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francagoestohollywood · 09/06/2009 13:41

welcome!

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McCloudsextoy · 19/08/2009 22:24

Nope, nobody is pregnant, infact we all seem to agree that 2 is the perfect number. I am going to be daring and ask why do you want another one? I cannot imagine anything worse for us and for my dd who as it is does not get a lot of attention, cannot bear the idea of her becoming the middle child. I almost left in the park the other day in the pram, luckily I remembered about her at the park gate. Poverina.
Do you know what you will do in Switzerland?

McCloudsextoy · 19/08/2009 22:25

Yep, agree, crap.

Penthesileia · 19/08/2009 22:29

Wotcha, MM! Welcome back!

Ohhhhh. I am so at all these lovely holidays...

Ayn Rand - never read it. My only point of reference is the obnoxious boy in Dirty Dancing who recommends it to Baby.

Penthesileia · 19/08/2009 22:30

I mean "her", not "it", of course!

McCloudsextoy · 19/08/2009 22:31

lol, at Baby reading the Fountainhead!

and lol at calling a dd Baby. [puke emoticon]

McCloudsextoy · 19/08/2009 22:32

Penthe can you tell me your favourite novels by V. Woolf?

Penthesileia · 19/08/2009 22:33

I believe her "real" name is Frances!

Shit. How many times have I watched DD to remember that?

McCloudsextoy · 19/08/2009 22:38

Dp just told me that I look as if I writing something particularly witty and clever because I am raising my eyebrows as I type. I did tell him that we are talking about DD and the Frances/Baby character. He pissed himself laughing.

McCloudsextoy · 19/08/2009 22:39

Goodness the useless shit one remembers.

Penthesileia · 19/08/2009 22:42

To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. Not very original of me.

Orlando, next, I suppose.

I really like her diaries and letters. DH got me them all for my birthday one year. Super. And her essays are fantastic too.

Penthesileia · 19/08/2009 22:43

Of course we are witty and clever! How can he doubt it?

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 08:07

That boy, named Billy if I remembered correctly , was indeed a waiter!

McCloudsextoy · 20/08/2009 08:36

What about the one entitled Jacob something or other? I will try and find the letter and diaries, though I imagine them full of morbid thoughts...

lol at the waiter.

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 15:30

Have you read Diary of Jane Sanders by Doris Lessing? Just got it from charity shop.

TheMysticMasseuse · 20/08/2009 19:54

she was named Frances after the first woman in Congress, if you really must know...

relieved i don't have to read Ayn Rand. she sounds pallosissima.

why do i want a third, apart from the fact that i am mad? i suppose it's because i am one of 3 and it was lovely growing up, because i want a boy (i am so sad) and because i can't get over the fact that i will never have another baby again... otoh my ones are such hard work, and i am so not a natural mother (girls curring drinking their bottles-yes even the 3 1/2 in front of a dvd while i MN... can't summon energy to do bedtime). if i am honest at this rate it's more likely i'll find myself without dh than with another kid, having an awful time but that's for another thread...

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 20:11

MM those are all MY reasons for sometimes thinking of having a 3rd... except that I do not like being pg at all and do not fancy the first year much either. If they could give my child to me at around 1ish I'do it tomorrow. DH is one of 2 so he is perfectly content the way we are, we will see.

Sorry about situation with dh... it is hard at times isn't it? . We had a rocky patch before the hols - too much stress, too busy, therefore lack of communication and empathy. Back very much on track now though which is great. I bet you if you ask him he probably didn;t even notice .

I'm putting Vasco on my iPod... ahhh the memories.

UUUUUUUna Spledida GIooooornata.....

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 20:12

MM are you same age as me?

TheMysticMasseuse · 20/08/2009 20:23

i am 33

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 20:38

you've got a couple of years advantage then...

McCloudsextoy · 20/08/2009 20:49

oh dear and what do you do if you get another girl? you might end up so resentful! and surely you want to get yourself some sleep?

The first year of babies is meraviglioso, the begiining of the bonding, the not talking, the happy just sitting there looking. Still mine slept quite a lot as babies, yours too pippi though no? Fancy yolu not being a fan of little babies, they are so easy. But it is lovely the talking years and all the rest too.

have recently read the d lessing you have just bought, the diary of jane somers, it is WONDERFUL, don't get put off at the beginning at the beginning by the subject (old age and death), i was totally gripped, very well written, it made me think of relationship with my mother, etc. Set in the 80s in London, she describes its changes in season very well.

Cannot believe you bought the book i just bloody read. (we were split at birth or something emoticon)

Had an anxiety ridden day, menstrual and all that.

McCloudsextoy · 20/08/2009 20:51

I have restarted some stories of checkov, but i find them so dark and depressing, i just want the guy to lighten up a bit. what did you think Franca of them? is it just me?

TheMysticMasseuse · 20/08/2009 20:53

but surely if i have a third after two hard work non sleeping ones he is bound to be easy peesy???? plus remember i'll be a desperate housewife in switzerland with nothing meaningful to do...

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 21:16

If I were you I'd go for it. But do not come here all pg glowing and start making me feel all broody as I really am not at the moment. Quite the contrary. Dh and I seem to have a lot of time for ourselves and we go out and we are all relaxed etc I think a 3rd pg and babyhood will ruin us, at least now.

Yes I really am not a fan of that baby time because they do not intercet as such (I know they do bless 'em but YKWIM) and they are so physically needy (and yes mine slept all the time and never cried - god know what I'd do I get a screeching one!). I LOVE toddlerage and beyond. I truly start to think it is the best job in the world (pippi realises this statement labels her as a true braindead, cake baking, husband dependant SAHM but does not care one fogging bit !)

I though you had mentioned it in the park... yuppie I am so happy. It is a great old hardcover edition too. Shall I read that after AM then? And when I come back from Italy we start the War and Peace project? I feel it is an Autumn, if not winter, book all right, no?

DD misses nursery so much bless and I cannot even talk much about school as in un piede su due staffe about the whole thing. Poverina.

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 20/08/2009 21:17

The plus side of being a swiss stepford is that you can be on MN ALL day!

TheMysticMasseuse · 20/08/2009 21:30

pippi did you get any news re dd1's school?

sorry but the thought of being on MN all day... it's good only in small doses... i wouldn't last a week as a fulltimer!

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