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Smart_Mart

I'm sure a lot of men would like to go out with / settle down with a pretty, devoted, committed single mum with a lovely little boy, a good job, a great personality and an attitude of can do, will do to life. You're good with money, energetic and you have a regular eyebrow regime. What more could a bloke want??

Seriously though, there's a lot there that would attract a bloke, isn't there? Yes, some chaps steer clear of ladies with children (never really understood why, I welcome it because they'd understand me as a parent too) but that's their loss. If you had nothing going for you, I'd suggest Mr Right would be far away but by my reasoning, he's not far, not far at all.

What's harder to find is a lady who likes her men overweight, constantly broke, lacking in motivation, obsessed with football and seemingly unable to maintain a simple online diary. Find me one of those and I'll be your friend for life...:beer:

benbenandme

Thankyou Mart, very sweet of you
Okay, the next stage of the plan ....

Between now and Easter holidays (6.5 weeks), I aim to :

• Get down to 11 stone (just under 1lb per week)
• Complete 5 weeks of the couch potato - 5k thing
• walk to school at least 10 times
• complete 21 days of using wish upon a jar

boredofbeingathome

Smart_Mart wrote: »

I'm sure a lot of men would like to go out with / settle down with a pretty, devoted, committed single mum with a lovely little boy, a good job, a great personality and an attitude of can do, will do to life. You're good with money, energetic and you have a regular eyebrow regime. What more could a bloke want??

Seriously though, there's a lot there that would attract a bloke, isn't there? Yes, some chaps steer clear of ladies with children (never really understood why, I welcome it because they'd understand me as a parent too) but that's their loss. If you had nothing going for you, I'd suggest Mr Right would be far away but by my reasoning, he's not far, not far at all.

What's harder to find is a lady who likes her men overweight, constantly broke, lacking in motivation, obsessed with football and seemingly unable to maintain a simple online diary. Find me one of those and I'll be your friend for life...:beer:

Very well said and i agree...she is one smart cookie.:D

tigzem

Morning BB, as others have said you are fab and have a lot going for you. I'd not even worry about being friends with him, you may be always wanting more and that won't help a friendship to develop. Seems a shame that he allowed you to think things were going well and he wasn't honest enough to say at the start that he was already seeing someone, if I was seeing him I certainly wouldn't be happy if he was meeting other women for coffee. You fun to be with, your Mr Right is out there somewhere, promise xx

On another note, when do you want to get together again? I have my pass still until end of June which gets us into a couple of farms, when the weather is a bit nicer, but it would be lovely to see you soon, one Sat? x

benbenandme

Aww thanks Tigz I think you're right, I think it was a misunderstnading from the beginning, from his point of view it was just ever meeting as friends for coffee whereas I saw it as a date, probably because we met on a dating site?? :cool: Never mind ...

We're free this saturday if you are?? Actually, we don't have much planned for any saturday tbh, just depends if monster is at his dads

So today, we're going to go shopping this morning, I want to pay off the next bill and have a voucher to use so need to go to the shop to do that, I also want to get the soap and glory stuff and need to finish getting my bil's birthday present. After that we're going to sort the garage a bit and ds can play down there while I do that, and I really must get on top of the flat, it doesn't look like I've don anything at all in it so far this week

tigzem

We may be free Sat, but won't know until fri night or sat morn, long story. So may be best to plan for a sat when I'm def free so looking at maybe 26th March? DD has a party on the 12th. x

Kittikins

Well said SmartMart, I'm a single mummy too and seem to have finally found a lovely man who understands me being both a parent and a girly, after kissing a lot of frogs!!

benbenandme

Back from shopping - didn't get bil's present after all but I did get several other bits ...

I went into Boots and spent £30 :eek: The soap and glory stuff is on 342 at the moment, so I got 2 lots of wish upon a jar and one of hocus pocus. All sounds nice enough, now to see if it does anything The wish upon a jar is a 21 day course of moisturiser with collagen and all sorts in, you should only use it every 3 months, so I am going to use one jar now and see if it works, then use the second jar just before the trial when op. utt/fab is coming to a close I also got some shampoo/conditioner/deodorant etc

I also went into M&S and bought 2 small bottles of perfume, they have them for £3.75 and they're buy one get one half price. so got 2 different ones for £5.25

Last stop was tescos where I got some wraps, grapes, bar of vanish and facial scrub.

Ds is at mums for the afternoon, shes bringing him back at about 4.30 and we will go for a walk down the beach with the dog. Until then I am going to whizz round and try to make the flat at least look presentable

benbenandme

I've just remembered I started writing a list of jobs for half-term

Half-Term List:

• [STRIKE] get my haircut[/STRIKE] DONE
• return library books
• go to ikea for shelves
• gut ds bedroom STARTED ...
• take stuff from garage to the tip
• gut my drawers/wardrobe
• [STRIKE] move guinea pigs back into the lounge[/STRIKE] DONE
• activate Merlin passes
• sort out life assurance
• sort out bike punctures
• [STRIKE] coffee date with new guy from pof[/STRIKE] HMM .....
• clean car inside and out
• investigate buying a mini freezer
• sort folders for school
• update recipe binder for ww propoints

Well that hasn't been terribly successful has it A few more bits to add to it and then I need to get to work crossing them off

• move car boot stuff from the hall to the garage
• pay next bill
• pay water bills
• sort hall cupboard
• ironing
• pay in cheque
• end of month banking
• eyebrows
• join blockbusters

I'm sure theres tonnes more than that, but at least with it written down I may start to get some of it done

benbenandme

The ironings done and all put away :j
The hall has been cleared, just one more box to go down to the garage.
I tried to pay the Next bill but need to post a voucher to them so will do that one tomorrow.
Hall cupboard is sorted

Tomorrow we were going to have a buses and trains day, but ds had a huge meltdown earlier, no idea what triggered it other than him being tired , so he has been told we're not doing that now. Instead we'll go to the library and the bank and then if he is behaving properly we'll do something else, if not I'll do jobs indoors and he can amuse himself