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.

Happy Birthday Pudding! Have your ovaries fallen out of your nose yet? Try and have a good day

Just visiting the Palace to say HAPPY BOD to pudding.

'Tis also H's birthday today, one past the BOD but he is convinced his swimmers are super strength and that "age shall not wither them". We will see - or perhaps not, as things are little rocky in the Lyra household - hence H as opposed to DH

We do love each other but we're both so blimmin stubborn that it seems to be more important to win the argument - whatever that day's argument may be - than it is to be nice to each other. There's a marked lack of respect on both sides at the moment. Definitely not an environment in which to consider creating a small person Any advice, lushes? Punches on arm and bellinis will both be gratefully received.

Cheers ginhags!

Am at work staring at a fucking computer screen wondering where all the presents glamour and champagne have got to.got presented with a p & l spreadsheet just now.wow what a grrreat present.joy.

ski too early?that's possible?I was banned from testing for a whole week after TOD when I was pg with small.fuck knows how I managed to stick with that.have a massive chinese burn and a wee headbutt from me.sorry things are being shite.

Lyra my only advice re blokes is the same I got given for dealing with toddler tantrums (!) it's 'choose your battles'. Sometimes if you stand back and think 'is this actually worth arguing over??' you realise it's not.sadly I'm sometimes a bit late with that thought, the ol' fella n me have had some pointless spats lately.am currently trying to listen to my own advice...we've def been getting on better (fingers crossed)

he can still be an arse tho (I can't obviously as I am great)

anyone fancy meeting me in the pub in a mo?it sucks here.virtual pub if you can't make it to Bristol in time.

pudding--there in a second (just let me put on some lippy and brush my hair). I'll get the first round (erm, bottle).

I don't know if it's too early or whether I'm turning in to some sort of Miss Havisham caricature... crouched over the loo pissing on a stick telling myself that one day it will say "Zwanger". I'm 12DPO and couldn't wait any longer to test. stupidbloodybaby

Lyra I'm sorry, I can't offer anything constructive - we do actually do the "being nice is better than being right" - the one argument which nearly blew us apart has not been resurrected. We do not discuss Margaret Thatcher. Point. I find a great way to re-unite "us" is to bitch about others. Have you tried making snide comments about mutual friends?

I'm well up for a pub lunch, make mine a large G&T and a small packet of roasted nuts.

Oh yeah chunky I'd love to go on a bender. Make mine 3 bottles of Buckfast and a straw and some poppers for that retro look.

ski tis bewildering. Maybe too soon - when's yer flowers due? Sorry about badgering you last night. In a clumsy way I was trying to help.

Also am at thoughts of sex tourism in Dublin. When I lived there I could not get a ride for love nor money. The one And I'm not that much of a dawg....I swear that's why I moved to Blighty. I love Englishmen.

On a serious note Lyra I'd suggest counseliing. Me and the fella tried Relate, which was ok. But I realised that the problems were with me and not with the relationship so i needed counselling just for me. I think I'd have those problems in every relationship unless I sort myself out.

donttry My flowers are due Weds assuming my cycle did go back to normal following the mc. I swear I've just felt that fluttering in my uterus that I had last month so clearly my body is just taking the piss now. Do think if I were to squeeze in to a pair of jeans 3 sizes too small it would just cut off all feeling below the waist and there would be less open to misinterpretation?

I was involved on and off with a Dublin man for about 12 years... hence the sex tourism. Although tbh the last time I went - the time of the infamous "busted in the lounge" - the ride was bloody awful and we had a massive row whereby I walked from fecking miles away on the metro back to Dublin in the pissing rain through that stinky kind of estuary sand.

Lunchtime birthday drinks - lovely. A large G&T & a packet of scmpi fries please.

lyra DP & I went to Relate a couple of years ago during a rocky patch. We were reunited by our joint amusement at the fella, who was quite, um, can't describe him. Sort of a bit too hippyish for our tastes. After each session we'd go out for a meal & drinks & laugh our heads off. So it worked in an arse backwards way.

Actually I suppose that fits in with your advice ski - just pick on other people.

Hope things aren't too seriously rocky though.

Hi ladies

I know there's been a lot of newbies recently & you probably don't want any more crashers hanging on your coattails trying to look cool, but can I play too?! Being less than 2 months away from the BOD (it's 35 right?) and so far (6 months) looking like a proper BESH, I'm just loving the sudden revelation from reading this thread (oops, that was 2 days at work well spent...) that you don't have to be an smug, nauseating or insufferable tosspot to be toying with the idea of kids. I hadn't realised I wasn't the only cynical, sarky, drunken hag to be contemplating what a shit mother I'd be... while not actually knowing if I even want them! But you guys are a breath of fresh (gin scented) air in what I otherwise assumed to be a world of tedium and smuggery. I definitely fit the obsessive credentials as well, being currently on my 3rd phantom pregnancy in 6 months. Imaginary symptoms? Yup, I'll be the first to spot anything that isn?t actually there ? for example this month's 'implantation pain' which turned out to be a bad case of the squitters... I daren?t actually admit to anyone in real life that we're trying, so if I can get all my obsessing in with you unreal people, that would be just great! Cheers ? I'll get the gins in!

Welcome to the loonybin, longwee. Mine's a pint of mother's ruin (hold the tonic).

What's the sit re: cats and walls and secret crush of shame?

Welcome longwee, the more the merrier - bloody pudding said she was getting the drinks in but she's either pissed off or she's snogging the new barman in the loos as if she were 18 again.

longwee hello. I'll have a double G&T while you're at the bar please.

I forgot to say that at the 30th birthday do I went to at the weekend, I managed to leave the bar with my shoes on the wrong feet, and have an argument with DH about whether it was necessary to correct this matter or not. And I didn't even have that much of a hangover on Sunday. [is proud]. However, I'm not sure that bollywood dancing is quite my forte.

longwee - welcome, from another Newby. Tell us your bitter, biased opinions on The Daily Mail and teen mums

Ladies, I have admitted before now that I don't drink, haven't I? Not for any complex reasons, just don't like booze or being drunk and don't see point. Can you all still accept me? Or will I be cast from your company, like society shuns me for being a selfish over-35 TTC witch? Am a twisted harpy in all other ways. Feel like I'm saddled with a secret shame every time I come here. Oh, the melodrama, and I'm not even pg yet!

scorpette we're grudgingly allowing you a seat in the corner for you and your orange juice.

Sorry guys the tequila hit me hard have been lying on a sofa in the corner dribbling scorpette don't worry as a sober person you can look out for all the ludhes and stop us walking under a truck or something...

I love you guyshhhh

right,my round,tequila slammers for all and milk n cookies for scorpette

Scorpette - as long as you're dancing on the tables with us, we don't really mind. It's handy to have someone stable to grab onto near the edges.

Oops hello longwee

am a rude drunk.

Fuck I really wish I was actually in the pub with you lot.what japes would be had eh?

I hate my life today!is that a normal BOD feeling???

Thanks all! No shamefully young boyfriend (unless you count his mental age, or calculate it based on taste in music and computer games) he is also mid 30s which no doubt happily re-halves our chances of sprogging. Yup, definitely pass the mad cat lady test, had a delightful little incontinent one which died last year & I'm living abroad at the mo so can't get another yet... Will get five as soon as I get half a chance. I think I react to cats the same way most people react to babies (pineful yearning), whereas being in the vicinity of babies mostly makes me grit my teeth.

Walls..? Dunno - are you supposed to notice these things? Secret crush of shame? Apart from the male half of Lost (hmmm, Jack or Sawyer...?) which isn't very secret or shameful, I do have an odd fixation with piers morgan. Now that IS shameful...

I must hastily add that that doesn't make me an upholder of all things daily heil through tabloid association.... They're a bunch of right wing tosspots and I know he is a complete arse... but y'know, for some reason, I would...

Welcome Longwee ! I think Piers Morgan is probably sufficient for a crush of shame. There was something on Radio 4 last week about how cats' morning purrs contain the same pitch as a baby crying when hungry. Babies, cats, it's all the same....

Scorpette - This is the mid-30s Gin Palace, no judgement. Truth be told, most of us admitted in the previous thread to not actually drinking that much. I am the proud owner of a bottle of vodka purchases in January 2007 which remains unopened! One glass of wine last night had me babbling shite all night. Anyway, as you're sober you're the only one who can be trusted with the fags & drugs.

longwee Where abroad are you? Or am I painfully missing the Langwai pun?

ski I live in Malawi - Lilongwe - so yeah, a slight crap pun on the longwee - but that was mainly coz the first 7 usernames I tried had already been taken & I ran out of inspiration. However I did once win a bet with a friend that I could piss a pint.

So if I don't get me diffed I can always do a madonna an steal one.

& FYIs, this was the front page news over here last week.... www.dailytimes.bppmw.com/article.asp?ArticleID=13764

Scorpette want a snifter of my poppers instead? Don't worry about the booze - I'm off it anyway for the next month or so seeing as I'm up-diffed.

Longwee who is your role model Mom? Britney, Kerry K. or Karen Matthews?

Cosmo am very proud of your lack of hangover. Your resistance to liquor is coming along nicely since you joined the thread