i was up at 8am and he was straight back in bed..:rotfl:

hypno wrote:

Bob, I could have written each and every one of your "snoring" posts! My OH has had the uvula cut away too - it worked for about.....urm......10 mins You name it, we have tried it, been tested for it, wired up for it.

The sofa is our current method of sleep preservation too.......crap, but at least we get some sleep

I thought i was the only one driven mad by it. I have to say it has brought me down a bit, but after even a couple of hours last night i have energy. We have a sofa bed downstairs and not a very comfy mattress so i tend to kip on the four seater couch..trouble is it sinks back a bit and i roll into the corner.
He does feel very guilty about it all and to be truthful has affected him just as much and he misses my dulcet snoring too:rotfl:
Thanks for giving me the technical term, couldn't think of the word uvulva the other night.:o

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

PS - just earned a really easy peasy 400 points from lightspeed - they offered me a product survey of some wipes, and the 400 points were for my feedback on the wipes, which genuinely were very nice. Happy little karmacat....

Oh, and my VC freebie is on its way home, after playing about with Spanish football last night.

Thats all, really. I've been playing about more with genealogy at the mo, just doing free searches online. When I think how hard it used to be to get information, and now you can press a button (well, about 30 buttons actually) and either the information is right there or, like at The National Archives, you can order it ahead to be waiting for you when you arrive. Its astonishing.

A distant cousin has just solved a query we've been puzzling over for years. What was the connection with a rich British woman living in the south of France? Answer: she was my great grandmother's cousin. From penniless Irish immigrant just after the Famine to millionaire lady with homes in Jersey and France in two generations. Not bad. Oh my god, I've just realised - finally, a role model in my family! She did it by marriage, sure, but how else was a poor Irish girl going to do it in those days! And she married a millionaire who just happened to support an anarchist newspaper! Good for Annie.

If only we could all find wealthy chaps. I blame the canal for not being able to get the yachts up it..those bloomin locks:rotfl: :rotfl:

Karmacat

Yep, I'd like a wealthy chap please! An anarchist millionaire would hit the spot quite nicely!

The partner-snoring sounds awful for you guys ... so there is *one* advantage in being a singleton mind you, every now and then I realise I've woken *myself* up.... :o:o

GTD - Burn Notice. I'm a sweet, loveable counsellor and my brother in law is an ex-army captain now in the higher echelons of supermarket management :eek: and we both like Burn Notice. This is the website - Lesser Evil is the S2 finale.

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/theshow/episodeguide/episodes/s2_lesserevil/#

GettingThingsDone

Hey KC - You've just reminded me that I need to do a spot of genealogy. Can you give me some pointers for some free searches?

Thanks for the link - it has been added to my list of 'things to watch one day'

BOB - it's uvula, not uvulva (ahem )

hypno06

GettingThingsDone wrote: »

BOB - it's uvula, not uvulva (ahem )

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

One track mind, that woman :rotfl:

Karmacat

Right - series of genealogy links coming up in a mo ... and lol to uvulva .... :eek:

Karmacat

GTD, these are a few of the biggies:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Its so big its quite difficult to get around, but once you've got the hang of it, its fantastic.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Exactly what it says on the tin - free births, marriages and deaths. Not comprehensive, but to make a start, its brill.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

Ahem, this is another thats so big its kind of difficult to get to grips with, but its worth it.

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

This is a pay site that has lots of fortnight's free trial offers - brill.

There's always weird or one-off stuff - I was at https://www.9thkings.co.uk last weekend, a private site for the battalion my great grandfather was in during the First World War.

There's loads and loads of things you can do - the first thing, tho, is to talk to relatives older than you, or even your age with a different experience of the family. The French connection we have, for example - my mum only knew of it because poor as they were, she and her sister had lacy dresses when they were toddlers, and I've seen them in photographs. Now we've proved it with marriage/divorce/birth certs. etc, but it was legend at first. I'm very lucky - I started this in my very early teens, and the generation I talked to then would now be over 100 years old. They lived so differently from us, even from me (I was born in the year rationing ended, my mum tells me!). In 500 years, your descendants born on Mars and coming to visit the Home Planet will thank you!

boredofbeingathome

gettingthingsdone wrote:

BOB - it's uvula, not uvulva (ahem )

:eek: :rotfl:

hypnoo6 wrote:

One track mind, that woman

Yep indeede...:rotfl:

Sorry folks i suffer from vowel overusage, amongst other things..:rotfl: :rotfl:

Hears mutters of verbal dia......................and i suffer from that too.:D :rotfl: