It's friday
and I just read a paper by the most wonderfully named author - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20417643 - almost as good as Welcome Bender, the Harvard scientist.

I'm almost regretting not naming my child something spectacular like Arrsol or Helmut. Almost.

What are everyone's plans for the the weekend ahead? Anything exciting happening in the world of the off-topicers? We're taking baby to the park and then swimming. And I'm going bra shopping tomorrow.
( ascorbate, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 10:59, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm going bra shopping as well
I need something to hold up these beauties
( broadsword, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 10:59, Reply)

I went bra shopping last week
and they gave me a 32G to try on. Shocked and awed, I was. Never been more than a 36C in my life. I still don't believe it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:00, Reply)

nursing bras?
I ended up a FF, normally a DD, so that was exciting :D Oh, and the first nursing bra I got was the wrong size once my milk came in, so I had to go back to the shop with a 3 week old and get new ones (the Royce ones are nice fwiw!).
( ascorbate, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:03, Reply)

Yep, nursing bras.
Ended up with a highly sexy thicker-than-support-stockings stretchy "Medium: B-H cup" with exciting plastic clips.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:07, Reply)

a word of warning
the plastic clips can undo themselves. And they cannot do themselves back up. Which is why I have on occasion ambled through town with one boob dangling free and the other tightly bound in the bra. It's an, ahem interesting look. How long now until baby arrives?
( ascorbate, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:10, Reply)

About 10 days...
Had a bit of a meltdown last night out of sheer terror of being responsible for a whole other human being. Massive crippling leg cramp this morning distracted me back to the physical anguish.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:14, Reply)

exciting stuff!
it'll be just lovely. that first moment when the baby is placed on your front and you can look down and see them for the first time, and think 'oh, so you're my baby? you're the one who's been kicking me all this time' is fabulous. And all the teeny tiny clothes, aaaw!
God, I'm making myself broody here. NOT GOOD. no more sproglets for vitamin c any time soon.
( ascorbate, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:17, Reply)

my mrs is away on a hen do
so I'm going out on the piss tonight. surfing tomorrow. getting stoned and watching led zeppelin dvds tomorrow night. recording music on sunday, then england game

going to be a great weekend
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:07, Reply)

see, the england match is a nonevent in our house
as neither mrvitc nor I are english. so we're planning to go swimming when it's on. unless it's on at 8pm or something when the pool's closed. that'd just be silly.
( ascorbate, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:11, Reply)

it's on at 3
so the pool should be open and nice and empty
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 11:16, Reply)