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[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome everyone

It was really really good actually. DD and I also made buisquits this aft, so yes I have been quite busy but nice. DD is so tidy she was cleaning after me !

My mood not so foul but still not great. what's going on with house franca? any news?

I'm impressed pippi . my dd is a precisina as well, everything needs to be nice and tidy .
before we can move to new flat we have to change il contatore del gas (need to call pronto intervento) and connect the gas to the cooker.
install a tap for the kitchen sink
connect the washing machine and dishwasher
and finally montare a bookcase ecause there are still lots of boxes around and the living room is still a mess.
tomorrow I'm taking the dc to their new scuola materna, but they'll have them for only 2 hrs, and it'll probably be like that for the whole week.

'precisina'... that's exactly what I call her!! For that she really isn't our daughter.

you'll have to send us pics of the flat once you're all settled. any offers for the one in exeter?

how long do you think before I get bored of not working?

oh yeah, i would love to see pics of milanese flat too, i just cannot imagine how a milanese flat would be, not ever having been to Milan. [property porn emoticon]

took your suggestion franca and retired to bed for the afternoon and read the observer (interview with helena bonhahm carter who has just had a daughter) and fell asleep. Still laughing at the Cigola la ruota song!

to take care of your addiction iwth crappy magazines you could have a look at the babyrazzi website, really embarrassing but i check it out once a week to satisfy my celebrity gossip needs. babyrazzi.com/baby/

Lol lol lol hothell, I am actually embarassingly addicted to babyrazzi, and check it out more than once a week . I can't believe some of the messages that get posted on it! so I get all shocked and outraged (does outraged mean scandalizzata?) and swear never to check it again and after a week I find myself on the website again...
will send picture asap, actually, I must get fastweb asap as well!
it is quite milanese as it is in an old building with tiles called "graniglia" which are quite milanese.

pippi are you getting bored?

do you know there is a sort of italian version of "location location location" on the italian discovery real time channel. but the presentatori aren't as nice as kirsty and phil (I love K and P). they are actually dreadful and say things like "portare avanti il discorso 'cabina armadio'"

also watched a badly dubbed episode of kevin mc cloud and thought of you hh

lol at another babyrazzi addict. i wished they added new pics more often though! the posts are written by i piu' grandi cretini di questo mondo.
pippi are you bored of not working already????
how many square metres is your flat?

They should get Kmcloud to dub himself, his italian is flawless!

I think your job on Mumsnet is to tell us these new very funny things you hear italians say. 'portare avanti il discorso armadio?' WTF?

no way I am bored yet... that's why I am asking... I cannot think how I could get bored ! will I?

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

thougth so. [smile}

Buongiorno ladies! I've finally finished my jigsaw so can concentrate on mumsnet again. I also bought a couple of books when in the UK so I've been a bit distracted by those too. I'm reading the Kite Runner at the moment, it's very good but then I love authors from the Indian subcontinent.

Franca, it's so funny you being in Milan, you sound just like an English person just off the boat. Funny you should think the dubbing odd, I now find it strange to watch things in original language and am often disappointed about the voices - the American ones are usually far too squeaky and much nicer in Italian. George Clooney is dubbed by an actor with a very sexy voice but when I heard his original voice he went down in my estimation.

Where did you find the info about the benvenuto club? I know there is an English speaking ex pat m&t group here but they meet on Wednesday mornings which is a fat lot of use if you work. I don't know if it's the same thing, tbh I didn't really bother finding out any more as I always had an aversion to ex pat community things. It might be interesting from the DD pov though.

Pippi, you so won't get bored, if I had my pre-baby mat leave again I would use it differently and appreciate the peace more. I had absolutely no idea of the chaos that was to come when the baby arrived. With hindsight I'd have done a lot more "me" things instead of worrying about the house and faffing doing pointless things for other people. I think you should indulge yourself as much as possible now, when you have 2 you'll find it much harder to get a moment to yourself (speaking from my sister's experience).

brang first time around I did use the time for myself tbh although I did not know the imppact the baby would have. I remember spending all day sitting on a deck chair in the garden reading and sunbathing. At the time DH had not yet turned into the 'husband goes to work while wife is at my services' type of man so I did not feel guilty and no one was bothering me.
This time things seem slightly different as he thinks that because I am not working (although still get paid) I should unpack his swimming bag (WTF??) and make all my minutes at home without DD worth!
AHHH the good old days when I was a person before being a mum and a wife! (good-old tongue-in-cheek-a-bit-true-moan)!

That is the one thing that would def make me go back to work. I am not sure I like DH as my employer tbh.

Oh I got that from my DP. He used to come home and expect the house to be perfect and fragrant, despite being fully aware I'm not casalinga perfetta material. He still does sometimes when he knows I've been working from home. He'll occasionally go off on one like a checca isterica about the house being untidy/floor being dirty/dinner the same old pasta but I just ignore him now. I used to tell him when he could afford to pay me what I'm earning now I would become his cleaner but otherwise sod off. He is now in charge of hoovering and floor washing and irons his own shirts but I still do 80% of the childcare and I've yet to see him bend over to put something in the dishwasher....

lol at checca isterica!

brang we must have married the same man!!! I could have wrote every single word in your post.
he certainly knows I am not casalinga perfetta material and never want to be one either (made food plan today trying to be organized - see if we can stick to it). I have never seen him doing the dishwasher either or throwing the empty milk bottle in the bin se e' per questo!!!
when he goes all checca isterica he does 12million laundry in a day (so that everything gets mouldy and needs to be washed again ) and he thinks he's done everything and everything.
I remember my cousin saying that men change after marriage but did not believe her... how wrong I was!!!!
I'm still getting upset when he goes all Jeremy on me (jeremy is the checca alter ego) but I guess it's only because we have not been married long. I soon will develop 'orecchie da mercante' too !!

PS: as an example of his idiocy this is the text I just sent to him "next time you get all stroppy because I have lost your belt look properly - it was were you left it under you shower towel!!"

He'll kill me if he'd know of all this slagging off.

Lol at the bel under the towel! I keep getting accused of hiding his manky hairbrush that he uses to flatten his alette in the mornings. Everytime he's lost it it's been found in the bathroom drawer, so you'd think he'd have sussed by now and look before opening his mouth, but no.... The latest thing is it's DD hiding it from him. Never mind that she can't reach the ledge to get it before putting it in the drawer.

Funnily enough, none of this "checchismo" was apparent before we he "trapped" me, he was much nicer in the early days. And he used to wash up all the time too. Yes, they certainly do change and I'm not even married to mine!

oh was not apparent in mine either. you should have seen his flat. dishes piled up in the sink till the day the poor cleaner arrived, clothes on the floor where the dog would be sleeping in - when she could not reach the bed anymore, cigarette ashes everywhere... and this was a 39y-o grown up man not a uni student!!!

what happened since then I do not know. I think it's this house. All of a sudden he wants to, listen to this, take up golf! I think it is a bit of middle life crisis and wanting to step into his late dad's shoes tbh.

maybe we are too laid back brang... shall we start asking them to wear 'pattine' at home, buying them a vestaglia and line the slippers under their bed?

ps re belt, he called and said that I must have moved it!!!
Mine does not accuse DD - she cannot do any wrong! it's me the evil hider-of-things!

Golf. Noooooo, you must discourage that, it's the first step to tartan slippers and a pipe.

I have (ahem) insisted on pattine or similar in the past. I'm the kind of person that will scrub and clean the house excessively once a year, my floor will be clean enough to eat off but you won't be allowed to walk on it either for a day or so. Luckily that doesn't happen very often, even less so now that there's DD. In fact, I don't think I've had an attack for 3 years now.

Anyway, I have the perfect response to anyone making comments about my (lack of) housework - a tidy house is an empty life. Why spend time hoovering pointessly when you could be enriching your mind and reading a book?

brang you are my soulmate !!

(PS I saw you on the planecrash thread...aren't you lost for words?)

I just bought this for DH as birthday present... is it nice do you think? bear in mind he loooove to snooze!

what is the planecrash thread???
yes I hate dubbed programes now, esp sex and the city or friends. they sound silly in Italian (sillier).
well brnge the benvenuto club monza issues a monthly newsletter. they have lots of clubs. and the ever so english parents and toddlers...