MN - signs of addiction!

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Oh dear, this mumsnet thing is a wee bit addictive isn't it?!

My recent symptoms include:

Dreaming about MN (I dreamt I changed my name to "Mother of all Hangovers", then "Two feet high and rising". Quite impressed I remembered them actually. The hangover is wishful thinking - sadly I've can't have had more than two in the last two years!)

Putting ** around words when I want them bold at work.

When the internet isn't working and I can't get into MN, one of the worst bits is I can't complain about it on MN!

Thinking the words DP, MIL etc

Is there any hope for me?

Is there a cure?

How are the rest of you faring out there?

My son woke me up this morning with the words "Hello mummy, brand new day. mummy's computer turn for your mumsnet."

He'd turned the pc on for me

hee hee

Awful, isn't it?

Note that I'm here though.

I knew it had got bad when I was trying to cook dinner with the lap top in one hand and attempting to chop carrots with the other!

I now have to try and ration my mn time or I end up on here everyday until really late

Tis ridiculous.

It's brilliantly funny though!

He knows you well, obviously!

ronshar I'm seriously impressed!

I am fortunate my husbands initials are actually dh so he doesnt notice as much when i refer to him as this.

I find it difficult not to write DH, DP, DIL on medical notes at work.

nappyzoneloveslindor there's no hope for you I'm afraid - you're displaying serious signs of addiction!

I've only been thinking it but saying it out loud is another level

Nevergoogle, now thats bad.

they are very useful acronyms! families are complicated.

Its when you are out and about, and see several things you need to post about as soon as you get back home, most of them in the AIBU topic , or worry that you've given yourself away as a MNer when you're speaking to someone about something you posted about.

lol I was thinking about starting a thread on this!

mine was going to have the title: You Know You're Addicted To MN When...

• you have to bite your tongue to stop yourself using DD, DH etc out loud - didn't actually say them out loud yet

• when you want to say if you see what I mean, it nearly comes out all run together like I Yuh Sih Whim

• you are pulling facial expressions that look like emoticons and wanting to describe them with their keyboard shortcut - used to do that when I was on another inferior message board as to their credit they had much better emoticons

i was once with a group of mums in RL, when we went to leave one of them picked up a fruitshoot and asked me if it was mine. I gave her a look of 'are you yanking my chain' and sort of sniggered. she had no idea what was so funny, and i looked like a mad woman.
i assume everybody is a mumsnetter and am usually wrong.

I posted this a few days ago, but when DP was ranting to me about unreasonable demands from his boss, I thoughtfully answered him, "Well, yeah-boo a bit, but..."

Dp -

When it annoys you that your phone (for texting) and facebook etc, dont have the emoticon! It really is a useful emoticon!

I publicly said 'DP' the other day in fact I have done it twice. The other day I was with a mum I don't know well at all and the first time was at work!!! Isn't that awful! And it's so sunny outside- why am I here on MN?? WHY !!??

crumpette

Well I say yanbu and yabu to DH and he knows what I mean......... We also refer to our son as PFB.

And wish I could use the * to bold in text messages.

SGM I read that as Pagwatch's dH likes to trampoline naked while watching tramploine commercial

Omg i so use dh and ds when talking to myself in my head! I constantly start threads in my head & wonder what other mn'ers would say bout everything that happens as its happening!! i mn on my mobile & its logged in 90% of the day even as im doing other stuff tis jus handier that way... My dh compares me to a teen addicted to texting im really that bad was outside jus now & ds2 almost ate an ant cause i was laughing at this thread & wasnt payin proper attention...

You lie about what youre doing on the computer in case someone else detects and judges your addiction...

For every slightly contraversial thought or emotion you have, you picture the four letters 'AIBU' in your head.

i nearly listed something on ebay the other days as dd has outgrown this

JMTPW I have to ask, what happened in Cleethorpes?

I started a sentence the other day with "Am I being unreasonable..." This is the first time I've said it out loud but I often start sentences that way in my head...