The Rat Smackteers will get their BFPs and they'll BROOK NO ARGUMENT

wow you guys with your huge massive weddings, I think we had about 65 at ours but then my family is sooooo tiny!! I think my family masses to a grand total of 19, and that includes cousins and babies!! my mum is an only child, and we dont have anything to do with my father, or his family!! then there were about 8 of my 10 of my friends, and the rest were hubbies family!! we only had 5 additional evening only guests!!

feeling mildly jealous with all this secret handshake business going on!! Ive decided Im 11DPO today (although I might change my mind later) so who can I buddy up with? I think Imp might be with me? but I forget exactly who is where!!!!

Wohoo Boo

That's a lot of cousins you got there Face!

my mums one of 5 all her siblings have kids some of them kids even have their own kids!! blooming young ones beat me to it with the babies.

Hey Maybe we are cycle buddies, we will be confirming at the same time, FF says I am infact 8dpo too (but I think it is also sulking at me for not giving it any data for a few days :))

Geek when do you get to start writing strongly worded e-mails, and complaining to snooty overpaid receptionists consultant secretaries?? I will come with you, I can stand behind you with my boxing gloves at the ready!!!

Actually I could be a Boo for hire, to any brooker that needs a snooty Dr, Phleb, Consultant 'seen to' what do you think??? You lot could keep me busy for months

That's me Sparks screw the NHS, I'm going dor DIY

Face we had about 120 in total too, I also have a largish family (I blame the Irish in me)

maybe i didnt think i knew that mant people! we both have large families which is around 80 of the guests and im allowing that all single people mite have plus ones so i think its more likely to be no more than 120.

I actually love the idea that maybes ttc efforts have become so clinical and involved that she's started accepting DNA deliveries to her office/lab!!

Gen thanks for the encouragement but I wouldnt set you alarm to get up early to see what my pee stick says!! I'm not even sure I'd be able to convince myself to POAS when i hadnt been visited by AF for 9 months

OOooh, yes Frootz can we have a secret handshake and everything? I like the idea of quatriple (see what I did there) whammy Friday

147 guests Face that's impressive

jen inc evening only guests its 147 people but i dont think they will all come

80 invites! How many people are you inviting? I had just under 80 guests in total :o

Ooh firefighters! Yummy

Am trying to disassemble a desk. Can't do it. It has those screws that go in sideways and connect with something else... I think... Instructions lost...

Argh

To add insult to injury, BBC News tells me I have missed a huge firefighter protest through my home city. Gutted.

No, I am in the 2ww Geek, 8DPO to be exact

Wish I could go home Keep but this is one of those times where if I don't do it myself, I knwo it won't get done at all. It had better bloody come today though, or else

geek that's dreadful. You should def complain. If they can't find the real results and say you can't book the consultant appt until the next set come through I suggest you kick up a big fuss, stress that the issue was of their doing. That should work. I assume you will have another cd3 before the appt though.

Deep breath.

maybe go home, let someone else sign for your DNA..

geek that really bad about ur tests useless bastards.
we need around 80 invites so not toooo bad

maybe but I thought you were in the 2ww? Oh - sorry - that wasn't a euphemism then?

Oh Geek you really are not having a good day are you? I demand a sit down for 20 minutes with a cup of tea.

I have just finished all my experiments and have written up the data. Sometimes I think I am too efficient. So many people around here manage to make doing nothing look really busy . I very much want to go home, but am waiting for some DNA to be delivered to me. Yawn.

gen that's perfectly understandable, you should enjoy every minute of being a normal preggo person (never mind the 'pretend' bit - you are a normal preggo person!!)

cartoon those are lovely invites - are you having many people? I only ask because there's a fair bit of DIY work needed!

maybe how are you feeling now? Will you have a chance to leave early do you think? They really shouldn't be working a pregnant person so hard.

boo yes please! I'm at the end of my tether and don't feel I can hold a rational conversation with the place. I hope I feel a bit more in control tomorrow!

Work is really busy today with some pretty major things going wrong, which I suppose is both a blessing and a curse. At least I'm not having too much time to just sit and dwell on the screw-up, but I fear I'm going to suffer from adrenalin overdose shortly.

Geek that is bloody awful, I can't believe they have fucked it up so bad!! Do you want me to in over these and 'have a word'?

Oh my goodness Geek I am so on your behalf. What is it with incompetent GP surgeries/phlebotomy centres?

Gen so good to hear all is well. And you are normal. Actually, no you're not. You're a brooker.

Munx how are you?! I now have Return of the Mac stuck in my head

Love the dress Face and the invites!

www.specialdaydirect.co.uk/catalog/product/277/708/fuschia-day-invitation.html
too fussy?

Oh Geek that is bloody incompetent - I'm not surprised you are fuming.

Cartoon that dress is very pretty and I don't think you are being a bitch!

Imps poor you with the octopigets. I bet you are knackered with all those arms and legs in there. Take it easy.

Maybe, er, it's been said before, but you are preggo fo' sho' with those symptoms!

You too Sparks - temperature schmemperature. There are all sorts of factors that can affect your temps, so let's just wait and see what the pee sticks say (tomorrow?)

Sweetie why do they think 2 follicles = no chance of getting eggs at IVF? Surely 2 follicles = decent chance of two eggs? I like your attitude of 'nothing to lose' and agree you should give it a go.

Bartlet glad your early scan went well!

Oh dear, just read about 5 pages of posts and can't remember what else was going on. Hello to everyone, and especially the 2ww-ers.

All still OK here, but I'm staying away from MN quite a bit as I've exhausted myself with all the mentalling over the last couple of years and I just want to pretend to be a normal preggo person now!

Ok. Yesterday I was cross. Today I am fuming and ready to rip someone's throat out.

They have tested my bloods for the wrong thing and/or lost my results and just given me random ones and/or mixed my test request/results up with someone else's. The results that have come back are 'Fluid Study - LDH' results. Not even the vaguest whiff of an FSH level on there. The doctor is baffled, as am I. I am picking the test result printout up tonight from the surgery and calling the fertility sister who requested the bloods tomorrow once I have the printout.

I am utterly livid. I now have to wait another month to get another CD3 blood taken, which is probably going to push the cons appointment even further back as they may not book me in until the results have come through.

sparks sorry you're not feeling very optimistic today. You do realise that is a clear sign of diffedness don't you?

Face I would worry about it, a lot of my guest wore teal or similar hues, and I know a friend who requested her family to wear similar colours because it made for better photos! The dress is lovely, shame you wont fit in it though!!!