Daily Chat Thread Saturday 24 November

tigtag02

louidog ~ Welcome to Holland


When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.


After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."


"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."


But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.


The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.


So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.


It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.


But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."


And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

louidog

I've never been to Holland...it sounds good to me though!

*Just off to pack my bags*

postingalwaysposting

anyways after all that i have decided on distant, which is teh long way around but it sums me up i think as everyone is put at arms length before i tell them anything :rolleyes:

CRANKY40

That's perfect that Tigtag.

HBFS

postingalwaysposting wrote: »

mmm yes i see your point however i can make a scrapbooking page about me and write i am false ~ or can i

Social chameleon?

HBFS

tigtag02 wrote: »

Right lets think shrek (dont panic yet, you'll see where I am going with this )

Onion.....Layers....Peel them back.

Tough outer layer is brash and *hard*, keep peeling to the soft and sensitive inner bit

Am I making sense or just talking 1am bollox :rolleyes:

It's not nice to talk about me when I'm not here! :rotfl:

tigtag02

HBFS wrote: »

It's not nice to talk about me when I'm not here! :rotfl:

tigtag02

Sea78 wrote: »

So 3cm at 7pm....so could still not be pushing!

You must update us tomorrow!
Sea xxx

Morning Sea and all.

Bouncing Baby boy born at 00:47, 8lb 15oz :eek: :eek: :eek: . Mummmy and Buba doing well ~ cant wait to see them both

Larumbelle

PaP, we are all chameleons, that's the word I use... some of us are just more aware of it than others. People at work think I am super-organised. Actually I am quite the opposite, so I work hard at it so I don't get into trouble. Okay, so that's a rubbish example, but you know what I mean. I lost a lot of friends because they couldn't understand how I could be depressed. "But you're always so cheerful" they'd tell me. Yep, because they wouldn't accept me any other way. In the end I just gave up.

Sea78

Tigtag! Congrats to your friend. A good weight Glad all went smoothly

When you gonna see them?

sea xx