Wednesday randoms

[picksthemusic]

Oct 16, 2024 14:48:39 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Oct 16, 2024 13:57:10 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

If your nephew is anything like my son he doesn't brush his tongue nor does he brush for nearly long enough. It's a daily conversation.

This was the first time I’ve noticed an issue, and it was like 10am. So, it was reasonable to think a 28 year old just woke up and hadn’t done this yet. OTOH, he is 28 and has has girlfriends. You’d think…

28?! LOL My son is 10. hahahaha

Yeah he should have taken the hint lol

[underwaterrhymes]

I wish I could be a meteorologist. It’s so interesting.

[SusanBAnthony]

I hate writing thank you notes so I don't.

I hate receiving them too.

[underwaterrhymes]

Oct 16, 2024 9:10:12 GMT -5 dcn said:

The non profit I’m on the board of is hosting a big fundraiser this weekend. Someone donated a bottle of bourbon with a sticker of Trump on it. We operate on a military base where I can’t have any political signs or flags other than an American flag at my house.

The rest of the committee thought it was great and said we should auction it off. It apparently goes for $300 on the secondary market.
I said we can’t use it and the people kept pushing back. I got our senior advisor to back me up and her husband, a GO, agreed too. WTF people.

How do they not know that? That’s one of the cardinal rules of being a nonprofit. You cannot appear to endorse any candidate. You can lose nonprofit status.

[deadwing]

I finished a jigsaw puzzle tonight that I've been struggling with because it was really too big for the space I had to work in. And it's missing a piece. I can't even feel satisfied that it's done. Argh.

[dcn]

Oct 16, 2024 18:47:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Oct 16, 2024 9:10:12 GMT -5 dcn said:

The non profit I’m on the board of is hosting a big fundraiser this weekend. Someone donated a bottle of bourbon with a sticker of Trump on it. We operate on a military base where I can’t have any political signs or flags other than an American flag at my house.

The rest of the committee thought it was great and said we should auction it off. It apparently goes for $300 on the secondary market.
I said we can’t use it and the people kept pushing back. I got our senior advisor to back me up and her husband, a GO, agreed too. WTF people.

How do they not know that? That’s one of the cardinal rules of being a nonprofit. You cannot appear to endorse any candidate. You can lose nonprofit status.

It is shocking what they don’t know! Pretty sure they think I am a total Debbie downer. I’m just trying to keep us from losing our status!

[rubytue]

Oct 16, 2024 19:19:13 GMT -5 dcn said:

Oct 16, 2024 18:47:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

How do they not know that? That’s one of the cardinal rules of being a nonprofit. You cannot appear to endorse any candidate. You can lose nonprofit status.

It is shocking what they don’t know! Pretty sure they think I am a total Debbie downer. I’m just trying to keep us from losing our status!

As a government employee, my brain is screaming HATCH ACT!!!

Hell, I sent a panic email to ethics because I was sharing a you tube video and a political add came up, which I had zero control over and skipped at soon as the timer let me. But, you know, I needed to make sure that it wasn’t a hatch act violation when I had no control.

[shauni27]

Oct 16, 2024 14:03:10 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Oct 16, 2024 13:38:15 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

I agree, just send a quick text!

I also wonder about thank you notes for kid's birthday parties. We do not send thank you cards other than to the family members who SENT gifts to the kiddo. Those people get cards. But what about the friends that come? I had never been to a kids birthday party that then sent thank you cards, except for once this year and now I am wondering if we are the assholes for not sending thank you cards to the 35 kids who brough gifts to S for his bday.

We do no-gift parties, but theres always a few people who bring gifts anyways. For those, I usually take a photo of the birthday kid holding up the gift and text it along with "thanks so much for X - DS loved it! He was so happy Z could celebrate with him". But girl, THIRTY FIVE KIDS? Damn. 

Ha! I shouldn’t have said 35 kids. Some were family, etc. but I finally got sick of doing his class party, family party and then our actual family friend party and combined them all into one this year. It was amazing. We had like 50-60 people and just had water bounce houses at the farm and snack foods. It was the most low key birthday we’ve done so far, because I just threw everyone together in the barn lol.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Oct 16, 2024 16:06:37 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Oct 16, 2024 14:50:08 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

Lower classmen but their ages are all over the place. I’ll never know, but I’m a busybody

When this has happened to me, I always say something like “No worries! I hope everything is okay! Let me know if you need anything” and they always spill. But people in general like to tell me things. Even if I don’t want them to.

I am also blessed/cursed with this 🤣

[shadyblue42]

Oct 16, 2024 12:16:37 GMT -5 fernweh said:

Possible TW below


H and I were driving the other day and saw a single abortion protester. He was no where near a clinic. He was literally in front of a Red Robin restaurant, it was bizarre.
It was a nice day and we had the windows down so I randomly felt compelled to shout “yay for abortions!” Just go to hell with that shit, man.

We had abortion protestors lined up along one of the main streets in our town the other weekend. And since I’m an a-hole who isn’t about that nonsense, I made my DH drive by so I could flip off the whole line. Then I made him go back so I could do it again.

[basilosaurus]

Also laundry.

It's standard here to not wear shoes into the laundry. They're generally open air, small, bowling alley like. This is not a complaint I have. Doctor, changing room, so many places where shoes are not welcome, and we all go bare foot. (I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw socks, shoes or no shoes).

So this one family with 3 kids, 1 in carrier (good on dad in this culture for wearing and doing the laundry), the other two running around. They had popsicles dripping all over the damn place. Which means there was a good chance any of us could have stepped barefoot into sticky mess.

I have sympathy for doing whatever you can to occupy the kids, but surely there's a less messy option. There's nothing dangerous about the side street we're on, and there's gree space. Go! Be free! If we can leave our laundry surely we can let you play in grass in eyesights.

Thus ends adventures in laundry. I hope.

After so many years of laundry stuff, that I could have 2 surprises in one visit is kinda crazy.