Post by WillabyWallabyWu on Jun 25, 2015 10:21:54 GMT -5
This is the first that I've heard of this girl. While I agree that she seems utterly lazy and borderline crazy, I did find myself commiserating with her husband being gone all the time. My husband is a firefighter and EMT (works two different jobs in different departments). He is gone a lot. Like, last week he saw DS twice-both times around 5 am when DS wakes to nurse, but falls right back to sleep.
Having a spouse who works long hours outside of the home is really hard, but that doesn't mean you get to check out! If I was that unhappy with my lot in life, I would DO SOMETHING about it. Ugh! But, man. If I could just blog about my problems and make money off of it, maybe I would do that too? Probably not, but it would be nice to get paid for my complaining.
So it sounds like she has real issues. That sucks for her and her family.
I can't get all "what an insane bitch!" about it, that's all.
Oh that is because she talks about her kids in a mean way, especially her son. She used to dress him up in girl clothes as part of what she called a "social experiment." Now there is nothing wrong with a boy choosing to wear pink or hair bows but that is not what was going on here. Jenna was choosing these things herself to be an AW and to prove that she is a "feminist" (like these things have anything to do with each other?? lol). Oh and also she admitted to only bathing them once a week and that the other kids made fun of him for being stinky.
One time she drove to a local forest to take photos and left her son sleeping in the car while she and her sister walked around. The kid woke up alone and flipped out. Instead of comforting him, she posted a pic of him looking upset and criticized him for being too scared to go into the woods and ruining her afternoon. It's stuff like this that she does over and over.
eta: It was posted in a "SEE what I have to deal with kind of way??" She's so tone deaf to how she comes off wrt basically everything including her children and "work." She is almost too terrible to be believed which is when I start thinking the elaborate performance artist theory might to be true after all, lol.
So it sounds like she has real issues. That sucks for her and her family.
I can't get all "what an insane bitch!" about it, that's all.
Oh that is because she talks about her kids in a mean way, especially her son. She used to dress him up in girl clothes as part of what she called a "social experiment." Now there is nothing wrong with a boy choosing to wear pink or hair bows but that is not what was going on here. Jenna was choosing these things herself to be an AW. Oh and also she admitted to only bathing them once a week and that the other kids made fun of him for being stinky.
One time she drove to a local Forrest to take photos and left her son sleeping in the car while she and her sister walked around. The kid woke up alone and flipped out. Instead of comforting him, she posted a pic of him looking upset and critized him for being too scared to go into the woods and ruining her afternoon. It's stuff like this that she does over and over.
Don't forget about the picture collage she posted of him holding his crotch and crying because "she refused to go upstairs with him to pee." She only wanted him to use the downstairs bathroom. A 9 picture collage, posted on IG, complaining about him wanting to pee upstairs when he was just newly potty trained.
Oh that is because she talks about her kids in a mean way, especially her son. She used to dress him up in girl clothes as part of what she called a "social experiment." Now there is nothing wrong with a boy choosing to wear pink or hair bows but that is not what was going on here. Jenna was choosing these things herself to be an AW. Oh and also she admitted to only bathing them once a week and that the other kids made fun of him for being stinky.
One time she drove to a local Forrest to take photos and left her son sleeping in the car while she and her sister walked around. The kid woke up alone and flipped out. Instead of comforting him, she posted a pic of him looking upset and critized him for being too scared to go into the woods and ruining her afternoon. It's stuff like this that she does over and over.
Don't forget about the picture collage she posted of him holding his crotch and crying because "she refused to go upstairs with him to pee." She only wanted him to use the downstairs bathroom. A 9 picture collage, posted on IG, complaining about him wanting to pee upstairs when he was just newly potty trained.
Oh that is because she talks about her kids in a mean way, especially her son. She used to dress him up in girl clothes as part of what she called a "social experiment." Now there is nothing wrong with a boy choosing to wear pink or hair bows but that is not what was going on here. Jenna was choosing these things herself to be an AW. Oh and also she admitted to only bathing them once a week and that the other kids made fun of him for being stinky.
One time she drove to a local Forrest to take photos and left her son sleeping in the car while she and her sister walked around. The kid woke up alone and flipped out. Instead of comforting him, she posted a pic of him looking upset and critized him for being too scared to go into the woods and ruining her afternoon. It's stuff like this that she does over and over.
Don't forget about the picture collage she posted of him holding his crotch and crying because "she refused to go upstairs with him to pee." She only wanted him to use the downstairs bathroom. A 9 picture collage, posted on IG, complaining about him wanting to pee upstairs when he was just newly potty trained.
^ Applying logic to her situation gives her too much credit imo. There was a long time after T2 was born that Jenna did seem genuinely depressed and well meaning people wrote into her blog telling her to apply for jobs outside the home and put the kids into daycare and how there is no shame in that, etc. etc. Her response? That won't work because she wants to be able to work from home and prepare her lunches in her own kitchen and "chase the light" whenever the impulse strikes her (she is obsessed with making lunches for some reason, how much time it takes to unload a dishwasher, and "chasing the light" lol). So her solution was to send the kids to daycare and work from home on her various blog projects. But she still seemed extremely unhappy. Time passed and then a few months ago she suddenly did a total 180 and announced that after careful consideration, she and her husband decided together that she would become a "software developer" in Silicon Valley and that she would be applying to Hack Bright to make this happen. Hack Bright is a coding boot camp that is apparently very well connected and extremely hard to get into. The women who do get in have phds and are already engineers etc. Jenna barely graduated from BYU with a degree in English. GOMI speculated that TH handed over this ultimatum after realizing how much she spends on outsourcing childcare with no income in sight and *also* that she chose Hack Bright as her vehicle to reenter the workforce because she knows she'll never get in so it'll give her longer to fart around chasing the light. She was rejected from the program once before and has said she's working on her application for another round. Does she do the smart thing and take coding classes at a local CC? No because that is not high profile enough for her. It's Hack Bright or nothing.
^I'm embarrassed that I know all this. But she is a train wreck that is strangely hard to look away from.
this makes total sense to me now. I was so confused when I read about Hack Brighy because she previously said she tried to find a major that was easy and did not involved her having to do math and science. And I was all so you want to learn to code now and be a software engineer? Wut?