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After the cheeky young Tickle had the temerity to close our previous thread I thought the new one should open as soon as possible so that we could all respond.....
or something like that.
reAllytee
11-03-2007, 21:16
Heck i remember thinking at 16yrs i knew what life was all about !
Oh how that makes me laugh now .....
And btw tickle i do believe you closing the other thread deserves a :shame: eheheheheh
i may be a young whippper snapper ( or not) but what does ocsc mean?? please, i am too lazy to go look it up anywhere.....
Old Cantankerous Sea Cow.
We moo a lot.
hahahha, well i am only 28 so far, but expect me in this thread soonish, i feel i am on the way to 30 very quickly.... *mooooehishcough....* just practicing.....
If I can remember that far back, things seemed more black and white at 21. But also I was less cynical so I suppose there are pros and cons about any ages.
Tickle is a cheeky yws, closing down poor old Moo cows threads indeed.
You will be an OCSC yourself one day you know.
I definitely do not get more organised as I get older, procrastination is one thing that has not changed with age.
reAllytee
11-03-2007, 22:22
I used to be really good with organising then i had a baby who is now a toddler & makes sure all my good work comes undone especially now with being sick & pg.
I am great at lists though, man i could seriously take over the world with lists !
meme - You are more than welcome here as long as you bring cantankery with you !
Tea Lady
11-03-2007, 22:32
hahahha, well i am only 28 so far, but expect me in this thread soonish, i feel i am on the way to 30 very quickly.... *mooooehishcough....* just practicing...
Don't worry meme - I think it's got alot more to do with the attitude than the age! I think I would have qualified as an OCSC at about 17 :o And I don't think being a teacher has helped ....... I think my Ed degree has honors in being a bossy old whinger printed on it somewhere!
We are currently residing with my sister until DP gets a job over here in the UK and then we shall move into our own place in London. BUT
I am very over my sisters and BIL's dog who keeps urinating and defecating on the lounge floor and kitchen floor and saying "she doesn't normally do that" and just picking it up with kitchen towel.
As soon as they go to work I am mopping the floors every day.
I don't feel like I can say anything as they are doing us a huge favour, but at the same time, my daughter is crawling everywhere and then sucking her fingers.
The dog is also snappy towards her, must be a pack animal thing.
Ughh what can I say or do!
Nickster
12-03-2007, 05:47
If only I knew now what I thought I knew at 20 - I could rule the world! I knew everything back then.
There is a theory that your parents go through periods of waxing and waning intelligence through your life - when you are a child, they are incredibly intelligent and know everything. Then you hit puberty and realise they know nothing and can't believe they get through one day the way they do, let alone their entire lives.....don't these people have a clue? Then, once you hit your twenties, you realise they have a small bit of intelligence, and begin to turn to them for advice once again, and even re-establish some semblance of a relationship. Once you're in your thirties, and no doubt (usually) a parent of surly teenagers yourself, you begin the whole process again....with yourself at the receiving end!
Maria, I don't think Tickle will ever be an OCSC, she's just too full of sunshine and light.:p
Pixie - :barf: - to the paper towel on the doggy-doo-doo!
Pack animal mentality - I know all about that.;) And it's not entirely exclusive to the four-legged beasties.
Tea Lady - I just had my morning cup of Earl Grey, and thought of you. Top of the morning to you!
reAllytee
12-03-2007, 09:16
Bummer about the doggy Pix.
Sounds like it is rather unhappy new members have moved into its territory.
But yeah paper towel as a clean up is certainly not enough ! Grab a disinfectant spray also as the citrus in it may put the doggy off !
Nickster - I think thats what parenting is all about isnt it. Making sure that your children have their own kids so you can sit back & laugh !
red crayon
12-03-2007, 11:07
Nickster - I think thats what parenting is all about isnt it. Making sure that your children have their own kids so you can sit back & laugh !
If that's the case, my parents must be doubled over with laughter!
Nickster
12-03-2007, 11:18
The ultimate in parental revenge, hey OCSC's?
Don't worry, our turn will come....:devil6:
And Ally, I love my lists too....just ask DH...he's always finding them and laughing at them...I bite off more than I can chew sometimes...
Good morning fellow cows.
I've had an interesting start to the day. I took myself off to the pool this morning to do some laps (did I happen to mention that I love being on maternity leave?). Swimming and walking laps of the pool is the only form of exercise that doesn't cause pain at the moment, so it was actually a rather blissful experience.
Anyhoo, there I am waddling and splashing up and down the pool, feeling all virtuous. In the lane next to mine there was a seniors aqua aerobics class, and they were having a lovely time. All going well so far.
At the "fitness centre" in question there is an aerobics room that looks over the pool, so we can see them jumping around if we so wish. Today there was a step class happening. Now, I must confess, a number of years ago, I was a bit of a gym junkie, I'd go to aerobics classes about 5 times a week, and step was a favourite of mine. However, even at my most fit by the end of a step class I would look decidedly wilted. Kind of like one of those packets of fresh basil that you buy but forget about and find later sitting at the bottom of your veggie drawer in the fridge. Soggy, wilted and not as fragrant as you'd want.
Some people participating in the step class were looking a bit soggy and tired by the end, but there was one woman, who must have been about 20, who was adding in extra leaps, jumps, claps and kicks - even more than the instructor - all through the class. She was so vibrant that even her pony tail bounced in time to the music. At the end of the class she looked utterly perfect, dry, not blotchy, not wilted, just perfect. Made me and my 35 week pregnant belly feel positively exhausted just to look at her.
Where did she get the energy from? Why doesn't she look like wilted old basil? And why was she at the gym at 9.30 on a Monday. I thought that time was pretty much reserved for OCSCs and others of the same ilk??
Nickster
12-03-2007, 13:18
Bron - hoorah for the maternity leave - and hoorah for swimming pools for pregnant women!
As for your perky friend in the aerobics class - perhaps she's ingested something a little stronger than basil?
Now, I'm going to spend a couple of serious hours in our pool this afternoon - it's so hot today in Brisbane, I can barely bring myself to hang out the washing - DD and I are just cocooned in airconditioning for the day.
millymoo
12-03-2007, 14:47
Sooooo glad OCSC has been explained as I was thinking of all sorts of ideas...not that one but I guess i am getting abit that way......ask my teens!
Swimming is fab..i did it til 41 weeks and felt great in water...gave the old dears swimming near me a few gasps at the end (I was pretty huge) and got fed up with "are you still here?" keep goin Bron
Bit dull and cool in my part NSW !
Swimming is fab..i did it til 41 weeks and felt great in water...gave the old dears swimming near me a few gasps at the end (I was pretty huge) and got fed up with "are you still here?" keep goin Bron
I'm rather enjoying it. Although I think I might invest in a sign to carry around saying "5 weeks to go, yes it is my first, no we don't know if we're having a boy or a girl, yes of course we're excited". Because it really seems to be all I say when I'm at the pool.
reAllytee
12-03-2007, 15:11
I'm rather enjoying it. Although I think I might invest in a sign to carry around saying "5 weeks to go, yes it is my first, no we don't know if we're having a boy or a girl, yes of course we're excited". Because it really seems to be all I say when I'm at the pool.
Oh yes Bron i really suggest having one of these & also investing in either someone to answer your phones to give them these details also but then an answering machine will suffice im sure ! I think having it say something like " No i havent popped but maybe if you keep calling every day & nite it will make a difference ! " ... Sorry still rather bitter about all the calls i had when only overdue 3 days with him !
Im still curious as to why people harass you in this circumstance !
Im pondering doing the swimming charade but i then wonder how much people will like me vomitting in the pool .... Not even chlorine will cover that up !
Jacqui dont worry im in the same boat & im feeling your pain. Today we threw a tantrum because heaven forbid i screamed for an hour to speak to Gran & when mummy called she found out Gran had gone out. That means mummy is just mean horrible & nasty of course !
red crayon
12-03-2007, 17:53
Bron - i think there is a special breed of people who don't wilt under those circumstances. years ago i used to belong to a swimming club and i remember a fellow swimmer who was pregnant and swam up until the due date. at the end of a training session when i felt like i was swimming through wet cement, i'd look over to the other lane and see this stomach flying past me at a rate of knots. she was not a wilter.
ally - when i'm being horrible mum, spencer throws his head back and says, 'oh, muuuum' and then the shoulders slump. this, from a 2 year old.
I thought I recognised you Bron *flicks hair*
When I was 20 I could dance all night, get horribly drunk and turn up for work at 7 and work a 12 hour shift and be fine. Now however I am in bed by 9 at the latest.
And they say you're in your prime in your 30's hmm
There was a girl recently who attended our boxercise class. At the end of it, she told our trainer that she quite enjoyed it but it could have been much tougher. She had already attended a step class and some other activity in the morning. So off she jogged at speed with her pram. Meanwhile we were lying around the ground looking purple. I know I am a bit biased but I did consider her to be mentally ill.
Bron, I loved being in the water when I was pregnant. I was not working and spent most of my pregnancy at a harbour beach, waddling around in the water, or lying around eating fish and chips.Ah - happy memories.
Obviously Ally, I did not have any illness - you poor thing.
Pixie - poor you that is definately :barf: inducing and worthy of high cantankery.
Bron - two words keep flashing in my mind "trophy wife" :devil6: Being perky and pretty is her bread and butter.
Cheers cantankerous ones
As one of the very wilted variety - often before I even start exercise - I agree with X - "trophy wife".
Isn't the water lovely?
Hi everyone I haven't met yet!
I do love to swim, perhaps I really was a sea cow in a past life?? (Maybe we all were?)
Imagine being an actual trophy wife, how wierd would that be? I know I was never one of those!
The water over here draught is quite cold most sea cows are hibernating or they are in the Costa del sol to toughen up their skin.
reAllytee
12-03-2007, 21:41
Trophy wives or maybe they are Stepfords !
:idea: Ally, It all makes sense now!
millymoo
13-03-2007, 09:50
Still not getting the Sea Cow bit!!!???oOld and Cantankerous yes.....
Is it the pommie side of me? Is there some strange creature other than things like Huntsman (wot the @*!* is that were hubbies first words on first siting of one of them!!)lurking in Australia.:fingerscrossed:not!
Check this out (http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/publications/misc_pub/dugongs) millymoo
They are lovely, one of my absolute favourite animals.
Tea Lady
13-03-2007, 11:53
I feel for you Bron - I'm definitely one of the purple faced-sweaty-gasping types (often from just getting into my exercise gear!) and yesterday I finally went to an exercise session (run by the lovely Ffrenchstar :wave: ) and one of the least wilted people in the group was a 38wk pregnant woman. Grrrr! So unfair!! :laughing:
Nickster - after our tea conversation the other day I was beside myself with excitement to find that my local (usually useless) Coles now stocks Lady Grey tea!! I'm a bit of a junkie now and I often think of you when I have a cup too :yes:
MammaMia
13-03-2007, 14:33
Aah the sea cows...once you read that info Bron - well, it just speaks so clearly of the 30 somethings.
As dugongs feed, whole plants are uprooted and a telltale-feeding trail is left.
Can't help it if we like our food, can we my dears? Those YWS are almost wasting away. Nothing wrong with a woman with a hearty appetite.
Their movements are often slow and graceful.
Unfortunately, at times it is not just our movements that are slow, but our minds too. As for graceful, well, as graceful as those suck in undies and support hose allow. Certainly no bouncing in the chest area thanks to those Cross your Heart bras.
Early explorers and sailors believed that they were mermaids
We are quite alluring...listen to us sing, and you won't be able to look away. Something about those nasal tones that will get the unsuspecting victim every time.
Dugongs cannot hold their breath under water for very long. It is generally for only a few minutes, especially if they are swimming fast.
Only long enough to count to 10 before letting loose on the YWS. And let's face it, at our age, it's quite normal to only have enough in the tank for a short burst before we run out of bluff & bluster.
Dugongs have poor eyesight but acute hearing.
We need that poor eyesight so as not to be overcome by the gradual decline we would otherwise confront each day in the mirror. Thank goodness for our acute hearing: all the better to hear those disrespectful YWS and their bad manners.
They find and grasp seagrass with the aid of coarse, sensitive bristles, which cover the upper lip of their large and fleshy snout.
Needless to say, the whiskers are a bit of a sensitive issue and best not spoken of anymore.
Small tusks can be seen in adult males and some old females.
When you get to our stage of life, you have to develop a tough hide and some small tusks to tustle on behalf of our young.
Emergency measures to save dugongs in the southern Great Barrier Reef and Hervey Bay regions, were announced by the Federal and Queensland Governments in August 1997. Central to these measures was the establishment of a system of 16 dugong protection areas (DPAs), in these regions.
The establishment of DPAs was a critical step in efforts to save the dugong. The dugong is recognised as one of the values for which the Great Barrier Reef was World Heritage listed. Australia therefore has an international responsibility to protect the dugong and has created the world's first system of protected areas specifically for the conservation of dugong.
Good to know that BH has seen fit to give us the protection we deserve.
millymoo
13-03-2007, 14:42
Check this out (http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/publications/misc_pub/dugongs) millymoo
They are lovely, one of my absolute favourite animals.
Well i never!! i learn a new thing every day. Thanks for that. Not so likely to find crawling up my wall I guess as a Huntsman. When the tribe comes in at 4pm I will show them abit more Aussie facts. Obviously we are still too new! Good of you to do that Bron.
Chickadee
13-03-2007, 14:45
Excellent explanation MMia. I'll now flaunt my tusks with pride. Though anyone trying to get my tweezers is in for the fight of their life.
red crayon
13-03-2007, 16:44
very nice overview, MMia. suits me to a tee - slow, whiskery and short-sighted!
Tea Lady
14-03-2007, 20:32
I have a question which is probably best posed in this thread.....
What on earth are the YWS thinking with those enormous sunglasses they insist on wearing?
I just don't understand it. I know I look ridiculous wearing my sensible sunglasses, but I can't wear those huge things, I just can't. Plus I'm sure they'd make me look like a mouse.
I think they think it desirable to look like a bug. I can't quite pull it off, my cheeks bump the sunglasses up when I smile. Then again, none of then ever smile, do they?
Cheers
Tea Lady
14-03-2007, 20:41
you've TRIED them?????
I can't even bring myself to do that. :p
Pixie, poor you, babies and doggys never mix very well. Hopefully you'll be out of there soon.
Tea lady, I tried some of them glasses on the other day. I looked like The Fly, but I quite liked it. They made my pudgy face look quite petite.
I had my first day back in the workforce today, after an impulsive decision last week to apply for a job. I got the darn thing so I decided to take it. Bubby stayed home with daddy today, he is on a week's leave until the family daycare starts next week. I got home and bubby is wearing the same clothes as when I left, he hasn't been washed and DP hadn't had a shower either. The house looked an absolute fright and when I asked what DP had been doing all day he snapped "looking after him!!" in a bad tempered voice.
tee hee hee. Excuse me for taking GREAT delight in that, and feel free to live vicariously through it. So now he understands what its like.
At least he had changed bubby's nappy (disposables of course but thats the least of my concerns) and he had fed him. So that's all that matters really.
Tea Lady
14-03-2007, 20:56
:laughing: Shed. I bet your DP will think work's a doddle after this week!
reAllytee
14-03-2007, 20:59
Oh shed its wonderful isnt it, the day that reality hits them full bang in the gob !
I remember that day with glee twas a few months ago now but boy was it wonderful !
I love it when my DH, after leaving me alone at home with three children under four for two weeks had them for a couple of hours. Nothing was done - kids were still in PJs etc. When I asked what had happened he said "but I had the kids"......silly, silly man. He then got a very long lecture on how I survived with three kids, no help and how the world actually kept turning when you were looking after them - it didn't stop!
Hmmmmm....love the lightbulb moments.
As for those big glasses - they looked bad first time round in the 70's and early 80's.......and the fact that I remember them means I am too old to wear them this time round - plus I am blind and need my specs to see anyway!!
Yep, its been an absolute pleasure!!
I have stopped myself from saying something smarmy because he is pretty good really, he has never said anything too smart about the lack of housework etc. But it does feel goooooooood and inside I am going like this...
:smiliedance: :laughing:
Ahh Draught having children is hard work, don't you know.
I am HC (highly cantankerous) I hate the NHS system here in the UK just been to the DR to ask for a steriod injection for the on going epidural pain I am having. The DR tells me "it's because they don't know how to do epidurals in Australia" and the pain isn't from that, it's from lifiting my child.
I wanted to punch him, but instead I said "I know what the pain is and it's not from lifting, have a good day"
+ Having worked in the medical system in Australia for 7 years I really wanted to tell him actually They are leading the world in the medical field in some areas!
reAllytee
14-03-2007, 22:32
Pixie - Its always the way my sister was always over in the UK doing odds & ends from Iceland & they would all still comment about many things to her. Even in one large shopping centre they commented how we couldnt possibly have something like this out in Oz :confused:
My sister wanted to laugh at them all !
I think somehow alot of the UK think we are still convicts in a colony !
Hope the pain gets better soon hun.
SO um you're not a convict? How do you think I got in eh
reAllytee
14-03-2007, 22:54
Hah that made me snort !
Im just one of them loud mouthed Scots dont make me start carrying on about what your lot did to my kinsmen :laughing:
Get over it, don't you have some spewing to do?
reAllytee
14-03-2007, 23:27
No no we cant get over it didnt you know its bred into our genes to carry on about it till the end of time !!!
Speaking of spewing hurry up & fall pg so i can get some pay back !!!
Oh that's right, can see you now old and annoying, sorry more annoying whinging about how badly you were treated.
Trust me we're trying. Never ridden the porcelain bus but never say never.
reAllytee
15-03-2007, 09:48
Oh yes i shall be old & decaying whinging about it all even if my falsies are falling out & my arthritic hands have trouble waving about !
Heck if my dad did it, its only natural that i carry on the tradition !
Well i shall send some of my luck over your way .... Riding the porcelain bus that is ....
Nickster
15-03-2007, 09:57
Sorry, just to backtrack a little....
I have big sunglasses.
Not too big though - don't think Nicole Richie or Jackie Kennedy Onassis....
I find they hide most of my upper face, which is a blessing a fair amount of the time.
Mind you, the next step in sunglass fashion for me would probably be "fitovers" - but I'm not going there for many years.
I see these very skinny girls wandering around with giant glasses and think they look like demented insects.
Either that or they have an eye condition and need to keep all light out.
Nickster, I'm with you, they are good for hiding behind :yes: I don't think I look like a demented insect, hope not anyway!
red crayon
15-03-2007, 23:11
Pixie - I'm sure on some of the Hollywood stick insects the sunnies are hiding the evidence of what they were doing the night before.
Mumski and Nickster - you probably look gorgeous and glam like Grace Kelly and Jackie O did.
I've been on the cantankerous side for the past few days. all due to the weather. it's currently raining and humid in hanoi and nothing is drying. the bathroom smells like a feral wet animal is living in it. i haven't seen the sun for a week. i've had enough.
millymoo
15-03-2007, 23:31
Hey:wave:
I have tried the big sunnies due to my kids pestering me to look something like trendy..but hey I have a skinny nose and my latest pair courtesy of Marie Claire slide off my nose like it`s a ski slope so i have gone back to my liitle sunnies! They will come back in soon ......?
Ah - but my sunnies hide my crows feet just as well as those big ones without making me look like a bug!
reAllytee
16-03-2007, 09:08
Sunnies dont suit me between those & hats i have a lot of trouble finding one i can wear without people passing me in the street pointing & laughin.
My sunnies arent the huuuuuge ones out now but they are a little big i suppose hadnt thought about it !
Im just over me going near anything electrical or the likes & it deciding it doesnt want to work.
I have now been trying to log onto MSN for 2 days & it wont let me yet anytime Evan does it when he is home it works fine. I mean cmon !!!!!
Stupid vacuum has given up the ghost it hates me anyways & of course i cant recieve service on my mobile !
Oh & i had a stupid call from the stupid hospital who demanded i go back for the glucose test they want but instead i stood my ground & said i wouldnt do it ! They recieved the results from the challenge test so had to ring to say it was the wrong test. Well tough boobies !
Someone help me.
DP and I are discussing apostrophe's. He says sometimes you put the apostrophe after an S depending on the circumstance, yet he can't say what circumstance and I have no clue. Anyone care to explain!
Why thank you for asking Ms Pixie, I believe I am the woman to help you.
Apostrophes and their staggering misuse is a favourite topic of mine.
Firstly, and sorry to use you as an example, you don't use them for plurals - in your post, you wrote "apostrophe's" this is incorrect usage, but being a clever clogs, I'm assuming you put it there to test us! Plurals do not need apostrophes.
Apostrophes are used to show possession, or to replace missing letters. Can't won't shouldn't could've etc are all examples of apostrophes for missing letters.
Possession is where your question comes in. "Look at Pixie's lovely daughter" is a correct use of an apostrophe. However, if your name ended in S - say you were called Jess, I would write "Look at Jess' lovely daughter" It is still pronounced Jesses but there is no need for an S after the apostrophe if the name ends in S. I am James' wife, he is Bronwyn's husband. Get it?
The lovely apostrophe exception - It's and Its. You use an apostrophe for It is, "It's cold in London at this time of year" but not for a possessive use of the word it "the dog ate its dinner".
There you go. Hope that was enlightening for you love!
Ah dear Bron thank you going to save your knowledge!
After I posted that Unal (my DP) used the example "Jess" ummm I didn't do the ' to check you I did it as I don't know squat about punctuation!
We do feel more enlightened
Just wondering how much do you charge for lessons.
I am planning on studying later this life time so better get my self sorted!
Just wondering how much do you charge for lessons.
For you? Nothing. It's on the house.
Oh Bron, I'm so gald that I'm no the only one. It really cheeses me off when people use them incorrectly.
Another pet peeve is the misuse of there/thier/they're
red crayon
17-03-2007, 10:08
as much as the misuse of apostrophes is a major concern to me...i particularly hate the its/it's confusion....i feel i need to have a quick bleat.
angelina jolie....now i'm not having a go at her and i'm all for giving children a home...but i have friends here in hanoi who've had to wait an eternity and jump through hoops before they were able adopt a vietnamese child. pity they've not had the media profile and the access to cash that some people have. my neighbour visited her adopted daughter in an orphanage every weekend for 5 months before she was able to take her home. it's just not fair that there are different strokes for different folks. bleat over.
Bleat away oh red one, bleat away. I have thought the same thing. I do worry about families who are desperate for a baby and bend over backwards and wait years to adopt - after going through rigorous interview processes and so on, and how they must feel when famous people manage to organise it so quickly.
But, that said, bless her for caring enough to take in a child in the first place. It's just a shame that she appears able to have rules bent for her because of her fame.
millymoo
17-03-2007, 12:42
Hi guys:wave:
Yes I find this fashionable adopting all very strange. I was adopted at 9 weeks old and have had a great life with many opportunities and loooove my Mum and Dad, but it was never something that was so public.I don`t really speak about it.
My teen said to me the other day..."can we adopt mummy from vietnam...please, please they need homes these babies" There is so much more to it than just a good idea at the time.She didn`t understand. It all seems very flippant and I can`t put my finger on it but it makes me uneasy.
Red Crayon...I agree too it is not fair on the norm(my parents included) who have to wait for their baby so long
red crayon
17-03-2007, 13:23
hi bron and milliemoo :wave:
i understand what you are saying, milliemoo. i don't doubt angelina's motives but unfortunately they can have the spin-off effects of people wanting to adopt because it's a cool thing to do, rather than because they want to be parents and also people think it happens in a blink of an eye.
and, bron, what you were saying about a rigorous process...my neighbour who is english was put through the wringer by her own government to meet suitability requirements, which is a fair thing - but what processes do famous people go through, other than showing their bank balances?
anyhoo, milliemoo, i'm glad you were adopted by a loving family. and in the end that's what all children deserve - aloving family.
I am torn on the issue of international adoption too.
Sure this boy will have amazing opportunities, being part of the Pitt-Jolie household. And I think it is great she is adopting an older child (he's 3.5 yo?). And I think it is great that she learnt some Vietnamese so she can talk to him and comfort him. I did hear that he was an orphan, so maybe he doesn't have any other family.
But part of me still thinks that taking a child out of his culture, away from his blood relations and bringing him up in your world is sort of arrogant.:o However, I know that it must be a million times better than life in an orphanage...I just feel that it isn't 100% great.
Am v cranky today - but not sure why??
*galumps off in search of the other cows*
millymoo
17-03-2007, 16:40
:yes: Agree on all the above on this adoption issue.Very bizzarre phenomenon really.
I wonder how the kids will cope when older and how they will handle the limelight. I guess we will all find out. Also their adoption is so public.
I tend to keep quiet as people just bombard you with pretty personal questions. The first is always...."haven`t you found your birth mother?."...answer..."no" and then no one understands why and more questions follow.Personal choice and private I reckon!
Perhaps we will in years to come have to watch one of these now famous kids trace their origins! I can see the gossip mag headline now!
I think Angelina is weird. I don't think I would like her in real life. She has just had a baby and now she has adopted another kid. I just think its (it's? :o ) odd. I sit in judgement of her, which is naughty - to judge is bad I know - but I just think there is something a bit creepy about her.
She is so beautiful but ...nah.
reAllytee
17-03-2007, 18:15
X you have summed up my thoughts exactly !
I sat crying my eyes out very pg when the tsunami happened & watching these kids all become orphans my heart broke every day. I wanted to whick them all away & take care of them all but then i thought about it more. While it is a great chance for them etc maybe taking them away from their culture is an issue. But then i would make sure they knew everything they could etc.
DP & i have already talked about either adopting or at the very least fostering in a few years time its just hard to know what really is the right thing so to speak.
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
I had the converations with DH when we were TTC. That if we couldn't maybe we adopt a less fortunate child.
I would just think it would be the first (and right) thing to do would be to expose the child to their 'natural' heritage, and continue the education throughout their life. I just hope that the Jolie-Pitts do help thier kids understand where they come from, and what thier natural heritage is.
My bleat over.
Nickster
17-03-2007, 20:14
Hiya moo-cows!
I'm not sure what I think about the whole Angelina-adopting-yet-another-baby issue. I can't decide whether she's a true humanitarian, or just a little bit fanatical about the whole thing.
Either way, she has lots of help in the form of nannies which would make having a large family somewhat easier by anyone's standards.
And either way, she used to wear Billy-Bob's blood in a vial around her neck.
The jury is out.
Apparently (and I STRESS apparently) she doens't have all the nannies - although I find that VERY hard to believe.
Maybe they just have Brad's mum travelling with them ATT? Same thing though, you just can't leave children at home in the cupboard (and the Jolie-Pitts are very seldom photographed with all their children, so someone is holding the baby).
Cheers
Last night we had a huge conversation about AJ I think her money would be better spent building orphanages and helping with immunisations.
I am adopted and despite being adopted by my grandfather I had no contact with my birth father until 3 years ago when I found him, you go through years of wondering "am I like them, would they like me, what is their fave food, a million and one things" I am truly lucky to be in the same culture and same language, to miss out and loose that would be even harder to discover when and if you'd want to.
Last night we had a huge conversation about AJ I think her money would be better spent building orphanages and helping with immunisations.
As much as some people don't like her, I love that Oprah started that school in Africa. That's sure going to touch more kids than if she adopted.
They had a story on one of the current affair shows recently about how much the BIG earning celebs put into charities. I think that some of them do some really good work.
Others.................oh well. Better luck next life.
you just can't leave children at home in the cupboard
Can't you?? Oh well, back to the drawing board then.
reAllytee
17-03-2007, 21:46
Can't you?? Oh well, back to the drawing board then.
Yeah i just realised what ive been doing wrong all this time ..... Whoops.
Mrs Potts
18-03-2007, 07:36
I agree with you all on this AJ business. I feel sorry for her baby Shiloh. Already being "cast aside" for another child.
I read something the other week (not that I believe everything I read, of course) that said she couldn't bond with her natural baby because she felt too guilty. Guilty that it's one less baby she can "save" and adopt. This may or may not have any truth to it, but the woman is still a freak!
And we can't use the cupboard?? Bugger!
reAllytee
18-03-2007, 18:28
Does this also mean the rope tied to the tree out the back is out also ? He gets a bucket of water near by thats all he needs right ?
Well i have to say things are getting interesting in this household atm.
Did anyone else go through role reversals while they were pg ?
DP is turning into a big girl insisting on lots of cuddles & the likes which rather horrifies me. I may be an emotional type person but im not one to be all over my other half iykwim. Bed time is the worst he now sooks if he goes to bed alone. He even quoted that men apparently cant sleep as well alone as women ! Seriously can this be true ?!
I feel like i am always falling out of bed at nite as im trying to get away from him & he edges closer. I think he is getting all the womanly hormones & feelings this time around & im turning into a male .... What a scary prospect !
millymoo
19-03-2007, 07:21
Oooh...make the most of it I say! I cant seem to remember what that is like since Amelia! Plus it is so hot some nights I am just ...."Don`t come near" I think I am still aclimatising!
Did anyone watch the Joanne Lees drama last night. Very good I thought. Slight resemblance to Wolf Creek (:eek:) in the outback scenes. And if you haven`t seen that ..don`t . I didn`t sleep well for weeks. DH got it out thinking it was a thriller!! NOT!
Helen
I watched the first part of it but was tired and had to go to bed (the Joanne Lees thing) - it was really weird as I know some of the people who were being portrayed in the movie and it was quite freaky to see their mannerisms etc on other people! I can say that Bryan Brown is a fantastic character actor - he had Rex down pat - mannerisms and all - it was freaky!! I would have loved to have watched more - shame I needed to sleep!
red crayon
19-03-2007, 16:20
the joanne lees program will probably get played here sometime next year. we've just had the society murders one on and i know that was on oz tv ages ago. i did a writing course a few years ago at the cae in melb and it was taught by robyn...bl**dy hell, i can't remember her surname!...b-something..anyway she'd written a few true crime books and at the time she was writing about the joanne lees thing. it was pre-trial and i think robyn was convinced that murdoch was innocent. how was joanne lees protrayed in the tv show last night?
millymoo
19-03-2007, 16:33
:wave:
Portrayed as pretty cold really. I have seen a few programs on her when I was still in the UK as it was big news there obviously and it did make you wonder. She was detached really and rather odd...but we were led to believe it was earlier wrong doing by the press that made her so cold towards them. Also she was having an affair it seems. Murdoch was seen to only grunt a few sentences in the dock.
It still left me very unsure and I thought the trial would be more conclusive.
Draught...Bryan Brown is very good I agree. Strangely attractive?!
Bum I miss all the good stuff on Telly
Ally my DP is like that all the time drives me mental, I know I am a total babe, but back off already lol
Perhaps you are just to ravishing to resist.
reAllytee
19-03-2007, 19:59
I actually didnt watch it out of protest :o
I dont like passing judgement but i do on many things im only human but honestly there is something seriously wrong with that story & she just doesnt sit right with me. Something makes me irk when i see her.
pixie - Oh yes im rashing alright ! Every last section of fluid retaining fat heh. You on the other hand are gorgeous !
misskittyfantastico
19-03-2007, 20:10
Oooh...make the most of it I say! I cant seem to remember what that is like since Amelia! Plus it is so hot some nights I am just ...."Don`t come near" I think I am still aclimatising!
Did anyone watch the Joanne Lees drama last night. Very good I thought. Slight resemblance to Wolf Creek (:eek:) in the outback scenes. And if you haven`t seen that ..don`t . I didn`t sleep well for weeks. DH got it out thinking it was a thriller!! NOT!
Helen
Hooley Dooley! Are you sure you're not me? I could be so overly stressed and cantankerous that I don't know when I post!.
Really, Hi! I have an Amelia Kate aka MillieMoo!
Also I am so tired that my skin hurts....grumble, grumble, flap of flippers....SMALL flippers though.
ETA...we don't get 10 here in the bushskie....didn't look like fun though.
misskittyfantastico
19-03-2007, 20:15
I like your lamb
Her name is Baa and she is 5 days old...awww
I watched it and I said to DP imagine if something happened to us and the media was camped out the front. We don't even have a front fence and it would be flippin awful.
Like Prince William's girlfriend, the bloody paparazzi camp outside her house and film her and photograph her driving to work every day. How awful, but at least she had a choice about going out with the prince or not.
I would hate to be famous and especially hate to be in the limelight by some tragedy happening that I didn't ask for. I always feel sorry for those people.
I don't have a PR company or advisors or security, so if something happened to us we would be media-fodder and get completely hung out to dry. I think that is what happened to that poor girl. I wasn't there so I don't know what actually happened, but it would be simply awful to be thrust into the limelight in such a tumultuous time and have aspersions casted just to make the news, constantly being filmed with no one supporting you. Ugh, poor girl.
I actually didnt watch it out of protest :o
I dont like passing judgement but i do on many things im only human but honestly there is something seriously wrong with that story & she just doesnt sit right with me. Something makes me irk when i see her.
I think I'm sort of with you here Ally - I hate watching / reading a story if I don't know for absolute certain if it's the true rendition of the story.
It's why I have a thing about reading auto/biographies. I don't like doing it - somehow feels like the story isn't complete and I have funny quirk about liking closure and hating incompleteness. Which is strangely funny as I always have a million projects on the go.
My MIL on the other hand loves bios and has passed the Joanne Lees one onto me (I in turn have given it to my dad for first bite), but apparently she also has Schapelle's one for me to read - I've been in a bit of a quandry as to whether I want to read that one.
I do occasionally pick up a bio myself and one where there is a beginning, middle and end which can't be refuted - the one on my bedside table (next to Dan Brown's Angels and Demons - see I told you I have to have lots of projects on the go at once) is Jason McCartney's After Bali.
Anyone else have this strange quirk?
By the Way - I did watch the movie - actually enjoyed it, but thought it was very much like what I've read in the papers etc. We were living in the Territory at the time of the trial and it was funny we had whole periods in news bulletins where the screen would go blank due to censorship - but of course, you only had to go to the internet to find out what was going on.
millymoo
20-03-2007, 06:46
Hooley Dooley! Are you sure you're not me? I could be so overly stressed and cantankerous that I don't know when I post!.
Really, Hi! I have an Amelia Kate aka MillieMoo!
Also I am so tired that my skin hurts....grumble, grumble, flap of flippers....SMALL flippers though.
ETA...we don't get 10 here in the bushskie....didn't look like fun though.
If you are like me...which it seems... Amelia Poppy just naturally became Milly , then Millymoo, and then you can imagine the rhymes when she has done a ....poo!It is all very cute. Yes gorgeous lamb. How lovely for Amelia xx
millymoo
20-03-2007, 06:48
If you are like me...which it seems... Amelia Poppy just naturally became Milly , then Millymoo, and then you can imagine the rhymes when she has done a ....poo!It is all very cute. Yes gorgeous lamb. How lovely for Amelia xx
And...just noticed ...nearly same birthday but year apart!
Mamaduke
20-03-2007, 09:24
i did a writing course a few years ago at the cae in melb and it was taught by robyn...bl**dy hell, i can't remember her surname!...b-something..anyway she'd written a few true crime books and at the time she was writing about the joanne lees thing. it was pre-trial and i think robyn was convinced that murdoch was innocent. how was joanne lees protrayed in the tv show last night?
Robyn Bowles
reAllytee
20-03-2007, 09:41
Yeah Peg i have that problem too which is why i often avoid them. Although i do have Bill Clintons & Alan Bonds bio's in the house they are DP's not sure if i will read Bond but i like Clinton so will give that a go at some stage.
Angels & Demons is awesome btw much better than the Da Vinci code if you ask me & would make a much better film !
I have 6 books sitting on my bedside & i have a list of books to send my mum to the library for lol. My local is about to get shut down for renovations *sigh* but will be great once its re-done !
Oh & i would really like to whinge about the parents in my area because honestly i want to know how they allow children under the age of 15yrs to be out at nite let alone setting fire to things !!!! The favourite thing atm is to set alight all " for sale " signs & patches of grass in the park but whats more worrying is the new trend of setting fire to charity bins .... It requires one of these :mad:
red crayon
20-03-2007, 11:15
Thank you, MD...yes, Robyn Bowles.
Briefly off the subject of Joanne Lees and back to the previous subject of Angelina Jolie. Angelina is apparently here in Hanoi to finalise her adoption. Anyone got her mobile number? I could give her a call and invite her over for dinner and we could do a conference call between her and the OCSCs.
Ally - whenever i whine about the trials and tribulations of raising a toddler my DP who has 2 older kids says to me 'this is easy. wait til they're teenagers'. so true. it's scary to see what kids get up to and to imagine the anger or whatever that drives them to be so destructive.
Chickadee
20-03-2007, 11:17
Angelina is apparently here in Hanoi to finalise her adoption. Anyone got her mobile number?
Oh darn it! I left my little black book of numbers in my other purse today. D'oh!
millymoo
20-03-2007, 13:32
:wave:
Oooh keep us posted on any action. I read recently , the nurse in the orphanage didn`t know they were famous so their was no quick deal just the same as any ordinary couple. How annoying!
millymoo
20-03-2007, 13:33
Thank you, MD...yes, Robyn Bowles.
Briefly off the subject of Joanne Lees and back to the previous subject of Angelina Jolie. Angelina is apparently here in Hanoi to finalise her adoption. Anyone got her mobile number? I could give her a call and invite her over for dinner and we could do a conference call between her and the OCSCs.
Ally - whenever i whine about the trials and tribulations of raising a toddler my DP who has 2 older kids says to me 'this is easy. wait til they're teenagers'. so true. it's scary to see what kids get up to and to imagine the anger or whatever that drives them to be so destructive.
What is the time difference there Red Crayon.Lovely piccie by the way!
red crayon
20-03-2007, 16:50
hanoi is currently 4 hours behind AEST. when daylight savings ends, we'll be back to the standard 3 hours behind - basically on the same timeline as perth.
so we'll have to make the conference call a lunchtime thing. otherwise the OCSCs will be asleep in their pastures.
I have many quirks, but I can't say I share the biography thing (mainly because I'm not into biographies as a rule). I did enjoy reading one by an engineer (how sad am I!).
Cheers Luffly Cows
I don't normally watch the TV dramatisations of any reali life events as they never portray them accurately etc - I was just very amused to see the way that actors took on the characteristics (some quite subtle) of people that I know in real life.
I tend not to read biographies - although I did enjoy one about F Scott Fitzgerald ( a wonderfully tragic life). I much prefer to hide in fiction these days!
misskittyfantastico
20-03-2007, 20:16
Umm..sad X. You love Joss Whedon though, so that ups your coolness factor.
ETA...I'm a history lass...or at least that's what my degree says! I enjoy a good bio. Maryanne Faithfull's was brilliant. Also Frances Farmer "Will there ever be a morning" has stayed with me. OOH "One Crowded Hour" changed my life at 16.
I generally prefer fiction to non-fiction. The odd biography is okay though, if either the subject is of great interest to me (Austen, The Brontes) or if it has a good bit of wit. I liked Clive James memoirs and David Nivens. At least when they call them memoirs you know they have made loads of it up. I read the Kenneth William diaries a few years back, interesting and sad. Oh, and I have just finished Alan Jones bio - too much sport talk for my liking.
I read somewhere that the Jolie adoption was not fast tracked at all and that they started proceedings over a year ago. I wonder if that is true.
I think I will have to go down to my local library and get a good gory crime novel out.
misskittyfantastico
20-03-2007, 20:32
I generally prefer fiction to non-fiction. The odd biography is okay though, if either the subject is of great interest to me (Austen, The Brontes) or if it has a good bit of wit. I liked Clive James memoirs and David Nivens. At least when they call them memoirs you know they have made loads of it up. I read the Kenneth William diaries a few years back, interesting and sad. Oh, and I have just finished Alan Jones bio - too much sport talk for my liking.
I read somewhere that the Jolie adoption was not fast tracked at all and that they started proceedings over a year ago. I wonder if that is true.
I think I will have to go down to my local library and get a good gory crime novel out.
YAY for gory crime novels! Who are your authors of choice?
I tend to be a fiction reader too, but that said, Nelson Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" is one of my favourite books of all time. No matter how many times I read it, it moves me to tears.
. Also Frances Farmer "Will there ever be a morning" has stayed with me. .
Just wanted to say - how weird is that? I have a copy of this book. Strangely I got it from sending in a label from a coffee jar about 20years ago..... - You're right though - very strong book.
3 others that get honourable mentions are:
Any story about Helen Keller (or Annie Sullivan) - the Miracle worker is fantastic
Annie's coming out about a girl with cerebral palsy whom everyone thinks is mentally challenged as well as physically (the book proves she isn't)
Tell me I'm here - a book by Anne Deveson about her son who has schizophrenia and commits suicide.
The last one I had to read for uni - all gripping reads where I'd never had any urge to read bios before.
Have to say - my bookshelves are chock-a-block full of a lot more fiction than bios (don't think one of my favs - Gone with the Wind is really a bio - although I do have Margaret Mitchell's bio - was a freebie from a bookclub). Actually in all reality my favourite book of all time is If tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon - love books about conning people - just sounds trashy to admit it's a Sidney Sheldon one (he also created one of my all time favourite tv series - I Dream of Jeannie).
*pegasus continues to out herself as a nerd from way back and feels right at home amongst the cows as obviously she was never cool like X!*
PS Red Crayon - usually us Perthites are 2 hours behind the east coast unless they have daylight saving and we don't - this year we've remained 2hours.
millymoo
21-03-2007, 09:58
hanoi is currently 4 hours behind AEST. when daylight savings ends, we'll be back to the standard 3 hours behind - basically on the same timeline as perth.
so we'll have to make the conference call a lunchtime thing. otherwise the OCSCs will be asleep in their pastures.
Hmmm yes back to the dark nights...this Sunday I think will be the first. I know I should be used to the cold being a pom but my blood must have thinned already as I hated last winter!
The thought of BF in the cold night....chiily nips!
Hanoi looks fascinating to me. Everyone else probably knows but what took you there?
Hanoi looks fascinating to me. Everyone else probably knows but what took you there?
I'm guessing it was a plane. Unless she has a teleporting machine.
Very funny Bron.
Pegasus, I will look for Anne Deveson's book, that sounds like a very interesting read.
Miss Kitty, it is so long since I read one that I can hardly remember but the last crime writers I really enjoyed were Lawrence Block, George P Pelecanos, and some other American dude whose name escapes me.
I also must read the Enneagram parenting book that my mother sent me two years ago....
Lord, it is so humid again today - no likey. Roll on winter, or at least Autumn.
red crayon
21-03-2007, 14:23
sorry, peg and bron and the perthites, i thought we were on the same time line. anyhoo, normally we are 3 hours behind.
millymoo - my DP is working on ausaid funded HIV/AIDS project. he works with the police in vietnam, southern china and burma/myanmar on how minimise the risk of spreading HIV/AIDS amongst their injecting drug users. HIV/AIDS in this part of the world is mostly spread through injecting drug use.
mariao and misskitty - i'm a big crime reader. you mentioned some favs there - george pelicanos and lawrence block (i was madly in love with matt scuder for a while), as well as michael connolly, ian rankin and val mcdermid.
don't mind bios but not what i normally go for.
It's funny - I first came into this topic to proclaim that I don't like bios as you can never be sure if they are the whole truth and if it's not the whole truth, I'd rather be reading fiction, and I've uncovered a whole realm of books in my bookcase that I'd forgotten about.
Just have to share (although not technically bios) - two of my all time favourite books (except for the sidney sheldon trash), are Couplehood and Babyhood by Paul Reiser - all too funny - first books I've ever read and actually laughed out loud while reading. Very easy to identify with.
Nerd hat on here - even more favourite than the trash of Sidney Sheldon is my Get Smart Handbook - with synopses of all episodes, character profiles etc.
Anyway, I digress...
Now back to cantankery (almost forgot which thread I was on here).
Just wanted to say that I've been wondering lately how much like my mother I am (to what degree now, and to what degree I will continue to evolve into. Hmmm...I've been spending some time with her lately and I am becoming more and more worried that I see and hear certain actions and words eminating from me that remind me of her (and not in a positive light).
While it's all well and good to be a COSC, I don't want to be a NOB (Nasty Old Female Dog). I've witnessed her on the train speak to YWS taking up seats (while clutching their crutches in their hands - she swears she forgot they entered with them, but the bandages were very visible), speaking her mind at a playcentre on the fact that the cappuccino was overly late, while it was apparent that there was only one staff member taking children in through the front door and working the cafe part...enough said.
On the other hand, how much can we learn from our bull counterparts and about keeping a sense of humour?
I full well remember my father scoff at the YWS' on his worksites lamenting the fact that they didn't have Bolle safety glasses, he then proceeded to paint the words on his with a bottle of liquid paper in jest. It now appears that in more recent years, the firms have bent to the peer pressure and I have now witnessed my father wearing true blue Bolle safety glasses - not a scoff in sight - he thinks they are truly great.
reAllytee
22-03-2007, 08:52
Oh dont worry Peg i told my mum she was turning into her mother my nan the other day she was rather horrifed !!!
So many things she gets cranky over for no reason really but then i do believe she is rather stressed atm. Im adding to the drama as always being pregnant & sick of course ! I dont think mothering ever ends does it !
I know im turning into my mother though as embarassing as it is. I prefer the ABC but then who wouldnt ! Then last nite at work my sister was in fits of laughter at my comments about one of the bosses we had. She is a gorgeous woman no doubt ( guess thats my problem really isnt it ) & here she was skin tight skinny jeans ( her bum didnt even look big i mean whats with that they always do that to you ! ), stillettos & a clingy, sheer shirt that was rather lovely. Now IMO :rolleyes: i liked the outfit overall it was very errr funky or something along that lines but i just found it unprofessional to be wearing that at work. Oh how im getting old.
Peg your mother sounds like mine, although I don't speak to my mother any more not due to that, but at least going out in public has become a better experience!
reAllytee
22-03-2007, 15:47
Pix can i just say that avatar just made me grin !
Just what i needed to brighten my day !
Apparently my grandmother-in-law used to sit on a bench on Pitt Street Mall and comment loudly about "all these fat men walking around with their fat bottoms straining against their shiny cheap pants."
I'm actually rather looking forward to being old and being able to say such things in public. Loudly.
millymoo
22-03-2007, 16:07
Peg your mother sounds like mine, although I don't speak to my mother any more not due to that, but at least going out in public has become a better experience!
Hi:wave:
What a Lovely picture.
No woolly hats needed here yet!
Sweltering here in NSW!
red crayon
22-03-2007, 17:03
on the subject of becoming your mother...do you find yourself repeating all the silly things that your parents used to say to you to your child/ren?
you know what i'm talking about...."come out of the water, your lips are blue", "if i had to say that one more time, so help me....", etc etc. My mum used to say to me, "you're as slow as an old mole at a christening". i still don't know what that means.
Thanks girls, despite the cold weather it's jolly good fun buying winter clothes!
RC I do that my fave is "I will not tell you again"
My favourite nasty mum saying is "stop crying, or I'll give you a reason to cry".
Now I don't quite use it in the same sense (because we don't smack), but I do try to explain to my hysterical 5 yo that not being able to play on the PC right NOW is not the end of the world as we know it. :D
Cheers Cranky Ones
My mother use to say that to me X and then she would take my knickers off and make me sit in a wicker chair for what felt like a VERY long time. I hate wicker now!
I never cried though so not sure why she bothered
Billy Connolly used to do a very funny routine on that whole "I'll give you a reason to cry" - I can not remember it now but something along the lines of "I already have something to cry about, thanks very much" followed by a whack from his mother.
My favourite was being threatened with housework if you complained of being bored. "There is no reason to be bored around here" with long list of chores that could be done. I do find myself turning into my mother at times. My mother tells me that she was horrified when she found herself saying some of her mother's phrases.
Well, we did not lick it off the stones as they say. All the things we ever heard our mothers say are lurking in the subconscious, waiting for a chance to emerge - when you least expect it!
Oh - Beany - great story about your grandmother in law - I look forward as well to not giving two hoots about social niceties, or basic manners as some people like to call them. There was that purple wearing poem that you see being passed in email at times.
There was a program, years ago, with Judi Dench I think, called Behaving badly. A role model for OCSC or NOBs I think.
Pixie, what a bizarre thing for your mother to do...I can see why you might not want to spend much time with her
My mother's favourite saying - and still is - is "I'm not your whipping boy Rachel!!" Apparently I have anger iss-ewes and take them out on my mother. :rolleyes:
Annie's coming out about a girl with cerebral palsy whom everyone thinks is mentally challenged as well as physically (the book proves she isn't)
The girl who played Annie in the movie - Tina something - I went out with her cousin for about 2 years when I was about 18.
There's a character in Terry Pratchett's Dicsworld books called Nanny Ogg. I aspire to her. She makes rude jokes. She farts without pardon or leave. She cackles with laughter at her own jokes. And she rules her family with an intricate system of figurines ... All her family buy her figurines when away on holiday and those members that are in favour will have their figurines displayed somewhere visible. Those that aren't in favour will find their figurines out in the hallway or the downstairs toilet.
And they all care!
Oh the power!
Back on my mother - isn't it great how we can vent on here? The saddest thing is that some of the things she says I think should be said - just when the words come out it sounds so rude - could be her tone...
Maybe I'm just very mellow on some days.
Pixie - I try that not talking thing a bit - my mother's the sort to call me and tell me she hasn't heard from my brother for a while and wants to know how long it will take for him to call her. I'm not to tell him she's waiting for him to call, and the longer he leaves it, the worse serve she'll give him when he does call. (Of course I call him and tell him she wants a call, but not to tell her he knows she does.)
I have to say though I'm sitting here with a most beautiful girl who is by all accounts the spitting image of me at the same age thinking - there could be worse things she could do than turn out like me, couldn't there be? My mum does keep telling me to give up feeding her though as this must be about the time (apparently she gave up feeding me at 7months as I started biting!).
Razzle - small world - didn't think anyone here would know anything about that book, or movie.
Cantankery in the making?
I was over at Chadstone (shopping centre) today... we'd been there all day, it was 4ish, school kids are everywhere with those stupid enormous backpacks flying about...
Anyway, two or three kids rushed past Eloise and nearly bowled her over and she turned around in a fury and YELLED at them! She said "HEY you boys! Mummy says no running...NO! Just WALKING!"
She's THREE! I cracked up! This kid has been listening to me for tooooo long.
Ah Razzle, the acorns don't fall far from the oak.....
Good to see you're training her early in important life skills like cantankery.
Lovely Razzle - she can be an honourary member as soon as you sign her up as a BH member (oh, and when she learns to type).
Pippi Longstocking
27-03-2007, 06:45
It's official! I am now a genuine OCSC! :eek: :o
How did that happen and where did my life go??!
If I do this ----->:smiliedance: all you can hear is hips clicking and joints clunking, 'tis a travesty!
Anyhoo, as you were.....
It's official! I am now a genuine OCSC! :eek: :o
So how old do you have to be to be considered an OCSC, anyway?!?! :p ;)
Pippi Longstocking
27-03-2007, 07:11
So how old do you have to be to be considered an OCSC, anyway?!?! :p ;)
It's 21 isn't it? *shifty eyes*
It's 21 isn't it? *shifty eyes*
*Ahem*
Yes, I'm sure you're right there... ;)
It's official! I am now a genuine OCSC! :eek: :o
How did that happen and where did my life go??!
If I do this ----->:smiliedance: all you can hear is hips clicking and joints clunking, 'tis a travesty!
Anyhoo, as you were.....
Well Happy Birthday, at 30 you are still a YWS to us 4+ creatures. And women, like good wine, get better with age.
Pippi Longstocking
27-03-2007, 07:36
Ooh, am I really still a yws? Yay! Tht m33ns I'm gonna rite like 1. Huh! :devil6:
millymoo
27-03-2007, 08:40
:wave:
Hmm well I feel ancient next to most of you!I`ll be graduating into the 40+ group ...what are they then I wonder if we are cantankerous!
Razzle..."Out of the mouths of babes" as my mum always says......moments you will never forget!
Anyone heard from Red Crayon lately
reAllytee
27-03-2007, 09:07
Noooo millymoo its already been decided that you can stay here as long as possible this is a safe haven for all OCSC's for as long as they need it !
I saw the lovely redcrayon around last week in our birth thread ( our boys are born in the same group ). Im sure she will be back shortly !
Razzle - Im very proud of E seriously thats beautiful work on her part ! Ive been saying Harry is well on his way because he has started taking his dinner at 4.30pm !!! Grandpa Harry !
Have to say im not feeling very cantankerous atm. I havent been sick in 8 days & well im positively happy ! Still not a glowing representation of pregnancy & i still gag quite a lot but hey baby steps is all we need ! Although im sure it wouldve been a different story had i seen my cousins wife last Friday nite. Apparently she is "glowing" & thoroughly enjoying pregnancy ( she is due a month after me ). I say bring on the last 2mths for her & lets see how "glowing" she is hahha.
Guv'nor, because you're new to these cantankeous parts, we'll let it go this time, but I feel I should tell you that, in keeping with our advanced age and therefore great dignity, emoticons are somewhat frowned upon in this thread.
Use them elsewhere all you like, by all means.
And welcome to the cantakerous side of the fence by the way.
emoticons are somewhat frowned upon in this thread.
Use them elsewhere all you like, by all means.
What?!?! No emoticons?!?! That's it, I'm outta here. :D :p ;) :laughing:
millymoo
27-03-2007, 12:17
:eek::eek::eek: I love them...make me feel young but if forbidden then so be it:crying:
H x
millymoo
27-03-2007, 12:20
Noooo millymoo its already been decided that you can stay here as long as possible this is a safe haven for all OCSC's for as long as they need it !
I saw the lovely redcrayon around last week in our birth thread ( our boys are born in the same group ). Im sure she will be back shortly !
me ). .
Good to hear about RedCrayon! We were having a good old yarn (god I am catching these oz phrases!)!
Thank you...I will stay here for a long time...but on the positive side ...how young will I feel at firs in the next 40+ stage!!
Millymoo - you might not see redcrayon for a while as she has had to fly back to Australia for a little while - but she always returns, never fear!!
Razz - very impressed with your daughter's training! An OCS-calf in the making!
I am a little cantankerous at the thought of all the work I have to do to prepare our house for sale and moving interstate, but just keep resorting to the easter eggs that I bought for the children (what they don't know won't hurt them) to numb the pain........
reAllytee
27-03-2007, 12:45
Oh moving ! draught i feel your pain !
I dont want to do it again but know we will in a few years if we get back on our feet that is ! But i swear that will be it ! The last time cause i loathe it so much ! Its not the new exciting experience that bothers me but the packing & unpacking of boxes. My worst enemy.
Dont feel bad btw .... I ate Harry's easter eggs he recieved from my sister in Melb. My excuse was that being white chocolate they are bad for him as its made from fat. Dont worry that im pregnant or anything wwhhhooooops !
millymoo - Yes Jaqui is lovely ! A great person to chat away with !
Well, I'm cantankerous.
I just got back from an ante natal morning tea at the hospital, which was a lovely event, lots of chatting to people with similarly sized bellies. However, on my arrival home, as I tried to pull into my driveway, I noted a car parked outside my neighbour's house, with the nose of the car jutting onto my driveway. It belonged to the lawnmower man, who was in my neighbour's front garden. I couldn't get into my driveway, so I honked my horn and when he looked up, I indicated, politely, what the problem was. He continued with his gardening.
HELLO!!!! I can't get into my own driveway!! Move your car!! Or perhaps don't park there in the first place!!! GRRRR. Don't mess with a 37 week pregnant Bron.
Anyway, I got out of my car, walked over to him, explained the situation, asked him to move, he said "ah, you can fit, it's easy" and went back to gardening!!!
Went back to car, did some tricky moves, managed to get into driveway without damaging my car or his. Somewhat relieved. Took 15 minutes to do a parking job that usually takes about 30 seconds, but there you go.
Charmless charmless man.
Chickadee
27-03-2007, 13:36
Bron, I think I'd have parked 2cm from his bumper. And then got our OTHER car out to box him in at the other end.
Or actually, that's what I'd have thought about doing and ranted about for an hour. I'd never have the guts unfortunately.
What I have done in the past though is ring the gardener's company and complain to the boss. Usually when they park over the footpath and I'm trying to get past with 2 dogs and a pram.
Oh Draught I feel for you on moving! I am rather hoping I don't have to do it for a while yet! It's tiring even when they pack everything for you.
Bron, er something VERY wrong with that chap, I would of got the name of him and the company if he works for one, and written a letter of complaint. I dislike men like that, they need a hot poker.
Pippi Longstocking
27-03-2007, 14:56
Guv'nor, because you're new to these cantankeous parts, we'll let it go this time, but I feel I should tell you that, in keeping with our advanced age and therefore great dignity, emoticons are somewhat frowned upon in this thread.
Use them elsewhere all you like, by all means.
And welcome to the cantakerous side of the fence by the way.
What?!:eek: No emoticons?:detective: I'd best not use any then, how embarassing! :o What?! :devil6:
Ok ok, I'll behave. Just had to get that out of my system!
reAllytee
27-03-2007, 17:25
Bron you handled that more calmly than i wouldve !
I certainly wouldve had many words to say to his " its ok you can fit " rubbish !
Bron - you are a clamer person than me too! I would have behaved very immaturely and stroppily I am sure.
As for my packing - at least I don't have to do that part of it - my DH's employers pay for someone to pack and unpack - but I still have to sort and work out what is going, what is staying, what is being stored etc......a nightmare of forward planning that ends up being my sole responsibility. DH has actually managed to be interstate for the last two pack up and uplifts - not this time! I have made all sorts of dire threats if he leaves me to do with with three small helpers!!!
The biggest nightmare is working out how to keep our house clean and looking beautiful for three weeks so people can look at it and be inspired to spend a vast fortune at auction, thus enabling us to buy another house at the other end....I see many stressful days ahead!!
I think it's still stressful Draught, I mean you have to still co-ordinate them and say yes pack this don't pack that. And filtering out what you're taking what you're not.
Actually I am not going to talk about it, it makes me feel stressed!
We have been here 9 weeks now and I still have paperwork to do and phone calls to make. I shall be glad when it all settles down.
On a lighter note apparently it will 18C here today, yesterday was glorious it made me glad to be in the UK which is a rare feeling!
Moo to all
Have been thinking I should change my line under my avatar, but it strangely still suits how my life is running.
Just when you think life should be smooth, someone else riles you up and you continue to take deep breaths..........................
Okay - just let that one run - I'm breathing out as we speak.
Ally - it's very hard to remain cantankerous as your pregnancy progresses - it gets somewhat more beautiful to imagine the new little person who will greet you, but you can moan and whinge all you want about how your clothes don't fit or how you have heartburn!
Redcrayon - now I heard a whisper that she was now a pink lady - sacrilage - next thing you know they'll be anointing MM!
Pixie - Hmmm - not impressed with your 18C - will be looking forward to our planned trip to Darwin - 18C there would be freezing temp!
Bron - another hmmm... - rude rude man - how dare he imagine it - problem is if you park too close you're bound to scratch your own duco.
Draught - why oh why didn't you think to move / camp in the western world????
millymoo
28-03-2007, 14:04
Bron I am seriously impressed with your calmness!! You are amazing and should be an expert in labour!!
My tale...At 7 mths pregnant I could not get a park at our hospital so as I drove out of the car park, the ticket booth guy stopped me and I asked him if he could kindly direct me to the next car park as I was late for my antenatal appt...he replied "That`s not my fault"....envisage red rag to a bull moment!
I then sat there holding up the traffic insisting he explain to me why he felt the need to make that comment! I after all had not accused him of making me late. He told me i was over reacting!! Envisage even redder rag to a bull!
Eventually I sreached off in a hot lather and by the time I got to the next car park was sobbing so hard the next poor ticket guy took pity and had to hear the whole sorry tale! As did everyone else I met that day.
So Bron you are a star...or I was a hormonal nutter!!
millymoo
28-03-2007, 14:07
I think it's still stressful Draught, I mean you have to still co-ordinate them and say yes pack this don't pack that. And filtering out what you're taking what you're not.
Actually I am not going to talk about it, it makes me feel stressed!
We have been here 9 weeks now and I still have paperwork to do and phone calls to make. I shall be glad when it all settles down.
On a lighter note apparently it will 18C here today, yesterday was glorious it made me glad to be in the UK which is a rare feeling!
Oh it gets better and the summers are lovely ! half a pint in an English Beer garden...mmm nothing beats it on a glorious day
Bron I am seriously impressed with your calmness!! You are amazing and should be an expert in labour!!
Ah yes, goddess of self control! I actually think that my main reason for remaining calm was that I'd had a lovely morning, had drunk hot chocolate and had a whole afternoon stretching ahead of me where I had nothing to do except read a book and watch old episodes of the West Wing. For that reason, he provided a minor blip on my radar.
On other days I would have lost the plot completely, fear not, I am quite, quite normal.
millymoo
29-03-2007, 10:51
Good to know!! Not only me.
I just have this real bugbare about manners. It must be my age!
Another one that has surfaced is "Turn it Down"!
I think I am definately worthy of the OCSC title some days!!
reAllytee
29-03-2007, 11:46
Oh millymoo my DP hates me now as im always telling him off for having music up too loud etc. I never used to care but all of a sudden it really irks me !
Ive also abused the painters that painted our complex a few months ago on numerous occasions. First time they would be yelling out to each other holding conversations & arguments between townhouses & villas. Drove me insane ! I abused them after they had the hide to watch me walk into Boof's room to put him down for his nap close his curtains & continue to sing & laugh. They were painting the area around his window for heavens sake !!!! Then another day they decided to pull one of their cars up in the visitors car space next to our place, open all doors & turn the stereo up loud to listen to music. I lost the plot totally !!! I swear i was nearly frothing at the mouth. Of course this lot were all the apprentices so lovely wonderful YWS who needed to pull their trousers up. They are lucky i didnt beat them with my walking stick !
Aaaah but on a different note im still happy. Had a wonderful appt with an Ob who answered all my questions in regards to Boof's birth & went through all the notes. It honestly lifted a huge weight & i feel freaking fantastic !!!!
Chickadee
29-03-2007, 11:53
That's great news Ally!
Draught, I just attended a talk here on 'stress management'. Apparently moving house ranks at about 20 'points' of stress. Death of a spouse is the highest at 100 (divorce is 73, woohoo). Obviously it was a bunch of men who did the rating system. I think moving house with 3 kids under 5 rates way way higher than 20 points.
Interestingly, in an office of 200+ people and heavily male dominated, it was mostly 30something & 40something women who chose to attend the seminar. Do we have more stress then men?
charlen49
29-03-2007, 12:47
Lol.....just been reading parts of this thread and those shows grumpy old women/ grumpy old men popped into my head...has anyone watched them?
millymoo
29-03-2007, 15:56
Ally I am glad I am not the only one to lose it!!!
I have my second AF due this week since having Amelia and I can feel terrible PMS rising in me. Calm, Calm. Deep breaths:banghead:
Martha... I think men have a problem admitting t stress. My DH displays plenty of signs!
Yes have watched all the Grumpy shows. They are fab and just hit the spot. It is sad though to agree with it all. I`m laughing with them not at them!:eek:
Ooops sorry about emoticons. Won`t do it again!
H x
Martha 20 points.....hmmm I was so stressed emigrating really puts a strain on your relationship. We plan to possibly, maybe, kinda hope not for at least 10 years move to Switzerland rather hoping to send our kids to school there.
PMT ah yes I was a major CSC the other week no idea why and AF comes back after a very long time, I was so happy, but sheshh I must be horrid to live with.
charlen49
29-03-2007, 19:17
Ally I am glad I am not the only one to lose it!!!
I have my second AF due this week since having Amelia and I can feel terrible PMS rising in me. Calm, Calm. Deep breaths:banghead:
Martha... I think men have a problem admitting t stress. My DH displays plenty of signs!
Yes have watched all the Grumpy shows. They are fab and just hit the spot. It is sad though to agree with it all. I`m laughing with them not at them!:eek:
Ooops sorry about emoticons. Won`t do it again!
H x
A good belly laugh does wonders. Arh pms and me are old friends. .......just askdp:eek:
Should Red Crayon change her user name to Pink Crayon?
Pixie, I lived the ex-pat life in Switzerland for a few years. It would be a nice place to bring up children. More of the outdoor living that you would be used to in Australia. I found that a lot of the non-work force mothers found it hard to settle there however. I am not sure why, I think they did not make enough of an effort to adapt to local life, learn the language etc and found themselves a little isolated.
I am going to see the Grumpy Old Women stage show here at the end of April. I wonder if it will be any good.
Did you see that Kerry O'Brien was praising sea dogs on the 7:30 report. We are well worth the wait apparently.
Mamaduke
29-03-2007, 21:58
Okay, here's my input for the day...
A couple of weeks ago took the family to the beach (1.5hrs away!), boys jump out of the car and run like crazy kelpie dogs, DH and I chase them down, sit them on the picnic table (all the while juggling fish and chips) and organise them for lunch. I get up to go and buy a parking ticket and the 'grey ghosts' or 'maggots' as DH fondly refers to them have pounced on my Davey Kluger and issued me with a fine.
I talk to my witness who nicely offers his name and phone number as a witness to this travesty of human rights (the right to make sure your children are safe and eating before buying a bloody parking ticket!) and I go home to compose a letter to council stating my case.
Which brings us to today...
I receive a patronising, generic letter from council advising me of 'the rules' and that they will not be cancelling the ticket. It is signed by some pencil neck who doesn't even have the intestinal fortitude to have his/her name underneath the signature, just "Appeals Review Officer".
Well OCSC has kicked in by this point, I'm going to take it to the Magistrates' Court - they want me to just admit defeat and pay it, after all, it's only $50, but that's what they want everyone to do, and I'm not everyone, it's not the money, it's the principle, it's the fact that I sent them a letter justifying my car sitting in the carpark for 3 minutes without a valid ticket & they insulted me by sending me a stock standard, generic reply letter which made no reference to my personal case whatsoever.
I'm an OCSC who's also a SAHM...they've hit the double whammy...I've got nothing better to do, I'll see you bungling bureaucrats in court!!!
Mamaduke
30-03-2007, 17:43
Oh my giddy aunt...
have I killed this thread?
Was it all a little too OCSC?
Whoops!
reAllytee
30-03-2007, 17:51
Oh MD im very proud !
For heavens sake if you had only been there minutes whats their problem ?!?!?!?!
Oh Mamaduke. It is one of those situations where you are dealing with people who know the rules and anything that is contrary to the rules is wrong. No wiggle space at all. Annoying isn't it, especially when you have a good reason - they could at least reduce the fine or something, as a compromise!
Says she, who has worked in compliance for the government for years.....
Ah MD - taking on beauracracy (which I think I have spelt wrong but am too tired to check) is always the sign of a true OCSC. I wish you well - if nothing else having your day in court is always somehow satisfying!
Ah MD - taking on beauracracy (which I think I have spelt wrong but am too tired to check) is always the sign of a true OCSC. I wish you well - if nothing else having your day in court is always somehow satisfying!
Says the lawyer who gets paid for it!!!
Ah yes Peg - was wondering if anyone would pick up on that. I did write out various answers from the perspective of a person who used to represent the parking inspectors but decided that was all too technical and that at the end of the day MD will love taking them on whether she wins or loses!
Mamaduke
31-03-2007, 18:50
On legal advice ;) MM, I've decided that I'm not going to go to court about the parking ticket but...
I will go to the council offices to pay the fine...
in 5c coins.
That sounds much more like a victory to me - a grand pyrrhic victory.
I have a friend who is contesting a similar case, left the car for two minutes to go into the shop ten steps away to get change for the parking meter.
A year down the line it is still not over and she is wondering about whether contesting it was such a good idea.
Gald you got good legal advice MD - I didn't think you were going to win but thought you would have enjoyed it all. Liek your approach.
charlen49
31-03-2007, 19:50
Well MD.they do say on the parking meters that you can use a variety of coins!!!
reAllytee
01-04-2007, 16:57
Oh MD that will be ever so much a sweeter victory !
I like your solution MD - good call.
I was just having a nap on the couch (hey, I'm 38 weeks pregnant, I'm allowed) after a challenging morning of drinking raspberry leaf tea and reading books. The phone rang, waking me from my nap. I answered it. It was a telemarketer called Cheryl offering me "glamour photography" (ha!). I am polite to telemarketers, I feel quite sorry for them most of the time. So I politely said to Cheryl "sorry, I don't respond to telemarketers. Thank you" and hung up the phone.
Snuggled back down onto the couch and picked up my book, 5 minutes later, phone rings again. Cheryl again. Same offer, same script. First she wakes me up, then she rings back even though I'd told her I wasn't interested. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Bron: "You JUST telephoned me, less than 5 minutes ago, and I told you I wasn't interested. Why are you phoning again".
Cheryl: "Because we're offering glamour photography in your area, and..."
Bron: "Do not call this number again, remove me from your call list."
Cheryl: "Oh, but...."
Bron - hangs up phone.
Oh the cantankery is strong today.
You should ask for their home number and tell them you'll call them back. While they are eating dinner.
Chickadee
02-04-2007, 16:24
... or pretend to go into labour and insist they help you over the phone :)
Mamaduke
02-04-2007, 16:41
When I get the telemarketers I always say in my clearest voice...
"I'm sorry, I don't speak English"
OT a little but when I was in high school someone rang my house...
Dad: "Hello"
Anon caller: "Hello, your daughter is a b.i.t.c.h!"
Dad: "I know...anything else?"
Dad said all he heard were gasps of disbelief from the other end!!!
Imagine calling my Dad and telling him something like that - he lived with me, as if this was news to him!
millymoo
02-04-2007, 17:13
Hi
They are my biggest gripe!!After bad manners..but then they kind of are too.
I get at least 8 a week and have often run to the phone!Grrrrr
There is a register coming out soon and I shall be on it then they can`t call or face a huge fine.
I have mastered the ones calling from another country as the phone takes a while to connect thru....so it is being put down as i faintly.."Hello..Hello" Sweet victory.
charlen49
02-04-2007, 18:00
My phone has caller id so the overseas calls show up...so i don't answer....the ones that are private callers( and thats hard because i have family that are private callers..though there is a number u can tell family to put infront of there own number so it shows only u whos e calling)..i pick up phone and wait ..if no one speaks i hang up...if someone speaks and i dont know the voice..i hang up.....im sick to death of them!!!!!!!!
Well this is the most pathetic, cranky whinge ever......
I was having a colour and a cut, in an establishment in Paddington, with childcare downstairs. There was a delay between my colour and my cut and I felt my shoulders stiffening. I started thinking, It is going to be too late for Aoife's dinner, why am I waiting.....then I realised what a spoilt ******* I was but it did not really help. Once I started feeling annoyed, everything annoyed me. "I have already told you I am pleased with the colour, do I have to have a ****ing fixed grin on my face to please you" etc.
And the more I felt like that, the more inner self-loathing entered the fray...does anyone else feel like that?
reAllytee
05-04-2007, 09:31
Meh dont even talk to me about telemarketers.
I have one who keeps pranking my mobile phone. Now while we arent allowed to use emoticons this :mad: is the best way to show my seething anger about it all !
Maria - The joys of motherly guilt ! It can hit anytime & its horrible !
We spent approx $300 the other day when out ( lots of new things like sheets for Harry's new bed. curtains etc ).
Anyways i also bought my p.j's for hospital & all i kept thinking was i shouldnt have bought them i spent money that could be needed for Harry or the baby *sigh*. Mind you i only spent $ 70 on them as i refused to buy exxy ones due to me wrecking all the ones i took last time !
Bloomin children ruin all your fun !
millymoo
05-04-2007, 10:11
I was a bit of a minger and put together a few vest tops and old pj bottoms! luckily I was only in a day and one night and wasn`t in a private establishment!
You will look very lovely so it was worth it.
Amelia is 6 mth now and I still can`t decide on her room.
Maria after years i have started to home colour again as my last hair appt was horrendous. I was trying to feed her under all the capes etc and couldn`t see my booby at all except in the mirror opposite me!!
The poor girl doing my hair looked more :o than me!
H x
Im popping my head in hope thats ok! I meet the criteria-im oldish, very cantankerous, and i was a bit of a cow today!
Was in the local $2 shop, looking for a gift bag for the kids to put their masses of chocolate that their sure to recieve in, with my DD1 (2) and DD2 (8weeks) and after looking for about 5 mins i hear "for gods sake get out of the way" coming from the OLD man behind me!!!!!! Oh dear, big mistake sir, this to a woman who has just got out of bed at 5am, got one child off to preschool, flew over the other side of town to get the other one to school, dragged the kids in and out of th car 5 times before 9.30am and just fought with the rest of NSW over the measly remaining Easter Eggs left at K Mart!
There was no, "excuse me" or anything just plain rudeness. I had my "hummer" of a pram (well it does have to contain 4 children) and it was blocking one aisle that apparently Mr Cranky Pants wanted to use!!! I just replied, while smiling sweetly "bite me mate" and carried on looking. Now had he of asked nicely i would have happily tried to manouver(sp?) the Hummer in amongst all the stuff (why are those shops so crammed that you have to walk sideways down the aisle?) while attempting to NOT take my DD1's eye out with a wall hanger but pure and simple i had no where to go.
One of the shop assistants them comes over, probably and correctly, sensing disaster, attempts to MOVE MY PRAM WITH MY CHILDREN in it into another aisle??????
Me- excuse me, what are you doing?
Her- Im just going to move this over here so he can get in there.
Me- er....... no your not! I can not see them there and i need to keep my hand on the pram so it doesn't fall over and tip my children onto the floor!
Her- well, its in the way.
Me- not anymore!
I left- with the mess my DD1 had made by pulling some cards out of the holders all over the floor. I would normally pick them up but not today! No way was i going to continue shopping in there.
Left me in a bad, bad, bad, mood for the rest of the day too.
Sorry to make my first post in here all about me and a huge whinge!!
charlen49
05-04-2007, 15:04
:yelclap: I applaud you.......i would have done more than that i can tell u....was it kotara or glendale kmart.........must be the season for run ins....i had a few with some old farts who just couldnt wait and be polite doing the groceries.....nearly smacked into bub in the process...i just lloked at them and sarcastically said "excuse me" ..but alas they continued with there tyrade ..must have turned off the hearing aid or were just plain stupid to get the sarcasim in my voice.....ahh old people who think they can push in front really get on my goat!!! there now i've had my winge.....yay for easter:rolleyes:
It was Waratah at that little crammed $2 shop!
You have to be a size 4 to fit down those aisles as it is!! Let alone with a massive pram that is continually catching on the shelving as you go past:banghead:
millymoo
05-04-2007, 18:33
Welcome Roopee my dear OCSC!! Nice to see you in here.
You poor thing!I am the same and stand my ground.
DD1 is often heard growling in my ear..."Don`t start Mum puuulease"
She gets so embarrassed.
Well done you...silly old fart!
H x
charlen49
05-04-2007, 19:59
Well i hope you gave them your $2 worth. roopee..lol..and ya think with a carpark that lrg at waratah they could build shops with god damn larger eisles!....hmmm
red crayon
09-04-2007, 16:34
millymoo - Yes Jaqui is lovely ! A great person to chat away with !
oh my goodness, i had all these lovely things said about me and i wasn't here for it!
hi everyone, back from melbourne and back into hanoi craziness. my parents are visiting this week. should be interesting - my mum is terrified of getting sick and has never been to a south east asian country before. wait til she see the traffic!
millymoo
09-04-2007, 17:17
:wave:Hello stranger!!
Yes you were missed!
Good luck with your mum. I grew up in Singapore and visited many asian countries so yes the traffic will no doubt freak her out. I remember going through Bangkok with my Mum on a Tut Tut!! I though it was great as I was 16 but Mum was whiter than white and near to throwing up! The noise too!
Here we just cruise around the roads quite oblivious really as it is pretty quiet.
Hope you enjoyed Melb, yet to visit but have asked DH to take me shopping there for the big 40!
Welcome Back
helen
charlen49
09-04-2007, 21:06
:wave:Hello stranger!!
Yes you were missed!
Good luck with your mum. I grew up in Singapore and visited many asian countries so yes the traffic will no doubt freak her out. I remember going through Bangkok with my Mum on a Tut Tut!! I though it was great as I was 16 but Mum was whiter than white and near to throwing up! The noise too!
Here we just cruise around the roads quite oblivious really as it is pretty quiet.
Hope you enjoyed Melb, yet to visit but have asked DH to take me shopping there for the big 40!
Welcome Back
helen
I took dp to melbourne 2 years ago for his birthday ( he had been but i hadnt)..it was July..loved the shopping and eating..but hated the absolutely freezing weather...so you will probably love the place Helen being a pom and all!;)
red crayon
09-04-2007, 21:22
ah, milliemoo, melbourne's great for shopping. let me know if you ever get there. my dp is a shopaholic. as for tuk tuks, i went to bangkok years ago with a girlfriend - first time in bangers for both of us - and we went decided to try out the tuk tuks. i was laughing hysterically and she was crossing herself (being a good catholic girl). good fun.
hi charlen49 - i haven't met you yet. welcome to the OCSC's grassy territory.
millymoo
10-04-2007, 05:57
:wave:
Oh my old brain ...I thought it was Tut Tut!! Was soooo young!
Yes Charli and Jacqui I am going to hold DH to that Melbourne idea at 40. There is also a reunion in Spore that year tho so we will see. I may have to go for my 39th!
Cold?? What cold?? I very used to that for sure, although the blood is thinning the longer I am here.
Ask me how I feel in 2-3 mths!
Jacqui Charli popped in while you were MIA and I know her from another thread ...we are local to each other and she is a gooood laugh.
Talk soon
H x
charlen49
10-04-2007, 06:38
:wave: Hi Jacqui...nice to meet you(well sort of!).
Helen you have been here for ever now...your blood must be aussie by now?;)
Wow all these well travelled women......i've never been overseas( not even to that other country of ours tassie:eek: )..though when i took dp to WA 2 years ago he asked if we needed passports being the smart A that he is!
PinkSuede
11-04-2007, 07:40
I don't believe it!
I have been scanning bubhub for over a year now and have never seen this thread.
Oh, the lack of emoticons!
Oh, the absence of SMS-style spelling!
And even, as I wipe a tear from my eye, an informative little snippet on the correct use of the apostrophe.
I can almost feel myself lolling gently with the tide, grazing on that seagrass!
The question is ... do I have a few days to spare to have a read and a giggle at the many other pages written by my newly kindred OCSCs???
A bit much, I know - nice to meet you all anyway!
xo Kirstie
reAllytee
11-04-2007, 08:22
Wow so many new faces !
Welcome ladies *waves* or should that be "moo's".
No cantankery here today its still too early & i havent left the house so im in blissful la-la land at this point !
But then being pregnant means that im off with the fairies most of the time anyways !
Have a great day ladies !
charlen49
11-04-2007, 08:41
Hi Kristie...nice to meet you again..and hello to your gorgeous bub born on that really special date in November!
PinkSuede
11-04-2007, 09:14
Hi again Charli,
My post-pregnancy, sleep deprived brain didn't put two and two together till I saw your daughter's birth date and thought "Ooooh, the same as Jas ... ... hang on a minute!"
I still haven't come across anyone living in Gloucester. DH and I are up there in June and will hopefully make an offer on one of the many properties we have had our eye on.
Jazzy is finally settling into a semi-routine so I have a bit of free time now, which I seem to be spending on bubhub - probably not a great thing as far as the housework goes but who cares! After 5 months of total sleep deprivation I deserve a few minutes of me time.
x K
millymoo
11-04-2007, 09:30
Hello in here Kristie!!Welcome.
Oh bu**"! was about to write but madam is awake again. Another catnap!
Allyoo hi hun always love your avatar ..makes me smile.How is bump coming along? You must be inthat glowing period.
Charli where did you pop off to
H x
red crayon
11-04-2007, 10:14
hi kristie, welcome to the grassy plains. you sound like you'll fit right in.
milliemoo - i'm just as sleep deprived - i didn't even realise you'd written tut tut.
hi ally - i've been wondering how you've been going. good to hear you're doing well.
no cantankeray here. i've actually had a good sleep! the little man has had a bad cough and has been waking up to come into bed with me every night for a week. last night, however, no 'mum' in the middle of the night. feeling good today.
PinkSuede
11-04-2007, 10:33
Okay ... I never quite know how to say this ... but, in the name of cantankeray, girls - it's Kirstie (rhymes with thirsty) not Kristie (rhymes with misty)!
I half considered changing my name to Kristie once but a friend's sister of that name told me not to bother as she was always called Kirstie.
I'm usually just Kirst anyway.
On a different note my daughter just did the most amazing thing ... I put her in her cot - and she fell asleep. I was told this could happen but have never witnessed it first hand. Think I will have a cup of tea to celebrate!
xo K
Chickadee
11-04-2007, 10:37
Welcome Kirstie, and hurray for Jasmine! I remember that magic moment of the first time they sleep by themselves. Oh to have those days back again, instead of being edged and pushed out of my bed by a tossing, turning and snoring 3.5yr old.
There seems to be a national shortage of cantaquery today.
Do you know, I once met twins called Kirsty and Kristy. Imagine the struggle they must have had!
Welcome Pink Suede/Thirsty Kirstie (hey, that's a good username). Sounds like you'll fit right in among all the cantankery.
I would say my cantankery levels are medium to high today. Something to do with being 39 weeks pregnant and sleep deprived, no doubt.
I did, however, use my cantankery for good, rather than evil, yesterday. We have noisy annoying YWS neighbours - a group of three 19 year old blokes who love to shout, yell and swear at 3am. We've tolerated it for a long time, but this weekend was the last straw, (swearing at the top of their voices from 3am to 4am on Easter sunday morning, beer cans spread all over our verge when we woke up, delightful). I wrote to their property manager. I went into great detail about the behaviour we have noted. It felt fabulous, but very OCSC-ish. Can't wait to get a response.
Chickadee
11-04-2007, 10:56
Bron, hopefully the response will be accompanied by a removals truck and new neighbours?
That is certainly what I'm hoping, Martha. Rentals are as rare as hens' teeth at the moment, so I'm sure the owners and agents wouldn't have too many issues booting them out and replacing them.
PinkSuede
11-04-2007, 11:13
Hee hee - Thirsty Kirstie was my nickname in my carefree days of beer and wine swilling!
Do you think that letter writing is a coming of age thing? When a YWS I usually couldn't be bothered writing letters of complaint or I would threaten to but never follow through. These days though I'm formulating my letters of discontent almost as soon as any incident occurs.
I wonder if it is because as we get older we realise that life is just too short to put up with cr@p?
My most recent was a letter to my local shopping centre about the smokers area being right outside every entrance. Now, I appreciate a smoker's right to puff but I don't think I should have to walk through a cloud of it every time I enter a shopping centre. Maybe nothing will be done about it but I felt so happy to get it off my chest!
Fingers crossed for nicer neighbours Bron (I actually thought everyone in Perth was nice!)
xo K
millymoo
11-04-2007, 11:18
Okay ... I never quite know how to say this ... but, in the name of cantankeray, girls - it's Kirstie (rhymes with thirsty) not Kristie (rhymes with misty)!
I half considered changing my name to Kristie once but a friend's sister of that name told me not to bother as she was always called Kirstie.
I'm usually just Kirst anyway.
xo K
I am guilty guilty...and even called you Kirstie on one post and Kristie on another!!
Kirst it is!
Blame me being pommie...kirstie is common there but not kristie at all like here so I must in my old brain assume you are all kristies!!
Aaaarghh!
Anyway thirstykirsty was a girl at our boarding school who was so nicknamed as she was caught up to no good in the boys dorms!!Then expelled.Say no more!! So I can`t think of you like that!!
So Kirst my old OCSC talk soon
Sorry
H x
PinkSuede
11-04-2007, 11:58
Ha! Everyone seems to know a Kirstie who got up to no good - it must be one of those names. I, on the other hand have always been nothing but an angel ...
I don't know if anyone else is in Sydney but I have to say the weather lately has been so beautiful. I love autumn. I once heard it described as a melancholy, nostalgic season - all the smells of winter approaching and the last farewell to summer.
I actually start to get my energy back as the weather cools, it's like reverse hibernation ... I wonder if it's a Sea Cow thing?
Welcome to all newcomers.
Although I have to admit - the paddock doesn't seem to be filled with much cantankery at the moment.
Kirstie - I too formulate letters as the incident is occurring and have taken of late to writing letters to the editor of my newspaper (sadly - none of them have been published to date). Glad to say my father gets one in at least monthly though, so I am in training.
As for the smoking - when I first commenced working in the house of Target (I was a real YWS of 15) they had just brought in that you couldn't smoke in the shop. I went around telling people this and the looks I got. Imagine these days what I would say? I hate when my stepdaughter comes to stay and due to her mother smoking in their house her clothes stink of smoke and our car will stink for days following. Oh yes, and then there was the time they phased in that you couldn't even smoke in the shopping mall.......
PinkSuede
11-04-2007, 12:41
Smoking is a big issue in our house. I have worked on and off with a health economist and some of the facts that just don't seem to get media airplay are astonishing.
My Dad unfortunately still smokes. I hate it because I want him to have a close relationship with DD but feel sick to my stomach when he holds her as he's a very heavy smoker and when I take her back she just reeks of it.
I remember one of my first office jobs where everyone had an ashtray with smoke billowing up to the ceiling (including me, I'm afraid) ... and that was for the Dept of Health!
millymoo
11-04-2007, 12:45
Will try and drum up some cantankery but having a good day due to lovely weather and not ...ah yes here`s one.... sweating! I hate it and dread to think what i will be like in the menopause.
I am always the worst sweater and put it down to not being aclimatised yet and having Amelia hanging off my boob half the day...makes for serious sweating.
There moan over
H xx
charlen49
11-04-2007, 13:03
hmm..2 pages later i have returned.....i was cleaning dishes away and then went grocery shopping( helen aked 2 pages ago this morn where i went..sorry!..try to shop between sleeps with bub...she is happier then..plus taylor made it easier as well today)...so i return and have all these posts to catch up on.....everyone has a lot to say today......hmm i have an old person gripe again........afetr shop went to have my usual coffee...after waiting what seemed an eternity ( damn school hols!lol) about to be served...and old bloody duck comes along next to me and they serve her first......grr......not happy jan......so i mouth sarcastically.." well i was actually next but go right ahead '...i only wanted to get my damn coffee anddrink for dd#1 and then feed starving baby......grr......i had to wait why couldnt the old duck......ahh that feels better....hmm steam dissapates!
PinkSuede
13-04-2007, 14:39
Aaaaaaargh!
After a horrendous night with DD screaming at the top of her lungs from 9.30pm till 2.30am I decided not to mope around the house today but to get out and about as I knew she would be overtired and wouldn't sleep anyway and then I just end up yelling back at her which, as she is 5 months old, is just as ridiculous as it sounds.
Now, the area where we live has no road access so we have to park our car in a public car park and catch a boat/ferry across to our home. With kids on school holidays you just don't know what state you are going to find your car in (if at all) and today I was lucky enough to find the passenger side completely splattered with a whole container of chocolate milk. I know it was chocolate because the little *beeps* left the squashed container under my windscreen wiper.
Off to the carwash we go. The end result wasn't too bad though there were a few spots that the autowash missed so I drove to our local shopping centre and started using bottled water/newspaper to clean the rest of it off. Yuck.
With the doors open I was blocking the space next to me but thought nothing of it as the carpark was virtually empty. However, right next to me was exactly where a nice little old lady decided she just had to park and she proceeded to wait, then toot her horn, then lean on her horn for about 5 minutes. I, feeling very cantankerous, ignored her before pointing at the rest of the carpark and giving her my special look. Still she persisted. Finally she drove in anyway. As she got out of her car I said "Geez, lucky you got that spot. Though I hope none of this smelly dried milk gets onto your car". Well she looked back and forth for a good 60 seconds before finally getting back into her car and doing a bit of a burn-out from the carspace!
Sheesh those old people have tempers!
Vent over ... feeling better now!
Hope all the OCSCs are happy and healthy ar at least just glad it's Friday.
x Kirst
millymoo
13-04-2007, 17:07
Good girl let it out!
I have had a similar experience but I was sat in my driving seat legs out with the door open . Loads of spaces around!! I was drinking a coffee whilst stopping on a long journey. They chose the one spot next to me and asked me to shut my door too. I won`t repeat what I said to them!
And where do you live that you need to get to by water!!?
Sounds divine to me at the moment. A real getaway!
charlen49
13-04-2007, 19:46
:yelclap: Wa hoo kirst..u have the same love of old ffarts(the pain in behind ones) that i do..well done!!!
hope dd is better for u tonight as well!
Chickadee
20-04-2007, 15:48
Oh me oh my!! Is it true? How is it possible that this thread has been quiet for nearly 7 days! Either all the sea cows have been bribed into contentedness with home cooked meals, cleaning services, and belly rubs... or we're all flat out busy and no time to record our assorted cantanqueries.
Ah well. My day, I'm sorry to say, has been bliss. Other than a grumpy start (this silly cow forgot to take her happy pills yesterday), I have nothing to complain about. Well, actually, I have many things I could complain about. But they're trivial and all my own darn fault. It's no fun being grumpy at yourself. It just leads to the people stepping back from you in an effort to avoid the crazy yelling woman on the side walk. Sorry, not sidewalk. Footpath. Darn English, why can't it be the same everywhere.
Look how well I ramble. Are you still with me?...
Moooooo.
millymoo
20-04-2007, 16:00
Martha I was wondering the same thing today.
Must all be blissfully happy
H x
I am not sure if I am cantankerous or angry or what maybe just confused.
I am just so blah over my half brother who is 13 is probably going to die. I have never met him, but on Saturday my sister is driving me to the hospital it's 2-3 hours away so I can meet him, I feel so selfish as I can't bear the thought he might die and the first time I see him will be at his funeral, I hate that I think he might die, I am clinging to some glimmer of hope, knowing full well it's so slim.
millymoo
20-04-2007, 17:23
Pixie this is terrible. What is wrong with him?
H x
Chickadee
20-04-2007, 18:13
Wow. From bliss to a sobbing wreck in half an hour. Is that a record?
What's wrong with him Pixie? I can kind of understand your ambivalence. He's essentially a stranger to you. An d yet he's also your half brother and dying so you're 'supposed' to be emotional and upset. Tough to be caught in the middle of that conflict in yourself.
charlen49
20-04-2007, 18:16
Pixie this is terrible. What is wrong with him?
H x
ditto
Lastcenturymum
20-04-2007, 18:21
Can I 'complain'? I'm old enough :yes:
Just found out today I will be moving overseas, very soon...kinda knew it was probably coming, but...why did it have to be the week I have PMT? Walked into a girlfriends, she said 'so any news?' and I burst into tears. Didn't help that duaughter no 2 (who did cook tea tonight!) was upset too.
Thank goodness for girlfriends:yelclap:
But thinking of you Pixie:hugs:
Pixie this is terrible. What is wrong with him?
H x
He was born with a heart problem I forget the name now and he is also special needs so mentally he is about 8, they said when he was born most children with this condition don't live past 2, well he has, and despite so many operations he has always pulled through. Time will tell.
Oh Pixie - we dont' usually use emoticons here but a :hugs: just seems better than any words could do
Difficult situation - what to do about the brother???!!!
Last centrurymum -another tough situation - too many things to consider too little time...
and Martha - agree - but I'm feeling rather mellow tonight - too much to worry about rather than being cantankerous.
PinkSuede
21-04-2007, 06:51
Poor Pixie - I'm sure that actually seeing him today will put it more in perspective for you, making it more real perhaps.
Cantankery has given way to insanity in our household as I finally followed through on my threat to get rid of the dummy (that's the pacifier, not my hubby hee hee!). I believe I now hold the record for the longest continuous ssshhhhh-pat at 2 hours 5 minutes, but we're getting there with a big 9pm to 5.00am sleep last night - should be back to cantankerous in no time!
Hope all the sea cows are happy and healthy!
xo Kirstie
Thanks Peg
Yes it did make it more real today I have a lil thread going about him, not sure why really not one to share my family business on a public forum but really need to talk to different ears and eyes!
I feel more positive for seeing him and despite seeing him in a dreadful state it gave me hope weird feelings.
Dear Pixie, that is just awful. Will keep him in my prayers too.
Cantankery is at a low level today (shopping spree does wonders for cantankery dispersement)
Cheers
charlen49
22-04-2007, 20:06
Poor Pixie - I'm sure that actually seeing him today will put it more in perspective for you, making it more real perhaps.
Cantankery has given way to insanity in our household as I finally followed through on my threat to get rid of the dummy (that's the pacifier, not my hubby hee hee!). I believe I now hold the record for the longest continuous ssshhhhh-pat at 2 hours 5 minutes, but we're getting there with a big 9pm to 5.00am sleep last night - should be back to cantankerous in no time!
Hope all the sea cows are happy and healthy!
xo Kirstie
Hi Kirstie...if you dont mind me asking...why are you getting rid of the dummy?..just interested
Hmmmm....well I should be cantankerous while trying to prepare to move interstate in a couple of weeks with three little helpers and a husband who keeps disappearing to either play golf or have a drink with his buddy.......but I am surprisingly not! I think I may be in denial!
Pixie - have no idea what to say but hope that you can find a way through this.
Pink Suede - love your interaction with the old lady in the car park!!
To all others....moooooooo.
PinkSuede
23-04-2007, 07:29
Hey Charli,
We got rid of the dummy because Jazzy woke up every time it fell out. Finally on Tuesday night, after getting up 8 times from 11pm to 3.00am only to be met by her clamping her little mouth shut and refusing to take it I just thought - that's it! No More Dummy! (I actually thought a pretty rude swear word in the middle of that thought ... but it's not worth repeating!)
Nearly everyone I know has used a dummy successfully and I never had a problem with her having it but it just doesn't seem to promote good sleep for her so - out it went.
Now instead of constantly walking back into her room to resettle her when the dummy falls out we stay and sooth her to sleep. The downside is it can take 20 minutes when she is worked up (or two hours, like the other night though fortunately that has only happened once!) but now, most times, when she falls asleep she stays asleep so she's a much happier baby overall, which is great.
One thing I am really learning with this bubba is that there are no short cuts or easy ways around things, she just doesn't respond to that and it ends up far worse in the long run.
I read a book that said you should think of your baby as a little Zen master teaching you life lessons, god knows this one has been giving me a fairly comprehensive re-education!
xo Kirstie
millymoo
23-04-2007, 08:52
Amelia had a dummy from birth and since 5 mths has refused it...I have lots of lovely funky ones too.....I think they look cute! But that isn`t a good thing as I am the replacement! Makes me very cantankerous!
red crayon
23-04-2007, 10:01
my little zen master is teaching me to have patience...lots and lots of patience. patience so i can deal with him waking at 5.30am this morning; patience so i can handle his determined tantrums when i say he can't have something; patience to listen to the wiggles again and again and again.....
SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
millymoo
23-04-2007, 11:01
Hello you...nice to hear from you! Aaargh the Wiggles make me very cantankerous. I think they are a bit weird and wish they would do something other than sing!
Milly is fixated if Pocoyo comes on TV but it`s only 5 mins so may have to get dvd when she is older.
Hope yr parents had fun
H x
red crayon
23-04-2007, 14:16
my parents left yesterday and they had a ball. spencer was so upset to see them go. lots of tears. as we are in our last few months of living in hanoi, every man and his dog has decided to come and visit. i've got 3 more lots of visitors between now and the end of june. thankfully they are all good friends.
i don't mind the wiggles as a whole (i remember when they were cockroaches) but when i find myself singing their songs when i'm in the shower....oh dear, i fear for my sanity.
reAllytee
23-04-2007, 15:00
Patience ..... What the hell is that again ?!?!?!?
I have been awake since 3am with a toddler who has now turned into a cranky horrible monster !
He wont stay in his bed anymore wont come to sleep in ours just runs around having fun ! Ive tried 3 times to get him to sleep since 6am & have currently given up.
At 12pm i ended up flaking for an hour & who knows what he got up to then i dont want to look around too closely.
So much for having a wonderful few weeks of spew free time & just living in bliss !
Ok i now have to go back to the lounge where i will continue my zombie like status !
red crayon
23-04-2007, 15:27
arghhh...ally, that's an absolute barry crocker. why do they do these weird things? hopefully he'll crash early tonight and give you some peace and quiet.
Draught do you like any sport? I suggest if you do appear in your swimsuit and say you're going swimming for the DAY lol honestly while we were packing up our place, my DP went no where I think he was more scared of what I would be like if he went out. Yes I have a shocking temper!
Dummy never had this problem, well not with a plastic one like MM I am the dummy!
millymoo
23-04-2007, 16:16
Allyoo I hate to be doom and gloom but I had a baby with a 2 yr old and you ain`t seen nothing yet hun!! But it is lovely none the less. i hope you get more sleep tonight.
Red Crayon are you returning here to Australia?
Still not liking the wiggles...they have been on ABC since last post and they are highly annoying, especially purple and red!!
Pixie helloooo over in my favourite land!
Very bad attack of OCSC about hour ago and been steaming up in the bedroom since. It is not a good idea for dh to lean over me while I am cooking and keep telling me what to do! Say no more. Luckily he didn`t wear it,:mad:
H x
millymoo- my DH does this when im driving!!!!!! OMG- i have lost count of the times i have literally stopped the car and told him to drive instead!
millymoo
24-04-2007, 09:15
Well he had to do the rest and grovelled all night telling me he was sorry! I have told him I shall not touch chicken again.He can do it all and the most he `ll get from me is pie and mash! He gets fanatical about the heat of the pan before I put it in!!
I win on the driving luckily but same thing isn`t it!
PinkSuede
24-04-2007, 11:17
I have the opposite problem MM - my hubby WILL NOT cook. The mere mention of him making even an omlette for me for dinner when I have been just too exhausted to even think has him staring at me wide-eyed like a deer caught in headlights. I've just given up. Now I just tell him to make himself a Lean Cuisine and I make myself toast.
It's just taken me 3 hours to get DD to finally go to sleep so I am a wee bit cantankerous today. However, I have just pulled out and loaded up my slow cooker with lamb, veggies, garlic and herbs which will a. make the whole house smell like yummy food and b. leave me free to stare at the wall when DH comes home and takes DD for an hour.
... and she's awake again!
F*****************CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
millymoo
24-04-2007, 11:38
Sound yummy in this weather!
I am big on toast too ...yummy especially when tired .
Milly is finally asleep on my lap and i daren`t move!
Chickadee
24-04-2007, 12:08
Are you still stuck in that position with Millie on your lap?
millymoo
24-04-2007, 13:07
I moved just after I typed that and she woke and hasn`t slept since. So with quick nap after up so early she is still awake:banghead:
I should have stayed still!
I am about ready to implode!!!!!!!!
My Dh has been on holidays for almost 3 weeks (yesss, the divorce courts it is) and every single day he has had a 2 hour "nanna nap"!!!!!!EVERY SINGLE DAY!
You would think that i would get a bit of help with the 4 children, the housework or something,anything But oh no! A man needs his rest!
Oh and he's off for a "procedure" (read Vasectomy) on thursday so i will have to listen to him whinging about how sore his boys are for a week.
I believe i will be very cantankerous by the end of it!
Aww dear roopee
Imagine what he's going to be like afterwards, you'll have to get him a bell so he can ring it, as he's bound to be immobile!
millymoo
24-04-2007, 14:18
Tanya my DH naps all the time and it drives me nuts...take pleasure in the fact he will not be smiling on Thursday!!
Is that too mean? And Pixie is right he may well need a bell poor love!
Yes girls well...... we know what he can do with his bell!
And Millymoo-as for mean........Nooooooooooooooo, not too mean at all- i am getting a sick sense of satisfaction in his obvious discomfort:D. Might be my dark sense of humour coming through, but hey, it is just a little funny.
I have already told him that when he walks through that door i am going to tell him "awwwww hunny- you've never looked sexier" in the sexiest voice i can muster and hope he doesn't "pop" his stitches.
Poor poor man!
Open the door in lingerie have petals on the bed, champagne and tell him you have never been more in love, and you feel like making love all night......Now I am mean as that is exactly the sorta thing I would do lol
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