What a bad day.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Dec 2005, 15:27

I have gout in both of my big toes.

My car has gone into Arthur Harris intensive care unit, bleeding profusely.

My wife has made an unbelieveably stupid mistake (and not the 23 years ago one

)

The school have been on the phone looking for my youngest, as she has duped us into thinking its an exam leave day. She has decided to take the day off to warm up for Oasis tonight.

and..

A meeting I had been looking forward to for a month has been postponed indefinetly.

The only saving grace is PoP and I are just back from town with our rather spiffing hats for the office xmas do. Small things can make a big difference.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 15 Dec 2005, 16:33

You think you've had a bad day? What about my week?

Thursday - work finally starts on our flood-beleaguered kitchen, only for another leak to be found, delaying work further.

Friday - I drop my iPod on the floor at Dublin airport - since then it has lost its battery charge every 2 hours.

Sunday - Mrs Priest, Baby Priest and I return from a walk on the prom to find that we only have my set of keys, which is minus the keys we gave to the workmen on thursday. We are saved by MICA Woodwares, who sell me the tools to break into our flat, and then sell me a lock to replace the previous one.

Monday - We discover a large dent in the driver's side door of our car, into which somebody has kindly crashed into when it was parked, and driven off without leaving any note of guilt/insurance details etc. Thanks! Not!

Tuesday - I return home to find that I have not put my new keys onto the keyfob. Luckily, I am rescued by a passing Bearcub. Thanks BC!

Wednesday a.m. - On cycling over the crossroads at the Meadowbank end of Regents Road, I start to feel every groove and contour of the road beneath my ass. Yes - the back wheel has a puncture, and I have to drag my reluctant bicycle for 40 minutes until I arrive at work.

Wednesday p.m. - While babysitting and therefore housebound, I discover that we have virtually no food in the house. I reach for the phone to call Cinnamon Indian Takeaway to request their marvellous delivery service, but I replace the handset before I have made the order, the prospective scorn from Mr Bob Jefferson ringing in my ears. I eat dry bread instead, tears streaming silently down my face.

Today - Nothing bad has happened. Yet.

Porty, I fully sympathise with your plight. Especially the gout. You will have to keep off the christmas pudding and port this yuletide season.

JP.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Dec 2005, 16:41

Wow, JP get to bed and stay there. That's if you have your keys of course.

Surely things can only get better.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 16:46

I would just like to announce that my sister had a baby last night in Simpsons and that mother and baby are doing well.

Good things happen too.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Dec 2005, 16:48

Fantastic bet you are delighted and neodadaist also. She is now someones big cousin.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 16:57

Porty wrote:Fantastic bet you are delighted and neodadaist also. She is now someones big cousin.

The lovely thing is that she already is a cousin - a little one - neoneice mk 2 is my exisiting neice's new baby sister.

Which means that I will be cooking Xmas dinner for 6 girls and 1 boy :

mother
sister
neice 1
neice 2 (although she has said she just wants some milk)
wife
daughter
brother-in-law

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 15 Dec 2005, 17:07

Well I have had a very nice day. Final day of rehearsing for our little nativity and concert tomorrow, followed by a visit from the Primary 3's who performed their nativity show for us. It was very entertaining and an excellent performance from PoP junior who looked very fetching in his kilt.
A few tears in the eyes.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 17:11

teddygirl wrote:Well I have had a very nice day. Final day of rehearsing for our little nativity and concert tomorrow, followed by a visit from the Primary 3's who performed their nativity show for us. It was very entertaining and an excellent performance from PoP junior who looked very fetching in his kilt.
A few tears in the eyes.

I must say that I have spent my entire life blissfully unaware of what parents must feel at these events. And now I know that when it's my little button up there on the stage, I shall blubber like a big kid.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Dec 2005, 17:29

Dadaist wrote: I must say that I have spent my entire life blissfully unaware of what parents must feel at these events. And now I know that when it's my little button up there on the stage, I shall blubber like a big kid.

Wait til you try one of the renknowned violin concerts that take place in the porty catchment area. Wait til you try 12, six year olds each playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star followed by all 12 playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star together. This parent could barely contain the desire to burst out laughing and only managed to do so by squirming intensely.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 17:32

Porty wrote:
Dadaist wrote: I must say that I have spent my entire life blissfully unaware of what parents must feel at these events. And now I know that when it's my little button up there on the stage, I shall blubber like a big kid.
Wait til you try one of the renknowned violin concerts that take place in the porty catchment area. Wait til you try 12, six year olds each playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star followed by all 12 playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star together. This parent could barely contain the desire to burst out laughing and only managed to do so by squirming intensely.

Looks like I will be spending a proportion of the future in tears of one sort or another then!!!

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 15 Dec 2005, 17:44

One of my little buttons started playing the viola in primary four and we have been faithfully attending concerts every year ever since and he is in his fourth year at Uni now

Will it ever end

Most touching moment was when he sang solo in first year at PHS Christmas concert. Still get a lump in my throat just thinking about it. Don't tell him that though.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 15 Dec 2005, 18:24

Porty wrote:Wow, JP get to bed and stay there.

I intend to take your advice.

Dadaist, congrats on the new niece. And good luck for christmas day!

JP

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 15 Dec 2005, 18:34

Some lucky white heather for JP and Porty

Oh and congrats Uncle Dada

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 15 Dec 2005, 21:40

Jackson Priest wrote: I reach for the phone to call Cinnamon Indian Takeaway to request their marvellous delivery service, but I replace the handset before I have made the order, the prospective scorn from Mr Bob Jefferson ringing in my ears. I eat dry bread instead, tears streaming silently down my face.

Shame on you Bob

CatzVP · Post by **CatzVP** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:51

Well im about to drive through a bad snowstorm for five hours to get home, hoping to get home for 10.30 tonight!!

wish me luck!

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 15 Dec 2005, 23:11

foxy wrote:Some lucky white heather for JP and Porty

You're not one of those ladies who keeps accosting people in the street to buy a sprig of white heather are you!

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 16 Dec 2005, 11:49

CatzVP wrote:Well im about to drive through a bad snowstorm for five hours to get home, hoping to get home for 10.30 tonight!!

wish me luck!

Hope you made it back safely Catz...we had a couple of flakes a few weeks ago and that was enough for me

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 16 Dec 2005, 13:02

Hope everyone is having a good day today!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 16 Dec 2005, 14:26

Sorry to disappoint, Sandra but my grandmother just died - at about 11.30. She was 93, but still - not a good Christmas present. And just when I was hoping this christmas would be a lot calmer and nicer than the last one.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 16 Dec 2005, 14:37

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that Bellybabe. These things aren't easy, no matter what age.

It puts our whinging witterings into perspective.

Take care,

Patrick

Mimpty · Post by **Mimpty** » 16 Dec 2005, 14:37

Sorry to hear that Bellybabe. That's so sad and a rotten time of year for it to happen too.

nads · Post by **nads** » 16 Dec 2005, 15:17

sorry to hear that my Grandma died last year at this time aged 96 Christmas wont be the same without her.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Dec 2005, 22:30

Bellybabe wrote:Sorry to disappoint, Sandra but my grandmother just died - at about 11.30. She was 93, but still - not a good Christmas present. And just when I was hoping this christmas would be a lot calmer and nicer than the last one.

Condolences, Bellybabe.
I remember you telling us about your poor father in law taking ill last Xmas.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 16 Dec 2005, 23:15

Sorry to hear about your gran

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 17 Dec 2005, 11:17

Condolences BB.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 17 Dec 2005, 11:53

Sorry to hear your news BB

Uranus XIV · Post by **Uranus XIV** » 18 Dec 2005, 14:02

Condolences BB. I have recently lost a good friend about two weeks ago. I'm not having a particularly awful time, just the same of drear. Trying to look forward to Christmas, but when I arrived home from the funeral last week, the man I'm head over heels in love with decided to go into one of his diabolical bad moods for no reason and I had to tell him to go. He has now not returned, I'll be alone for Xmas again, everyone I know is sad or busy with their boyfriends/husbands (Yes all I know are female or gay), my son has had his first 'bad school disco', and is depressed, I'm skint, I've got a spot that won't go away, I've got an unreasonably large Turkey in my freezer which I intended to cook for my now ex-man who has a big appetite, I went to see my son at the string concert and not only was it diffiicult to clap at an orchestra of primary school children with string instruments - but the audience consisted of entire families where as I was on my own, And I am quite a young mother and to make matters worse I suffer from the disease of perpetually looking like a teenager and felt just truly awful as people looked at me curiously and in some cases dissapprovingly. 2006 better hold some good luck for me, cos I'm sick to the back teeth of wandering through life alone and having to put up with men with so many issues its like having another kid. If anyone out there knows of a nice, mature, normal bloke who is not mad, please let me know.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 18 Dec 2005, 14:32

Sorry to hear your news BB

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Dec 2005, 14:35

Uranus XIV wrote: I suffer from the disease of perpetually looking like a teenager

Now that's a disease I wouldn't mind catching! Cheer up Uranus. You won't be alone at Christmas, you've got your son for company. If your bad-tempered bloke doesn't appreciate you then it is his loss not yours and you never know what Santa might bring.

I was at the string concert too (but don't remember gawking at anyone other than my offspring on his violin

). What did you make of the compulsory, screechingly high, carol singing ?

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 18 Dec 2005, 14:43

Marya wrote: Cheer up Uranus.

If that doesn't work nothing will.

Condolences BB

Uranus XIV · Post by **Uranus XIV** » 18 Dec 2005, 15:03

Marya wrote: [What did you make of the compulsory, screechingly high, carol singing ?]

(Can't figure out the quoting thing properly!)

Well I'm a soprano and even I couldn't manage it. Full points for effort for the people trying to accomplish something but ...well... just didn't work really did it? - Thanks for not staring then. At least I managed to get hold of a school tie this year. And yes, you're right of course you're right, it is the grumpy mans loss. And I will just have to cook many, many turkey dishes - Any strange recipes anyone?? - Turkey pie/ turkey soup/turkey enchillada - Many, many turkey sandwiches.[/quote]

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 18 Dec 2005, 16:54

Uranus XIV wrote: If anyone out there knows of a nice, mature, normal bloke who is not mad, please let me know.

Excuse me there's a queue

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 18 Dec 2005, 16:58

foxy wrote:
Uranus XIV wrote: If anyone out there knows of a nice, mature, normal bloke who is not mad, please let me know.
Excuse me there's a queue

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 18 Dec 2005, 18:38

Sorry to disappoint, Sandra but my grandmother just died - at about 11.30. She was 93, but still - not a good Christmas present. And just when I was hoping this christmas would be a lot calmer and nicer than the last one.

So sorry about the sad loss of your Grandmother Bellybabe, it doesn't matter how old she was, if she was a big part of your life, you will miss her very much.
The Mother of our friend, who we visit in Canada, died about a month ago( she was ninety) and we will miss her when we visit next year, as she and her husband( who is still alive) lived, or should I say live with our friend and her family and always made us feel like one of the family, so much so that we called them " Mum" and "Dad"
So my thoughts are with you.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 18 Dec 2005, 22:03

foxy wrote:
Uranus XIV wrote: If anyone out there knows of a nice, mature, normal bloke who is not mad, please let me know.
Excuse me there's a queue

Sorry girls - think you'll have a very long wait