Dec 2011: Running around after our Cybermidgets...

[Aethelfleda]

Roll up, roll up, it's the Dec 11 new thread.
Prepare to be upgraded (if you can catch them!)

Mellllllttttiiiiiinnnnggggg

Actually our air con in the office is really good but went for a walk at lunchtime and thought was on the med!! How are the pregnant lurking ladies amongst us i wonder??

Off to London tomorrow for work the idea of tubes in this heat making me a bit squiffy!!

I actually friend-culled a girl on facebook who said we are all "whinging" about the UK heat (she emigrated a few years back to a hotter country where guess what, they cope fine but just happen to have air-con everywhere).
I don't usually defriend but she got right on my bosoms, life's hot enough without unnecessary criticism! and she's been stealth boasting about her fantastic new life for ages, it's really not getting me feeling the love!

Hmm, think my tolerance has melted with the hot!

A justified defriending I think aethel. Also melting here, looking forward to the weekend when it will 'only' be 24 degrees!

Because we've got all the windows open everything in the house is getting covered in a layer of dirt and dust from the building work. As fast as I clean it gets dirty again. It might just tip you over the edge queen . I hope you feel better soon and that other than feeling poorly you're enjoying SAHMing so far.

figgy tubes in this heat are vile. Is there an alternative mode of transport you could use?

We are melting here too.

Figgy I do NOT envy you travelling on tube tomorrow...it's bad enough on a normal day.

Aethel - I done a friend cull not long ago, it felt good.

I've set up a FB page called Gem's Cakes. Everyone who has had cakes from me said it's something I should do as a hobby type thing now I'm home. Got a few orders.

Faffin, yesterday I cleared all my kitchen cupboards and gave them all a good clean and then cleared the worktops of clutter and looks lovely now

Today am just chilling.

MELTING here too! Mmm ice lollies.

Off on holiday for a week tomorrow. It will be a week by the beach and a chance to see some family but I imagine F will be a pain on the plane given her almightly temper tantrums this week and her sleep will be a nightmare , so mixed feelings about going. (also the dh and I issues) DS had chicken pox and was off school last week so chances of F catching it are pretty high - could be a longer holiday than anticipated if we cant fly back! But you never know it could all be lovely! I used to be such a holiday person too - loved them pre children, now I am off mixed emotions.

I quite like this weather! Could cope with a summer like this, though prefer 25 ish to 30 degrees.

F was waking at night for water so now I just leave a bottle of water in her cot and she helps herself - saves me getting up!

I will join you Queenie with the throat joy, me, my colleague and DP have been sharing the same sodding bug for weeks. Plus I must be the only person in this country in a heatwave with a cold

Today has been Officially Shite, had a complaint from a member of the public, had a whinging colleague have a go, and DP's toothy issues will cost £850- thank Bob his parents have said they'll cover it. Plus the house we loved at the weekend has been sold.

Sounds a truly amazing project faffin, so hope it goes well for you, and as Oi says it sounds like you've got realistic builders, which suggests they'll be pretty good all round.

Hauling my over heated behind to bed as have to be up early as got more interviews tomorrow, joy, grumble, grumble.

Northern I too have a cold. Thankfully the coughing/sneezing which caused me to pull some back/stomach muscles early last week has now eased off. Just hoping the snotty, headachey, generally feeling rubbish bit passes before labour kicks in

Very at faffin and oi. We have no money for the small jobs we want to do, let alone the big dream stuff. Will make do with photo's though

This is my last week in work. The heat is ridiculous. Melting does not even begin to describe my day today. Which I just finished off with a bit of ironing!! Lovely.

38 weeks tomorrow....so should definitely meet my squirmy little one in the next 4 weeks.

Our childminder has just issued us all with notice that she won't be providing meals anymore (which is fair enough, she chose childcare not catering!) and I am giddy at the thought of being able to buy DS a lunch box. Small pleasures....

I have a fireplace on the way, you have a baby (and a happy marriage). I know which I'd rather have! My turn for !!! 38 weeks! Fantastic. Wonderful. I am at your blooming loveliness.
Swings and roundabouts.
Sorry your day was shite northern. (And every so often I look on Rightmove to see if Springbank - the house I fell in love with - is back on the market... Not that I want it now. this house is much better, and much more convenient. But love is love. Shame the same doesn't go for husbands. hee hee!
It was our third session at Relate last night. It was OK. Not as tough as the first two. We're just carrying on, baby steps trying to make things better. However, this is not helped when DH starts thinking that I'm having an affair.
...In the meeting, I said that I'd confided in a male work colleague about our problems. The colleague is someone I've worked with for 9 years, is approx 53, knows and likes DH (from when DH used to work here), is a senior manager - same level as me. Is a mate. was a bit of a lad in his day. Is someone I trust. And when my DIdiotH gambled again, I confided in the colleague because it was on my mind, and because I wanted to get a male perspective on it.
But DIdiotH decided that as me and the colleague do attend quite a few meetings abroad together (we work in the same team - with lots of others!), we must be having an affair.
Obviously.
NOT!
So we discussed this again, because it's a subject that's come up a few times in the last few week.
The discussion ended, eventually with him saying that he trusts me (???! evidently fecking not!).
Bleuurgh! It's going to take a while for us to fix this marriage. slowly trying to claw back what we had. And with no guarantee that it will work. And when he does things like this, it makes me think, ah fuck it, I can't be arsed.
(and if I was going to have an affair it wouldn't be with a 53 yr old senior manager who I work on the same team with, - the principle reason being that one of us would have to leave work if it were found out - and that's not going to pay my mortgage and keep me and BOi in fabulous fireplaces, and the second reason being that if I was going to have an affair it'd be with a hot, younger bloke with a fabulous body. I mean, if you are going to fuck around - for fucking-around's-sake - you might as well fuck something hot. N'est-ce pas?)
Please excuse my over indulgence in the F word.

Fecking idiot men. Grrrrr!

I'm with you oi bloody men!! my dh is earning no money, wasting what money he does have on bloody iPad games while I'm paying for everything and extra childcare costs being incurred as his parents not having DS back on a Thursday until September he's seriously got to sort himself out or we r going to have a massive blow up!!!

Hope your day better today northern and jiggle I find on planes stickers are a god send DS plastered them all over everything the other day.

oi, it's not just you with the house lurve: I really like our new house as you all know, but still find myself ogling the Fantasy House that we never got to view (this is the 1820 listed Georgian one with the tiddly patio garden but a beautiful double fronted oldness grandeur). I drive past it every day on the school run....sigh. That's still not back on the market either even tho there's no way we would buy it now, so why do I still ogle? Like you I know our current place is perfect for school cachement, the station, the shops/library, it's pleasant, feels secure.... And the thoughts of ancient mantels and historic whotsits are just that, a fantasy. I think the clincher for us was the knowledge that while we could have afforded to BUY the pile, we probably couldn't afford to have RUN it.....

Anyway, my happy thought for today is that our oak seems supremely happy since its haircut, and I've arranged the garden so we always have some of it in the shade, I'm quarter scottish genetically so my skin hates the sun!!!

DD1 is finally "trying out" the "new" school this morning, I hope she enjoys her new class!

36wks here and (whispering) no complaints.
I'm ginge & pale (what Cartman would refer to as a daywalker) so have been burning to a crisp but no more uncomfortable because of pg.

Oi, sounds like shite, glad the relate session was less tough but ffs! Accusing you of an affair!?

Jiggle, have a lovely holiday! Fingers crossed F avoids the pox.

Northen, hope today is going better for you.

Figgy, enjoy the wonderful tube today...

We were looking at moving next year, but the local few primary schools (minus the local Primary Academy!) are fantastic so we'll have to stay put for the next 4 years at least. So hopefully they'll get into our #1 choice & hopefully this area doesn't go down the pan & we regret not selling now.
Although like you Aethel, there have been places I've seen that I'd love to move to.
Hope DD1 has had a lovely morning!

Bit of advice needed; DS takes his nappy/trousers off when he's alone (in the cot mostly), doesn't matter if he's in the reuseable or disposable nappies or what trousers/shorts I put him in.
It's far too warm to have him in a onesie or something less escape-able, do I have any options other than duct tape?

gary, what reuseables do you use: are they velcro?

I found the hardest for toddlers to remove are the Motherease Airflow popper wraps: so you could put one of those over a disposable. Another trick I've heard is putting them in their disposable back to front (!). And lastly there is the staple /ptrick : literallcareful to do it so the smooth line is on the inside and you rip the sides

Sorry for mangled post: As in get two safety nappy pins or staples with the smooth side line on the inside so it can't snag baby, and put one over each tab, so they can't be undone. I have never used those myself as using popper wraps worked for me, (and think staples sound too scary to be honest) but they sound like a final resort!!!

Aethel, we're using smartipants they've got poppers.
putting a disposable on back to front!
Thanks for the tips, will toddle down to Boots & pick up some nappy pins later today.

Complete me me me post, sorry, will catch up later.

Oh god. I am all flustered

Just had a meeting with a supplier. Brilliant meeting, products are fantastic, answered all of my questions etc etc. He totally overlooked the fact that it's a billion degrees in my office and I'm melting, and on the way up the stairs I broke my shoe (dead professional, aren't I?)

Also seemed totally oblivious to the fact that I was trying not to be a swooning teenage girl over the fact that this guy was seriously, seriously hot. Like, can I lick your chest, please? hot. ForgetthatIamMarried HOT. Smoking. He smelled gorgeous too. (I was discrete with the sniffing).

I don't know if it was just the temperature in the office going to my head, but as he was chatting away I was mentally leaning forward to take a bite out of his thigh. How I stopped myself I do not know.

I need a drink.

ha Hopalong you just made me laugh out loud:

hi everyone else! Following thread, but it is so hot that I feel too lazy to reply. Sorry "

Just been and bought black skirt and shoes for graduation on Saturday. Stupid dress regulations. All my black skirts are winter heavy wool and I just can't cope with that in this heat. Got some fab black heels.

Better do some work now I suppose!

Melting im melting ...............

Don't know if you were deliberately quoting Who Framed Roger Rabbit there air, but that's what it made me think of with the Dip!

Far, far better day today, and thanks to you all for letting me vent! The interviews I ran went like clockwork, the person I wanted to get the job did (and has just called me to let me know, slightly merry, utterly delighted and saying they'll be late in tomorrow ) and I even got some work done in between times.

My homemade chicken soup (dunno, but something worked) has got rid of the bad throat, though the deeeeeelightful snot remains.

And, and, the lovely house that we wanted to see weeks ago, but had our viewing cancelled the day before because a sale had been agreed, is back on the market and we're seeing it on Saturday. Unless it sells again. I think it's inevitable like you say aethel, there's always going to be one you dream about and hanker after, even when you've made the sensible choice about having lots of space, etc....

Sounds like you had some mad oestrogen/heat surge going on there Hop, it's awful when you're meant to be a) professional, and b) listening intently in a meeting, when your brain is just going 'mmmmmmm, sex'

I can't believe you two are both effectively term kat and GBT, and there will be new squidgy babies to play with...

And really sorry to hear about your DH's oddness Oi, that is very, very weird- is he normally that insecure, or is it something else? You must have been so put out/offended.
Mind you, all the affairs I've encountered have been of the ??? type, rather than pursuing the spankingly hot sort, the sort where at least one of the participants has a beard...

I thought we were quoting the wizard of oz with all the melting, although I wouldn't say no to having a bucket of water chucked over me at the moment!

Hop who's the supplier? Please share. I fancy me an affair!
I laughed out loud and loved your description about wanting to lick his chest. Rah!!
DIdiotH went for his first group session gambling appointment last night, but no one turned up, so he a 1 to 1. His counsellor sounds really good. They seem to have got through a lot. I spent the evening with a twice divorced colleague who kept saying, "oh I recognise that thought", and "I stayed far too long in my first marriage, trying to make it work."
I'm determined that we'll at least give it a couple of months...
...unless I meet Hop's supplier and accidentally fall into his trousers.

"so he a 1 to 1"
because that makes sense. Had.
(and the colleague is female, it's not the 53yr old bloke! ha!)

He's a web developer.

Much very quiet sex was had last night (inlaws are visiting). The heart is doing bad things to me. Or good things depending on your perspective...

Does anyone have the mirena coil thingy? I'm debating getting it as the baby discussion has been tabled for the time being.

Glad the counselling went well Oi

Heat, not heart.