January 2012 - Thread 4

[shonnomanom]

Can believe we are on Thread 4 already! We must chat too much

My online portfolio, if you're interested...
I need to update it a bit, tbh. I do more macro/close-up work now and love doing mother and baby portraits, but it's trickier to get permission to use those :)

knittiekitty - I hear you on the sweet tooth front. I have eaten so much chocolate today... probably not helped by the tired/emotionally wobbly thing, but even so! Oh well. As long as I eat my vegetables too and dinner has lots of them.

ive had the courage to weigh myself and ive put on 1kg i was 66kg at booking in appointment and im now 67kg so not sure if thats good or not but i have just stopped throwing up last saturday so we will see what happens.

Got to go for a dress fitting for my bro's wedding on saturday so not sure what size to get. my dress for my wedding is a 14 so might just get a 14.

Anyone else finding they are filiping at the dp's over the slightest thing i was shouting at him because he couldnt tell me where he had put the remote for the big t.v.

Good evening ladies, apologies as I haven't had time to read back over. I hope everyone is doing good. Oiesha how's your puss after his dental?

First of my new courses started today and I have to say i have had better starts :(
A combination of all the worst things-getting stuck in traffic and getting lost, printer not working so I couldn't do any photocopying, the people in the building I was running the course for couldn't find the keys to the rooms, the learning support worker was late and then I had to dash off to school to get DD. A comedy of errors and ill preperation-you'd think that after almost 7 years teaching i'd know better! and to make matters worse we didn't get enough enrolments so it may not run :( If it doesn' that another 50 quid a week down the drain. I have already lost 45 quid a week from the courses that they have dropped.

In consesquence I have just spent up until 5 minutes ago massively over planning for tomorrows course, also the first day for that one. I am determined that the mistakes of today will not come bite me on the bum tmrw. I am knackered though-time for a cup of chammomile tea and going to watch dinosaurs bbc documentary with DH.

Re: sickness and sex...err...well, still being occasionally sick and Abi's a girl...well, 90%.

makescakes (((hugs)))

addicted Congrats! Welcome to team pink! I kinda know what uou mean by 'expecting a boy', though I had a feeling it was a girl. Everyone was telling me she was a boy for one reason or another, and as I wanted a girl for my MIL's sake, but didn't want to kinda get her hopes up, well, I kinda just never rationally thought Yolkis would be an Abi!

Luckily very little hip pain today, despite lying on the spare bedroom floor for about an hour, sobbing beause my poor boy's looking sooo poorly.

On to the major stress of the day...Bo-Bar. He's ok. Had to have 1 tooth out and has had a biopsy though it's more than likely a patch of infection. He's just so zonked by the anesthetic. He can barely walk - his back end gives way - but this is getting slowly better we think. He barely blinks. His pupils are still fairly dilated. Hasn't eaten or drunk anything. Hasn't even licked the paste off his face that I put the anitbiotic in. It's stressing me and DH out considerably as it's so unlike him to be this quiet, and as his bro reacted very well last year - with more teeth out. I really, really wish I didn't have a driving lesson first thing tomorrow...or work. I guess I'll have to see how he is in the morning. No better and I will be ringing the vets.

fish (((hugs to you too)))

Oh, ladies. and - the tasty kind - to all those of you having bad days/ weeks. It will get better! Xx

Hugs back to you Oeisha. I sympathise, my love for my old cat was like nothing else I had experienced. I know they are animals and you have to prepare yourself for the fact they don't live as long as we do but it still hurts.

I hated it when my beautiful handsome ginger boy went in to have his teeth done. They did a kidney function test before the op to check he was ok for aneasthetic and sadly thats how his kidney failure was detected. We had him for less than 6 months after that. Watching him go from the kind beautiful dignified proud companion he was to the mess he became was the saddest thing I have ever been through. I still think about him everyday. DH and miss him and it's like an ache in the heart.

addicted congrats on team pink.

The second of my new courses begins today-I am better oragnised but still stressing-gotta get there for 10 but drop dd at 9. It's 30 mins drive away, doesn't leave me very long to get ready :( Thankfully this time there is bloomin photocopier available onsite.

Oiesha-i have just read back last post. I'm so sorry-you really don't need to hear my tales of woe about my pudda-he was 15 at the time FFS, yours will be fine. I'm sorry, how insensisitive of me.

Makes cakes I love your photos! I think my favourite one of all is the Huntress, the cat with the mouse... And I wish I looked like that gorgeous pregnant lady you have on there... Oh, and I smash your theory out of the water, I'm afraid: have never thrown up in any of my pregnancies, and all have been girls...
Oeisha how is your puss this morning? Animals are so sad-looking after anaesthetics, hope he perks up quickly...
Fish keeping fingers crossed for today - surely things can only get better??

Have a good day ladies. I'm going on a babywearing course tomorrow - very excited! Never did it with either of the others, probably because it was unheard of here back then, but this time I think it will be both wonderful and practical (the school walk is up a stony, muddy path and along roads with no pavement, so completely impractical for a pram, and already got two hands to hold).

Oiesha - hope your boy is feeling better today - cats are a pitiful sight when they're not well, aren;t they? Make man-flu pale in comparison. I remember when one of ours had anaesthetic - his eyes were all wide and starey and you could just tell he was hallucinating all sorts of weird things, it was kind of funny once he'd recovered.

Have you tried him with his fave treats?

I have to book my boys in for their jabs, they will not be impressed.

I am still knackered today, but feeling a bit more cheerful/resigned about it. I coped when I had ME - I finished my degree, married my lovely husband, kept up my writing - I can totally cope with this.

The HR woman at DH's work asked him yesterday how I was doing and he told her about the ME and feelign tired and how I was a bit down and she just said to tell me that she had never felt so tired as she did when she was pregnant and she'd never had ME. It was so sweet of her to make that effort and after DH's stint as a teacher (about which we do not talk) it is so lovely to hear examples of what a caring, human company he works for now.

X-posts with butterfly - thank you for the compliments! That beautiful pregnant lady is a very good friend of mine and her little boy is nearly two now! Can't believe it. The funniest thing is to think that she was actually pregnant when we did the glamour shots of her, too, but only about 5 or 6 weeks. I too wish I looked as good pregnant as she did! Though I have asked DH to take some pics of me in my undies just as a record. He's not much of a photographer, but if I set up the camera and lighting he always takes the best pics of me - it's like the camera records how he sees me, whilst my self-portraits are nearly always awful (recording how I see myself??? Very deep...)

The babywearing course sounds really good - I didn't realise there were courses, I thought it was just a lifestyle thing. Please report back and tell me/us everything. I want to do a lot of sling wearing, but not sure about babywearing 100% so really am keen to hear.
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fish wasn't insensitive at all. My boys are still very young 5y/o, so they're unlikely to have kidney failiure.

Sorry also to hear of your work woes. At least my job is relatively stable (if poorly paid and underappraciated).

makescakes What a lovely DH too! Mine spent some of the night up with me whilst I sobbed some more, despite me trying to hide it from him (he has a job interview today and didn't want him to be tired).

I seem to be cycling fairly rapidly between ok and BSM at the moment. Think I need to sit down and get all the niggles properly out of me with someone a bit more senior at work. Everyone else seems to be given time to 'do things' - just basic job related things rather than any 'development', yet I seem constantly to be on the font line and unable to 'progress' because of it. Anyway, hey-ho!

As for Bo-Bar. He is much better this morning. Still not functioning on full cylinders, but has eaten a bit and has come to us both for snuggles (though mine was brief). He's also tidied himself up a bit - so has had the antibiotic I smeared round his mouth lastnight. So thank you for all your support.

Oh god. Driving lesson in a minute. Soo bloody tired I'll be amazed it if I don't cry or crash...

I hope we all have a positive and productive day...

oh leaking nips, one of the many joys!

quiet thread today

Thanks all, it's so nice to have somewhere to gnash and wail.

Mia leaky nips poor you, breast pads at the ready. My nibbles are sore but not bad.

cakes going to have perve at your portfolio now over a cuppa, I have an hour before i have to go and DD from school, and I have just got home, i'll be so glad when she starts proper school hours all this to-ing a fro-ing is driving me mad but that sounds like a prefect way to spend 45 mins.

Work today went soo much better, a massive contrast, the group were lovely, the facilities were perfect, the room was all set up for me, somewhere to do my photocopying, a flip chart teas and coffees. The ladies who have joined are really nice too.

I have an hour before i have to go and DD from school, and I have just got home, i'll be so glad when she starts proper school hours all this to-ing a fro-ing is driving me mad.

The gas man is coming out again this afternoon to have another go at the boiler I thumped the other day-they came out sunday but its still leaking. I haven't told them I thumped it with a bit of wood. Mostly some nuts and washers have come loose.

It is. I'm here, but felt like I was dominating rather!

Good lck with the boiler/gas man and so glad ur group today went better - what is it you teach?

Gah. Cat on lap making it impossible to type/

I teach confidence and assertiveness among other things-oh the irony. But thats the whole point, acting confident=equals other people believing youre confident=you believeing in yourself=more confidence. Thats my theory anyway.

Oh that pic of your lord marmalade made me cry a bit-looks just like my old boy mentioned above. I would love to share the lovely pic I have of him but I dont know how.

Ok have uploaded a pic onto my profile here. Wooo go luddite!

He was my mum's beautiful cat who died just before my wedding - we all still grieve for him, such a sweet natured chap. My little black chap is even sweeter than he was, but not half as pretty. You just can;t beat a really handsome ginger job for looks, can you?

Will go look at your pic now.

Um fish is your profile listed as public or private? Because it won;t let me click on your name...

Afternoon ladies! I'm in the process of doing a very dull job involving a spreadsheet I don't really understand. Roll on 5.30!

fish I'm glad this course sounds more promising than the other one. That must be a relief. I still haven't called the boiler people, as ours has sprung a leak too. The trouble is that I know where the leak's coming from, but I don't know what the bit's called, so don't want to sound like too much of a pillock on the phone trying to describe it!

cakes - I was struck by your beautiful friend too. Wish I was blooming that well! You've got some great London shots too.

oiesha - hope you didn't crash! Glad your puddy tat's a bit better.

I've just noticed that my bump is a very odd shape - round at top and bottom but flat between. Anyone else, or am I a freak?? I'm sure I was more rounded last time.

feeling cold and shivery and want to go to bed instead of the school run. Went to a local sling meet and tried a couple on didn't know there are so many.

Profile should now be public

fryn my bump changes shape quite often-I think shripy sometimes pushes his head out to one side.