UO

Flamingemu

hmp1 said:

And re my bike post. I wouldn't care at all if my parents bought James a bike for their house. They can buy whatever toys they want for their house. 

Same here. Keep all the things at the ILs house.

tinyhumantoe

The "for dummies" series books are great resources.

melody921

Banich4eva said:

I'm dying at 'vastly approaching'

WTAF?

Another one, courtesy of an email I just got: tenet is not the same as tenant.

jenndub

I go to my parents' house for Easter every year. And every year my mom buys the kids a shit ton of stuff. It never fits in the basket with the 18 million things that I bought so we just set it up in front of the baskets. It has never bothered me that she does that, I know that she adores my kids and since she only sees them a few times a year, I let her do what she wants. I only had one grandma growing up and I was # 35 of her 37 grandkids. She didn't give any of us presents so I think it's nice that my kids get spoiled by Grammy.

BillyMollyEmmy

jenndub said:

I go to my parents' house for Easter every year. And every year my mom buys the kids a shit ton of stuff. It never fits in the basket with the 18 million things that I bought so we just set it up in front of the baskets. It has never bothered me that she does that, I know that she adores my kids and since she only sees them a few times a year, I let her do what she wants. I only had one grandma growing up and I was # 35 of her 37 grandkids. She didn't give any of us presents so I think it's nice that my kids get spoiled by Grammy.

I agree! I love watching Aubrie's face light up. She may be our only child, ya know? So I let it happen. 

MarisaKathleen

Sports UO: I don't care about March Madness.  I'm glad that everything will be a re-run for the next 2 weeks so I can clean out my DVR and finish watching "True Detective" on HBO.

Milwaukee UO: I don't give a shit about Hank the Dog that the Milwaukee Brewers adopted.  People were lined up at the stadium yesterday starting at 5am to see the dog in person.  Dude.  It's a little, white fluff dog wearing a baseball jersey.  Why is this such a big deal?

willy_gert

melody921 said:

Banich4eva said:

I'm dying at 'vastly approaching'

WTAF?

Another one, courtesy of an email I just got: tenet is not the same as tenant.

The worst part is that DH has started trying to use bigger words and I just can't sometimes.  I think he is trying to expand his horizons and speak more intelligently, but yeah, don't use it if you don't know the meaning and learn to spell!  

Pokedot

MarisaKathleen said:

Sports UO: I don't care about March Madness.  I'm glad that everything will be a re-run for the next 2 weeks so I can clean out my DVR and finish watching "True Detective" on HBO.

Milwaukee UO: I don't give a shit about Hank the Dog that the Milwaukee Brewers adopted.  People were lined up at the stadium yesterday starting at 5am to see the dog in person.  Dude.  It's a little, white fluff dog wearing a baseball jersey.  Why is this such a big deal?

I filled out a bracket for my office pool. It's looped in with about 30 people. I won't win, I paid my $5 but I could care less. I'm so thankful DH isn't all into it either. College basketball is LAME.

tinyhumantoe

My mental health has improved since I got over all the gift, food, and other micromanagey stuff. 

I often ask myself.... would I care about this if I were stoned?  Nah, we good then.  I'll be over here not having an aneurism over a rice crispy treat :-p

LyndseylovesHugh

watercolor5 said:

I get irrationally annoyed by single friends who post parenting articles on FB... I had a friend post an article about how children under age 2 shouldn't have any screen time at all or you'll stunt their development.  I realize she's entitled to her opinion, but it just came off as judgey from someone who hasn't ever had to deal with a toddler 24/7.

I agree! I had a friend bitch about parents who use kid leashes at Disneyland. Lady, unless you know what it's like to wrangle a toddler, especially at the busiest place on earth, shut your mouth.

My UO (even though it's probably not U) I hate it when parents are totally oblivious and think their kid is perfect. A friend's kid just got permanatly kicked out of daycare, other parents went as far as not bringing their kids when they knew he would be there. She's complaining on FB that the other parents are bullying her kid and the only reason they don't want him there is he is to active. I obviously don't know all the facts, but I would put money on the fact that your little precious is more than just active. And I hate that she is throwing around the bully word, as if these parents are finding other daycare arrangements just to make another kid feel bad about himself.

MarisaKathleen

https://www.today.com/food/sip-it-slurp-it-red-robin-introduces-wine-milkshake-2D79397731

I hate the idea of a wine milkshake.  I was at Red Robin with my sisters last week and we laughed about this when the waitress said she'd rather have literally anything else on the menu. :-(

I hope the idea of a wine milkshake being gross is not a UO.

BillyMollyEmmy

tinyhumantoe said:

My mental health has improved since I got over all the gift, food, and other micromanagey stuff. 

I often ask myself.... would I care about this if I were stoned?  Nah, we good then.  I'll be over here not having an aneurism over a rice crispy treat :-p

LOL I had to say this to myself this morning. My mom brings juice boxes and shares them with Aubrie even though I have said NO JUICE like 900 times. This morning I thought... if she has one juice box a day when I am not here... not the end of the world. She loves water still and milk. It's all good. Stay calm. 

willy_gert

IndigoVader said:

willy_gert said:

The worst part is that DH has started trying to use bigger words and I just can't sometimes.  I think he is trying to expand his horizons and speak more intelligently, but yeah, don't use it if you don't know the meaning and learn to spell!  

***

Please tell me that you encourage him in expanding his vocabulary by explaining the difference between what he means to say and what he is actually saying. This is coming across as kind of belittling. And no, I am not at all trying to flame you, I just tend to fawk my meanings up sometimes too, and sound not so smart on occasion. It is embarrassing.

Oh, yeah I totally encourage him and try not to say anything or try to nicely explain that I liked that he used x but I think he meant z.  We have talked about it before when it has come up and he said, I would rather you tell me that I used the wrong word and which one I should have used than to do it in front of someone at work.  So, I try to correct him lovingly and then we talk about meanings etc.  I remind him the only reason I know a lot of this crap is because my mom is an english teacher and taught me from the minute I was born.  

Definitely, didn't mean for it to sound that I talk down to him or belittle him.  I like that he has found something he wants to be better at and is trying.  

jenndub

Sawyer ate a blueberry off the ground (we were on dirt) at Beckett's baseball game and I didn't care at all. My ex's stepmom lectured me about it for 10 minutes. I don't encourage her to eat food off the ground, but I don't worry about it when she does. This might be a FFFC.

tinyhumantoe

melody921 said:

LOL, I pick apart emails all the time. My favorite though is still when people use the wrong word like roll vs role.

I just received:  "We shouldn't have to go thru this erroneous phone call."  

Underneath his siggy he has a quote, quoting himself. "My glass is always half full, and if it isn't I'll just order another" - His Name

dafaq?

willy_gert

tinyhumantoe said:

melody921 said:

LOL, I pick apart emails all the time. My favorite though is still when people use the wrong word like roll vs role.

I just received:  "We shouldn't have to go thru this erroneous phone call."  

Underneath his siggy he has a quote, quoting himself. "My glass is always half full, and if it isn't I'll just order another" - His Name

dafaq?

Please tell me this is the same idiot that you had to make leave while you guys were moving.  It would fit the profile you have built for him here!   :P

thebanich

tinyhumantoe said:

melody921 said:

LOL, I pick apart emails all the time. My favorite though is still when people use the wrong word like roll vs role.

I just received:  "We shouldn't have to go thru this erroneous phone call."  

Underneath his siggy he has a quote, quoting himself. "My glass is always half full, and if it isn't I'll just order another" - His Name

dafaq?

Oh no.

danabsd

willy_gert said:

I have a problem with people who use "big" words in the wrong context.  It makes me feel like they are trying to hard and the "english teacher's daughter" in my mind wants to explain to them that they didn't mean to choose that word, but a different one.  

Ex - I just got an email that was sent to our entire organization about a deadline that was vastly approaching.... Um no, you can't vastly approach something, sorry.

H had a supervisor back in the day who would use a thesaurus to write all her emails. Inserting big words that didn't make sense in the context. He used to send them to me, some of them were down right hilarious.  And she thought she sounded like a genius. Ha. 

tinyhumantoe

willy_gert said:

Please tell me this is the same idiot that you had to make leave while you guys were moving.  It would fit the profile you have built for him here!   :P

Nope, different superstar.



Respectfully,
THT
Assistant Vice Idiot

"I see the bright side of things, and if it's dark, I just carefully walk the room feeling all the walls until I find the light switch.  Click." -THT

tinyhumantoe

It's silly to think that someone is weak or inept because they get frazzled when their spouse is out of town.  I get frazzled and I'm a fucking badass.

tinyhumantoe

People who are unnecessarily mean or rude to others, but harp on others for using words like gay, retard, etc. are really misguided, huge turdwads.

tinyhumantoe

hahaha, what the fuck is this

MarisaKathleen

Friends of mine who sort of stopped talking to me when I had Nancy (fertility problems) just posted a pregnancy announcement on FB.  I'm wondering if they'll start talking to me again.

It really bothered me when it happened because DH and I tried for 4 years to have Nancy.  It's not like we weren't having problems, we just weren't putting them on f-ing facebook for all the world to see.  I am really happy for them, but still resent that they acted like that to me.

tinyhumantoe

MarisaKathleen said:

It really bothered me when it happened because DH and I tried for 4 years to have Nancy.  It's not like we weren't having problems, we just weren't putting them on f-ing facebook for all the world to see.  I am really happy for them, but still resent that they acted like that to me.

  I think some people on here explained that they had that type of reaction, and it was not personal.  But yes, I would be upset by it.

AlinnJo

I SAH with LO and am her primary caregiver 95% of the time. DH works a lot. When he gets home after bedtime or is away for a day or two, I may not be frazzled but I am exhausted. I really count on extra hands at the end of the day to give me time to clean up dinner. It may not be much from him but he does what he can, and I really miss that when he's gone. I am not super mom and don't think it's dumb that I can't do it all with ease when I don't have help. No shame in that.

willy_gert

tinyhumantoe said:

MarisaKathleen said:

It really bothered me when it happened because DH and I tried for 4 years to have Nancy.  It's not like we weren't having problems, we just weren't putting them on f-ing facebook for all the world to see.  I am really happy for them, but still resent that they acted like that to me.

  I think some people on here explained that they had that type of reaction, and it was not personal.  But yes, I would be upset by it.

Agreed that some of us had that reaction, but at the same time, I know while it hurt when others got pregnant I didn't cut them out of my life.  Thats BS IMHO.  One of my friends did that to me and they just got custody of a child they have taken care of for years.  I wonder if she will consider talking to me now too.

Pokedot

MarisaKathleen said:

Friends of mine who sort of stopped talking to me when I had Nancy (fertility problems) just posted a pregnancy announcement on FB.  I'm wondering if they'll start talking to me again.

It really bothered me when it happened because DH and I tried for 4 years to have Nancy.  It's not like we weren't having problems, we just weren't putting them on f-ing facebook for all the world to see.  I am really happy for them, but still resent that they acted like that to me.

I had a BFF like that except we weren't friends when got pregnant. I'm sure she flipped her shit when she found out.  They tried for a very long time and nothing was happening and for us it happened very quick. She was always someone that recented the good people had in their lives though. They just had their first in February. I'm happy for her but still wonder what her issues are. I've noticed she's pushed a lot of people away.

melody921

MarisaKathleen said:

https://www.today.com/food/sip-it-slurp-it-red-robin-introduces-wine-milkshake-2D79397731

I hate the idea of a wine milkshake.  I was at Red Robin with my sisters last week and we laughed about this when the waitress said she'd rather have literally anything else on the menu. :-(

I hope the idea of a wine milkshake being gross is not a UO.

that sounds repulsive.

melody921

tinyhumantoe said:

willy_gert said:

Please tell me this is the same idiot that you had to make leave while you guys were moving.  It would fit the profile you have built for him here!   :P

Nope, different superstar.



Respectfully,
THT
Assistant Vice Idiot

"I see the bright side of things, and if it's dark, I just carefully walk the room feeling all the walls until I find the light switch.  Click." -THT

OMG, I'm literally laughing out loud like an idiot right now.

AlinnJo

I hope people keep posing about their BFPs. I debated making a post about mine but after I thought about it, I wanted people to know. I didn't want to comment on a random thread and then "hijack" the thread when someone randomly noticed my new ticker. That would be rude. If people didn't want to open it, they didn't have to. 

I also want to congratulate the posters that I know. It's exciting and I want to say congratulations because I'm happy for them. When we were trying and it seemed like everyone was getting knocked up except for me, I still said congrats because I was happy for them. Extremely jealous, but happy. I hope those posts don't stop. 

tinyhumantoe

origamipoppy said:

I also don't get the wine flavored ice cream fad. When I'm eating ice cream win is not a flavor I'm after, and vice versa

I'd try it, but that's coming from a lover of nerd blizzards. 

tinyhumantoe

I was in a destination wedding in $t. Thoma$.  We all had to pay for our own meal at the rehearsal dinner.  I was all PAY FOR MY TACOS, SNATCH! 

But....I would have felt awful had they picked up the tab.  I drank $80 in margaritas.

BPer

tinyhumantoe said:

I was in a destination wedding in $t. Thoma$.  We all had to pay for our own meal at the rehearsal dinner.  I was all PAY FOR MY TACOS, SNATCH! 

But....I would have felt awful had they picked up the tab.  I drank $80 in margaritas.

Mmm...margaritas.

Oh hi, guys.

watercolor5

Oh man, the "big word" thing happened all. the. time. in the military, especially because DH and I were enlisted. 

My favorites are the time DH asked a drill sergeant if he should descend a tower during basic training and, no joke, the drill sergeant said "Descend! That's a pretty big word for a Private!"

(FWIW, I don't think "vastly" is a big word either.)

The other favorite was the drill sergeant during first aid training who repeatedly said "Your buddy just got decapitated at the knee... what do you do?" 

AlinnJo

BPer said:

tinyhumantoe said:

I was in a destination wedding in $t. Thoma$.  We all had to pay for our own meal at the rehearsal dinner.  I was all PAY FOR MY TACOS, SNATCH! 

But....I would have felt awful had they picked up the tab.  I drank $80 in margaritas.

Mmm...margaritas.

Oh hi, guys.

Where the hell have you been @BPer?

tinyhumantoe

A tupperware container full of plain cream cheese is not a cheese ball.  Throw some dried beef or nuts on that shit.

BPer

AlinnJo said:

BPer said:

tinyhumantoe said:

I was in a destination wedding in $t. Thoma$.  We all had to pay for our own meal at the rehearsal dinner.  I was all PAY FOR MY TACOS, SNATCH! 

But....I would have felt awful had they picked up the tab.  I drank $80 in margaritas.

Mmm...margaritas.

Oh hi, guys.

Where the hell have you been @BPer?

I am definitely not paid enough for the amount of work I have been doing.  Sigh.  I'm on a Cheetos break right now. 

AlinnJo

Yuck! Enjoy the cheetohs for me! I hope things slow down and you can come back more!

MississippiCatfish

tinyhumantoe said:

melody921 said:

LOL, I pick apart emails all the time. My favorite though is still when people use the wrong word like roll vs role.

I just received:  "We shouldn't have to go thru this erroneous phone call."  

Underneath his siggy he has a quote, quoting himself. "My glass is always half full, and if it isn't I'll just order another" - His Name

dafaq?


Ahhh. The use of "thru" and "nite" in otherwise professional communication drives me CRAZY!

ETA: I've never heard of wine flavored ice cream. Yuck.

AKB090609

tinyhumantoe said:

MarisaKathleen said:

It really bothered me when it happened because DH and I tried for 4 years to have Nancy.  It's not like we weren't having problems, we just weren't putting them on f-ing facebook for all the world to see.  I am really happy for them, but still resent that they acted like that to me.

  I think some people on here explained that they had that type of reaction, and it was not personal.  But yes, I would be upset by it.

I'm sorry your friends did that to you. I think it's bullshit that people assume that having a baby is easy for a given couple just because that couple haven't talked about their struggles. I also had a friend who was very vocal about the struggles she and her husband were having TTC. DH and I just didn't talk about our struggles, I don't think that IF is an excuse or explication for being an asshole.