Leaving my job (on Friday) and starting a new one (a week on Monday),
so will be giving b3ta a rest whilst I settle in and make them think that I am hard working and efficient! House is sold (subject to contract and all that, but it's all moving along nicely) and offer made on a new one (3-bed, mid terrace, v.nicely kept). mrs munch has decided that if she doesn't like her new job, I should knock her up after the first year (this is increasingly likely, as we're buying the house to settle down in, and she wants kids before she's 30).

Fingers crossed for mrs and mini mike!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:19, archived)

hard working and efficient? pfft!
I give you a week tops before you come back into the fold.
Kids are the bestest, a mini monster munch would be cool. All the best boarders are in the process of having babies ;)

and cheers, will pass on the regards to my wife "some random bloke on the interweb who calls himself after a maize based snack sends his regards, he's perfectly nice though, honest"
( just mike, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:22, archived)

*appears*
*runs accross the plains*
*vanishes*
/perfectly normal

Somehow, I doubt I'll be gone for very long, unless my new boss happens to be a font of crap jokes and tries to bum me at every opportunity...
The idea of kids still makes me nervous, but I am getting more and more broody* of late (and taking an interest in other people's sprogs), as is the mrs, so it's probably inevitable (we've worked out names, too!).

*Disclaimer: may mistake broody for horny, and vice versa.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:29, archived)

Tell you what
why I don't I just come round and wake you up at 4 in the morning by screaming. Routinely puke all over you and any possessions you like, crap myself with a look of ineffable satisfaction every few hours and you can give me about £50 a week for the privilege?

I can't see why anyone suddenly thinks "oh. my life's pretty nice and sorted at the mo - let's fuck it up".

/not very keen on kids
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:35, archived)

Other than the £50/week, I assumed that you already did that.
Perhaps, uou should be a sex education module?
Teacher: "Right, kids, we've looked at the various methods of contraception, but it's also important for you to know what could happen if you don't use any. Basically, you'll get one of these."
*enter Fenris*

I'm sure you'd be enough to put anyone off!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:40, archived)

Thank you so much :P
You could be right though
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:41, archived)

I see it as being better to have them whislt you're young(ish)
then when they are old enough to look after themselves you still have the rest of your life to enjoy. (say from 40 onwards)
Rather than having a life then stopping in your early 30's till your 50.

actually, this won't apply to you if you say you're just not keen on kids. Must learn to read all of the posts.
( just mike, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)

It would suit me to retire at around the same time that they left home,
so I could probably put it off until I'm in my mid-40s (I might even be able to afford them by then!). Of course, this isn't going to happen.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:49, archived)

you really want to be 55 when you are kicking around a football with a 10 year old?*
When the bun in the oven turns 10 I will be 35 (touch wood etc.) which I think will be the best age for interaction (the other two will be 14 and 13)


*prepares for hilarious strike through gag
( just mike, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:54, archived)

Thanks to future advances in medical science,
I will be in peak physical condition by the time I'm 55.

Hmm, perhaps not! Anyway, like I said, it's not going to happen that way - I'll have at least one* within the next 5 years, I should think.

*Dylan, if it's a boy, Millicent for a girl.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:00, archived)

Millicent? never heard of that name before. Different, I'll give you that, and definately a grower
Dylan I like.
We have only picked a girls name, Kayleigh. Boys we have no idea, maybe Tennessee.
( just mike, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:06, archived)

Caleb is our reserve choice for a boys name.
Millicent is after Millicent Fawcett, the inventor of the kitchen sink renowned feminist.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:11, archived)

Caleb makes me think of the wee boy from American Gothic, too spooky
I quite like Seth as a name, after the character in The Regulators by Richard Bachman, except one of my "real life friends" has a cat with that name
( just mike, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:16, archived)

Call your son Junior,
but let him think that his name is Seth. Only tell him the truth when he's a world famous archeologist, who has just thwarted the Nazi's latest plan.

Caleb was the boy from American Gothic!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:24, archived)

arf!
I think this thread has gone on long enough (1.5 hours since the start of it, eek!)
off for a fag now, and escape from all the posts about London (not that I'm heartless, just that I would rather hear updates on the radio, not be subjected to a whole board about it, where is the bumming?)
( just mike, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:35, archived)