Joyful moderating in July

[Waves 2]

Joyful moderating in July

Julie, how I wish you lived in UK then you could bring your cleaning frenzy over to mine.

After my 2 glasses of rose the other night I only had 2 hours of sleep. It was dreadful. Caught up now but been AF since and tonight. Am at a works do tomorrow. Haven't decided how to handle that one yet.

[tawnyfrog]

Joyful moderating in July

Hi folks,

Just hopping in here for a while - majorly grumpy at present. Although this is by no means a major event, I'm nevertheless pissed off big time.

After whining for months about our lack of rain and drought blah blah blah - it bucketed down and I should be happy ... you'd think.

There was so much rain, water rushed in through the front door of my studio and whilst I was manically trying to bail and mop and stem the flow, my library in the main house was also about 3" under water. My library is a special place. I love it. Water-logged carpet will never dry out so now I'm in the throes of shifting the contents of a 12' x 8' wall of bookshelves so that I can rip up the stinking, muddy carpet. Of the thousands of books, only books on the bottom row have been water damaged. Rugs will dry out, furniture is ok.

Bugger. I always thought that old adage was stupid, - you know the one about "it never rains but it pours?"

Thanks for letting me have a whinge. So Julie ... wanna lend a hand?

[SKendall]

Joyful moderating in July

Tawny, I am so sorry about the water, it plays havoc on precious items. You have the right to be majorly grumpy.

Fans and light breezes coming your way.

Hilary

[ducky]

Joyful moderating in July

Tawny, I'd be more than grumpy right now. I would freak.

Hope you are all dried out soon.

[Beaches]

Joyful moderating in July

Tawny, I would be mad too. I wish I was closer because I would come over and help!

[nancy]

Joyful moderating in July

Nancy's in!

I have three weeks moderating and DF and I think I can do a DF July!!!

I think this thread will be very motivating..

Cheers!

[Waves 2]

Joyful moderating in July

Tawny, sorry about your books and carpet. I feel guilty about asking Julie to help me cos that's all my own fault. You are much more deserving. Julie- ignore my request but Tawny needs you.

Nancy-great that you are feeling so positive. that is a great way to start the month.

Everyone else. Still haven't decided how to handle tonight's party. The hostess lives several miles away so i suppose I should drive and then that decides the matter for me.

[roxane]

Joyful moderating in July

waves, you've just given yourself the answer, and you can feel ok about refusing to drink because you're driving! sorted!

roxane

[Waves 2]

Joyful moderating in July

Thanks Roxane. That is exactly what I did. Then I had 2 glasses of Chardonnay with hubby when I came back and altogether had had a lovely evening.

[Waves 2]

Joyful moderating in July

AF last night cos will be a hard day today. Hope you are all being dutifully joyful in July through being DF.

It looks like I will be paranoid forever now! (mood) I have been frozen in paranoia land. Everyone's against me! Even the computer.

Or am I just being paranoid?

[tawnyfrog]

Joyful moderating in July

Waves .... I think they're all out to get you. Not paranoia. Just a fact. (lol)

Had an interesting time a couple of nights ago. A couple came visiting for an overnight stay. I watched the woman person, a 5' slightly-framed girl, drink her way through 2 bottles of white wine, single-handedly. I was cringeing (sp?) as she re-filled her glass, thinking "you're gonna hurt in the morning".

Prior to getting my act together ... that would have been me. And I would have insisted on a glass or six of cleansing, post-prandial port. And cigars.

So happy I don't do that any more...

[Pebbles]

Joyful moderating in July

Morning everyone.

Tawny - so sorry to hear about your library disaster. We've had major floods here in the UK and the TV reporters are driving me NUTS saying how the ones with insurance are the LUCKY ones...how is it "lucky" to go and get insurance and pay the premiums ? it's common sense, why don't they say it's the ones without are the STUPID ones ? OK rant over...and I hope you have insurance !!!

We've been away for a long weekend rock climbing in the Peak District. Then Alton Towers (Theme Park) on the way home. I'm not big on rides, I get sick. But I did go on Oblivion...it's not natural to hurtle at warp speed into a black hole in the ground from 300ft and I'm not sure I could do it again!

Moderated OK - not one drunk evening.

Back to sorting out cupboards and stuff ready to move - getting quite excited now.

take care
xxx

[Beaches]

Joyful moderating in July

Pebbles, I am laughing at your description of the Oblivion. I used to love those kind of rides but I don't know how I'd do now because it's been so long.

I have been doing greeat this month. Not one drunk night for me either and even my consumption has been down on the whole. One to 2 glasses of wine a night. I am attributing that fact directly to the increase in Topa and that I am religiously taking the kudzu and Lglut. I ran out of kudzu so now it's just Lglut. It's so nice to wake up feeling great each morning and having a clear head to get things accomplished.

Have a good day.

[julie001]

Joyful moderating in July

Hi all,

Has it been raining all over the world? We've had some massive downpours the last few days. Luckily, the rain was brief. Hope your all cleaned up after the flood, Tawny. My cleaning frenzy has fizzled. Now we are shifting furniture around so that we can have new carpet installed. It's definitely not fun emptying 3/4's of your house into 1/4 of the space. Yuk, but at least I will finally have new carpet. Have a great rest of the week, everyone.

Julie

[Waves 2]

Joyful moderating in July

I am finding now that the first glass tastes great but the second doesn't. It just tastes ordinary and yet I still drink it. To get a little buzz?

This morning, even though I only had 3 small glasses, my mouth tastes yuk. Beginning to wonder why I drink the second glass.

My poor dog is fed up. I went to bed early, leaving hubby up. There are 3 cans on the table this morning that weren't there when I went up so obviously hubby was up late. And I have woken at 5:30 am and got up for a brew so the poor dog can't get any sleep!:H

Tawny, I am so happy that you don't do that anymore. And now i know you keep tabs on visitors, when I come to visit ( Thread on general) I will make sure I moderate.

Beaches, great going on the moderation. July will be joyful, I feel it.

Julie, How are you doing on the mods front with all this cleaning and furniture shifting? Sounds like thirsty work.