Confessions/flammables

[darnkatz]

Jan 22, 2016 12:00:23 GMT -5 @this said:

Jan 22, 2016 11:56:57 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

In other chicken-related confessions, anytime I'm at a nice restaurant and I see chicken on the menu/someone order chicken I scoff. Why are you a) in a nice restaurant ordering chicken and b) paying like $30 for chicken?

This is how I feel!!! I never never never order chicken at a restaurant.

I mean, unless it's like at Chilis and the chicken is fried and in a sandwich covered in ranch or buffalo or something. lol

Or both, like at Buffalo Wild Wings. Smothered in Swiss. With a side of cheese curds.


#ThisIsWhyI'mFat

[babyrn]

Jan 22, 2016 13:24:36 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I order chicken a lot. I basically only eat chicken, shrimp, and steak, so unless someone else is paying, I get the chicken lol.

Also, I legitimately like chicken... except for wings, which are pointless and disgusting.

Ditto all of this except I don't eat shrimp either.

[kaycee]

DS had a blow out and some leaked on my sweatshirt. I almost didn't change to a clean one.

[jeaniebueller]

Jan 22, 2016 13:59:59 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Jan 22, 2016 13:37:27 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

LOL.  There was a lot of bitching in LAW SCHOOL when they wanted us to put our laptops away.  Given how my almost 3 year old is with the phone, I can't imagine what becky said being realistic.

The worst group is when I'm training teachers, and high level school and district administrators. I just stop lecturing and death stare, until they are shamed enough to put away the electronics. Training that group is the worst! 

My pet peeve is going to conferences and having half of the audience staring at their phones the entire talk. Its just so rude.

[holly116]

Jan 22, 2016 11:56:57 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

In other chicken-related confessions, anytime I'm at a nice restaurant and I see chicken on the menu/someone order chicken I scoff. Why are you a) in a nice restaurant ordering chicken and b) paying like $30 for chicken?

Yeah and then there's me over here with my DH that doesn't like chicken (I know, wtf, who doesn't like chicken!?). So the only time I make it is when he's not eating dinner with us. He acts like a complete child and will pour hot sauce over anything with chicken and I've given up the fight. I generally substitute pork or shrimp for chicken dishes now.

I order chicken out now from time to time because I just don't eat a lot of it at home. But I totally would have agreed with you before I met DH.

[momin2013]

I'm sorry, but if there is chicken on the menu that comes smothered with bbq sauce, bacon and cheese, I'm ordering that shit.

[Deleted]

I'm sure we've moved on, but this just came up as I'm talking to my SIL about her wedding:

Confession: I'm still annoyed that my SMIL wore her wedding dress to my wedding, five and a half years later.

(granted, it wasn't a traditional wedding dress, BUT STILL. She couldn't have bought a new dress? Had to wear a dress that was 10+ years old?!)

[Deleted]

Jan 22, 2016 14:53:50 GMT -5 swizz said:

Jan 22, 2016 12:55:21 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

There are also some people that can take a joke and not take themselves super seriously... and others that um... can't. I generally am not out to be MEAN, but I also don't worship some posters who have some pretty aggressive followers. 

You're also the mild version of your old self.

Motherhood broke me. 

[IrishBelle]

Jan 22, 2016 13:24:36 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I order chicken a lot. I basically only eat chicken, shrimp, and steak, so unless someone else is paying, I get the chicken lol.

Also, I legitimately like chicken... except for wings, which are pointless and disgusting.

Finally, someone who is on my team. 

I eat beef but rarely order it in a restaurant because I'm picky about how it is cooked.  

[momin2013]

For the last three nights in a row, I've dreamt about having sex with people other than DH. Nights #1 & 2 involved guys I knew in my university days, and last night it was some random stranger that I didn't even know. Friggin' weird.

[magpie]

Jan 22, 2016 13:59:59 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Jan 22, 2016 13:37:27 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

LOL.  There was a lot of bitching in LAW SCHOOL when they wanted us to put our laptops away.  Given how my almost 3 year old is with the phone, I can't imagine what becky said being realistic.

The worst group is when I'm training teachers, and high level school and district administrators. I just stop lecturing and death stare, until they are shamed enough to put away the electronics. Training that group is the worst! 

adults at school are THE WORST!  I can shush kids in my library from across the room with a look and a raised eyebrow.  In meetings, the other teachers are constantly "whispering" (ie--whispering at yell volume) and they don't take any kind of subtle hints to shut the hell up.  Their phones are also constantly going off too because they don't understand how to control the volume for all the various notifications on a modern phone.  

[magpie]

I confess, I order chicken all the time. I don't eat any other meat and I don't really like fish, so it's usually chicken or vegetarian for me.

[snshne322]

I know we've moved on from this, but I wish there was a magical threshold of when people recognized others as posters. For instance, I've been here since the great migration with the same name, but just posting randomly. Granted, more often recently. I'm still "new". I just chime in here and there, but haven't had much interactions and haven't made friends yet. I feel like it just takes forever to build a post count and become a regular face.

Also, thighs over breasts any day. I also have strong feelings about chicken thighs.

[turtlegirl]

Jan 22, 2016 15:09:24 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I just went to the bathroom and it dawned on me that I've ever seen a bloody show or lost my mucus plug. This is my third pregnancy, that is kind of weird, right?

I had 3 full term pregnancies and never did either. But I've also never gone into labor on my own. I was induced all 3 times.

[longtimenopost]

If chicken is my only protein option at a restaurant due to whatever reason, I'll just eat ALL THE CARBS instead.

And now I want pasta.

[niq]

Jan 22, 2016 12:57:11 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Jan 22, 2016 12:37:31 GMT -5 CheeringCharm said:

I agree with this. I was a social studies teacher before handheld digital devices were as widespread as they are now and do you know how much easier and more enjoyable they would have made my class? Every day we wanted the kids to brainstorm ideas and then look up some info and do something with it. In the old days, this necessitated having to sign up for the computer lab and take ten minutes to walk up there and get settled. Now you can have them do it in a few minutes at their desks as a bell ringer activity and quickly move on to the part where they're actively working with the data and thinking critically about it. I can only see it as a big plus in making lessons more interactive and less "chalk and talk." 

If kids continuing to look at their phone gets to be too big of a problem, you could always have them put them in a basket or something when they're done with the "research" portion of the lesson and give them back at the end of the period.

C'mon Becky how long have you been out of the classroom? This isn't working, have you seen the you tube clips, news stories, or teacher comments of the uprisings and power struggles regularly occurring when teachers try and do this, when kids don't know, trust, or like them? Aside from Kinder, 1st, and maybe second, classrooms of obedient children are really really rare .

Pfft.

"Area 4th grade class dutifully observes electronics policy 179 school days out of 180" isn't something anyone is going to write up in the local newspaper or post on Facebook.

Remember when "passing notes in class" was a sign that we were all horrible children, and the boys would try to put comic books or Nintendo Power inside their textbooks? Same stuff, different format.

Maintaining good behavior in the classroom has always been hard. We just see the cases where it breaks down faster and more often now.

[swest]

I am just posting to irritate those who don't like me posting because I don't have 500 posts!

[rugbywife]

Because of a payroll/work thing, I think DH and I may end up with about 2k less this month than we expected. It makes me sad that at this point in our lives 2k is still such a huge deal. We really needed that $ and I am worried that it isn't going to work out in our favour in the end.

[Deleted]

Jan 22, 2016 16:32:05 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Because of a payroll/work thing, I think DH and I may end up with about 2k less this month than we expected. It makes me sad that at this point in our lives 2k is still such a huge deal. We really needed that $ and I am worried that it isn't going to work out in our favour in the end.

I stand by my previously stated opinion that two thousand dollars is a lot of money to most people. I hope it works out for you. 

[momin2013]

Jan 22, 2016 16:32:05 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Because of a payroll/work thing, I think DH and I may end up with about 2k less this month than we expected. It makes me sad that at this point in our lives 2k is still such a huge deal. We really needed that $ and I am worried that it isn't going to work out in our favour in the end.

Agree with token, that is a lot of money; I'd be very concerned to be short that much too.

[waterchurch]

I tried to buy frozen chicken thighs instead of breasts at the store today, just for you guys. They didn't have any though. I guess my confession is I was too lazy to walk back and buy fresh thighs to freeze.

[rugbywife]

Jan 22, 2016 16:44:32 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Jan 22, 2016 16:32:05 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Because of a payroll/work thing, I think DH and I may end up with about 2k less this month than we expected. It makes me sad that at this point in our lives 2k is still such a huge deal. We really needed that $ and I am worried that it isn't going to work out in our favour in the end.

I stand by my previously stated opinion that two thousand dollars is a lot of money to most people. I hope it works out for you. 

Thanks. I actually totally thought of that thread! It's related to EI for DH's parenting leave. His last day of work was December 19th but because of a weird payroll thing with the board he was paid out money they 'owe' him this month. I don't know if the gov't will count that as income for the month of January and as a result he might not qualify for the 2k he would otherwise get this month. I plan to fight our employer on it if need be but we might be SOL. It's money we need badly though.

[Deleted]

Jan 22, 2016 16:59:02 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Jan 22, 2016 16:44:32 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

I stand by my previously stated opinion that two thousand dollars is a lot of money to most people. I hope it works out for you. 

Thanks. I actually totally thought of that thread! It's related to EI for DH's parenting leave. His last day of work was December 19th but because of a weird payroll thing with the board he was paid out money they 'owe' him this month. I don't know if the gov't will count that as income for the month of January and as a result he might not qualify for the 2k he would otherwise get this month. I plan to fight our employer on it if need be but we might be SOL. It's money we need badly though.

I fucking hate EI. I'm still paying back the money they decided I owed them. I hope to be done with it after this year's tax refund, but it has hurt to have the equivalent of a nice car payment and nothing to show for it in the end. It's brutal. 

[rugbywife]

Jan 22, 2016 17:02:09 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Jan 22, 2016 16:59:02 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Thanks. I actually totally thought of that thread! It's related to EI for DH's parenting leave. His last day of work was December 19th but because of a weird payroll thing with the board he was paid out money they 'owe' him this month. I don't know if the gov't will count that as income for the month of January and as a result he might not qualify for the 2k he would otherwise get this month. I plan to fight our employer on it if need be but we might be SOL. It's money we need badly though.

I fucking hate EI. I'm still paying back the money they decided I owed them. I hope to be done with it after this year's tax refund, but it has hurt to have the equivalent of a nice car payment and nothing to show for it in the end. It's brutal. 

I just hate the way the system works. I am not sure yet that it will be a problem, I would like to think last day worked is different than last day paid, but I don't have much faith. And I don't want it to get fucked up and owe them later. That will piss me off even more.

[bowies]

I decided to edit my comment.

[MadamePresident]

Jan 22, 2016 13:14:20 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Jan 22, 2016 13:08:40 GMT -5 MadamePresident said:

I might get the opportunity to go with my husband to a work conference of his in Orlando and I'm kind of meh about going to Disney while we are there. The tickets are so expensive and I don't really get what makes it so exciting.

With or without the kids? If I wasn't going with kids, I would not go to Disney. And even if you have the kids with you, there are about a million other touristy things to do in Orlando that don't involve Disney. (it is kind of magical though

With kids an almost 2 year old and a 3 1/2 year old.

[rugbywife]

I guess my flammable is that I managed to teach grade 8 and let my kids use their phones and had very few classroom management issues related to tech use.

[v]

Jan 22, 2016 13:15:52 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Oh shit. I just remembered Peruvian roast chicken. I go to a restaurant in my neighborhood exclusively to get that and "salchipapa," which is basically French fries with cut-up hotdogs. Food loving is all about mixing highbrow and lowbrow tastes, isn't it?

You are not talking about Pio Pio, right?

Peruvian roast chicken is one of my very favorite foods.

A lot of restaurants make very mediocre chicken (well, really, most restaurants make mediocre everything). But some restaurants make chicken masterpieces. That's what they always say is the sign of a good chef, right? Mastery of roast chicken?

Now I want to go to Pio Pio tonight but they're all so faaaaaar in the cold. God I miss having Pio Pio deliver to my office.

Peruvian chicken NY GTG?

[anna7602]

Yes, v, Pio Pio!

[niq]

Jan 22, 2016 17:08:03 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Jan 22, 2016 16:05:31 GMT -5 niq said:

Pfft.

"Area 4th grade class dutifully observes electronics policy 179 school days out of 180" isn't something anyone is going to write up in the local newspaper or post on Facebook.

Remember when "passing notes in class" was a sign that we were all horrible children, and the boys would try to put comic books or Nintendo Power inside their textbooks? Same stuff, different format.

Maintaining good behavior in the classroom has always been hard. We just see the cases where it breaks down faster and more often now.

Really, who is we? I don't know WTF you're talking about? You know things have change since 1992, right?

Sure, things have changed since 1992. But if things are getting worse, you'd think we'd see it in the data. Except that the data show that -- things are the same as they always were, or maybe a little bit better. NAEP scores are flat or up slightly, suspension rates are flat or down slightly (Texas, New Jersey), expulsions for bringing a firearm are down from the 1990s peak (but up slightly in the past couple of years), teen pregnancy is down, as is teen sexual activity. I have a hard time believing that all the data is being manipulated or that all the measurement error is going in the direction of underreporting the bad stuff.

The only thing I can find where things are getting consistently worse is drug use other than alcohol, where things are getting worse but are still better than they were in the '70s. But alcohol use is down. Even bullying -- the thing everyone is terrified about these days -- is up, flat, or down, depending on what data you look at.

I got lectured a lot about how my generation was the end of civilization because we listened to Nine Inch Nails or Naughty By Nature or played Doom or wanted to see Kids or our parents had to get a second phone line installed because their kids were always talking on the phone or using the dialup modem. Somehow, civilization survived. I don't want my kids to have the same experience.