Mid 30s TCC Gin Palace

[SkaterGrrrrl]

Welcome everyone from the old 'Mid 30s and TTC for the first time' thread. And welcome newbies too. Don't mind the poster in the corner dipping pregnancy test sticks into her glass of gin.

Oooh, you rebel! I've just read the link, and it's verrrry interesting [scratches chin thoughtfully]. I like it that we're told to treat all this nanny state stuff with a bit of healthy scepticism. But then I am a Gruniad reader.

Hi Ladies...

Just back from Glastonbury, complete with zoider (that's cider for non-Zomerzeters) and tampons. (It wasn't actually that bad--I was volunteering for Oxfam and we had our own campsite with clean-ish portaloos and real, hot showers.) Have just spent the last hour trying to catch up with all the happenings of the last nine days....

Trig and ski, I'm so sorry to hear that things haven't worked out. I'm thinking good thoughts for you.

Stalkers New ladies, welcome! The more the merrier.

Have invested in a huge waste of money fertility predictor, so now get the pleasure peeing on a stick at least ten days every month and being even more obsessed about my shriveling ovaries. (Clearly, I should have just gotten knocked up by the first moron to cross paths with me during my fertile teens and twenties....)

Looking forward to checking out the gin palace!

Sarah

girls. just a quick hi from the free wifi zone ...

have tried and failed to catch up with whole thread - god you lot talk a lot

have skipped the country for a pre ivf shenanigans holiday.

lovely.

although no fucking allowed. i think??

which is a shame as copious red wine and cheesy barry white is making me incredibly amorous ...

(probably shouldn't say that when my lover is reading over my shoulder. ha!)

anyway hope all your pregnancies, semi-pregnancies, ghost pregnancies, non existent ones or sticky baked beans are going well.

must go. think there is a shot of ouzo with my name on it.

xxx

I've been thinking - is it really appropriate that the gin palace has cream walls? Should they not be purple or crimson? Or both? With joss sticks and adonises in states of undress serving us gin based ovary-shrivellers?

Welcome, new lushes. To the bar with you.

ski am jumping up and down on my hat at the sheer unfairness of your niet preiggeir or whatever it said (on previous page so can't check, made educated guess). I haven't done my test yet on the basis that it's a waste of 7 sheets only to find out what I already know. However no doubt masochism curiosity will get the better of me as the week goes on. A curse on this lark. Will we all still be here 10 years from now checking our tena ladys and digging in some begonias with small yappy-type dogs instead of children?

Sez did you enjoy Glasto? What was best? Saw a glimpse of Prodigy last night on the Beeb and nearly passed out with jealousy at those who were lucky/stoned enough to be present...

oooh you dark horse chegwin sneaking off while our backs were turned. Do we have more lushies abroad than we do in this country now??

Welcome Mrsvandam, during our honeymoon in the Caribbean I became more than a little fond of dark rum myself. Mount Gay anyone?

Turn back time list:

Gregory Peck (circa To Kill a Mocking Bird)

Jimmy Hendrix

Crush of shame list:

David Baddiel

Jeremy Clarkson (I know! And I'm so eco-friendly, normally).

Oh and chaggers glad you had a good time! I got my husband back from Somerset today very tanned & very hungover. And I too am POAS (the predictor type) at the mo.

Not right at this very mo. This week.

Ah feck, that last post was at Sarah. But hello cheggers anyway.

Quickly, because I have horrific amounts of work and will be up until 3am tonight doing it

Turn back time list
Gene Kelly
Jimmy Page - no substitutes

Crush of shame
James May
Alexander Armstrong
Prince Philip/Roger Moore

Back off, lushes, he's mine
Roger Federer

I like Niet Zwanger - somehow less crushing than Not Pregnant. Can you imagine the relief that would once have flooded our souls to see the words 'Niet Zwanger' appear on a digital test? Ski you will be Zwanger again very soon; you're on double hormones for the next month, I understand.

nocoffee if you have a short luteal phase it can take longer for the test to show positive - there isn't as much time for the HCG to get to a testable concentration. As usual, see doctor.

My breasts are feeling a bit irritated (in the annoyed sense) but that might just be because it's SO STUPIDLY HOT and they're stuck in a bra. Tonight, in my head, the gin palace has white walls, huge ceiling fans and tropical palms sending cooling breezes through the room. Or am I just imagining Raffles Bar circa 1925? [Hmm.]

NB 'doing it' meaning the work. Not IT.

Or I.T. God, learn to preview, woman.

Guilty pleasure = Mark Radcliffe.
Tardis totty = Bryan Ferry
Strap-on secret = Lauren Laverne

So in fact 2 out of the 3 were satisfied on Glasto coverage (hence me watching avidly for all 3 days) PLUS a brucie bonus of Woody from Madness whom I used to get wibbly-legged over when I was about 15.

God frig you are so right. Niet zwigglies all the way at that age. Mind, it would have been hard to get Zwigglied on account of me being unpalatable to boys until the age of 18

Hello chunky and mrsv - glad to hear of your dc's one-headedness. Always a good sign I've been told. Saw that Zoe Williams article already - very good. Did you know she was 5 months preggers before realising recently?!

Ski that is devastating The only positive is at least know you can get preggers now...not much use at the moment I know.

Crushes

Keanu
Roots Manuva

Crush of shame

Aidan from SATC

ummm...

proper crushes

kings of leon (ah heck, all of them, why not...)

christ, everyone else i can think of right now is Hall of Shame or Very Dead

H.O.S
Angel from Buffy (not the actor, the character, am a sad fuck)

justin trousersnake (WHY?? i hate his silly music)

V.D
Kurt
Hendrix
Morrison
am happier here to be honest.

To be thoroughly truthful, my life has now reached the (sad, knackered) point where i have an 'imaginary best mates wot i would go to the pub and hang out with' list that has taken over from my Lust List.

Some examples forthwith -

Eddy Izzard
The Boosh Boys
The Conchords
Lauren Laverne (no strap on for me, tho i see yer point)
and Bill Bailey, who we would like to be our lodger purleeease.

am in crap sleepy typing mode sorry.

ps where do the scummy mummies go on the list? (if we are allowed on the list)

pps after 'mummy' and 'daddy' 2 of my boy's VERY early words were 'wine' and 'beer;

errr another vote for previewing messsages before posting... upon reflection have realised it seemed as tho i felt scummy mummies should be on lust list...

noooo. my flibbertigibbet butterfly mind had moved on - i meant to enquire about a place on the ttc list if i could possibly be allowed on there?

wildfig wtff? I can't even read through the rest of this list so horrified am I that you've Prince Philip in your guilty crush list. The man is 91 - don't you want him in 'turn back time'?

Pensioner-fiddler!

Morning lushes,

Ooooh, an early morning perv, great. My "shag" list would include

Wentworth Miller (Prison Break;
Jake Gyllenhall - but only as Jarhead or Donnie Darko (which I know is horribly wrong as he plays a school boy);
Adam Ant;
Take That - all of them! ;
Elivs a la Jailhouse Rock.

I'm sure there's more - bit of a tart really.

Right, stoopid question of the day - should you only really POAS at the start of the day? I know that's when pee is strongest etc but would you get a proper result mid-day? Am feeling wildly out of control & feel I have to do something. Period has stopped, far short of its usual length & am having a bit of a mind fuck at turning 37 in uh, 12 days time. Ovaries are practically like prunes!

So my plan of action is 1. POAS to rule out PG, 2. book docs for this week, 3. buggar off to Edinburgh for next week & enjoy a week of whiskey & shagging.

Guilty pleasure = David Coulthard
Top totty = Simon Baker
Strap-on secret = Michelle Rodriguez

pudding We don't have lists per se, merely lists of banned words. This is the whole point of this thread - we don't know if we're coming or going. I for one can't even POAFS straight. I'm now banned from sticks, I am only allowed to present a cup of wee to the man of the house.

Fings done wot I learned today: Walked in to the docs and she said "congratulations" - so there you go ladies, even doctors don't think masses of bright red blood are anything particularly sinister.

pudding and MrsV - what other facts (not frightening or icky ones please) can you furnish us with?

MrsV - are you a fan of Jean-Claude? I live in Belgium for many years - he's from a particularly horrible town of Charleroi - home to Ryan Air to give you your bearings. About 10-11 years ago "body parts" started turning up in carrier bags on the motorways around the city. It's still going on. So there you go, it's never going to be a box of abandoned puppies is it? Despite what we were told at school.

Well it wouldn't do to all be the same...

laurielou I'll see your schoolboy and raise you "Will" from Home & Away.

ski - what can this mean - are you duffed or not??

Type faster, SKI!!

trigger - oh I'm definitely barren & shrivelled - but what I meant was that the doctor didn't see a panicky phonecall & a gusset full of blood particularly bothersome. I've got to go back if my muff starts to smell.

laurie Yes, you can use smu - I only found out this week - it means "second morning urine". If you want to POtS nobody can stop you.

Arse. Sorry about that Ski.