Mine is SO petty, but whatever :-# BF is an English teacher. His ex can't seem to type a single sentence without messing up a homophone. "We will be their." Bad ones like that. Not just your/you're. How did that not make him insane? Also, his family likes me way more. Which makes me smug.
I feel like a total bitch for even remotely enjoying these details. Dating is weird.
Mine is SO petty, but whatever :-# BF is an English teacher. His ex can't seem to type a single sentence without messing up a homophone. "We will be their." Bad ones like that. Not just your/you're. How did that not make him insane? Also, his family likes me way more. Which makes me smug.
I feel like a total bitch for even remotely enjoying these details. Dating is weird.
Obviously! Clearly she sucks on so many levels, not just grammatical.
My Easter gathering for my family was to start at 2:30. I got back from church around 12:30 so I had ~2 hours to finish prep on the main courses and finalize the dishes I made the day before. My father in law texted my husband a few times to ask if he could come early to hide eggs. We said no, but after prodding, finally said yes. So he said he would be there 20 minutes early.
So FIL shows up w/MIL and SIL and her husband at like 2:10pm. That's half my guests. I was totally taken aback, I only expected FIL to be skulking around in the yard. I was annoyed at the early arrivals, I mentioned it sort of flippantly to FIL (ya know, I was only expecting you!) - but I felt so bad afterwards for being annoyed. Ugh.....IDK if I was right or I should have just rolled w/it. It seemed clear only FIL was showing up early (they live less than .5 miles away so not a travel issue).
MIL apologized later for showing early, I said it was fine and I need to learn to cope better w/the stress of entertaining. Anyone want to weigh in here?
My day is quickly going downhill. Today is the baby shower for my old coworker (the "young coworker" who got me in trouble for not being her BFF). I haven't spoken to her since she transferred away in November. We cross paths in the hall and she won't even look at me if I say hi. We have 5 more baby showers within 2 months. I decided that I am not going to buy gifts for any of them. All hell is breaking loose. Apparently it is not okay that I didn't want to contribute towards my department's pooled gift. FML.
ETA genet313 just realized you meant JCrew Pixies. those do look like they're right up my alley; I live in leggings these days
I like them way more than the Minnie. More slimming, at least on me. But I'm hippy so I think the length helps. I wear them all the time, like 2-3 days a week. Wait for a sale, though! Don't pay full price.
Mine is SO petty, but whatever :-# BF is an English teacher. His ex can't seem to type a single sentence without messing up a homophone. "We will be their." Bad ones like that. Not just your/you're. How did that not make him insane? Also, his family likes me way more. Which makes me smug.
I feel like a total bitch for even remotely enjoying these details. Dating is weird.
I've boycotted restaurants that misspell things on their menus. I can't imagine marrying someone who did that.
My Easter gathering for my family was to start at 2:30. I got back from church around 12:30 so I had ~2 hours to finish prep on the main courses and finalize the dishes I made the day before. My father in law texted my husband a few times to ask if he could come early to hide eggs. We said no, but after prodding, finally said yes. So he said he would be there 20 minutes early.
So FIL shows up w/MIL and SIL and her husband at like 2:10pm. That's half my guests. I was totally taken aback, I only expected FIL to be skulking around in the yard. I was annoyed at the early arrivals, I mentioned it sort of flippantly to FIL (ya know, I was only expecting you!) - but I felt so bad afterwards for being annoyed. Ugh.....IDK if I was right or I should have just rolled w/it. It seemed clear only FIL was showing up early (they live less than .5 miles away so not a travel issue).
MIL apologized later for showing early, I said it was fine and I need to learn to cope better w/the stress of entertaining. Anyone want to weigh in here?
I don't think it's a big deal for guests, especially guests who are family, to be there 20 minutes early. Ideal? No. Polite? No. But enough to be annoyed and mention it? I think that's an overreaction and I agree that you may need to learn to cope better with entertaining stress if you plan to entertain regularly. I have a friend who is like this--she entertains and gets stressed and becomes snippy. It makes for an unpleasant experience when it happens and I honestly want to ask her why she continues to host when it's clearly not her forte. A good hostess makes people feel comfortable and welcome. People aren't going to feel like that when they can sense you're on edge.
Post by simpsongal on Mar 29, 2016 10:04:16 GMT -5
sfy yeah I think there's a reason I felt bad afterwards. I'm going to partially blame continuing morning sickness for adding stress. Plus, I find hosting on Easter to be particularly stressful b/c of the disruption of going to church and then having everyone over so soon after.
To piggy back on the Easte confessions, I kind of messed up Easter dinner. I had a great menu all planned out of various canapes, a salad with berries and a homemade vinegarette, salmon and dill quiche, and lemon cheesecake mousse for dessert.
I put the quiche in to cook for an hour per the recipe and let it set for 20 minutes before serving it. When I went to cut into it it was still almost completely liquid! I shoved it in the oven for another 30 minutes, but in the meantime my dad and DH had to leave for work. So their Easter dinner consisted of salad, dessert, and a few sad pieces of defrosted ham steak my mom brought with her. I still can't figure out what I did wrong besides maybe my oven wasn't hot enough. Boo.
Me Selfridge is back on PBS. But it won't fill the downton sized hole in my tv watching heart.
Thoughts? I really want to watch this with DH b/c hey, Jeremy Piven, but I'm not sure I can convince him into any period piece. Is this "guy" friendly? He hates Downton. Jerk.
I don't think it's a big deal for guests, especially guests who are family, to be there 20 minutes early. Ideal? No. Polite? No. But enough to be annoyed and mention it? I think that's an overreaction and I agree that you may need to learn to cope better with entertaining stress if you plan to entertain regularly. I have a friend who is like this--she entertains and gets stressed and becomes snippy. It makes for an unpleasant experience when it happens and I honestly want to ask her why she continues to host when it's clearly not her forte. A good hostess makes people feel comfortable and welcome. People aren't going to feel like that when they can sense you're on edge.
My sister is the opposite. She comes late. And she usually is bringing something my dad asked her to make. And then she gets snippy. I go to my dad's early to help him out. Maybe you can have her do something to help out? put some food in bowls, entertain the kids?
Me Selfridge is back on PBS. But it won't fill the downton sized hole in my tv watching heart.
Thoughts? I really want to watch this with DH b/c hey, Jeremy Piven, but I'm not sure I can convince him into any period piece. Is this "guy" friendly? He hates Downton. Jerk.
MH watches it but he also watched Downton. There is definite romance angle to it but I also find the historical aspects of the store and his life interesting, too.
Thoughts? I really want to watch this with DH b/c hey, Jeremy Piven, but I'm not sure I can convince him into any period piece. Is this "guy" friendly? He hates Downton. Jerk.
MH watches it but he also watched Downton. There is definite romance angle to it but I also find the historical aspects of the store and his life interesting, too.
Did you watch The Paradise on Netflix? It's the same premise I think. If so, which is better?