Weekly Good/Bad thread

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Good - got a weekend to myself. Quite possibly the last one I have 100% to myself for some time.

Good - C gets back from his Holiday on Tuesday. Never thought i'd get fed up of peace and quiet and a nice tidy house.

Good - OH got another promotion and payrise.

Good - found a house that would be perfect. Currently waiting to hear back from the estate agents.

Good - instead of piling weight on, I seem to be losing it, and weigh less now than I did at the beginning of my pregnancy. Good considering Jelly Bean is estimated to be almost 8lb already.

Bad - no idea how i've managed that, so will probably pile it on after i've had Bean.

Bad - having trouble finding out if C got into his chosen school. Isn't looking good.

Good: Hen do this wkend

Bad: my CBM is seriously pissing me off & theres a possibility that when im under alcoholic influence I may well tell her

Good: my friend is doing my nails tonight

Bad: put on 1/5lb

Have a gd one hitchers, especially those gettin married!!

And CB i'll see you in the tree house, i'll be singing 'the wheels on the bus go round & round'

Good - I have organised what I need to spend on the small bits so I can organise getting them all now and wrapping this all up nicely!

Good - Stuff is coming through the post nicely, slowly filling up my spare room with wedding bits

Bad - I have loads to do and I keep panicking that I'm going to forget something

Bad - I have to send loads of stuff back as it's the wrong shade or not what I wanted.

Bad - I am constantly worrying that things will go wrong. I keep thinking that maybe the dress shop forgot to order my dress and I wont have one, and I keep worrying that my TOG forgot to put us in his diary and will have double booked us, etc.

Bad - I am so worried that I will forget to take something with me to the hotel the night before... I am so good at forgetting stuff...

Good - My best friends wedding tomorrow!

Good - Our friends little girls Christening on Sunday

Bad - Weekend before the wedding and no free time

Good - 10 days until my wedding day!! ?

Bad - Had to change my whole table plan as I managed to upset my mum with my first one!

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Good - Had a lovley catch up with old work colleagues/friends last night

Bad - feeling the effects today ?

Good - Mr F is out this evening leaving me time to play around with invitation mock ups!

Good - Off to cake decorating suppliers warehouse tomorrow to purchase lots of nice things that i can use on impending cake orders!

Good - have been given free reign at work on planning a Summer Ball for next year.....and a mahoosive budget to 'do what you like' with!!

ETA - OMG how coudl i forget this one?!

GOOD - I FOUND MY DELIGHTFUL WEDDING SHOES!! Will flash once they arrive

lovley weekends and weddings to ya'll!

Good - friend's wedding tomorrow.

Good - successful (and short) shopping trip for shoes/jewellery/pants.

Bad - new braces have made my teeth unable to process anything other than soup.

Good - that means a few more pounds off.

Can we re-locate the meetings? I can't get up the sodding ladder.

BAD: Been looking after Mummy Spangles this week as she broke her arm last weekend

GOOD: Got to have her car all week

GOOD: Going to Mr Spangles' football club do tonight - not particularly looking forward to it, HOWEVER there is cheap booze (not that I'm a lush, you understand)

GOOD: One of my BMs is coming over for dinner on Saturday

BAD: I promised that I'd make her Cookie Monster cupcakes and I haven't.

Good - Mr C came home Wednesday night!

Bad - Shock announcement at work - means more work for me

Good - Have a friends birthday party this weekend - Festival party with a band and camping over!! Wellies at the ready!

Good - It's payday!!

Good - meeting the girls for drinks after work. Haven't had a catch up in a while

Bad - OH is doing his amateur dramatics play tonight, tomorrow night and two on Sunday PLUS has decided that he's meeting one set of mates after the show on Saturday and another after the show on Sunday, but oh lucky me, he's able to spend time with me on Saturday daytime!

Good - meeting a friend on Sunday to decide what we are going to sing at another friend's wedding in August.

Good - got some new baking cookbooks this week, so planning on doing some baking over the weekend. I like to bake

Bad - with OH being out, I will end up eating all of the said baking.

Bad - whilst we were out shopping for BM dresses last weekend, my sister tripped and fell on the road. SHe's found out today that she has fractured her hand - eek!

I heard about that on the news Mrs C, was worried about how it would affect you...

Good - i collected my dress yesterday

Good - i also ordered my bridesmaids dresses

Bad - i have a sicky bug caught from my little boy

Bad - he is only 3 and i have been trying to entertain him all day whilest dashing to the loo.

Good - i emptyed my body of all yesterdays junk and this will hopefully kick start my healthy eating.

Bad - H2b wont be in from after work till after 5 and i will have 2 kids to entertain as my little girl will be home from school.

Bad - I feel terrible moaning about being ill when there are so many of you going through actaul trauma. (Sorry!)

CB...do I need to know the secret handshake for the treehouse???

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Good.. Its Friday!!

Bad... I'm the only one in work on my bank of desks - feeling Billy No Mates

Good.. Been driving around in my new car all week and LOVE it! Will be driving home today with the top down!

Good.. Going to see "We Will Rock You" in Southampton tomorrow with hubby. Can't wait

Bad..Smashed my Iphone screen yesterday completely - going to cost to fix (uninsured)

Bad..Have mega bad "crap" phone as my daughter said till its fixed.

Good.. Got a small annual payrise but still pleased I got one!

Good.. I get to drive my new car all weekend lol! ... I love my new car

Good - had a lovely random day with OH on Monday, we ended up going to Whitby for fish and chips!

Bad - OH failed his exam Monday morning hence the cheer up trip to Whitby

Bad - have had a week off and haven't done very much in the way of productive things which need to be done!!!

Very bad - just spent ages trying to prise carpet tiles off my kitchen floor - who on earth decided that glue was a decorating tool?!!! Damn you 70s workmen!

Good - have given up on the floor and am now watching one of my favourite episodes of Frasier, having a coffee and working my way through the Wills & Kate commemorative tin of chocolate biscuits

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

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Good: 120 days to go.

Bad: Too much month left at the end of the money, despite getting our first annual pay rise for 3 years (which is just a fraction of how much the cost of living has gone up in that period).

Good - My mum managed to get the dress she wanted in the size she wanted after ringing Debenhams everyday since Monday (only 1 in her size in the country)

Bad - Been doing too much wedding planning and work is piling up!

Good - Florist has come back with quote and even though I've added only £30 more than original quote YAY!

Bad - Have to get up early to take my Mum to the airport (I need a lay in!!)

Good - BM's 30th birthday tomorrow so drinkies tomorrow

Bad - Will have fleeting meets with h2b this weekend as we're out at different times/places

Good - To make up with lack of weekend contact we're having an impromptu date night after shopping trip with Mum!

Good - It was my birthday on monday.

Good - Catering sorted!

Bad - Dont think I can talk about it tbh as I will just cry ☹️

Bx

Aw BustyB, hope your OK if you do wanna talk about it there are plenty of sympathetic ears and internet weirdy hugs on here ?

Thank you Naboo, I really could do with some hugs right now.

Bx

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Thank you FutureMrsRon ?

Bx

I've been away a few days and all seems to have gone mad!

Good - just confiming flights to Barcelona for May 2012, plan is to fly in, Cruise around the Med then have 2 lovely nights in the Hilton and see some of Barcelona!

VERY good - we only have to pay for the few days extension as the rest is on my Daddy! My brother, his OH, Sister and sis's OH, Dad and stepmom will all be joining us for cruise but leaving us for the last fwe days! woop!

Good - done so much house shopping this last week. Have a lovely new Dyson, a gorgeous leather sofa currently being made and lots of other practicle goodies.

Bad - skint skint skint now but so worth it

Bad - I'm not well, been off work for 3.5days and had to cancel a job interview!

Good

- Got offered a great job which fits in perfectly with our summer relocation plans and is with a great employer and OH bought me a lovely bottle of champagne to celebrate

- Wedding Invitations from Suzanne at Pretty Wild Designs are arriving today – the sneak peak photo she sent looks GORGEOUS! I can’t wait to send them out to our guests

- I managed to reach and surpass my fundraising goal of £175, getting the last £50+ from my very generous work colleagues in my bake sale yesterday

- I get to spend a whole day catching up with my Mum and future MIL on Saturday whilst doing a charity walk

Bad

- I am doing a 20 MILE walk for Breast Cancer Care tomorrow and I have not been eating lots of carbs to give me the energy I will need

- I can’t drink my celebration champagne until Sunday because of the walk

- OH half won’t hear until the end of July whether he is being made redundant, a stupidly long ridiculous process that has been going on for MONTHS now

All in all a really good week though. Feeling very positive for the first time in a while.

Internet weirdie hugs coming your way, BustyB.

CB, I have my secret badge on and will meet you in the treehouse. Over and out. Roger that.

Good: Going out for dinner with my girly friends

Good: Walking without crutches

Bad: I feel on edge for no reason about everything and anything

Good: 10 weeks and 2 weeks until I can finally become Mrs Fizzypop

Happy weekend, one and all xxx

Bad- My wonderful Dad had a mini stroke yesterday......resolved after a few hours but had to have lots of scans and tests.

Good- Just fetched wonderful Dad home.

Bad - I'm wired the a ecg monitor thingy and the boys keep trying to pull it off.

Bad - I'm losing my wedding mojo.

Good - My big boy has been spelling words this week and writing them.

Good- It's friday

Bad- OH is away and I am missing him like mad

Bad- There is a leak in our property which is affecting another property housing association says its our fault and we have to pay for it. Even though the person they appointed to come out said its their fault and should fix

Bad- My family is too fricking big and causing me headache and tears about our guest list

Good- I have lost more weight

Bad- I feel like pants and want to cry

Have had a bloomin awful week as FB chums will know so here goes;

Bad- we have been denied legal aid

Bad-MrMini diddnt get the job he apllied for

Good- We have paid for our van and got the BM dresses

Good- We have an evening to ourseleves tonight without the small people

Bad- I have work at 8am so going to the pub isnst really an option.

Good - friend (boss) is out of hospital and back at work

Good - after 4 weeks on the trot of being away will get to spend weekend with OH

Good - only 2 weeks to W day

Bad - Grandma is in hospital

Bad - only 2 weeks to W day (so much to do!)

Good - It's Friday and I am out of that blumming awful office

Good - My football team Footloose Purple won their first ever match last night 47-28, that makes for a very happy capitan today!

Bad - I have to revise ALL weekend as I have a 2 hour exam on DNA, Mitosis and Disease on Thursday.

Good - picking up our rings tomorrow!

Good - suit fitting tomorrow for the boys!

Good - having my roots done - yey!

Good - off to see Pirates 4 tomorrow with gorgeous friends

Bad - worked some horrendous hours this week at work

Bad - really could do with a lie in tomorrow not running around sorting wedding things

Bad - been really really ill...

Good - No more days at work before getting married!! xx

Good luck to anyone getting married this weekend!

Good - Had 2nd interview for a job that I REALLY REALLY want

Good - Feedback from prospective employer was excellent and invited back to 3rd stage interviews next week

Good - My beauitful boxer b*tch is having puppies...

Bad - We only found out last night that she is expecting and she has only 2-3 weeks left of her pregnancy.... eek!