The train has departed Loserville - Next stop Happy Town.

[LoserNoMore]

Just went to post on my other thread but it's full already!

I'll attempt to link it but I'm on my phone so probably won't work.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/1726699-Last-train-to-Loserville-Part-2

Excuse the cheesy title, my brain won't work. Just going to read last few replies on old thread.

This is why the Internet is wonderful. Until tonight I felt 'one of you'. No class, appearance, age or other barriers visible.

But now ....now I know I'm old enough to be your mothers ...it has made me want to go and crochet quietly in a corner or something.

pish....crochet aint your style Cabbage.

Ah Cabbage, youth is all I have right now and even then I feel about 70.

Cabbage do you mean me?? you can't be that old??

Good to have you back LNM.

. Bloody hell cjel, I'm not that old

Louly. You are quite right it's not my style. If I wasn't working 50 hour weeks I'd be out doing lots of active stuff this weekend. As it is I will be alone in the office and DD with her dad.

Ho
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ITS FRIDAY! So, what does everyone have planned for the weekend?
cabbage you are working, thats a bit rubbish - all weekend?

lnm doing anything with the girls/friends?
louly you will of course be studying hard, not drinking So Co... although I am intrigued to try a cherry version. I cant stand the smell, let alone drink it, due to a rather over indulgent binge when I was about 19.

I have no plans at all - oh except getting the grass cut. I live life on the edge. It is a F1 free weekend so hoping we can do something fun.

Age is just a number! I am going to be 39 in May. How did that happen? I was in my 20s, travelling around, having a blast and then all of a sudden I am heading towards 40 2 kids and a husband a dog and a cat and a mortgage...

made me smile and quite jealous reading about you having a roomful of the younger generation around you cjel - really sounded lovely for some reason. i only have one child but i have a niece and two nephews who i hope will stay firmly in my life and i very much hope they'll feel happy lying around my bedroom after vodka jellies when i'm older suppresses fears of being a lonely old woman who noone comes to see

hope you got a good night's sleep LNM and that everyone who was feeling low yesterday feels better today. grey and wet here so i'm not 'feeling it' today. have decided it is time to clean the house before i end up on one of those dodgy tv shows have my possessions removed in a skip. guessing there's slightly more chance of having people around me in my dotage if i can learn to keep a nice house that i'm not embarrassed to let people into.

so anyway i shall be around today if you need anyone to vent to - i will be looking for distractions to get out of cleaning

xposted jax - bugger all planned for the weekend here. i'm close to you in age - 37 here.

Phew cabbage - you had me worried then!!Swallowe - it is lovely my 29 yr old son only moved out before easter so I had loads of them around . I didn't kid myself about dds party though, Iwas out at college for the day part it was just we had enormous house then very suitable for bouncy castles and bbqs!!
Trouble I have is I only feel 27 and no one told me how to act old!!

Oh and 1st time in ages I have weekend plans.Mentoring tonight, Looking after dgds saturday and gardening with them and garden centre with them and dd on Sunday,I to live the high life!!

Jax, of course i will be studying hard and turning MI5 on my DD, she has selective mutism, so i gotta sneakily record her reading those awful, Biff, Chip and Kipper books.

Jax its like Cherry coke

What happened to the bloody sun?! Rainy here too. My phone tells me more rain for tomorrow

My DP wants to take me to a steakhouse tomorrow, but I know for a fact it only has a single toilet and in my... condition atm I am not entirely up for it.. waaaa.

Cjel I love going to garden centres. They relax me for some reason!

Raining here too, which is a bugger, coz i got my t shirts on the line, well they bloody staying out.

Great email LNM. As others have said it just sounded like your annoyed mother. Have you seen any more of your friends?

I feel like I'm with friends here, garden centres and watching Monty on Gardeners World are the high light of my weekend . And I'm only 38, surely I should be a bit more rock & roll than that? You can keep your Southern Comfort though I'm afraid Louly, the smell of it makes me heave! I'm a G&T girl myself...

Pissing down with rain here, DS2 sat on the potty watching Cbeebies while I'm on MN, can't motivate myself to do anything useful really. Should be doing something educational with DS2 but poor lad will have to learn his numbers from Numtums today! (Loulybelle my elder DS is reading Biff Chip & Kipper, aren't they the most boring godawful books?!).

LNM I hope you slept welll and have a better day today.

garden centres relax me too i must be old.

i am being productive. well in short bursts with regular intervals to play bloody candy crush whoever it was on here that mentioned it. why oh why did i click????

upstairs of the house is looking semi domesticated now have to venture downstairs and tackle the dog hair and mud covered floors. i really need to win the lottery, buy a beautiful big house that i love instead of resenting and then hire staff to keep it lovely for me. i did win the lottery this week - got an email saying good news your winnings will be paid into your account then went and checked and of course it was a tenner had that momentary excitement.

anyone who says money can't make you happy must be a truly miserable fucker who couldn't be happy no matter what the universe gave them. if i couldn't achieve happiness with a million quid in the bank i'd take myself out and shoot myself.

SAF I know a few people with loads of money who are always miserable, always comparing themselves to others and nothing's ever fair, they always feel hard done by etc etc...

I think it's true that if you're a misery you'll be a misery no matter how much money you have, whereas if you can be happy with what you've got you'll always be happy however much you have.

Ooh that was quite philosophical wasn't it?!

You made me smile though, my Nana used to say that, "if I had a gun I'd shoot me bleedin' self" (in fabulous East End accent. Usually peppered with a few choice swear words. She swore like a sailor, in fact I learned the C word from my Nan! ) God I miss her!

swallowed. my ex was that person - went through a phase of big house,cleaner etc and he was so miserable, I used to say how many more houses, motorbikes cars, holidays do you want - stop now, but he didn't. I am broke in small house but so much better happiness wise. He still going mad trying to get more and more!!

I am after a bottle of that So co Cherry!

Happiness is not something that money can buy. It comes from within.

Ive got the radio on here, singing along to songs, MNing and not doing a lot today. Where has the sun gone? It was 7C when I took DD to school. hmmf, yesterday it was 20 something.

miserable fuckers they sound!

i think other than when depressed (ironic) i can be happy no matter what i've got so i know that i could be very happy with a lot. i sit and fantasise about winning the lottery sometimes and which friends mortgages i'd pay off and what houses i'd buy that we could all use for holidays and stuff. i suspect it's the combination of rich and mean/selfish that creates misery whereas rich plus generous or naturally wanting to share good fortune would be a nice place to be.

in reality i think my dreaming of money is to do with being a single parent and not having much and worrying about our security for the future. i don't even own my own home anymore and have zero clue how i'll manage to afford trainers for ds when he's a teenager let alone university. for some reason it's weighing on my mind a bit recently.

i am happy to be a single parent and i don't feel emotionally deprived or anything but i do find the whole all of it is down to me financially side of things a bit daunting.

lnm don't forget to sort out child maintenance - the arse isn't even paying rent or overheads at the minute so he should certainly be contributing to the family overheads.

I'm SO much older than you lot! I'm 42 this year but my life is finally heading in the direction I've wanted for the last 12 years.

I've been in a relationship where I lost everything but ds1. I've been a single parent, struggling to work & watching every penny. We're still watching every penny now, with dh working and ds2 & dd still at home. But I'm studying so we can improve our situation in the next few years. It isn't easy but hitting rock bottom gave me a steely sense of stubbornness resolve and I'll be damned if I ever compromise on that again.

It will get better, whatever situation you're in now. If I can do it, anyone can

Rock on and much respect for you Lazarus

Oh Flo, i've written better than those Chip, Biff and Kipper books, when i've been on the Jack Daniels, and Jack Daniels makes me dizzy.

De lurking.

Have been following this thread from the start LNM and just have so say what a twunt he is to not have the decency to reply to your email. I can only think he is very that you have caught him out yet again.