SHiney cult is here to stay, till this weight has gone away...

[DidEinsteinsMum]

OK folks you know the drill, and if you dont pay attention:

We are a bunch of lovely ladies all shapes and size, here for chat, and moral support.

Some of it is healthy eating chat. WW, LL, food focus, south beach. Whatever ever the route, whatever the goal its all here.

Most of the time its just moral support and general chat... So dive in, post as much as you are able and have some fun...

Once you've had one, double, it feels more scary to think about being in hospital!

Now go and paint your kitchen!

I'm putting up little shelves to be our bedside shelf thingies at the moment - got to prime and paint the actual shelves now the brackets are up.

oh dear. I'm in the doghouse with DH.

Got letter this morning from work. Very short and curt, just saying they were having a meeting to discuss my letter. It is copied to the HR woman I spoke to, and some other HR woman I've never heard of whose title sounds very senior.

Predictably I am nervous, and DH, as is usual for him, is extremely nervous. Started in right away about 'if they try to screw you over and won't let you back to work we'll have to cancel the trip to the States'. Initially when I looked at the tickets there was this £25 insurance for cancelling your booking, and he wanted me to get it. When I actually booked (DH wasn't home), I read the terms and found out it wasn't what it said, the tickets were still non-refundable. So I booked without the insurance and just confessed this morning. So he's not very happy. But for fuck's sake, this is my family, my dad and brother haven't even met DS and he is 6 months next week!

I am scared enough about what is going to happen with the job without DH adding to it. He's not the one who is facing the prospect of going back to a place where the boss hates him, the work is non-existant, and all possibility of an actual career is going in the toilet every minute spent there. I reckon they will make things hard for me and I could really use the support from DH rather than having to quell his fears as well as mine.

Hello everyone, haven't caught up yet, will attempt to shortly.

DP has taken evil 1 and evil 2 to a playbarn type place so bonus points to him.

Evil 1 had nightmares so kept waking up and calling me all night, evil 2 just stayed wake all night, very grouchy seemed like colic but is she too young?? We were going to ahem, attempt stuff last night, for the first time since birth (not that we did it during birth you understand) but the evil of evil 1 and 2 prevented it. Slightly relieved, meant didn't have to do legs.

Am trying to make brooches. Amount I've spent on materials each will have to sell for £400 to break even.

Can anyone advise pls - I still look about 5 months pregnant. I'm used to still being 'larger' after pregnancy, it took me over a year to lose the extra weight after dd1 5 years ago, but this time my stomach looks seriously still pregnant. I can't get size 16 trousers to do up (or come even close) and normally I am a 10ish. My midwife at last visit (about 3 weeks ago) said that my uterus hadn't gone back and was still high. Could this be causing it? Or is it just normal with a 2nd child? Starting to get really down as I can't wear any clothes except my maternity ones, feel a bit pants about it. DP keeps telling me how beautiful I am and I want to punch him. If that makes sense

Sorry if I've posted inapproriately in the middle of anything I haven't caught up yet.

Oh and how cool was the gypsy wedding programme? DD1 would die for those dresses.

From DM thread...

By shineoncrazydiamond Sat 20-Feb-10 11:24:40
Also worth bearing in mind Erica that it is always a bad idea to get really involved with people that you have never met who have 'complicated' lives full of drama.

Very true. DO NOT GO NEAR this one woman I met who had a drama with a penguin, then a plumber and then some neighbours with cream. She is not to be trusted.

Sorry couldn't resist

Hello all, hope the travelling ones are having fun
At work and it's all go. A man barricaded himself into a house that has been repossessed (he was owner), with a gun, lots of knives. I very bravely manned the office whilst the others started death in the face and waited for the police, all sorted now.
I am surprised it doesn't happen more often, we get a lot of repossessions, which is just awful, esp when they have had children

Off out tonight, am resisting the urge to get a baguette from Greggs

Yank, hope all gets sorted for you, try mnot to worry, am sure it will all be OK.

Defluff, I'd go to your GP, have you had your 6week check yet? I know the weight hung around longer after DS2, but it was very much all over with me.

hello all.

just checking in so you don't boot me out of the Fb group.

I do apologise for not keeping up with you all. you just chat sooo much and my life is very boring so have nothing to post about.

God Lizzylou!! Drama so early!!
Defluff - i was in maternity for about 4 months after pfb, people were wishing me luck with the birth six weeks after he was born so know how you feel and sorry you feel down.

Hi Mamazon. Come and tell us that you have eaten a piece of fruit or seomthing.

Blimey Lizzylou

Had to laugh at you keeping your head down though

Can I admit that I worried you all thought I was inventing drama with my lovely stalker last August?

Sorry the mystery of who I am isn't very interesting really. I think you all know now though.

Was it me you were stalking on Facebook though?? Funny to write about stalking someone on a thread they are also posting on

DM fooled me for a while. I think I started to get my suspicions at the same time as you Shiney, maybe because of something you said? And like someone else said, I was kind of pleased that she was a troll and that it was untrue. I do hope that she is okay though, as although she dragged a lot of people into her story, she is obviously unwell in herself to do this.

I'm now watching big fat gypsy wedding on the side while MNing It is mad already! 'I've dreamt about this my whole life'. Well, yeah, you're 16.

Still sitting on laptop and havent picked up a paintbrush yet.
Was motivated enough to ring a fella to come and give a quote to do it!!

Lizzy - just saw you're Worcestershire. Whereabouts are you? I'm Kidderminster but was originally Bromsgrove.

Sadly I'm quite excited to see the dresses.

Drama is now over, lots of calls from concerned neighbours though. Has certainly made for an interesting day!

Defluff, am from Redditch. Used to have mates in Bromsgrove, my school had a lot of Bromsgrove people in it.

Does this happen often Lizzy?

Has never happened before, not in the 2 years I have been here anyway, we have got lots more repos now.
I am shocked actually that it hasn't happened before, mostly people just rip out evrything from the house, kitchens/lights the whole works. Have been in houses where they have obviously just upped and left and there is still a fair few possessions, kids toys etc, which is v sad.
The lad in our office (well, he is mid-20s) is full of bluster and bravado but I have it on good authority that he was cacking his pants.

Glad it's over Lizzy. Those sorts of things can get really bad.

Oh yes, I imagine the lad in your office was v worried. It must be hard to have to put on the bravado.

defluff and Lizzy- bromsgrove! That's my DH's neck of the woods. He's originally from Marlbrook near the Lickeys (I love that name).

Trlls is that programe on now (wondering how I can persuade poorly DS to watch that instead of teh Macually Culkin bore fest he's currently watching)

Lizzy -not quite the same but we kept the first house we owned to rent out - and were decorating it between tenants. The day the decorators finished we got fecking squatters...they must have thought it was their lucky year (bastards broke in and changed all the locks). It was beautifully decorated and all the utilities switched on. Teh letting agent rung me to tell me and made it worse by saying 'I've never ever known this to happen in this area )

He is now worried that the bloke will try and break in the office/come in and threaten us. I have no idea why he wasn't arrested, am wondering if the gun (was a BB gun, or something) and knife talk could have been exagerrated to sex up the situation......
Honestly, they're not paid very much to have to deal with stuff like this.

How did I manage to miss the bit about guns and knives