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*** 11/12 July Wonderful Weekend Chat***

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  • postingalwaysposting
    postingalwaysposting Posts: 13,987 Forumite
    edited 11 July 2009 at 5:39PM
    Pap - erin loves the house... only potential deal breaker thus far is the lack of sky tv! lol!

    :j Glad to hear it Maz, hope the packing and sharing goes well :D
  • bank_of_slate
    bank_of_slate Posts: 12,922 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    *waves at everyone from the public anti-viral collection centre* :wave:
    ...Linda xx
    It's easy to give in to that negative voice that chants "cant do it" BUT we lift each other up.
    We dont count all the runners ahead of us & feel intimidated.
    Instead we look back proudly at our journey, our personal struggle & determination & remember that there are those that never even attempt to reach the starting line.
  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    Linda what is an anti viral collection centre....:confused:

    I have had a carp day...DD1 started the day feeling dizzy, sick and hungover:confused: not good at 33 weeks...so she phoned the hospital who advised her to go in.

    Have been there ever since....OH seiously naffed off cos he 'doesn't get to spend much time with me anyway'.. He has now gone to bed in a really bad mood.

    I am beyond caring anymore....:mad:
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • daphne_descends
    daphne_descends Posts: 2,517 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hi everyone.

    Hope Bookie's okay :grouphug:

    Sammy how worrying for you and DD, can't believe she is 33 weeks, seems like only yesterday you said she was pregnant! Hoping everything is okay for her x x glass of wine?

    I've had a shiite week, bottle of wine last night and may repeat tonight, I know it isn't supposed to help anything but then why does it?

    Mind you in amongst my shiite week I did somehow scoop 96% on my latest essay which has been a boost, not a total failure then.
  • tenmah
    tenmah Posts: 2,209 Forumite
    I can't believe it - well actually, sadly I can! My daughter's Dad has just phoned her to cancel the meal tonight - his idea in the first place I might add.

    His excuse is that he has a bad stomach but what he doesn't realise is that she is now 22 and 'knows' that a bad stomach means = hangover.

    It is her birthday !!!!!!!!
    OD [STRIKE] £2600 [/STRIKE] £0 :j Loan [STRIKE]£9500.00[/STRIKE] £0 :j Car [STRIKE]£3150[/STRIKE] £0 :j Moving Costs [STRIKE]£1300[/STRIKE] £0 :j Savings £1150 :j

    Everytime I hear the 'dirty' word Exercise, I wash my mouth out with chocolate!
  • daphne_descends
    daphne_descends Posts: 2,517 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Oh tenmah - I feel for your daughter. My dad was a series of let-downs till I cut the contact 8 years ago (aged 21 :() Some men don't grow up, do they :(

    Happy birthday to her though :) has she got some alternative plans?
  • Ames
    Ames Posts: 18,459 Forumite
    Proms for 11 year olds? That's madness!

    Sammy, OH annoyed that you spent time with your daughter in hospital?!

    The Morgan Freeman thing is freaky, although I've just finished reading Lolita so I'm maybe a bit over sensitive to things like that right now.

    DD brilliant result! I'm waiting for my latest OU course result, I've got to wait till the 7th August though.

    I went to Otley today for what I thought was a car boot but turned out to be a market. I'll check out the big airport one tomorrow then to see if it's suitable for what I've got to get rid of. I overspent this afternoon though, I got sunglasses for a fiver, which I needed cos I've been getting headaches reading outside in my prescription glasses (apologies to everyone in Yorkshire, I've probably just guaranteed we get no more sunshine this year!). Then spent over a fiver on two pots of jam, if I'd realised how much they were before asking for them I wouldn't have got them! Also got a few charity shop books, in defiance of my sister. I have stayed within this weeks spends budget though, so it's not too bad.
    Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.
  • Ames
    Ames Posts: 18,459 Forumite
    Tenmah, that's really carpy, but it's him who'll suffer in the long run when she starts treating him as bad as he deserves.
    Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.
  • tenmah
    tenmah Posts: 2,209 Forumite
    Oh tenmah - I feel for your daughter. My dad was a series of let-downs till I cut the contact 8 years ago (aged 21 :() Some men don't grow up, do they :(

    Happy birthday to her though :) has she got some alternative plans?

    We are still going (and he is paying!). It is just that it isn't the 1st time in her life - as with you it has been a series of let downs but he thinks that by giving her money, it makes it alright.

    I still remember her as a four years old, with her nose pressed up to the window looking for him as he was meant to be picking her up, her finger on re-dial and saying 'where is he' and that age I couldn't say, he is bed with a hangover dear!
    OD [STRIKE] £2600 [/STRIKE] £0 :j Loan [STRIKE]£9500.00[/STRIKE] £0 :j Car [STRIKE]£3150[/STRIKE] £0 :j Moving Costs [STRIKE]£1300[/STRIKE] £0 :j Savings £1150 :j

    Everytime I hear the 'dirty' word Exercise, I wash my mouth out with chocolate!
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Tenmah, I am sure your daugheter sees her Dad now as he really is, it is healthier than putting him on a pedestal and being continually dissapointed.

    Thankfully she has a great Mum.

    Sammy, DD, anyone else that needs one :grouphug:

    well done on the 96% though:T
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
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