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

[SarahAbroad]

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!

Sorry, that came out a bit Pollyanna. What I meant to say was: TTC is a headfuck designed to keep women in a state of permanent dementedness until they have babies and they're properly sleep-deprived and mad; the recession is shit, especially for the long-suffering freelancers (about which I can also TOTALLY sympathise as both DB and I are freelance and constantly nervous); being unemployed is bollocks. You are doing well even to be summoning up the strength to post about it.

But wedding anniversaries and potatoes are GOOD. [haymaker punch to shoulder]

I'm qualified in Swedish massage and sports massage (please note, neither or these are rude), so have set up a little salon in the pit of angst.

Exchange rate: 30 min back and shoulder massage = one cherry bellini.

extreme, you can have a freebie for your anniv. Sorry you're having such a shit time

Thanks you guys!!!

Sound shite sitting. Also commiserations to you other glum sods. I've just opened a hard drugs emprium in the corner behind the curtain. Some crack? Or perchance some poppers (god, I really have those on my mind).

I'd like to be a snake - just slither around slime-ily with an open gob into which food just walks.

Ooh yes Boris, "Dave" and George.
Triple. Cunts.
I am seriously gearing up to leave your fair lands after the next election.

Germaine Greer. What. A. Stupid. Cunt.

OOOh! Wildfig you struck gold! The haymaker lives next door to my Mum and Dad's place where I am SUPPOSED to be going on holiday! Amazing!! Are you psychic?!

Also loving the freebie massage from Lyra. Don't suppose any of you can do acupuncture?! I've heard it works wonders for stress/ confidence/ baby making!!!

I'll stick a few needles in ya for nuffink luv. Naaaa worries...

(what d'ye think of me English accent?)

Reads like a cross between laaandan and geordie to be honest, but thanks for the offer!!!

WTF is going on? It's very quiet in the palace...

Have we been evicted?

To be honest, I think we've all got a bit too glum to type...

I'm just sitting shivering in the corner,booze in a brown paper bag,watching the tumbleweeds roll on by...

oh,anniversary slaps to extreme.your story totally beat my wasp sting on the shitty life stakes.

Onwards and upwards eh? (raises glass,falls over)

Sorry, had a wander through the AIBU threads and discovered that by (a) owning a dog and (b) not making people 'pop their shoes off' at the front door, I was a germ-breeding slattern who should be visited by Health and Safety, the Daily Mail, and Kim & Aggie in that order. Felt very un-Mumsy and had to abandon ship.

But in better news, we're keeping a puppy! Sleepless nights, ahoy! Haven't told dog yet. Am sure she'll be... thrilled. Just when she thought she was back to being the apple of our eye again.

Oooh wildfig you'd fecking hate me in RL then.

Am going to have a no shoes rule once the house is done.

Plus it bugs me how lots of people with dogs seems to think it's acceptable for the mutts to jump all over you. Even that you'd enjoy it! Fules.

This is a typical story IME. Was lying on the beach last week asleep when a bollixin family group with two dogs settled RIGHT next to me (the rest of the beach, and the neighbouring beaches were ALL empty). Was a dog free beach. There are lots of dog friendly beaches right alongside. Their dogs jumped on me. I yelled GERROFF to the dogs. They glared at ME accusingly. No apology. They were also loudly calling to the dogs constantly. Dogs kept bounding over to me until I was forced to move. This happens often. Fuckers.

Dontry is very grumpy.

Well, of COURSE it's not acceptable for someone's stupid dogs to jump all over you. And definitely not for them to be on a dog free beach! Ours wouldn't jump all over you; she'd regard you balefully from a distance. Is really depressing how much of my time I now spend apologising for bad owners. Honestly, we're not all like that!

I am going to withdraw the topic from the Gin Palace now, as I really really really don't want to get into another debate about how evil dogs are. The hound and I will be outside drinking a G&T under the umbrellas at the back.

But lucky you being on a beach warm enough to lie asleep on! I remember that sensation... hmm, 1979, I think it was...

Me too. Since the introduction of our lovely new carpet have been utterly paranoid about shoes-off-at-door. Blokey and I always do this when we go to other peoples homes too so it isn't one-rule-for-us-and-our-new-carpet iyswim.

Great news about the puppy wildfig! Am glad there are dog lovers in the world (though I am not one of them and am totaly with donttry on the inconsiderate owners rant - though have met some lovely owners too, who understand non-dog people).

Sorry about the promo extreme. Have a long island iced tea for breakfast .

Who is Finbar Saunders?

wildfig - sure the palace has room for a lovely puppy-filled courtyard.

I want to be on a beach.

ps. Would qualify carpet comment by making clear that am exceptionally anal to the point of OCD. I don't really like it when people sit on the sofa in clothes they have sat on the train/tube/bus in, no shoes are allowed upstairs (except when carried), there are no times when blokey or self will sit on the bed in clothes that have been outside, I wash my hands many times a day especially when coming home after work.

I have ishoos. I think it's the stinking grime of Londontown. And the effect of my (paranoid) mother.

You may mock. I am used to it. I have no idea how a poo-monster will fit into this framework. Luckily I am making no progress on this front.

What's the new acronym for blokeys? - hesitate to use TYF since he's only 20months younger. Might start with SP (sperm provider).

Blast. Everyone's gone away again. Should not have mentioned puppy-courtyard.

Ah, another beautiful summer's day

Re the shoes at the door - despite moving into a brand new house where everything was clean & shiney, I've never asked people to take their shoes off. However, everyone has! Maybe I have "the look".

Except for the boyf! We had just picked up the keys & the site manager was giving us a "familiarisation tour" of the house (WTF? This is your kitchen - no shit, Sherlock). Anyway, during said "tour" boyf traipsed mud through the hall carpet. The site manager gasped & threw him outside to take his shoes off!!! Bit late then, they were clean - wiped so on the carpet.

Sod the courtyard, I'm staying by the fire with a nice warming whiskey.

Maybe I shall sing some Val Doonican.....

I'll knit you an aran sweater for your crooning!

I'll need some sort of camelback filled with gin as the knitting slows the drinking down otherwise.

The site manager threw you out of your own house for wearing shoes?! Blimey.

I don't have a problem with taking my shoes off in other people's houses, if that's their routine - in fact, I think my shoes on policy stems from my childhood, in which I'd happily kick off my shoes and settle in and my mother would actively glare at me for making such a faux pas. This was northern england in the 70s: the Hyacinth Bucket Years. Also my dad once trod on a nail at home, and spent the rest of my time there warning me of the gruesome dangers lurking beneath my unshod feet. But now if I go round to someone's house and I'm told to take my shoes off before I've even opened my mouth (as some of the posters on the AIBU thread apparently do) I get very nervous and worry if they'd like me to sanitise my hands as well, and if I'm sitting in the right place.

Maybe it's because I've never lived in a clean and shiny house? DB and I wander round in socks and bare feet here, because we're sock kind of people, but even though I wash/sweep/hoover our floors constantly because of the dog (sorry), I'd prefer guests to keep their shoes on - for their own safety.

Apols but the fireside is reserved for drunken Irish trad session later tonight.

I have of course lived in a clean house. And this one is currently quite shiny as I am moving out next week and am scouring it obsessively. I mean, I've never lived in a NEW NEW house, or paid for a new carpet.

Am getting a new carpet in London flat. Expect I will turn into Geisha Slipper woman overnight and insist that the hound wears those elf boots Pets At Home were selling last christmas.

Ooo cleaning.and tidiness.and shiny floors-I..

have nothing much to contribute actually.I'm a socks indoors sort of person but end up changing them several times a day due to sticky/damp issues.mmmm nice.

No carpets in this house,oooh no.

Just out of interest,not sure of the lure of the AIBU threads?always just seems like a bunch of people getting all wound up with each other,I simply wouldn't have the energy!my response would not be YABU or YANBU it would be IDGAFIUAUON.

fig dogs fine by me mate.I have the same issues with small.often find myself apologising for bad owners of children etc.