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single and pregnant

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j20baby · 26/08/2007 00:02

am i the only one that can't wait to give birth so i can start flirting agian?!

oh, i know its selfish but i like to feel more than just an incubator and i'm needing some male attention-even just a cuddle or to feel attractive!

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j20baby · 26/08/2007 00:18

guess i am then

selfish frumpy swollen hippo that i am

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singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:21

oops - i guess being the only fella around i should have said lots of encouraging and supportive stuff - or just chatted you up for all to amuse over

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j20baby · 26/08/2007 00:31

nah...just feeling sorry for myself after sitting in pub with my mum watching all the skinny 12 year olds get chatted up!

bitter? you bet

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wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:34

hey j20 - don't think you're alone in feeling like that... when are you due?
Have you got months or just weeks to go?

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:34

WABBIT?????

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j20baby · 26/08/2007 00:35

5 weeks 3 days and ? hours

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wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:35

yes... I'm back!! sdot... great to 'see ' you

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:36

Ahhh not long now then... but just the weather for that swollen hippo feeling

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j20baby · 26/08/2007 00:36

hopefully!

i know i'm not going to be going out for ages as bf and will emotionally not be ready, but, just feel, you know, crap!

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singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:37

oh wow!!! dont mean to hijack j20 - but used to ramble all night to wabbitt.

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j20baby · 26/08/2007 00:38

no worries sdo3, have a chat, off to bed now anyway

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wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:40

If you're young you might be out at gigs pretty soon after... my dd was a week and 3 days old when I started going out to see bands... i was 22 and just wanted to feel like me again.. I was bf and just expressed enough for the 2 or so hours I was away.. and lovely Mum took over for me I was a musician and felt being back on the [scene] was necessary for my sanity...

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:41

yeah!!! night owl still!

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:42

i've just got the internet back now Ex DP has been coerced (sp) by the CSA to pay maintenence! [gloat slightly emoticon]

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:44

a night owl? erm, so hows life? dont get here that often now meself. your name just lept out at me.

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:44

oh well done - even more fun when ex paying for it.

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:46

Night night j20

Life is absolutely great - I'm starting teacher training and my boy is nearly 2 now - have placement at a Steiner Waldorf Kindergarten

things are very rosy

You?

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:49

have had a busy year, now poised to move - looking for something interesting to renovate - and a change in career. even looking at working in local theme park - need something different.

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 00:52

what would you work as? in the theme park?

Moving to start a project sounds exciting..

You not found anyone to share your life with?

I've not... I've decided I might fare well on Dating Direct... might give me the chance to get out and start seeing live music and films again

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 00:56

erm... i did...for the last year...got dumped, thru my own crapitude, a couple of days ago. wouldnt dare do the dating direct thingy. would expect them to be psyco weirdos....wht did i say about my crapitude?

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 01:01

oh and work - well i would love to work with animals - lots of unusual ones - and used to be engineer so would take to the rides just as easily. not quite the academic slant of teaching.

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 01:01

Oh Sdot... so sorry to hear that loving the word 'crapitude' though.. the dating direct thing, some of the guys are lovely and genuine and very sweet - but some ARE a bit wierd... serial seducers {yeuk} It's a bit of fun though

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 01:05

is true - just as many dodgy birds/fellas in the pub i guess. you just dont see them coming as easily. but fun sounds good. hope you find a good one, expect theres a few single teachers lurking in the halls

wabbitt · 26/08/2007 01:11

ha ha ha - the teachers are all a bit self important and poncey though - I want something a bit more worldly

Working with the exotic animals? that would be an experience

I'm on one of these 'dates' tomorrow - so will go to bed to get my beauty sleep... it's definitely fun! even if the guys not right... they're very witty!

singledadofthree · 26/08/2007 01:17

ah now witty - goes a long way i hear. when i was a kid i was told - 'if wit was shit, youd be constipated'. anyway - hope it all goes well, am sure youll have a great time, even if a bit weird...bet you dont meet him and think - oh no, a weirdo!! have fun, i'll think of taming lions and such. altho, i'm still stuck working in a local country house thingy for a while.