Round up your ghosties and ghoulies and long legged beasties, the BESH are going to scare out the BFPs!

[sinkyroselee]

Its true, NGCECOAWT, so the BESH move on.

Join us in spooky October, for a different sort of Pagen fun. Sod the lentil weaving and organic bean bags, we're channelling pointy black hats, green tinged foundation and probably a bit of Harry Potter.

Join us for cursing of the insta-diffs, moments of pure love and the horrors of the cam of the fanjo - post the Beshtionnaire and the coven will judge you.

This is not a woo thread (TINAWT)

Good effort on the cycling draff. I have showered. I think that's enough exertion for now. (will go running later and tomorrow, and, well, Sunday, so think I can take a morning off!)

Am also an ostrich. Why deal when ishhuws can be convieniently ignored ad infintium? The letter idea sounds horrific, but somehow very sensible. I suspect given the choice of speaking directly to someone or writing it down then discussing the points would be easier for me. See it as an action plan to work through, or meeting bullet points to deal with. Or maybe that's just more compartmentalising/stoking the pressure cooker, rather than confronting and dealing?

Negative calories you say?

norfy I do think the drugs are to blame. I am at my fattest ever. And I have put on 3/4 of a stone since I came off the drugs in july. I put on a few pounds while I was on them (expected - water weight I think). I lost that really quickly as soon as I stopped then. And then the weight just piled on at a rate of about 2lbs per week. I just wasn't eating enough to justify that - it would have to be 7000 cals a week over my maintenance level and I was nowhere near that, even with the biz travel. I think it has halted now and I have even lost a pound or two but it is a real struggle in a way that it never has been before. So yes, I most definitely blame the bstd drugs!

Oh dear, that was painfully slow. I only went ten miles! And I ran out of battery on my speedo so no proof of doing anything to show HOTB later either. Ah well.

Sinky I like your point of writing a letter to work through. I imagine it would be a good deal less overwhelming that way.

On a more cheery note, I whizzed through the market place on my bike, nipping round teenage boys (why aren't they in school?) and old grannies, with the Bond theme tune in my head. I suspect I didn't look as cool as I felt (hi viz lycra will do that to a person) but it was FUN

Right - give me a pile of the negative calories. I lost lots of weight when diffed and piled it all on again. I quite liked the thinner me. So as of this weekend there will be more exercise.

:( about the weight gain euro. It is wrong and I hate shopping (cos I have the depressing experience you had frequently) so I sympathise. I say next time only buy shoes (and socks).

Well done on the racing and dodging giraffe (who were you btw, I did not catch up properly).

Hurrah for free (incredibly slow) wifi in cafs while waiting for trains!

PS the overboiling with grief sounds more melodramatic then I meant. Just referring to the unstoppable and unexpected crying fits, and trying to fit them in the pressure cooker metaphor, or something.

Feeling quite pleased you're all as horrified by my home work as I was. SB was quite pleased and not surprised by it, so I am happy to be in the company of stilted victorian gentlemen (I see a theme for the next fred).

Which reminds me, anyone for a bit of pumpkin soup to go with the toad legs. It is adorned with hairy spiders!!

I'm new :) see post on Wed 03-Oct-12 13:44:13 for questionnaire answers...

Gah! Spiders.

(BTW check out my photo on here for a feline embodiment of me - KFZK found it and thought it was hilarious)

Hehe. Love a good cat caption photo.

I'll have a mug of spidery soup thanks draff

(drizz, she was lured over from some froliky fred. But despite that, seems as cynical as the rest of us.)

Yum pumpkin spider soup, very helfy with extra protein, I'll have a large bowl plz.

Made it out of house to hairdresser so will be beeyooteeful for baby shower from hell tomorrow

In that case, welcome giraffe! I just went back and approve of both you and your BESHtionaire. Although sorry Jeremy Paxman (sp?). I suppose I owe you an intro, although my waily self-centred posts from today might have given you a clue .

So I am lemon, 33 as is Skinny Bint (SB) my lovely husband. We've been TTC since June 2010, totally unexplained after all the tests bar immunes, and I had a SO+IUI win in August, due two days after luffly faif but that became a natural MC at 7+4. The clinic does not want to treat us until I've had a normal cycle after this one. (MC messes with your cycle, so it might well be 2013...)

Oh and I did my presentation and it went well. And I look nice, and have agreed to go to the pub with SB when he's home too. It is the WEEKEND :)

Horror winkly baby-showering. Well actually showering with my own baby is high on the wish list. But the present-giving cooing type I strongly dislike (and am allowed to avoid!)

I have to decided whether I want to have lunch tomorrow with a lovely friend who MCed this summer (twins) but texted me to give me fair warning of her brand new diffage, only 6 weeks so far, but still diffed. I think I'd like to see her, but I am a bit apprehensive about the dealing with diffeds. Maybe see how I feel...

I siffed some soup for you euro, it is less calorific without the extra protein.

Any other plans, except the franks horror in Dorset?

Pub sounds good. Am keeping up my 1950s housewife pretence and cooking a chicken casserole tonight. But have just chased ghj out the kitchen with the Big Knife because he was attempting the worst sort of back seat chef-fery.

Lunch might be naice drizz, she's sure to be kind given her previous. And it might be a bit uplifting ins way. winkly, just commiserations for the baybee shower. Never been to one that hasn't made me want to eat my own face.

How are you norf, our delicate witchling? How today has been a bit less madness inducing.

Am v apprehensive about the needle lady tomorrow. I suspect I'm building this out of all proportion, but meh. It's never stopped me before.

Pubbage has been changed to pub-dinner as I can't be arsed to cook. Half an hour to estimated pub time :)

I agree that it might be nice, but the pressure cooker seems to be at a running boil thanks to counseling yesterday. So it is a bit scary. Also, I just read back lots from before and I wanted to give norf a mahoosive hug, even if it is not allowed. And tell her to stop being so English. Cry in Wales, and take your time. Working too much is NOT GOOD.

Good luck with the needle woman buggywitch. I have to admit I have been to squeemish to try that approach. But it can't be worse than counseling

sinky I will go to your needling if you go to the shower for me I don't mind a bit of needling, went when I kept getting horrific UTIs and haven't had one since, at least not one of the awful debilitating ones.

After shower from hell my only other plan is to visit my friend and help her take baby twins swimming. No I do not have any childless friends any more, but happen to know she only won twins after two rounds of ivf so don't feel at her.

driz have fun in pub, I made helfy chicken stew for dinner but am wishing I wasn't on stoopid health kick so I could drink a bottle glass of wine in pub.

I have had a Friday night glass of wine. :) Wine is good.

Quite a decent day today. A long walk in the woods picking blackberries and that sort of thing. Have just had a massive bowl of risotto and two huge slices of apricot tart. Feeling cautiously relaxed.

What time are the needles, sinks? Do you need to do any preparation? Waxing and plucking? Will the acupuncturist go anywhere?

drizz, I hope you are having a lovely relaxing time in the pub, eating something deliciously unhealthy and canoodling with SB like a massive girl.

sinky, the baby shower sounds shit. Can you activate the BESH present list? The one with all the passive aggressive crap on it. Massive incontinence pads and stuff.

Sorry, I meant winkly for the baby shower. Rhyming names. Gah.

Nah, nice idea but the mum to be is a lovely person its all the other guests I don't like and to buy her passive aggressive gifts would mean that I was actually horribe, rather than just feeling like a horrible bitter jealous person (bad day today).

Besides I already bought a gift, not spending any more money.

Is it just me or are baybee showers just so American?!

That sounds like a good day norf. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I am finding I'm spending way too much time on MN and at the point of boredom where it doesn't change quick enough for my liking! I remembered I bought a tapestry kit (you know the kind, aimed at 8 year olds!) but I'm actually finding it quite therapeutic.

Baybee showers def very American. But a nice idea, if you miss out all the stupid games and just have tea and cake. Or a nice idea for the diffed person anyway, and a whole range of potential emotions for everyone else.

Oh, and thanks for the "yes" vote, drizz! Although it was Clarkson not Paxman, I'm not that weird

Clarkson is way weirder than Paxman, you witchy freak!

I wonder how frank is getting on so far.

Hopefully fsr is having a good weekend away from us

And draff, Clarkson is considerably worse than Paxman, so less of the !

Norf- I hadn't even considered needles going there! I'm assuming it's all linked points, so my left arm might be my wooomb, my foot might be an ovary or pituitary gland or something. I am so not ready for needles anywhere more "personal"