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.

Oh trog I'm so sorry - why are our bodies so cruel? I'm just back from the beautician (yeh I know, I mean who knew I needed one?) and she told me she mc in february and STILL hasn't had a period. She's 27, NEVER drinks, NEVER smokes. She must be doing something else selfish.

oh trig and ski what a roller coaster eh? keep on trucking though. i'm sure we'll all get there in the end.

so, despite my protestations of soberness last night. i felt surprisingly rough this morning

only 1/2 a bottle. what is all that about then? no matter. from now on in i will be the epitome of all things health. no booze, 5 a day, olive oil, morning oats (fnarr) etc. etc.

(and hopefully i'll be able to shift that sneaky half a stone that went on last week )

thanks for all the good luck everyone. am feeling surprisingly ok about it all and i'm secretly delighted with my stash of needles and syringes in their lovely crisp sterile packets. it's as if i get to play nurse (weird i know). must've watched too many hospital dramas

VAG "cheggers" is scouse (and maybe cockney?) rhyming slang for preggers. i picked it coz i thought it sounded cool and winning (and back in the day when i thought it would take only a one shot attempt at up duffness). not coz it conjures up images of the man him self in drag. bah! lol

oh and cos i wouldn't worry about being all me me me. i'm sure we're all a big guilty of that [whistles].

anything else in the pipeline yet?

cheers nocoffee (cross post)

will report back later after "my first time" and see if i'm still in such fine spirits.

i actually think fertilty friend website is pretty good though (i did pay for the upgrade if that makes any difference)

what's your prob with it?

sarah ooh nearly forgot. don't know if you'd mentioned your v. recent nuptials before (maybe i missed it on the other thread) but massive congrats anyhow.

letting the muff department go in the first two months though??!! class

slack more like

I'm pissed. Never a good time to tackle some topiary, but you've all reminded me that I have some chicken skin to service. It's all too enticing for DP - often he simply passes out with excitement. Until morning.

so ... high jinks in the cheggers homestead tonight.

all a bit flappy 20 minutes before the deed. while i was crazily trying to find the episode of prison break where Sara Tancredi sews her own arm up for "tough girl" inspiration, my lover was far more sensibly googling how to do a subcutaneous injection.

(didn't get much of a tutorial at the clinic).

anyway, so he shouts through that ice cubes can help numb the skin before injection.

how we laughed as we realised we'd used up all the ice on the cava bucket last night

anyhow. all went well. piece of piss really.

let just see if i can keep these crazy hormones in check ...

Awwww, thanks Cheggers. Despite the dreadful state of my, erm, topiary, the DH and I do still dance in the kitchen (without any music). So perhaps all is not lost.... Hope your needle session went well. I am very impressed that your DP is able to help you with the injections.... Glad he is supportive/invovled! I am pretty sure there are lots of men who would say "It's your problem...." (In fact, I think I dated several of them....)

Aussieng, sorry about AF. After my wedding, mine came a few days earlier than normal...am assuming that was stress. Wouldn't worry about the cycle unless it keeps happening. (Are you POAS or doing other ovulation tests? It might give you peace of mind....)

Trig, I'm so sorry this is causing you grief. Thinking of you.

Cosmosis, there is nothing for it--treat each and every workday as if it were an unlimited Internet session. Watch the cricket. Find creative ways to use your expense account. Have long boozy lunches and hang in there.

Nocoffee, sounds like you are thinking along the right lines. Only other piece of advice (sorry--I know I sound like a walking agony aunt column...feel free to ignore me) is to get involved with professional groups (preferably women's groups) and network like crazy.... Either solicitors' associations or professional associations covering a field that you deal with a lot (say property developers if you are doing real estate or human resources if you are doing employment) or just women's professional groups. It's a good way to get a support network outside the office, especially when you have a family and are looking for help negotiating the minefield.... Sorry to the rest of the board. Will shut up now....

Have a lovely Friday everyone....

Dancing in the kitchen? pah. I'll see that and raise you snogging on Briggate (leeds' main pedestrian shopping street) yesterday lunchtime.

ski your beautician. She doesn't smoke or drink. She must therefore be sorted for Es and Whizz. [nostalgic emoticon]

cheggers I'm mightily impressed by your ice story. Good effort.

gotta lol at DH. He came home last night from a work do, a leeetle merry. He'd clearly been channeling Cliff. He was singing;

Summertime,
sausages and wine,
children singing about gin and lime....

methinks it should be our themesong for our Sunday drama.

I forgot to add, less than a month till BOD and I can feel my ovaries starting to shrivel...... lol

@ cosmo's DH. I feel he can be an honourary member of the gin palace for that performance. Not going to get him a key cut, mind... imagine how we'd get on with a load of shrivelled testicles as well as ovaries

I'll see your snog on Briggate and raise you a full on snog outside DP's work this morning in front of a load of blue collar types from the timber merchants next door. I was properly dressed up as I was doing a 'piece to video' this morning for some sort of national training package (arf - how many takes???!), DP is is an oily rag and, when I have my heels on, is about an inch shorter than me. It must have looked comical and brings to mind a film that I can't just put my finger on at the moment featuring a tall smartly dressed bird and a shorter scruffy bloke.

think I may have just remembered which DVD film it might have been, enjoyed in the comfort of one's bedroom.

Oi trog I'll have you know my DH's testicles are only as shrivelled as any normal red blooded mans are! He's younger than me you know. I'm not quite in ski's league for cradle snatching but still...

No offence meant I'm sure he's a live one

Lol, no offence taken

so anyway, tell me more about your freaky dwarf porn DVD collection?

You can have a borrow if you like. We've had people round viewing the house recently so DP put it in a Russell Watson CD case - don't be alarmed.

Before he met me DP used to buy in bulk from the DVD man and it was really just a random pick n mix thing, not like he chose specific titles. Anyhoo it's amazing how many of the DVDs feature little people in a starring role. Not that there's anything intrinsically bizarre about it just the numbers featured appear disproportionate to the population of porn actirs as a whole.

I'll stop now before the Diversity police catch up with me

and the spelling police

LOL at the Russell Watson CD case.

Ponders. I wonder if it's becuase their knobs look proportionately bigger?

I seem to be quickly sliding down the not so gentle slope in to middle age. I have just been for lunch and two incidents have disturbed me.

1. A young couple were having lunch in the park, and as they got up to leave I noticed she was wearing hareem mchammer type trousers. My first thought was a shocked "I hope she's not wearing those to work, how unproffessional"

2. I went in to M&S to see what the dine in for a tenner meal was this week. Now clothing wise, for work I am a pencil skirt, lewins shirt, high heel wearing kind of gal. Outside work I'm more your jeans, fitted t-shirt, Roxy, Animal, White Stuff wearer. I found myself distracted by the clothing in M&S and thinking some of it was Quite Nice. Until I looked at my fellow shoppers and realised I was a good 20 years under their age range.

When I start wearning Sensible Shoes and extoling the virtues of viscose and elasticated waistbands, please shoot me.

I have a pair of M&S Footglove shoes

I'm wearing Ecco shoes . I have bunions. Some may think I am overenthusiastically embracing middle age....

DH and I were having a conversation the other day about "things we like"

My list was;
cooking
digging my garden & growing stuff
pottering round my house
washing on the line
sitting

His response?

Are you actually 70????

Oh I do like a nice sit down. Perhaps with a little sigh.

We will be watching Gardeners World tonight. DH was gutted that he missed it last week cos his Mum was visiting.... It's not the same since Monty Don left, though.

Monty Don? Pah! It's not been the same since Geoff Hamilton died. I heart Geoff Hamilton.

VAG, Cosmo, Trig, if it makes you feel any better, I've been knitting all day.... Does that make me young and hip and crafty in modern make-do Britain, or just a granny before I am a mum...?!