A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Lorcan said:
I've clearly been cursed. First I went to wipe down a bookcase so I could put Eily on top. Baby wipes are great for that, there's nothing in those that could possibly mark the fabric. I have a half used pack. Can I find it? Can I heck. Search everywhere, nope. Sigh. Find Dettol wipes and let it dry and then put Eily on the shelf.

Then I'm deciding what to work on next. What's on top of my pile of patterns? Baby wipes. Fml. Okay whatever.

Take forever to choose a pattern, settle on one, clear the coffee table for tracing. I need paperweights. I own none. Fine. I have a carved stone ashtray that'll work, and it's not been used recently so a quick wipe should do it. Uh, where'd the baby wipes go? Fiiiiiine. Dettol wipes again. Trace out first pattern piece. Take a quick cig break. Go back to trace the second piece.

Where tf did I put the pencil?!
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You're far too young for all these senior moments @Lorcan ! :crazy:
Seriously though, congrats on getting your referral, glad you didn't get lost in the system "oh well it's pandemic you see, working from home/pinged by the app/off sick/papers lost in the post (delete as appropriate)". Hope the rest of the process goes smoothly.
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
You're far too young for all these senior moments @Lorcan ! :crazy:
Seriously though, congrats on getting your referral, glad you didn't get lost in the system "oh well it's pandemic you see, working from home/pinged by the app/off sick/papers lost in the post (delete as appropriate)". Hope the rest of the process goes smoothly.
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It's weirding me out slightly because it took like...6 years? To actually get the hormone treatment. And then I got an appointment in December which I thought was going to centre around the hormone treatment, although it was with my psychiatrist with the service (not my actual psychiatrist and I think there's a few of them there) and not the endocrinologist.

And then they're like "Well we wanted to talk because the next step is to discuss surgery because you're on the pathway and if we can't continue on the pathway, that's when you get discharged." They'd asked for six months of me not doing...me...things, lol. Since I had the hospital admission in January, it was decided in May that if I could keep it going til August they'd do the review.

They're not doing in-person appointments at all at the minute, they said when the endocrinology appointment was sorted it'd be done via Teams too. I'd been using my social workers laptop for it but now I've switched to the cpn, so we did it at my home to avoid clashing with the clinical stuff where she's based. The data connections at my place can be iffy, so her laptop was connected via the data, with a backup data option in a spare slot somewhere, plus the wifi hotspot from her work phone. And if all else failed, there was always my wifi lol.
 
After my FND diagnosis the other day and due to the fact I haven’t been allowed to drive for the past two years and won’t be doing for the foreseeable future, I sold my beloved car this morning :( I’m gutted as I loved that car but it’s for the best as she was just sat there doing nothing until my husband drove it to work occasionally to keep her running
 
Husbands! We have to attend a work/customer event, now don't get me wrong this is a night out away from home, but it involves planning as we have children and dogs and the pigs.
"When is the event?"
"Middle of September I think"
"Ok, well I should probably try and book dogs into Kennels and we'll check about childcare"
"Yes sounds good, let me just check the email- oh"
"What's wrong?"
"Err actually it's next weekend"
Cue me now trying to get everything sorted because I go back to work on weds! 🤦‍♀️
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
Husbands! We have to attend a work/customer event, now don't get me wrong this is a night out away from home, but it involves planning as we have children and dogs and the pigs.
"When is the event?"
"Middle of September I think"
"Ok, well I should probably try and book dogs into Kennels and we'll check about childcare"
"Yes sounds good, let me just check the email- oh"
"What's wrong?"
"Err actually it's next weekend"
Cue me now trying to get everything sorted because I go back to work on weds! 🤦‍♀️
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I hope you manage to sort everything out in time. Why is everything always left to us women?!
 
Today has been an absolute disaster and I now spend my Friday night waiting for the Emergency Animal Hospital to call me back too see if I ..
1) still have a pet
2) find out how badly they are about to destroy my vet fund.
 
Claire W said:
I hope you manage to sort everything out in time. Why is everything always left to us women?!
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Lorcan said:
Because we're not the best at prioritising these things :bal:
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I think I have managed to sort it, one child going to a friends, the older one sort of staying at home to look after dogs but then going to friends to sleep, I'm not quite sure but I have to start letting him have some responsibility and he is 15. I'm just not trying to over think it! 🙄
 
Ewww. I think something (a rat?) has died in my cavity wall in my kitchen. So many flies appearing today. Took the kitchen kick board off and can smell something nasty. 🤢
 
weepweeps said:
Ewww. I think something (a rat?) has died in my cavity wall in my kitchen. So many flies appearing today. Took the kitchen kick board off and can smell something nasty. 🤢
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Oh nooo!
 
Lorcan said:
What is it about "I need to buy a paperweight" that leads to "well, I bought a glass spider"? I have to wonder about myself sometimes, I really do.
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What is a glass spider? All that keeps coming up on the internet is a David Bowie concert and I don't think that is what you got.
 
Lorcan said:
What is it about "I need to buy a paperweight" that leads to "well, I bought a glass spider"? I have to wonder about myself sometimes, I really do.
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I went through a phase of this too, I was very taken with a glass lobster paperweight once, then I also bought a glass octopus... a second glass octopus in a different colour... a big glass fish... several smaller glass fish... it got a bit compulsive, I have a box in the bottom of my wardrobe containing a whole ocean of glass sea creatures lol :)
 
RedLoredAmazon said:
What is a glass spider? All that keeps coming up on the internet is a David Bowie concert and I don't think that is what you got.
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It's this (fair warning for any arachnophobe, no, you don't want to click that link).

PigglePuggle said:
I went through a phase of this too, I was very taken with a glass lobster paperweight once, then I also bought a glass octopus... a second glass octopus in a different colour... a big glass fish... several smaller glass fish... it got a bit compulsive, I have a box in the bottom of my wardrobe containing a whole ocean of glass sea creatures lol :)
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I'm pretty sure Amazon went "Well if you're looking at paperweights, they're usually glass, what about these glass ornaments" and I just...couldn't help it >.> I usually go for wood or resin figurines, had a caterpillar tealight holder once. It's still going actually, my nan has it now and I saw it when I was in Dorset.
 
Lorcan said:
It's this (fair warning for any arachnophobe, no, you don't want to click that link).



I'm pretty sure Amazon went "Well if you're looking at paperweights, they're usually glass, what about these glass ornaments" and I just...couldn't help it >.> I usually go for wood or resin figurines, had a caterpillar tealight holder once. It's still going actually, my nan has it now and I saw it when I was in Dorset.
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Oh that's lovely... and so reasonably priced... I am tempted to buy one myself or better yet several...!
 
Those are much harder to scare myself with in the middle of the night, though.
 
Lorcan said:
It's this (fair warning for any arachnophobe, no, you don't want to click that link).



I'm pretty sure Amazon went "Well if you're looking at paperweights, they're usually glass, what about these glass ornaments" and I just...couldn't help it >.> I usually go for wood or resin figurines, had a caterpillar tealight holder once. It's still going actually, my nan has it now and I saw it when I was in Dorset.
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It is an actual glass spider! That is fantastic! I thought that it might be a word/phrase from the UK that I wasn't familiar with. Sorry David Bowie! I think spiders are great unless they are biting you while you are trying to sleep. I use to catch wolf spiders and jumping spiders when I was little. Worried my mom, but I loved bringing them to school. I lived in Florida at the time so we had tarantulas walking around. My sister is really scared of spiders no matter the size.
 
I am strongly right hand dominant. The only thing I generally do with my left hand - holding a cigarette. But for some reason, I can't use my right hand to strap my left (although my left is adept at strapping my right, because why not be contrary). Had to strap my left hand today and it took far more attempts than I care to admit to.
 
Lorcan said:
I am strongly right hand dominant. The only thing I generally do with my left hand - holding a cigarette. But for some reason, I can't use my right hand to strap my left (although my left is adept at strapping my right, because why not be contrary). Had to strap my left hand today and it took far more attempts than I care to admit to.
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Weird indeed. My daughter is left handed but throws with her right and plays tennis wii with her right. I don’t understand the logic 🤷🏾‍♀️
 
Siikibam said:
Weird indeed. My daughter is left handed but throws with her right and plays tennis wii with her right. I don’t understand the logic 🤷🏾‍♀️
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I was in hospital some years with a cast on my right wrist (unrelated to the hospital stay) and I needed to write down a phone number, so I asked one of the nurses if she could help me. She refused because she'd seen me use a lighter with my left hand and said, quote -"If you can use a lighter with your left hand you can use a pen with one." Like gee, thanks, but that's not how it works. My left hand gets to carry all the heavy stuff, my right hand the delicate stuff, and this is one I can't explain - I roll my own cigarettes, and I can't get the tobacco out of the pouch with my right hand. I can do it right handed if I'm giving someone some tobacco but my own cigarettes, it has to be the left hand or it takes 20 minutes to roll the stupid thing.

Also if I'm throwingl, it depends. If I'm just lightly throwing something like a rope knot or something, left hand is fine. If you want me to have the dog searching a field for a ball all day, overarm right throw it is.
 
Lorcan said:
I was in hospital some years with a cast on my right wrist (unrelated to the hospital stay) and I needed to write down a phone number, so I asked one of the nurses if she could help me. She refused because she'd seen me use a lighter with my left hand and said, quote -"If you can use a lighter with your left hand you can use a pen with one." Like gee, thanks, but that's not how it works. My left hand gets to carry all the heavy stuff, my right hand the delicate stuff, and this is one I can't explain - I roll my own cigarettes, and I can't get the tobacco out of the pouch with my right hand. I can do it right handed if I'm giving someone some tobacco but my own cigarettes, it has to be the left hand or it takes 20 minutes to roll the stupid thing.

Also if I'm throwingl, it depends. If I'm just lightly throwing something like a rope knot or something, left hand is fine. If you want me to have the dog searching a field for a ball all day, overarm right throw it is.
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That’s really interesting! So maybe your left hand is your dominant even though you’re right handed…
 
Siikibam said:
Weird indeed. My daughter is left handed but throws with her right and plays tennis wii with her right. I don’t understand the logic 🤷🏾‍♀️
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My OH is left handed but eats with his knife and fork as a right handed person does (fork left hand, knife right hand), Son No 3 is right handed and eats with his knife and fork as a left handed person does (fork right hand, knife left hand)!
 
Betsy said:
My OH is left handed but eats with his knife and fork as a right handed person does (fork left hand, knife right hand), Son No 3 is right handed and eats with his knife and fork as a left handed person does (fork right hand, knife left hand)!
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I’m right handed but use my cutlery the left handed way!
 
Went for a lovely 4 mile bike ride tonight along the old railway line. A couple of hours after we got home, I think I have a sore patch on my back. Ask OH to take a look and he said I have around 3 insect bite marks in about half an inch of skin. No wonder it's sore! I have no bite cream so have put some E45 cream on it just to sooth it a bit.
 
@Betsy anticeptic cream would be better thn E45 if you have any. I find Germaline takes the edge off itching. What a shame you got bit, I hope it hasn't spoilt your day too much.
 
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