This is probably where I confess that I was trying to follow the Greece / Ireland debate when I got distracted by remembering the "Ireland" song from Legally Blonde the Musical.
I LOVE Legally Blonde the Musical! I have the whole album on my iPhone and play it while I'm in the shower. lol
I was also embarrassingly into the MTV reality show where they were looking for the star of the Broadway show to replace Laura Bell Bundy. (Now THAT'S a confession.)
that was a good freaking show "oh my god, oh my god you guys...."
If someone says "I want a new bike" and the suggestions range from 200 to 2k, and then the poster is like, wellllll, I would prefer to spend less than 500 but budget is flexible, thats different to me than the whole "there is no point in even buying one if you cant spend ALL THE MONEY" lololol
I may have done this the other day when you mentioned Athleta and their high prices, but 1) you never mentioned a specific budget and 2) I consider Athleta a splurge, a totally worth it splurge!
I think part of it is that someone who is asking on a message board is generally not SUPER into whatever the topic is so they don't want to drop a ton of cash on it but the people answering are people who ARE very into a particular subject so they are more willing to prioritize spending on the item in question. If that makes any sense. I don't think the majority of people are buying top-of-the-line everything.
Huh. I am small but I find them to be pretty TTS. I wear a 24 or 25 in jeans (usually US 0) and XS in Athleta. If anything I wear a larger size in Athleta than other stuff (technically I would be an XXS at Athleta but I find the XXS bottoms are too tight/binding).
I have 4 pairs of Athleta crops/capris and a pair of shorts, and 2 swimsuits.
I acknowledge that I might be missing the vanity sizing due to skinny privilege.
I agree they are true to size but then again maybe where I buy most of my clothes does vanity sizing.
Plus most of their stuff is geared towards working out so I might as well feel like my workouts are actually working while I am wearing their stuff :-)
Nooooooo don't do it! Buzz cuts are not good. Short, sure, but not buzzed. I don't even care about hair (see Jim Carrey phase) and I would be mad about this.
oh yeah if H took DS to get a buzzcut behind my back like pthat, I would be LIVID.
Me too. I am not a fan of buzz cuts at all. I don't care if my kids head gets sweaty. I'm bathing him every night to get the sunblock off so washing his sweaty head isn't any more hassle.
In a similar vein to @mrswindycity I want to tell H that I have a huge project at work and I have to work late. Then I want him to come home and do the bedtime routine alone for once while I hide in my office reading.
oh yeah if H took DS to get a buzzcut behind my back like pthat, I would be LIVID.
Me too. I am not a fan of buzz cuts at all. I don't care if my kids head gets sweaty. I'm bathing him every night to get the sunblock off so washing his sweaty head isn't any more hassle.
Well we have agreed on a compromise length, but seriously she veto'd things like this:
Me too. I am not a fan of buzz cuts at all. I don't care if my kids head gets sweaty. I'm bathing him every night to get the sunblock off so washing his sweaty head isn't any more hassle.
Well we have agreed on a compromise length, but seriously she veto'd things like this:
Me too. I am not a fan of buzz cuts at all. I don't care if my kids head gets sweaty. I'm bathing him every night to get the sunblock off so washing his sweaty head isn't any more hassle.
Well we have agreed on a compromise length, but seriously she veto'd things like this:
Nobody thinks places Arkansas or Mississippi, who have been net receivers of federal tax dollars since basically forever, will ever "pay back their debts" to New York and California and Connecticut and so forth. But apparently Greece has to pay their debts back to Germany and Finland and the Netherlands. And they don't just have to pay back their debts -- they have to do it the way the creditor nations want (with less reliance on higher taxes and more reliance on pension cuts than the Greek government is offering). It's not even a question of paying back debts at this point -- it's about getting Greece to say "yes, we are Europe's bitch".
It's not like Europe's economic policymakers have really covered themselves in glory since 2008. Why should anyone think their advice is even any good?
I'm going to bury this actual confession here because I feel like an asshole.
At my job I walk, a lot, and very fast. When I work a double (16 hours) I usually get 10 miles on the fitbit. I frequently have 10 places to be at once, all at separate ends of the building. I also have to train, because I'm good at my job.
A new girl was just hired. I am confident in her abilities to do the actual job, but not at all in her ability to keep up with me. She is very very large, like over 299# large. I am dreading having to be the one to train her because I can't slow down my walking and still get all my shit done. Everything will go to shit. The last girl hired for this position was larger, not as large, and couldn't keep up, physically, with the job and quit.
Yes. I'm an asshole.
WOW.
I'm surprised nobody has touched this yet.
I'll bite. Yes, you are acting very asshole-ish here. And selfish. I am appalled.
I LOVE Legally Blonde the Musical! I have the whole album on my iPhone and play it while I'm in the shower. lol
I was also embarrassingly into the MTV reality show where they were looking for the star of the Broadway show to replace Laura Bell Bundy. (Now THAT'S a confession.)
that was a good freaking show "oh my god, oh my god you guys...."
I loved that show. I love Legally Blonde the Musical. I was so sad when I went to see it with my Mon that she wouldn't wait so I could get a picture with the UPS guy in the lobby for charity .
I want to get V a buzz cut or similar for summer, but msniq is not a fan. Maybe this weekend we'll go to the donut shop and "well he really wanted a balloon from the kids hair salon, and ..."
My MMM financial privilege confession is that people sweat one-time expenses too much, and recurring expenses (ahem, children's clothing) too little. $380 for a car seat that lasts seven years is $4.50/month.
NOOOO! Didn't you see my confession? I let dh talk me into it. HUGE MISTAKE.
oh yeah if H took DS to get a buzzcut behind my back like pthat, I would be LIVID.
Me too. I am not a fan of buzz cuts at all. I don't care if my kids head gets sweaty. I'm bathing him every night to get the sunblock off so washing his sweaty head isn't any more hassle.
Confession: the need for a bath is why I don't put sunblock on DS every day.
I'll bite. Yes, you are acting very asshole-ish here. And selfish. I am appalled.
I missed it!
Super fast-walking fatty checking in. Ugh, the idea that overweight people can't perform the same physical tasks as thin people is especially grating to me.
Oh god no. I am not skinny. And I have short fat legs. There have been plenty of small people that can't keep up either. Like I said, I know I'm being an asshole. I frequently tell people I'm training that I'll meet them on the wing and then speed off because I can get there faster.
Anyway. Like I said. I know it's an asshole thought and was ready for flames.
Super fast-walking fatty checking in. Ugh, the idea that overweight people can't perform the same physical tasks as thin people is especially grating to me.
Oh god no. I am not skinny. And I have short fat legs. There have been plenty of small people that can't keep up either. Like I said, I know I'm being an asshole. I frequently tell people I'm training that I'll meet them on the wing and then speed off because I can get there faster.
Anyway. Like I said. I know it's an asshole thought and was ready for flames.
I read your post and thought "Gosh if I had that job, I would be motivated to get into better shape. And I'd wear a pedometer to track how much I was moving and pat myself on the back as I got faster. And celebrate with a trip to the Cheesecake Factory."
I'll bite. Yes, you are acting very asshole-ish here. And selfish. I am appalled.
I missed it!
Super fast-walking fatty checking in. Ugh, the idea that overweight people can't perform the same physical tasks as thin people is especially grating to me.
I am thin, lazy, and very out of shape. I'm certain that I couldn't keep up.
I'll bite. Yes, you are acting very asshole-ish here. And selfish. I am appalled.
I missed it!
Super fast-walking fatty checking in. Ugh, the idea that overweight people can't perform the same physical tasks as thin people is especially grating to me.
Okay one, you're not a fatty.
Two, ditto, this is a really gross assumption. I have been naturally skinny my entire life and for most of my life I was WILDLY out of shape. Like INCREDIBLY out of shape. I would huff and puff after walking a block. I couldn't even have sex in certain positions because the muscle fatigue would hit me so hard, lol. You CANNOT necessarily tell how fit (or how fast) a person is just by looking at them. Believe me, I weigh more or less the same now as when I got married, but you would not want the 2006 version of me in a job with any kind of physical component.
PS. There are some overweight people in my yoga classes that can do shit my skinny ass can only dream about, like handstand and scorpion pose.
Super fast-walking fatty checking in. Ugh, the idea that overweight people can't perform the same physical tasks as thin people is especially grating to me.
Oh god no. I am not skinny. And I have short fat legs. There have been plenty of small people that can't keep up either. Like I said, I know I'm being an asshole. I frequently tell people I'm training that I'll meet them on the wing and then speed off because I can get there faster.
Anyway. Like I said. I know it's an asshole thought and was ready for flames.
How do you know her weight? How do you know what she will or won't be able to do.
So yeah you are a shitty person for your thoughts, but I guess you already knew that.
Super fast-walking fatty checking in. Ugh, the idea that overweight people can't perform the same physical tasks as thin people is especially grating to me.
Oh god no. I am not skinny. And I have short fat legs. There have been plenty of small people that can't keep up either. Like I said, I know I'm being an asshole. I frequently tell people I'm training that I'll meet them on the wing and then speed off because I can get there faster.
Anyway. Like I said. I know it's an asshole thought and was ready for flames.
I posted this article on ML, but clearly you need to read this since you are a judgmental asshole. It's a post with a bunch of confident women who defy yoga body stereotypes.
Oh god no. I am not skinny. And I have short fat legs. There have been plenty of small people that can't keep up either. Like I said, I know I'm being an asshole. I frequently tell people I'm training that I'll meet them on the wing and then speed off because I can get there faster.
Anyway. Like I said. I know it's an asshole thought and was ready for flames.
I posted this article on ML, but clearly you need to read this since you are a judgmental asshole. It's a post with a bunch of confident women who defy yoga body stereotypes.
My sister turned her kid around the same age for the same reason and I thought it was a reasonable decision. There are risks to FF, but there are risks to being distracted by a screaming toddler too and you have to weigh those against each other.
Did it help?
We switched ds1 at 19 months and car rides became immediately pleasant. Especially with the car seat installed in the middle he could see everything and loved it.
Post by gibbinator on Jun 29, 2015 18:34:07 GMT -5
On the subject of nice husbands get sex. I had a really tough night with ds2 last night and I gave up putting him back to bed around 5am and left him screaming in the crib while I went back to our room for my glasses. Dh offered to get up with ds2 for the day (even though he had to work today) and let me to back to sleep until 6:45am. I was so thankful for the sleep in that I promised a bj tonight. Coming out of 2yrs retirement.
An IRL mom acquaintance potty trained her DD right at age 2 and was always kind of smug about it. We tried with DD at 30 months, it was a disaster. I didn't really care but the smugness was annoying. DD ended up potty training after 1 1/2 pee accidents 2 months before her 3rd birthday, and after some initial struggles with poop, will now poop in the potty anytime, anywhere, nbd. Smug mom? I found out that her kid still asks for a diaper so she can poop. Now I know it doesn't really matter, it's just her smugness about it that gives me a bit of glee that after all of her gloating, her kid isn't really fully potty trained. She didn't need to be so damn smug about it to begin with and make comments to make me feel like DD was so behind, it's not like we have much control over it!
I think pay-it-forwards at starbucks/fast food restaurants are dumb.
Well, my son poop trained himself at 15 months, but unnerved ran around saying he was potty trained. He had a major set back at 25 months and we are now seeing a psychologist about the issue at 4.5- he has been pee trained since he was two and a half, though. Potty training is a unique experience per kid, and I dislike braggarts.
A: niq I won't GBCN. I've barely been around lately anyway.
B: I said I was an asshole. I know this. As soon as the thoughts even entered my mind, I felt bad because her weight has no bearing on *her* doing the job. and yes jenny1980, I did prejudge her, unfairly.
C: I actually expected flames before, so prefacing with "I'm an asshole" wasn't done to prevent flames.
D: @wandering, I don't know her weight. and page, I don't know her physical abilities. The higher-ups have a bad habit of not fully informing people of the physical nature of the job. Had I known, I most likely wouldn't have taken it.