Bring me the head of Alfalfa Garcia - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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think the job might be near toot it is in m e l k s h a m

I'm UR, zippi

Yes, Franny, I think you should send a couple. Not many, just one or two. You don't have to feel happy about it but you will know you did the Right Thing. how very odd of them

ahnow [proud emoticon] i thought you might be and i only read one post

i can identify someone from their positing style

ok you are both right, I shall send them

we are not surprised really UR - maybe pleasantly surprised if I am honest as we haven't had to deal with them
FIL is great but not really the kind of person who phones up
and MIL is chronic alcoholic and has Ishoos coming out of her ears

I did think they might be SLIGHTLY interested
but SIL has just had baby herself (MIL's dd) so I guess that is enough for them atm

Well at least you haven't had any bad stuff to deal with with them, Franny. Bit sad though.

Am not sure it is good that I am that easily identifiable

yes it is good, you are right
I just feel sad for dp as it is a happy thing to produce grandchildren and feel the approval of your parents
he has missed out on the respect and love that he deserves from them - his mother openly criticises him for being so 'boring' etc - ie being a reliable and sober dad

Poor DP, Franny.

i cant understand that even if she is an alcoholic she could be one with a brain and a nice personality

it might have a slight m,itigating effect

I was also thinking how great DP must be to have turned out to be so 'boring' with the parents he has.

I am also exceedingly dull, by their standards (and probably other people's too)

Zippi, I hope even more that you get the job!!

Franny, I seem to have missed something. Is everything okay? What are you sending? Where? Why are you frustling?

oh sure zippi, the alcoholism is just a recent side effect really
she is a pretty broken person
and of course a lot of that is down to HER parents
god these cycles go on and on don't they?

UR dp's dad is really a lovely chap
the gentle parent in him comes from there
plus dp and I have both been through our own "non-boring" phases - luckily came out the other side
you really would think any sane parent would be proud of him

Oh sorry Franny, have read properly now. Tricky one. Gits.

it was a question from a little earlier TooT
just should I send photos to ILs when they have barely acknowledged ds2's birth
just sour grapes on my part, of course I should (and will)

oh Fra nny My dad didn't even find time to visit ds2 until we was 6 months old (he lived an hour away). Consqeuntly I gave upo with trying to include him in any way. Consequently, I haven't spoken or seen him for 5 years.

It depends on what you want for your family. The convo with the boys about how they have a grandfather who they have never met because he isn't interested was quite heaertbreaking....

oh and good luck ZIppi!!

v sorry to hear that fmf
things that are rather hurtful on one's own behalf, are shockingly bad on behalf of one's children

zippi when will you hear about the job?

Good luck Zipps
lovely to see you back

Glad things went okay Toot

I would send some Franny
I send to my mother,even tho it is nearly two yrs since she has seen/written/spoken to ds
It just makes me feel better

I will send, I will send, I just felt miffed
daft i know

bowl of mixed fruit and a banana yogurt
I love banana yogurt, they have always been my favourite but you can never get them
only type I have found is Rachel's which do a pack of 4 children's yogurts, and one of the flavours is banana
then I have to fight ds for the banana one as it is his favourite also (or he has picked up on the covetability of the banana one, from me)

god I talk shite don't I
will try to have an early night tonight and get a life tomorrow

I don't get the title.

Hello fruity ones

Good to see you Zippi - hope the job application goes well.

I went for a 30 minute bike ride today at 6pm leaving DH to do tea, it was most refreshing

But god my thighs ache

Today I have been driving around with a poster (made by DS) displayed in my car window, which has a red circle with a line trhough and a picture of a boy in the middle, with "No" in big red letters

Apparently it means "No Boys" allowed in my car

and DH has a matching one for no girls in his car

DS was a bit thrown, though, when he had to get in my car to go to nursery

I told hime that if anyone stopped us we would have to pretend he was a girl

He was not amused

Lol Fk

Ds has been counting his pennies today as he has decided to save up for tea at the Ritz.
He was most disgusted not to have been invited for scones & cakes & furious with dh for not remembering to sneak him a 'treat' home in his napkin yesterday.

He said not to worry as when he is a 'big man',he will take me there for tea every day.

FK and Lully.

Plum. Apple. Toast and Marmite.

The roasted veg were fab.

Thank you for advice on ds2-carer (a 'nanny' it ain't, really. 'Nanny' sounds grand). I am going to sleep on it and decide first thing. I really think I made a mistake with first decision and don't quite understand myself tbh.

ds1 just absolutely delightful today. So sweet and earnest and playful and just so absolutely into everything he does. The elaborate fantasy worlds and the way they mirror back bits of you still bowl me over. And my goodness he adores ds2. We had fruit and milk before bed and he ate the skin off several plum and apple pieces, as I do when feeding fruit to ds2, and gave them to me for ds2. He then 'read' him a story, holding a book and saying a stream of nonsense words and fragments from his books with absolutely storyish intonation. Then they were both bf at the same time and ds1 stroked ds2's face and ds2 played with ds1's hair. I know I am gushing and I apologise for self-absorbed boringness but tonight I am of the isn't-parenthood-a-wonderful-adventure frame of mind and enjoying it.