Only freedom will do

Goldiegirl

I wanted to cut my caffeine intake, so I just switched to decaf coffee.

I have about four cups a day.

Perhaps try decaf? I have the Kenco decaf, it's lovely.

edinburgher

I was also mooching over on that board and was :rotfl: at one of your responses, to someone, not sure if you can recall it, it was the person saying they wanted to get rich just by investing and that they didn't want or need a proper job and wanted to use their benefits or some such to invest. It was as 'terse' as I've ever seen you but I was in full agreement with your comments along with the others in a similar vein!

Hows the coffee reduction going?

It was a funny old thread... The problem with the internet - is that it's very easy to give people the wrong impression and past a certain point - they've already made up their minds about you. It's all in how you say it. For example, an imaginary thread titled 'I want to avoid tax', with the content 'to help my ageing grandparents live with dignity' The moment you clock the red flag in the title, you've already decided that they're a ne'er do well and that's that.

From memory, the person making the statements that got my goat claimed to have a fairly debilitating medical condition. If that's true, I was and the best of luck to them. The 'I'm a smartypants'/slacker type comments made me think that it was a troll, however.

My caffeine reduction went well for about 3 days, but then I spent 3-4 days out of the office MBing on Cheltenham and trying to [STRIKE]herd cats[/STRIKE] get reputable tradesmen to redo our bathroom. I made £££ and we have a lovely shining white bathroom with a monolithic towel radiator that looks a million dollars, but my coffee consumption only went *up*!

Finished off the last little bits today, loving my posh new bathroom with smooth, level walls and and so much white I feel they should be making microchips in there...

Alchemilla

Can we have a pic?

edinburgher

Alchemilla wrote: »

Can we have a pic?

Really hard to take photos of tenement bathrooms (long and narrow, but not narrow enough to fit in a regular camera angle!) Fresh plaster, down lighting, brilliant white walls, gloss woodwork and slate tiles. That's my attempt at painting a picture

PositiveBalance

*Wave* Hi Ed et al.

Not been aroun much...work + OT + college + assignments + life in general = pooped PB.

Exciting news...I'm looking at houses! I may own one relatively soon! :j

Right, need to get assigntments out of way so I can look at the pretty houses.

See you later and I hope Mrs E & Bump are both still well.

P.S. Trying to get rid of all caffeine is too much at once. I have a friend who used to drink loas & has cut down to 1 cup a day, generally with breakfast. However, she says she gets the most horrenous migraines if she doesn't have that 1 cup. I suppose I have drunk lots of caffeine in my time, but I've never had that issue. I think it's the form it comes in as much as anything else, and coffee seems to be the worst for abstinence without side-effects.

edinburgher

Good to hear from you PB

Pretty houses eh? How very nice. I would quite like a pretty house, but it would appear that my tastes far exceed my income. Apparently I need £350k, can't see that happening in this lifetime!

Mrs E is good and the bump is massive, we are expecting a big baby.

PositiveBalance

edinburgher wrote: »

Pretty houses eh? How very nice. I would quite like a pretty house, but it would appear that my tastes far exceed my income.

Um, well, perhaps not *pretty*, but a house. It's a start!

This means I'm going to be back on here needing to be as frugal with my pennies as possible...need to get back on track financially. :eek:

edinburgher wrote: »

Mrs E is good and the bump is massive, we are expecting a big baby.

Excellent! Just what I like to hear!

greent

edinburgher wrote: »

Mrs E is good and the bump is massive, we are expecting a big baby.

Glad to hear - although they sometimes get it wrong.... I had a big bump with no 4 and was told to expect 8-8.5lb baby (others had all been late and were 7 2oz, 7 4oz and 7 10oz)


Duly packed 1 newborn and then 0-3 month clothes in hospital bag. DS3 arrived late - and was less than 6lb!! All clothes duly swamped him - He was then in prem clothes until 3 months old!!. Was tiny enough that he was in negative centiles until his first birthday - when he finally made it to the 2nd centile! Thankfully he was baby no 4 and my HV was lovely - as GP wanted to put him under hospital monitoring for growth. He's still small now - that's just him (I had to buy age 2 grey school trousers when he started school aged 4.5!)


Glad all is going well xx

edinburgher

I think she's in the 94th percentile for weight/size

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

I think she's in the 94th percentile for weight/size

I bet Mrs Ed is delighted about that :rotfl:

How much longer?