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| krystle |
an update.. 1 in 6 months! how well am i doing?? (not)
Well, im alive (hurrah)! so is K! (double hurrah). Life has been one trauma after the next over the last 6 months, and full blown gloom kicked in making it difficult to even get up, never mind post, but here i am again.. and the black gloopy mood is dispersing at last, and even started to text and mail people again!! watch out, phone calls will follow 
(and sorry to people ive barely kept in touch with, not replied to... it really was a struggle)
Anyways, just at the beginning of a whole 10 days off work, which would be pretty fabulous,,,except its going to be spent "finishing the house off". We are mid decorating every room (and have been for a good 18 months), and im feeling inspired to get it finished, and on the market. Perfect timing given the housing slump no doubt, although property prices have only lost 7% here, so fingers crossed.
Today therefore saw us spending 2 hours in B&Q- we came, we spent, we had heart failure at the till and arrived home laden down with paints, floor tiles, blinds, more paint, filler, light switches, light shades etc etc etc.
K promptly cut a new bathroom blind down to size... and made it 2 inches too small, so he's off to B&Q again tomorrow mwahahaha, while i have a nice sleep in (or get up and start painting).
TFH has 3 weeks off, 2 holidays and one for study leave. GCSEs looming in 5 weeks,,,,,,,and she is extremely laid back, to the point of not really doing very much. Lazy might be a better description.
Pregnant (almost 12 weeks now- ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH), still determined she can do it, and 6 weeks of trying to discuss the 2 zillion reasons a termination would be for the best have fallen on deaf ears. So, new tactic... a 100 good reasons that adoption would be for the best.....
However, the wonderful social services seem to be intent on disrupting that plan too, with promises of flats and rent paid, college with creches. I am now taking a step back, i can only bang my head against a wall for so long, before it gives me a stonking headache.
What will be will be. I cant force her to make decisions she doesnt want to, so ive relaxed a lot. Still going to discuss adoption regularly, but she's been asking about how to get a job after school, so she can save up a deposit and buy some baby things. Happy to give practical advice, but im just going to have to let her get on with it.
It's my 40th birthday next weekend *faint*. How the hell did that happen???? As a consequence of the TFH situation, ive cancelled family party, and K is taking me away on Saturday night, then Sunday, im going to be all queenly and "have people at home", informal drinks in the evening and friends/family popping in. If anyone's in the vicinity, come on over!!
Regular decorating updates to follow.......no doubt full of complaints. Definitely feeling a LOT better and more positive tho 
Edited Sun 5 Apr 09, 12:01 AM by krystle
| 5 Apr 09, 12:02 AM Hells_Bells UK(G), 7 yrs |
Oh dear. DIY. Are the Tyne & Wear ambulance service on stand-by? I wear my heart on my sleeve and my pants on my head | |
| 5 Apr 09, 12:08 AM krystle UK(NE), 8 yrs |
Im fine with ladders, balancing on baths to hang blinds and swinging from light shades to paint ceilings. It's just when i do things like walk, breathe, get out cars that i suffer catastophic accidents Edited 5 Apr 09, 12:09 AM by krystle | |
| 5 Apr 09, 10:27 AM just_tope 6 yrs |
Blimey, it's all go innit. Glad to hear you're coming back out of the slump, and I concur with RD on this one (not that I've met TFH but even so...). You look after yourselves, there's only so much you can do.
And I suggest you both get somone in to do your DIY for you from now on, we like having you around albeit sporadically and if you both carry on like this we're going to end up reading about some tragic 'Woman dies with head stuck in paint tin and legs tangled in ladders' story. xxx "If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius" ~ Larry Leissner | |
| 5 Apr 09, 12:45 PM Cagoulion UK, 7 yrs  |
Hmm I'd wondered what happened to you.... just thought you'd had an electricity/interweb catastrophe or the like. Sorry to hear of yer winter of discomfort, I look forward to seeing yer house in Google streetmap, paintbrush in hand. What we'd like for our children and what they do are completely different, I'm sure things work out no matter what we try to do, I'm just trying to think about what the nursery will look like though! Take care of yourselves Regards Cag | |
| 6 Apr 09, 12:55 AM krystle UK(NE), 8 yrs |
Hey thanks petal, and i really appreciate the time you spent! It would be louverly to see you next sunday
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| 6 Apr 09, 1:00 AM krystle UK(NE), 8 yrs |
I think someone in to do DIY is neccessary. K spent all day trying to put up a new blind in the bathroom. Finally, the fixings are fixed, we trim the blind to size, hang it.........and ive managed to get a big black mark on it!! So sprayed it with Mister Muscle, and it instantly sank in and made a big green patch on the pale yellow blind.
K then hit me with a stray bit of metal cos i laughed And thanks XXX | |
| 6 Apr 09, 1:02 AM krystle UK(NE), 8 yrs |
So so true.....what id like for myself now involves living a long way away, and the nursery will be in a council flat nowhere near me!! Thanks Cags XX
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| 6 Apr 09, 8:38 AM Mel_SnM UK(BA), 7 yrs |
you have been missed lots . Glad you see got brain in a better place. love m x I am unique, amazing, an individual and special!!! (just like every other fucker on the planet) | |
| 6 Apr 09, 6:51 PM mackem_git UK(SR), 8 yrs |
Hey hun, good to see you post. See you Sunday. | |
| 8 Apr 09, 12:33 AM krystle UK(NE), 8 yrs |
Thanks sweetie pea!! XXXX
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