Be Excellent To Each Other

Also, this was deserving of bananas

Great to hear everything is going well Mimi
I'm definitely on your side of the continuum with knowing and being prepared
Holland has en huge tradition of home births and waiting till 42 weeks with intervention, but there has been discussion about that in recent years because we do apparently have a higher rate of complications and death around delivery then other countries where they don't let it come to 42 weeks, I don't know the numbers though
I had an appointment to be induced in the morning at 42 weeks exactly, but I arrived at that appointment having contractions every 5 mins
I also thought knowing the gender made it much more real and personal. Between us we called her by her name from when we knew she was a girl for instance.

I went to a red carpet do yesterday to watch the premier of Danny and the Human Zoo. It's a sort of autobiographical programme about Lenny Henrys early life that's on BBC1 on bank holiday Monday. It was great as it was filmed all over Dudley and I even got to chat with the stars! That's Kascion Franklin and Lenny Henry. Also the twins from Harry Potter were there but I didn't get a picture with them because I only saw one of them after the film. There's no point unless you can get both, right?

And yes.. I like to get dressed up for events.

I love Lenny Henry. I hope you said hi from me.

Mrs JC got the all clear. Phew.

Oh yeah, yay !

A big yay !

That's fantastic news

It is indeed, and such a relief !

Didn't get much sleep last night, and it was a pretty long morning/afternoon but yeah, all clear so worry has literally dissipated.

Good thing I got my Nespresso machine and have been hitting it hard

That's good news to hear, JC. Love to you both

Good news!

Awesome stuff, mate.

Great news...

Gotta doff my cap to the NHS. They don't mess around with this stuff. Four hours and Mrs JC had three different tests and got the results straight away.

wonderful news!

I am back at work today.

That's surely the nayiest yay anyone has ever posted?

Amazing news A, absolutely thrilled for you both mate.

Yay, as long as you're cool with that and things have improved.

Also, huge yay for MrsC.

Indeed.

Good to hear

Good news. How did it go?

It was ok. I just did half a day, then got home and prompty fell asleep until 5pm.

It will probably be quite tiring whilst you get back into the swing of things. A phased return will hopefully help in that regards. Had you been off for long?

Seven weeks.

And you return right after The Ashes finished, eh?

I for one am thankful. We needed those runs at number 8.

It is a little coincidental, I'll give you that.

I did two TOGAF exams yesterday. I passed one and failed the second.. so 1/2 a yay

Tremendously Orgasmic Gonads And Friends

Yes, yes it is.

Think I'm cracking this single living lark. Done a load of laundry, tidied up, learnt some Spanish, cooked a proper meal, done half the dishes and had time for a bit of gaming. All after a full day at work.

Achievement unlocked: viable adult.

I even had an hour's nap when I came home.

When I left my last relationship and moved back into my flat, I managed to do all of that for about a week and then I fell back into my lazy-bones mode - kudos if you can keep it up!

Well I moved out last October, so it's taken all of ten months and seven weeks off work to get to this stage, so I'm determined to keep it up now.

Pfft. Being a viable adult is knowing when you don't have to adult. I had toasted cheese and spam sandwiches for dinner, they were great.

That sounds very adult to me... I've got jam and cheese sandwiches for lunch today.

I have a playing card smeared in peanut butter

THE BEST.

Add onion for a tangy kick.

I quite like the idea of using adult as a verb.

I'm going to adult tonight.

I have been doing adulting.

I'm still in bed and have eaten dry cereal using my hands, out of the box.

I think you'll find I'm the clear winner here.

'Still in bed' sort of implies you've had the cereal at hand all night. Is this the case? Do you sleep with a box of rice crispies next to you?

No, I have to get up to use the bathroom approximately avery 120 seconds. I poured a handful of 'golden nuggets' (cereal, made for kids) into a bowl and brought them back to bed with me on a detour past the kitchen about two hours ago.

I have only just realised that I have a whole tin of cereal bars that Russell put out for me, which would have made more sense.

Also, a macaroni cheese he made last night, which I could have microwaved.

Maybe if I go for a walk to the kitchen a little later I will investigate.

This is better than watching <insert name of favourite soap opera>.

Woo hoo! exchanged contracts on house today, completion still set for next Tuesday...

Woop! Party! Is it going to be dropinnable on my travels to The Motherland?