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.

The correct volume for maximum tv enjoyment.
Who had more than their share of wine.
Whether 'starship troopers' is so shit it's funny or just so shit.
Whether a large army of squirrels could beat up a polar bear.
Whether I can actually ever say no to any illicit substances (apparently I would be wrecked all the time if my lifestyle and social circle actually still brought me into contact with any naughty stuff)
Why I feel the need to use pg tests within 5 mins of having sex.
And why dp is so grumpy.

Could the last two be connected?

Hmmm...I think tis true that I can occasionally be a contributing factor to said grumpiness but we actually don't argue about the pg test thing anymore cos I do them in secret (well a girl's gotta have a vice)

actually we mostly argue about work.and staff.and who is most stressed by work.and how work is more stressful for both of us now I'm part time (we have a business together,truly delightful way to get to know your partner/wind each other up on a daily basis)

I do quite like him tho actually.

is that your vice? Not your only one I hope! I have a lot, and I'm tempted to start a list... speaking of which there is not one solitary chunk of chocolate in this house which is remarkably remiss of DP, under the circumstances. Right:

1. Gin
2. Rose wine
3. Lindt chocolate
4. picking my feet
5. leaving my clothes where they fall (overnight, I have to tidy them in the morning in case anyone comes to view the house, so a sort of vicelet rather than a full blown vice)

Btw trig glad I didn't actually send you running for the hills,have been feeling guilty about crashing this thread and bringing Actual Real Babies into the conversation...

To be fair,being scared is good.shows you is an intelligent lady and you are not going into this with ridiculous fantasies of yummy mummydom or some such bollocks.

And if it helps,I know all about how much hard work it is but I STILL spent an hour this eve staring at a recently pissed-on stick trying to believe I could see a line.

humans.we're all a bit mental.

oh and

1. Despite being ex Environmental Health I am remarkably slack on the food hygiene front. I have the backside constitution of an ox and therefore bacteria can't touch me. I have not killed anyone yet on the basis that I know what I can get away with

To be fair you'd be hard pressed to send me running anywhere

hmmm...vices

well apart from the afore-mentioned piss sticks habit...

1 Red wine
2 White wine
3 All other alcoholic beverages with the tragic exclusion of whisky, guiness and ale
4 Eye poppingly expensive holidays
5 Burping (magnificently)
6 Picking my son's nose (if I can pin the bugger down)
7 Haribo (only the fizzy ones)
8 Inventive swearing (sadly only at work these days, at home I say such things as 'oh...crikey!')
and there will be more....

Ah now you see, Haribo are yesterday's news. What you require are the Natural Sweet Company's (could be wrong about the name) Un-Bear-ables - fizzy teddy bears AS SOUR AS YOU LIKE (caps deliberate) they are a joy, but strangely my dentist doesn't approve, the miserable cnut

Hey guess the fuck what. DP is taking me away for the weekend to a place of luxury in the Cotswolds!!! Oh yessss! read it and weep we are going to have So Much Rumpy I'll be walking like an old man with gout come Sunday....

woo hoooo!

and very happy shagging to you! am fucking jealous. would give someone a severe chinese burn for a lie in. (are you still allowed to say 'chinese burn'? for the record Am Not a Racist)

mmm fizzy things will find and consume asap.

btw. clothes on floor not a vice, it is where one generally keeps one's 'probably needs washing' and 'oo this doesn't smell bad, could prob wear it again' clothes?

and also some piles of recently done laundry? no?

Un-Bear-ables are to be found in Waitrose and sometimes in Tesco's. Obviously the purple ones are best.

Personally I don't mind clothes on the floor, but it sets a bad example to the step-kinder. I'm still a student at heart (fizzy sweets, super-noodles, mad dog 20/20, clothes where they fall, aversion to real-life babies) so it's a habit I must break.

but it is quite funny seeing a toddler running around with yer pants on his head shouting KNIIIIICKERRRRRS!!!

and how else, pray, will he get the opportunity to do that?

Oh DP does that quite a lot lol

Morning ladies,

Just catching up with everything. Rows with DP usually involve

1. Him scratching his feet & leaving skin piles all over the place;
2. Bob Dylan's music;
3. DP's road rage
4. DP's irrational rants (he goes ballistic if he drops the bathroon mug on the floor, calmness personified when our weekend away cancelled due to overbooking, grrr)

Actually, looking at this list it isn't really an "argument" list its a "what I preach to him about" list

Well, we're off to Scotland next week, just to have a week off work & a mooch around. Can't wait. Planning on A-Z games (yes ladies, I'm going for the full array), & if I'm not preggers after this I'm going to buy a puppy.

Actually my mum said their puppy was harder work than my me, brother & sister put together! When the puppy kept them awake crying mum woke dad up saying "the baby's crying". My sister is the "baby" at 31!!!

1. Who did the non-dishwasher washing up last
2. Who loaded the dishwasher last
3. Who walked the dog last
4. Who picked up all the dog shizzle from the garden last
5. The 'don't interrupt,I'm cooking NOT you' type ones are good

I can see a darling child fitting right in here

Which de luxe boutique hotel are you heading for Trig? As a teenager I probably scrubbed dishes or changed beds in most of them. Now that I'm a corporate lawyer at least I get paid for the long gruesome hours. Having said that, if I put in the 28 hours that poor old young aussie is pulling it would probably work out at the same hourly rate.

Over and out amigos

Mornin' Ladies....

LaurieLou, have a great week off, complete with all the games you can think of! You too, trigexpect to hear that your dirty weekend has been, well, dirty! I'm off into the mouth of the beasta long weekend at the mother-in-law's (complete with a post-wedding party with all the people we didn't invite to the wedding). It's my weekend to ovulate (assuming I am not completely barren following the BOD), so the A-game should be interesting; have informed DH that if we conceive on this go 'round, we are naming the baby after his mother's village. On the plus side, we'll be near Bath, so am hoping it is marginally less miserable than London heatwise, and I've been promised a scrumptious pub lunch at Avesbury.

As for piles of clothes on the floor pudding, trig and others, where else does one put one's clothing when one runs out of closet and chest-of-drawer space and has taken all of one's partner's/husband's???!!!!

Have a splendid weekend all!

"Whether a large army of squirrels could beat up a polar bear."

Now that is the kind of argument I like.

Anyhow I need your colletive wisdom. I got my appointment through for the gynae referral. Given that I asked for the appointment because I had no periods and my periods have now returned, even if not regularly, should I still go for the appointment? There was the added thing of that raised FSH that the doc found, but conventional medicine doesn't seem to do much about that anyway.

What do you think?

cosmo god yes, go and demand some tests. Play dumb and promise to have vaginal sex in the future.

I've been reading out loud your argument lists to my teenager and there was a knowing nod for "IKEA" and he also tried to get me involved in the squirrels vs. polar bears issue but I would not be drawn.

My perfect week is continuing - my water company sent me a letter yesterday saying I hadn't paid since xmas and they were cutting me off end of July. So I've been faxing bank statements to them. Idiots. AND I went to the gym this morning and managed to forget to pack clean trousers so am sat here in my joggers. Going to nip home at lunchtime and change.

Please please please let something lovely happen this weekend!

It will! It's just that it's happening to me

Sorry ski - utilities are the work of the devil. Mind, jogging bottoms are the work of the devil too so you are in good company! Do they have saggy-arse sag arse? Cosmo let the NHS spend some time on you and enjoy the fuss. At the very least there may be an explanation as to why it happened in the first place

NCNW tis not a boutique hotel, but a cuntry one. Mill House in King-summat or another. Identified a boutique hotel though for another time when I have 500 sheets to spend on 2 nights away. Went to Malmaison in Oxford last year (love Malmaison hotels) and that was the poodles toodles, for anyone who wants a bolthole for rampant coupling...

Agree with ski you should definitely go to your appointment cosmo. Good luck, let us know what they say (saves all of us going!!!)

ski I have laughed at the thought of you sitting in work in your joggers. Reminded me of a charity day we had in work where each team had to dress up. I was in the team which had to wear nightwear. Sitting at your desk in pj's & slippers is definitely the way to go.............

Although one recently single gal decided it was an opportunity to go on the pull & wore a slinky black negligee type thing with her norks hanging out. She left the office still single!

Hello lovely people. Thank god you all made amusing lists yesterday; it is helping today's hangover no end. Am now slightly worried that I can't remember what any of the major screaming meltdown rows that I've had with t'husband were about. But they were damn important at the time, for sure.

I spent yesterday drinking cider in a park while listening to Blur. I'm now utterly convinced that I'm 16 again. Why am I in an office staring at a computer. Why? Why?

camel, nice to know I'm not the only one with a raging hangover, can barely see the 'puter screen. I was singing karaoke in Soho 'til 2am, now convinced I am 23, so a bit older than you

Karaoke in Soho, Lyra? In one of the lovely karaoke places where you get to have individual booths? Oh, the funs!

My entire body hurts with this hangover, and today is a fertile day and oh god that probably means we should have sex but ick, I may vomit over my partner...

Bah cant format crossing out in posts

Oh yeah - vices. In no particular order:

1. Dark rum / G&T / Pimms
2. Lie ins
3. Used to be ganja but kicked the habit
4. Getting the bus when it's a really short walk
5. T'internet