Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

camel hahaha - I wonder if her own business is a shop which sells "lovely things, lots of muslin and teracotta pots sweetie". I've just read the last 20 or so posts on that thread and she's quite insane.

gin I think you can expect RTOD to arrive when you're in Greece.

gin Bah. Like Cosmo said, it ain't over til R2D2 squeaks incomprehensibly. I think I may have strained that metaphor a leetle too far, but you get my point. You don't need to pathologise your behaviour, neither - it's entirely normal to become obsessed with what your body's up to, especially post nasty mc. Small numchuk attack from me.

ski If it's the thread I'm thinking about and the lady I think it is - ffs, she dressed her baby in "darling little cashmere cardigans and cords" (from another thread that I watched car crash in horror). She's quite, um, determined in her views and is the kind of mother that I dread meeting. It's enough to put you off children, as if childbirth wasn't enough.

Yeah, get pissed, good plan. shitter about the no line though, still it's not over till the tide appears. [hopeful]

Well it's nada from me

so what the fuck was that all about then?

Have promised doc and mr gin that I will stay well away from pg tests until sometime next week (if R2D2 hasn't shown up by then)

am really fucked off.think maybe it was a dodgy test as I am not imagining the line but it does look weird.am also pissed off with myself for testing early AGAIN and getting myself into a state.(interestingly my doc said this mania is reasonably common amongst women who are dealing with mc,it's like being pg again will 'fix' it or summat)

soooo.balls I say.

Am away this weekend,trying to remember how to sail before heading off to Greece next weekend.sorry haven't caught up with thread properly but a)I am in an arsey mood and b) we are heading off to mum and dads tonight so I've been running around trying to get sorted (still I am not remotely sorted)

in the middle of all this mani had a good half hour tantrum because he wants to go to granny and grandad's NOW (cue rather a lot of crying and shouts of 'want to go to coooooooornwaaaaaaalll!!!) to which I repeatly replied 'yep,me too mate,don't think we'd get there very fast in the pushchair though'

apart from that outburst he did make me count my blessings today.got back into bed for a cuddle after the Big Fucking Nada...I know I'm lucky to have him even if I can't get diffed again.

I intend to pull myself together and try to 'go with the flow' or something.

Will probably just get pissed

I agree ski, I just do not see why I should stop being me when I have kids. I do appreciate there will be a lot less cycling, and that it will be different (perhaps not so many 24hr races for a few years ), but stop? No thanks.

She is mad. Seriously, if I were forced to give up being "me" post-partum I'm not sure I want to have children. I know when push comes to shove it's all going to be about my personal energy levels... but I'd like to at least be able to tell myself now that I'll still exist - that I won't simply be redundant as a person. It's all very depressing.

Ha. I am enjoying this row. She is clearly just a fecking idiot. Never mess with a competetive cyclist .

I like emoticons extremedressingown - otherwise people might think I'm totally serious about everything. We need an exasperated sigh emoticon though.

Will you be wearing your clothes on holiday or are you going to be nude? Where are you off to anyway? Will we get a postcard? Are you going to EuroJizzney?

Casper, Cosmosis is already beating her whilst wearing her judgey pants. Basically this woman has indicated that I am not "emotionally viable" to be a mother... (she's using another thread about child abuse to beat me with) - but that aside, she's suggesting that you should not use your maternity leave for anything but lying on a chaise lounge breast-feeding. Woe betide any of you who wear lycra for sport!

You lot have been nattering all morning - just used half my lunch break to catch up.

So:
Books - Jody Picoult's Second Glance, Everyone that Matters (or whatever it's called) by Laura Wiesenberger (or what ever her name is - she wrote Devil Wear's Prada) and Pregnancy, Conception and Birth. Plus a couple of dirty novels perhaps I'm not supposed to admit the latter...

Welcome Pony, you had me sold on the apostrophes thing. I have a special pair of wonder-judgeypants for that. But I was a sub-editor until last year. And I love that you also have an outdoors hero type fella. I've got a fireman who throws himself down steep rapids in a bit of plastic on his days off. They call it kayaking, I call it stupid.

Shall we cyber kick those who made ski cry?

damn those spd cleats, sorry ski had forgotten about them ;)

haha Cosmosis - I hadn't realised she had a reputation for that.

Surely I can't be the only one though who's thinking "please, please, please bring on the ML so that jailbait can look after the baby and I can go running every single day at 10am". Fuck it - I've worked since I was 15 - I want my time to sit on my arse/run up hills.

Blimey ski's fight is nutty! What a loon that other one is. Though her POV sounds like my mum's (nb mother not on mn since she's not hot on the "world wide web"). Really, my Mum is lovely except for the hideous refrain of 'only women can look after babies/mothers who work are irreparably damaging their children and are utterly selfish' (except for my sister who she childminds for). It's like arguing with a creationist.

Here, ski, have an apple and lychee martini.

ski don't let that nutter get to you, she's well known for being a total loon.

ponymum it was only afterwards they mentioned that they'd been searching for 18 months and alarm bells started ringing... and the fact they didn't like that she didn't poo in the same place every time... It was all very odd - they claimed they'd had her vetted and that the vet had said these noises would cause colic. Which I thought was utter tosh - had she been vetted she'd have failed the flexion test - NOT the "noisy eating" one!

skihorse Some people are crap, aren't they? No wonder so many sellers refuse trials when that sort of thing constantly happens. Well done on the new yard.

laurielou he does - although I POAS all by myself last week.

ponymum I was going to sell her - she went away on trial - and was sent back after 10 days for making a funny noise when she ate. They later contacted me to say they knew someone who would "take her off my hands for a very low price... " So I decided to keep her and am instead changing yards this weekend and shaving 50% off my monthly bill.

pony my boyf claims to have another cure for my sore throats................

But that definitely comes under the category of the wrong hole

skihorse Yes I am horsey. I think we may have met before in the Tack Room. Did you recently sell a horse? So who is the other one on here?

Bloody stroll on, I go to bed, treat myself to a full body massage (where I woke myself up snoring) & you all move!!! Well I found you, my pretties!

Eh, buggar all to report really. Am dog-sitting for my gran, & have found myself telling said dog to "come to mummy". Oh, so, so wrong.

Still no RTOD.

Am still laughing at rainbow - hope it was your comment about where we're going wrong & should make fellas spunk in a pot. My memory is shocking - ski doesn't your fella make you pee in a pot for him to test? I think pot-spunk & turkey basters are the way to go, ladies.

ginline - WTF?? Any more lines or helpful comments from mr gin?

Oooh I like those outdoorsey men. I'm working with one this week who talks to me about "clever stuff" and has his background pic on his laptop of him at Everest base camp. I used to date solely special-forces men.

Are you a real horsey person ponymum? You would be our third.

Skihorse DH is somewhere in the middle. He does frighteningly intelligent things for his day job, and at weekends he does truly sexy mountain rescue hero stuff.

cosmosis I only said quite nice. Not very nice.

Hmm... deep breath.

Walls: cream/bone white
Cats: None, but have the ashes of previous beloved of 13 years
Lezzer crush: Cameron Diaz
Crush of Shame: Please explain
Judgeypants: M or L (but XXXL reserved for incorrect apostrophe usage)
Gin: Sorry, no. It's wine, vodka (Bloody Mary/vodkatini), or lately sharing the odd late night Whisky with DH (only to help my sore throat of course)

Do I pass?

Nice? hmmm, not sure you'll fit in that well actually.