Mother Bother

I dont even know why I try helping my mother. Honestly. I moved out of her house so she wouldnt be able to drive me bonkers, and she's doing it from a distance anyway!
So she's supposed to be giving up smoking. She's using the patches and the lozenges and all that, but she picks and chooses when she wants to use them! I thought that if you were going to try quit smoking, you would actually try, rather than make a token attempt then decide it's too hard!
She cant feed herself properly. She has absolutely no idea on what makes a good diet, she never has known. Her excuse, she cant be bothered only cooking for one person. Oh boo hoo! Hell, when I was living with her she could barely be bothered cooking for 2 people! I ended up doing most of the cooking just so it a) had some flavour and b) so there were actually some vegetables! She acts like she's allergic to vegetables, when I know for a fact shes not. She has absolutely no idea on how to feed her cat either. Oh, I've run out of cat food, lets feed the cat a lasagne topper, at least it will make him stop bugging me for food.

GRRRRR!!! She fucks me off so much because she is just so CLUELESS!
I hate feeling more mature than her. I'm 19 FFS. She's 47. I've been feeling more mature than her since I was 15!

I seriously dont know how to deal with her, because she parades all her shit in front of me, and I'm such a softie at heart that I cant help but try to help her, when all that does is fuck me off MORE!

I try not to visit her too often anymore because her whole attitude gets on my nerves. She complains she doesnt have anything to do when her house looks like a pigsty most of the time. She sleeps all day, and her personal hygiene leaves a lot to be desired. I just get fed up with all her shit. I am VERY glad I dont live with her anymore, otherwise I would have gone completely mental months ago.



Ok, I'm over it. No more helping my mum. She needs to learn how to stand on her own two feet rather than having eneryone pick her up all the time.


(Sorry guys, just really needed to get that out)

What's in a name?

I'm up late looking at names. The man thing and I made a list of names for the last sproglet and we didnt pick any of them. I've just been putting all the names we do have listed into a spreadsheet along with meanings so it's easier to have a good look and make a choice. I just spent a good hour looking up the meanings. I even looked up whether they are in the top 100 nationally, or top 30 internationally. (Yeah, I'm a geek)

I also found a few new names to add to the list like Alevandra and Jayson. Yeah, I'm into alternative spellings and all that. I'm really not interested in a common name, but neither of us want a really out there kind of name either. I'd prefer a name that can be shortened easily, but I'm not so interested in an already shortened name. So I'd rather go for Nathaniel than just Nathan, or Nate. I'm picky lol.

Anyone have any ideas for names? I currently have about 50 girls names, and about 20 boys names, so I think I need a few more. Please, feel free to suggest something :)


Well today I went kind of mental on vacuuming the house lol. I spent about 20 min just vacuuming the hallway, trying to get all of my hair out of the carpet. I have long hair, and it seems to get EVERYWHERE! Just to let you in on how much hair was in the carpet in the hallway, it is about 1.5 metres by 0.7 metres (we have a very short hallway, and a rather small house). And it took me 20 minutes to get all the hair out of the carpet. Yes, that is bad. I'm going to have to go through the whole house attacking the carpet the same way I was today, with the brushy foot bit on the sucky part of the vacuum cleaner (lol, yeah I dont know what it's called)
The man thing and I moved all the furnishings in the lounge today and I vacuumed where everything was. These things havent been moved, or vacuumed under, in about 6 months, since we moved in here.

Anyway, I'm absolutely knackered. I ache in places I havent ached in a long time. I'm off to bed. G'night.

Boooooo-bies

Well theres a pregnancy symptom I didnt expect to see for a few months yet. Leaky boobs. Not too bad, thankfully, just a couple of drops, but still, it's more than I was expecting at this point in my pregnancy!

The man thing is enjoying his job, thankfully. I think it's the only 9 - 5 (ish) job he's ever had. All I know is that it's weird not having him come home around 4 :( Like he used to. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.

Oh gosh! The hunger I had this morning! I could swear my stomach thought my throat had been cut lol. All was fixed after a lovely bowl of porridge. Mmmmmm.

Grumble grumble

Not me, my tummy. I cant find anything I want to eat :( I'm thinking about cooking up a sausage or two, but still cant decide.
The man thing is off at work, hopefully enjoying himself, and I'm sitting at home waiting for the washing machine to finish, for the second time today. I'm trying to catch up on the chores that seem to run away on me. I'm not looking forward to doing the dishes, mainly becuase that is supposed to be the man things job. I dont see what is so hard about washing the dishes when theres only a few of them, rather than waiting until theres a gigantic stack.
Oh how I wish we had a dishwasher!!!

Oh, I'd love it if I got some comments :)

Paranoia

So everyone says (well doctors really) that a line is a line, in relation to pregnancy tests. Awesome.
So I was sitting here earlier on worrying about the pregnancy test I took the other day. The not-very-sensitive one, because it has faded a bit. The line is still there, just not as clearly, or as wide. The First Response test I took is still perfectly fine. I think the line faded a bit as it dried, but it's still clearly there.

Meh, paranoid preggy worries lol. I asked my man thing to pick me up another test on his way home anyway, if he remembers.

OH!! My man thing got himself a job! (Yeah, I know you've heard this before lol) Working for one of those home ventilation companies. It's awesome, he's a telemarketer :)

I also put in a couple of job applications for part time work for me. Scary thought. I havent had a real job in... over a year. Almost 18 months actually. Wow. If I manage to get one of the jobs it wont be a huge amount of money, but at least it will be something. I've been thinking about getting myself a part time job for a while now, just to help keep the boredom at bay.
Sure, I love having the freedom to do what I want, when I want, but it gets quite boring being at home all day every day, which I tend to do more often than not.

And the winner is...

ME!!
I was talking to a few ladies who know I'm TTC and told them what I've been feeling lately and they all encouraged me to test, so test I did.
So I'm waiting for the test to develop, 2 minutes later I look at it. No second line. Oh well, better luck next month, then I put it down and walk away.
Well, an hour and a half later I walked back into the bathroom and looked at it again. 2 lines! What? When did that happen? I asked my friends in the know what they thought and they recommended I take another test. So I did. First Response has a pretty good reputation, and they're pretty cheap so I grabbed myself one. Lo and behold, a second line comes up.

Yes, after only one month of trying, I AM PREGNANT!!!

The man thing is so proud of himself. He's strutting around saying "I never miss!"
Men huh lol.

Keeping it kind of quiet for now. Only the online friends I have know.

And so I'm back...

From outer space...
Well, it feels like it at times anyway.

It's been a little while since I've updated, I hadnt actually realised just how long it HAD been.
Well my man thing decided not to go for the job. It wasnt reliable hours and at the moment we would NEED reliable hours. At least we know he can do the job anyway.

On the TTC front, well according to the charting website that I use, I'm 14 days past ovulation. Cant say how accurate that is seeing as my temps have been all over the place lately. Cant help I missed a few days either *blush*

I found this blog Simple Housekeeping and it's awesome. I'm really keen to give a lot of the things a go. Theres all sorts.

I'm also interested in eating more whole foods, but with the budget the way it is at the moment, it may be a bit trickier than I had hoped. Well if I actually get my ass into gear and sort out this home based childcare, then we would have a little more money coming in.

Anyway, that was just a short update on where we are at the moment. Looking forward to updating more regularly :)

Ciao for now