April 2009 - Episode 13 - 'I've been looking for the exit for months!'

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Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Please 'like' my friend's little boy on Facebook so he can be a finalist on Smile Factor!

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Puzzle love the mental image of Holly wearing your bra and eating toothpaste! Sorry to hear about Ellen's xRays, fingers crossed they'll be able to reassure you at your next appointment.

I am finally taking Orbit for his MMR today, what with holidays and illnesses we haven't got round to it yet

All very very tired today, got about four hours sleep the night before last due to teething and DS1 being ill, and then last night DS1 had a huge night terrors attack and I was sitting in his room for about an hour trying to calm him down. He was screaming and shouting at me, telling me to go away and then screaming at me to come back, I honestly thought he was going to pop.

Work is completely insane, anyone else work in the public sector and know what I mean? Constant new instructions on what we can't do any more, noone knows what's going on, it's all mental.

Sigh.....

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Holly had her MMR last week. She was fairly outraged and gave the nurse a filthy look.

Oh, do I like the main page, not the individual pic?

Got it. You need to like the main page in order to see the individual photo like buttons.

Love the bra thing. I would quite fancy spending a morning in my bra shredding loo roll myself. Very therapeutic.

Right, ladies, we have Fanjo Warrior work to do. After being in a couple of my neighbour's lovely expensive new kitchens recently, I have decided my kitchen also needs pimping, but I have practically no cash. Current features that can't be changed:

• Magnet limed oak units a la 1990s. Not too bad for now, actually. Trying to work out how I can touch up the limed oak where it's worn away at the edges of the worktop and on some handles.

• Rather dated cream worktop with brown marbled effect (you know the sort of thing, ubiquitous, inoffensive, devoid of style)

• Stainless steel appliances - mum is giving me a new cooker and hob in the autumn that will slot in where the old ones went, as she is replacing her kitchen.

• Big ungainly John Lewis fridge freezer (currently plonked at the end of a row and used as a family pinboard)

• Old dining table from my folks and six IKEA wicker chairs (looks OK)

• Cream curtains

• Big Babydan play house/pen thingy I have just bought, and raised up area for hamster (currently on extra cheapie dining table from IKEA). Have put these at far end for now - probably only obvious place for them - would ultimately like to integrate play area into kitchen in more effective way in a design sense. Hamster is into lonngevity overtime so that may cease to be a design issue soon .

Things that can be changed:

Paint colour of walls (preferably Farrow and Ball)
Accessories
Moving things around

I will see if I can post a couple of pictures.

I am thinking of pale yellow walls and making the whole room a bit more summery. Currently it is brown - Dauphin from Farrow and Ball. Or I could have cream with a feature wall in deep raspberry to match my Emma Bridgewater Pink Plum breakfast set. (All middle class brand credentials clearly laid out in this post, I think).

Perhaps 'HarrietHoo' will come online - she is great at this stuff as I recall.

PS Felix disgusted at his MMR. Cried in dismay and tried to punch nurse when she went to put a plaster on his poor ickle leg. Took a whole box of raisins to console him.

I'm laughing at all those mental images. But I haven't caught up properly yet. I am a shit FW .

at the image of Boff in her bra shredding loo roll. Or Holly. Both equally funny actually

Hazel likes wearing my pants over her head.

Have you seen there is a hooter hider thread???

LOL about the bra and loo roll.

Hope Ellen's x-rays turn out to be okay.

Hmm Boff, kitchens and brands and whatnot. I am too clueless to really understand what half of it is, but how about one of those lovely children's tables to be the focus of the play area? (I actually got rid of a Babydan playpen a couple of months ago as it was a beast and E would not entertain its use).

Edmund's suddenly got the idea of saying words, and today delighted us with a very clear rendition of "blackberry." He repeated it numerous times so this time I definitely know it's not a fluke. Just to be clear, he was referring to the fruit and not to an electronic device.

you're all very good
Isaac has had his first set of the first lot of jabs
maybe one day he'll get the rest, then I may htink about the mmr

Nuuuuuuuuttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!
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Good lord Nutty! Welcome home.

Nutts, I think stainless steel handles would look wrong because the current limed oak wood knobs are about the only things that could go.

I looked into the Fablon covers but they do not seem to be very durable, so I will stick with the worktop I have got because it's not too awful, just a smidgin 1980s in style.

I do like the raspberry and cream idea very much. Any ideas about accessories for that (along the crafty chic line?)

Nuuuuutttttyyyyy hello m'lovely, had to pop in and say hello when I saw you were here...

Sorry, I'm about to do a me post so please feel free to ignore.

My lovely lovely lovely friend told me yesterday that she is 6 weeks pregnant. I am really happy for her, I really truly am. We both knew that we were both trying but she's only been trying a couple of months. She has a DD 2 weeks younger than Oscar. When she told me I had to paste on a smile, how crap is that? I feel like such a shit friend. I'm really honestly pleased for her but I'm so gutted for me. Feels like it's never going to happen. Went to GP yesterday and she's going to do bloods on CD21 to check hormone levels, that I'm ovulating, thyroid etc. Feeling very very down about it

Bicnod, this is an utterly normal reaction. Do not feel like a shit friend. Seriously. I have not had this problem personally, but I am sure I would feel even more yukky than you if I did. And behave extremely badly.

On a different note - just been to Bewilderwood in Norfolk. Twas truly fantastic. Felix spent hours pottering around the toddler area laughing his head off. DS2 charged around the treehouses and so on. We even went on a boat along a mysterious river and saw a spouting mythical crocodile like beastie as well. We had a super duper time.

Bicnod - Oh sweetheart you are so not a shit friend. You are human. If it were me I probably would have blurted out "oh fucking hell, but yer know congrats".
I'll be keeping everything crossed for you.

Oh my god, I missed Nutty.

She would love this [TMI ALERT]:

I am signed up to a few market research websites. I have done all sorts of product testing in the last 6 months. Tonight I am testing (ahem) an "adult mood enhancer". I have just taken two massive blue pills.

please please please post a blow by blow account!

Or maybe not.....

Have had a change of mind regarding the redecoration, because I've had a good tidy and sort out and it's looking a lot better in there. Plus I was not sure I was physically up to painting.

Nuttyyyyyyyy!

Sigh. If we ever get to move house, DH and I will get divorced over the kitchen as we won't be able to agree on a style for the doors and knobs.

Bicnod, I know exactly how you feel. When we were trying for Hazel, two of my friends got pregnant before me and I thought it was very unfair. Don't feel bad about that on top of all the other feelings you're having to cope with, you're only human. And all fingers crossed for the blood tests xxx