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New Fab & Glam (Part 3 - The Quest Continues!)

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Paddlechick666 · 05/02/2008 10:18

Here we go ladies!

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Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 14:52

TFM, d;you think she's old enough for a star chart tho?

she does already have a nightlight but i have been thinking about a bunny clock.

she knows she must be quiet in the morning and not yell. it's taken 3 months but she's got that one now.

she also knows that she must wait in bed for me to come and get her but once she's awake from about 5ish onwards she's unlikely to go back off.

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Baffy · 28/02/2008 14:53

lol at 'really think' tfm! I'll definitely use that when he gets older!

love the nightlight idea too!

pc you deserve a medal. serously, if ds wasn't the incredible sleeping baby that he is I really think it would send me over the edge! I don't know how you do it.

Baffy · 28/02/2008 14:57

I meant 'really thick '

not think!

TimeForMe · 28/02/2008 14:58

Yes PC, she is old enough. Even if she doesn't understand initially she will learn. You will have to stick at it though, don't be put off if she doesn't 'get it' straight away. Give her lots of praise the first time she does it, make a really big deal of it and she will love it, she will be eager for more of the same. It works for me anyway, I never get up before 5.30am!

Baffy, that one's good for the bath too. Get him to cover your back in soap til it's nice and thick then get him to draw pictures and you guess what they are

Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 15:20

i'll have to give it a go TFM.

baffy, she's a fabulous sleeper between 8pm and 5am so i guess i can't complain.

she used to sleep 7pm till 6:30am tho and i still needed her to sleep till 6:45.

to be fair it's not 5am every day but it's very very very rare to be 6:30am anymore.

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Tanee58 · 28/02/2008 15:46

Baffy, your family sounds amazing and lovely - and you really must enjoy your mothers day with them and ds - let GW stew in his own guilty juices!

I never had a mothers day when I was married as exh didn't believe in it (his family were generally lousy at any celebrations - DD refuses to go there for Christmas now as it's SO DULL). I agree it's all commercialism, but a little hand-drawn card from DD wouldn't have gone amiss. My first MDay was after dp and I got together, when he bought me flowers and made dinner (DD was at her father's) - when I asked him why he was doing this, when I wasn't his mother, he said, 'No, but you ARE a mother - and you deserve it' - which made me go 'aah' and love him the more. Having said that, he's done nothing since - but DD has finally woken up to the significance and finally, after 14 years, gave me a card last year!

TimeForMe · 28/02/2008 15:52

Awh Tanee I am pleased for you that DD has finally 'woken up' i hope she is bright and alert this MD too.

Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 15:58

oooh i am sooo , career progression meeting at 3pm today. i am suited and booted. it was rescheduled from week before last.

at 15:10 I ring boss adn he says "running late, re-schedule for next week".

he is un-feckin-believable. he wasn't even going to contact me!

i am so

pay details are being communicated tomorrow. watch this space, if i don't get something this year my boots'll be doing some walking!

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TimeForMe · 28/02/2008 16:06

baa baa black sheep, have you any wool......

Tanee58 · 28/02/2008 16:14

PC, you could walk round here right now and have some chocolate cake !

Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 16:22

I decided my boots would walk me home.
Via the wine shop!

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Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 16:24

And I'm sitting opposite quite a cute guy lol

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Baffy · 28/02/2008 16:24

pc

go straight to the pub and get a double vodka! then leave the rest of your work and go and play with dd.

I'm similarly

OW and her pathetic messages continuing!

Have just flamed H!

Off to pub myself!!!!!!!

baa baa black sheep...

PMT's great isn't it!

Baffy · 28/02/2008 16:24

x posts

glad we're thinking along similar lines

Tanee58 · 28/02/2008 17:14

Baa Baa... annoying phonecalls at work...

Have fun in the pub girls.

I'm going home to clear up a bit before some of my girlfriends come round - takeaway curry tonight - if we can find space on the table to eat them.

Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 18:17

Arg! I don't bloody believe it, I left my bloody laptop on my desk!
I bloody thought my bag was light.
Now have to drop dd off at pre-school then dash to office and collect then dash home and pick her up.
Buggery buggery buggery!
I hate forgetting things, it's not like me. I just have so much on my mind at present.

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Dior · 28/02/2008 19:02

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Dior · 28/02/2008 19:03

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ginnedup · 28/02/2008 19:45

Hello!
I loved your posts about men being the sugar in the tea - although calling them SC sounds far too nice.
Baffy - Your H is something else isn't he. Why on earth would you want to get up and go to his and play Happy Families on MD? Tell him to get stuffed.
PC - You must be exhausted, I don't know how you do it.
HW - I really do believe in Karma, what goes around comes around and all that. You should leave OW to play her silly games, she'll trip herself up eventually.
I am feeling great atm, I feel like I've got my life back again. I saw xp when I was walking home from work staggering up the road ahead of me, he stopped to light a cigarette so I caught up with him and said "pissed again then?" and walked off. I felt very glad that he's not my problem any more. Its definitely the right thing to do its just a shame it took me so long.
Ds2 is upset because xp was meant to be taking him shopping for a MD present and obviously now he won't be able to get one. I told him the best present I could have would be for him and his brother to be happy and not fight with each other all day. Worth a shot I suppose!!

Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 20:31

dior, yeap you're prob right. i do need a rest but in a weird way I am also thriving on this environment at the mo.

i feel somewhat alive for first time in a long time.

came home and re-hung curtains and spent nice time with dd who went to sleep before 7:30pm thankfully.

finger's x'd she'll go thru till 6:30am at the least.

sorry to hear H is feeling a bit crook. hope he's well enough to enjoy the skiing.

at least having no laptop means i cannot work tonight. weirdly i'm not overly stressed about dashing in to get it tomorrow either!

have friends visiting tomorrow arvo and they have said they'll bring lunch. feel a bit guilty about that but hey ho!

gin, it's an odd sense of relief isn't it? i feel the same, if H starts banging on about how tough he's doing it I can empathise but don't feel any need whatsoever to cushion things for him. hope you get your MD wish!

glug o'clock arrived a little while ago. i've tesco shop'd for sunday and am about to eat and crash out i think.

must get card for DM and figure out what else to get.......

as usual DB will be crap. he'll show up with the beef and then behave like he's brought home the bacon so nothing further to do other than get pissed and issue orders and say "oh, are you doing it thay way. oh no! it's fine if you want to do it that way. of course, if you did it my way it'd be so much nicer. but anyway, no really, you carry on, i won't get in your way. any more wine?"

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Dior · 28/02/2008 21:10

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Paddlechick666 · 28/02/2008 21:35

hi dior, you may have a point altho i've never been diagnosed with depression but perhaps because i haven't sought that diagnosis maybe?

i do feel like i'm cooking with gas right now and that is a factor in why i am so annoyed that my boss re-scheduled the meeting.

work is really challenging at the moment but i am rising to the challenge and that is feeding how i feel right now.

i am aware that it could all crash around my ears but i feel pretty capable of withstanding that.

do i sound a bit manic?

reading that back i think i probably do but i don't feel manic! does that make sense?

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Dior · 28/02/2008 21:36

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ginnedup · 28/02/2008 21:49

I know what you mean Dior. I am running on adrenaline at the moment but I know if I stop or slow down I'll start thinking too much and I'm really not up to that yet.
PC it is a relief. I shouldn't have let him come back. As soon as I did I realised it was a mistake, even though he was making tons of effort I just knew it wasn't 'real' if you see what I mean, and I was right. I feel bad for the dc as they don't know if they are coming or going atm, and especially ds1 as he is disappointed.
I've been thinking of booking a holiday somewhere hot in the May half term, just me and the boys, but not sure if its too much to take them abroad by myself? I'll have to think about that one.

ginnedup · 28/02/2008 21:52

PC - is your brother my xp? We had the exact same conversation every time I cooked. Another thing I'm not going to miss

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