I really don't have an opinion about the otter situation, but I side eye the hell out of people who are saying it was shitty of her friend to tell her about this post.
In situations like that, I always ask myself what is to be gained by telling? Only result is Otter feels shitty, and if you're her friend it's not like it's going to change your opinion of her anyway.
FWIW, I sent some baby clothes to her and she sent me a nice PM thanking me.
I spend a few hours each day cleaning and it doesn't show. I suck at cleaning and my kid is a rock star at making messes. In the past 24 hours my eldest has:
- peed in her car seat (change her, disassemble car seat, wash cover, straps, and seat itself, use carpet washer to wash actual seat in car, dry everything, reassemble, wash me, my clothes and floor of garage which got pee spilled on during seat removal/cleaning process).
- broken down the child gate to the kitchen while I'm cleaning the carseat (fix gate, put back up)
- taken half a leftover chocolate birthday cake out of the fridge, covered herself, her hair, her table, her chair and the floor with aforementioned chocolate cake (wash child, vaccum, wash table and chairs, wash carpet)
- dumped everything out of her clothing drawers onto the floor while dressing after chocolate cake incident (supervise her while she puts it all away)
Meanwhile, the baby has thrown up on her, her sister, me, the chair and the floor repeatedly (yay for projectile spit up that flies everywhere!).
I wish I were one of those people who could just "vacuum for five minutes" and have everything look great. I really do admire that. It seems like a magical fairy trick :-)
How old is your oldest? That is a lot of stuff for her to do in one day. Holy crap.
Oh JFC. I told her so that she could decide if she wanted to defend herself instead of letting everyone run away with a discussion without her. I asked her if I shouldn't have told her and she said she was happy that I did. And I only mentioned it here when people asked if the deactivating was because of this post. Frankly, I was bummed when she said she deactivated. Because I knew this is exactly what it would turn into.
I don't want my kid dropping her sandwich into the fur balls that are my house. So I vacuum at least every other day, if not daily. If people are coming over, I would rather have a fur free environment for them to enjoy.
Yeah, my kid is literally rolling on the floor all day and if I don't vacuum, it's fucking gross. Plus, a lot of days *I* am rolling all over the floor doing exercises. I don't want us to be covered in dog hair. Why is this hard to understand? lol. What's the big deal if people vacuum every day? This is reminding me of the person who was annoyed at calling preschool "school." WTF does it matter?
Post by aussiecrush on Mar 1, 2014 18:55:36 GMT -5
Tell her or don't tell her, I just don't see the point of announcing here that you did unless you either wanted drama or thought people would commend you.
Meh. If people were talking about me, I would want to know.
I am more of an ignorance is bliss kind of person. I know people must be saying not nice things about me, but I would rather not know what they are. Just in case anyone ever decides to PM me or anything...
You have my word that I will never ever tell you all the shit we talk about you. I mean..."they"
Meh. If people were talking about me, I would want to know.
I am more of an ignorance is bliss kind of person. I know people must be saying not nice things about me, but I would rather not know what they are. Just in case anyone ever decides to PM me or anything...
I would want to know, and frankly, once a post gets to 10 pages, aren't we all going to peek in and see what the hubbub is about? I suppose if one post about otter was buried on page 4 she might have missed it, but this went on for pages. There was no way she wasn't going to see it. I totally understand what berbles was thinking.
ETA: Just to clarify, I'm not saying ignorance is bliss is wrong. I can definitely see it both ways.
Yeah, my kid is literally rolling on the floor all day and if I don't vacuum, it's fucking gross. Plus, a lot of days *I* am rolling all over the floor doing exercises. I don't want us to be covered in dog hair. Why is this hard to understand? lol. What's the big deal if people vacuum every day? This is reminding me of the person who was annoyed at calling preschool "school." WTF does it matter?
You have a dog?
I like that this is my takeaway from this thread.
LOL! Yeah! I've posted several pics in the pet posts and I sometimes talk about her :-)
Something that has always bothered me was Otter's story about when she and Rosie got carbon monoxide poisoning from her rental car. She said it was so bad that when her mom found her in a parking lot, both she and the baby were unresponsive. But no one ever called 911? Didn't rush to the hospital? And if there was enough CO to render a grown woman unconscious and unresponsive for several minutes, a newborn would be...not ok. I'm not doubting that Otter is a nice person, but this whole thing just didnt sit right.
Plus, didn't she say that she was/her mom said she was/the baby was gray when they were found? CO poisoning makes you turn bright red. That is one of the key signs.
I've learned that the CO alarms in the house are motherfucking loud and scary.