MN Little Italy 20 ........Buon Natale !

[Rosa]

Here we are then ........

i did laser on lower legs. hurt more than childbirth. burned any savings i had left after 10 years working. was worth it though as i now have very smooth hair free polpacci (and hobbity thighs.... ... run out of money!).

I am desperately trying to get a fight going on foreign languages but everyone is being very polite. I have come out suggesting Latin for primary school kids- that should do the trick, what do you think ?

can you tell I am bored?

Masseuse, you are spooking me. I have just finished the course of laser to get rid of hair on my polpacci. They are soooo smooooth now, I can't believe it. So worth it. And like you, I'm now left with the most hairy inner thighs... . But have no money left

Agree with carcetti. Why not looking for a bungalow in a campeggio? The kids will make lots of friends, and disappear for hrs on end!

Masseuse, I will go and check your vis polemica.
I'm trying to resist being too controversial on a thread on playdates. Apparently they are too hard work.

Oooh holidays ..me thinks we will just have to wait and see how the money goes as we might be a bit stretched.
Hairy legs - LAser never even thought of waxing no way 1 did 3 times in a row as they said it hurt less each time - agony and they grew back as before so its DIY here.
Franca has your snow gone ?.
Lots of rain yesterday and this am but now its just damp. Carnival really starts today and its busy -YUCK.

Snow's gone, it stopped at about 8 pm yesterday (but it was very heavy snowing)
Sunny this morning, grey now.
Off to take dd and her friend to theatre. ciaoooooooooo

Oh where is the thread on playdates????/ perhaps can get a fight going there, seeing as the foreign languages ain't happening (you should of tried harda Franca!)

Saw there was great name on that languages thread ( diddn't need to add my 5p worth there as it seemed quite calm!)..porcamiseria is it someone we know?
Have fun at the theatre......

Also who is Romanarama? Is that one of us?
It's someone who lives/has lived in Rome? (not the languages thread, the stylish continentals thread....)

Hello! I have just gone through the stylish continentals thread... Rather fun to read - and I agree with Franca and Buch most of the time (furs on younger people Buch? Really?). My husband put it like that: if you go on a bus in Italy, you will find at least one shaggable woman. In the UK, the odds are much lower, in the provinces at least. I do not think men care much about the state of nails though...

Do not have much time now as I am off to help sis with moving out of my parents' house (she is 28 so I suppose that's early by Italian standards Perhaps I should tell Brunetta...

Minerva LOL at the shagable woman on a bus....

pfffuiii i have just finished unpacking all the books and put them up on our (brand new) bookcase. I am utterly exhausted- it took me 4 hours!

two things spring to mind:

1. how on earth have dh and i been together 10 years? his side is all "the moral economy of the peasant", "what has to be done?", "a theory of justice", and the collected works of Kant, plus a few chess books to lighten the load . My side is a mix of Marian Keyes, a few classics of the romantic kind (think Austen and all the Brontes), plus about a million books on India and a gazillion baby books. And the Devil wears Prada. Thank God I gave away my twilight books or I'd seriously be ashamed!

2. we can never, and I mean never, buy another book. the bookshelf is full, all 3 x 3 m of it. Unless we finally confront the fact that we are never going to need our econometrics books again and finally bin them!

have missed the stylish continental thread, but am not going to bother after my suggestion to bring back latin for toddlers has met with encouraging noises! Despite Franca and Tommy's best efforts, that thread just didn't kick off..

Minerva, how you doing?

Hello everyone, hi minerva nice to see you!
Lol yes, I had a manicure done only once. I chew my nails
I don't know who porcamiseria is, but I like her name. Romanarama I think is English, I like her .

Masseuse, ... I love adjusting books in bookshelves. We have loads and keep adding to our collection... we have 8 billies, one big expedit and 5 huge shelves full of books and various boxes full of books stored in pil's garage ... I obsessively try to keep the books in order (they are divided Italian, french, history, etcetc) but dh enjoys boycotting the order, driving me mad (saddo)

We had a lovely night tonight with friends: 8 adults, 7 children... ds has gone to bed with no voice

MM at your books, a lot of the ones you mentioned have space on my Billies as well
Am getting myself in a state ladies, can I offload? DP suffers from a zillion allergies and has had a few colds this winter and so FIL the hypochondriac insisted he went for a chest x ray which he did. Anyway FIL collected results for him and I had him in tears yesterday insisting I said nothing to DP but there may be something. Trying to get any sense out of the man is near impossible, especially when he is in a state. Basically from what I understand he took the x rays to dps doctor who said to get dp to go along to discuss as it says there may be something that needs investigating which would mean a CAT scan.I asked him if the doctor seemed worried, he said he didnt know, I asked him what this something was, he said "may be a nodule" or something.Anyway DP is going on Tuesday, I haven't said anything of this to him. He went out last night and I had FIL on the phone upset again going on and on about how he couldn't cope if anything was wrong with his son, how they are a family of sfortunati with illness (he had a brain tumour op at 43, his sister died of cancer in her late 50's, both grandparents died in late 50's, DP's mother died of breast cancer in late 50's etc etc). Anyway he has now got me in a panic about it. I am torn between feeling angry at him for bringing his doom laden views into our family (he is the most negative person ever, always goes straight to worse case)and panicking about what ifs. Sorry this doesn't seem a very coherent post. Just needed to offload!

Oh Gio, I'd be in a right state too. And I'm so angry at your FIL, how could he load all his anguish onto you? He should be there for you, calming you down, if necessary.

I know it's difficult, but I'd try to stay calm and rational until the CAT's results (I don't think I'd be calm and rational, but it seems like the right advise to give ).
Go with your husband on Tuesday, him and you should be the only ones talking to the doctors anyway, not your FIL, unless he is a doctor himself and could really help.

Gosh, I understand your Fil is a lonely and apprehensive man, but I really can't help thinking he's been really irresponsible in offloading all his emotions over to you, and I think he shouldn't have talked to the dr instead of your dp.

Anyway, we'll be all keeping fingers crossed, and you know how powerful LI is

Gio- the MIL has nodules on her lungs, when she gets herself ricoverata'd a couple of times a year (like when there's a holiday and no-one has gone to hers for their dinner ) and she spends a week having CATs and MRIs and wotnot....basically the upshot is always that there are these "noduli" things in her lungs.....now dp and his siblings were obviously v worried, (and I thought eeek, as though I hate the old bat, I obviously wouldn't wish cancerous lumps on her) but the docs explained (and she was taken to Bari once, and S Giovanni Rotondo once, so proper hospitals ) that they aren't "lumps" as such, more like old scar tissue from previous infections, like flu with secondary chest infections, pneumonia, bronchitis type things.

In fact dp also has susceptible lungs- when he gets manflu it's always on his chest...(at the moment he sounds like an asthmatic 90 yr old coughing and hacking and splutting up all manner of disgustingness) The doc wanted him to have all this CAT things as well to look for noduli but he never went

Obviously it must be awfully worrying for your dh's family as they've had such horrid bad luck with the big C.....but try not to worry too much until he's actually been and had the tests. As I said, last winter (or maybe the one before) the MIL was in S. GR for about a fortnight having all these tests and I was thinking blimey, must be serious to keep her for so long.....

She's still very much alive and kicking (ass)

Also second that FIL shouldn't have done that to you, but hey, that kind of "I know a man who knows the doc so he'll tell me first" stuff ain't going to change any time soon!

thanks you two! I am trying to calm myself down and not worry but the more I do the more angry I get with FIL! It's always the same thing, he can only see how situations affect him. I am so angry as I doubt I would have gone quite as quickly to worse case scenario if he hadn't pushed me there! I really resent him for this. I know you are right and it could be a million things. I know that if DP goes on Tuesday and the doctor says its something and nothing I will be torn between relief and a real desire to explode at FIL for putting me through this. Franca I can't really go with him on Tuesday because he knows nothing of what FIL has said so if I say I am going to collect what are meant to be routine results with him he'll either smell a rat or think am mad!
All I wanted was a nice family day in Villa Borghese today . Got this huge knot in my stomach.

Yes, I understand you can't go. I really hope your fil has no intention of interfering any further... he seems to have this really old fashioned idea of keeping the patient in the dark, which I find medieval. I really hope the doctors will only speak to your dh, not your fil.

Btw, I'm sure it'll be fine. Bucharest speak much sense

Oh Gio am going to say it your bloody selfish pig of a FIL.....Are you sure its not FIL opening the Xrays and reading the referal which is meant for the doctor? ( which is another thing that drives me mad as you collect your tests and should take them to the doctor but you open them as you want to see what they say )...... And How very bad as in malpractice of the doctor to even mention to your FIL that there could be anything wrong at all . That is completley breaking medical patient confidentiality and he should be struck off...I would honestly when and if you feel like blowing at anybody you should blow at the doctor.
Well said Buch and if your DP suffers wih chest infections etc this could be a logical explanation. If your FIL calls again say in a short tone - Neither you or I am medical experts and we will wait until Tues and see what the doctor says - Sorry but ds is about to jump off the kitchen table have to go...Then every time he calls ds is having a poo, just dropped water down his front....etc.
DD is Carnival costumes today it is a lovely sunny day and dd1 has coriandoli in her mutande....... Dh working !!!

Gio when dh ahd his op last year they found a nodulo as well. He thought he was a goner for the two weeks waiting for the result of the biopsy. It was only an aold scar from TB which he never new he had. Apparently it is very common.

Try not to panic. It can really be a million of innocuous things. Hugs though. I know how it feels when other panic and make you panic in turn.

xxx

Well said Rosa and Pippi. I totally agree re dr's malpractice. Gio keep us posted

Awwww rosa what are the dd dressed as?

Ah tonight I dreamt of you ladeeez. I was having a very complicated dream, which mainly focused on me finding out I had never returned 4 books to Bristol University Library and that I therefore owed them something like 3000 pounds ... among all these things I had a mn meet up in an unknown location. There was rosa (actually there was a nice white taxi car, with her name on the plate ) and Gio in a running outfit

Ahhhh, been so long away. Hello everyone.

Hope you are all ok.

Gio poor you. Try not to worry (easier said than done, I know) until you know more from the doctor.

Sorry. Only skim read thread, so probably missing loads of stuff.

Congratulations on baby DS, SG!!!!!!!

Don't get me started on books. We have had to buy a house with a barn to accommodate our books. Into which we have not yet moved, but that is a whole other thread of financial ruin and irritation with DH, so I shall stop there...

Um, what's new? I met an MNer in town yesterday - by chance. Recognised her from an article she'd been in and talked about. She was v. nice.

Stylish continentals? Dunno, really. Something about putting clothes together well, I think. But I actually think that - barring the tragically fat - British people are getting better at looking good in clothes. Teens in particular, my students for instance, seem so much more fashion conscious than we were even 10-15 years ago.

I am sooooooooooooo tired. I could cry. Am finding working and looking after DD when I'm not working a bit hard at the moment. Plus the academic world is looking bleak in the UK - redundancies in KCL and Sussex, etc. . Am a bit nervous, TBH. DD came along before I finished my book - and I need more leave to get it done... Sigh.

Penthe , hello!
So sorry to hear you are tired and worried about research and redundancies. It is difficult for everybody. Don't get me started on the Italian situation...
I'm sure you will finish your book quickly and it will be a success

How is your lovely dd? She must be totally gorgeous no? Is she speaking?

And who is the mn? come on, spill the beans

WHite taxi ...well pity it had wheels !!!
DD1 is an ape ---Everybody calls her Ape Maia she says no I am ape Xxxxx. Minirosa is a blue cat with a white tum. DD1 said that she looked like a boy so I had to put a pink bow on her head. I can't upload a pic as they are too big and I don't know how to shrink the pixel size!
Hi Penthe- good to see you sorry to hear tiy are tired and worried about work... Hope it all looks better soon and you manage to get some sleep!

Yes . It was a bizarre dream

thanks for the support guys , appreciate it so much. I need to stop googling possible causes as well. I am an idiot! Why do I do it to myself??
Did the dcs enjoy going out in their carnival costumes Rosa? We took ds out for a few hours in his Thomas outfit-he looked fab!
Penthe sorry to hear it is tough at the moment. It is so hard trying to do everything. And having the worry re job security etc is horrible. Will keep everything crossed for you.
at franca's dream. And at the idea of me being in a running outfit after doing 2 weeks of running recently out of my total of 38 years! Didn't go last week due to sinusitis. Need to get back to it.