A follow on thread ...

[Festivepussy]

here for the fag free few!

Yup, it will be. She goes into a major paddy if we plug the iron into a different kitchen socket than the one she uses. She won't let me wash dd's stuff or prepare her any different stuff to eat than anyone else's eating. Subsequently dd gets very run down, MIL's cooking leave me feeling 'yeaurck' let alone dd. Then the hounds, these Burmese Mountain Dog thingies with heads as big as dd, they terrify her, knock her flying with their bloody tails and MIL kills herself laughing when dd cries when they bark.

AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I will be climbing walls for a fag ...

OMG. Would it be silly of me to suggest that you waltz in there and just make dds meals...if she comments just say Me and Dp will eat yours it wont get wasted....
The dogs....Oh My...I have stopped visiting friends over dogs. I cannot stand kids and dogs together, slobbery tongues with huge sharp teeth behind them. Of course, I loved dogs when I was little but now I just see scary teeth at my dds head height.
How long are you going for? Do you know anyone else near where she is? Can you escape her?

No. The kitchen is 'her Domain.' Just not worth the hassle, she's got a tongue on her as sharp as the dogs' teeth! We do have dp's sister close by with her 3 kids but the mum always comes to visit them with us. No-one else nearby as it's not where I grew up and dp left home at 18 (understandably!)

Only 3 nights there. Then straight off to my mums to recuperate. My mum's the opposite in every way, small, cuddly, a bit puddled in a very sweet, confused, messy kind of way. She wouldn't notice if I redecorated her kitchen while she sniggered over Last of the Summer Wine.

I really do sympathise bm, it's not easy with kids even when you go somewhere nice! I'll def. be thinking of you and your 3 days! Is she not v.nice normally or just to you? is it because you're jewish? i remember you mentioning her fascist tendencies...my god, i didn't think it still possible

i understand not being able to say anything - how do you normally cope?

i'm sorry girls but i'm MAD about xmas and always have been...have been decorating the banister today! Christmas day is the only day in the year when i actually wake up as fresh as a daisy

whereabouts in the midlands are you heading bm? dh comes from b'ham.

and as for dogs...NO

am in a v good mood despite worst fag cravings tonight for weeks - sucking lozenges madly, eating peanuts, olives, cheese, crackers - feel a porky ridge appearing.

poor bm - can't help feeling I wanna steal your MIL and put her in a book... first time I met my mil (who recently went into a home nr us, and has dementia) she roared - in thickest scottish accent - 'Blood's thicker than watta, y'know!!' I nearly died.

fp love the thought of you decorating your bannister! dh bought a tree - real, bloody massive - and we have nothing to put it in. He tried to put it in a tiny pot with a couple of cornflakes boxed squished around it. NOT a success.

So still no tree! (it's still wrapped in its net thing).

mink, have sent off all the lovely oils to my friends, so beautifully presented by you - they're gonna love them.

gonna work so so late, will no doubt be on here at 1 am, am feeling demented like my MIL but in a good way xxxx

fg, do the kids speak in a scottish accent then?

off to bed now, night night ladies xx

Fiona, I got your card today, OMG what little sweeties you have! They look like a bundle of giggles and fun!
Lovely Lovely Lovely!!!
(shame you get my xmas card to me before I get your B.day one to you)
Will get doing cards at some point today...
Its wasnt me decorating the bannister FG it was Mink, I usually do with flashing lights and tinsel, but this year I didnt bother as once the kids have seen it once it never gets put on again and it seemed such a waste of effort!!!!!
How do you get a real live, well not anymore, tree to stand up???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Let me know when youve worked it out!!!!! They must be quite heavy...
Mine is a plastic thing with just lights and too many dangly things...I let the kids loose on it as when I try and do it It looks rubbish and if I let them do it, it looks better...and if anyone says anything im excused because the kids set it up
I have been varnishing this morning, all the pine stuff in the bathroom. My fingers are all nicely stinking together and the poor keyboard is sticky too.
This afternoon im going to get my barnet permed....
My sisters mum insists on getting it done for me every year...I think she feels pity for me that I look such a state She trys to improve me...lol

they are bundles of MISCHIEF fp!! I looked about 10 years old before I had them. And yes mink they do talk v scottish!

tree... er... dh muttering about getting some hardcore (!) from B&Q to put round tree and make it, um, erect... but he's working till 10 tonight so god knows what'll happen. Painter says he can get me some bricks. Oh my glamorous life!! Wish we had a tree like yours fp, this is turning into a farce. My mum is coming on fri to see the
ner-ti-vaty and will see what a pile of dismal failures we are. AND the book ain't gonna be written by Christmas and am past caring.

How's the barnet fp?? Are you looking lovely?

LOL FG, They do look as if they could pull the wool over anyones eyes...then run away giggling to themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Barnet not till later....need to give myself a nit check first just in case....bloody hell..SNORT...but I once saw on that Salon programme a nursery nurse get half way through her hair cut and then they wouldnt do anymore coz they found nits...I always check JUST IN CASE as I would have to die of embarrasmesnt if that happened to me.
I have had a nit twice...I must have a sensitive scalp as I just knew I had something crawling about....
EWWWWWEEWWWWWW

fg, is that joiner of yours still there because he could russle up a block with a hole in it for you to stick the tree in. how big is the tree? is it trafalgar square size

my tree is also fake as can you imagine ds1 with a real one?!! he'd skin every branch and then complain about having needle splinters! it's a job to stop him from taking down the decorations! i've bought these present sacks from B&Q to hide the pressies in otherwise he'll rip them apart.

who said christmas was for children?

spent 3 hours in town today and am not even sure why. ds2 and I were so hot and sweaty that i had to take his coat off and people must have been thinking 'Bad Mother not wrapping up baby!!'

rambling now as i'm so tired i can barely move!

oh and fg, why haven't you got any decs for the tree - did you throw out last year's?

what kind of perm are you getting fp? DO NOT get a corkscrew, i had one in the 80's and every morning i woke up with a fuzz on my head! can't wait to see it!!!

Popping in

I had 4 yesterday, but am very very stressed/busy at the moment so I am not too worried about it.

Hope everyone is fab!

shopping with wee ones - blinking nightmare mink!

hi jenni - pls don't stress, you're not exactly puffing constantly or setting yourself on fire... do hope the domestic thing is looking a bit brighter for you.

Jimmy just called me from work, going, 'Can't get out of the office, nightmare, stress stress, gotta get to B& Q for hardcore, can't get out of office, arrgghh...'

Then I read your posts and... mink - you are a GENIUS! Have just asked our joiner for advice re tree and she (for 'tis a she) has whizzed off in her van to get us some rubble to put in the tree pot.

YEY!!! Why the bloody hell didn't I think of that?

(the kids ransacked the xmas dec box and the baubals ended up all over the house, we have some new ones though, prob not enough, who cares, soddit!)

xxxxx lala=laaaa (midly hysterial ramblings)

Oh YES YES YES fg, put MIL in your book. She's unique I promise.

We've got a little tree. I'm not against Christmas at all really in a modest kind of way so long as I'm not expected to go into huge debt over it or over-eat. I'm happy to over-drink of course! Really if we were at home, the 3 of us, I'd be loving it this year. I just don't like the family crap associated with it all.

I'd love to send you all a card but have no-one's address so can I send you a virtual one here with a picture of, hmmm ... a black-haired woman, tall, skinny, the eyebrows of course ... can't think of anything else. And a little chestnut-haired girl with very big blue eyes, small, skinny with a gap in her teeth grin. We're sitting under a slightly sloping fake Christmas tree without enough decorations on it yet, overlooking Tower Bridge outside the window way down on the ground. And we're smiling and blowing kisses to you all.

There. How's that?

sorry how sexist of me - yey for a female joiner! actually i'm the diy-er in this house courtesy of my diy dad and dh is hopeless until i tell him what to do. sadly, neither of us are carpenters/builders/plumbers so we have to get someone else to do the serious stuff. costs a bomb.

bm what a lovely picture, but i'm threatening to CAT you soon so that you can send me a proper piccie as i'm extra nosy

jenni, given your situation, you're doing incredibly well. if i were you i would have said 'sod it!' but you're here with good intentions so just think about what you're not smoking for now. any improvement on the communications?

fg, went out with only ds2 today as ds1's at nursery but i often go with both of them. no, i was in town for far too long because i think way too much about what to get people. have got all the 'important' ones but had to get the group leader (oh i do know her name fp, just didn't know what to call her position) a present and i've never done this before. also had to get that person i was ranting about via email a present...why do i care?!!!

oh well, at least i finished it all...i hope!

Bluemoon if you email me your email/address at [email protected] I will keep it for future mailings of my kids photos etc...

Ive had my hair permed...I look like bob marley now...so with the flares im SAXY as donkey would say in Shrek 2 LOL
Im not sure what sort of perm it is Mink, I just said i wanted something so my hairs not stuck to my head all the time!

I see youve mangaged to get FG in the festive mood Mink...now cast your magic wand on me please...

Oh yeah and I sat in the hairdressers taking the biggest slowest breaths...usually i sit in there smoking my lungs off
Like something out of coronation street, you know the yellow walls and the chainsmoker.......
I am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

free as a bird fp!

Girls - the tree is up! Liz the joiner got loads of bricks and helped me get the thing up. Yes, hurrah for female tradespeople - no whingeing, no moods, no sexist talk - she's fab.

dh has not been home till 11 all week, bit pooped now as kids have had pals over too - but feeling okay, wine in hand, one kid out of three in bed, washing pile the size of our tree but stuff it! xxxx

Love your card bluemoon!

Oh yes, Mm, and everyone else, the more pictures the better and if you CAT me I'll send some of me and dd. Or at least of dd. One glimpse of me and you'll be reaching for a smoke

I'm blue09[at]onetel[dot]com

Get 'em coming!

I just read the first post on this thread. Fag free. HAH. No way! I had 4 again today. Hmmm. I keep doing it and I know smoking is supposed to be gross whatever but I LIKE IT DAMMIT. Grrr.

Me and DH are ok, sort of plodding along, I am a bit too tired and busy to argue or even be bothered to be annoyed with him and his crap so I am just getting on with it. Honestly sometimes I think I spend so long whinging I may as well just get on with my life

Would anyone like to see a pic of my DD? I don't have any very recent ones unfortunately. I can e-mail if anyone is interested.

Is anyone else feeling very festive? Me and E were dancing round to Christmas songs all this morning

My emails just a few messages down Jenni...please do
We all like/liked fags ....we just decided it wasnt doing us any favours and were sick of being dominated by the fags...and if not the fags the thought of the fags...
We also hated them for the fact they made us feel like shit, reluctant to get out of bed, used them as an excuse to escape from our children...and that everyone was pushing us that bit closer to the grave....4 a day?
I wouldnt even bother ;)