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I'm a fully grown, adult, professional, competent, mature woman but....

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WhiteJoshsBiceps · 02/09/2019 10:58

... I fucking love stickers.

I recently bought these and they're stuck all over my professional work diary. They make me so happy Grin

I also love a hot orange squash. My mother started giving me hot orange squash to warm me up when I got home from nursery in the winter. I have had a hot orange squash every single day as my "just got home" drink ever since then.

Tell me all of the ways you're an adult competent woman but still basically four years old....

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Aderyn19 · 02/09/2019 12:34

I still like Harry Potter and watching squirrels in the park. And tangfastics.

TheDogIsMyFave · 02/09/2019 12:37

I still read Jacqueline Wilson books and by myself a pick and mix every Friday 😂

Poochandmutt · 02/09/2019 12:39

I get excited driving near an airport ,when the planes are taking off and flying low over our car ,I nearly wet myself with excitement

KirstyJC · 02/09/2019 12:40

I still push then jump onto the trolley in the supermarket car park when wheeling it to the car. I also realised recently when I had a work colleague in the car that I say 'weeeeee!' going round tight corners or roundabouts too.

Chrysanthemum5 · 02/09/2019 12:42

I love those stickers!

wanderings · 02/09/2019 12:43

Where do I begin? Not only do I like to eat Easter eggs, but I like to hunt for them as well. I love to take part in childish games like blind man's buff and pin the tail, and my favourite shoes are my "Red or Dead" T-bars, like these (and there have been threads on MN about them before); so now you know how to spot me!

I'm a fully grown, adult, professional, competent, mature woman but....
SpockPaperScissorsLizardRock · 02/09/2019 12:44

I love Lego, i pretend i'm playing with the kids but really it's for me!

If i take the kids to the trampoline park or climbing wall i always go on with them, why should they have all the fun?

I am currently contemplating buying an adult kick scooter as i had a go on one recently and it was so much fun.

cheesewitheverything · 02/09/2019 12:44

Love this thread. I agree with a lot of the things you do and absolutely love a sticker myself, and I also sometimes feel like a bit of silly running, just to let off steam. Not serious running, just a little bit of silly running, maybe a bit of jumping as well if there is no knee around and something needs jumping over.

Zaphodsotherhead · 02/09/2019 12:47

And sometimes if I'm out in the countryside, I pretend I'm a horse jumping over obstacles or trotting along...

scarbados · 02/09/2019 12:49

I get excited by the prospect of a walk on the beach because it means I can go paddling. I have 3 pairs of beach shoes specially bought for paddling.

vampirethriller · 02/09/2019 12:50

I go on the swings in the early morning when there's nobody in the park.
I love hot Ribena.
I get far too excited when I see birds.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 02/09/2019 12:50

I'm a 39 mum of one who has been married twice but I still like to pretend thunder is the footsteps of a Tyrannasuraus Rex Blush it started when I first watched Jurassic Park when I was 13

wanderings · 02/09/2019 12:55

I also love my Velcro trainers when I'm not wearing the T-bars. Scrrrrrritch… In the drudgery of being an adult, one perk is that there isn't so often someone telling you not to do something you really want to do, like putting said trainers on my feet without socks (my mum always tried to stop me doing this).

CTRLALTDELETED · 02/09/2019 12:56

I get a real kick out of putting a plaster on a graze if I’ve hurt myself.

IhaveALooBrush · 02/09/2019 13:01

I run to the soundtrack of Pirates of the Caribbean.
I like to pretend I'm running about swashbuckling with Johnny Depp.

Idratherhaveacupoftea · 02/09/2019 13:01

I've never had hot squash, what am I missing?

DerelictWreck · 02/09/2019 13:02

Right, now I desperately want a pick and mix.

What shops still sell them?

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 02/09/2019 13:02

I bought myself a dollshouse. As a grown up. It fulfills all the dreams I had as a child for the dollshouse I would definitely one day own. I now spend my tiny amount of free time doing it up gleefully like an eight year old

Chipsahoy · 02/09/2019 13:02

I love bubbles! I pretend the bubble machine is for the kids.. It's not.

CocoLoco87 · 02/09/2019 13:02

Hot squash is my mid morning drink at work! At first colleagues were a bit Hmm but now they know how to make it Grin

CocoLoco87 · 02/09/2019 13:04

And I quite like stickers but I LOVE stamps as in ink and a stamper, not the envelope ones.

Zaphodsotherhead · 02/09/2019 13:04

Hot squash is what fruit teas smell like they should taste of, but don't.

MillyMollyMooMum · 02/09/2019 13:11

@SpockPaperScissorsLizardRock you should totally buy one! My friend and I bought them to accompany our DDs but have great fun with them ourselves. Even DH likes a go too.

I like eating blancmange made in animal shaped moulds. I pretend it's for DD...

Eeyoreshouse · 02/09/2019 13:14

I make a mean sandcastle

Ilikethisone · 02/09/2019 13:16

And I quite like stickers but I LOVE stamps as in ink and a stamper, not the envelope ones.

YES!!!! I love those too.

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