July 2010:Our actions get dafter, all for the reward of giggles and laughter!

[kkfairybrains]

new thread! thanks once again to spireal for the name!

Right, I have one evening off , come back here and find you've all been slacking and there's bugger all to catch up on - get gabbing now, people!

had a brilliant night out. everyone was drunk in a great mood and time flew by. i knew about half of the women but some only knew me so was worried i'd feel responsible for looking after them but actually everyone really mixed.

what a random collective we were tho! every stereotype you can think of pretty much, from essex girl to lentil weaver (that'll be me then )

bad mother alert... i drank 2.5 glasses of wine (and 4 glasses of water) between 8 and 11ish (the 2 of them were before 9.30) then fed A at 2.30am. is that bad? (she slept well despite a stinking cold!)

oh and happy birthday to Katie!! hope the day goes well tsc

thanks tsc - i just kept thinking 'i'm putting actual alcohol in a 4 mo baby' but then thought the small amount that is in the bm is probably the equivalent to a dose of calpol or something (not in alcohol terms but in chemical effect terms iyswim)

can you really smell it in your house? must be good stuff Deffo worth checking out with your LL as it must affect you all to an extent if you can smell it

that's really good of you to have coffee with that poor woman. hopefully you might be the bright spot in her day. and the upside for you is that you'll go to heaven

cakes Ive read that such a small amount actually gets into your milk and then into them, Im sure its perfectly fine, esp as you had the glasses of water too.

Its lovely and sunny here today! Im going to go to town and have a walk around.

I need to borrow my neighbours hoover as mine is still broken and I dont even want to look at the floor its so disgusting.
Hoovering really is the one thing you cant get away with not doing.
I wont even say when the last time we changed the bedsheets was

Cbeebies has just told me people live in igloos, real ones made of ice/snow. I thought that was a made up story to delight children.
Oh dear..
I mean I know people live in the arctic and other extremely cold places but I thought they had sort of wood cabins and lots of animal fur, such a dunce.

i properly snorted at igloos, dh (sorry!)

i love things like that - when people realise obvious things late in life. my (otherwise intelligent and wise) friend is always coming out with things like that - I adore it!

one of her classics was not using her car horn in case she set off the airbag - she was completely missing the point that if they relied on impact to the actual bag then it'd be a little late in the event of a crash!

She also once believed that I had an full-scale x-ray machine in my attic after I made a throwaway jokey remark about it

My own example of realising things late in life is so awful and also un-pc that i can only tell close friends!

I SO want to know now cakes!

it's honestly so offensive that you'd all judge me

a (very stoopid) friend of a friend once said she thought that black people had different colour blood (green i believe)

it's worse than that...

i apologise if anyone found that offensive - was probably ill-judged to post it.

for the record the person making the comment wasn't at all racist - just ignorant.

Thats not racist at all cakes, still think you should tell us

It wasn't that I thought that I was being racist, I just thought (after I posted it) that it might seem I was trying to get a cheap laugh over something that could be seen as offensive. Or something. I'm confusing myself now.

tsc yanbu ;-) Is she maybe just trying to avoid goin
g herself cos she's feeling down or anxious rather than trying to make you all do something to suit her? Her reasons sound plain odd (I didn't drink from 18 til 31 but I still went out for gods sake!)

I would just arrange whatever suits the majority.

Hey there, just checking in so you don't forget about me.

Dreya's been a miserable little girly the last couple of days with teeth and her injections she point blank been refusing to nap during the day unless she is cuddled up to me or in the pushchair!
Today i put her in her cot and listened to her grizzling for nearly half an hour! Does this make me a terrible mother??? She wasn't screaming or anything and she grizzled her self off to sleep but i felt awful all day.

Cake you have to tell us i'm so curious.
your friend reminded me of something one of my friends said when i was about 17 and going out with a black guy - she asked if he had crabs!!!! her mum's friend had apparently dated a black guy who gave her crabs and as a result my mate grew up thinking all black guys had diseases!!

Cake nothing wrong with a few drinks while bf imo. Apparently it leaves your milk at the same rate is leaves your bloodstream - so a couple of wines before 9.30 than feeding at 2.30 would be absolutely fine. So little of it goes into the milk anyway.

When I think of all the drugs I was on after both my caesarians - morphine, pethidine, tramadol, voltaren and after dd1 I was on intravenous antibiotics for an infection too - I had all of that in my system and was bfing a newborn - I don't think a bit of alcohol is that bad!

Tsc sounds like that woman is just setting up barriers to doing something, some people do that, not sure why. Hope dd1 had a great birthday.

Am fondly looking back on the nights G woke twice as now she seems to be waking 4-5 times. Am thinking of getting tough on her, i.e. moving cot from our room to another room and trying to ignore some of the wakings. Probably won't be able to do it though...

Looking forward to the live episode of corrie!

I watched Sex and the City 2 this afternoon, I do love the series and the first film was good but I didnt think this film was all it was cracked up to be, it was ok.

hey nixster. wouldn't forget you!

not a bad mother at all - if she was upset she would cry rather than grizzle. mine have never grizzled (either nothing or full-on cry) but i believe it's a way of self-settling.

oh god re crabs

Thanks wss re alcohol - that's v true re c-sec drugs. i had c-secs too so they've def had worse than a drop of alcohol!

God, i can't believe i'm going to tell you all this but you've lulled me into thinking it's fine and then you'll all be shocked and i'll feel like a twat!

it's a bit like the crabs thing in a way actually

here goes... a few years ago i was talking to my ex about people with Down Syndrome and i was halfway thru saying 'Isn't it weird that it would effect their hair colour too? I mean why would it make their hair fair?' and saw he was looking at me, literally like and then and then I had a moment of realisation...

when I was about 5, i was out with my mother and we saw a dark-haired boy with Down Syndrome and she told me he was [and please excuse this, it was a common term in the 70s] 'a Mongol'. And then I got older and learned there were people with something called Down Syndrome. So, I'd concluded (until the age of 30something) that there were people called Mongols with dark hair and then people with Down Syndrome who had fair hair.

i'll get me coat...

it's ok tsc, bitch away, i deserve it

oh cakes that sounds like something i would say!
had a pants day today, lost control of my car on black ice, did a 360 trying to avoid woman who had spun half into ditch as i lost control luckily woman coming the other way drove onto field so i missed her, we helped each other get cars out of ditch, no damage to my car, her car was damaged, my trusty fiesta rides again, but ive hurt my hip, think ive pulled a muscle as i braced myself, luckily i had just dropped L off, i was on the hands free to my mum and shouting oh god oh fuck im going to die! then my phone cut off, my poor mum must have crapped herself!

memphis, hope you're ok

oh im fine i had a little cry thinking what if L was in the car and then i carried on to work and had a white chocolate and a slab of carrot cake!!!

oh memphis poor you, you must have got such a fright! thank god nobody was hurt though and you didn't have Lyndon in the car. its so bloody easy happen too,
cakes that really made me laugh!
dh i didn't think much of sex and the city 2 either. really thought carrie and big would have a baby! there just wasn't much of a story to it but still some good laughs!
we've moved E into her own room the last 2 nights. last night i was into her 4 times to give her dummy to her. she just cries a bit but she's not even awake as her eyes are closed and as soon as i give the dummy to her she goes back asleep. very annoying.
i was on amazon there and there's a bibi soother and there's a night time one too. does anybody know the difference of a nightime soother from a daytime one?

Enters thread authoritively, shuffling important-looking files and giving the death stare to anyone who mentioned hair colour :-)

Oh memphis, how do you feel now?

Try to stop agonising over 'what ifs', it seems as tho what was 'meant to be' was that you walked away from it (albeit with gammy hip) - your guardian angel/god/dead dog/deity of choice was watching over you so just try to accept that and don't analyse it anymore.

Look after yourself over the next day or so - sometimes shock can be a bit delayed. Keep warm and have lots of things you fancy :-)

kk just glow in the dark not super glue methinks :-t

Oh and ditto for your poor mother memphis

God, that poor woman...