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Post by Mouse on Jun 17, 2009 20:34:00 GMT
Well ... .there are replies like this one.. where you see a post and no-one has answered it so you feel obliged to write a reply....
JUST KIDDING!!!! (couldn't help myself)
It seems to be a case of pot luck for me whether a reply will get posted. and as for a good reply... they may be rarer than hens teeth. Worst times are when you are so fired up you tap away and produce several hundred words in response to something.. then you think I can't post that and edit it back to 10 words! Painful.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 17, 2009 20:06:13 GMT
well feeling v guilty because I bought some cake tins today ... oooh... so am going to step on my Wii right now and exercise that guilt away. My adrenalin kick comes from the bidding process. I get so hooked on it that I know that if I wasn't also as tight as fish's backside with money I'd be frittering even more money away I'd be bidding away at anything.
just watched that weird al y. video... and the glow has gone off those cake tins
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Post by Mouse on Jun 17, 2009 14:47:28 GMT
Happy Birthday!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 17, 2009 14:43:28 GMT
That co-ordination of arms and legs is also a struggle for me... I have tried advancing from the Wii basic step exercises but it hurts my head!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 17, 2009 12:33:10 GMT
I hope to get better with practice. I have a wii fit and my attempts to follow the simple step aerobics are useless. I am trying to keep in time, place my feet correctly and follow the instructions on screen and then my mind will wander and the notes will sound discordant to indicate that I have lost the plot again.
If I do manage to follow an instructor it always seems to be with a time lag as my brain processes the instructions!
Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Jun 16, 2009 23:23:38 GMT
In the odl days I used to find exercise so addictive. I used to run.. which seems totally unbelievable even to me, when I find myself hauling my carcase up the stairs and creaking out of bed in the morning.
I have been standing on my Wii Fit board .. also done some of the aerobic exercises.. but alwasy start off with the balance games... so not exactly burning the pounds away.. excess energy is not my problem!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 16, 2009 17:39:29 GMT
I am still mad about making cakes just as OH is still obsessed with bikes (currently now up to 8 plus assorted frames plus my 2 underused ones.) The difference is that I buy all these tins but usually just stick to tried and tested ones.
Plenty of other one-minute wonders in my history. Like my massage couch - top of the range - and makes a v nice spare bed for when space is pushed.
Nick101 - re the £600 bike - is there any chance that guilt might make you make some use of the bike. What grand plan did you have in mind when you bought it?
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Post by Mouse on Jun 16, 2009 17:34:05 GMT
Many happy returns!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 16, 2009 17:33:22 GMT
I just prefer big balls!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 16, 2009 11:13:14 GMT
Ooohh dear... I wasn't belittling the idea in any way.... just made me smile that sun and snowflakes not usually ideal unless temp is correct...
It is a lovely thought and I really didn't mean it to be taken any other way.
Also see I missed out the word snow before balls, that was not intentional! (just covering my backside now LOL)
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Post by Mouse on Jun 15, 2009 23:45:18 GMT
we do want sunshine and blue skys but without all the heat since this is what melts even the big balls.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 15, 2009 23:15:39 GMT
I'm exactly the same with cake tins. I get it into my mind that I have to have them but the pattern is always the same. Receive them in the post, a few hours of marvelling at them then in the cupboard they go.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 14, 2009 22:26:23 GMT
oh.. well I am so old now that I don't even get the jokes!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 14, 2009 22:07:56 GMT
two and half pence in old money £SD
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Post by Mouse on Jun 14, 2009 7:53:50 GMT
Good Luck and get well soon. Yes and definitely don't rush things!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 14, 2009 7:50:31 GMT
Our house gets a spring clean when my Mum and Dad are coming to stay.. I cover all the most remote corners but somehow still seem to miss the screamingly obvious.
My Mum tells me that she used to the do the same before my Grandma came to stay with them.
I know that as long as the basics are maintained they would not be judgemental but it is purely something that I put myself through. I still hvae to maintain this facade of coping even though they know I am dxd with ADD.
On the plus side I try to look at it as a) a period of intensive exercise, b) a positive all round as the place usually needs it, c) cathartic.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 14, 2009 7:45:23 GMT
just adding my tuppence ha'penny.. On the days when i get up and do just 30 mins of Wii fit... start off with balance exercises and then step exercise... I generally get on better at work.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 8, 2009 19:44:29 GMT
favourite horror film.. that's a contradiction in terms for a scaredy-cat mouse like me!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 8, 2009 19:42:26 GMT
I realised the moment I'd posted it .. that it was a daft idea and then of course I went downstairs to make a coffee and forgot all about it.. all things normal here.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 6, 2009 20:11:47 GMT
to have a conversation almost in real time using the forum if there are 2 people logged in at the same time?
time now is 9.12 on Sat eve
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Post by Mouse on Jun 6, 2009 20:08:53 GMT
Wouldn't count on not getting such a rambling answer from anyone else!
That is very good news about your appointment! As for worrying about what the future holds for you if you are diagnosed I think you can only take the attitude that you'll deal with whatever comes up.
I would just say don't panic.. I can only speak for myself but I think after the initial elation of getting the dx confirmed it was a bit of an anticlimax. I did though go through a period similar to mourning all the missed opportunities and failures due to having ADD.
The one huge plus for me was that I didn't have to spend any more time fruitlessly worrying about what was so different about me that I was incapable of doing the simplest things without complications and cockups arising! So not wasting time worrying about the incomprehensible has been a great bonus.
I can say ' Well, there's my ADD making its lovely self known.' All I have to concentrate on is working around it as far as possible - which does free up a lot of mental energy.
I am an old bird so have had plenty of experience at adapting. I think those who find it more difficult are those who are less resilient. That does not mean there aren't difficult or overwhelming times, for the resilient people, just that your attitude to your ADD makes a hell of a difference.
Are you working? If so you may have to decide whether you need or wish to let your employer/ colleagues know.
I did tell my employer right from the start. Not all my colleagues know but that's only because I only mention it when it comes up. Not because I have decided to keep it a secret.
I declared my ADD to the DVLA and to my insurers and it has made diddly squat difference to them. I preferred to declare it than forever be worrying about 'being found out' or suddenly finding I had invalidated my insurance.
Can't help smiling at Lostinabook's suggestion to gather all your evidence.
I thought I had everything I prepared for my appointment, created a folder of information and highlighted all the elements that were me to a 't'.
Also typed up pages of my history - in effect, typed my biography, - and made a case for why I thought I had ADD. (I am so typically inattentive that I almost could not see how the dx could be anything other than ADD)
I also checked and double checked the route, made sure i left in plenty of time. Was half way to appointment when I glanced towards passenger seat and realised that I had forgotten my beloved folder.
Burst into tears the moment I stepped in psychiatrist's office - and he told me it didn't mater since I wouldn't need it. Cried even more because to me it was just such a totally bloody typical thing for me to do. That folder had dominated everything and I forgot it despite leaving it right by the front door.
Only now in my forties and diagnosed for a couple of years can I start properly appreciating myself rather than despising myself for being in my eyes such a failure.
And if truth be told, I quite like being an ADD-er - I can even enjoy the difference!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 5, 2009 16:20:05 GMT
I didn't get married til my early thirties - no-one seemed quite right.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 21:32:51 GMT
Indulgent - yes. Overindulgent - jamais, et sacre bleu!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 20:53:11 GMT
LOL
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 19:51:00 GMT
Well, we had exactly the same feeling initially - and were cycnical about it being as good as the original we were brought up with. I think we watched it expecting to find it lacking compared to the original.
It's an updated version with plenty of nods to the original series, which meant that there was a sort of 'in joke' edge to it. The company building where the current Reggie works is right next door to an old building called Sunshine Desserts - that sort of thing.
and Reggie's commuter train is still delayed by 27 mins every day!
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 19:40:56 GMT
suits me!! I have just agreed to go 'cold turkey' on chocolate but think my cunning plan has a flaw in it.. since I am substituting chocolate 'options' for the chunks..
Did you hear about the spray that is available only in France - Paris, to be precise, which you spray in your mouth and get the taste of chocolate but none of the cals. What a stylish and typically chic French solution.
Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 18:59:59 GMT
I have loved the new series of Reggie Perrin. I think the way he conducts himself with the outward front of near normal and then the inner outrageousness seems incredibly familiar.
I kept that thought to myself until my OH said the other day that he thought Reggie and I were remarkably similar in our outspokeness /increasingly outrageous comments.
Plus the frustration and inner rages. and if anyone wishes to have a go at me seeing a degree of adhder in a fictional character - sorry.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 18:46:23 GMT
I've been married to my husband for 16 years and together for 3 years before that... (jeepers that's nearly 20 years)... but we rub along okay in terms of who does what. I would say that we are both procrastinators supreme. I am a dxd adder and I am damn sure he is half-adder as there are times when he seems on a different planet.
However his big plus point, other than being the love of my life and lovely with it, is that he deals with the routine paperwork and when necessary I motor the big stuff along like all matters related to buying and selling our home.. that sort of stuff. though I did notice standards slipping recently and if I hadn't booked my car in for it's MOT then it wouldn't have got done.
Ordinarily though I have the big idea (ie veg beds) but can't get on with getting on with the work involved, and he is the one who starts the work and then I feel guilty so get on and finish it.
He is very mild-mannered and I am the testy one - so I am the one who has to be Mrs Nasty to his Mr Nice whenever we have to deal with organisations like Sky or our bank.
He also does his share of housework which I appreciate more than I can describe - and mostly he keeps the kitchen up to scratch with stuff washed and put away. Think he sussed I have terrible guilt complex and if he starts doing something it usually kick starts me into action - unless I am in brain and body not complying state and then it just makes me feel tetchy and guilty.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 18:30:57 GMT
thinking bck to communication issues with my referral... it go no-where because my PCT wouldn't fund it... but no-one at anyone point bothered to tell me. Had to do all the chasing etc myself.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 4, 2009 18:28:28 GMT
Dear Ms Lemonsnake
absolutely cannot recommend diet of cream cakes and chips... I'm keeping them all for me!
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