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20-12-2024 08:46 PM
20-12-2024 08:46 PM
I guess the one good thing about it is that it is all over in one day @Captain24 I'm trying to have that mindset. Yes the day will be hard but then its all done. Means Boxing day will just be a "chill" day. Both kids are actually working Boxing day so just hubby and me home for most of it.
I actually don't mind hosting it at home. At least if I need some timeout I can just go to my room. Even if it is only for a few mins, I can do a few of them. If I was at someone else's house I couldn't take time out.
20-12-2024 08:47 PM
20-12-2024 08:47 PM
I just had a huge scare. A car pulled into my driveway so I had a look and it was the police. I instantly what have I said? Why were they called? Turns out they were just turning around!
20-12-2024 08:54 PM
20-12-2024 08:54 PM
Oh, that IS a lot of 1 person to do. @Captain24 I couldn't agree to it, especially if they don't help.
Then again, I'd never agree because I don't cook lol. I haven't cooked in years.
If you asked for their help, do you think they would help?
20-12-2024 08:58 PM
20-12-2024 08:58 PM
@Captain24 wrote:
I just had a huge scare. A car pulled into my driveway so I had a look and it was the police. I instantly what have I said? Why were they called? Turns out they were just turning around!
Yikes! I'd be scared too!
I know it may sound stupid, but I feel there's a lot of trauma that can come with police turn ups. I know that they have to sometimes, but I know how much work I needed to do to get over the trauma.
20-12-2024 09:06 PM
20-12-2024 09:06 PM
She would probably tell me I was doing it wrong @tyme so it’s a no win situation! She says she is helping because she is cooking the silverside and a roast beef over the next few days for cold meat Christmas night! It does save me doing it though!
I don’t cook either! We will have baked veggies, roast beef, roast chicken and stuffed tomatoes. Then there is more stuff for the night.
I had my ambo trauma earlier on in the year and then they had one rush to me on Tuesday with lights and sirens! My blood pressure went through the roof. Getting taken away being told you could be having a heart attack wasn’t fun either. I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t as it could have finished me off.
I’ve had the police a couple of times now so I was really panicky. I need to work on this stuff.
My weighted blanket came. I have to put the cover on it but it’s too heavy for me tonight. I just don’t have the strength for it. I’ll do it tomorrow. I struggle just to lift it.
20-12-2024 09:12 PM
20-12-2024 09:12 PM
I feel more comfortable at my house @Snowie. There is more room and it’s way more comfortable. Plus I don’t have to listen to mum saying ‘I wish I had a nice house’ and all the shit she goes on with.
Im glad you can go to your room and bring your house it’s ok. No one needs to know where you have gone.
So it’ll just be the two of you. That will be chilled. I’m hoping it’s just me. But I’m sure they will come around at some stage. Unannounced!
20-12-2024 09:15 PM
20-12-2024 09:15 PM
Lights and sirens @Captain24 ! Ouch... no thanks... no way at all. I'm sure your blood pressure went through the roof lol.
Yes, at least she's making some stuff. That is helpful I guess.
Simple is good. I wouldn't even know how to roast a chicken...
I made fruit salad the other night. Just simple. Dragon fruit and mango because it needed to be used up.
20-12-2024 09:20 PM
20-12-2024 09:20 PM
I have a convection oven. You put it in, turn it over halfway through then get it out when it’s done! I wouldn’t know how to do it any other way! @tyme
The lights and sirens were to get to me. They didn’t have them on taking me in though. I would never have coped.
I love mango never had dragon fruit though. I hate fruit salad that you buy. It all has rockmelon in it and I hate it!
20-12-2024 09:31 PM
20-12-2024 09:31 PM
Any lights and sirens is traumatic @Captain24 . No thanks. But at least going to the hospital was without it.
Convection oven ? Like a microwave convection oven? I've got one of those, but I don't know how to use it so I only use the microwave part of it. I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about.
Dragonfruit is a WEIRD fruit. The kids wanted to try it so I bought both the pink and white flesh dragonfruit. It wasn't sweet. I don't even know how to describe it. But yes, the mango needed to be used up so I just cut it up for the kids. It tasted really good.
20-12-2024 09:42 PM
20-12-2024 09:42 PM
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Mental Health Carers Austalia.
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To be the voice of mental health carers to enable the best life possible.
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We're here to support and promote the well-being of mental health carers and their families
Mental Health Carers Australia is the only national advocacy group solely concerned with the well-being and promotion of the needs of mental health carers.