Army Thread Friday 5th July

[tiptronic_ct]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

:wavin: PeaPants

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

:wavin: MrT How are ya? Whatcha making for dinner?!

[tiptronic_ct]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

Zenstyle;1528659 wrote: What have I missed with Mollers and the wankers? I know she hates them, generally speaking, but has something happened?

Not THOSE wankers this time :H

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

tiptronic_ct;1528666 wrote: Not THOSE wankers this time :H

:H:H

[tiptronic_ct]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

sweetpea29;1528665 wrote: :wavin: MrT How are ya? Whatcha making for dinner?!

Simples... we had bobotie-flavoured lamb sausages and fried onions on rolls. Fancy hot dogs, basically.

2 x M&M's for afters

[InChains]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

heya zen, i still think we need to arrange for our mothers to meet and blame each other for things xD good job on staying af through it n getting through the cleaning n what not too, I've been playing catch up today with beig at the wifes since Tuesday night.

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

tiptronic_ct;1528668 wrote: Simples... we had bobotie-flavoured lamb sausages and fried onions on rolls. Fancy hot dogs, basically.

2 x M&M's for afters

Wots bobotie flavour? Don't like lamb me :no:

:goodjob: only 2 M&Ms?!

Silly mare here bought a jar of nutella ...big mistake!!! Delish tho!!

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

InChains;1528670 wrote: heya zen, i still think we need to arrange for our mothers to meet and blame each other for things xD good job on staying af through it n getting through the cleaning n what not too, I've been playing catch up today with beig at the wifes since Tuesday night.

:waving: Hiya Inchy

How's you? Your other half n his Dad?

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

sweetpea29;1528661 wrote: :H Wow, am impressed Zen, that sure was a mighty post

Sorry about the shit wit yer Mam:l Well done you on not caving and drowning it out with booze :greatjob2: Maybe it don't feel like it- but from here it looks like progress. I wouldn't be so sure that if I had to deal with such stressers I could remain AF. Reminds me of one of my aunts... put her kids through hell wit drink on her, then next day was the sweetest Mum ever.

Och, what a cycle it is Sweety. I feel sorry for your cousins. It's SO confusing and off-putting. I spent years of my life in terror of turning out like my mother. (

It all came back to me in glorious technicolour when she lost her shit with me the other night. You know, the last time I was home (6 years ago) she threw the wheely bins across the back yard with her temper. She was feckin 79 at the time. Stone cold sober... she stopped drinking at 67. Her, myself and my mate who lost her husband (the one I was talking about while I was home) had gone out for lunch that day and I dropped my Ma off at the house and went to my mates for a couple of hours... that's what the tantrum was about... myself and my mate hung out together without her.

In a way it's good because I can REALLY see what's been going on. She's laid a guilt trip on me all my life. If you'd heard the phone calls yesterday because I'm home and she's there "alone". (Alone my arse... there is always someone in and out of that house... it's like bloody Piccadilly Circus.) Anyway... I think I can move forward and get over my guilt thing with her... and that is a fucking MIRACLE in and of itself let me tell you!

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

tiptronic_ct;1528662 wrote: Will a :goodjob: do, Zennerooney?

No place like home, huh? :l

Ahh Tipps... ye have no idea! I am so happy to be home and not at someone's beck and call. In fact, I might even blow off the yard work and luxuriate in my alone time! All the time I was home (in Scotland) I had precisely an hour on my own without anyone in the house. Yer wan indoors is easy to get on with... he's not a bother at all... but there is NOWT like a whole bloody house to yourself... it's ACE!

How is Mrs T and what did she go to the hospital for?

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

tiptronic_ct;1528666 wrote: Not THOSE wankers this time :H

Clue me in then!!! :H

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

InChains;1528670 wrote: heya zen, i still think we need to arrange for our mothers to meet and blame each other for things xD good job on staying af through it n getting through the cleaning n what not too, I've been playing catch up today with beig at the wifes since Tuesday night.

You know what Inchy... if we put those two together they would bloody KILL each other. They're both wanting the limelight... it would be a fight to the death! :wow: :H

Is it the wife's dad that's sick? Sorry, I've had so much going on the last few days me heid is in a shocking scramble!

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

Zenstyle;1528676 wrote: Och, what a cycle it is Sweety. I feel sorry for your cousins. It's SO confusing and off-putting. I spent years of my life in terror of turning out like my mother. (

It all came back to me in glorious technicolour when she lost her shit with me the other night. You know, the last time I was home (6 years ago) she threw the wheely bins across the back yard with her temper. She was feckin 79 at the time. Stone cold sober... she stopped drinking at 67. Her, myself and my mate who lost her husband (the one I was talking about while I was home) had gone out for lunch that day and I dropped my Ma off at the house and went to my mates for a couple of hours... that's what the tantrum was about... myself and my mate hung out together without her.

In a way it's good because I can REALLY see what's been going on. She's laid a guilt trip on me all my life. If you'd heard the phone calls yesterday because I'm home and she's there "alone". (Alone my arse... there is always someone in and out of that house... it's like bloody Piccadilly Circus.) Anyway... I think I can move forward and get over my guilt thing with her... and that is a fucking MIRACLE in and of itself let me tell you!

Jeez Zen:l
As you say, it prob is good in a roundabout way. The fact you can 'see' it for what it really is and start to move on yourself is amazing.
Suppose at the end of day, that's all anyone can do, work on ourselves and how we react, perceive etc.. We can never change another or 'fix' their problems much as we may try.

Hope ye don't mind me asking, how did yer Mum quit? Did she do AA or the like? Or just simply quit?

Really proud and happy for you that you are moving on in your journey, it's quite inspiring really

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

sweetpea29;1528681 wrote: Jeez Zen:l
As you say, it prob is good in a roundabout way. The fact you can 'see' it for what it really is and start to move on yourself is amazing.
Suppose at the end of day, that's all anyone can do, work on ourselves and how we react, perceive etc.. We can never change another or 'fix' their problems much as we may try.

Hope ye don't mind me asking, how did yer Mum quit? Did she do AA or the like? Or just simply quit?

Really proud and happy for you that you are moving on in your journey, it's quite inspiring really

Well, here's the other thing that came out of my trip home this time. Everyone is convinced my mother isn't an alkie... she's just a nasty drunk. (Which is worse, one begs the question?!) So she just stopped. At least, to my knowledge, she did. She'll still eat food with booze in it though and it doesn't "trigger" her. I mean, like booze that hasn't been burned off... sherry trifle, cranichan, etc. She never went to AA or nowt.

The family reckon I'm a problem drinker and I over-reacted with the alcoholism thing. I guess what they don't understand is that it's all the same thing at the end of the day really. You drink too much and it'll bite you in the arse whether you're a "problem drinker" or an "alkie".

Thanks for the comment on my "journey". :l It's been really good to get the new insights... very helpful. I feel a lot more cheerful than I have in yonks to be honest... )

[RunningCourage]

Army Thread Friday 5th July

sweetpea29;1528655 wrote: OOh forgot about the tennis... cried last year at Murray's post match speech!

Aye, I gotta work forgot tho had already agreed to work extra nxt fri, so basically means I'm in for a 6 day stretch, 2 long days in there :egad: But a girls gotta do....
I know ye all work 6 day or more stretches every week, so sorry if it sounds moany, but in my place they're a killer!

Whatcha doin the weekend? Any races?

I may work 6 days during term time... but i reckon there's way loads more of emotional-type stress with yours. Some jobs need more time away from them than others in order to do the job - if that makes sense!

Yup - one race on Sunday, up north. So off to folks tomorrow cos it's a wee bit closer.

Zenstyle;1528657 wrote: LMFAO!!! That?s a classic! I didn't have a chance to check the boards the last few days... what was Mrs T in hospital for? I hope everything turned out OK, whatever it is... X

Jacks... I?m sorry to hear about your uncle... big hugs... I?m very fond of mine (he?s the same age as yours btw) and know you must be feeling horrible about it.

Questy... your son burnt your kit hen?!! Yeah? I guess that would push you to re-do it all right! lol Are you insured? I hope you are? just so you can get summat out of the bloody insurance co. (I started a blaze in ours when I was a kid but they caught it before there was much damage...)

Waggy? what?s a thundershirt??? My cats couldn?t give a fig about the fireworks? they?re brazen wee buggers. (I was awful glad to see them when I got home!)

Mollers? Re the (w)bankers? they are on my shit list, along with big Pharma, insurance of all types, government and the GMO feckers! I hate being part of someone else?s bloody food chain. I hope you have a good weekend. What's Medallion Day about? Is it peeps celebrating 1,2,3 years etc.?

Reccy? How could you put the door on upside down? Did you have the hinge on the wrong side? Me feckin mind is boggling over here!!! Wish you HAD taken a photo!

Yoo Hoooo to the rest of the troops... from SUNNY South Florida. The rain cloud that was following me for 3 weeks has somewhat fecked orf. Reckon there will be a quick thunderstorm this arvo then business as usual.

I had another bloody arduous journey from Heathrow to Miami... I was beside a woman with three under-5's and a baby... holy cow it was awful? she didn?t even remotely try to control them and they were SO badly behaved. To top it all off, my TV headset didn't work so I couldn't drown out the screams and yells. One of the stewards took pity on me around the time the baby was smearing food on my arm and moved me to a seat in business class... thank fook! I reckon I?ll pay the extra for business class on trans-Atlantics from now on, if I possibly can. The plane was delayed getting off the tarmac and I would have had that shit for 10 hours if they hadn?t moved me. Gah! :nutso: Anyhoo? got back in one piece. Yer one indoors picked me up at Miami and we went to a seafood restaurant on the way home. It?s a place I used to go when I lived ?dahn Sarth? and one of my faves? very low key with excellent shellfish. Used to have newspaper tablecloths but they?ve "upgraded" to paper now. We had a load of crab and oysters? absolutely scrummy! Here?s a link?

World Famous Garlic Crabs - Ft. Lauderdale's Best Seafood - Rustic Inn

Things calmed down somewhat before I left home. I don?t know what the feck it is with my mother and that rage thing. It was extremely upsetting as a child. She?d get drunk and go ballistic? keep me awake all night ranting and raving and I?d need to get up and go to school in the a.m. while she got to sleep it off. ( Then it would be all about remorse by the time I got home? wanting hugs and shit. She?s actually put me off being a touchy feely person? somewhere along the line I related hugs and ?I love you?s? to the mayhem that preceded it. Feckin crap really. That whole thing really hit me this time? probably because I didn?t drown it with booze like usual. I guess it?s something I?m going to need to work on. Does the work on oneself EVER fucking end?!!! I know some of you will relate to this next statement (Reccy and Inchy are in my mind as I type)... parents can totally fuck you up. (

Anyway, I had a great night in Glasgow Tuesday with the rellies? lots of reminiscing. Can?t believe how the kids have grown? one is taller than me and I?m 5?9?.

I cleaned house all day yesterday? feckin sick of cleaning to be honest. If it wasn?t for the fact that I have a terrible dust allergy I?d have said feck it and left it. I?ve got to tackle the outside today. Yer wan indoors tries but he just doesn?t do as good a job as me. I?m starting to suspect that it might be some kind of ploy! You know? if yer don?t do it right yer won?t be asked to do it again type deal?

It was a holiday here yesterday? we skipped the party we were invited to and fired up the BBQ and made dinner for Cheryl and her mum last night. She?s doing well but is in a lot of pain? on percs every 4 hours and a bit out of it? but she?s following what they told her to do to a T (it?s very important in hip replacements as I?m sure Sir Pee would know). Totally off her food and has lost quite a lot of weight in a very short time. I shall try to fatten her up as misery likes company!

I?m going to have to transfer the data from this bloody awful desktop to my laptop and get rid of this fecker. It is the most horrible, slow, annoying computer in the world. I?ll enjoy taking it?s hard drive apart! And I need to start the ball rolling on getting a new passport. And pay bills. And file the crap on my desk. Waaaaaaahhhhhh!!! I need a holiday after my holiday tbh?

I expect a ribbon or a medal for this mega-post by the way????? :thanks:
You're quite tall aintcha?
Would've hate them kids. Hate the racket the ones next door make :stomper:
As for parents fucking you up: here's Larkin...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

And finally...here's a: