A baby shower?! What's that?

Baby showers are parties that American mums hold when they bring their new sprogs home. Their friends turn up, eat cake and shower the new baby with pressies.

For the first time in what seems ages, I've been able to gently use my singing voice

Oooo, so if I have a modem party, will I get lots of pressies too

No, but the new baby/modem will! Is it a boy or a girl, skyers?

Virtual ones, yes. I think that some of the more thoughtful friends give the mum pressies too to help them cope with the stress of the new arrival.

It seems a bit impolite to look at it that closely


I've found it *very* stressful

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[quote name='skylark' post='791578' date='Feb 12 2009, 09:38 PM'] [quote name='Miss Ross' post='791572' date='Feb 12 2009, 09:34 PM'] No, but the new baby/modem will! Is it a boy or a girl, skyers? [/quote]
[quote] It seems a bit impolite to look at it that closely [/quote]Can't you tell from a distance?

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[quote name='petrat' post='791573' date='Feb 12 2009, 09:34 PM'] Virtual ones, yes. I think that some of the more thoughtful friends give the mum pressies too to help them cope with the stress of the new arrival. [/quote]I've found it *very* stressful
[/quote] We all have!

Apologies for that post... please try and make sense of it!

Congratulations on your new arrival, Skyers.

Don't they teach you anything at College?


Thank you, I'm sure we'll be very happy together

If you need anyone to watch the 'modem' while you're working skylark, you know where I am!

Not much really.

Leaving work for a period of a week's annual leave and going out for dinner rather than making a mess of it in my own kitchen!

Doing the next OU assignment, with some ease!

It being the last day of this half term

Having 10 minutes to spare this morning before I had to be where I was supposed to be, and going to stand by the river. I have a lot of memories of this river, from when I was tiny to just last year and there is something very calming about just standing and listening to the water move over the rocks. People walked by without noticing me, which is just the way I like it and I didn't care if I looked mad for watching the ducks intently. I wanted to take a photo of it all but I knew it wouldn't capture the atmosphere, so I just tried to remember every little detail. I'd give anything to be standing there now...

The blissful joy of a SATURDAY OFF!!!

having a fight

*backs away nervously*

Thinking I had nothing yummy to have with my cup of tea and then remembering that my father-in-law-in-law had made me an apple strudel.

Retail therapy

Card and chocolate from OH. He'd gone to great lengths to pick a card I'd like - colours, design, everything, and hadn't noticed that down the side it said Happy Mother's Day! It was good to start the day with a laugh - as long as I get a card on Mother's Day too (any sort will do, Birthday, Christmas...)

seeing a guy looking like he was going to pass out, when he asked his wife for £15. FOR A PARKING METER!

It was so funny, haha.

Also, going to a piano lesson, and sight reading through a grade three peice perfectly

I get to see Matthew tomorrow!

Enjoy!

What's made me happy today? Charlton winning 2-0. It doesn't happen often

The sound of silence, coffee and the Sunday Papers!

Watching The Slipper and the Rose, especially Annette Crosbie and Christopher Gable.

Making headway with an assignment!!

Running a really fabby session with a lovely group of instrumental/singing teachers on the Fast-Track CT ABRSM course in Birmingham this afternoon. I came out BUZZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I had a brill journey both ways too - only 2 1/2 hours each way.

I am one Very Happy Bunny.

Random pool at 2 in the morning, beating two people even though I'd never potted a ball before (with a bit of judicious cheating, and help from the people I was playing against) and then calling into the porters' lodge at 3:30 to discover that a parcel had arrived for me, with a new music book in.

The joy of trying to wake up mwl1 at 7am...

Awwww

I'm happy because I'm off to the coffee shop with my neighbour before a long afternoon of work

Hopefully

The work, that is The coffee's a given.

But while I'm here...

Does anyone have any motivational tips???? ...please...

I am enjoying my course, I've just lost steam after being so ill last term ..

Well, now that I think about it, maybe I'm not so happy because the 'work' pile is huge

.. and I don't really know where to start...

..and I'd quite like to play my violin because I've not been able to play for nearly a fortnight...

.. But I MUST study

(Somebody pass me the 'scream' thread..... )

My Book of Hymns has finally arrived in the post - after a suggestion on this forum I decided that I am going to play a new hymn each day to improve my sightreading....there's 977 of them ...so I'll let you know if it works in a few years' time

(Sorry Lottie - no motivation tips from me. I have done zilch all day towards studying - do have a very tidy house though )

Sorry lottie Perhaps start a thread in Adult Learners?



I'm happy because a forum friend who I met up with a week or two ago has sent me an email likening me to an old pair of slippers, which I took as a compliment

First day of school hols could be FANTASTIC or a NIGHTMARE!!!! IT's been GREAT!!!! My kids love spending time together, we've been out on our bikes and then been very creative paintwise this afternoon. A lovely day all in.

Music shopping in Manchester......bliss!

I went for a walk and whilst walking thought about making a definite start on some changes I've been meaning to make to my life for a while...and then got home and actually did them

Listening to the most beautiful rendition of Wilbye's Draw on , sweet night.

Of course, she could have meant that you're a bit smelly and shabby, but I'm sure you've interpreted her correctly!

Perhaps I'll have to use more perfume in future

My 4 year old son saying to me " don't put the headphones on when you are playing the piano - I want to hear it too because it's lovely " My first rave review!

Having a day out with my Dad- it hasn't yet finished, as we are going out to comedy this evening!

I can pedal, I can pedal


[...please don't let me lose the knack before my next lesson ]

Spending the day with my mum who was visiting from Manchester

My software now works!!!! (See scream thread)

Helpdesk finally found someone who could fix the installation problem. Hurrah! But then it turned out the problem from last Friday remained, which helpdesk don't help with....so I did what I should have done in the first place and put the error message in Google.

Found the problem, fixed it, back up and running I'm almost annoyed I have the day off tomorrow so can't sort things...but only almost, I shan't be working tomorrow.

Anticipating the Master Chef semi final - oops, must dash!

I'm happy because I made it to my Uni seminar today and really enjoyed two thirds of it. (This is a complex issue and it's a big achievement!).

Then I worked in the library for the afternoon (because I managed to find a dog-sitter for the whole day). Now I feel tired and have a headache but it's great

a new matress!

The fact that my slurred scales have improved so much, that my Bach for my (possible) Grade 1 in June has come on so much and that the first ever piece I did for the very first time today with double stopping (deliberately playing 2 strings at once, not just catching the wrong one all the time) went well and sounded quite good.

I also finished and washed my latest cross stitch for framing and managed to get most of the nasty marks out of some others that have been hanging around for a while waiting to be framed. Ugh! Leaving blue fabrics in the hoop/frame for a long time makes awful marks on them! Never again, I swear!

Yesterday : the playday, and associated socialising. And meeting Floss and mwl1.

Today : having a day to relax. I don't get many of them...