Calling The Viroids - Just Shagging Graduates!

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Just thought I'd start a thread for all those JS graduates, whether a newbie graduate or even if you left us a while ago and are well on your way. Would be good for us to keep in touch, see if we're all staying 'sane'.

Don't know about you ladies, but I am still filled with the overwhelming urge to PIAR (that's POAS for all you older graduates - after you left us we went a little mad and started harnessing the power of the ramekin!) I think once you start the habit it doesn't leave you!

Well, it's good to know that the Just Shagging method works. Even if we did once in a while just cheat a teeny tiny little bit!

Oh deemented I'm so sorry to hear that , and I hope you've got lots of support around you to help you feel however you feel, for however long you feel it.

So, so sorry to hear that deemented . Can only repeat what TTL says and hope you have support around to look after you for as long as you need it.

COAAF I'm the same with Cambridge - used to live there, absolutely love it, and now have moved again so am within an easy hour's drive and virtually never go. Good luck with the pushchair shopping.

Deemented SO SO sorry to hear your news, that is truley awful. I don't profess to know how to even start to cope with that, I just hope you and DP find a way. I've been lurking a lot but couldn't read and run this time...

Esk its been very sunny here in the burgh last few days proper warm sunshine, its coolling off a little so pack a cardie but hopefully will stay dry for you. If you need any recommendations I'm your girl

COAAF So glad you got a house finally - you can build your nest now hopefully!

Waves to everyone else

COOAF In my speed read earlier I completely missed you have a house. Congrats, you must be so thrilled to have somewhere

coaaf Great news about the potential house!

frak Wow that is soon! Your the first sent you? Who's next to go? Can't believe how quick the time is going so I hope the last few weeks go as quick!

Esk hope you enjoy your break. I am off to Cornwall on the weekend and really looking forward to it now.

demented really sorry to hear that. Hugs from me and not sure what else to say.

If anyone is planning on using a tens all the Lloyds ones are half price so just ordered a Ellie for £35 so not much more that hiring.

www.lloydspharmacy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=90&catalogId=1008&productId=5406&fromPage=Basket

Shit, so sorry dee. Hugs x

oh, dee i'm so sorry. :(

mke sure your DP looks after you and pampers you (although I'm sure it's hard on him too)

Dee that is really sad news. I echo everyone's comments.

COAAF - fab news on the house front, must be a huge weight off your mind.

at Esk and Cowboy's breaks! I am however off to Scotland next month. DH is taking me to celebrate/commiserate hitting the big 3-0

Right, I'm going to do TMI now.

My right areola is now bigger than my left one.
It's annoying, because it ruins the symmetry (not that there was much symmetry before, because left boob is slightly higher anyway)

also, in the past few days, my labia have swollen to gigantic proportions.
It looks like I've ben stung by a bee!
(not annoying or unconfortable, though, just looks odd )

nickel don't panic, its normal - one of my boobs was quite a bit bigger/heavier than the other for the first few weeks, the other caught up (mostly), so isn't permanent. Have to confess I have no idea about my labia... not looked down there for several years!

at vallinna's impending birthday. With a grand total of 14 1/2 months before my own big 3-0 I am still feeling just about smugly secure in my 20s. Come back in a year and I'll be planning holidays too

Very jealous of all of you on proper holidays, even though I am now working at home and DH is at home too for Easter Hols, so I feel very chilled at the moment ...

coaaf that is brilliant brilliant news - congratulations!

I think the areola weirdness is normal too. At least I hope it is. Mine have gone ginormous and brown. I want my old nipples back! And my old belly button! I wouldn't recognise my body in a line-up now, I don't think!

So sorry dee - you and manshape look after yourselves :(

On the areola/nipples/TMI DH looked at mine the other night and said, in a confused voice, 'is it normal for them to go big and dark like that?'. Yes, dearest, and they've been like that for months although I appreciate you probably haven't seen my breasts since about Christmas because of the unsexy leakage which has an annoying tendency to happen overnight...

I still have an innie belly-button though (although it's under strain).

Me too frak - an innie but it doesn't look like my innie

As I'm only 29+2 I reckon it'll end up as an outie :(

I like my innie.

In other news, Holly Willoughby may have gone into labour, apparently, though her baby is due in May. Am now a weird freaky sort of person who takes a morbid interest in other pregnancies ...

I'm not looking forward to more body changes.

I don't want brown areolas and nipples.
I like my pink ones.
I don't mind them getting bigger (at the same rate please!) but I don't want them to turn brown.
They won't look right. :(

nickel get used to it

Mine were pretty, small and pink (if I do say so myself). Now they're like big banana bruises stuck in the middle of my boobs, and they're covered in white pimples and crusty white stuff. On the plus side, DH used to dislike brown nipples/areolas but he doesn't say anything now, because he's just pleasantly bewildered by the size of the boob itself (not that it's even that big). Tbh, I'm more worried he'll like me less when I go back to my normal self (if I ever do ...). He seems to like weird-body-me just as much, if not more, than normal-body-me.

"and they're covered in white pimples and crusty white stuff"
[boak][boak]

Glad it's not just me confused with the nipple changes! Mine have gone from being surprisingly perky for there size and now they look like flappy triangles with huge (but still pink) nipples! I was trying to work out why my boobs had 'sugar' on but turns out it was just leaky stuff dried!

I really don't want to think of labia at the moment as I actually cried to DH last week incase I get flappy and saggy!

how far are you gone, then Cowboy (looking forward to keping pink nipples for a bit...)

I have to say, the labia thing is rather comfortable.
I can't explain it, but it's like "padding".

I showed DH, and I think he was more interested in the fact that I was flashign my bits to him than noticing the enlargemnt
(he'd already had a bit of a flash that day, cos I went to talk to him while I had not bottoms on - he was still in bed)

I love my boobs. And still love my boobs. Nips are pretty much the same, a little darker and boobs themselves are, in DH's word, epic (but from a low starting point ) I am already slightly dreading the possibility of the post-breastfeeding sag :(

Still, as DH has me saying as a mantra "What do a care about more [hairloss/fat/saggy boobs/constipation/not drinking/etc] or the baby" Bastard, shuts me up every time

I see you your white pimples and raise you four cup sizes in three months. They're bloody heavy.

vallinna - reply with "which do you worry about most, me being concerned about my rapid body changes or being punched in the stomach?"
that'll shut him up.

In other news, I have resolved to tell my boss today that I'm pg... bricking it slightly... anyone have any thoughts to bolster my resolve? Please?

katee you beat me but I reckon nickel's labia wins overall

vallinna the beauty of your DH's argument is that you can turn it back on him if he ever fails to be turned on by his saggy, constipated wife (not that that will ever happen, of course).

Also, anyone else resorting to blind hair removal? I have heard awful stories of women having to be shaved by nurses in preparation for an emergency C-section ... I am therefore determined to keep trimmed. I'll probably brave it and go for a wax before the birth but until then I'm just shaving, but I can't see what I'm doing for bump. So I'm basically wildly waving a very sharp blade about my bits and hoping for the best . No injuries so far and the mirror reveals I'm not doing the worst job imaginable ...

Sorry, cross-post katee.

I was worried about telling work too because I'd not been there long. But as my ex-boss said to me, 'don't be scared, it's every working woman's right'. And it is. It's your right to get pregnant, it's the law, and they have no choice but to deal with it.

Plus, when it comes down to it (despite the odd horror story), in general people are excited about babies and actually very nice. I'm sure your boss will be lovely and you'll be breathing a big sigh of relief at the end of the day. I've forgotten what you do?

On the other hand you could, like me, ignore above advice and be a total coward and do it by email

Thanks TTL, I work in univ admin and my boss has been working very hard to get my contract extended (due to end this summer)... so feels a bit like kicking him in the teeth. But, I know its my right and he's a nice guy, I just don't like the feeling I am dropping him in it!