AUG 08 - Be who you are and say what you feel...

[TwilightSurfer]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." --Dr. Suess

There, you see, Oops has the right idea!

TS love the Dr Seuss quotes. DD is in love with Red Fish Blue Fish at the moment and Green Eggs and Ham. Both have to be read every night. I must say I prefer the latter, I seem to have low tolerance for the purely nonsensical [stick-in-the-mud] [lack of imagination]

Is no one else watching Glee then? That's as fluffy as it comes.

Glee would just finish DH of tonight Cyteen - he has been turned down on the offer of baby positioning help, his portion of jam rolypoly was smaller than he thought was left, he is banned from drinking coffee and is sleeping in the spare room as DD will end up in our bed at some point tonight.

am watching Glee along with doing the Playgroup rota for the Summer Term - rock n roll here too am supposed to ironing however DD1 is upstairs coughing and banging about and I wouldn't want to disturb her

oh and now am ignoring a call from the MIL because I can't be arsed

pertelote - am considering DD1 and her best friend to world book week dress up day as Thing 1 and Thing 2

I am watching an old edition of Relocation Relocation and feeling rather and a the beautiful house and my paltry budget

do you not just want to kill them sometimes Hots when they don't listen to the gods that are K&P??

shall show you my latest property porn that i've been oogling over

Ooh yes please as I am sure it will be outside comfortable commuting distance so no need to get jealous

Sazz - we are about on the 1st weekend in May - do you fancy a sunday afternoon walk? Westonbirt maybe, DH is even up for it .

Lets see you property pron Dizz - DH came home with details of some properties he has fallen in love with at £900K he has less than no chance!

someone has bought it [sobs] twas a bargin at £1.7 million too [wails] was too late in putting in my offer

dizz time travellers film is one of the most true film adaptions of a book i've ever seen! (shit, hope you're not going to be disappointed now!!) I really enjoyed both equally which is very rare! i'm normally very critical of films about books

Ena May Gaskin... yes, def read if you haven't oops. Actually, I may be confusing her with someone else.... anyone who knows...is she the american woman with the commune type birthing centre? if not, who do i mean?!!

i'm about to have a lemon muffin...there may be a spare one if anyone's desperate!

cyteen dp had forgotten it was a glee night so he thanks you. i, on the other hand, am not

another fan of Dr Seuss here. DS not really into it yet, but he will

what is it with our fathers at the moment? i've got the joyous conversation to look forward to this Thursday when i tell him he's not giving me away nor is he doing a speech
Can i have an honest opinion...am i being really out of order for denying him those two things?

yeah and who did go to NY? i'm pretty sure it wasn't you, was it Dizz?!

I am just wondering where the flip I went wrong in that I can't afford a £700k house . I really need to get the estate agents round to give me an idea of what I actually can afford this one is 4 doors up from us but is in better nick (although mine is nicer )

miamla I didn't want either of those things as well but I felt seeing as I was their only daughter I'd let it go. He gave me a lift to the church in his car, walked me down the aisle and made the world's shortest speech.

I felt it was all a bit hypocritical as Jack and I had been living together for ages/already had a DD and their opinion on our wedding had never either been offered or requested - I couldn't be bothered with the aggro tbh

HP - I know what you mean - we went to see friends who have this stonkingly big house in a posh area of Bath the other day and were [shocked] at how much they paid then we disocvered their mortgage was 4 times our total house value and they both work fulltime their DS is in nursery from 7-6.30 5 days a week and their DC2 is due in July and will go to nursery from 7-6.30 from 6 weeks or they have to move. I know what I would prefer!

I let my step dad walk me down the muddy garden aisle and make a little speech, also let him and my mum come to the register office when the plan was for that part to be just me & DH, oh I am such a pushover...

Miamla - My dad said I wasn't his to give away as I am my own person but if I fancied the company he would walk me to meet my husband. He also never made a speech as we had paid and sorted the thing ourselves and he didn't feel he had to say anything we didn't already know. I have to say he was brilliant about it all but then again he is incapable of having a conversation with anyone lasting more than 34 seconds (asparagus tendancies).

i feel it would be very hyprocritical for my father to do either given the lack of interest he's shown in mine,dp's and ds' life in the last couple of years. when i told him about pea, his comment was 'oh, you'd better get married then'

about 15yrs ago, after he called me a 'lying bitch' (incidentally i wasn't lying about him having a mistress and he knew it because he'd told me about her), i told him he had to earn back the right to give me away. i really don't feel he has. but then part of me feels maybe i should just go along with it for an easy life

oops, i might use the 'i'm not his to give away' line so thank you for sharing. sounds like your dad has got a sensible head on his shoulders

In which case you would be utterly justified in telling him to bugger off I actually had to wait until my dad died before I could bet married to DH, there was no way he was coming but didn't want to lie and daredn't tell him not to come. You must be braver than me, you have us lot at your elbow willing you on

arse! its almost 10 o'clock and its a school night tonight! havent sorted out mine or ds's bag for tomorrow
night all, thanks for listening to my whitterings!

Don't go along with anything for an easy life. Just do the dealing-with-stroppy-midwives trick of listening to any ranting and then repeating patiently, as one would to a toddler, 'Thanks for your input but I've made my decision.'

I always wanted my brother to give me away, but that will obviously never happen. Despite grave feminist misgivings about the whole concept of giving away, I've still asked my dad to walk me down the aisle because I know it's really important to him and I know he respects me as my own person. By the sound of it, your dad can't claim the same so feel entirely free to give him the high hat.

Sazz - This weekend is out as my mum is back and coming to stay, the following Sunday I need to check diaries as DH is racking his brain to see if he has planned anything I don't know about - I have just found out we have dinner guests on the 19th, his great aunt is coming to stay on the 20th and I am doing lunch on the Sunday, He is off to Belfast on the 1st April for 12 days (I thought is was 7) and then we are hosting an American client the following weekend and I have to source Kosher dinner. I think it's best not to ask what plans he has made!

Night Miamla sleep well