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

[Schulte]

Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Thanks Boff.

Sorry to hear your application did not get you anywhere. Second what Auld says and hope next time is a winner for you. :)
Not sure either abt the drugs etc. but I'm glad that things are being sorted and the doctors are being proactive. I've got my fingers crossed that everything gets repaired and you get back feeling healthy. x

I should be on MN a lot on October anyway, if I am off sick!

Ah, here we are. Ladies, I have missed you. Boff, all the best of luck for treatment and I hope it works, from what Zulu says it sounds like you have nothing to worry about. Sorry about failed job applications, WFH are you looking for a similar job to what you're doing now or more of a part time role? I have decided to take the plunge and try freelancing from January. So BB if you need a freelancer with IT/telco experience and two languages, I am all yours!

The new house is lovely lovely lovely. The girls keep chasing each other round the massive living room and garden, shrieking and giggling (Hazel has developed this really high pitched shriek when she's happy).

But there's a lot of work to do and I am not even sure where to start. Have plumbers, electricians and all other sorts coming round to sort out the wiring and pipes. (Where is Nutty with her plumber jokes?)

Dinner is ready, must go, lots of love to everyone! xxx

The house/space sounds lovely for you/the girls Schulte :) Hopefully the plumbers do you right

Oooh, I could do with a man with a long rod to unblock my guttering .

Great about the house, Schulte and good luck with the freelancing ('twill be great).

The house is unnaturally tidy. It can only be that MIL and FIL are coming tomorrow . They are coming up to be proud, doting grandparents as DS1 has won a prize in a local art competition. Am so proud of him!!

Tired now waaay past bedtime when I'll be starting round 5am. Who else's April babe wakes them up at ungodly hours?

hello

jealous of the new house

we have a buyer and a moving date but

nowhere to live. This could be fun 6 weeks and 5 days til homelessness

week long headache=tension headache?

I appear to have a leaking pipe

Not so funny actually as it means I can't use my washing machine at the moment.

Bronze glad you've found a buyer, you've tried to sell your house for so long! Can you rent for a while? Don't worry you won't end up on the street. Fingers crossed!

Congratulations MrsG on the art prize, you must be proud, and well done your DS1!

So Hazel ran into me yesterday while I was sitting on the grass, banged her hard forehead against my lip, which burst, and now I look like I've been beaten up. Great

Bebe will go and have a look at your thread... but my immediate answer would be yes...

Is this rug too bright???

I love that rug. It goes with lots of other things. :) One of my favorite Ikea rugs. :) :) ...But we like to mix bright bold colors with earthy sophisticated colors like that. :)

Schulte bad luck on the pipe and the lip. On the plus side, it is a lovely rug. FWIW we have some very similar cushion covers (Ikea also, possibly designed to match) and they go really well in the DSs rooms in a way I didn't think they would.

Bronze, fingers crossed something will turn up (it will!) - great to have a buyer.

Well, the art prize was a curate's egg of an experience really... Part of the prize is being exhibited as part of the local artists' group Autumn show, which is held in our church. It was already up at the morning service and looked really good and so I enjoyed a bit of low-level boasting at church (really not much - I try not to be obnoxious). But the prize giving was grim as somehow it had been double booked with a Christening. We had to present the prizes with no noise, no applause and scuttle out as quickly as we could afterwards to avoid disturbing the Baptism party. And to make matters worse for us we knew the Baptism party and they're slightly strange, standoffish people we see on a day to day basis. DS1 was kind of happy and kind of overwhelmed. We repaired to a coffee shop where I had a crap coffee, ate a large amount of calories without enjoying it much and we ruined the children for their dinner (and had a fight with DS1 all the way home because he wanted to go either to a pub or a fish and chip shop for dinner ) I fear the boys will grow up fat.

Sorry to warble on about a very minor mishap - I like to live up to my nickname.

Morning. Just wanted to say I'm so happy happy that you have moved Schulte. Hello Mrsgboring, well done on the competition and DS1. And Bebe, I still have milk too and stopped feeding Sam 4 months ago.

Ah thank you B52s

Matching cushions MrsG? Where? I might need one!

Oh I don't know about the cushions I'm afraid. I just picked them out of a basket in the showroom, carried away in the whole Swedish shopping experience.

Hi ladies - sorry I've been AWOL for so long, lots going on. Will try to catch up at some point but for now in a nutshell:

1. Been TTC for 10 months and no joy

1. Considering starting children's nursing training in September next year (BIG career change)

1. Also considering move to countryside in next year or so

1. O is thriving and mad and wonderful and sleeping a bit better and talking A LOT

The end.

Big love to all you April mums and Schulte we should catch up sooooooooon - I want to see your new place x x

Hi all
Hope you and your little ones are all doing well!
Bicnod, sorry you're not having any joy with TTC, fingers crossed it will happen for you soon...your plans sound really exciting too! I could do with making some plans, feel a bit stuck in a rut, although I am always so busy I never really seem to get time to think about it!

Evie is sleeping awful at the moment, wakes up lots in the night, we are all shattered as a consequence. She is adorable though, says some really funny things. She currently likes shouting 'daddy's bum' when walking around Sainsburys, which isn't good!

Schulte, I love the rug! What floor will it be going onto?

Hello ladies (! ) I don't want to say what you know me as - it'll become obvious to those of you who know me (I'm not sure if there are any new people, because I've not read anything at all yet), because I know for a fact that I've been stalked around here for almost 2 years now, as previously suspected Chances are I'll be found again anyway, but so as to not make it as easy, I'm sticking with my new alter-ego. I've stayed away from this thread for ages because it was just too difficult to hang out with you all having discussed all sorts of vile, personal pregnancy-related things, pig cocks, plumbers, etc & then not be able to talk about anything that may be used as evidence against me, as it were

Anyway, the major point here (& here's where it gets really obvious who I am) is that the marriage for which you helped (lots!) plan the wedding for is over. Completely. I know it's been quite rocky for a while, but it's definitely finished now. He's moved out, we have contact arrangements for DS (G) in place, & it's done. Which I suppose means that I can start slotting myself back in amongst you all, if you'll have me?

Much love to you all xx

Doughnut! I knew who you are after reading the first half sentence. Your style is unique Welcome back. Sorry you've had such a shit time, hopefully you can see the positive side of things. I am sure you have good support from some of the April mums already. Here's a hug and a doughnut.

Bicnod, does your DH enjoy DIY? We could use some help ripping out some nasty built in wardrobes

Off to bed with a sore throat.

Schulte, I'm flattered, I think I counted on the fact that I'd have made enough of an impression during my very prolific posting months to be able to jog your memories enough to give my identity away without saying anything too easily searched. It has been a shit time, but to be honest it's sort of a relief now it's settling down a bit. I know where I stand now. & all of a sudden there are men coming out of the woodwork from all over - 'I hear you're single again' Nothing like a bit of flirting to get the old self-esteem up & running.

& never mind Bicnod or her DH - I could take out some frustration on some nasty built in wardrobes

Hope you feel better in the morning x

Heelllloooooooo Doughnut!
Lovely to have you back, sorry to hear you've been through some hard times, good to see you're sounding positive.

Hello Auld Oh, it's so nice to be back. The number of rows which were had about this thread being taken from me due to the lack of privacy

How've you been?

Been through some eventful times, too, Doughnut, particularly as regards DH's professional life.

Currently trying to work out ways of redressing the completely uneven balance of responsibilities in my marriage, as am at the end of my tether.

Kids great, DS1 is growing up fast, A is an absolute delight, but also a handful requiring an eagle eye trained on him at all times to avoid accidents and general cheerfully destructive tendencies.

Sorry MN and the FW threads became a bone of contention; you're not the only poster on here to whom that has happened and it is such a shame.

Must dash to work.

Yes, I remember how fraught things were back whenever it was I was last here, so I'm not surprised that you're reaching the limit of your patience now. Are you making any progress? Or is it still an uphill slog?

A sounds very much like DS. Very hard work & a danger to himself & everything around him. Then just as you're about to explode, he gets all cute. Damn them.

I'm very sorry to read that others have had problems with the whole MN/FW situation. It does seem very quiet around here, but I assumed that that was down to being very busy & the general passing of time - I'm sad to read that it may be more than that in some cases.

Oh I think it is mainly people being back at work and having to run around after various mischievous toddlers. Interestingly, in our house, it's DH who breaks things and hurts himself but Hazel managed to bite 'through her tongue' the other day at nursery and bled over her t-shirt so badly that it will have to go in the bin.

Anyway, now Doughnut is back I am sure it will be livelier here again!