Jan 2009, baby D0Gs and bumps galore.. lets make room for many more...

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here we are. am going to start a bet on who is next to get broody!

I saw on twitter some funny comments about FB being down like, office productivity up, baby boom in nine months, something about Zuckerman's movie... quite funny. I wonder if there will be a boom? There was when screen writers went on strike in The States and here. Plus we have a huge Asian population so 2008 was the year to get married or have a baby...08 plus Rat... awesome.

He He. Dh was just telling me how twitter have been taunting FB for having to use their service to inform their own subscribers that FB was down.

I have just posted a picture of my poorly dog in her lampshade onto my profile. She looks remarkably chipper in the picture, but is actually really depressed and in lots of pain, bless her.

Happy birthday Stripey Anything good planned?

morning

mm - great news with school
sorry for poorly dog and ds being sick!!!

glad joss wasnt sock anymore dog

ho to everyone else

anyone had any experiences with GLTC please??

Morning - just!

Is it Stripey's birthday? If so:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STRIPEY! HAVE A GOOD 'UN!

Dog, glad that Joss was ok after his sicky episodes.

Ds1 wasn't sick again either, he looked quite pale and exhausted this morning though. Forgot to say last night, but I was worries as he had a head injury at school yesterday - tripped and fell headlong into the sharp corner of a metal bench leg. The school, typically, handled it very badly and failed to inform me or send him to a first aider! I checked his pupils were equal and responding normally and made sure he didn't have any double or fuzzy vision and decided to let him go to sleep. He fell asleep almost straight away though - which is most unlike him - it can normally take him anything up to an hour and half to drop off . Then the alarm clock went off in his room really loudly and he slept through it, so I panicked and thought his was unconscious rather than asleep - he wasn't.

Hi Tink, I have bought a few little things off GLTC and they have always been very prompt and efficient - no experience with large items or furniture though I'm afraid.

Oh it's Stripeys other halfs birthday, on fb the DOB is her partners. Oops

yes, it is my birthday, thank you: am feeling a bit antique, really... but am going out for dinner with dp later [greedy emoticon] right now stuck in waiting for the ups man, who probably won't even show up today, and it's making me right grumpy... (replacement computer)

loads to catch up on - hi rrayray! good to have you back
tea, hope the little guy's op goes easily: i assume they won't do it till he is slightly bigger?
moose, where to start? you have all been i nthe wars! hope all healing nicely
dog, i'm thinking of turning up at your house and making off with that wee boy - he is just adorable.
120, hope the flat viewings bring you a buyer
chef - WOOHOO! congratulations

hi to everyone else: hopefully new computer will show soon and i'll be more reliably around...

x-posts tea. my birthday, dp uses my fb page more than i do though, confuses everybody...

Oh ok I am easily confused to be fair

Enjoy your meal tonight

Hi all.

Dog Glad to hear joss better after third time. Sounds like a bit of over feeding and wind to me. All is well that ends well, hope he is offically joss now! :-)

Stripey happy birthday, don't think i've had a chance to say Hello since returning to our thread! Enjoy meal, Making my tummy grumble and mouth drool at thought!

Moose We do like to panick ourselves don't we. Glad he was just in a deep sleep, hope doing ok today.

tink Not bought furniture from them, just a few bits. Always been happy with service. Google GLTC reviews, or check out Ciao, Sure will shed some light on it.

cupcake baking session lined up this afternoon once Esme wakes up as neighbour having Cancer research coffee morning on sunday. Will bake some today, Ice tomorrow night. Making some Butter tablet (scottish) too, if you don't know what that is.... your missing out! Mmmmm!!!

happy bday stripey have fun

mm - poor ds1!! cheers about gltc

Hi books. Yes she is thank goodness. She seemed to work out some way of jamming it under her tummy to sleep last night. She still woke me a few times, but it was a vast improvement on the last week.

Everything ok with you and yours?

oh have just seen ikea kritter bed luv it

Happy birthday Stripey!

Will catch up later, having a mad day, kids all crazy at school (its a windy day, they all go nuts in the wind).

Moose I will message you as have been doing an ASD course and have a ton of resources you might be interested in. Glad you got postive feedback and action from inclusion woman, about bloody time!

Have no energy to bath kids so have stuck tem in from of Waybeloo while I mn instead! Stupid computer is on its last legs, te adapter sparked and blew up and its a funny ~Mac one so costs a fortune to replace, so bought a dodgy one off ebay which doesn't work and seller is being arsey.

Dog, how is J doing? Has he been sicky again today?

Ray, save me a cup cake!

Lily is now asking me to turn off the TV (its only been on for 10 mins! this is most unusual)so ad better go and be a good Mummy.

Thank you HKZ. I sort of cited both you and Lenni to the inclusion lady, mentioning 'specialisms in ASD inclusion'. [naughty Moose emoticon] I wanted give her the impression that I have at least some knowledge and am therefore not able to be easily fobbed off. I think it put the wind up her a bit.

My Macbook is on the fritz as well. The screen keeps flashing.

Did you not see the thing on the telly about fake adapters off ebay and how dangerous they are? Apparently an 8 year old boy was killed by a similar one his Mum bought for his nintendo. I have made a policy of not buying anything electronic of ebay since I heard that. Scary stuff.

My crew currently have all the cushions off the sofa (this is banned in our house by the way) and have created their own personal soft play area. Dd is lying in the middle saying "night night" then jumping up and saying "morning now". Tis most entertaining, if very naughty and not conducive for bedtime peace and harmony.

Personal soft play area sounds good, I could do with one of those. Glad you put the wind up inclusion lady. Will get all the info together for you over the weekend, there are some great links for resources, social stories, cartoons and reading on Apserger's.

Thanks for info about Macbook, my screen has gone stripy , not a good sign It is about 5 years old though, which isn't bad going. Am going to get a refund off ebay (if I can be arsed) and go and buy a proper adapter...don't want to blow myself up

Happy Birthday Stripey

Moose Thats sounds like a weakness in the opening part where I guess is the wires for the screen stuff... Honestly, baby brain so soon!

DH now has a motorbike so DD and I are completely mobile in our car! So excited... we can get off the mountain more and to the ocean side and playdates and lattes at good coffee shops. Yeah. Went to a toddler social at the rec centre; all my mummy friends were there and a whole pile of parents and kids. It is free too. Then we filed downstairs for a coffee and the kids had a snack and then we got in the car and got home in time for nap. Love being mobile. Thank You!!

Okay, I have to admit I sort of skim read.

Happy last bit of your birthday stripey.

Dog, glad the little man is better. The only time my DD vommed was when I drank a half of that strawberry beer before BF. Ooops.. recommend not trying that one. Guinness was fine..

HZ I've joined Discover! Me think it will be a bargain in the winter months. Lets go together when you have them.

Moose, only just saw the biscuits so prob too late. Not sure what fat percentage it needed for the cream, but I don't see why you shouldn't. I swap greek yoghurt for cream whenever I can as I can't stand the stuff (unless on scones or in pasta). Sorry to hear DS1 was sick.

rant alert

I've had quite a day:

I have managed to scrape the car when trying to get out of the way of another car which was haring down a narrow street.

I've got myself a parking ticket whilst dropping the kids off as my mum. The time was 2.57 when I was scratching it off. Was not concentrating so scratched of 2, then 10. Should have been 3.10. grrr. I was so cross my mum just took it off me and told me not to worry about it. She was scared I was going to 'drive angry'.

And then I started the first day of a 12 week evening class (just got back). It cost over £200 and I absolutely hate it. I got so wound up by it that I was in tears when I left. Am going to see if I can change or get my money back tomorrow. Oh, and the haircut I had last Sunday is so bad, I've phoned them to get it re-cut. That has never happened to me before either.

rant over

glass of wine being administered

On the up side, the fruit cart men sold me 6 punnets of strawbs for £3. May be horrid ones, but I'll check them in the morning.

Oh 120 that does sound like a naff day. Didn't quite understand the "Was not concentrating so scratched of 2, then 10. Should have been 3.10" but I'm probably being a little dense

Hope the wine has done its work and you feel calmer now ((hugs))

oh, it's one of those residents parking scratch cards where you scratch off the hour then the minutes. I was distracted whilst getting the kids out and so scratched off the the 2 o'clock, then when I got round to doing the minutes, it was 10 mins later so 10 past three. Not you, I didn't type it well!

Anyway, nice to see a friendly face after that lot. Just cooked an amazing batch of sourdough bread, only to bite in to it and realise I forgot the salt. Agggh! Will it e'er end??

120, sorry to hear you have had such a bad day. A wine and chocolate prescription is definitely required, I reckon.

We got a parking ticket once, due to an error. It was on my birthday and the first time I'd been out anywhere since I had ds2. Dh wrote to the council explaining what happened and they waived the fine.

You weren't too late for the biscuits. I haven't had the energy for baking today. I do have two pots of low fat creme fraiche in the fridge though, so might have a go over the weekend.

Things have been so crazy around here that I suddenly realised at 5.00 that we didn't have all the constituent parts to make one whole meal. Dh ran into the local shop on the way home and we all (excluding dd) had tinned soup! [bleugh] The only good thing about it was that I had two bake-at-home crusty white bloomers which I cooked up and slathered in butter to go with the soup. Dd had crusty bread, apples grapes and cheddar chunks followed by a soya yoghurt.

Darn those tinned soups are salty, I have been constanly thirsty ever since - not even my huge bar of Galaxy got rid of the salty taste!

Anway, I was just flying past really, am totally knackered and have to be up early to get everyone to my nephew's birthday party for 11.00 am tomorrow.

Hope you have a nice weekend to make up for your horrible day today.

Oh - and good luck for your viewings.

thanks Moosey. So glad you and Tea were on-line tonight! My mum's got the kids and DP is out and about at the cinema so have been sitting here on my own and too tired and even too arted out to paint.

meant to say earlier we i-playered the great british bake off this week. have a few things to say about that when I have more energy.

night night x