I will also never move again without hiring movers. Not worth the $$ you save.
I an one of those "never say never" people, but this one I agree with 100%. Never again.
Absolutely. Me and DH + rain + a smaller than average door, our last move was a disaster. At this point I would even pay someone if we were just moving next door. We ended up rolling our refrigerator down a hill, end over end, ugh.
So much this! But only downhill. I'd like to do more cross country skiing, actually (amazing workout).
I'll add one: Going down into the pyramids in Cairo. Horribly hot, humid and claustrophobic. Never again! Never have I been so close to a panic attack.
Can I be the ignorant fat ass who asks what's the difference between "training" for a marathon and "running"? I'm scratching my head over here.
I guess the only thing I know for certain is to carry a child. I am 99.9% sure we'd never adopt even, but we are the guardians for my nephews in case something happened to my sister & BIL, so I won't rule that out. But DH and I have both been "fixed" and I'm going to have an ablation, so a double fix for me.
Can I be the ignorant fat ass who asks what's the difference between "training" for a marathon and "running"? Â I'm scratching my head over here.Â
Running: "hey, I feel like going for a run. Six miles sounds great! Maybe I'll go more, maybe less."
Training for a marathon: "All right. I have a 7 mile run Tuesday and Thursday, and have a 20 miler Saturday. So I can't go to c's birthday in Friday night because we're starting at 5 am, and I'll probably be too exhausted to get anything done around the house after, some I guess I'll cram all my weekend stuff into Sunday.
Man, I hope I'm not sore for that like last time. Must remember to get ice for an ice bath.
And I need to go grocery shopping to buy the massive amounts of food to combat the insatiable hunger.
Crap. Chafing. I hope my chafing doesn't fet worse."
Training was all consuming. It dominated my schedule for an entire summer.
Apartment/home near the airport. I will never say, never with the whole apartment thing, because then I will end up in one. That's how life is when you are in a volatile industry. BUT we will be sure not to do the whole "near the airport" thing again. HORRIBLE.
Never allow my MIL back into our lives again. I'm sick and tired of her ignoring my kids, and treating her other grandkids like they are golden. She pushed us away so much, and I am over it. I shouldn't be shocked, considering the stupid bitch said to my husband, "Well you left your family when you went into the Marine Corps." Classy bitch huh. We named our third daughter after her (we used her first name as DD's middle name), and we are in the process of having it changed.
Is it a common name? How old is your DD? I'm not a parent so maybe I'm just not getting it but changing her name seems unnecessary to me.
Her middle name is Christine, so I guess not too common? I'm not sure. I don't know anyone else with that name, but that's not to say it's not common. It may seem unnecessary, but when we seriously hate the fact that she is named after such a vile person, it has to be done. My daughter is only (almost) 2, so I would rather get it done now before she's older.
Can I be the ignorant fat ass who asks what's the difference between "training" for a marathon and "running"? Â I'm scratching my head over here.Â
Running: "hey, I feel like going for a run. Six miles sounds great! Maybe I'll go more, maybe less."
Training for a marathon: "All right. I have a 7 mile run Tuesday and Thursday, and have a 20 miler Saturday. So I can't go to c's birthday in Friday night because we're starting at 5 am, and I'll probably be too exhausted to get anything done around the house after, some I guess I'll cram all my weekend stuff into Sunday.
Man, I hope I'm not sore for that like last time. Must remember to get ice for an ice bath.
And I need to go grocery shopping to buy the massive amounts of food to combat the insatiable hunger.
Crap. Chafing. I hope my chafing doesn't fet worse."
Training was all consuming. It dominated my schedule for an entire summer.
Decide to cross the ice on a lake that may not have been fully frozen. I still think about how stupid DH and I were in college, and this tops the list.
The ones about not having more than one dog at a time are scaring me since we just got a second dog
I love having two, I think it's easier. I'm sure it totally depends on the dogs though. 4 and 5 when we get together with my family is overwhelming though.
I am fascinated by this. Who pumps your gas, and why do you think it is hard?
I'm guessing the poster lives in NJ or OR. Pumping your own gas is illegal here (or there, in the case of OR). Now, of course I've done it a handful of times outside of the state, but I will coast into NJ on fumes to avoid pumping my own gas. Also, you don't have to get out of your car in the heat, cold, rain, snow. It doesn't cost any more - in fact our gas is cheaper here than in neighboring states.
My parents are buying a TDI Jetta Sportwagen (lol, inspired by the one we brought home this weekend) and my mom is all aflutter about the fact that she'll have to pump her own now -- apparently in NJ you can't pump gas but you can pump diesel? I live in NY and I don't think I gave her the reaction she was looking for.
The ones about not having more than one dog at a time are scaring me since we just got a second dog :|
We never had dogs before and adopted two at once last year (a dog and her puppy). I don't see the difficulty, but I guess I haven't seen the side of only having one? They play together, and it's awesome :D They both have different social needs too, though.
My never again: Adopt a puppy under 6 months old. Nope! We cried the first whole month off and on. It was so difficult! Waking up in the middle of the night, going out first thing in the morning, coming home in the middle of the day (each "puppy break" took two hours out of our work day, and we made up all the time usually). And she was sooooo little, we couldn't just let them out into the backyard for potty breaks. She would have been able to slip through the fence, if she wanted to. And it was winter. No more baby pups for us!
Buy a used car - 5 used cars later, we have had 4 of them end up in the shop with major $$$ repair bills. One was even CPO'd luckily still under warranty. The only one with no issue I totalled in a year so no time for anything to come up.
Travel with MIL - The scene of MIL yelling "We are tourists!!" keeps replaying again and again in my mind. Then she almost had her wallet stolen (with $500 in it!) if H hadn't noticed a guy walking unusually close and unzipping her back pack. Another time, I flew her to San Antonio for a day trip of shopping and she told anyone and everyone that would listen about our insane short trip just to go shopping. Never again.
Stay in hostels or one star hotels when traveling in Europe Ride spinning rides (oh god, the tea cups...) Drive in Manhattan (okay, I would if I had to, but I will try hard to avoid it)
I have never run a marathon, gone camping, or owned more than one dog at once. I take it from this thread I should not give them a try?
Post by emilyinchile on Oct 20, 2014 10:44:19 GMT -5
Honestly, I can only think that I'll never take a specific BC pill again because it made me depressed.
I like camping, I think I'll probably do another half marathon at some point in the future, and although I hate Aerolineas Argentinas with the passion of a thousand suns and would say I'll never fly them again, if they're the only airline flying somewhere I want to go, I'll suck it up. I can't decide if I'm being too literal with "never" (like, I have no plans to ever stay in a hostel dorm room again, but maybe it will be the best option for some reason?), if I'm more open to inconveniences than some of you, or if I'm just dumber about learning from my mistakes. Yeah yeah, it's probably the latter.
Thanks for all the reassurance about two pups. They love playing together and cuddle, so I think it will be good!
Also agree with everyone on the puppy front. We have fostered a few, and they are exhausting.
I think I'm the first one that posted about never having two dogs again. I wasn't trying to scare anyone, it just isn't for us. It isn't that our dogs are particularly difficult or anything, either. I think I was just so spoiled with how good our first dog was/is. He rarely barks, he's fantastically well behaved when he's inside, he is kind, he likes everyone, he doesn't jump, he doesn't look twice at our chickens, he crate trained himself, and he's cute. We seriously hit the jackpot with him when we picked him out at the shelter. I know he was passed over a lot because he has a limp from an untreated broken leg that he got while he was a stray.
Our newest dog (we've had her since March) just really changed the dynamic. She had a very bad case of heartworms when we adopted her so she wasn't particularly energetic and barely ate anything for the first two months we had her, and of course she was crated for two months for her heartworm treatment. She was, however, food aggressive. Even though she didn't want to eat, she'd growl and snap at our other dog if he so much as looked at her food bowl. Now that her heartworms are gone she's 1000X more energetic and rowdy. She continues to put her paws on people despite our best efforts to train her otherwise. Every once in a while she looses her head and chases the chickens around the backyard. Her food aggression has gotten better but she still bares her teeth at him if he comes near her while she's eating.
She's generally a sweet dog and really, I don't have anything to complain about. I've just learned that I prefer having only one dog.
Live in a house with less than 2 bathrooms. Ugh. The smarter answer would be to not travel to a 3rd world country and stay in an area that has exactly zero running water, but the trip was so much fun! It's this part right now that isn't so much fun.