Another in my occasional series, The A to Z of The Laughing Housewife.
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O is for orange juice – I’ve been craving it lately. Not so nice for my bladder – drink too much orange juice and I’m like Julie Andrews in ‘The Sound of Music’: When the blog writes, when the pee stings…
The last time I drank this much orange juice was twenty-three years ago. I was pregnant with Tory Boy and I must have needed the Vitamin C. How embarrassing would that be for him, to have a sibling twenty-three years younger? It would almost be worth it, just to see his face.
I’m pretty certain I won’t have that pleasure but, if I start craving cheese and tomato on crackers (my other craving), Tory Boy will stop speaking to me.
No, I have to face it – I am a woman of a certain age; it’s probably my ‘ormones. This is where my Scouse accent comes in, if you were wondering. We Liverpudlians drop our aitches, extend words like ‘like’ to ‘lichhhh’ and talk about ‘me mum an’ me dad.’
Me Mum was my age now when she watched me get married. I thought she was old then; now, I’m not so sure. They say fifty is the new forty so if fifty is the new forty then forty is the new thirty and life begins at forty which must be thirty and at thirty I was raising babies. When does my life begin?
O is also for ‘owl’ as in, ‘self-pitying ‘owl’.
The Laughing Housewife 
I actually have a brother who’s 23 years younger than me. It’s not that bad, honest 😉
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If only we could hear comments as well as read them. I love to listen to people’s accents…this is what makes them who they are. I can hear the difference with my three daughters. Two were brought up in Essex so have Essex accents and ways of speaking whilst younger daughter was brought up in Surrey so speaks posh but to me it makes no difference..these are my daughters..it is other people who can notice the difference.
It is always such a shame when people try to get rid of their accent. especially Northerners, but then those from Devon and Cornwall are just as broad.
You keep on without your aitches, and your ooooo’s . Stand tall be proud of being who you are…I love it!
You forgot to mention how outspoken you lot are..a spade is a spade and that is it!
Gawd! the thought of another baby! That would be the worse thing ever!!!! Just the passing of the years, that’s all it is!
love from me
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I’m sure you’re right and it’s just my age.
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Life begins at 60. What Scouse accent? I don’t hear it. My craving was for freshly squeezed orange juice and I never associated it with peeing: I thought that was the baby pressing on my bladder! The other craving was for condensed milk,, of which I ate a small tin every day. No wonder I ballooned!
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TB loves cheese, so there may be something in that.
Ask me to say ‘her fair hair’ next time we speak 🙂
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🙂
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Seriously.. get your blood glucose checked !!
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Because of the oj?
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It was just a thought… If you are craving sweet things, drinking a lot, feeling very tired and are little fat, as you put it !! it could be because you are diabetic. ( I was diagnosed as type 2 in Sept and used to be a nurse, so know about these things) If you just fancy orange juice and don’t have the other things then you just fancy orange juice 🙂
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Interesting.
I was tested last year during my well woman check and there were no warning signs. I think it really is just needing Vitamin C.
Thanks for the info, though. It’s worth knowing these things.
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Glad to hear that you were checked 🙂
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I call my hot flashes “my personal summers”
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Oh, I like that!
My friend calls them her ‘Mediterranean moments.’ 🙂
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Big deal. I was 50 once…ages ago.
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No chance of you being pregnant then?
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For your own sanity, I hope you are not with child, unless of course you want to be. I would still fear for your insanity, however. And your blogging.
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You’ve found me out – it’s giving up blogging that really scares me 🙂
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I sometimes crave condensed milk – is this something to do with my mother being VivinFrance? I went off chocolate and coffee when pregnant – don’t remember craving anything in particular.
When my son was learning to speak I tried to drop my hard a’s so he wouldn’t be teased at school. Now I have a thoroughly mixed up accent. Sally
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Mine is quite mixed up, with a mixture of SA, Liverpool and Manchester. More fun that way.
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On the Graham Norton show there was a comedian trying to teach Antonio Banderas and Selam Hayek how to do a Scouse accent. I was on the floor with that. The phrase that he used to teach them was “I would like some chicken and a can of coke” It was brilliant. When I was pregnant with the baby girl, I craved all things chocolate. Before that with the baby boy, I had been craving all things healthy so that I actually lost weight, not so with the baby girl. I don’t put much stock into the forty being the new thirty because I felt much better at thirty physically than now however I feel better about myself now than I did at thirty, so it evens out in the end.
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I’d forgotten that show! It was Jimmy Carr. My accent is not as strong as that, thank goodness. I hope 🙂
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If I got pregnant now it would be a miracle. Really. Dianne
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😀
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O is for the ‘onor’ of reading your posts.
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You are now officially my favourite reader for that joke 🙂
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hubby had a brief panic last week when I as so sick…..but also craving hamburgers. turns out, it was just the plague *side eye*. But honestly, I had to remind the man that I told my OB to tie really good knots after the 3rd C Section, so it was highly improbable. Course…I do remember his exact words one night 9 months before #3 did arrive: “What are the odds one time without protection…???”
you’d think he’d just feel properly studly. 🙂
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I howled with laughter at your hubby’s naivety 🙂 Thanks for that!
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Enjoy the OJ, Tilly….
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OJ makes you preggers???? I’m giving it up right now!
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What a funny one you are! You’ve also given me a good reason to be just fine with my age. I no longer even THINK about some of these issues. And I’ve stopped asking the question ‘where is my life.’ Now I’m just grateful I have one! LOL!
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Between you and me, I don’t ask that. Well, not on Malteser days 🙂
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Helen Cherry has a point. It is worth getting your blood sugars checked again if you are drinking out of thirst, especially if you are up in the night for a drink and a pee, which would suggest your sugars are running a little high. The sugar in the orange juice could be aggravating this. When Cyclo was diagnosed he was drinking large amounts to quench his thirst… diluted squash, which was pushing his sugars up higher.
I would say orange juice alone wouldn’t make your pee sting, so it may be worth checking out if you have an infection too.
Also orange juice is very sweet, albeit natural sugar – about 10 carbohydrates per 100 ml, so drinking it neat in large quantities is adding a lot of calories.
150 ml of orange juice gives you about 62% of your daily recommended amount, so you’d not need more than two glassfuls to give you all you need.
Symptoms of type 2 diabetes may include:
Feeling tired during the day, particularly after meals
Often feeling hungry, particularly if you feel hungry shortly after eating
Urinating more often than normal, particular needing to do so during the night
Feeling abnormally thirsty
Blurring of vision
Itching of the skin, particularly itchiness around the genitals
Slow healing of cuts or wounds
Having regular yeast infections (thrush) and more….
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/type2-diabetes-symptoms.html
he female hormone thing, menopause is so rarely openly discussed, and even though I’m a nurse I didn’t know much about it all.
I’ll find the link I found useful
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Thanks yeu for this 🙂
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I love how, in the middle of a completely light hearted blog post, you slip one line that always makes me stop and think.
” forty is the new thirty and life begins at forty which must be thirty and at thirty I was raising babies. When does my life begin?”
You’ve got me thinking Tilly!
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An unexpected side effect 🙂
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Do you also say, “Yom, yom, pig’s bom”? 🙂
A laat lammetjie! Sjoe! Dit sal snaaks wees…
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Dit sal certainly something wees 🙂
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You didn’t perhaps sign up as the “willing woman” in this story, did you?
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/i-can-create-neanderthal-baby-20130122-2d3u7.html
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I really didn’t 😀 😀 😀 You make me laugh 🙂
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Honey, 50 is the new 30 and it’s not old. Have some juice will ya! 🙂
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Tell that to my bones…and my back, my knees, my fingers… 🙂
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