to list everything that is bothering me today? You can do the same.

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1. I am excruciatingly bored.

1. Husband is out playing golf. This in itself not too bad, but he works away all week so I have spent all week looking after the children only for more of the same at the weekend.

1. Am mainlining junk food (see point 1). Bombay mix sandwich anyone? Feel a bit bloated.

1. One of the threads in Active Convos is reminding me that my marriage is in serious trouble and I ought to do something about it really.

1. I am daydreaming about divorcing my husband. I mentioned divorce to him a couple of weeks ago and he looked surprised and frightened. He has since been buying me gifts. He is not a bad man. Is it enough to stay together because we're both nice enough people and it would be a big hassle splitting up? In my totally unrealistic divorce daydream we live amicably in one house with the children, but I get a red hot lover. Ha ha.

1. I live 1000s of miles away from all my family.

1. I am lonely. And bored. And leading rather a pointless existance.

1. One of my children has never in his whole life slept for more than 90 minutes. He is nearly 3. We have foul tantrums every day because I am trying to cut down his ferocious breastfeeding schedule.

1. I spend too much time on the computer.

10. The house is a tip again already. It was clean and tidy this morning.

11. Meh. I shall go and name change back again now and keep calm, carry on. Sometimes it's nice to blurt it all out eh?

CupcakesHay: I love your point 5. God don't you just love mothers who say that kind of thing? Did you have a good one-liner to reply with?

Yuno: whoops, sorry. But you have to admit it does sound like an armoured bear in the Northern Lights/Golden Compass . The point about the book being my phD was merely intended to indicate just how much of my life had gone into that book, as well as the fact it isn't cheap to replace when my father gets over his hissy fit

1. I can't summon the energy to do anything, even though I really want to be playing with my ds.

2. I'm upset that these are the last weeks I'll have with just my ds before much-longed for new baby will, all being well, arrive.

3. Am feeling massively guilty for not using this time properly, and for only wanting to eat and be on computer/watch tv when I should be having lots of special moments with ds.

4. Am feeling massively guilty for being scared and worried about impending labour with 2nd dc, when I've wanted this for so long.

5. Have a chest infection which I'm scared will impair my performance in labour.

6. Have put on too much weight again in pregnancy, and I know it's going to take forever to lose, but I can't stop myself eating.

7. Can't get myself out of the house and I'm ashamed of how fat I am now. I think my dh is getting sick and tired of me.

On the upside, my ds has got some new wellies and is inordinately excited by them.

Thanks for this thread. I really needed to offload that.

freakoid, we must compare notes re the wanting someone you can't have.

i sometimes wonder if it's just cos i need to shag him lol!!

Oh, and the Camerons nicked the name I'd chosen for dd, due in 3 weeks, which we'd decided on 15 weeks ago. Whhhhyyyy??

1. i really want a car and cannot afford one

2. x-p really winds me up and enjoys doing it. i'm so tired of playing bad cop.

3. i would love more of a social life but cannot afford a babysitter. this makes it difficult to make new friends and to date, as well as relating to my own friends.

4. i too have put on too much weight, and can't imagine looking hugely better if i lose it, due to saggy belly, boobs and stretch marks

5. dd gone out for a couple of hours over dinner, i have no idea what to eat and wish to god somebody would cook me dinner. nobody ever cooks me dinner!

6. i have spent years working myself nearly into the ground at uni, and feel like i have nothing to show for it. no car, no house (that i own), job searching at the moment. no money, no trips away - nada.

7. i keep having panic attacks when i think about my job status, they have returned for the first time in years.

8. i am really tired. my health is poor from such stress over the last few years. i feel devoid of energy, with my first grey hairs, first fine lines and am just not looking very well at all.

9. i can't swim. this really annoys me.

10. i have hit late twenties. now i know that i am not really old. but i really feel like i've achieved little in my life and that my future is mapped out already for me.

11. i am trapped in a city which i really want to leave. all because i need to keep dd next to xp. this annoys me as he was out of our lives for nearly two years and has only copped on recently. now i have to march to his tune.

12. i have a headache.

i do feel a little better now .

group hug?

oh lordy ooosabeauta that is pretty bad. i feel terribly sorry for you! are you going to go ahead with the name? why not, its beautiful.

1: my house is a tip but tidying is like Groundhog day
2: I have a massive salt spot on the tip of my tongue whcih really hurts
3: After a week off work, I don't want to go back.
4: I am dreading school returning and the resurrection of all ds's school problems and the knock-on effect on the rest of us.
5: Nothing in my house works properly and is all falling to bits
6: We never have enough money to fix anything.
7: Two old friends have decided together that i am persona non gratis, for some reason, so my social life seems to be dead in the water at the moment.

ahaha, this thread has cheered me up, glad it's not just me!

1. 10 wk old has a cold
2. due to no.1 I have had barely 2 hours sleep in a row all week
3. 2.4 yo keeps having tantrums
4. I've still got over a stone of baby weight to lose and despite DD2 being attached to my boobs constantly it's not shifting
5. i seem to have developed really bad b.o and have to change tops/deoderise at least twice a day
6. the thought of having post-baby sex for the first time makes me want to hurl, but I think DH wants to as he keeps trying to snog me. Dunno why, see points 4 and 5. Thankfully so far the baby-as-human-shield trick seems to be working.

oosabeauta, you had a lucky escape, way too many florences around anyway. Your list sounds like me about 10 weeks ago!

1. Am incredibly hungover after DD2 introduced me to drinking games last night.

1. DD2 drank more than me and has been wafting about the house in shorts since she got up. She also managed to get up at 4am to go surfing with DS. No hangover .

1. DH wants to go on another epic bike ride and I don't have the heart to tell him to bugger off.

1. Work is crap. Working for the NHS is even more crap.

1. DD1 hasn't been home in 6 months because ex H took in a lodger and all the kids feel uncomfortable around her.

1. The tossing postman woke me up at 8am with 8 parcels for DD2. All snowboarding stuff. It's the middle of summer, FFS!

1. DD2 has just informed me I need to take her to work 'like, now'. I can't even afford to give her money for the bus so I'll have to drive.

1. Money is tight this month and it's not fair. Why does food cost so much?

Piratecat yes lets. What's the situation with yours?

oh yeah, just in mood for this :(

1. in loads of pain with whiplash, cracked sternum and 3 broken ribs from car crash

1. Have been trying fill in forms for my disabled son for last 4 hours

1. Disabled child is going for major surgery in london in 10 days and i have to be well enough by then.

4.Doc put me on Diazepam on thurs for pain/stress so i can't even drink.

1. Online supermarkets slots are full locally til Tues.

6 Car was written off in accident,lovely BMW courtesy car sitting outside that i am to sick to drive!

1. House is a total tip

OOOO, thanks girls, I feel better now!

1. Have twisted my knee funny and it keeps giving out from beneath me.

1. Hate DH working Saturdays and having a day alone with DC with nothing to do.

1. Cross at the 2 parents who pulled out of todays planned playdates. And I even double booked as knew one of them would pull out at the last moment.

1. Sad for DD who is upset that friend didn't come over. Cross at myself for telling her in the first place.

1. Also mainlining peanut M&Ms. And depressed about weight.

1. Feeling cross that DF is now visiting on the same weekend as Dsis, so will be ignored in the shadows of their mutual love in. Especially as relatives live in the Americas and haven't seen either of them in over a year.

1. My mother and father are arriving in a couple of hours and my house needs a decent deep clean. My mother will notice and I will feel inadequate.

1. DH sodded off into the garage to 'potter' this afternoon whilst I was in the middle of trying to sort the house out, leaving me with rubber gloves on and a screaming baby. I had to yell at him to get back in.

1. I have to sort out all the sleeping arrangements before my DH gets back from mass at 7pm and I can't be arsed.

1. I turned 31 yesterday. I feel old.

1. I can't shift the remaining 1/2 stone of baby weight, neither can I stop eating.

1. It has done nothing but fucking rain for weeks.

1. ds is constipated.
2. he was sick on carpet in new rented flat, cleaned up, turned back, more sick. 3)cat bit me on arse. Twice.
3. broke all four of our wine glasses and two which were in flat after I dropped them during arse biting incident, drinking wine from novelty tumbler.
4. new oven in flat only heats air outside it hence 6 hours later still raw leg of lamb.

Thanks.

Decided to have a clean up as been on holiday for 2 wks and had a cold this week and 17 wks pg so house a tip and washing and un packing to do.
Dh meant to help but did everything slowly and crappy between multiple pauses to stare at football results or change music on pc. I ended up doing loads and wore myself out so too tired to swim with them so he took dd in a grumpy manner and now I feel guilty! phew!

Need2rant and Putthekettleon we're still using it

It was my dh's late granny's name and she died in December, and ds is named after my grandfather, so as far as my dh is concerned, changing our minds is not an option...

She was the only person I've ever liked out of all of my in-laws so I do think it's the right thing to do. Usually dh only gets flak about his family, so it's nice to honour the decent one there was. Maybe if I could explain all of this to Dave and Sam, they might reconsider, just for me.

hiya freakoid, oh, mine is a man who has been an aquaintance for a couple of yrs. i did have a thread going if i can link, what's your situation? I am currently not doing very well with the no contact rule.

After i said right no more, i found a few days later that i had rather alot more things to say to him. In hindsight thats prob not been the best thing, but i had to get some thoughts off my chest.

my thread