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Half Term
Tonight is the last night of my half term. I just thought I’d mention it. I’ve had an interesting holiday. Mostly it has involved DIY and Yardleys. The former I could have done without but the latter has been much fun! The good news is that we’re now living in a house that is probably ready for the arrival of our first child (2 weeks today in theory!) although I suppose we could do with putting up the door for the nursery sometime within those two weeks. The bathroom is (very nearly) finished, the potatoes are growing and even the kitchen floor is looking better.
While I’m talking about Amazon I thought I should also point you all in the direction of Plain Lazy. Just in case anyone is short of ideas.
I’d also like to apologise for not posting much lately. I’ve been doing stuff but not much of it has been bloggable… I think that may change in the coming weeks though. I’m going to go now.
I may have fallen but I will get up.
I may be sitting in the dark but the Lord is my light.
I have sinned against the Lord.
And so I must endure his anger until he comes to my defence.
But I know I will see him making things right for me and leading me to the light.
Don’t worry too much about the nursery door - it’s one less thing to bump into in the middle of the night when you’ve got up for the 32nd time……..!
OK - maybe that’s a slight exaggeration - make it 27
he he
Not seen that website before, my favourite is this one
http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/index.php?mode=HKO
Hannah has the one tough cookie PJ’s
I just want to name drop and say my friend designs some of the Plain Lazy stuff. Hmmm, cheap presesnts for Amazon….
I can also get some Fat Face stuff with my discount but the baby would have to wait a while as the sizes start at age 2.
Gloria wouldn’t let me get amazon a t-shirt that said ‘mmm boobies’.
She is a spoil sport.
ok, Lets just say you did something really stupid like ohh I don’t know, spill a cup of sugary tea over your mouse and then didn’t think to clean the ball bit until after it was dry and kept sticking and then you realised that the round plate you have to slide around to get to the ball was now glued in place with said sugary tea,
If that did happen to you, what if any ideas would you have on how to go about cleaning it?
Well I know what I wouldn’t do if it happened to me at work………I wouldn’t ring IT services. They are so patronising (well some of them are - well one of them is and he’s the one I always get)and it would just confirm them/him in their/his belief that mhoyland is a total moron.
Whoops, Kathye, does that sound like I think the hypothetical person you were talking about is a total moron?!
And is that how to spell hypothetical - I tried 3 different ways and they all looked wrong?
lol - No don’t worry, I wouldnt phone IT if I had done that in the office, I freely admit to being a first class idiot *g* and IT services are always patronising, I think it must be part of the job description.
Thats the right spelling btw!
I’d buy an optical mouse.
Isuppose if I ask what an optical mouse is you’ll all sympathise with my IT man.
I can’t afford the time to go and get one at the moment as I am in the middle of month end reports, and my usual childcare (Darrens mum) has gone on holiday so have even less time than normal!
So will have to stick (he he) with this one till I am finished.
No, I have dug out a very old compaq mouse to use, but its very clunky and I miss my scrolling wheel bit in the middle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(computing) - If you scroll down there is a section optical mouse
Not at all. An optical mouse is a mouse that uses light and a very small camera instead of a roller ball.
They’re very clever and don’t get dirty as quickly as a roller ball.
Mum doesn’t follow links from my website which is why I told her what it was!
Also - I know it doesn’t help right now but I would highly recommend the Microsoft Comfort 1000. I wouldn’t normally recommend Microsoft stuff but this one is very good! I don’t know if the Dabs site is the cheapest place to get them but it’s the only place I’ve looked.
No worries!
Ohh that does looks nice!
I just ahd to check to make sure that a Microsoft Comfort 1000 is the one we have. It is. It’s nice. I like the scrolly wheel bit in the middle too. Mouses (mice?) don’t seem right if they don’t have that bit.
Kate - I said you could get the “mum and baby” set of t-shirts that say supply on one and demand on the other. “Mmmm, boobies” is just a step too far!
Kathye, did you get really bored at the end of your pregnancies? I feel like pregnancy has become such a state of being for me that I can’t imagine it ever actually ending now!
Towards the end you feel like you have been pregnant FOREVER! and that actually the baby has decided just to take up permenant residence. I think its all because every day you are waiting to see if today is “the” day and you live every day like that, so its always a anticlimax when it doesn’t happen, but you don’t really want to plan anything/do anything special cause well it might be.
I became almost convinced that I was going to be pregnant forever with both of mine and they were both late and didnt seem in any hurry to arrive.
Just enjoy it, put your feet up (well actually you should be on all fours or on your ball to try and get baby in the best position, but you know what I mean!) and indulge yourself doing whatever you fancy, whenever you fancy.
Cause you won’t get the chance again for a while *g*
And that short essay could also be summed up with
“yes, I did, I think its very common”
Gloria - (all my comments start that way, sorry…)
Kathye is right - you should be on all fours with your feet up, it’s the only way to do the right thing by your baby. (In pilates we called it ‘the plank’).
On all fours with my feet up? How does that work?!
I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to share this as it may give people images they may not want, but it made me laugh so mcuh I feel it is necessary, even if it is inappropriate. I’ve been reading a book my mum gave me by a lady called Sheila Kitzinger, who has a HUGE chip on her shoulder about medicalised and hospitalised births, and is a big advocate for home birth. The book is generally pretty good, quite interesting and useful, but there’s a few bits which just make me laugh out loud (I don’t think they’re supposed to). This is my favourite bit;
“If you are waiting for labour to start, one way of stimulating the cervix to soften, and of perhaps initiating contractions, is to have sex, lying on your back with your heels on your partner’s shoulders…”
What?! HOW?!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I just nearly fell off my chair!!
I’m thinking that position has gotta be beyond the flexibility of most non pregnant people let alone those with a massive bump…
I do recommend ladies have a bit of nookie to get things going though. I always kind of assumed they’d be on top…
(Sperm contains prostaglandins which help with ‘cervial ripening’. In fact the things they give women during induction used to be made out of pig semen. Fact.)
I love Sheila K, she is one of my heroes.
Steady on people… there are family members on this blog… oh… hang on…
I just ate pineapple and had accupuncture
Kate I googled the plank and it looks like hard work, am impressed if you do that!
A hot curry followed by an early night seemed to do the trick…that’s as much as my sensor (otherwise known as embarrassed hubbie) will permit me to say!!