By hook or by crook we will shag our way to victory - thread for the JSing viroids

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The (updated) (again) 'rules' from our Just Shagging Originator for the Viroids:

Maintain a relaxed attitude at all times - drink if you want too, especially on your birthday (or when you?ve had bad news). Thread precedent dictates if you drink to excess you will get a BFP (but not recommended).

Covet thy husband and enjoy every minute. Shag at every opportunity - shag-capes and awesome superpowers optional.

Keep acronym-age to a minimum! EWCM is now to be referred to as 'pant snot'. Try not to get sucked in by Fertility Friend (at least for a while), but knowing where you are in your cycle and furkling for pant snot is most definitely allowed.

Bunting is to be put out for any small victory, thread-parties are held regularly and hugs are always welcome!

Once you have your BFP, feel free to hang around and share your wisdom and virtual cocktails with the JSers.

Keep us up to date with gossip!

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Most of these rules are well and truly broken!! But we try to chill - honest

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Part 1 Graduates:
Tanmu82 - BFP
PrivetDancer - BFP
OnlyWantsOne - BFP
Frankenfanny ? BFP
Notso - BFP
knittakid - BFP
loopeylu - BFP
PinkFondantFancy - BFP
Grannyapple ? BFP
Fuzzywood - BFP
canoe - BFP
janedoe - BFP
StarflowerGirl - BFP

Part 2 Graduates:
ihaveaplan - BFP
lovemylulu - BFP
shitforbrains - BFP
gormers - BFP

Part 3 Graduates
Bonkerz - BFP
Kitten - BFP
Cowboylover - BFP
takingtheplunge ? BFP

Part 4 Graduates:
NoMoreChocBiscuits - BFP
Milanomum - BFP
TakeThatLady - BFP
Cremegg - BFP
BrassicaBabe - BFP
Dynababy - BFP

Shout if I've missed anyone

What does that mean, Vallinna? Did you double your dose?

You'd be a blue-arsed NMCB in that case! No problems with MN from my end.

Not piles, thankfully. Just a bit bunged up and uncomfortable. It's to bad the onlyt seasonal fruit at the mo is apples and pears. Apples causes bunging and while pear help de-bung they are so revolting I won't even contemplate them

Hope your numbers start to behave Vallinna

Miffles They did indeed double my dose over the weekend (Fri, Sat and Sun)

NMCB ohh, pears over apples any day of the week. I do like a nice pear

NMCB I am this very moment soaking some prunes in tea, with a view to making fruity flapjacks. A delicious snack that will hopefully, um, encourage the natural progression of life.

Miffles I shall probably be out of a job by end of January, but not looking for anything else. We are v lucky to have no debt, no mortgage (we're renting) etc. and with DS out of nursery we won't really be losing out on that much. So I'll be a SAHM full time .

Ooh vallinna at least doubling the dose had an effect (even though too much of an effect). Sure they'll get it right soon enough.

Poor you nmcb . I know how you feel. Today I was being observed by the scariest man in the department (he's so scary that when he tries to talk to me about intellectual things I usually say stuff like 'I like your shoes' or discover that my own shoes are on the wrong feet or something...) I am telling you this because once again I recommend fear, rather than sitting naked in the snow, as a laxative. Pretty painful even so

darkstar I have always been adamant that I would work when I had children, and now it's coming around I'm always thinking I wish I didn't have this bleedin' mortgage and this feckin' job 60 miles away from work .... when I analyse this, it's only because I imagine that life as a SAHM would be all baking, sneaky glasses of wine in the afternoon, and idyllic children doing always what they're told when in fact I'm sure I'll be desperate to get to work because at least the students half do what I tell them and I have an office to sleep work in . Catch 22 whichever way I s'pose...

No Christmas present-buying here at all yet. Going to start on Saturday ... eeek. No idea what to get DH. Probably just a shag would please him at the moment

60 miles away from home. Idiot!

ttl tbh the thought of being a SAHM terrified me until recently. I was happy to go back to work because I just thought 'how will I fill up the time without resorting to television?' And I did have the best of both worlds because my job was only p/t and DS settled into nursery really easily.

But lately I had already been feeling a bit like maybe I wanted to give SAHMing a try, and that DS wanted to be with me - he's reached an age where we can do much more together. I found the 8-9mo mark (when I went back to work) incredibly hard, because DS was very alert and into everything but wasn't mobile, so would just demand to be carried everywhere all the time.

I don't think there is any right or wrong answer, just a variably happy medium for every mother and child.

darkstar. Well said

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(cos it's gone off thread s i'm on)

can anyone remember when I was ovulating?

I can't find it on this thread - i think it might be on the other one...

s'orright, i foudn it.

having funny tummy again today and trying to wokr out when ertd is due.
will be day 24 today, i think....

LOL at Nickel asking us when she ovulated!

Interesting discussion going on here about SAHM vs working. I think there will be guilt and pros and cons whatever we decide. Am really pleased for Darkstar that, although the decision has been made for you, you are in the position for it to work.

I would ideally like to work p/t - my job will allow this, but not sure if a) we'd manage financially and b) my mum had always wanted to look after DC, but she is really unwell, so can't commit to anything. Wait and see, I guess!

well, i don't take any notice of it! (worst JSer ever, i think!)

I'll be SAHM, but working too - that makes no sense, of course!
I have my own shop, so i'm hoping to have t'baby here with me, so i'll be working.
i'm hoping it will be a good marketing tool...

(not sure how i'll cope when it won't stop crying or i have to sit BFing for hours on end...)

You're the best JSer for that, Nickel!!!

Vallinna will it totally mess it up for it to be that high, or is it saveable?

Hope you manage to get unbunged soon NMCB, please don't go and sit in the snow!

Miffles, he didn't watch the videos (he was playing something on the PS3, probably Call of Duty) but he glanced over occasionally!!

I don't think I could be in charge of music and go part time, but I quite like the power so not sure if I could relinquish it .

And LOL, yes Nickel is defo the best JSer for not taking notice!!

On that note, my temperature dropped by .2 of a degree this morning, so am now wondering if AF will arrive just in time for school trip tomorrow. Joy of joys. As you can tell, I am full of Christmas cheer today . DH now getting me my wine .

Loving Mog's idea of christmas cheer and Nickel having us keep tabs on her ovulation. Good work viroids .

In the end the thought of going outside at all put me off freezing my bum. Not looking forward to the supermarket run later on. Did I mention Brrrr?

Am interested in reading other's thought on the SAHM vs working mum thing. I've ended up being a SAHM partly through choice and partly through circumstance (immigration and then the crap economy). Now I'm upduff again I'm not likely to work for another year or so. Will just have to see how things pan out. Either way you do what works best for you I feel.

DarkStar I've thought about prunes. Then I stopped thinking about them because they seem to be on my aversion list. Hope your flapjacks turned out yum though.

Morning. Busy week here. Working from home though all week because of the weather. I like working from home because of the lack of commute, but after 3 days I'm starting to go a litle stir crazy!!

Prunes worked for me nomore Apricots too. But if you are calorie counting, prunes were less.

I pronounce Nickel to be Queen JSer for not knowing what CD she is!

I hope you are still good to go vallinna

Still only slight nausea at my end.-sicky emoticon

i think i've started my period today, though (last night, really), so you all have to start again!

I said to DH "looks like you've failed again, DH" (well, I called him his real name, I don't call him DH IRL! )
he just looked chuffed cos he gets to JS loads (in a week, though)

Mog I think you're just cold

NMCB - SAHM definitely the best option today - it just won't stop snowing.
i know it's old new to everyone else, but it only started here yesterday. (sittingbourne is like a backwater - it's about 20 years behind in everything)

The SAHM question is very big in our household at the moment (and we don't even have kids to worry about yet)

Due to move and DH's change of career (at 36, very brave move, but it has been so tough) I have been the sole earner for about 2 years now. We are now ttc and I have great maternity benefits here (well... 6 months at full pay is not bad, is it? Provided Greek economy stays afloat) but would ideally like to stay home longer... By then hopefully DH will be working again, but in his new career which means he will be starting quite low on the salary scale... So it looks like SAH is not going to be an option :( though I think being an Early Years teacher and coming home to a baby might drive me round the bend, so looking at alternatives within the same school - there is a post of responsibility coming up so I think I will be going for it (though then might get pregnant... ooops)

Sorry for verbal diarrhoea... but we have been discussing for a while with DH and it is not an easy decision to make. Any SAHM's who HATE it? (or find it diffuclt to say the least?)

Morning everyone

It's a bloody blizzard here today! I walk to work but when I tried to park my car at home this morning (after being to yard) I got it stuck, so my poor Bertie is abandoned! He's almost in his usual space though so I'm sure he'll be happy enough

I'd love to be a SAHM, I hate working to start with, it just mucks everything up, but for financial reasons I can't even afford the full year maternity leave so I will be back at work full time as soon as I can . Would love to stay at home, providing of course I could palm the baby off on an unsuspecting babysitter and go riding . Seriously though, I always thought I'd just go straight back to work but the chances are you'll miss out on loads and I now think your kids are way more important than work. Money always gets in the way

Afternoon viroids.
Lol at Nickel asking us about ovulating. Seems that's the very essence of JSing
I'm not snowed in, in fact we had about 3 flakes yesterday and that was it. I want to know where my share is!
Having said that I'm off work with a nasty cold anyway so a snow day would make no difference to me today.
I thought I'd blinded myself during the night. I put Olbas Oil on a clean sock to sniff to clear my sinuses so I could sleep. I woke up at some unearthly hour to find the whole right side of my face on fire. The wretched sock had plastered itself to my eye socket. Couldn't open my right eye and I'm really right side dominant - my left eye is really lazy and I can't open it if the right is closed. Spent about 10 minutes in our freezing little bathroom bathing it with warm water and trying anything to wash it all off. Eventually could open eye again.
Am sticking with Vicks Vaporub from now on!
Clearly not much JSing going on with a cold like this one!

Escapeartist I'm an EY teacher too. Hadn't thought of working with littlies all day then coming home to a baby as a consideration. I always thought I would go back to work FT as I do enjoy my job, and , being a teacher, it's as family friendly as you can get holidays wise. But seeing 2 of my friends bring up their children as SAHMs and how well the kids do in terms of language and how close their bond is, I wonder if I'd be doing them and me a huge disservice by working. So if it ever happens I think I'd probably look at working PT (though there was a very scary poster on a thread recently who was insistent that teachers should never be PT and that job sharing teachers were the work of the devil selfish, not thinking of the children etc etc. She did get shouted down though )

Goodness - some very high-brow debate going on here .

I'm at home - have been all week. Sadly though I have the technology to work from home - as you can see I'm very busy! 2ft of snow outside. Taking care of the horses is knackering me, so kind of hoping I won't end up up-diffed this month .

It's very very pretty though :) Lack of outside contact means not much in the way of conversation from me. Who is next to test?

So jealous of all the snow (though not jealous of all the cold!!) Still v warm here, 23 degrees and fairly sunny, but home sick with tonsillitis, so not all fun and games. Was sick with a temp on Monday but had organised a trip to the Nat Hist Museum for Tuesday and was the only teacher (and 3 assistants) with 32 kids, so could not call in sick.

That was fun, not! Now feeling grotty and staying in bed, hoping the lurgy will go away.

Eskarina I always thought it would be so darn hard to be with kids all day, then go home to more kids. I have seen people do it, some well other badly. I have seen teachers be very short with their kids, as having used all their patience at work... My school did have a nursery in the past, where staff would leave babies as young as 3 months old, then go down and breastfeed at break times - if that doesn't sound like a nightmare I don't know what does!

Well I'm very . All the POs are being sent home if they can cancel their appts, but us lowly admin have to stay, that's not fair! Especially considering they can all just go home and put their feet up, I have to walk home then drive to the yard! It's pretty inconsiderate if you ask me

Escapeartist if I could send you the snow I would! It's actually not too cold either, at least it wasn't until today. Normally by now I'm begging for a balaclava as my face gets really cold but it's pretty warm considering how much snow we've got. Hope you feel better soon

Nelly I know that knackered feeling! I have to manually flex horsey's joints and she rests on me! I'll have biceps like muscle woman soon Had major problems with them yesterday as I put a friend's 2 out and they were winding up one of the big 17hh lads who promptly ran through the fence then jumped over a 7 bar gate to go and play . All ok in the end though (except yard owner who wasn't very happy )