Here's one spawned by arriving home and having flowers at my doorstep.
I dislike it when immediate family members send me flowers for my birthday as my gift. It's clear that you forgot my birthday and are just sending them to get something to me on time.
Also, don't send people with cats bouquets with fucking lilies in them. I now have to drive these stupid flowers to the florist to have them exchanged. Happy Birthday to me!
I hate Valentine's Day because it's too close to my birthday. Can't get flowers for my birthday because they're too expensive. We usually lump v-day and birthday into one and I can the short straw. Boo
When's your birthday? Mine is the 6th. It seems everyone I know has February bdays! (Seriously, 7 of my close friends or their DHs, and now Annabelle) so many Feb bdays! In High school there were 6 of us born on the 6th. (I think I can still name them all, crazy!)
Fuck has been said a lot in this thread. Which is good because I recently worried that I curse too much around here. I'm feeling much more comfortable here.
To clarify, I know that the SB ad is meant to raise awareness among everyone, it's not meant to inform victims of a particular strategy. I just worry that the concrete result is that it removes one potential strategy. I wonder if the same big-picture effect could have been had without the small-picture consequence.
I definitely see what you're saying. I honestly don't think what the ad showed is a viable safety plan or one I'd ever suggest to a client as a good option. So hopefully a bunch of people don't try to use it now...
I loathe lilies. Especially Calla lilies. They look like white vaginas to me.
Agreed! I hate the smell and just don't think most of them are pretty. We moved last winter and were surprised in spring by thick masses of lilies in the large garden. That garden has become my nemesis because of those things.
Like, if you were looking inside the body.....it doesn't make sense. I just see vaginas when I see calla lilies.
Lol, yes! I bought MIL a calla lily pendant one year for her bday and when I showed it to DH the first thing he said was that it looked like a vagina. I wasn't going to not give it to her because it was expensive and I bought it at a jewelry party (no refunds). So now whenever we see MIL wearing it, we both chuckle to ourselves.
I haven't read beyond the first page, so we are probably past this discussion, but I really dont think the DV superbowl ad will cause abusers to limit phone usage if they dont already do it. While I know that many women are restricted from calling from help by the phone, they may have very set up very intricate plans to get help. I read literally 100 cases a week (domestic and child abuse) and I have never come across a fake call for pizza to get help. I hope that if anything, this ad will make responders/witnesses/family/neighbors more aware of how they need to respond to a call for help no matter how that call is placed. I have listened to multiple 911 tapes where the dispatcher seems completely uninterested in the call, tells the victim to calm down or she wont receive help, implies that the victim brought it upon herself, or is drunk or otherwise intoxicated, or just generally doesnt believe that an emergency exists. I cannot tell you how many people I talk to who witnessed a crime who say things like "well if she doesnt care then why should I" or "if she wont help herself, then why should i have to take off work and be inconvenienced" I think that this ad sends a message to us, the listener, the bystander, the witness.
I hate Valentine's Day because it's too close to my birthday. Can't get flowers for my birthday because they're too expensive. We usually lump v-day and birthday into one and I can the short straw. Boo
When's your birthday? Mine is the 6th. It seems everyone I know has February bdays! (Seriously, 7 of my close friends or their DHs, and now Annabelle) so many Feb bdays! In High school there were 6 of us born on the 6th. (I think I can still name them all, crazy!)
It physically pains me to see people walking around outside when it's zero degrees drinking iced coffee. GIVE IT UP PEOPLE.
I'm going to post pictures of the digital temp reading in my car along with me holding my insulated straw cup of iced coffee every morning now just for laurack!
I can't suck down hot coffee nearly as fast as cold. Also the slurping sipping. Oh the slurping.
No, it's not possible given that I would be at least 14dpo and got a BFN this morning on an FRER. But it's just more weirdness about this cycle. Of course, the cycle I have unprotected sex is a weird one!
eta: actually at least 16 dpo if there was any chance of that sperm fertilizing my eggs. It's been over 3 weeks since the deed was done.
I've heard quadruplets sometimes implant really late
You all crack me up! I'm so glad I joined because I have seriously been loling at this thread.
DesertMoon Enjoy Belize! I've heard it's awesome. Are you going to go snorkeling or scuba diving?
Thank you! Snorkeling, I tried snuba in Saint Lucia and breathing under water freaks me out I kept panicking and surfacing, it feels so unnatural I can't do it. They also tried to strap 50 lbs of weight to me and I still had trouble sinking. I also want to see their ruins and jungle.
I don't like the word poo, but even worse is the 3 day potty training book calls it potty. I call the toilet a potty. Get a different word for poop.
Super late to thread, but I hated that so much in the book. I had to mentally pause and correct it because I was getting confused with her double use of toilet.