How to keep a Secret?

MelP0928

I just took 3 HPTs this weekend and all came back positive now I have an appt to see my OB this week during the workday.  How do you keep being PG from all your coworkers especially when you all work in close quarters and there is only 10 of us?  Any suggestions on some lies to say?   Let me also note that I am a smoker and have drastically cut down where I no longer go out during the workday.  Also we usually go out after work on occasion and of course with the Holidays coming up we are planning on one in a few weeks- I always have a drink or 2 and now will not.  I work with all women and they are very intuitive(all of them have already had their children and are older than me).  It's just a matter of time that they will start to wonder.

ECB0718

Could you say that you're on medication and that's why you can't drink?  Drink juice and say there's vodka in it?  As for the smoking, tell them you want to quit for the new year and would rather taper it off rather than going cold turkey. 

MelP0928

Thanks!  I also read that somewhere too to get cranberry juice or sprite and put a lime in it so it looks like a cocktail.  As for the smoking thing I plan on doing what you said- I'm already down to just 4 a day instead of almost a pack!

ECB0718

Yes, just make sure they don't hear your ordering at the bar. 

Our secret got out when we were at my niece's baptism and my sister-in-law noticed that I wasn't drinking wine.  If you usually drink, they'll know right away that something's up. 

MelP0928

I hear you!  I'm a big wine drinker and will NEVER pass up a glass.  Before I told my Mom she asked if I wanted some and I said no just water and then once I told her she thought something was up!  I figured I'll tell everyone in my family on Christmas and then everyone else not too long after.