Here is one- I'm not taking DS to see Santa this year and might not ever. I just don't understand how putting my kid in a stranger's lap for a photo is a good time for anyone.
My mom's stuffing is the best and also the trashiest. The main ingredient is "the cheapest white bread you can find, left out to get stale overnight".
Does she do more to it than my MIL? Her stuffing is white bread, celery, a little bit of onion, and poultry seasoning. It has no flavor and is dreadful mush. She seems to think that her kids LOVE it. Stop it woman, just make your wonderful mashed potatoes and quit making a travesty of a dish you call stuffing.
I started typing a lot about how annoyed I am with visiting my ILs for Christmas this year but kept deleting because it's too long.
But the basic gist of it is I think families with small kids should take precedence when making plans. I am annoyed that's not happening, but I realize that is probably flameful, particularly to non-parents.
Yes. And no one should be mad they are not willing to drive 2.5 hours on Christmas morning.
Guess what? Spending Christmas in the car sucks. Spending Christmas with a crabby 1.5 year old because she fell asleep in the car and refuses to nap later...also sucks.
Post by matildasun on Nov 24, 2014 17:18:36 GMT -5
Here is my (lame/ redundant) attempt at controversy. A wanted a Wonder Woman cake for her birthday. I thought it would be fun if I could find her a Wonder Woman shirt to wear to her party without putting in much effort. I was really annoyed to find this at Old Navy--
Wonder Woman does not wear pink. That shirt would have been perfect if it was red. Why the heck does it need to be pink? Even A, who likes pink, told me it was wrong when I showed her the picture (I kept my opinions to myself. It was also a moot point, because it was not her size).
Does she do more to it than my MIL? Her stuffing is white bread, celery, a little bit of onion, and poultry seasoning. It has no flavor and is dreadful mush. She seems to think that her kids LOVE it. Stop it woman, just make your wonderful mashed potatoes and quit making a travesty of a dish you call stuffing.
Haha, it also has butter and chicken broth? It is definitely mushy. It's probably mostly just that it's the stuffing I grew up with. It basically tastes like original stove top but less fake. I could eat 4 cups.
We flipped DD to FF for the ease of getting her in/out of the car seat with her cast.
This is off topic, but I wanted to ask if they gave you a cast protector for bathing her. I don't know if you could use it in a tub, but it works great in the shower. When we went to the orthopedist last week they gave us one and it is great. It has grips on the bottom so it doesn't slip as much as a trash bag. It slips right over the cast and forms a seal.
No, the doc said that its not much different than a trash bag, but now I'm wondering if he didn't know about this amazing product. I'm about to start googling for it.
We used a trash bag last night and put her potty chair in the bath tub in order to give her a shower.
Here's my unflameful "flameful" (to go with the theme of canned veggies and FF at over 2 years old): We are going to feed DD solids for the first time on Thanksgiving (SWEET POTATOES!!!!). And for some ridiculous reason I feel guilty giving her solids 4 days before she's 6 months old. Because WHO and AAP and my pedi say wait until 6 months.
I know, I'm an embarrassment.
dd had her first solids at thanksgiving ... 5 1/2 months old and sweet potatoes.
I'm completely swamped at work right now, thanks to the compressed holiday week and a vendor completely fucking stuff up last week. So I'm barely here, and have some tags that I may never get back to respond to.
But here I am in this thread, and admittedly I've only read the first 2.5 pages, to agree that people have really stupid justifications for being OK with retail establishments being open on Thanksgiving. One of my Facebook friends actually posted this:
"So don't judge me but I am one of the crazy people that love going out on Thanksgiving night and shopping all night and into Black Friday. I know, I know, I don't want people to have to work on Thanksgiving either, but let's be honest, stores are open regardless, so I will be out in it. This is my favorite night of the year. I love watching all the chaos and craziness, I feed off it- it reminds me of the mornings that mom and I would get up at the crack of dawn on Black Friday and go shopping. It is also 8 hours of uninterrupted, guilt-free shopping since my boys are in bed. It is my personal time, my shopping time, my memory time and I love."
Fuck. That. "Family time" and "making memories" are the crappiest of all the reasons I've heard. You have to do that on the backs of people who are working largely because they have to? And, if they've been with their employer long enough, probably in their earlier years knew that at least they'd get Thanksgiving day to spend with their families, even if they had to report to work at 4:00 the next morning?
I could go on, but it would become quite the screed and I honestly do not have time right now.
Savory mashed sweet potatoes with chipotle chilies, adobo sauce, cumin, and lime is fantastic. I hate the sweet version. I am also not a fan of stuffing, I hate moist bread. Cranberry sauce is also not my favorite.
Pumpkin pie though, I will eat it all and call it a health food.
Does she do more to it than my MIL? Her stuffing is white bread, celery, a little bit of onion, and poultry seasoning. It has no flavor and is dreadful mush. She seems to think that her kids LOVE it. Stop it woman, just make your wonderful mashed potatoes and quit making a travesty of a dish you call stuffing.
Haha, it also has butter and chicken broth? It is definitely mushy. It's probably mostly just that it's the stuffing I grew up with. It basically tastes like original stove top but less fake. I could eat 4 cups.
DH requested just two things for thanksgiving. Stove top and mashed potatoes. He doesn't like turkey but insisted we have one since DD is so excited about turkey dinner after preschool indoctrination. So we're having both. YUM!
I wish basic bitch wasn't offensive because I would tell mandapanda18 that she just pissed off an entire board full of pumpkin eating/drinking basic bitches. lol
Hey, I still embrace the pumpkin for my H's sake... I am taking off work on Wednesday to make two of those mother f*ckers! Along with a pecan pie, new york cheese cake and apple pie!
Flameful - my H's nephews suck. They are the most annoying children I have ever met in my life. I grit my teeth and deal with it bc it's family but OMG SHUT UPPPPPPPP. There's 4 of them. 10, 8, 5, & 5 months. The 5 year old is being such a dick lately. Part of me wants S to bite him or something. Flame me! This makes me a horrible mother and aunt!!!
I worry people think this about my 5yo. He comes on so strong. He's the kind of kid I would have dreaded babysitting back in the day.
I hate feeling the baby move. Like, I generally like the idea of knowing he's there and okay but it's mostly just weird and uncomfortable and it sort of makes me nauseous if he keeps it up too long.
Holiday flavors: I like pumpkin pie. Do not like pecan pie. Love peppermint chocolate things.
Flameful: I side-eye people who act like the mint holiday M&Ms are new. Where the hell have you been? They've been around for about as long as I remember. They were my favorite Christmas candy when I was a kid. My main complaint is they used to be the same size and shape as regular M&Ms, but in the last few years have become large and amorphous. They're still delicious.
is this where I put my Thanksgiving hate? (Sorry I have nothing better than thinking my kid is boring and wondering why people get excited over Thanksgiving food).
Turkey is not exciting. It's like chicken's bigger cousin. And the cluster that is sweet potatoes with marshmallows and sugar and all that other stuff, no I can't.
andplusalso, who ever got the bright idea that getting the whole family together once a year to pretend everything is sunshine and rainbows would be a good idea! Plus it masks my birthday 2/3s of the time.
Update: apparently their hotel does not allow them to leave their dogs alone in the room. So that's why. I still don't understand how they're planning to go out to eat though.
Reason #762 not to vacation with your pets. Ugh. Pet sitter!
We are going to be very limited in how much time we can spend with them if they're basically chained to their hotel room.
Post by stacyb1983 on Nov 24, 2014 17:57:22 GMT -5
I am returning my mom's Christmas present for H. I know this makes me a bitch, but it's not age appropriate, it's obnoxiously big, and will likely never get played with after the initial excitement of Christmas morning wears off.
I wish my mom would ask what he actually likes instead of buying cheap plastic crap. He is 4. She does this every year. I've had it. We live in a 1000 sqft house, there is no room for giant play sets. We've already had to introduce a toy rotation because we cannot fit all of the toys in his room.
She is also sending C two giant stuffed animals, even though we have told all the grandparents no more stuffed animals. We just took a garbage bag of stuffed animals to goodwill.
Oh here's my flameful. I wonder if the people who bitch and moan on social media about retail employees who work Thanksgiving are thinking about all the people who work at Facebook, Twitter, etc. behind the scenes to make sure social media sites stay up and running. 365 days a year. Including Thanksgiving. So people can post their angry tweets.
Sorry but I can't get it up about retail employees working on Thanksgiving. Some people have jobs that require holiday work. I personally think it is ludicrous that people even WANT to shop on Black Friday, let alone Thanksgiving--you will not catch me anywhere near a retail store on those days--but I don't feel like corporations are paragons of evil for opening on those days. The demand is clearly there. It's pure lunacy, but if I was a retail store I'd want to take advantage of it too.
I welcome all your flames.
Just can't agree with this, in general.
1. Retail establishments were previously almost exclusively closed on Thanksgiving day. A person hired by, say, Macy's knew that the holiday season would be insane, but they could *at least* count on Thanksgiving and Christmas days as sacrosanct. To change that on employees and make Thanksgiving a required "all hands" day, as some of these companies have done is crappy, since there is no true need for these places to be open.
2. Other companies, such as the tech giants you mention, may designate certain positions as critical and require they be covered 24/7, but you can bet those employees are paid significantly more than most retail employees, and knew what they were getting into at hiring, and get to do that work from the comfort of a desk or even home. Still not ideal and not life or death, but very different from retail. I work for a company with that kind of infrastructure, and know the support working the holidays is compensated very well.
3. I don't know what I was going to put here. This just looks incomplete without a third bullet. So I'll just confess that I strongly dislike eggnog, and I'm now judging simpsongal for thinking mint chocolate chip and peppermint are interchangeable ice cream flavors. Both are delicious, but they are not the same.