To have a list of things I am incredibly hacked off about this morning and to ask you lot to sort them out for me please?

[AtYourCervix]

1. The back. Was ok yesterday so I rang work and said I could probably do tomorrow but this morning it hurts like buggery again and i don't think i could work. So I have to ring them and tell them. And the sickness police will hassle me and i'll get a big black mark against my name forever more.

1. I asked 'D'H a week ago to read a book about aspergers and he hasn't. Stupid dickhead. Why does it have to be me that does all the reading/understanding/chasing/dealing with DD?

1. 'D'H is going on a beer jolly. I don't begrudge him this I'm just because I'd like a bit of fun too.

1. I want to go to the library but don't think I can walk that far and doubt I'm safe driving.

1. I am really pissed off and about my back. If i feel like this at 36 what the chuff am i going to be like when i'm 70?

Okay.... i understand you. Dh not pulling his weight,. i SO get that this morning.

How about, as you need to recuperate and as DH is going for a jolly you get in a takeaway and some wine and sit with your DD and watch dvds and cuddle.

and for yuor back- do you see anyone? i have a lousy back and swear that osteopaths are the best thing ever.

Dh is bloody marvelous normally (does all housework/cooking/cleaning etc) but has absolutely no idea about D2 and her stuff.

planning on DVDs wine takeaway etc. and will have a Nice Evening if it bloody kills me.

going to track down osteopath on monday.

work are vile about sick leave so will have to brace myself to ring them.

1. Go to the doctors about your back. I presume you have already done this?

2. My DH expects me to do all the reading/chasing/understanding on child related issues too. Then he likes me to spoon-feed him the key points, preferably abridged. It's irritating, but normal.

3. DH has been on three beer jollies this week alone, between Monday and Friday. I am going on my own champagne/gin jolly on Tuesday and I intend to make it very jolly indeed. If he raises an eyebrow I will have him shot.

4. Can't help you with the library. Buy a kindle? Send the husband today, or make him drive you there?

5. See fig.1

the good drugs make me feel like shit.

Argh poor you. Is your back being diagnosed/treated? Total sympathies from me, DH has been off with a prolapsed disc since September. I think a lot of people don't realise how utterly debilitating a back problem can be!

Argh at DH not reading the book FFS. What's his excuse?!

Fellatio

he likes me to spoon-feed him the key points, preferably abridged

I was trying have a conversation with DH about the stuff we need to buy for this baby. We were looking pushchairs I think in the Mothercare catalogue, and I asked him if he had a preference and he said "I dont know anything about them" and I got snotty and asked whether he had not actually been with me when we visited the pram shop the previous week and I had imagined him there? Had that not been him, being shown how to fold and unfold the buggies etc?
He said, and this is a direct quote, "I didnt really take that much notice. You know all about this stuff so you just tell me what I need to know so I dont need to bother"

I was FUUUUMMMING. I threw the mothercare catalogue at him and said that unless he wanted me buying the most expensive of everything then he had better start fucking bothering!

I think men treat us as walking encyclopaedias. We are expected to know everything as they cant be arsed to find out, and woe betide us if we dont

I think 'D'H should bin off the jolly, take you to the library and then you can both spend the afternoon reading books.

Regarding point 2. Whay are you asking your husband to read a book about Aspergers?

I would assume its because her DD has Aspergers...or is that too obvious?!

yes. because he knows nothing yet sees fit to sigh deeply whenever i mention anything like her crappy beige diet.

also i feel he may learn a thing or 2 about himself.

Ah! I see! That's why he doesn't want to read it. He's one step ahead of you AYC and he'd rather stick his head in the sand about his own oddities!!!

have phoned work - manager type was surprisingly nice and told me to see a certain osteopath chap.

DD2 is going with mates to pizza/cinema alone - with no adults - eeeeek.

Hey, I disagree with the idea that it's a man thing to treat women like encyclopaedias. I don't think that's normal. Or am I just lucky having a DH who is willing to read stuff like that (parenting books etc)?

How are you feeling now AYC?

Yes Freudian, you are lucky. Dh is the same, I have to read up on all the information about ASD, fill in all the millions of forms, take ds to all the appointments etc etc etc.

Atyourcervix, poor you, I did my back in last year and it's no fun at all (much better now though thank goodness). I did find that having a hot wheatbag on my back helped a lot.

Hope your day improves, Atyourcervix, bad backs are the very pits. Have a good evening pampering yourself.

But quite why men assume woman have to be the font of all knowledge defeats me. It also pisses me off mightily given the selectivity with which they digest the knowledge they demand from you.

DP is lucky to be alive after last Sunday's incidents with the bathwater and the coffee maker. Very lucky.

just walked the dogs. well. it was more of a slow hobble. and a very short one at that. i'm sure it did me good but i'm not feeling the benefit quite yet.

may have later. and if 'D'H wakes me up when he staggers in I'll have to kill him.