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June '07- So DH, what have you done all day today? I have been busy raising your children...

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loonylovegood · 20/09/2007 17:31

Ria's suggestion!!

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Dontknowmyarsefrommyelbow · 27/09/2007 13:54

Hey - I am the complete opposite!
My work have over paid me by a ridiculous amount!
AIBU to not tell them at all - and to just take the money and run!!!!!

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 13:56

neither of you ABU!

AIBU to earn lots of money to 'work' and instead chat on MN, book cleaners and get a man to give us a quote to redo our driveway and chat to DH on MSN...it's a hard life

Dontknowmyarsefrommyelbow · 27/09/2007 13:57

YANBU!

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 13:59

better go do some work now...
DH is stressed our credit card bill this month was £2000 (oops) and here I am booking cleaners, driveways, childminders, dog walkers....bad, bad wife

Dontknowmyarsefrommyelbow · 27/09/2007 13:59

Whilst we are talking about AIBU......
AIBU to tell my dad to get his ONLY grandchild a pressie and to stop being a tight fisted knob head??!!
He lives in the states and has phoned a couple of times since lo was born - but has sent him sweet FA!?

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 14:00

An au pair can do all of that for much less money.... but after watching program on C4 about au pairs a few months ago am not keen

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 14:01

lol@au pair doing a driveway

None of us ABU, we are far too wonderful and sensible

Dontknowmyarsefrommyelbow · 27/09/2007 14:02

hmmm Au pairs??? Not sure they are much good at doing driveways???

foxybrown · 27/09/2007 14:06

Round here they'd probably get their au pairs to do it - they get them to do everything else!

Jamantha, I'm afraid it is important to keep on at HR - they should know better and be taking better care of you. They tend to adopt an 'out of sight, out of mind' attitude all too often and that can cause problems in the future (like when you sue them for constructive dismissal or sex discrimination when there's no job to go back to ).

foxybrown · 27/09/2007 14:07

TA, sounds like you've got a bloody good job there. Want to swap?

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 14:09

no I am making the most of the cushty number while I can

They'll wise up to the fact I am useless soon and get shot of me.

Plus I get to eat restaurant style lunches at subsidised prices (Cashew chicken curry with pilau rice and naan anyone for £2.50?)

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 14:27

contract is only until december anyway... so who knows after that, I might go back to SAHM. If things go well here though I will push for renewal.

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 14:42

I am going to change my name. A fresh start. And maybe then I will stop killing conversations.

Dontknowmyarsefrommyelbow · 27/09/2007 14:43

Going to get my fella weighed!
Back in a min...

BadZelda · 27/09/2007 14:58

yanbu, dkma...but he might not know what to get a wee one, and be worried about sending the wrong thing. Or it might not even have occurred to him? I know when DHs friends have had kids, I'm the one that gets the presents; DH doesn't think of such things. Tell him what you want!

Jamantha · 27/09/2007 15:03

DKMA - they massively overpaid me at 1st, and said they would write to say how they would reclaim it. So this could be part of that but they haven't told me. I've complained to them about lack of information. Thankfully I put the extra money aside [sensible smiley] but that's not the point, I deserve to be told what they are doing with my pay, otherwise how can I manage my finances?

Jamantha · 27/09/2007 15:06

My brother didn't get DD a present. He didn't know what to get, so he got me a present, a book. Except he bought it because he liked the front cover and didn't read the blurb on the back cover so didn't know that it was about a little boy whose mother dies. He felt really bad when he found out though.

sputnik · 27/09/2007 15:06

Please don't change your name TA, I like it.

Well both my horrors little angels are sleeping. I should really be doiong something constructive rathere than breathing a huge sigh of relief, drinking some nearly hot tea and MNing, shouldn't I?

Jamantha · 27/09/2007 15:09

Nah, sputnik, stay just where you are!

sputnik · 27/09/2007 15:14

Whoops, Jamantha

My MIL is crap at preseents. Other than stuff we chose and she contributed to, in 3 years she has given DD a bear, a couple of t-shirts and a jumper. Baby Sputnik has had nothing. I would have thought part of the pleasure of having a grandchild was choosing stuff for them. I feel sorry for her really, she seems determined not to enjoy life.

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 15:15

no stay here!
I should be working!

You like my name? My mother thought it was ridiculous. But then we are having lots of rows lately because she keeps thinking of ways I 'could do things better'.

I keep calling her Martha Stewart.

sputnik · 27/09/2007 15:16

Ok you've convinced me. Just nipping off to put the kettle on and see if this time I can have a hot one

sputnik · 27/09/2007 15:20

I was worried that going back to full time work would mean that you no longer had time to chat to us, TA. Apparently the opposite is the case!

i like Trendavereter, it has the ring of a superhero to it. as you are, clearly

Wow, just realised I can't remember how long it has been since i last typed with 2 hands!

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 15:21

LOL Thanks Sputnik
Although it was chosen based on my lack of fashion sense

trendaverter · 27/09/2007 15:23

Oh dear god help me I have a confession to make

I am

Broody