30s TTC - We BESH you a Merry Jizzmas and a droid-free new year!

[CurlyCasper]

Come in, come in. The wine is mulling, the bird is stuffed and cooked. We have a huge table at which to enjoy our festive feast, and the rippling Ricky Whittle is the centrepiece, draped in berries to be removed by whatever method you choose.

A bottle of Gin and an elf-man in a box awaits each and every one of you. Just make your wish and when you undo the bow he will appear.

There's a nativity tableau in the corner, for praying to the baybee Jebus and, most importantly of all, Santa has been asked to deliver the gift of exceptional fertility, so that each and every BESH can enter the new year with a baybeeee in their tum tum.

Oh, and I've let a few cats in to aid with the 2WOOFL menkulness.

Now, let's get together and get the tree up!

Lol a VAG, way to fill the new girl with postive thinking!

ock I took my last pill boxing day last year. It also too ages for my cycles to get back to normal (over 100 days till droid arrival, then a few at over 50). However am now diffed, so it can happen.

Cossie is my Hero.

Bess - I have now managed to at least open a spreadsheet before returning to the Palace/Dishplace. Now I'm weighing up my lunch options. This should tide me over nicely to lunchtime. Then I'll have the post-lunch slump and then I'll probably go home early. Shamefully slack. Pom-de-pom.

I am not at work but I do have some work to do from home this week. Place your bets on this happening on Sunday.

I'm at work. Deeeee-pressing! Weather is shite & I just want to be at home in my Christmas pj's, Christmas slippers, Christmas Bailey's & face smeared in the purple Quality Street.

The boyf is also in work & just emailled me to rant about the joy that is the HMV sale. Frankly he deserves it for even attempting to go. Idiot!

I is at work too! Am contemplating when I can leave - would 2 be taking the piss? There are no senior people in...

I'm not really sure why I'm posting here, given that I'm sick to the eye-teeth of thinking about TTC, deciding when to SWI, worrying about the outcome of fertility testing, trying to explain to my husband that it's a bit premature to be worrying about what kind of house we can afford to buy in five years time because we'll have babies because WE MIGHT NOT HAVE BABIES. And breathe.

Sorry, that's all a bit mememememememe. Hope all the people who have had shite Christmases are feeling better.

For some reason I feel like these days at the end of the year are to purge all of my feeling shiteness so that I can be phoenix-like reborn as a creature of calm and happy. Because an arbitrary change of date can have that effect, no?

Camel - we're thinking of moving but putting it off for that selfsame reason. Our teenytiny house is great for the two of us, we've spent 5 years getting it just how we like it. It's as close to work as we're ever going to get in London. We thought we'd wait until we had an actual reason to move before we did so. Now, I just don't know, can't see the future, struggle to make plans, am just waiting. And it could all be pointless. Argh.

2pm - good effort! I was thinking of lasting till 4pm given I drifted in at 10. Actually do have some work to do but am very disinclined to do it. Will regret this next year.

And is that HoneyLurker about? - show thyself, missy! Don't be shy!

Oooh, knicker checking sounds such fun . I guess I just have to be patient which I can't see me being very good at. Oh well.

Blergh to everyone who's at work. Given that it's snowing again I don't think I'd be attempting to get out even if I was supposed to but I've got work to do here - cue much procrastination. We were supposed to be going out for anniversary dinner this evening but not sure that's going to happen in this weather (but suspect we'll still be venturing out for the trip to the in-laws tomorrow).

Laurie you're welcome to my purple Quality Street (if my Mum didn't eat them all) - swap you for green triangles?

Camel shiteness purging sounds like a v useful way to spend these few days - here's to arbitrary date changes!

What shall I have for lunch? Am still on Christmas is-ok-to-put-anything-I-feel-like-into-mouth - will swiftly cure with gym and low-carby goodness in the New Year. So what unhealthy treats can I have to cheer myself up?

Oh, I quite like the green triangles too. Can you take the chery toffee ones instead?

In New York they've had a "shred your bad memories day" where loads have gathered to shred redundancy notices, pics of ex's etc etc. If its good enough for them, its good enough for us.

I'm shredding my birth certificate.........

Happy Anniversary OckyTockyUnger! We had a Christmas wedding too. Decided tactically to celebrate in Jan though as otherwise it gets lost int he Christmas scrum. And it's depressing in Jan and needs to be enlivened.

camel the answer is all the unhealthy treats you can lay your hands on. All of them!

Following your sage advice, vag, am off to the shops to buy all the food in the world. And some soup, because it's cold and miserable out there. Probably chicken soup.

How many of us were Christmas wedding people? My anniversary is December 13th and, as you lot know, I got taken to Paris. Very specifically informed that this was Not A Precedent, though.

Looking for things to shred later today.

Ooh Paris? - get you! we'll prob go for a lovley meal out - maybe Chez Bruce if we can get in. And not just cos it has a silly name. Been once before, TSF reminisces over the cheeseboard constantly. 4 years is cheese, isn't it? TSF wouldn't fib to me for his own ends, would he?

definitely a good time of year for weddings - we spent our first anniversary at one, and this year were at one on Jan 2nd and one Jan 3rd which I thought was v well co-ordinated of my friends who don't know each other. vag I like the celebrate in January idea, wonder if I can persuade him we need to celebrate twice....

Toffee ones it is then - anything's better than the purple ones

Heh - four years is variously fruit and flowers, or linen, silk or nylon. So that's either food (Chez Bruce, tick) or a tablecloth (Chex Bruce, tick). Huzzah.

Five is wood, therefore tables, therefore another meal out. I like how this is going. Hungry now.

I have just eaten the last bar of chocolate from the selection box grandma gave me (yes, I am 11). Now what I can eat that's unhealthy now?

I have loads of chocs at home, but in a fit of trying to be healthy only came to work armed with fruit!! What the hell was I thinking? I WILL NOT buy chocolate when I have a pile waiting for my triumpant return from the office. But what do I do in the meantime?

Buy the chocolate. It's a troo fact that chocolate consumed the week between Christmas & New Years has no calories.

Thank Jebus for that, I've eaten my own body weight in chocolate.

Muser But won't someone think of the savory snacks? They're calorie-free too, right?

Am sitting at my desk reading The Children's Book which I was given for Christmas. It's like work. In that I'm at my desk.

If you don't need cutlery to eat them with it's all calorie free. Definitely.

Ooh - I want to read that, do you rate it, Cameltoe?

I'm working scrolling through Ravelry, deciding what to knit next.

Vag Am a bit meh so far. Possession is one of my favourite books ever - partially because it's one of those books about reading which reminds me why I love reading. The Children's Book has similar elements, with a lot of stuff about childhood at the turn of the twentieth century, but I think there might be too many characters and some are just getting lost. Definitely worth reading, though.

Maybe I should learn to knit this year...?