AUG08 - Sunshine, Friends, Food, & Fun

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Hi all.
Argh saw miamla's offer too late. Think DP is a 32 waist but he's so short bless him (same height as Tom Cruise ) Mr Miamla's legs are probably up to DP's shoulders if they stood together.
talked to DP about the money issue and he understood what I was saying about not affording for US to go out but this not being a problem. Didn't get a proper resolution to it as conversation got interrupted somehow and we were both very tired, but at least we chatted about it.
Ah. I know there was loads to reply to but it's all gone wooshing out my head Oh on plus side DP has told me to get myself some new trainers on his card, so that's ok at least.
oh yeah - Miamla DS has the elc blue pushchair and he loves it. He adores the dolly we got him as well, it's pretty much his favourite toy and he's always kissing her and feeding her etc. Another young boy was round here a few weeks ago and had a meltdown because he couldn't take pushchair and dolly home with him DP actually bought the doll, so he doesn't share the daddy prejudice against dolls for boys.

QoD Perhaps he feels he's getting something out of the company at last with this event. Perhaps if you illustrate the maths to show it will cost him money and your patience and remind him they are unreasonable feckers to whom he doesn't owe any loyalty versus an alternative evening that costs less in total and benefits your marriage massively.

I'm so glad my DH is such a lazy unambitious chap. He's really been applying the spirit of The Dude from the Big Lebowski to his job lately which has made it a lot more fun for him. His boss mentioned his lack of enthusiasm for promotion at his last appraisal but then agreed DH probably wouldn't make an ideal manager and that doing one's own job well is nothing to be ashamed of. He's really quite subversive these days and points out/refuses to co-operate when there is proveable pointlessness/duplication to a task (databases etc). But they all adore him and depend on his encyclopaedic knowledge of the sector (acquired through to doing the same job for 11yrs!) I now have a fantasy that I will get a p/t job for his company next year and we can sneak about stealing glances and see how long it takes before people know we are married.

Lol buckets that's funny.
I think it's just that boss has assumed everyone's going. Or said 'everyone's going' and DP can't bring himself to say no. But no arrangements are final it turns out, so DP has no idea what will actually happen. Says he thinks the boss will suddenly cut down the attendance list at the last minute or something. I think he's too scared of pissing the boss off because of our finances at the moment tbh. He says if I was earning he would have handed his notice in on Friday when he got told he wasn't getting a payrise.
Is it really sad/weird that I've just sat and read the entire Dec 2010 antenatal thread and felt rather ? Having said that, there's been no sign of AF yet this month. But then the same has happened the last two months and I don't feel pregnant, so I'm not going to test. If AF hasn't arrived by next week I might just poas.

Are you taking the girls Sazz or is this a romantic break a deux?

Good work Sazz prob too late for your plans but have you ever been here I'm not much of a one for animal spectacles but this is meant to be kind & gentle as well as beautiful and your 2 might like.

Ah, sounds lovely (I nearly typed 'lively' then, but wouldn't like to presume ) Should really book something for DP and I, dear god we need a holiday.

gg i'm sure its lovely but my first thought was of that stage play with the boy who loves his horse just a little too much...can't for the life of me remember the name of it but i'm sure, being the clever lady you are, you'll know what i'm going on about!

ooh and keep forgetting to say... re your DP... DH reckons he's famous and has seen him before somewhere whereas i just thought 'phwoar'!

oh and sazz, well done on resolving your paris problem!

Equus, Miamla?

Equus, oh dear I hope not!!

Sazz yes poss better for a bit older, Parc de la V looks syoooper, have never been.

Miamla ooooooh glad you approve!! Famous, erm not sure bout that though...

What a wicked place that Parc de la Villette!

One of my connecting flights to Corfu has been cancelled. Funnily enough I had thought of switching it to a better flight instead anyway which means we can go to pre-wedding welcome party at a Venetian fort. There will be a price difference but I am getting butterflies with excitement of being out with my DDDDDH for moonlit seascapes and ancient romance and Greek food so it is already totally worth it.

sazz well done. very never been to France.
Also very of DP's cousin whose honeymoon has been extended due to the ash cloud. She doesn't sound particularly miffed at being stranded in Cuba tbh

Oh dear, there were a lot of s in that post

Really ought to go do some washing up. I've been putting it off all day.

Afternoon

DD went for her first ever playdate without me this morning whilst we were at the funeral, which although veryvery sad was a fantastic celebration of her life and she has been burried in a plot where she can hear the kiddies from the school she helped out at, overlooking the river and her allotment and chickens.

To add to the excitement of the day I have been in (supposed) pre term labour all day Midwife refuses to see me as I am pre 37 weeks, hospital checked me over and sent me home with instructions to take 2 paracetamol and bed rest until it stops of my waters break. So contracting every 5-7 mins with back aches and slight pains but nothing serious. I doubt anything will happen as I haven't packed my bag yet! DH has had DD all day and he is not working tomorrow so will rest up and see. They reckon it will all stop again after a night of rest.

DD in bed, Dh sent to supermarket to buy dinner and I'm bored (already) in bed too scared to sneeze incase my waters go!

No mention on FB please I haven't told my mum as she will panic.

Oh, I'm glad the funeral went well, Oops. at the pre-term labour though. I found the whole three weeks before dd1 much more intense for pre-labour /Braxton Hicks type stuff than ds. Are you ready in your head for labour again?

oops how exciting

miamla and oops, I am vicariously loving your pregnancies too. Don't want another child but finally with dd managed to relax properly and enjoy a) being pregnant and b) giving birth . So that I love the idea of giving birth again but not having another LO

cyteen sorry about ds. It is awful the way they make you feel isn't it? When ds2 fractured his wrist last summer hospital were all until I told them he was at nursery when it happened, after which the sympathy poured out .

sazz YAY!

gg hi Equus... nuff said.

and the fab news in the ataraxis household is that work agreed to give me a couple of extra weeks off in August, so I now have the whole of August off and we have booked a 3 week holiday in France by ferry

oops how many weeks are you now? I thought you were pretty much at 37 - am I wrong?

Really should put dd to bed but enjoying my g&t just a leetle too much to be bothered til I have finished it.

Ataraxis - I am 36 tomorrow but under consultant led care so they are a little sniffy about my care. It was a bad line on the mobile to the delivery suite I'm not sure they hear me say 35 weeks

and oops, just reread your post. Sorry for being so insensitive about the funeral. Celebrations of life are the best way; the burial place sounds lovely