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I've heard that barbie is anatomically impossible. Her back would be nowhere near stong enough to support those massive plastic boobies, given her tiny wee waist. Her neck is ridiculously long apparently too.
It's a bit annoying to have to teach my girls that almost every beautiful person's image they see is not reality, it isn't just Barbie - it's everything.
Cehers
Chickadee
10-09-2006, 20:14
Bratz is NOT entering my home if I can help it.
It's funny. I didn't think I'd have a problem with Barbie. After all, I grew up playing with it and have many happy memories with her. And I don't mind DD playing with her, I think. But I felt threatened by this unreal plastic doll. How stupid is that?
Mel, what is funny is that this morning I had a shower while DD had her bath with 'Susie' (I named her :laughing: ). As we're getting undressed DD points to Susie's enormous plastic chest and asked what they were. Now, she's been seeing me naked for all of her 3 years and knows what these things on my chest are, but obviously there was no comparison between mine and the darn Barbie's boobs!
sopolicha
10-09-2006, 20:20
Now, she's been seeing me naked for all of her 3 years and knows what these things on my chest are, but obviously there was no comparison between mine and the darn Barbie's boobs!
Mmmm pert boobies, I would be seriously flattered.
Funkychicken
10-09-2006, 20:50
Ah, lovely to hear from the OCSC's! Condolence's to you Martha for having to experience a Barbie episode. Thank goodness my DD is A) not that interested in them and B) never even wanted to look at them in the shops.:smiliedance:
Friends of ours have an 8yo son who, so far, they have managed to keep free of battery operated crappy plastic toys but last christmas a relaative gave him a three foot walking, talking silver plastic robot. Arrrghhhhh........Anyway, son asked, "How is it built so that it works?".
Parent answered, "I don't know. Why don't you take your tool set and pull it apart to see." End of toy-finished, never to work again. Clever, clever parents! :D
Our DS#1, who has just celebrated his eighth birthday, has been very interested in time lately and we have worked hard at studying clock faces and discussing the various ways to 'tell the time'. We talked of him having his own face clock with alarm in the very near future. Guess what our employer gave him for his birthday? A digital, alarm clock radio!!!! I could have screamed-but screaming at the boss is never a good idea.:banghead:
My hands are tied. I can't not let him have it, but we have laid out the ground rules-as in no listening to night time radio and the clock has to be well away from his head end of the bed.
Deep breaths, deep breaths........................
sopolicha
10-09-2006, 20:54
Nothing to add but, Funky Chicken you have beautiful babies.
Commiserations Martha.
Luckily my two aren't interested in Barbie yet - I am holding out as long as I can.
DD1 spent hours examining the latest EArly Learning Centre catalogue yesterday and started asking for things for her birthday (6 months away) and for Christmas ("because I have been a good girl mummy") but luckily her big requests were paint trays with brushes and other craft supplies - phew!!!!
Chickadee
10-09-2006, 21:28
Too cute Draught! I hide all toy catalogues in this house. Not necessarily from DD, but from DH.
I think DD is starting to figure out that I might not be telling her the whole truth when I tell her that a toy is for big kids or that the rides at the mall are broken. It doesn't help when she sees other kids on the same ride 2 minutes later. Ooops. Mummy needs better excuses!
Here's one you may want to use (or not).
i just tell DDs that we don't put money in those things, Mummy would rather spend money on something else - like MacDonalds :D. Seems to work here
Cheers
Funkychicken
10-09-2006, 21:39
Here's one you may want to use (or not).
i just tell DDs that we don't put money in those things, Mummy would rather spend money on something else - like MacDonalds :D. Seems to work here
Cheers
LOL!:laughing:
Funkychicken
10-09-2006, 21:40
Too cute Draught! I hide all toy catalogues in this house. Not necessarily from DD, but from DH.
I think DD is starting to figure out that I might not be telling her the whole truth when I tell her that a toy is for big kids or that the rides at the mall are broken. It doesn't help when she sees other kids on the same ride 2 minutes later. Ooops. Mummy needs better excuses!
I have used these ones too! And the one about the TV show is only for big kid's-I hope he still doesn't want to watch it when he IS a big kid!
reAllytee
10-09-2006, 23:14
Luckily when i got my old Barbie out a few weeks ago she was a little worse for wear so she made it into the bin & Boof got handed my old " My Child " much nicer !
He wanted a "baby" so i didnt get out of it because boy now heres hoping he doesnt want a Bratz doll .....
Bratz is NOT entering my home if I can help it.
:yes: Tilly occasionally gets handed down some clothes from a friend of mine, and most of it is lovely, but there is always a few clothes with bratz on them, straight in the charity bin! Tackyrama.....:barf:
Too cute Draught! I hide all toy catalogues in this house. Not necessarily from DD, but from DH.
Having met your DH - I understand!!:laughing:
For a long time my girls thought that the rides outside the shops were just for sitting on - and that kept them very happy.....until a visiting grandparent put money in - aaarrrrggghhhh!!! Now they ask at every ride we pass. Luckily they have also started to learn that they don't get a ride every time - just for "special treats" etc. God bless grandparents:rolleyes:
The problem with the "big kids" line is that DD1 says - "but I am a big girl mummy"....and trying to explain relative size etc gets very confusing!!
red crayon
16-09-2006, 15:37
yeah, it's bummer when they start getting too smart for their own good :D .
my little dude has a cold and a cough at the moment. i'm doing my best to sympathetic and understanding but the whinging that has accompanied this particular bout of illness is doing my head in. that's the one thing that pushes me to the edge...the whinging....:banghead:
red crayon
27-09-2006, 17:02
how are all the OCSCs? anyone coming out to play?
Hi Jaq
Very cantankerous tonight after a day at work with people who don't communicate so cause me to spend a day sorting out messes that didn't need to exist in the first place. Bah humbug.
Will take my tired OCSC body off soon to bed where there is only person to not communicate with instead of a whole world!
red crayon
27-09-2006, 22:53
sorry to hear about your day, theresa. do you reckon you fall more in love with your bed when you become a parent? or is it the ageing process? either way, you no longer see it as a place of lusty adventure but as a place of refuge.
have a great sleep.
Definitely Jac - I looooooove my bed in a way I never did as a 20-something! Big pillows, a lovely doona, great sheets.....heaven!
Chickadee
28-09-2006, 07:28
Oh Theresa, I want your bed! It sounds like heaven. Mine usually smells of dog, has cracker crumbs in it from DD's 3am snacks, and has a toddler sprawled across the middle & pushing me to the edge by morning. :thumbsdown:
melfunction
28-09-2006, 09:05
I wanna go back to bed and wake up 2morra :p
red crayon
28-09-2006, 09:33
me too, mel. the little dude was awake at a quarter to 6 this morning. i need more sleeeep!
melfunction
28-09-2006, 10:26
thats a bloody sleep in jac..I was up at 4am :eek:
red crayon
28-09-2006, 14:56
oh lordy...no, thank goodness, a 4am wake up is a rarity these days. i hope you get a nap or a decent sleep tonight, mel.
reAllytee
28-09-2006, 20:00
I would like to say officially i am now entered the "snapdragon" phase of life ....
Part of me has snapped & the rest is a draggin' :p
Oh yeah :cool:
Sad thing is ive still got 1.5yrs to go till 30yrs yet im as cantankerous as any of my mums 60yr old friends going through menopause :laughing:
red crayon
28-09-2006, 22:28
i think it's called parenthood, allyoo.
My children have decided that when the birds start singing is a good time to wake up......and there is a bird that starts singing at 4.18am every morning - the sun doesn't even come up until 5 but the bl00dy bird starts early - aaarrrgghhhhh!!!!
Therefore I am exhausted! Someone at work asked me yesterday why I was so tired (I hadn't said anything just looked shocking apparently!) I think this young woman was a little taken aback when I pointed out (perhaps too firmly) that I was 31 weeks pregnant, had two under 4, was working long hours on a very high pressured project and was out of bed by 5 each morning - I don't think that was the answer she was expecting somehow! But gone are the days when the answer to that question is a wild night out the night before!!!!:laughing: (Poor thing showed her ignorance of small children by asking if I was up early to get ready for work each day - she was very shocked that children would wake that early and start their day!! Suspect she is now in no hurry to start a family!)
Funkychicken
29-09-2006, 09:21
My children have decided that when the birds start singing is a good time to wake up......and there is a bird that starts singing at 4.18am every morning - the sun doesn't even come up until 5 but the bl00dy bird starts early - aaarrrgghhhhh!!!!
Therefore I am exhausted! Someone at work asked me yesterday why I was so tired (I hadn't said anything just looked shocking apparently!) I think this young woman was a little taken aback when I pointed out (perhaps too firmly) that I was 31 weeks pregnant, had two under 4, was working long hours on a very high pressured project and was out of bed by 5 each morning - I don't think that was the answer she was expecting somehow! But gone are the days when the answer to that question is a wild night out the night before!!!!:laughing: (Poor thing showed her ignorance of small children by asking if I was up early to get ready for work each day - she was very shocked that children would wake that early and start their day!! Suspect she is now in no hurry to start a family!)
These damn youngin's! Don't young people have any respect for their COSC's these days!
melfunction
29-09-2006, 09:40
Tired, cranky Mel ahead.
Why is it that the younger generation cannot think for themselves? Why is it that they have to have some COSC (in other words, me), direct them and tell them what to do? WTF do they follow me around?
I was working the other day and met a reasonably nice young'n, but FFS, will you stop following me around! Don't you know that COSC's hate being tailed? Don't you know that being in someone's personal space (which for me, is about 3m), is extremely irritating?
Can you just use your own brain and stop asking me to think for you? I have enough trouble keeping up with my own thoughts, without having to do it for other people!
On a lighter note, BIL (the only one I like) is coming to visit tomorrow, which means Dh and I have a trustworthy babysitter! Woo hoo!! :smiliedance: We are getting out together for the first time since waaaaaay before our treasure was born! Can't imagine we will go too far though. We will probably just talk about K the whole time, realise how much we miss him and be home in less than an hour :o
reAllytee
29-09-2006, 09:46
My lovely cousins young little thing of a wife ( all of 21yrs ) had the hide to say one day after somebody asking about my looking tired etc. " Yes " i said " Being up at 5am this morning hasnt helped much ". This lovely young thing without a hair out of place said " Oh well i beat you because i had to be up at 4am because the puppy woke up !! .... But i then went back to bed but i couldnt believe i had to be up at that hour " .... I managed to bite my tongue but i seriously wanted to go for her jugular !!!
Reidymac
29-09-2006, 14:48
..............I was working the other day and met a reasonably nice young'n, but FFS, will you stop following me around! Don't you know that COSC's hate being tailed? Don't you know that being in someone's personal space (which for me, is about 3m), is extremely irritating?
Can you just use your own brain and stop asking me to think for you? I have enough trouble keeping up with my own thoughts, without having to do it for other people!...................
Ahhhh, I do sympathize melfunction. YWS trespassing on personal space is a crime and my own personal hate. I think that nice young W.H Auden fellow said it best when he wrote
Some 30 inches from my nose
the frontier of my person goes
and all the untilled air between
is private, pagus and demesne
So stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize
but beware of rudely crossing it
for I have no gun but I can spit!!!
There are no truer words to live by for the COSC. This COSC is regularly found muttering them while elbowing irksome YWS and beating irritating hoodlums with my handbag for rudely crossing that line;) .
Oh Reidymac you have made my day - not only poetry, but WH Auden, and very appropros!! Ah the delights of being an OCSC - there is poetry to describe our lives for us!! Three cheers!!
red crayon
02-10-2006, 15:55
Reidymac - very nice!
Draught - can associate with your cantankerays re YWS. In Vietnamese, when you address someone, you use various nouns according to whether they're older or younger than you, a friend or a family member eg with people younger than you, you use 'em' as in 'chao em' - hello/good-bye younger person. you use 'ba' for older females - generally grandparent type age and women requiring respect. the other night, i had a young taxi driver - not that much younger than me - saying 'chao ba' (good-bye, older woman) and instead being pleased (as i should have been) for his respectful tone, i was outraged that he considered me so old! these poor YWS can't win!
MammaMia
05-10-2006, 16:00
At present, I have BIG dramas in my extended family which has distracted my cantanqueray quite substantially but today, my cantanqueray has seized on some obscure point and I will confess that I have had a relapse....
would someone please tell me what is the deal with body piercings? And I don't mean earrings.... but chins, eyebrows, places on the ear other than the lobe, lips, nipples, tongues ......
How do they make the body more beautiful?
What do they mean? That there was a piece of unadorned skin that must be decorated? That they are cheaper than tattoos? Wouldn't it be simpler to just get your bedazzler out and use a little non-toxic glue to spice up your spare bits & bobs of skin without the permanent piercings and hygiene issues?
And how uncomfortable must they be? And how much would they hurt when wandering hands belonging to curious toddlers reach out for a little exploration?
And who is kidding anyone when they are covered with bandaids .... like most kids at the checkout of the supermarket. I still know they are there - I may be an OCSC but my vision is still good.
I sit here, waiting patiently for the wisdom of the OCSC to help my befuddled mind.
Personally I hate the band-aid coverup - why don't they just take them out??
MM - I have no answers but do find the sight of the piercings mixed in with the acne just a little too off putting these days - must be my delicate constitution!
Hello OCSC's ...
I havnt joined you here yet as i am always to busy or you are so deep into a convo. that i feel its too late...
plus i am nowhere near as witty as the majority of you are :o
Anyway i have to say MM that i absolutely do not get the peircing thing... MY SIL did the lower lip thing but she had it out after a few weeks as food kept getting stuck in it !!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwww !!!!
:barf:
Tracey - you are more than witty enough. You may, however, be too young to be cantankerous (and yes that is envy sneaking through my typing!)
But food caught in it - ewwwwww indeed!!!!
MrsMiggins
05-10-2006, 22:45
I seriously need to catch up on all the OCSC gossip, but I just needed to lament a little at my own stupidity & thought here would be the best place to do it!!
I just created a thread, and bearing in mind that I am seriously sleep-deprived, stressed, tired and of course, PG, I drew a blank when spelling a word in the title of the thread.
Now, as I was typing my post, I had cause to type the offending word again, and this time got it right straight up. D'uh! Of course!! I said to myself!! (Obviously having every intention to go back & correct it in the title!!)
And of course, PG brain being the devil's own curse that it is, I PLUM FORGOT!!! So now my terrible spelling is on display to the whole of bubhubbia - in the Current Affairs section, no less!! :eek:
red crayon
05-10-2006, 22:55
Mammamia, Theresa and Tracey - i can deal with pierced ears and eyebrows and subtly pierced noses but i find lip piercings a real distraction. i find myself staring at them rather than listening to what the person is saying. and yes the band-aid is not a subtle look. a girlfriend of mine had a pierced tongue for years but decided to take it out on her dentist's advice because it was damaging her teeth. and oh how i missed her playing with it with her mouth (IYKWIM) while we were talking.....NOT.
MrsMiggins - i reckon bubhub needs a spell checker so that we don't have to strain our preggar/baby/toddler/ttc befuddled brains by trying to remember how to spell.
reAllytee
05-10-2006, 23:10
Oh wells i had better take my pierced self elsewhere then :p :crying:
I have a labret ( under bottom lip piercing ) i cant say it makes me feel more beautiful or the likes but i dunno it was something i wanted & i did it just like my tatt.
My family thought i would "grow up" & take it out yet they still wait & hope !
Its part of me hard to explain really !
Funkychicken
05-10-2006, 23:28
So many posts and so much cantankery!! I haven't been able to do the 'new posts' button for a while so I have missed some of my fav threads, such as this.
Ally! this thread is for venting your cantankerism's (and you CAN make up words here too!) so feel free to go ahead and vent yours-you are more than welcome. And for the record, my dad (whom I adore and idolise) has a really strong dislike for pirecings (any) and tattoos. He got three children, all of whom are now pierced and tattooed in one way or another! He has never once 'pointed' any of them out-he is the epitomy of tact, but his view didn't impact on my or my brother's decisions about our decorations. Ok, so mine aren't all that decorative these days, in fact they are hidden under layers of 'cover-up' clothes these days! Maybe I'm eligible for being one of the 'older' women in Vietnam? :rolleyes:
Oh, amd Tracey, you do do witty, I know you do!!!!!!! :D
And for my last contribution, I too have made many, many of those i's instead of those I's. I think it's my old, weakened left fingers-they aren't strong enough to hit the caps lock button hard enough and for long enough. :o
reAllytee
05-10-2006, 23:37
Oh my dad wouldve kicked me out had i still been at home !
He certainly wouldnt be speaking with me lol grumpy old scottish man :p
Possibly why i did it .... Hrmmmmmz :detective:
Oh & i forgot i think BH should have spell checks & mind reading thingys !!!!
Seriously half the time im lucky if i even get out what i mean let alone get it out without offending someone !!!!
*sigh*
Anyways i shouldnt be here my mum the queen of COSC's will get cranky im still awake .... Im meant to be in bed early at her place taking it easy & having a break .... Hahaha does anyone else find that amusing when someone says to take it easy yet they arent the ones then having to get up to a toddler etc ... Sorta like how i somehow thought going on a small road trip with a toddler would be a great escape & a fun time for all, its official im stupid .... Yep im tired & rambling dont mind me ...
Tracey - You may, however, be too young to be cantankerous (and yes that is envy sneaking through my typing!)
Oh, now theres a laughable comment if i ever heard one ! :laughing:
Very sweet of you to think that though :D
Hello to all - just wanted to announce I'mm bacckk...!!!
Sorry - to most of you it means nothing, but to me, with about 6weeks of only dial up internet access, it means a lot.
I promise to get wittier as I get back into the swing of things. It's amazing how you can be without BH on tap for a couple of months and you forget how to be witty!!! Actually it's probably because DH, DSS, DS and DD are all in bed, and DD won't wake again till about 6am so I'm having a couple of drinks. Don't worry, I do count my drinks and don't drink to excess, but after having a son who would never go without a drink of mummy milk for less than 3 hours till he was about 1 it is bliss to have a child that will go without a drink of mummy milk for about 12hours.
As for piercings, I have a naval piercing, (probably more commonly known as an udderly useless piercing, but I love it), I changed it for something looking like a cotton bud while pregnant and it will be a reward for me to change it back when prepregnancy body is back. (Currently at about 4kg above pp weight and looking at Xmas for presents for me). I'm curious about the labret thing tho' - I was watching Kasey Chambers (on Rove the other night) and I have to admit, she (when talking) had the same lispy type of talk as others with a labret have that I've met. When she sings, I love it, but it's almost like a lisp to listen to her talk. In all honesty, can you talk without any kind of a lisp with a labret?
reAllytee
07-10-2006, 02:50
No lisp here !
Only times ive had trouble with it was when it was first done because they have to put this huge thing in so you have room incase you swell up & i didnt so it just clanked against my teeth & drove me batty ! Then when i had my wisdom teeth taken out & i had to remove it so tried to get it back in when swollen & swore my head off with the agony it took to get it back in !!!!
I know most people look at it when i talk lol its obvious but i dunno i just lioke it !
Oooh - you loike it do you?!?!
Funny - I never had an inkling that I wanted a piercing anywhere other than my belly (except the 4 piercings in my ears) and wondered about the lips, eyebrows etc...
I have to admit that my eyes are drawn to piercings when I talk to people I don't really know that have visual ones, but it's not about being turned off people - for me it's curiousity - why do it. People probably ask the same question about my naval - not many people see it - (ok - hopefully - more people will see it after I lose a couple more kilos - I'll see how I go on the beach this summer!)
red crayon
07-10-2006, 09:59
hi peg - welcome back. i always wanted my belly button pierced but i was too chicken. my gf who had her labret removed had a lisp to begin with but i think you get used to it and re-learn to speak. she even bought a vibrating one!
when my eyes are drawn to the piercings around a person's mouth, i always wonder if i'm making them uncomfortable.
Chickadee
07-10-2006, 10:37
Ally, a silly and probably too personal question... feel free to tell me off :thumbsup: :laughing: How can you kiss anyone, err, passionately, with a piercing in your lip? The thought of it does not appeal at all.
Ally, having seen your piercing can I just say that you definetly suit it, you are one of those girls that can pull it off.
I think you need to have a certain 'look' and you have it (and I mean that in a good way btw!)
reAllytee
07-10-2006, 15:50
Ally, a silly and probably too personal question... feel free to tell me off :thumbsup: :laughing: How can you kiss anyone, err, passionately, with a piercing in your lip? The thought of it does not appeal at all.
HAHAHHAHA ! My nan asked me this question when i first got it twas rather disturbing coming from a 90yr old !!!!
Not personal at all im pretty open if you guys havent already noticed !!!
Its actually not a problem or should i say ive never found it a problem ... Actually there was a problem once because the guy i was seeing was rather full on when kissing, you know the one who tries to swallow your head when he kisses you !!! Hahahahah ! But otherwise nope no problem because the part against your teeth on the inside is flat against the skin so doesnt poke out or anything. Oh & no it doesnt exactly rub against my teeth unless im eating certain foods or making it do so by playing with it, it just sits against my gum !
Thanks Erin :hugs:
Have to admit i whinged about every little teeny bopper getting one for a while there because all the celebs had them etc but they are starting to die off again because its not the "in thing" i would sit on the train & mutter under my breath lol !
Can I add to the general cantanqueray? I know that it will seem incredible minor and superficial, but I have just spent two weeks trying to get gel overlays on my fingernails.
I went to one place who totally screwed it up, not once but TWICE :mad: . So just today I went back to the first place that I ever had them done and they did a lovely job. I didn't know that getting a good manicure could be so hard (when it all seems so simple). Now that they are fixed, I can finally shed my cantankerousness (with a lovely glass of white wine *cheers*)
MammaMia
07-10-2006, 21:24
trying to get gel overlays on my fingernails.
Must confess never heard of gel overlays.
Have heard of Jell-O...probably not related, I suspect.
Not quite MMia, just think of it as nail polish that doesn't chip or wear, but doesn't do nasty stuff to your nails like acrylic does.
(my nails have grown curly since having DDs and I hate it - I'm hoping that a bit of work helps to straighten my claws :D)
misskittyfantastico
07-10-2006, 21:33
I missed you MM.....and Look! I'm all pink now!
You probably have no idea who I am..but kisses none the less!
MammaMia
07-10-2006, 21:49
I missed you MM.....and Look! I'm all pink now!
You probably have no idea who I am..but kisses none the less!
I'd know you anywhere, Mother of Millie.
As for the Pink, I once prophesied that pinkness would descend upon you. I hope that it is giving your the glow of radiance and the spirit of moderation that centres your being.
I've been lurking every few days, but real life has been the focus for me for some time and my cyber life suffered. I am in the process of re-evaluating real life and have ventured back to unleashing a little verbal creativity in cyberworld.
X - thank you for taking pity on this befuddled and betwixted OCSC. Curly nails. Not sure how to cure them. Curly hair & crusts I have heard of, but not curly nails. Saggy boobs - now that's something I know about!
misskittyfantastico
07-10-2006, 21:52
I luff ewe :hugs:
MammaMia
07-10-2006, 21:55
I didn't know you ran sheep on the property, MKF?
misskittyfantastico
07-10-2006, 21:58
We do indeed MM about 3000 of them.
Well I am not particularly cantankerous tonight but do have to make an observation about how life changes with age. DH and I went out to dinner tonight - a very rare occurrence but we had our favourite sitter and the night to do with as we wished. We had a lovely meal in a trendy spot, surrounded by youthful groups with hair gelled and spiked, flesh showing everywhere and tattoos in strategic spots - and that was just the boys! Anyway - apart from the odd flash of a black bra under a pale apricot top (Why I aks you, why??) I was coping fairly well with the YWS crowd until I went to the toilet as we were leaving, and encountered the pack of girls doing makeup, talking about boys and generally holding up proceedings. Now a few years ago (well - 8 or 9) that would have been me....but now as a nearly 38 year old heavily pregnant woman all I could think was - get out of my way and stop being so silly! Hmmmm....it appears that the OCSC part of me is here to stay!
Apart from all that we had a lovely time!
Oh poor T.... I would have shouted at them. But I always have my cranky mummy pants on around YWS. Should have seen me at the shopping centre the other week when I was trying to fight my way through about 30 of 'em doing air kisses to get to the travelator. I shouted in my very best mummy voice "MOVE!!" They moved pretty quick smart let me tell you. Poor Eloise almost got whiplash in the pram from me moving so fast.
misskittyfantastico
07-10-2006, 22:55
I was called a "mean lady" after telling some 10 year old hoodlums to WALK on the footpath.:o
I mean they are FOOT paths
LOL MissK - as soon as I got the pram I turned into a "mean lady"!! I've told off that many kids it's not funny!! (Well it is... but you know what I mean...)
misskittyfantastico
07-10-2006, 23:15
ahhh buggerem I say
I'm the grown up!
reAllytee
08-10-2006, 01:35
I told a bunch of 10yr olds off last week the little buggers stopped in the middle of the footpath with their bikes & proceeded to natter about who knows what. They saw me coming but looked the other way ... Welllll let me tell you they certainly copped an ear full !!!!!
I actually made one of the boys blush !
I have to agree with once you have the pram you have the licence to become mean & horrible !
red crayon
09-10-2006, 12:43
:laughing: ... i always say when they start paying taxes then they can argue with me - until then i'm the adult.
i remember eons ago when i was working in hospitality and i was the grand old age of 25, i'd get these male YWS who would have been the 18 y.o clerks at their work calling me 'love'. i just hated it. i didn't mind the old crusties calling me 'love' but the guys younger than me???? no way.
We have a YWS at work - he is the IT guy, he is 20. He is about as YWS as you can get, so much so that I alternate between laughing and cringing when he comes in to have a chat about my computer. He also appears to shop at "Wacky boy boutique" he is one of those YWS who make a point of being "wacky".
Anyway, my favourite moment last week was when he came into my office to do something complicated to a computer, he was telling me and my similarly aged colleagues about some terribly interesting sounding drink that he had consumed at a night club recently. We must have all looked stunned because he said "You guys don't know anything. I'm going to have to take you out one night to educate you".
It still makes me chuckle, a week later. Yes 20 year old YWS, do take out three 30 something women to "educate" us, you could teach us so much.
red crayon
09-10-2006, 15:44
ah, bron, i remember being that age and thinking i knew everything. it's amazing at the age of 20 he thinks that you and your colleague have lived nearly 4 decades but don't 'know' anything. the lovely arrogance of youth.
lovingmumof 2now
09-10-2006, 21:32
I don't know what age you call young mums, but I have two very good friends who are 22 years old who are mums and I don't think they think I am too old!!! I don't think they are immature either.
I guess it depends on the person.
Hi lovingmumof2now
Welcome to the OCSC thread. If you read on you will see that we aren't talking about young mums vs old mums, but the things that make us oldies feel our natural cantankery - like a 20 year old young whipper snapper party boy telling us that we need to be educated in the way of partying! This isn't about being an old mum - it is about being a cranky pants - something that can afflict us no matter what our age!
This isn't about being an old mum - it is about being a cranky pants - something that can afflict us no matter what our age!
So true draught, so true *pulls at waist line of increasingly tight cranky pants*
reAllytee
09-10-2006, 22:05
Yep cranky pants is what its all about even at my "younger" age.
I dont take offence i find half of it amusing because i agree !
Or i just tease them because ive got a piercing ....
*runs before the oldies get their walking sticks at the ready*
:laughing:
I was feeling a little cantankerous, but after reading the last 8 or so pages I am now laughing funny stuff!
Hey Ally - I keep meaning to come back in and say that I hope you don't take the piercing comment personally (as if you would) because my complaint is with the spotty teenage variety of piercing where they are doing it beause everyone else is, in the same way that during the 90's everyone had to wear dirty flannel tops because Kurt Cobain did, or in the 80's we wore "Choose Life" over-sized t-shirts because George Michael did (and if that doesn't contrast the two decades I don't know what does!!!)
hello hello hello again,
we are back- how FUN! hurray :)
anyway....
i am looking forward reading from all you/us cantankerous "ladies" :laughing:
MammaMia
10-10-2006, 10:10
Now, apart from Playschool, I never have day time television on.
But (no ranting about beginning a sentence with a preposition) this morning, my brother & his wife (childless and at the stage of loving every minute of it, deservedly so) have whisked away my DS for a trip to Bunnings and an opportunity to be spoilt. DD is asleep, and instead of turning the television off after Playschool, I flicked it to another channel....
eerily, from the television came the haunting theme to "Sons & Daughters". My goodness - do they think we have plunged so low that we would embrace a regurgitation of this complete rubbish? Is the standard of fare on daytime television regularly of this ilk?
Did see a rather nice old quilted dressing gown that made me think it would be perfect for an OCSC though.
melfunction
10-10-2006, 10:33
Oh dear MammaMia...sounds like a true OCSC event. Fancy turning over to another channel. Don't you read the tv guide? Daytime tv is for EOCSC's through and through (elderly OCSC's in case you were wondering;) )
I myself, have never seen an episode of the program in question. Thank god for growing up in another country.
reAllytee
10-10-2006, 12:02
Oh my draught as if i would take that comments about piercing to heart !!!
Thats why it got me thinking about it all & why i did it to be honest but as i said i do get annoyed now when i see all the teeny boppers with them it makes me cranky silly really but they only got them because it was "cool" they really really annoys me tis like getting a tattoo for that reason then reaching the age of 40yrs & looking at a cartoon character thinking " gees was this a wise move ?!?!?!?! ".
Now as for Sons & Daughters .... DP & i sat glued to the t.v when it came on the other day purely because we couldnt believe they were actually airing it but also in wonder at why they would think people would want to actually watch it !!!!!
I have to report that I am truly cantankerous tonight - and have been all day in fact. Today was my birthday and, as one of my sisters pointed out while sympathising with me, I can no longer say that I am "mid-30's" - I am definitely very close to 40......and I don't like it. (Probably more because I am pregnant, tired and incredibly hormonal than anything actual angst about the age I suspect). At the same time my DH (who is younger than me) has decided that birthdays "aren't such a big deal anymore and that we should concentrate on the children".........all I can say is, wait until his in 3 weeks time and see if he feels the same way then!! Let's see if he likes it if I buy him a chocolate bar and then eat 2/3 of it!! Harrumph! If only I could sit down and down a few glasses of white, red or gin.
Right - old cranky woman who definitely resembles a sea cow has finished whinging. All I can say is - no YWS better cross me in the next day or so - anyone over the age of about 6 is fair game to be on the receiving end of an earful I suspect!!
Well a sea cow is having a birthday! Should we celebrate with much splashing and moo-ing?
Happy birthday draughty. I'm sorry it increased your cantankery. I'm outraged that you didn't get all your chocolate.
I think you are a really spectacular woman, and I'm throwing my own party for you tonight.
Cheers - *toasts draught with her orange juice*
I think you are a really spectacular woman, and I'm throwing my own party for you tonight.
Cheers - *toasts draught with her orange juice*
I second that Theresa ! Happy Birthday
But i WILL be having those few glasses of wine... plus an extra few just for you :hugs:
reAllytee
10-10-2006, 20:18
My sister is 40 in a little over a month & understandably is rather cantankerous about hitting this mark so much so that she is refusing a party ! Im thinking chocolate may be the way to go for her too its just a must for all ocsc's !!!!!!!!
I must say your hubby definately needs a good talking to after that poor birthday treat but then i think revenge is always sweet !
But then maybe im being narky because i have a crumbled half tooth sitting up the back of my mouth giving me major grief !!!!
Happy Birthday Draught !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks girls - you have all just cheered me up immensely!
Poor old DH - he is flat out at work, has been putting in really long hours, has been really helping me at home and is more than a little frazzled. This morning he had the girls give me a couple of presents and promised that he had bought me something himself but it was in the office :rolleyes: . When he got home tonight he was carrying a lovely bunch of lilies and the aforementioned chocolate bar. When I queried how the flowers could look so fresh after being kept in his office overnight he said it was the chocolate that he had been keeping in his office.......given that it was the sort of 75g bar you get from a dispensing machine I am guessing that this was his way around being caught out in a lie!!:laughing:
reAllytee
10-10-2006, 20:49
Oh well guess we need to cut him a little slack then ;)
Happy Birthday Theresa - I will have a sip of wine in your honour.
Has anyone been watching Two men in a tinny. John Doyle makes a wonderful cantankerous old sea bull - he is a natural!
Funkychicken
10-10-2006, 22:46
happybirthday happybirthday happybirthday
Happy birthday Theresa!
Wishing you a very non-cantankery evening!!
Have fun!
:yelclap:
Hey T - is it allowable to put an emoticon in for you? I know they're off limits on this thread normally, but surely in a situation such as this I can add a little happybirthday - there - I did it!!! (However, You being an all powerful mod can, of course, delete it! - for anyone reading this after draught - if there is no emoticon in this post it was a happy birthday one).
Have been feeling very cantankerousy of late - mostly to do with the cynicism that comes with age.
I've become sceptical of people's motives behind some of the "good deeds" they do (won't elaborate here - family involved) and also have been correctly predicting the demise of relationships of much younger WS's. Hmmm... am I getting wise or am I psychic that what I forsee comes true? I know - not a particularly good thing to be right about.
Hence, my position of being a bit OCSC about my all seeing cynicism. Best go now before I spread more doom and gloom.
reAllytee
10-10-2006, 23:41
Ive learnt to be very wary of good deeds !!!!
Learnt this at a very young age due to family myself & i have to say it has repeated over & over !
Are we on the dangerous ground here of getting too serious Ally?
Oops - can't have that now can we...
Guess it's just our superior maturity that allows us to see all now. LOL
reAllytee
11-10-2006, 00:03
Me, Mature ..... Thats deserves this :laughing:
Im sure everyone on this thread can say im not mature at all !!!
I try to be but fail *sigh*
Silly thing is i love doing good deeds myself & try & help out as much as possible with anyone i know but i just cant be accepting of good deeds from certain members of my family because i know they come with a price ... Sad isnt it.
Ok now onto more pressing issues .... My freakin tooth hurts like hell why is it when you reach the prime of your life your body decays & things get to a stage where they peeve you for no good reason !!!!!
I'm so with you - why is it that when we start to feel comfortable in our skin, our skin seems to be the wrong shape for us?
I had a funny conversation with hubby the other day where I said my choice when I left school after Occupational Therapy was Chemical Engineering and because he now works for a big mining company, I said fate would have had us meet up. He then said - but weren't you chubby then? Got me thinking - I thought I was chubby, but looking at photos, I wasn't.
These days I'm happy in my skin, but my skin is more wrinkly, my hair has some coloured streaks I didn't put there (I pull them out when I see them though), my teeth just don't seem to be the same, and when an ache comes along, it's there till I get it treated. Funnily enough, I'm more self confident than I was 15years ago.
PS I'm much more maturer than you tho':p
Mamaduke
11-10-2006, 00:33
Okay I'm just going to jump in with some words of wisdom for allyoo...
Teeth do not grow back...
go to the bloody dentist!!!!:shame:
Carry on ladies...
reAllytee
11-10-2006, 00:44
Hahahahahaha
Oh that just made my nite !!!
Dare i say yes mum * gets ready to run like the wind *
Peg - I used to think i was obese & i was a size 8 its ridiculous !!!! I cant believe the way i used to think .... I would give anything to have those thighs back though !!!!
You have streaks ??????
HAH !
I win !!!!!!!!!!!!! Im more maturer :p
The whole front of my head is white, not grey but stark white !!!!!
This started at the age of 21 ... I stress too much !
Oh we love you MD!!!
My teeth aren't falling out, they're not yellow, they're not hollow, but I didn't have any fillings till I was 15 (damn those braces).
Okay - I'll go to the dentist if you can look after my two little ones while I do so. Last time I went I was lucky I had a really nice dental nurse who blew up a surgical glove for little man to play with (he loves balloons). This time I need someone to look after two of them. I only just got to the hairdresser for the first time since May.
(Mental note to self - book mum's schedule to coincide with a dentist appointment).
I'm a bit put off getting mum to look after kids while I do stuff for me at the moment. Last Thursday I booked into her hairdresser so she could look after them (about 2km from her place). We're up to blowdrying and who knocks at the hairdresser's door, but mum with one screaming bub - she'd walked the kids down in the pram and was frantic. (Okay - admittedly I'd left my expressed milk at home, but bub had only been fed 2 hours before - just bad luck she picked last week to have a growth spurt).
Grey hairs are only inherited from your kids. (Any you had before Boof, don't count!). I'm lucky I was blessed with thick hair - I really don't believe the fact that if you pull one out, 2 grow in it's place - lol. At the rate I pull them out (one every day or two), I should have more hair, and hubby should start growing greys so he can pull them out before he goes bald like his dad.
Mamaduke
11-10-2006, 01:07
Grey hairs are only inherited from your kids. (Any you had before Boof, don't count!). I'm lucky I was blessed with thick hair - I really don't believe the fact that if you pull one out, 2 grow in it's place - lol. At the rate I pull them out (one every day or two), I should have more hair, and hubby should start growing greys so he can pull them out before he goes bald like his dad.
I've been known to spot a grey in the rear vision mirror and pull over, in peak hour traffic to rip that little sucker out before he camouflages himself in my blonde highlights!
reAllytee
11-10-2006, 01:08
Oh i have thick hair !!!! I also used to pull mine out back when i could keep up !!!!!!!! Now because its all over its not worth it !
Seriously even hairdressers say " Oh its not that thick " until they start trying to wash it or cut it then start whinging *sigh* which is something that also makes me cranky because i didnt choose their profession they bloomin well did !!!!!!!!!
I like your attitude Ally - it's what we should say to dentists if they sigh at our teeth...
Just musing - do you always say it's lovely (hair, not teeth) when you leave the place even if you're not too keen? I always say it's better when I leave, but have been known to immediately place the sunnies on the head and fluff the hair before walking out the door.
Oh, and MD, glad you pull over. when pulling hairs out - I find the best way to get them is with tweezers, so you can get them when they're ultra short. Hubby swears he doesn't see them (mind you that's when I'm telling him I have to get to the hairdresser so I can get a colour). I admit it, one thing I do lie about how much I spend on, is my hair. I have been known to spend pretty close to $200 when getting foils in. Hubby just doesn't understand - why do I need to get it washed and dried when I go? Well duh - it's the only chance I get to get a head massage, and if I want my hair to be sleek and straight (and extremely sexy) I'm not going to sit there and blow dry my own hair for the hour it takes them. Thick hair a blessing - I don't think so...
reAllytee
11-10-2006, 01:39
Peg peg peg tut tut tut !!!!!
$200 !!!!!!!!!! HAHA try $340 :o
Yep that long thick hair back in the day cost me a pretty penny because yep i needed triple the normal amount of dye etc !!!
That was back when i had to pay full price at a hairdressers *sigh* My cousin has done mine for the last 6yrs or so & now that he sold his salon i have to wait till he is ready to buy another *sigh*
I always fluff my hair too weird isnt it ?!?!? My aunty would come with us & we would make a day of it all getting our hair done & facials etc ( now im going to cry cause i miss that sooo much how i would kill for 4hrs alone time !!! ) anywhos she would always laugh at how i would love my hair yet still fiddle with it heheheh i thinks its normal !
But yes i did walk out of one hairdressers trying not to become hysterical at what they had done to my hair all the while saying it was fine !!!!! I was young & actually bit my tongue back then LOL !
Totally agree with the tweezers they are the way to go because the short little suckers hide !
Have to admit - there is a small sense of smugness when I tell the salon people to book me in for at least 4hours as it will take at least that long to get all the foils in, then out again. Each time they try to convince me they have some method that it will only take an hour (2 at the max). I then have my victory when I'm still sitting in that chair, 4hours later with a very stiff neck.
The last time I got the colour done was on the last day of work - I arranged to only do a half day, but it meant I had day care arranged - bliss. Gone are the days of - "I'm going out - better book that salon appointment". Now, the roots are just going to have to grow through, as there is no plans for daycare till next year when next semester uni starts. Better get those tweezers handy!
red crayon
11-10-2006, 13:20
i've missed pages of cantenkeray!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THERESA. If you want I can email your DH and suggest he get you a voucher for a facial or preggar massage...that's the least he could do!
Grey hair...don't get me started. My dad went grey in his late twenties and my mum is blessed with a thick head of hair that has only started going grey. so whose hair did i inherit??? yes, my dad's, of course. coz i've got light brown hair i just get streaks in my hair to try and camouflage the grey. i have to say that my cut and colour over here costs me $50.
Can I suggest to all YWS, start colouring your hair in your early twenties or even your late teens. Then you may never have to know if you are going gray.
reAllytee
11-10-2006, 16:54
Wanna know the sad thing with me Maria ?
Ive coloured my hair since i was about 17yrs old & as i said i found my first grey hairs at 21yrs anyways it takes all of a week after having my hair dyed that you can see the little buggers trying to reappear !!!!
Thats why im wanting to go back to light brown or blonde again it gets hidden !!!!!!!
Never mind Ally, you are still a gorgeous young thing. That is obviously your COSD trying to break out.
As I plucked my (2) today out this morning, I realised what the problem was. I only really see them when my hair is washed as it appears much darker when I wash it.
The answer is - make sure hair is dry before going out!!! Tada!!!
Nah - can't be bothered with that - I'm strictly a wash and pull into a hairclip in the hope that it will dry straight kind of gal, unless I'm going out (without kids) - that's the only time my hairdryer gets a work out.
Okay - end result - my grey problem can't be that bad otherwise I'd dry my hair more often.
On another topic, feeling very relieved today is over. My sister and I volunteered to take my brother's two kids for an outing today as our SIL was going to a funeral. So here we were - 6 kids in tow - 2nephews (6 & 8), sister and her two (5yo daughter and 1yo son) and me and my two (Mr 2 and Miss 3months).
Trip to pools - lots of juggling required here! Walk to Subway for lunch - actually here's where Maccas or HJ's gets a better rap - too much choice at Subway when ordering 6lunches, then trip to park is cancelled - raining. We happen to see a new kiddie gym place that opened last week for 0 - 6year olds and take all 6 of our troop in. Bet they hated us, but it was great to let the kids blow off some steam.
Thinking in my next life I could open up one of these places - charge $7.50 a kid for them to play on gear I already have for my son. Actually come to think of it, I could just open up my back yard and add a bouncy castle. I could churn out some coffees and tim tams for the mums. It couldn't be that hard could it? So long as I had one of those signs that says "Management accepts no responsibility for any injuries"
Mamaduke
13-10-2006, 00:59
Don't forget, when you're opening your play centre...
A pit full of pink eye a.k.a the ball pit!
reAllytee
13-10-2006, 01:11
I think i just woke Harry up cause i laughed so hard at "pink eye"
:laughing:
I'm getting some odd imagery in my head...
Definitely need the ball pit. I've got the balls for Mr 2 (they were on a great special last year at Toys 'r us for christmas), but I've now made his ball pit into a sand pit. (Clam shell). We got around the clam shells being used as pools by putting in a pool, so better build a sand pit, so I can make him another ball pit.
I'm trying to work out how to incorporate the chook pen into the play centre. Maybe instead of a ball pit, we could do our sensory play with eggs? My son loves to collect his eggs everyday (we have about a 50/50 strike rate of eggs making it to the house), and it's fun to discover if they're laying in the same spot of straw.
reAllytee
13-10-2006, 01:53
Yes it took us about 3wks of advising my nephew that he needed to move the straw around even at the door to the chook pen to find the eggs because finding them after you have stepped on them doesnt really work well for eating !!!
Lets see you need something for a ball pit hrmmmz well you could always buy one of those cheap blow up pools you can even get them in the cheapie shops now & use that !!! Doesnt really matter when it comes to the littlies even if you were to make a ball corner im sure they would be just as happy :cool:
Harry gets his clam shell this year tis exciting stuff !!!!
Yep - had one of those blow up pools - went to blow it up and it had already been 'blown up'...
I'm thinking it would be a good excuse to get one of those superdooper trampolines with the netting all around it - Mr 2 seemed to love being in one today (well it was a bouncy castle type, but same thing), with the netting high enough so he can't throw the balls out. There seems to be some attraction when he sees a ball he can't control his urge to throw or kick it!
I think that's why we lost his first balloon to the heavens today (luckily nephew number2 was gallant and donated his as, tired 2year old who has swum for 2hours, not eaten much lunch and played for another hour and a half in a jumpy environment with no nap does not make for a happy boy when his balloon disappears.
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