It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

I intend on upgrading and I can't make up my mind.

I get bogged down on model, engine, is it relaible, do I like the car, then I look for advice and some people can be very biased towards brands, colour.

I honestly feel like getting something I don't like.

So, I won't be disapointed.

Just finished the last mince pie with my cup of tea. We still have a tin of the IKEA ginger thins, a tin of shortbread and two boxes of Foxes to get through though 🤣

Really good watch she thinks the grandad is hilarious says she’s asking about him on her letter this year

Kids are hilarious the things they come out with I don’t think I would have questioned anything like that when I was a kid

I’ve been told mam you and dad did not get me a Christmas present this year 🤣

As my team lead said this morning, we're half way through January. Kinda crazy how quickly Christmas ends up in the rear view 🙃

Happy Friday everyone, halfway through the crappiest month of the year 😉 Just a couple of weeks and we are into a Bank Holiday weekend.

@Loughc , hope you got a decent nights sleep 🤞

343 days until Christmas 🤩

Was thinking to myself when the countdown hit 345 two days ago "how many days till the countdown hits 234?" . I actually wrote it down! felt a right eejit when the answer was 111 😄 d'oh

Happy Friday Elves I’m going to have a Heineken zero ice cold and chill infront of the tv shortly

I’m with you @CheerLouth I felt really tired this week but hey like it’s already been said we are more than halfway through January

Yes @appledrop unfortunately I stopped about 5 different people/families in the car park to see if anyone could jumpstart car to no sucess I felt like I was on “who wants to be a millionaire” using my 4% battery to phone a friend being my other half ahh I can giggle about it now

If it ever happens any of you in Ikea apparently the trolly guy has a battery pack thing to charge your car battery unfortunately we only found this out last night and I had just missed him on his run around the car parks

Have a great weekend everyone

Massive congratulations 💕 💕 I've been thinking of you as your due date was my birthday 😂

Enjoy the new born cuddles. 😘

Just had a marathon session catching up.

My tree is still up lighting away. There's decorations on the landing that made it down out of the attic but got no further.

I had abit of an "Emma Thompson" Christmas. The Sunday morning before Christmas I picked up his phone to turn on the Wi-Fi plug and there was an open Whatsapp conversation, someone he used to hook up with before we got together. I know her we'd chat together if in the pub etc, though I haven't seen her in years. Seemingly he hasn't seen her in years either they've "just" been s*xting for the last 3 years....so that was a fun revelation!

It was going to be a weird Christmas anyway as I'd been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer during the summer. I had just finished treatment when I got an infection that had me in hospital for nearly 3 weeks and brought me down to 6 stone (I'm light anyway starting weight was just over 7.5 stone).

So what can you do? Didn't have the energy or desire to go nuclear , plus a whole lot of unknowns. Just tried to park it all so the elves wouldn't know and have a good Christmas.

Obviously lots of conversations were had, most of them should have been had a long time ago as relationship was very much in limp mode with him refusing to come to the table. Finally at the table now. I don't know, while it certainly isn't great and is a betrayal it never went physical....it would be easier to decide if it has.

My dad was also admitted into hospital on Christmas eve, we were told to prepare (but we've been here many times before) he was discharged a few days later.

So that was my Christmas!

However had scans a couple of weeks ago and the PET CT scan is showing no activity, so that's good 😊 there's just a tiny issue she's not too concerned about but wants another consultant to look at before final sign off, but optimistic that the treatment was a success.

So now need to put the weight back on and get the hair growing and try to figure out all the other nonsense.

Honestly you just have to laugh 🙄

Depending what threads you read you might be aware my pregnancies expedited my hearing loss, to the point I've been waiting on a cochlear implant for the last 3 years (then hopefully returning to work...I took a career break followed by redundancy after the last elf was born partly due to the hearing loss) ....well I got the surgery date 2 days after the cancer diagnosis...which has obviously had to be postponed indefinitely at the moment.......honest to God if this was a movie you wouldn't believe the plot!

But yeah you're right it is chasing validation, she's married and was married when they were hooking up originally...her marriage is her concern nothing to do with me, but you would wonder at the thought process there.

You're actually the second person today to say the exact same thing about a friends experience. Yeah counseling is offered , it's free and they encourage it. I had one session during the treatment and it's grand . I honestly feel fine, it's a very surreal experience as you don't really know it's working until the end....though I did have symptoms that resolved during the treatment. I'm still in disbelief to be honest.

I met with a dietician as the weight started to fall off me during treatment, I was given those drinks , but they got thrown back up again fairly quickly.... I'm grand now, the perfect season for a weight gain challenge. I do have to start doing yoga or Pilates for muscle mass.