Oh Kass, sorry to hear that you were also teased in school. I was always teased and hardly ever had friends. When I did, I couldn't fully trust them because they would do something to push me away. Ended up being a geeky little library monitor in my lunch breaks and recess because I didn't want to associate with people my own age anymore! It really does take ages to get past all of it and I still feel really insecure about everything, even now, so I know what you are going through.

It is really hard to stop talking down to yourself and to start thinking of yourself as a person with needs and rights isn't it? I would be sad too if my DH was being chatted up by someone like that, but at the same time, I think I would kinda feel special that he picked me out of heaps of other people that he could have been with. Those girls might be "pretty" but I bet that they have none of the qualities that you have sweetie and that's what counts.

I've always been one of those people who listens and listens but when I go to speak, people don't really listen to me, they talk over me? But since being preggers (probably the hormones), I cut people off if they are being rude or if they are arguing with me!! We had someone call the office last week and was arguing with me that we needed to fix up settlement cracks in his house even though he wasn't the original owner of the house that we built, not to mention the house was built many years ago and wasn't covered by our warranty anymore! I just snapped and said "I'm going to stop you there. We are not responsible for that. If you bought a house and didn't get the seller to patch these things up before you bought it then that's not our problem". LOL! I had never done that before in my life.
I even used to be one of those people who would sit there and listen to telemarketers on the telephone, even though they were bugging me at home, and wait for a break in their sentence before telling them politely that I'm not interested!! I weird myself out sometimes...

We are going to my SIL's house today for a bit, we're going to see if we can get the cot back home in our car, she said we can always borrow hers if we want to take it over there so I guess that's good. I still have a bit of cleaning out to do of the spare bedroom at the moment but I'm doing it in little stages, mainly because I still get really tired doing little things.

Jo - YAY on being a mummy!! Congratulations! Can't wait to see pics!