We're taking the train...some now boarding, some delays, some still standing on the platform! TTC 'Waiters' IIT!

[bebejones]

Old thread here

Welcome aboard, make yourselves comfy I have a feeling it's going to be a bumpy ride!

I assumed menstrual cycle

I thought that as well I was puzzling over it for ages!

Sorry yes meant menstrual Cycle. No advice really although makes me see that others are in similar situation.
Feeling very miserable today. Pains in stomach because of period and due to other things to feel horrid. dh being lovely as always but jst feel very miserable.
Why wait-thats good that you are "normal";

amummy- sorry your feeling down today :( glad your DH is being so supportive, maybe he cud give my DP some tips, i hope the pains go soon, try a nice warm hot watter bottle and hot chocolate see if that helps :)

Hello Train! :)

I am feeling really low, DH isn't coming on holiday (at least looking very doubtful). British Gas have majorly cocked up, I mean really really fu**ed up! They cut our gas off yesterday....BY MISTAKE!!! The saga has gone on and on and on. But the cowboy contractor who did it has damaged the valve & it needs fixing to be turned back on. This was only discovered by an engineer at 7pm this evening after they had said someone would be out to reconnect it at lunchtime! Also our back door had been forced yesterday, which we think was this gas bloke (nothing taken) and no proof, but our neighbours saw him going round the back & the gas box is by the front door. AND he left all the paper work with our neighbours, I am mortified, even though it was a 'mistake'! Feel so bad for DH to have to deal with all this crap on his own :( Plus really angry that this situation has happened. Our solictor is drafting a huge formal complaint letter, the list of cock ups is huge!

Amummy - So sorry you are feeling so rubbish. I had a shortish cycle a while back & I was in agony, it was very weird. Glad your DH is looking after you.

JBells -

Will be interested to see what happens to my cycles now I have stopped my meds.

The last 6months have been a bit all over the place
#1 36
#2 25
#3 26
#4 23
#5 31
#6 28

Hope it sorts itself out!

Oh my god Bebe what a nightmare for you. Just what you and DH need! I hope your solicitor gets a proper resolution for you, that's just completely unacceptable.

What a shame your DH can't join you on holiday as well. Might he get some time off later in the year?

Sending you hugs x

DH has booked my Birthday off (it's a Monday) coz it was the only thing I asked for! But other than that he won't get any time off now until Christmas! British Gas are gonna get it both barrels! DH is still waiting for them to fix it! No heating or hot water since Tuesday even though he has told them he has a small child (they don't know we are away). They offered £50 off our next gas bill! DH has lost his holiday & over a days earnings & we need a new back door. Not to mention the stress & the cost of the phonecalls! Really angry, think I'm going to end up going home from holiday a day early so he isn't on his own anymore :(

Oh Bebe that's atrocious! Your poor DH, that's all he needs.
Sorry you're feeling rubbish too amummy and jbells.

Everybody's really down in the dumps on this train, do you think we are going through a tunnel?!

What would help? Shall I organise some light entertainment? George and Jake clearly aren't pulling their weight. Maybe I could get the all-women band from Some Like It Hot to come and do us a few 1940s numbers and we could all swig whisky out of bottles tucked into our stockings? We could make it into our own, alternative Team Building day....

Bebe, that really sucks :( I hope they get it sorted out soon for you.

I'm going back to bed shortly, on a night shift tonight and tomorrow night, but just been out for a bike ride of just over 20 miles :) Whoop, it was goooooooood :o Got home made some flapjack, yuuuuummy

bebe really sorry to read your post

what a nightmare

and hugs to amummy and jingle bells too

lets hope next week is a more positive week

No news here, just thought id check in and say high.... have had a buys week at school with parents evening and not 1 but 2 staff meetings after school tonight, so really tired but pleased i have a weekend on its way!

nannyl -jingle bells that made me laugh haha wot made u come up with that

thanks quod

100 years-well done on your bike ride, i just dont have the motivation

bebe- ((hugs)) hope things improve, sorry to hear your hol has been ruined hope you and DH are ok

jbells sorry... i have always abbreviated the song jinglebells to jbells, so i guess i thought j bells so automatically typed j ingle!!!!

lol dont need to be sorry made me chuckle, now thinking about it my username does look like abrev for jingle bells, wonder y people did actually choose there usernames tho

lol @ nannyl I hope that's not baby brain! How are we all? A bit down in the dumps? Funny I think everyone's feeling a bit like that at the moment, not just us.

Did you all read the thread about is it all worth it? Lots of BAD reports from The Other Side. I'm now seriously replaying the Doubts in my head. Really thinking of going back on the pill - mentioned this to DH who merely grunted!

See you all tomorrow!

Morning all

The train must have been going through a tunnel as I was also having a miserable day. It was so bad that I actually took myself off for a long walk home form work and then treated myself to a massage and a movie. Had a bit of a cry before I went to sleep and woke up feeling much better.

Hugs to everybody having crappy weeks....... lets hope that things get better over the weekend!

xxxx

Hi all!

I hope everyone is feeling a bit better now it's Friday!

I like jingle bells! He he!

What bike have you got 100 years? Are you a roadie like me? I fell off my bike on Sunday though and have a lovely bruise that looks a bit like Phill Mitchell's face! Bit unsettling actually.

I have not read that thread AC but I will do...

Hope things start looking up Bebe! Your bad luck must be due to run out soon! I know youhave mentioned part time work before but what about a tempory role as a TA covering a maternity leave for example just until things get better with OH's work? it would look good on your application for your PGCE too? Just a thought xxx

Hi all.

strawberrypie I actually have 2 bikes, one road bike Giant SCR and a Specialized MTB which actually has road tyres on as I wasn't able to ride my road bike for a while due to shoulder pain. I love talking bikes - be prepared for boredom LOL I love both of my bikes equally, do class myself as a roadie though, the MTB is more for training and easy trails, I DO NOT intend on doing any proper MTB stuff - I'm a wuss!!! Getting (hopefully) a turbo trainer for b'day or chrimbo so I can continue to train if it's icy over the winter and then when I (all positive etc) have a baby I can do a bit on it without having to leave the house :o

Oooh I was a TA for a while, it was great fun, really enjoyed it.

I had a bit of a moment when I was going to sleep last night, it's now October, that means it could be next month for TTC, I got very excited. I'm going to be so bad the closer it gets!!! I hope it is defo Nov that we TTC I may end up crying again if it's not.....

I've not really looked around any of the other threads, do post in a weight loss one, but other than that I've not looked around, partly because I'm still in the wait to TTC! I am so broody and want a family there isn't anything that would make me change my mind tbh.

Hello all

Is everyone feeling any better today? I was totally full of gloom yesterday too, I wonder if it's connected with the rubbish weather setting in?

AC yes I read the 'Is it all worth it?' thread, AND the old threads which were linked to on it, and ended up in a right old doldrums over the whole thing and lying awake at night going Agggghhhhhhh! (seriously). Trying to remind myself that all the people I know who are parents for the most part seem to be enjoying it hugely... and also reminded myself to consciously enjoy to benefits of being child-free while I still am...

Right, am redrafting my CV and MUST NOT LET MYSELF BE DISTRACTED BY MN!!

Have good Friday evenings, all!

hey all hope everyone is feeling ok, went out with my mum today so had a nice day was only to cosco but was nice just to get out :)

AC- dont let the thread put u off, honestly hhaving kids is such an enjoyable experience aand def worth it trust me i wudnt be doing the whole pregnancy, labour, and sleepness nites stage agen if it wasnt, the first year is terribly hard but then it really starts to become enjoyable when u see there lil personalities start to blossom :) i mite not be saying that by the time there teenagers tho lol

quod- u mite be right im always more miserable in winter i think i suffer from cabin fever hate being stuck inside, gudluck not getting distracted :)

100years- im afraid u completly lost me on bike talk lol, unfortunatly im not an outside energetic person wish i was then exercise wud be so much more enjoyable, i have had a look at the due may 2011 threads i just dont really seem to enjoy it there, everyone talks about same things comparing symptons etc, i like the variety of converstaion on this thread and that its not all about babies/ pregnancy, u feel like u get to know everyone a bit here i think

strawberry- maybe i can gtake up the name jingle bells till xmas hehe, since the countdown has begun and the shops are fully of xmas stuff

JS- hope u feel better a massage and a movie wot a gud idea :) i mite try that one the nxt time im feeling rubbish, if i can spare an hour from looking afta DD

i go to see my family in mata next tues so my weekend will prob be spent preparing suitcases, presents and things DD will need while there, dont know whether to invest in some DVT socks as ive heard your alot more prone to it whilst pregnant

Konnichiwa everyone! I am actually on a real life train, on my way back from a business trip in Japan. Unfortunately didn't get to see anything outside the hotel and offices, spent too much time fighting jetlag, and am very much looking forward to getting home to hb :) jbells I can honestly say that business travel is rubbish, and I'm sure your hb can't be enjoying it, no matter how glamorous it sounds.

I'd like to read the is it all worth it thread, but not sure it's a great idea a few days before I get my coil removed

Hope you're all well and will catch up properly once I'm home :)

Evening train!

Am home!! :) Horrid journey in the rain, took nearly an hour longer than usually from my mums house :(

Gas is back on, but the complaint is in the lap of our solicitor!

Strawberry - Will look into the TA thing, but I know places can be hard to come by! Sounds like a good idea though :)

I have glanced at the 'Is it all worth it' thread & decided that since I already have one, there wasn't much point reading the arrguments for/against! My life is different now, but on the whole it is a better, more fufilled & happy one! DD is my whole world & I couldn't imagine life without her, even when the going is tough & even when she drives me up the wall! :o

JBells - I would have to say though that although I found the first year tough at the time it was a piece of cake compared to the last 8months. Newborns are a piece of cake compared to toddlers! :o (But alot of fun!!)

No jab tonight & the start of Strictly, pizza for dinner & a tub of Bailey's Haagan Das in the freezer...marvellous! :)

Can we do an up-to-date list of where everyone is on the train? I'm a bit lost!

I'll start...

bebejones - still waiting to TTC #2(less than 3 months to go)

konnichiwa squirral, hope u enjoyed japan desoite it being work work work, have u been b4?

bebe- glad your home safe hope u enjoyed your trip despite the problems, i think im the opposite to u, i am finding DD so much easier now than when she was a baby but to be honest i think because she didnt sleep till 13 months and i wasnt getting more than 4 hours sleep a nite the sleep deprivation was really getting to me, i think everything seems easier and better after a good nites sleep, its strange because she seems to have been sleeping thru the nite for so long now but in reality it was only four months ago, im just hoping and praying that the next baby will sleep better then mayb ill enjoy the baby months a bit more 2nd time round, however DD is 17 months so mayb once she hits terrible 2's it mite get harder, hmmm a new born and a terrible 2 year old wot was i thinking lol

Hi Ladies.
So glad its Friday! Had another run in with boss who decided she would go to hr about my annualised hours to see if she could say I had to work when I was asked rather than the 3 days a week they had bloody asked me to do in the first place (hence me getting second job) would mean I couldnt do second job. Had a reserved rant saying the above so then she said she thought it was best if we left it how it is "for now". I'm sick and tired of the bloody place. Its freezing cold there already and the rats are chewing half the flaming door off to get into the staffroom!
Rant over and feel lots better as I have got wine and dh cooking tea. and bebejones I'm with you on this one...strictly is back too!
Had a funny couple of dayS. As I said, felt really miserable and had started period but although its hurt lots it hasnt been very heavy and I have felt sick the past couple of mornings so think I'm going to give it a little bit and see what happens...dont want to take a test and build my hopes up.
I'm not going to read the is it all worth it thread as I think it will make us all panic!