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wendz86

Only a day but went into labour 2 days before due date.

Not long then! Can't wait to see the new little one!

clearmydebts

wendz86 wrote: »

Only a day but went into labour 2 days before due date.

Not long then! Can't wait to see the new little one!

Still nice to start off a few days early though. I was 11 days late with Max and I honestly don't think anything worked in helping to start it off. I did evert trick in the book and walked for miles and miles. I just don't don't think he was ready to come until then.

This time I am not doing anything to try and bring it on. These braxton hicks are painful enough as it is and my back is in bits all day!

Lara44

Aww CMD, so sorry to hear you had a bad time with your MIL. Can't believe she didn't help out and just sat around to be waited on all day. Especially with your OH foot. You must have been raging! Hope the other stuff you don't mention is not too serious

I am good, had a couple of good days with chapter writing and then a couple of bad days (typical!). So am a bit behind again. Just started looking at the pension board - going to extreme lengths with procrastination today :rotfl: Still, we don't have any pensions so it is good to get that sorted, especially now the wedding is paid off.

I do some volunteering half a day per week, and they are actually advertising basically what I do with a good rate of pay one day per week. I am sort of tempted but I really value my flexibility, especially with trekking up to Lancaster for uni, and I definitely want to go away for fieldwork for 2 months next year and hopefully 3 in 2013. Although with all this pension talk it might be nice to have the extra money. Not sure what to do. Well probably just answered that question for myself if I plan to be away so much. I'd love a little online evening job that paid MEGABUCKS. Haha, along with everyone else on the planet! I set myself some savings targets for some luxuries, as we would like to start OPing on the mortgage when we can next year. And I really want to save for a pension and get rid of my student loan. This money stuff is really annoying, when you get one thing cracked there's loads more around the corner

tinkerbel

Just caught up on my phone - dont have the internet in my new place yet grr! not sure when we'll get it either so may have to invest in a dongle..! (any good/bad experiences or reccomendations?)

Lara that's interesting about the job.. maybe you could apply for it and then use holiday or shift the hours when you want to go away? or depending on the cause maybe you should stick to volunteering - to warm the soul?

Pilchard

Hi everyone

Just bobbing in to say hello as not been on here for so long.....but have been stalking a bit:embarasse, sorry.

NIM, so sorry to hear about your grandmother. Best wishes for a safe trip and seeing your family.

Glad you both had a fantastic anniversary in New York. When you said about the helicopter trip it made me smile cos that's where OH proposed in June 2009.

I'd also like to say thanks to you all cos as I was looking through this thread I saw you mention myfitnesspal so thought I'd have a look. It's ace and I can get the app so it'll be easier for me to keep track of what I'm doing so I can bin the weightwatchers website and save £10/month. I'm pilchierox on there so if anyone wants to kick me up the bum feel free :rotfl: I've put on over a stone since we got married in December and I want to be lower than my wedding weight for our first anniversary.

Anyway, take care everyone and I'll pop in more regularly to get the motivation to get my bank account under control :eek:

archersluck

Aw pilchard, thats v romantic.
Think I'm going to have to get in on the fitnesspal thing too. My thighs are expanding at an alarming rate!

Hope everythings going OK in ireland Dinah and Nim

I am in a total grump as when I was in the supermarket on Friday I decided to get out the rest of the cash in my account as cashback so I could budget better with it for the last 3 weeks of the month. Guess which muppet left it in the machine, and guess which scumbag happily pocketed it (actually I don't know which scumbag as I'd be having words!). I know it's my own fault but I know I would hand that money in if I found it, so I don't deserve this karma. In fact this week I made a detour to hand in some keys I'd found dropped in a car park so my karma should be high!

So while I do have money on my credit card left for this month it's totally useless for things like my bus pass and food at work etc which need cash, will just have to get creative with the lunchbox and beg for lifts. And I was going to start putting money aside for xmas. GAH!

Hope you are all having a nicer weekend!

Birdie85

Morning all!

So sorry to hear about your Grandma NIM, hope everything's going well in Ireland and that the funeral is a good celebration of her life.

New York sounds like it was fantastic, sorry that you weren't 100% well enough to do everything you wanted to do though. Can't wait to see the photos!

OH's birthday party went very well, my cakes did not! I should just give up all hope of being a baker, the cupcakes were awful! I was so glad when my friend turned up with a big chocolate cake, although I'd forgotten to get candles so had to dig out number 2 and 5 candles that OH had bought for me last year and alter the 5 with a permanent marker so it looked like an 8 if you squinted! :rotfl: We got through a heck of a lot of beer, was fun taking all of the bottles out to the recycling bins yesterday, took me about 6 trips! Oh and we didn't have the Guinness/Chocolate milkshakes as we had nothing to whizz them up with, my Mum's idea of a blender was actually a juicer.. that woman is getting battier by the day!

How annoying about the cash Archers, can you contact the supermarket and ask them to review the CCTV? I did that about a year ago (left £20 in an ATM outside a bank) and it still annoys me now! :mad:

Sorry that you had such a rubbish time with your MIL CMD, sounds like she was awful, just what you need right now, one more person to look after! It makes me very greatful of my MIL, she might be a little full-on at times but at least she means well. When we're away she's coming round to fit a blind in our bedroom, take up our living room curtains (which have been 8 inches too long the entire time we've had them hanging at the window... and now have 2 big burnt holes on the bottom where I accidentally sucked them up with the hoover! She also said that if we leave cleaning things out she'll give the place a whizz round! I'm tempted to buy a tin of paint and hope that she paints the bedroom too but that might be pushing it!

clearmydebts

Morning all!

Birdie - you do make me laugh sometimes with the tin of paint!!!

My Mam is over today, until the 7th October. Can't wait!!!

starnac

haha birdie. i'd be tempted to buy the paint too! my MIL wouldn't do that but my mum would. and she wouldn't need me to leave the cleaning products out she would just root in every cupboard til she found them :rotfl:

CMD so glad your mum is there now. Staying for a while too. :j

I've just been on the phone booking a hall for DD's birthday party for the 8th October. Can't believe how unorganised I've been. She's never asked for a party before (didn't want one last ear when I asked) so I want her to have a lovely party. Plus it'll be her last one as an only child so only fair I spoil her (the DFW way of course )

Lara44

Haha Birdie

That's so great CMD, I hope she looks after you!

Archers, that's so annoying, absolutely gutted for you. Still, things like this happen to everyone. Look at me getting my bag nicked last month. Hope you don't feel too sore.

I am good, just about to start another day's writing. Gah, it's depressing about this pension lark. Everyone else seems to have them sorted apart from us We are supposed to be saving loads. If I have to take pension and mortgage overpayment out of my student funds there is going to be *no* fun money left

I have decided to go on a big splurge so have listed all the new things I want below. Going to take money out of my stipend and also try to make some on the side. Perhaps the £5 pd challenge would be good. I'm too wimpy for £10pd and in awe of those people who can manage £20!! Because we were saving for the wedding for so long, I put off so much incidental spending. Now it's all over it's unleashed a torrent of pent-up spending urges. Have had to stop myself raiding my ISA.