stringy
Opal
Posts: 8,306 Likes: 22,157
|
Post by stringy on Oct 20, 2017 5:11:47 GMT -6
Start confessing. Maybe it'll be better than the UOs.
|
|
rugger
Amethyst
Posts: 5,768 Likes: 14,536
|
Post by rugger on Oct 20, 2017 5:37:13 GMT -6
I still haven't taken R in to get blood work done for her GI doctor. It was a "just to rule out what we think isn't a contributor" type thing, and I just... Haven't done it. It's been months.
|
|
|
Post by pbandj714 on Oct 20, 2017 5:59:50 GMT -6
I usually complain that I'm the default parent when it comes to missing work for the kiddos. Today DH volunteered to stay home with L (he had a meeting he didn't want to attend anyway). Here I am, at work, wishing he hadn't offered and that I was home.
|
|
snowmoon
Sapphire
Posts: 3,998 Likes: 9,593
|
Post by snowmoon on Oct 20, 2017 9:05:18 GMT -6
The college teachers are on strike this week so I found two students and paid them $75 each to pick up dog shit, take leaves and mow the lawn. They also ended up pulling some weeds from the garden and and tired the dogs out playing with them. So now they're napping instead of annoying me. I didn't tell J about this and I'm considering taking the credit. Maybe it'll get me out of housework this weekend.
|
|
|
Friday
Oct 20, 2017 10:03:03 GMT -6
Post by mintyblueair on Oct 20, 2017 10:03:03 GMT -6
Years ago my H and I had sex in the garden area of a cathedral in France. It was dusk, or just after, and we thought we were alone and hiding in a dark corner up against a huge stone wall. After we finished and I turned around to face MH I saw the silhouette of a head pull back behind a pyramid shaped topiary that was about 8 feet away from us. I whispered to V that I saw someone hiding behind the bush and we were both like, wtf? What should we do? There would have been no way for us to leave our corner without encountering whoever it was behind the bush so we awkwardly whispered to each other about what we should do for what felt like an eternity. THANKFULLY a couple of people came walking through the park smoking and as they walked by the bush the guy jumped out and pretended to join them on their stroll, so we took the opportunity to bolt out of there.
I guess the confession is that V and I are both so non-confrontational that I don't know how long we would've waited there in an effort NOT to confront the guy that was spying on us having sex. The whole situation was so ridiculous we laugh about it whenever one of us recalls it.
ETA: as we hurried out of there the two smokers were departing and the guy that had pretended to be with them kind of broke off and stopped as we walked by. V told me he recognized him as the grizzled old cathedral groundskeeper lol.
|
|
sassyq
Gold
Posts: 720 Likes: 1,860
|
Post by sassyq on Oct 20, 2017 11:27:34 GMT -6
It's A's birthday today and I have no plans. We didn't even get her a gift yet. Thankfully she's two and won't care if she gets cake/gifts on the actual day she was born or not lol. But I feel like I've majorly dropped the ball
|
|
|
Post by charlotte on Oct 20, 2017 11:31:06 GMT -6
|
|
mapleme
Amethyst
Posts: 6,067 Likes: 16,083
|
Friday
Oct 20, 2017 13:50:52 GMT -6
Post by mapleme on Oct 20, 2017 13:50:52 GMT -6
I just ate about 6 oz of Maple Lemon Curd with a spoon. The spatula that I used to scrape out the last bit from the bowl turned out to be spicy from Tuesday's hot sauce and thus the lemon curd became spicy. Fortunately it was just the sample portion that became spicy and not the rest of the batch. But I couldn't take it home because M would not be able to handle the existence of spicy lemon curd (and no other lemon curd for her). So naturally I had to eat it all by myself before going home.
|
|
mimsy
Platinum
Posts: 1,230 Likes: 2,776
|
Post by mimsy on Oct 20, 2017 14:55:18 GMT -6
My ILs told A and me that our SIL is preggo. She doesn't know that we know. We've been only met her bf once.
|
|
|
Post by charlotte on Oct 20, 2017 15:00:44 GMT -6
My ILs told A and me that our SIL is preggo. She doesn't know that we know. We've been only met her bf once. Well I am annoyed at your IL’s on behalf of your SIL. ETA if she told them in confidence.
|
|
mimsy
Platinum
Posts: 1,230 Likes: 2,776
|
Post by mimsy on Oct 20, 2017 17:43:49 GMT -6
My ILs told A and me that our SIL is preggo. She doesn't know that we know. We've been only met her bf once. Well I am annoyed at your IL’s on behalf of your SIL. ETA if she told them in confidence. I think she told them because she was seeking their approval (being their son's widow). It was an unexpected event. They told us so we would not be blindsided if our nephew mentioned it. I'm not mentioning to anyone in my outside of here life about it and making sure to not mention in front of S.
|
|
sassyq
Gold
Posts: 720 Likes: 1,860
|
Post by sassyq on Oct 20, 2017 17:54:14 GMT -6
I'm pathetic. I get frustrated because dh does not understand the concept of cleaning up after himself. Several days ago he drank a coke in a glass bottle and when he was done he left it on the end table. There is a trash can in arms reach of his chair. I have been leaving it there to see what he will do about it for days. The worst part is, I spend way too much effort keeping the kids away from it, it would be much easier to just throw it away myself. But I've told him how frustrating it is to feel like I do nothing but clean up after everyone every moment of the day and he just doesn't get it. I also keep putting the clothes he leaves all over the floors on his pillow, then when he goes to bed he drops them on the floor again. I am pathetic.
|
|
|
Friday
Oct 20, 2017 18:22:55 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by grumpycakes on Oct 20, 2017 18:22:55 GMT -6
My ILs told A and me that our SIL is preggo. She doesn't know that we know. We've been only met her bf once. Wow. What does your H think?
|
|
|
Friday
Oct 20, 2017 18:24:29 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by grumpycakes on Oct 20, 2017 18:24:29 GMT -6
I'm pathetic. I get frustrated because dh does not understand the concept of cleaning up after himself. Several days ago he drank a coke in a glass bottle and when he was done he left it on the end table. There is a trash can in arms reach of his chair. I have been leaving it there to see what he will do about it for days. The worst part is, I spend way too much effort keeping the kids away from it, it would be much easier to just throw it away myself. But I've told him how frustrating it is to feel like I do nothing but clean up after everyone every moment of the day and he just doesn't get it. I also keep putting the clothes he leaves all over the floors on his pillow, then when he goes to bed he drops them on the floor again. I am pathetic. Have done.
|
|
mimsy
Platinum
Posts: 1,230 Likes: 2,776
|
Post by mimsy on Oct 20, 2017 18:59:38 GMT -6
My ILs told A and me that our SIL is preggo. She doesn't know that we know. We've been only met her bf once. Wow. What does your H think? He feels sorry for her and the situation. Her entire life story so far is like a lifetime movie that hasn't had a happy ending yet. He's not actually a fan of hers, and she's not fond of him, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't drop anything to go help if she asked. We just look at it as S getting another cousin and hope that things are going to work out for her. Kids aged 17, 14, 8 and nb won't be easy in any circumstance. ETA- sorry for her because the situation is unexpected. Not because she's pregnant.
|
|
|
Friday
Oct 20, 2017 20:51:40 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by critter015 on Oct 20, 2017 20:51:40 GMT -6
There is a lady I met through my church that is a recovering alcoholic with three young kids (two she has custody of). She really struggles to make it and spends all of her extra money giving back to the recovery program that she went to. I've been involved with her because I donated a ton of baby stuff to her organization and she's such a sweet person with a great heart, but I can't stand to see how so much of what she does makes things more difficult for herself. Today she had a nail in her tire and posted about praying that she'd make it to work before it went flat again. Then this evening she posted again saying she was running late to pick up her kids and had to drive a long ways on her flat tire, so now instead of being able to get the flat fixed she's going to have to get a whole new tire and possibly a wheel too. She said "oh, I'll just put my spare on in the morning and figure things out from there" I can't help thinking OMG, with how long it must have taken her to drive from work to daycare on her flat she could have spent 5 minutes at some point today changing the tire and saved herself a ton of money she doesn't have! She does stuff like this ALL the time. I want to be like "oh, I can come help you with your problem" but I'm afraid to get involved.
|
|