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.

Channel 4 next Thursday = RAGE

Further bulletins as events warrant.

pudding What's happening next week on c4?

World's Oldest Mothers!!!

I believe in a womans right to choose n all that but personally think a 70 year old having a baby is fucking selfish.and a 70 year old breastfeeding (as I just saw on the trailer) is,i have to say,not my favourite sight ever.

How are the boobs feeling ski?

Ps know that links to some of yesterdays angst and debate... not really trying to start it all off again just slightly troubled by the trailer.

Btw who is it that has a crush on David Mitchell?am watching him right now and I Do Not Understand. funny tho.

Yay ski, fingers crossed.

Have to admit, I have the same symptoms! Zip on trousers wouldn't stay up & I felt like the Hulk bursting out of my blouse. I know my diet went to pot last week, but according to scales 4lb gain.....not fab but surely not a seem-breaker?

Also just finished having a little (OK, snotty, blubbering) cry. Don't really know why.....................

Either up-diffed or lardy & mental...

pudding The David Mitchell thing? That was me & Cosmosis. But it is a weird crush, I know. It's the dryly English funny that does it for me.

Looks like I have once more failed to become updiffed this month. Spotting has started already, which will inexorably lead to full-on red tide of doom (is that allowed? I know we've banned AF and EW) by Monday.

And I have to go to a fucking christening on fucking Sunday. And it's a fucking URC fucking christening which means I have to sit through an entire church service, hoping that my head doesn't spontaneously spin round while I projectile-vomit over the priest.

Arsebuggeryfucktitswank. I'm so bored with this shit now, I really am.

snigger pudding's asking about my boobs the big lezza! They're fine pudding... I think a little bigger than normal but tbh I can't tell. I'm a FF cup - unless they become a J overnight I'm not going to notice.

camel I am loving TOD (Tide Of Doom), AF is also too cutesey for us. The christening sounds vile, can you not simply suggest to the parents that limbo might not be a bad compromise between dead and alive baby?

laurie that's the thing with me too... it's only 4lbs but my stomach is huge. It's v odd. Anyway, I was rather hoping for diffed, lardy and mental. In for a penny, in for a pound right?

Oldest mothers? I fully expect to see a room full of selfish career-driven 32 year olds.

Hmmmm...feeling bloated/big and being really emotional. Constantly overheated. Boobs tender (possibly expanding, but I'm an E-cup so hard to tell). Ah. Right. Duh. That could explain it. It would be so nice to join Ski and LL this month. Or I could just be setting myself up for another huge disappointment this cycle. RTOD (thanks ideal) due on SundayI've promised myself that if no PMT and no RTOD by Sunday, will POAS, but not before! Pudding, I am with you on the 70-year-old mother thing, mostly because I worry about the child becoming a carer before she is even 18, which would be sad. But at the same time, I guess I struggle to justify where the line should be drawn. (There are plenty of people who would draw the line at, oh, say the BOD.)

Am very jealous of all your symptom spotting. I'm feeling bloated and weepy but this is in direct relation to the ex-packet of choc digestives and a huge sugar crash.

RToD is due the weekend I'm going to a spa with my best friend. 'Nads. Though who knows when it will start really. I, too, am bored of all this.

Discussing with DH last night - I think I'd be far more excited about having a baby if he could do the first 40 weeks. I don't mind taking over once it's out.

Ski Christening is not just vile, is proper mad. It's for the spawn of my uni mate - the man with whom I used to stay up all night drinking and smoking, who I once found on my doorstep covered in sections of the Saturday Guardian after a drunken night out when I'd come home earlier than him and passed out, and he couldn't wake me up to open the door - but he'd still had the presence of mind to scrawl "If I die, I saved the Review section for you" on the margin of the paper. As far as I know, the man has no faith, but he is the son of a preacher man, so the children have to be baptised into the URC community, if only to keep the family happy.

Ho hum. At least am going with best female friend, so we can drive too fast and listen to loud music on the way there.

Ohh essence of G&T was my genius invention

Morning ladies. I upped our collective intake of alcohol again last night was was DH's boss's 40th yesterday so we had a wee champagne after work to celebrate.

My RTOD this month was more of a dribble of doom. shrugs.

Looks like we have some good chances of up-diffedness amongst us this month though, excellent work for ladies with shrivelled ovaries, well done. Aims friendly karate kick to all and sundry.

Of course, my bloatedness could be over-indulgence in Scotland last week, & tears over DP crashing Health & Safety van during charidee cycle ride. He's in the middle of Wales somewhere so it was a quick crap-signalled phone call.

I did laugh a bit too - not very good H&S, is it?

pmsl, he crashed the H&S van?? brilliant!

(hope he's ok though?)

Yeah, he's fine, which is why I've laughed too.

And someone else fell off their bike & broke their wrist.

Obviously not funny

DP has many skills. It would appear H&S isn't one......

lol. An eventful week then!

Anyhow, I've had my meeting. It's all official and I finish work on 18th September. Now I just need to find people to lunch with when I'm a lady of leisure.....

I've upped the stakes for potential-diffdness as I've just applied for an incredible quasi-military role which "positively discriminates" in favour of women.

It'll take blinkin' months for the application/security checks to go through and if I get called to interview I'll be a fucking hippo.

quasi-military?? do you get a uniform and to shave your head a la GI Jane????? coooooooooool.

Blimey ski that sounds different.

Don't think I'll follow you on that "symptom"

Oh joy - surely this kind of tale will guarantee up-diffidness...

haha I much prefer Tankgirl to GI Jane. I daren't say whom it's for... but it's at the same level I suppose as NATO.

Today's symptoms - I've snapped at the bloke who sits opposite me, a bloke I go for ice-cream with and I've bitched about one of the girl's BO.

Who else has symptoms then?

Very sad.

Sad... but she was hardly your average mid-30s gins swigging harlot.

That's true.

ski you are a double-hard bastard.

Was talking to dp about mn.he hates all the acronyms,being called dp winds him up (ha!more reason to do it)

filled him in on euphymisms such as babydancing (he got very upset and looked a bit sick)

he also wants to know if babydust is made from actual babies