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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Mid 30's TTC--Gin Palace Two: Spawn of the BESH

999 replies

SarahAbroad · 21/07/2009 13:06

Hey all...

Hope this thread name is okay...just moved the Gin Palace around the corner before we ran out of space!

See you soon. The bar's open!

OP posts:
ginhag · 23/07/2009 18:17

No not yet today.

Maybe that is the problem.

Scorpette · 23/07/2009 18:19

Gah, I go to work and all this top chat happens?

I must add my ha-penneth whether you all like it or not.

Firstly, hello fellow newbs. Glad to see extremesitting fancies Michael Cera - tell me, do you have a jailbait teeny studmuffin in RL like me and ski or do you keep your dubiousness for your mind only?

Am about the 'pretentious' names thing. I actually like 'different' names like Clover and Granny-tastic names like Elsie and my own name could fit into both those categories. I don't like them to try to be clever or different, I just like what I like - p'raps it's because I'm ridiculously middle-class and names others see as pretentious are the norm to me - between us, me and TYF have cousins with names like: Thomasin, Meyrick, Elspeth, Sebastian, Tristan, Dominic, Laurette, etc. My brother was nearly called St. John ('Sinjun'). BTW, to balance things out, my cousin has a daughter called Charmaine . If we're talking name choices, I'm going to take the opposite view, which is that I hate names that are boring and commonplace and that everyone else has. Might be cos I was 21 before I met anyone else with the same name as me, but heyho. I better not ever reveal on here the names me and TYF like for our future offspring TYF is even worse than me (dreadfully posh): he has already rejected one of my faves - Felix - on the grounds that it's too ordinary...

Talking of TYF, we're not married, but if we did I would either keep my name or we'd both use both surnames. Same with future kids - will have both surnames (but not double-barrelled) - that way, when they're older they can drop one if they want. Am a Ms and go quite, quite mental when people call me Miss or address letters thus. Have an MA in Wimminz Studdeze, hear me roar!

Ye great time of ovulation is nigh (at the weekend). Are my absurd levels of excitement bad for my fertility?

extremesitting · 23/07/2009 19:01

Scorpette - sounds like we are on the same mission this weekend! Unfortunately I make my OH suffer for 5 days pre-ov. I read somewhere that the little shwimmers can last that long and do their work, though not entirely convinced this is the case with a 40yr old heavy smokers little tadpoles

Don't follow my lead whatever you do. The OH is already red raw and I'm not allowed near him for at least 24hrs. Might as well write this month off and go to the offy

Howya Dontry!

skihorse · 23/07/2009 19:24

My jailbait teeny studmuffin is currently bursting with pride. We just took the dogs out for a walk and one of them attacked another dog and whipped his poor drunken possibly pregnant missus off his feet where she lay on the floor wailing whilst the other dog-walker threw down the lead, ran away wailing leaving him to separate the two fighting dogs and try and stop a toddler from crying.

NeedChoos · 23/07/2009 19:43

Hi have been lurking for most of this afternoon (in a non-stalkery fashion) and loving a) the amount of alcohol consumed 2) the non Boden / Cath Kidsen ness of the Dungeon and 3)hoping that I might fit in as we/I can't seem to make the decision to start ... whatever (All euphemisms are shit..trying, becoming parents, god the worst... babydancing wtf)

So we have carried forward the decision till the next time we get half way through a bottle talk. So I'm not sure I qualify for a "conception thread" as it just seems WAY too grown up despite being 38.

Can I stay.....just for one drink?

cheggers · 23/07/2009 19:45

Scorpette same here. can't keep up. damn job getting in the way of my life.

never away from the place at the moment. although shouldn't complain with all the non jobs around.

although i must say i am hanging out for extended baby related leave. just imagine all the hours you could waste on the internet

i still have my own name. my dad thinks that was just to wind him up, but really i moved country and job the week after we got back from honeymoon and the faff of changing names was all too much on top of everything else.

plus i think it's weird to not be called by your own name anymore (my name is far cooler than his)

i try to persuade him that we (should we ever manage to make a person) all have a lovely double barelled effort.

he's having none of it

i have a v. long name so it would be ridiculous but it tickles me no end when all our friends and family do it on the mail they send us.

anyway - yo to all the new girls. i trust you have enough booze and nibbles?

cheggers · 23/07/2009 19:47

oh and extremesitting

cool name. just picturing you sitting with your laptop is making me titter ....

extremesitting · 23/07/2009 19:53

Why thank you! I tried about fifteen different options before that one was accepted by this thing. I particularly chuckle when someone calls me "extreme"
a) because extreme sports would be dangerous to a soul such as me
and
b) because I think of Nuno Bettencourt. More than words. Oh my days!

BTW - my OH finds the irony of this situation hilarious. Mumsnet I mean. Har fuckin har! Having said that, hope those who are "impregnated" are well

Have looked at other threads. Its a bit frickin terrifying on here. Thank God I found you lot! No BD in sight! x

RunLyraRun · 23/07/2009 20:01

Crikey all these new people, getting busy at the bar, shove over will ya. Welcome though

Aerie, if you are officially shagging with intent (SWI instead of TTC, anyone?), I think that only leaves me in the still too scared to get on with it camp Good luck with it though - eek you must be bricking it!

Ginpud, I'M interested in your lezza fantasy and bloke's age, even if t'others aren't! Mine's Evangeline Lilly and just 36 respectively (800 days older than me)

Scorpette, I'm always a Ms too - think anything else is just plain rude/nosey/irrelevant

RunLyraRun · 23/07/2009 20:05

Hurray, NeedChoos, you can sit in the not yet shagging with intent corner with me!

NeedChoos · 23/07/2009 20:07

cool! thanks!

skihorse · 23/07/2009 20:11

NeedChoos welcome! - I was never sure about our dressing style until today but I think extremesitting is modelling the outfit I WANT! babydancing? I think we're more drunken fumbling and I'm shocked to admit that I've actually started drinking more since I stumbled across these reprobates!

For the love of god, don't go poking around in Childbirth - I have no idea why donttry does that to herself.

cheggers I'm glad you're still with us and it's nice to know that if any of us have to go down the hormones route that we won't necessarily murder our beloved (ha!) partners within days.

NeedChoos · 23/07/2009 20:21

Noooo Thank - you! I think I'm being really brave owning up the fact we have had a conversation about it - I certainly don't need any details at this stage.

Just another large glass of wine please.

Plus I don't get all the weird abbreviations...

laurielou · 23/07/2009 20:40

Evening all,

Shagging With Intent - love it.

I have no idea how I came to stop taking the pill. Can't even say it was a drunken conversation as the boyf doesn't drink (weirdo). Ah, maybe that's it - he got me drunk and took advantage.

Cooool.

Anyway, adult that he his him & his married with 3 kids mate are currently in the lounge playing on the PS3. He wasn't amused when I mentioned milk & cookies.

So I'm let loose on the PC at home - usually have to book a bloody appointment.

Ooops, sorry, welcome newbies.

So, round of tequila slammers anyone?

cheggers · 23/07/2009 20:42

ooh. Evangeline Lilly. i'd do her.

mine was always Drew Barrymore - but i guess that's not very modern now

i don't really have a shameful man fancy, but extremes - more than words was always on my shameful list of desert island discs

ski apart from the 2 very 'localised' mood explosions, my lover told me i had actually been nicer than usual

donttrythisathome · 23/07/2009 20:48
ginhag · 23/07/2009 20:50

Oh fucking hell I only went off to put small to bed and the party's kicked off again!

Who's round is it?not mine...

extremesitting is a truly fab name tho only a matter of time until you are extremeshitting (I wouldn't call you such a thing obv )

hello needchoos everyone here is terrified/uncertain about the concept of making Actual Small People.even me,and I already have one...

Lyra am loving SWI. Also,glad you noticed he's 37 so just under 2 years older.haven't had a crazy big age gap since I was 16 and going out with a 28 year old (mum n dad loved that) and have never had more than a one-nighter with a toyboy.

As for the girl on girl thingy...has anyone seen 'bound' ?Gina gershon makes me go all funny in that film.gggrrr yum

NeedChoos · 23/07/2009 20:51

ooohhh Mr Big - I'm the One!

Sweetest Mother of God - you let one secret out and then its a stampeed!!

ginhag · 23/07/2009 20:52

Oops x post Laurie. yep 3 for me please...

ginhag · 23/07/2009 21:00

Ps my boobs feel weird.stupidly early pg sign or getting all tingly for Gina gershon???

Place your bets.

cheggers · 23/07/2009 21:00

Laurie he's bored of me so now has put the x-box on.

so all very grown up in this house too.

he's only a wee'un at 33 so is allowed is spose.

cheggers · 23/07/2009 21:08

am currently watching Mr Big on you tube and suddeny remembered my fancy of shame.

it was many years ago mind.

(bruce dickinson)

ginhag · 23/07/2009 21:10

cheggers specifically Gina gershon as 'corky' in 'bound'

ps congrats on the non-psychoness,you're doing better than most of us I think!seriously,glad the hormones not doing nasty things.

Scorpette · 23/07/2009 22:53

I reserve my lezzy-love for Katherine Moennig - she played Shane in the L Word and is Gwyneth Paltrow's cousin (fact fans):
l.yimg.com/l/tv/us/img/site/48/45/0000034845_20061021020829.jpg

I'm usually sat in my skanky dressing gown if I'm writing on here. Little Ms Go-Getter I ain't.

extremesitting - good luck for this weekend. Scheduled holiday for next week based on usually 100% predictable 28 day cycle, but it came early last time, didn't it, the git? So dunno if will be ov during the holiday or this weekend. Hope it waits till Monday, as TYF always transforms into crazed sexpest as soon as we're on hols.

If he's very good I allow him an ice-cream and 80p to spend on the penny machines down the arcade

ginhag I'm not terrified or uncertain about having kids - quite the opposite: am unhealthily obsessed and cripplingly desperate for babies, babies, BABIES right now! NOW!!!

longwee · 24/07/2009 07:41

That's it, I'm clearly gonna have to pack up my job to keep up with you lot...

Can someone please tell me who made early pregnancy signs the same as impending RTOD signs?? Coz I would really like to take them outside and give them a good talking to. I am feeling really emotional (have you noticed) (blub, snnfffttt), quite bloated and have a big zit on my chin. I'm trying not to obsess but these things aren't helping. Can we all sign a petition to get completely different pregnancy signs - perhaps a purple flashing light immediately after conception so we don't have to fuck around obsessing

Welcome newbies

For anyone who remembers my stone story earlier in the week there was a cracker the other day about a man who'd been arrested for magicking his wife's genitals away - can't find it now though sadly (and I guess neither can she...)