Randoms week of 11/21

[orangeblossom]

Awesome Monday, indeed. Good luck with the house.

[meshaliuknits]

BabyLiu got an award at school. She was very proud. We are now the proud owners of a 2016 Chevy Volt. Also, Mr Liu was just promoted. These things are great.

I'm focusing on them rather than the fact that my childcare for the week was blown to hell. At least it's a short week.

[kicks]

I'm on 2 weeks of urology. So many penises!

I go on vacation to Cozumel on Fri wahoo for warmth. Also this week I'm going to book one of my vacations for early next year. I think the winner is going to be Lisbon and Malaga, Spain. I usually don't book stuff this early but I just want to pull the trigger so I don't change my mind since there are so many places I want to go.

[rootbeerfloat]

LOL at "so many penises!"

Fashion question: if I'm wearing a chocolate brown skirt and similarly colored shoes, what color tights do I wear? The same shade of brown or like a cream?

[iammalcolmx]

Nov 21, 2016 12:45:06 GMT -5 @natariru said:

GUYS!!! My boss is being forced into retiring at the end of Jan!!! Because his blatant racism was a huge liability to the company so they pushed him out I was muted on the conference call when he announced and screamed "YESSSSS!" so loud, I startled the baby awake lol.

Also, we are in attorney review for a house & I'm so excited.

BEST MONDAY EVERRRR.

FTFY

[thejackpot]

Nov 21, 2016 15:12:31 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

luvvie dragged shaun king on facebook and i am here for allllllll of it.

i was through with him when he was on that bernie bro tomfoolery.

I couldn't like her post enough. She was not playing & she had receipts!

[oliviapope]

Nov 21, 2016 15:12:31 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

luvvie dragged shaun king on facebook and i am here for allllllll of it.

i was through with him when he was on that bernie bro tomfoolery.

Omg, yes!!! I followed his page after Hillary became the nominee so a lot of her sreenshots were news to me. She even linked a twitter that had links to articles he had written that were BS.

I had to hide his posts because they were too damn much. His alarmist posts are ridiculous, "THIS IS HAPPENING IN 2016!"

I mean, yea, but it also happened in 2015.

[orangeblossom]

Nov 21, 2016 13:46:10 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

BabyLiu got an award at school. She was very proud. We are now the proud owners of a 2016 Chevy Volt. Also, Mr Liu was just promoted. These things are great.

I'm focusing on them rather than the fact that my childcare for the week was blown to hell. At least it's a short week.

The meshaliuknits house is on fire.  Congrats to all of the above.

[DesertMoon]

Nov 21, 2016 14:22:19 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

LOL at "so many penises!"

Fashion question: if I'm wearing a chocolate brown skirt and similarly colored shoes, what color tights do I wear? The same shade of brown or like a cream?

I'd go nude or a cream.

[DesertMoon]

Well my mom is coming to town this week, which is nice she can help me with my Christmas shopping because I'm so indecisive. My so. Is writing his name now which I'm so proud of, I'm also doing my best to avoid killing MIL she's going to NY this week so that'll be a nice relief.

[salejolie]

I'm worried I'm getting old. Yesterday my right leg started to hurt and now my left hip is giving me grief. Guess it's time to get an aarp membership.

[raangoli]

@natariru that's so exciting!! Congratulations!!

salejolie you sound like me. And I haven't dyed my hair in months so I look tired and old as hell. I don't care.

[andwhat]

I just realized daycare is closed Friday. This is my regular day off and H has to work. My level of sadness for not getting my day alone cannot be healthy.

Congrats to everyone who has great things going on.

Off to read Luvvie

[bimbi284]

Nov 21, 2016 19:00:16 GMT -5 @natariru said:

Nov 21, 2016 15:12:31 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

luvvie dragged shaun king on facebook and i am here for allllllll of it.

i was through with him when he was on that bernie bro tomfoolery.

He just passive aggressively responded.

Yipes...and he did so by trying to drag Michelle Alexander under the bus with him too.

[andwhat]

Ok can someone link the Luvvie thing. I am slow and can't find it

[bimbi284]

Nov 21, 2016 21:09:11 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Ok can someone link the Luvvie thing. I am slow and can't find it

Maybe this works?

[sunshine608]

great news @natariru!

I feel your pain andwhat

I saw Shaun King's responses yesterday but had to step away from it. Kinfol Kollective outed him about stealing his stories from women of color last week. I un-followed him a while ago, but its frustrating because It just feels like there is show much squabbling between people we hope are trying to do good. Does that make sense? It comes from this internet vide I watched some internet video about Hitler's rise to power. The one thing that I keep replaying is that it mentioned that the left was too busy infighting to mount a resistance and I'm started to feel like we can't mount a resistance because of all this nonsense about stopping Identity politics and safety pins and I told you so's and I'm a thief. Gah

I didn't even see the comment about snowtep but that killed me.

My personal random is my doggie is sick and I panicked and took him to the vet. Partly because of the holiday week and trying to avoid an emergency vet visit, but I feel like I panicked and I don't really have the extra $ to be panicking for what might be a "reverse sneeze".

[NitaX]

I'm about to choke mofos out at this job. I have sent emails for several weeks detailing that if you have items for an upcoming meeting, to have your shit together because on TODAY, I'm out and this is a hard deadline.

So, HOW THE FUCK YOU GONE SEND ME SOME EMAIL ABOUT ADDING SOME INCOMPLETE ASS SHIT?

NO. NO. AND NO.

I'm about to respond in an email saying that this is not possible and here is your alternative.

[threejs]

Yay @natariru !

Can someone explain the Michelle Alexander thing? Who is she? I'm not up on my Shaun King news, apparently. And did he respond in Luvvie's post, or on twitter?

andwhat , I'd probably be rocking and crying in a corner somewhere if I thought I was getting a free day to myself only to have it snatched away.

[thejackpot]

@natariru yay! Exciting news.
andwhat my heart hurts for you.

My random is I am very ill prepared for my son's birthday. I went to order a cake from the bakery on Sat and they weren't taking orders because of the holiday. I am going to hope they have a decent ready to go cake in a flavor he likes that isn't overly Thanksgivingy.
I also need to get my brows done and can't figure out when I can go. Ugh.

[kicks]

OMG @kirkette, you just made me almost lose my job for being inappropriate for laughing too loud in the hospital because of you telling home girl "you look your age"

I'm seriously cackling.

Everyone should check out the "too diverse" thread on CEP.

[kicks]

And dammit sfy come back!!!!

[sunshine608]

Well fuck- I wasn't panicking or overreacting- my dog passed away. The vet said he quickly took a turn for the worse. No idea what happened. I'm so sad. Heartbroken for my boys. 2016 can suck it.

[05heel]

Nov 22, 2016 20:01:11 GMT -5 sunshine608 said:

Well fuck- I wasn't panicking or overreacting- my dog passed away. The vet said he quickly took a turn for the worse. No idea what happened. I'm so sad. Heartbroken for my boys. 2016 can suck it.

oh, how sad. I'm so sorry.

[meshaliuknits]

Nov 22, 2016 20:01:11 GMT -5 sunshine608 said:

Well fuck- I wasn't panicking or overreacting- my dog passed away. The vet said he quickly took a turn for the worse. No idea what happened. I'm so sad. Heartbroken for my boys. 2016 can suck it.

Oh no! I'm so sorry.

[redwino]

I'm sorry sunshine608

[starlily]

Nov 22, 2016 20:01:11 GMT -5 sunshine608 said:

Well fuck- I wasn't panicking or overreacting- my dog passed away. The vet said he quickly took a turn for the worse. No idea what happened. I'm so sad. Heartbroken for my boys. 2016 can suck it.

Oh no! I'm so sorry.

[borinquen57]

sunshine608, I'm so sorry! Losing a pet is always awful but losses around holidays are especially shitty.

My mom is set to leave the hospital tomorrow after a 3-week stay including a week in the ICU, she was intubated and everything. I seriously thought I was losing my mom last week but she is doing so much better. She's going into a rehab to do PT and OT but she's like a brand new woman! My weight-loss surgery was finally approved and scheduled; I do my last pre-op class last week and surgery is December 14.  I am incredibly excited for the chance to improve my health and look better.  Not surprising at all but while I was thinking that my mom was dying two weeks ago and having the general stress of her hospital stay, all H did was start shit and act like an asshole. There is absolutely no way that we're going to be able to divorce amicably and I feel very naive having thought that this would go smoothly.  Dude has said and done some really cruel shit, so I don't know why I'm surprised.  I'm starting that process mid-January.

I've had a lot thrown my way this year, but things are definitely looking up! 

[andwhat]

I'm so sorry sunshine608

borinquen57 I am glad your mom is doing better. Congrats on getting your surgery approved. Sorry your H is being a dick.

[DesertMoon]

I was dropping my son off at his bus stop and I was looking at the other kids. There ere 3 black children, 3 Asian children, 2 West Asian children, 4 white children and my ME kid. They all play together the run, one of the black kids chased my son around telling him he's a robot dinosaur and they all have a ball.

Then I look at the parents. They are cliqued up. The white parents together, the black parents, the Asian woman and I stand off to the corner not talking at all, and the West Asian moms just whisper to each other. I thought how weird it is, I understand we're adults, it's early but it's suddenly very noticeable.