Feisty Fabulous Forty somethings - part 2

ok, dimbo alert... what's Kinnect?

And I don't really get the appeal of the Kindle... I mean I sort of do, as in we don't have any CDs any more, all ripped in and then charity shopped, so I understand the appeal of reducing clutter, but books aren't clutter...? And isn't it odd reading a whole book on a screen?

Just seen that they are expecting heavy snowfall in scotland WTF??? Anyway, tank be careful wont you?

gum I hope the tsunami isn't headed anywhere near you? forgive me if my geography is totally amiss there.

lou you are so boring - you mean to tell me the only man you shag is Ant???? Blimey, some of us on here are shagging loads of men off the TV!

Yes I stopped Reflexology when preggers too. It is probably a good thing for Ant though. I am at the kinnect!

HippY we re keeping your seat warm.Reflexology is lovely isn t it?? Don t know what any of you lot are talking about??????? "simon" etc.....WTF????

Diege my reflexology sessions are £25 for an hour but i ve put mine on hold until i m 16 weeks.Theres no evidence either way but neither me nor Tracey want to risk anything with my history of MCs.So ants having my sessions instead!!!!!

Hi to all;Jolls,Curly,BB,Tina,Gum and Italian hope alls well.

Finished Georgie's story and been spending money online yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just booked my mum and dad Rod Stewart tickets for May and booked mine and Ant's spa weekend. LOVE IT

I ve just recived my compensation chq.In August some old biddy went in to the back of us so this is from my personal injury.Tomorrow; Kinnect and Kindle shopping.Bring it on!!!!

Got to celebrate my last few days of freedom work on Tuesday.
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(Hippy whispers ... £32.... Don't tell DH!!!)

BB If we all keep sharing these men around our new DC's will all be half siblings - very confusing . Just googled Mitchell (Aiden Turner) and he is 28 - i would defo have got him if it wasn't for the age thing!!!!

Hello! Tina I've taken agnus castus on and off for a 6 mths now(always stopping after ov) and it had lengthened my luteal phase (which was 9 days). For the first 3 mths or so my I ovulated far later (ie, cd 16/17 as opposed to 11/12) but after a few mths my ovulation day came back down to day 15. Luteal phase went up to on avergae 11/12 days, though had dropped back to 10 days on the month before I got pregnant this time. Last month also started taking vit B6 up to ovulation, in addition to AC - I;d like to say it was the vit B that did the trick but I'm sure 2 weeks worth couldn't do much. As BB says, if you haven't got a short LP then I wouldn't bother as it can disrupt things. I had a dodgy one anyway, so couldn't make things worse!
All this True Blood Talk tsk tsk, is Simon Cowell not good enough for the lot of you then?? JOlls I will swop my Little Green Paint Compnay chart for your Farrow and Ball (I could also trade a Fired Earth??). I get very obsessive about them and then end up buying Dulux YOur house rennovations sound very exciting. We moved to my dream house 18mths ago, circa 1750 large cottage, so while we have no money to spend, there are lots of sample pots and wallpaper swathces sitting on window ledges.
Still feeling sick (very much so last night) though not actually been sick. Feels like I've Od'd on a large bag of Haribos. Pleased though
HIppy the bench is awaiting - the reflexology sessions you have sound very encouraging. Are they expensive?

well I'm having a mad passionate affair with your husband then hippy!

tina Agnus castus can mess up cycles I think - i remember seeing warnings on here. If your LP was ok and you appear to be ovulating regularly then I think it could cause problems. I take/took it and was fine. In my case it may be coincidental but I ov'ed at around day 12 every time rather than day 19/20/21 without. LP was ok too.

curly you should go for your prog test 7 days after ovulation - I did in on day 21 once when I'd ov'ed on day 19 and the result was quite meaningless.

Tina if you're gonna have someone from True Blood surely surely it has to be Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) - OMG!!! Ohh felt an egg pop out then just thinking about him I did wonder why Simon kept popping out and leaving the family home - Now I see he was going to visit you

jolls I did need a number two but I sooooo don't now You sound very calm and collected - well done. I agree with all your advise about the day 21 tests (once I'd made sense of it )

hippy I'm very angry that you were married to simon baker, that means he's a bigamist as I was also married to him lol

my current squeeze is alexander skarsgard (Eric from true blood)

hippy sounds like you deserve a good number two too...
[you can take the girl out of Essex...]

curly I know nothing about temps etc, but I did have a day 21 prog test, and went on day 19 as my cycle tended to be around 26 days. My result showed I had ovulated (actually wasn't TTC that month). Ideally you get your test done I think it's 7 days after ov; my GPs were very good at saying "we can rearrange to get a most likely match to ov+7" so maybe you could leave it a few days and see if you do ov, then phone to rearrange. If nothing happens, I'd still go for the scehduled test, and if that result was very low it would prove you haven't oved this month (does that make sense ...?

CD24 and no symptoms here. But feel very zen calm? I think it's because I don't think I'm pregnant, and have realised that I'm unlikely to get pg as quickly as I did before, so not to stress about it IYSWIM?

Busy on the house renovations - things have really moved on in the last fortnight and the stairs will hopefully go in in the next 2 weeks. That might mean we'll move in end of April, if not it'll be end May; and I can start thinking paint colours, and start salivating over my Farrow&Ball colour card...

Right, washing to hang out.

Love to all - diege and lou, take it easy beautiful people x

Sorry tina I crossed posts with you. I have never taken it so don't know - but some of the others are very knowledgable and they'll help I'm sure. Hang in there kid.

All very interesting ....

I like forearms too. I don't notice that i look at random men around ovulation time but then I am married to Mitchell from Being Human so have no need to . Yes I know I used to be married to Simon Baker from The Mentalist (do keep up please).

I had my eyebrows threaded last year and it blinkin' hurt - but looked good. I tend to just pick away with the tweezers by myself. I think the whole jewels on your bits thing (called vagazzle) comes from the only way is essex (I did NOT watch it but the girls at work did and some of them even went to the sugar hut in essex recently).

All of you must stop symptom spotting immediately - right that's them told.

Thanks lol for worrying about my carpets - at least you are bothered (unlike the gypsies).

jolls yes, you have been good and unbelievably patient - you deserve your No. 2 my love.

I had refelxology yesterday (CD8). First time for ages. I told her that both times I got pregnant at aged 43 was when she had tweaked my ovaries (via my feet) - so no pressure there then. I know that neither of those pregs worked out but at least she did encourage egg and sperm to merge and implant (maybe???) and it's not her fault they weren't the right eggs. I also find that reflexology works well on my constipation ..... but that's a different story

Love to diege and lou - hang on in there on the bench - I'm coming to join you soon

argghhh still on a high this morning and no sign of a peak!! I started taking agnus castus last month, anyone know if this can delay ovulation or extend your cycles somehow?

Sorry, that should say "his" car and "out of"...

Hello, lol thanks for telling me about the wonderful waxing technique de jour! Very funny. Personally, I would find the crystals blimmen annoying, and the regrowth from going bald....don't think I'd like it. I once did the shave for a boyfriend, many years ago, he was Scottish (not that it means anything in particular), and it was fun for about a day. The itch of regrowth nearly drove me crazy. It's not very ladylike having a good old scratch of the ladybits...

Anyway...back to ttc...I had a "high" on the monitor yesterday, and a "peak" today, which was totally unexpected, as I'm only on CD13 and lately O has been day 15 or 16. So I seduced DH, and will continue to do so over the next couple of days. Would love to have a BFP this time - a Christmas baby would be more than welcome. But also trying to stay relaxed.

My acupuncturist was reassuring me that there is no hurry, and I shouldn't give myself an end date, that it is very reasonable to still get pregnant at 48. However, I still want my LO to have a sibling that isn't too much younger. Hopefully we'll get our take home baby soon, but not going to stress about it.

I'd better run, have to drive DH to work as hid car is in the panel beaters being fixed. He reversed out og the carport and DD2 still had the door open. It wasn't pretty - door not completely off, but very mangled!

Will catch up properly, later...Cheers

Yes Isaboo I'd say that treading would be very painful . As regards threading, it's pretty constant so while the actual removal isn't too bad, the fact that there's no respite (unlike waxing)makes it a more painful process than the latter for me.
Off to bed now - enjoyed the new 'Monroe' thing on ITV; anyone else watch it?

Lol almost anything can be a pregnancy symptom have just looked up "boobs return to normal" on a two week wait website and found bunch of ladies who cite this as a "symptom" ? at some point so its not necessarily over yet... hang in there .... didn't look up "finding Wagner hot" though or is that for ovulation I am bit confused .....

I am too tired to post more now and its only 9.55pm...yes I know fatigue....and the strange sandwich craving on school run today symptom mania has arrived for sure.

Oh I have a constant battle with eyebrows ....does treading hurt?

Well, that conversation took my mind off twinges for once. I'd LOVE to try threading, but B'sted's just not geared up for it. The waxing lady made me laugh. She thought that I should try a new hairstyle down there...Seriously. She offered to whip it all off and stick on fake diamonds spelling out dps initials. . Is this all the rage? Have I missed something? She said loads of people have it done. Where've I been? Dp would laugh himself silly before choking on a swarowski crystal.

Sick of twinges, temps and misbehaving boobs. If it was a delayed ovulation, I've only swi'd once. Dps good - but he's probably not THAT good, so I need to take my mind off it. My builder's got lovely forearms...

Meant to say Lol to your earlier post, would deflated boobs etc necessairly mean things hadn't worked out this month? Obviously you know your own body better than I do, but my tummy/boobs inflate/deflate at random throughout the month. Can you be that sure it's bad news? DO you temp at all?

interesting...

I'm odd things in general (as in numbers)... partly it's the old design/display thing, always in odds (3s/5s)... My ideal would be 3 children, that was my naive stooooopid plan when first TTC#2 nearly 2 years ago. But I'd "settle" for 2 now [please, I've been very good] .

I've only had threading in Mauritius - it was great, but I've only had waxing since... there was nowhere locally doing threading in 2006, so I just went back to what I'd always had. Might reinvestigate...

I agree, threading is brill Curly though the lady who did mine last (in shopping centre, I should have guessed) was a bit overzealous and they came out very thin..only just grown back several mths later.
BB I also have a thing about even numbers (hence 4) but may have to settle for an odd number in total. Can't see me going through all of this again! (if it works out) I would also leave the agnus if I were you; it's not known as nature's clomid for nothing, so can't see why you'd need it on top of the proper stuff.
I also share the biscuit thing with your dh Curly - it feels very unfinished to take either 1 or 3 biscuits (esp one).

oh is a thing about forearms common I thought it was just me. but yes, nice manly forearms.

I've never had my eyebrows threaded, but would like to try. Mine are severely bushy at the moment.

No side effects on clomid yet! But I think if I google side effects I may find I have some

I decided not to take Agnus castus at the same time this month - didn't want to go overboard.

and yes, I would probably die of shock if I was pg with twins. the main problem would be though that I have this inexplicable need to have an even number of children. so could I stop if I had twins (nos 6 and 7)??/ (hypothetical question, dh would leave me!)

so you are Wagner's 'laydee' then...should I try and get him to sign something for you? Maybe a packet of opks? I am seriously impressed with my memory skills. Now who was it on here who had a brace fitted around the same time as me?