Where have all the fit, interesting and available men gone (part 31)

[Hatesponge]

hurray

It would seem a shame to lose our thread though I do understand why posting has dried up a bit. Wonder if it can be resurrected?

Elasta, good to hear all going well with GW :)

Nothing doing with me on the man front. Haven't had a date for well over a year, and no chance of one in the foreseeable - not even any messages on POF . So I don't have much to contribute to the thread - other than my abject failure!

Hi Sponge! How is the weight loss going? you were doing really well if I recall. Perhaps we should all just stop lurking and start posting again.

Anyone else out there?

yeah i'm here

but not for very long today, will have to meet lo soon

still with vimes too

i don't know about dried up more like this

aurora, lol at tumbleweed! good to hear all's well with you and vimes :)

elasta, the weight is still going - slowly but surely. have lost 3 stone now, still another 3 or so to go but am persevering!

wow sponge 3 stone! you must be looking very fit and interesting yourself!

Hi aurora, glad all is well with you and vimes

elasta I think I look better. Am not 'there' yet but I feel happier with my body. Doesn't seem to have helped with my chronic lack of dates though!

You just need to get out there once you feel in 'the zone' Whatever happened to W man? Is he still around?

congrats sponge

thanks both
we had a brownie bake off yesterday, dd said she preferred mine but when i was upstairs at vimes' house, i heard them saying that everyone preferred vimes' brownies!!!! even my own dd

lol at brownie bake off!

elasta - I haven't heard from WM since November, I still hear about him via our mutual friend. He's still single, broke, and living with his parents. Definitely his loss not mine

Plus had a great night out last night (though I truly have the hangover from hell today...drinking til past 4am was a bad idea!) and it would appear that I'm not totally unattractive to men - well not to one anyway....! It almost certainly won't turn into anything but was a confidence boost

hate
looking at other thread, sounds like you were in better shape than monty! lol

Lol I blame Monty for leading me astray She stopped drinking before I did. I am so suffering today though. I went back to bed for 3 hours this afternoon and still feel terrible. Tis one of those days when a greasy fry up, or lots of chocolate would be in order, but the diet prevents it!

How's all with you ninah?

nah she said you had to text for her! sounds like a brilliant night
if you are around end august maybe we can organise a repeat - usually get a child free week over the summer!
I'm fine, lost a bit of weight also, not a lot, just that aging little mid section, and feel a bit better. Got a GTP place starting in September all being well.
and Holiday Man has been texting asking to get together with dc but I can't be bothered
So - good I guess!
what about the confidence boost though?!

oh yes I forgot about the text! It took me a good 10 mins to switch her phone over to predictive text though. Has she mentioned the toast?!

Am sure my head and liver will have recovered by August so definitely on for a repeat - sure Monty will be as well

Well done on the weight loss - and fab news on GTP place, will it be local to you? even better if so. My commute is the bane of my life!

I remember Holiday man! weren't you quite keen at one time? Why not that bothered now?

The confidence boost was all Monty's fault, she was egging me on He was quite a fittie though

toast? no do tell
yeah gtp will be local hopefully, provider is going to a lot of trouble for me hope to meet school shortly
was keen on HM but now I've seen him out and about with other friends he is quite hard work - 'separated' etc, you know what I'm saying! he is a fairly passive type and I don't have the energy for him atm
hope you have recovered now! did you give 'confidence boost' your number?

Ah so this is where the toast bit is

Ninah, me and Sponge were starving when we got to mine, so we were making toast, but for health reasons we didn't have any butter, just peanut butter and nutella, and then fittie showed up armed with a load of beers

OMG it was a laugh.

Sponge - I had to go to bed yesterday afternoon too!

Monty do you remember asking if we wanted egg with the toast (about 5 times) lol!

and of course the (uneaten) toast then got used as a map of where I live

It was a good night and has def given me something to smile about but I still feel ill today. Don't think have ever had a 2 day hangover before!

Sponge - no, i don't remember the egg offers lol! I remember the map though . And I was still delicate today too I must admit. I had to try and get done today what I was incapable of doing yesterday, I'm way behind .

Btw, Celtic loved the text lol! There was deffo more kisses on there than you could shake a stick at. pmsl.

The egg was funny!

I'm also still behind on the housework, it was all I could do to walk to the supermarket and back today, then a bit of gentle cleaning followed by a lie down

re Celtic, I thought he'd appreciate the kisses - did he realise it wasn't your own handiwork? :)

Will admit it would be nice to have someone to send texts like that to....

sponge and monty

hi ninah what's gtp???

am glad everyone talking again, it was like finding hen's teeth on this thread at one point

can i ask a huge favour please? does anyone have an okcupid account?

gutted to have missed the fun - apologies once again. You sound like you had a great atime and August should be easier for me as cricket finished.

I couldn't have my glass of wine til 10.30 in the end on Friday as didn't pick up ds1 from Dulwich till 10.00 - it's great for him but driving me crazy.

On the subject of housework - I do enough to get by but it's never been my main priority - my mum on the phone yesterday (whilst my brother and his gf at hers having an afternoon nap ) berating me for not continually doing housework. She hasn't had a dig for a long time but it's always there under the surface. She seems to ignore the fact that I'm single parent, working ft and weekend taxi service.

I suppose she's a product of her upbringing but even so - she seems to like to feel superior because she likes housework. And thinks Im terrible cos I don't tidy boys rooms - I will help them but am not prepared to continually tidy rooms when they trash them again shortly after. She just don't get it though.

Rant over.

Also exh's face dropped yesterday (he came for the last 20 mins of ds2 cricket - and missed everything) when I told him he would be fully responsible for getting ds2 to cricket next sun as I wouldn't be back in London till 2pm (it's his weekend btw).

The reason - cos his dp wanted to go to a father's day celebration for her father (about 3 hours drive away) and now he wouldn't be able to go with her!! Why should I facilitiate her family life (they make a big deal of everything), isn't it important that my ds's see their dad on fathers day? Why does she organise stuff when boys are there? Im really taken the piss out of! And why does he feel quite able to get rid of boys as soon as he can on his weekends. I know this is unlikely to change but its so fucking annoying.

OK as you were double rant over!!!

hi scl (((hugs)))

Well, I think my hangover has finally cleared. And by some miracle (despite copious quantities of wine, whisky and beer on Fri night) I lost 3.5 lbs this week! hurray for me :)

scl :( re your mum. I know you are probably well practised at ignoring her by now but I can imagine how it still touches a nerve - esp with Exh and his dp being pains as well. As you say there's not much you can do other than stick to your own plans and not do him any favours to make his life easier - as he certainly doesn't for you!

Colleague is going on a first date later this week, so our team spent several hours (it felt like it at least!) helping her plan where to go - couldn't help thinking I'd rather be planning my own dates than someone elses...if I had someone to go on a date with of course!

i am sure you will soon sponge

maybe, you never know what's round the corner :)

On which note I can report Mr Fri Night has competition! (this is wishful thinking on my part, I rather suspect my interest in him was much stronger than his in me.....). Recently I've been catching the eye of a rather gorge bloke on the train who gets off at my stop, and parks near where I live. Yesterday he drove past me and turned round in his seat to look at me! Not sure if anything will come of it, but it's livening up an otherwise v dull journey home :)

And only 3 more sleeps til Ascot. Who knows who I might meet there!