All of the posts about deleting posts and the power of mods to delete posts is completely stupid. I cannot believe anyone gives that many fucks about deleting.
Agreed
eta: Jeeker, I'm so sorry. I hope things work out for you guys soon.
My randoms:
I'm shocked at how big the squirrels are up here. They're like the size of small house cats. This shouldn't surprise me, because I grew up in this general region, and only spent 2 years in the south, but yeah. These things are huge.
I just spent $60 on red and green cloth napkins, to be used only at Christmas time. H is going to think I've lost my mind, but I don't care because I'm really into Christmas and am tired of the random old leftover hand-me-down decorations/stuff I've used in the past. I want my own decorations dammit. I'm probably even going to head north to this little town that sells an obscene amount of Christmas stuff, the week after Christmas, and go crazy buying all the pretty things.
BIL and SIL say they have an "awesome" Christmas gift for Joanna. I hope it's not a ball pit. lol
I am with you, my mom told me she bought Jax one. I was thinking great, that's staying at your house. I am going to hide unless I know she is coming over.
I'm sorry jeeker. I hope you can work through your emotions to come to a place where you're happy.
My H is feeling under appreciated. I hate it when he gets like this. I know it is because he's been doing more housework than me. I typically do everything around the house, because I'm home more. The past few weeks, I have been working more than he has. Plus, I'm in 1st tri, and I've honestly never been more exhausted in my life.
I don't know what to do to make him feel more appreciated. It isn't like I can surprise him by cooking dinner/grocery shopping/cleaning the house, because I normally do all of that anyway. Men. Blah.
BIL and SIL say they have an "awesome" Christmas gift for Joanna. I hope it's not a ball pit. lol
Do they have kids yet?
If not, just smile, bide your time, and remember that paybacks can be a bitch. We had a couple years of "awesome" presents from H's brother and his wife. Now they have their own kid, and we have a niece, so we can repay the favor.
I heartvino-Just say thank you a lot. You are busy making a baby so he should be stepping up. 1st tri is the first period of men realizing that life is changing. It is an adjustment but you shouldn't feel bad about not pulling your weight. Just let him know you appreciate it.
Eddy, I do. That's the thing. But he is more of an action person, rather than a words person. I know it is just because he is overworked. I'm just looking forward to Christmas, because it will be the first day we have off together since I got my bfp (back on Nov 1) because of work/class schedules.
I have visions of the ball pit in our house and Jax chasing around Buca throwing balls at him and then Buca pissing on the ball pit because he hates it.
I missed the newest drama again last night with sprky leaving. Is the board as a whole just turning into bigger bunch assholes than ever or what?
This morning, one of Nicholas' part-time DC teachers was upset that yesterday Nicholas ate 1 1/2 pieces of her pizza lunch. She apparently had LEFT THE ROOM UNATTENDED while the kids (2 1/2 - 3 1/2 yo) were eating their lunch to use the bathroom down the hall, leaving her pizza unattended, as well.
I said: maybe next time you should grab someone to watch your pizza when you leave the room.
WTF leaves 6 - 10 little kids alone in a room while they're eating when there are classroom aides floating about for this specific purpose and then gets mad because one of them "steals" their pizza?
I am also getting really nervous about cooking Christmas dinner for both sides of our family. I have to work the day before, I don't know. I am getting myself into a tizzy!
I clearly have a mental illness because I want another dog really bad. I already have two, one who has started peeing in the house again recently (although the last 2 days have been accident free), and a new baby, and no money. But...I looove dogs and always said I wanted 3 and they have some really sweet older dogs at our shelter right now. Why am I like this? Oh, and H has told me hell no, but, he doesn't *really* mean that, right?
I'm mailing out my SS gifts today! EEEEEE! I'm so excited. I really hope she likes what I got her (and the dicks).
I haven't bought any other christmas presents for anyone yet. All the things I want to buy for J are things I don't really want him to open in front of his Mormon family, and I have no idea what to get for his sister and mom. Ergh.
Other than anxiety about gifts, I am so damn excited to be going to Illinois for the Holidays.
This is more of a confession: For the first time ever, I've decorated my tree in one solid color and I can't bring myself to put non-matching ornaments on the tree. Not even the ornaments my grandchildren made for me. I put them on, took a picture, sent it to my daughter, and then took the ornaments off because they don't match.
/mean grandma
I couldn't do a coordinated or theme tree if I tried. It's just not in my blood. The pride and joy of our ornament collection are our Christmas Story leg lamp and the handmade Santa okra.
The cousins in Iowa who have been missing since July were found by hunters yesterday. I am upset about this even though we knew this was probably the outcome. More details are suppose to come out today.
We finally decorated last night and bought our tree. I am feeling a bit more caught up on life now.
OMG, Eddy! WTH happened? I think I missed a lot of something. I'm so sorry!
My mom gave me 2 boxes full of ornaments from my childhood and I was all excited about them, until I got my first tree last year and decided to have a really pretty, decorative tree. I did a gold, red, and purple theme with really fancy and ornate trimmings and a big gold bow on top. I didn't use any of the ornaments my mom gave me at all :/ When she asked me about it, I lied and said I used them all.
The cousins in Iowa who have been missing since July were found by hunters yesterday. I am upset about this even though we knew this was probably the outcome. More details are suppose to come out today.
We finally decorated last night and bought our tree. I am feeling a bit more caught up on life now.
OMG, Eddy! WTH happened? I think I missed a lot of something. I'm so sorry!
Sorry not MY cousins. I didn't mean to confuse. Here is a link. It has been big news.
I would like to do a decorative tree some year, but not for my living room tree. I would put a second auxillary tree in the dining room and use that one for a theme. I don't mess with the real christmas tree and its collection of unmatching sentimental ornaments.