Dec 08 Mums - happy new year, happy new thread and soon some happy new babies!

[sybilfaulty]

Happy new year!

Sorry for the rubbish title but wanted to get the new thread underway. Let's close the door on some of the sad events of 2011 and look forward to a better year in 2012.

I have to find this thread, is it going to turn into another poonami?

I just LOVE 'Terrorist Fist Bumps'. I think I must in fact be rather unthinking because it wouldn't have occurred to me that there would have been anything wrong in putting it in our next thread title, until you mentioned 'poonami', DB...I need saving from myself!

I just find people so sort of cross and weird (although I was getting rather irritated).

I think weddings are one of those things on MN that people get really het up about, though.

I bet you are really excited about next week, Kayz. It really is lovely. We will all wear virtual hats next Thurs.

It's in Style, Jam. And you honestly don't have to agree with me! In fact, if anyone on here thinks I would be making a massive error wearing this dress, pleeeeeeeease tell me. I have respect for your opinions!

Had a quick read honestly am shocked at some people's reactions. It will be fine. There is nothing wrong with it.

Terrorist fist bumps back at ya.

Kayz I'm sure your cousin is a nice person, but seriously! I'm starting to feel a bit concerned about what people may have thought of what I have worn to weddings in the past. I only remember what friends wore to our wedding because I look back on the photos.

Terrorist fist bumps made me giggle.

I'm definitely up for wearing a hat next Thursday in Kayz honour, or....white :O

Rubes what did the medium spiritually person say.

Lady I've always wished RACIAL INSENSITIVITY ALERT I could talk black. I worked with a lot of women of Jamaican descent in North London in our office and when they got going they sounded so cool. I got a bit caught up in it a couple of times....and may have done a bit of a "whatever girlfriend" or the like but i. never really came across right, or went down very well.

Oh and Lady I actually thought the first responders post was quite good.

Priceless Lady.

Oh the psychic asked if she had a father who passed and she saw a piano (he was a piano teacher) and also said he wants to acknowledge "An" (who is my brother) ans someone else related to him "(me)" and got my name except with an "a" in rather than an "e" close enough! She said what he died of (cancer) but she was specific as to which type, and asked if he was a painter - just saw brush strokes and assumed House painter but he was an Artist - water colour. Loads more stuff like that. She said my g'mothers quite unusual middle name. Gosh the whole thing sounded amazing and surreal. dad didn't go and is regretting it now. I've always been a believer but my brother isn't at ALL. She was wondering about telling him as he'll poo poo it! DH is taking the piss of course. I understand loads of people think this stuff is bollocks but there you go. Not a chance she could have known stuff she said....

Rubes I'll admit to being skeptical but curious. I actually quit worked based on a reading once. The guy told me someone or something was sapping my energy so much so that I wouldn't have rhe emotional and physical strength to care for my DS the way I wanted to. He assumed it was DH but I said no, so he took my hand and then said "oh its definitely not him, he is lovely". But he believed it was my work and guess my profession. Based on that I quit, it was pretty draining. He also said ds1 would always honour me and would be a writer, but he said he couldn't see any other children in my future. He did have a funny look on his face when he said that so maybe he saw DS2 but didn't want to scare me. Ds2 can be quite scary.

I once read that some people can sort of zone in on other people's thoughts. I try to keep an open mind about everything (except wearing white at weddings, obviously ) but somehow I find it more plausible that the fella read your Mum's mind. But whaddoo I know. My Mum believes in spiritualists and all that though, big style. She is a bit psychic though. AND, get this, she is a seventh child of a seventh child!

everyone!

Indith Hurray you got in! I knew you would .

spot Scary stuff with DP giving up his job but it sounds like family life has improved already. Are you looking to move back to London?

jam Sorry to hear about the row. I was nodding along when I read your posts. Hope the air has cleared a bit but I don't think you are out of order at all thinking signing up to so many events which require hours of training is a bad thing. Maybe it just took his mind off stress over his job?

ladyT I popped in on your thread. Scary people. Why do people have to be so rude??! Vag I liked your post.

I do remember being in a pub where there was a wedding in one of the function rooms and the bride was wearing a very plain cream shift dress and another lady was wearing a white frock which looked much more bridal. You have described something very different though LadyT and I think it sounds really lovely.

arti Hope DH's interview went well.

summer and rubes hello and welcome back to the fold.

I am worn out. Everything is much harder now DD2 is no the move. We've not babyproofed properly and I keep finding her doing something ridiculous - chewing cat biscuits or eating chalk . Need to buy another babygate tomorrow to keep her contained.

If you are all wondering why the nice weather has gone it is because I ordered some new sandals and they arrived today. Clarks originals. I look like Jesus .

Yeah, I think there are a load out there that sort of get you to steer them in the right direction but Mum says she said nothing and gave nothing away. She was actually that shocked / nervous / excited that she forgot her own mothers name and the woman kept banging on with it! But anyway, I often thing ooh what if they have spies on you or PI's working for them after you buy the ticket, but in this case it was a last min thing - crazy!
Anyway, so glad mum got to experience it - bollocks or not she is chuffed in a weirded out kind of way!
I also once went to a private reading (one of those silly one's that make you hold a piece of jewelry or something) when I was young. She was spot on at the time and even said would move and it would be a significant move.... Just only thinking of it now and I did move to America a few years later!
Anyway, sorry if I'm boring you all to tears - carry on with the chatter - My ds would fit right in as he's taken using MrT quotes to a whole new level. Told me to "Quit yo jibber jabber" tonight
Right, dinner, and a whole lot of reality TV to catch up on crikey I'm interesting to talk to aren't I.... Psychics, MrT and reality TV -- see these are the reasons I stay away from MN and give you all a break......!

so scan all fine really - apparently i have some ovarian cysts, but this is normal i don't think it was particularly normal for me but who the freak knows - not like i was being regularly scanned before. and am less worried. but would just like to feel better. will see what the GP says about whether there is any follow up. muted hurrah i think. especially as pain killers are full of dire warnings of what will happen to me if i take them too regularly.

and yes yes in my head i could completely get away with a bit of baltimore street talk. in practice would be dreadful. i too have of that brilliant Jamaican London patois

And interesting on readings. Crikey Rubes that all sounds a bit too close to the bone. How does your mum feel about it all? Think it would utterly freak me out. As would yours vag. Part of me would love to have a reading, but I don't think I ever would as would be scared of discovering something bad, and that then dominating thoughts when likely to be bollocks. Also because DH would be absolutely at the notion that i'd even contemplate. He is a deeply rational man. But probably mainly because reading would probably reveal my irish catholic grandma's rage at me for even trying such a thing

happy weekends all. I can hear DD1 being a little minx...

Jolly at the sandals...

Urbs, ovarian cysts can come and go so if you have them you may not be lumbered with them forever. I am glad that's all they found. Have you got any more tests scheduled?

Rubes, I meant the psychic actually read your Mum's mind rather than her giving anything away. It is interesting though. As for reality tv - pssshaw, I am looking forward to watching this week's Apprentice which I recorded. Their house is in Bayswater this time, where I used to live, and I haven't figured out where the house is yet.

No wine tonight, and not a very exciting supper. How can it be Friday night?

Oh, and one last word on bridal gowns - a chum of mine once went on a blind date AND THE GIRL TURNED UP IN A WEDDING DRESS. At the pub. She got it from a second hand shop and thought it was cool. Well, maybe, but on a blind date?? The relationship didn't progress

That's hilarious Lady about the blind date yes as are the sandals Jesus yes I too have recorded The Aprentice but not watched yet. Then there's my other shows....
Jam I meant to say so glad you worked things through - divirce not an option for you - with all your lovey dovey weekends away at Spa's and stuff I see you doing on FB By the way when you get back to my FB message just do a group message to Myself, Spot and Lady as it will make it easier.
Right must go dinner ready

Hello ladies, I gather there has been a lot of chasing of absentees... I am really pissed off annoyed that I can't keep up properly, and confess I do occasionally pop up elsewhere on MN to ask questions, but you lot are so hard to keep up with! At work the bloke behind me can see my screen, and at home, well, there's just no time.

Suffice it to say that I've just got the girls to bed [started writing this at 7.50], DH still not home yet (is like this 4 days out of 5) and so it's time to put on the laundry and start making our dinner. Will probably manage to eat about 9, then if I'm lucky I've got enough staying power to read a couple of chapters of novel then off to bed at 10. Booooo. Every night for the last about 3 weeks, S has half-woken at 3am saying mummeeee mummmeeeee I can't find my blanket. And until I get up and go in and put her duvet back over her, she won't shut up... E sleeping pretty well :) but has had a horrible green snotty nose and hacking cough for a month, so she keeps waking up as well - soothes back to sleep easily, but again it means I'm waking up with her.

I really want to keep up with you all! I will put on tea and then read back and tell DH that I am on catching up with friends duty and no he can't have the laptop...

Lady: I hope you are not planning to flash your knickers at this here wedding. Off to check the dress thread {dons pickelhaube}

No doubt there's some stupid rule about what colour knickers you can wear!

Well, shiiiiiiit

(that's as close as I get to Baltimore speak)

Lady: on a rabble-rousing scale of 1-10, I fear your thread merits a 4. No screaming or baying for blood. I suggest you revise your previous best efforts and have another bash .

JJ Get a grobag duvet set. It has zips so it is impossible to lose the duvet. Expensive but worth it!

DH has found a rather strange S&M production of Handel's Rinaldo on the telly. Nice singing though.

Who chose to name an opera after a football player?

Yo, bitches (I am not really very good at the talk, despite where I live...)

Lady, the thread is hilarious. How VERY dare you ask random strangers for an opinion and then have the temerity not to follow it?! I would wear the white meself. You know if it is bridal, in which case it could be thunder stealing, but just white with gorgeous accessories would be great. I think the etiquette about black and white at weddings is a bit outdated, as so much black is worn. It is inappropriate in my book to wear anything which might steal the bride's thunder (remember Liz Hurley flashing her red pants in the leopard skin dress???) but as you are obviously not going to do that it will be fine. Am sure you will be fabulous. And as for buying something else to please a load of internet randoms, words fail me.....

Kayz, 5 is fine to lose teeth. Lots of reception children have gaps. I think it is a hereditary trait - I lost my first one at 5 and had got all of them out by 10. Lucy lost her first one just before she was 4 (helped out by a bit of sellotape) but had lost 4 by the time she went to school 3 months before she was 5. At the age of nearly 7, she has lost 9! An early referral to the ortho beckons as her teeth are huge and her mouth isn't but her teeth will (eventually) be great. Has F got a wobbler? T lost her first one on Tuesday and she was 5 a week ago. The gap looks sweet.

We have a new cat. She is lovely and the children are enchanted and are constantly playing with her. She is already sitting on laps in the evening and has only been here for 2 days. Result.

Morning,

Sybs, no wobblers but he's getting pretty impatient as both of his best friends have lost a tooth recently.

LadyT, the thread still makes me giggle.

The nice weather has gone I wanted to go to the beach.

Well you lot have been busy!

LadyT I'm sure you will look fab. No white may be traditional but who cares? brides wear all sorts of colours these days, I'm sure there have been people wearing white at all the weddings I've been to recently.Style and Beauty is crazy, they are all far too well dressed, on trend and seem to thing "cheap" is £100.

Urbane hope you get to the bottom of things, scan sounds positive anyway with nothing dire on there. Cysts can be evil I think, a friend had one a few years ago, the pain came from nowhere, it twisted or something and she ended up losing a tube and getting a full c section scar poor girl. Take care x

Wow to all the resigning dhs, hope it is a change for the better for you all.

My dh now has about 5 years to work out what he wants to do when he grows up so he can take a step back and do it when I qualify. He definitely deserves it, wish I could enable him tio do it earlier.

Jam hope things ok with dh now. I'd suggest writing down a fair schedule together so you can both see how many hours you are each getting. you bith need time for your interests, you both need time without dcs but you also need family time. Maybe better to have say sat am he goes out, pm you go out but sunday you have family day. I used to get annoyed at dh with rugby, it took so much time. His rowing is better, he does a weekend morning and one evening. He rows as a pair now with someone else with similar work/child status. When he rowed as an 8 and there were so many more people to keep happy there was so much more training and I wanted to kill him. 3 evenings a week plus both mornings at weekends was just not on! I know that as we get towards summer he is going to want to do more and I will hate it. How can you say no without seeming mean? If he trains lots then I hate it, if he doesn't then he isn't going to win any races. Urgh. Bloody sport.

Runners, when should I start trying to get out again? I was just starting to get back into running a bit when I got pg with ds2. Is starting back gently on the couch to 5K best?

Yo DB in da house!

I've got a bit of hangover this morning, had a lovely evening out with my bestie having a good old catch up. Just having a second coffee before I head out for some potting compost for the seeds DD is desperate to plant. kayz weather is crappy here too. I think I'll get some craft stuff too while I'm out. Both DC's love a bit of cutting and sticking...DH is working so it will help pass the time!

Indith Couch to 5K is pretty good for getting back into the running I'd say. i love to get running again but the knee is sore today from wearing heels last night