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I have been waiting all week for this! I have a few confessions:

1. I still take hot showers. I know we're not supposed to, but I can't stand lukewarm water.

2. #1 actually only happens on the rare occasions I can even be bothered to take a shower. A couple times a week usually, these days. If I don't smell bad or my hair doesn't look greasy, I don't want to deal with getting wet and having to brush and dry my long hair.

Csltdk

I always have to check my tissue to look at my snot after I blow my nose. I don't know why!

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helloblueeyes

shanicenicolle said:

Csltdk said:

I always have to check my tissue to look at my snot after I blow my nose. I don't know why!

I have to confess... I do this too. Lol!

Me three, lol.

Huahine

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

mrscurlygurl

Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

There really aren't that many different people posting in the random thread, so I don't think it can be solely to blame for any slowness our board seems to suffer. 

mrscurlygurl

@livelaughlove88, are you taking hour long scalding showers that turn your skin pink? If not, I don't think hot water is really going to hurt you or baby. The warnings about water are about changing your core temp significantly, which really only happens when you sit submerged in a hot tub. 

I haven't really lowered the temp of my showers and I still take baths nightly...and not the lukewarm baths I give my toddler either. 

tourqeyes

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

The only reason I know this is because you started a topic that I asked there a few days ago. LOL

tourqeyes

Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

This makes me laugh because I can't keep up from what the boards were like three years ago.

mamaloaf

livelaughlove88 said:

1. I still take hot showers. I know we're not supposed to, but I can't stand lukewarm water. 

No, I don't think so

tourqeyes

My kid was playing with a knife from his cooking set this week and he came up to me with it and said "I'm going to cut you." I knew in that moment I was absolutely winning at this parenting thing.

I know he doesn't get it, but I'm thinking here that I'm raising a little serial killer now.

tourqeyes

If I had a bump AE I would use it to bring back posters that I really enjoy but only show up on certain occasions (Baby shower posts for Bliss Berry or whatever get's LoisLayne posting sometimes).

Palan

Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

I agree, we could try a daily or weekly random thread, maybe it wouldn't get so out of hand.

Salsera29

Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

I just posted in the random thread that I was eating grilled cheese for dinner for the second time in a row. That reeeeeally doesn't need its own thread. 

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tourqeyes

I'm been really sick this week and was undecided at first it was allergies or something else. I've settled on that it's a combination of the both.

I refuse to take any sick days because they don't give me a lot of PTO and they will make me use up a week of my vacation time towards STD. So....sorry coworkers, stay away but I'm not using my precious time just to make sure you don't catch whatever I have. I know this makes me an asshole, but I really don't care. They all come in sick come flu season and on top of that their bosses don't make them take any of their PTO when they take days off. I don't have that luxury.

Salsera29

My FFFC:

I can't burp. If I drink carbonated beverages (or now, pretty much every time I eat) I get this "bubbly," backed-up feeling in my windpipe. It makes me want to vomit and is extremely uncomfortable. The only way to relieve it is to stick my finger down my throat and essentially "vomit" the air up.  It's so hard to find the privacy to do it without anyone hearing (and I need to be in a bathroom in case it makes me actually puke) that I end up being uncomfortable and miserable for hours at a time. 

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mrscurlygurl said:

Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

There really aren't that many different people posting in the random thread, so I don't think it can be solely to blame for any slowness our board seems to suffer. 

April 2014's random thread is over 1000 pages and they still have a super active board. I don't think it's the random thread's fault ;-)

cuntasaurusrex

I never meant for discussions to take place in the random thread to the extent that they do.. I made it thinking that things along the lines of what @salsera29 posted would go there.  Buuuut, I can't tell anyone how to post.

My confession:  Yesterday, while walking my take-out lunch back to work about 4 city blocks, I got really winded and had some nasty side cramps.  I am so inactive it's literally becoming painful.  Time to get off my ass.  Thank goodness spring is here.

tourqeyes

RE: anyone talking about slowness

Are we on the same board? It's only 9AM EST and there have already been 20 posts updated today.

TallMomma29

mrscurlygurl said:

@livelaughlove88, are you taking hour long scalding showers that turn your skin pink? If not, I don't think hot water is really going to hurt you or baby. The warnings about water are about changing your core temp significantly, which really only happens when you sit submerged in a hot tub. 

I haven't really lowered the temp of my showers and I still take baths nightly...and not the lukewarm baths I give my toddler either. 

Phew! I was pretty sure "no hot showers" wasn't a thing. I'd almost rather not shower than take a luke warm or cold one (and I have no sense of smell so the joke would be on everyone else!!!! ;-))

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Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  


I haven't opened the random thread since the week it started. I don't mind random subjects being posted, and I think it's less fun to have to wade through that post. It says it has 2.4k new posts since the last time I opened it - no thanks.

cuntasaurusrex

BPaws said:

Also- we aren't going to tell anyone (except FIL, who will be watching DS) what date our RCS is. We find out on April 24th the exact date, but I want nobody at the hospital aside from DF and I. My mum is insistent she be there, even if she can't come into the room. She made a comment about how they called her the morning of, and she wondered if that was still the practice. I went with it.

I was just about to post something along these lines.  My mother wants to drop everything at work the second I go into labor and drive out (90 minutes), a friend of mine (2.5 hours) wants to do the same, and then MIL (lives in VA, I'm in NY) wants to come 10 days ahead of time.  I'm really tempted to not tell anyone, because I'm the type of person to feel guilty for taking too long, or for not being nice enough/good enough a host to the people around me, and I do NOT want to deal with anything other than focusing on making it through my very special vagina day.

zellatrix

I really hesitate to post this because I know how flameworthy it is here. But, this is my second child and my first is 6. I was absolutely not expecting a baby shower but then my best friend told me she was throwing me one. And I am so excited, I am not going to turn her down. In my defense, I didn't have any true girl friends my first time around. I met my best friends because I became a mother and joined a mom's group in town. So, yeah... flame away. 

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tourqeyes

aliletz said:

BPaws said:

Also- we aren't going to tell anyone (except FIL, who will be watching DS) what date our RCS is. We find out on April 24th the exact date, but I want nobody at the hospital aside from DF and I. My mum is insistent she be there, even if she can't come into the room. She made a comment about how they called her the morning of, and she wondered if that was still the practice. I went with it.

I was just about to post something along these lines.  My mother wants to drop everything at work the second I go into labor and drive out (90 minutes), a friend of mine (2.5 hours) wants to do the same, and then MIL (lives in VA, I'm in NY) wants to come 10 days ahead of time.  I'm really tempted to not tell anyone, because I'm the type of person to feel guilty for taking too long, or for not being nice enough/good enough a host to the people around me, and I do NOT want to deal with anything other than focusing on making it through my very special vagina day.

This is my own little FFFC but if I could get away with it, I would have this baby and be discharged from the hospital before I even told anyone he arrived.

We got away with not telling anyone until after DS1 was born, but I think that just happened to work out because of how fast my labor was and there was no time to call anyone.

& I would have preferred for no one to come visit us during that hospital stay. Something about having my parents around (read: my dad) stresses me out.

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marsalisails

1. Last week when I was flying to Chicago, the plane only had 20 people on it. Since I was the only one within three rows of me, I "pregnant farted" the whole flight there. The flight attendant looked like he was going to vomit when he came over to give me my drink, but If I hadn't done what I did, I would have exploded from the pressure.

2. We were at a big Business Level meeting this week, and I was supposed to drive myself to the airport this morning at 3am. I was dreading it so much (what pregnant woman can drive 1.5 hours on 3.5 hours of sleep? !) That once I figured out my boss was on the same flight, I arranged someone else drive my car back to a different airport this afternoon so that he could drive us and I could relax. Cost my budget an extra $250, but i didn't tell anyone that.

kay anthony

Here's mine: I'm really bothered by the "let's ogle at hot men" threads. I think some kind of warning should be posted on them like *people being objectified inside* so that I don't accidentally click on them. They really piss me off.

I'm not a prude, I like sex, I just don't like when people are turned into objects to be stared at. 

helloblueeyes

tourqeyes said:

RE: anyone talking about slowness

Are we on the same board? It's only 9AM EST and there have already been 20 posts updated today.

In the time it took me to take a shower(hot for the record), this thread had 30+ replies.

zellatrix

Huahine said:

bunny0711 said:

I've given up on the random thread.

Yeah - the random thread holds no interest for me and I hold it responsible for the slowness of the board.  I need subject lines and individual posts to determine if something is interesting enough to click through to.  There is just too much to wade through in the random thread.  I understand that it was created because a critical mass of posters didn't want their new feeds cluttered up with a bunch of random stuff, but without lots of posts, internet boards like this get very boring, very fast.  

The weird shit we post over there would not make a good thread on it's own. Example: I just posted that the Bump was pissing me off because of autoplaying video ads. If I made my own thread on that, I imagine I would have gotten one of the @aliletz thumbs up pics. 

ETA: Fixed tag

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hgtvmom

I frequently have random crap to post in the random thread, but don't because I haven't kept up with it. Looking at 1000 unread posts is too daunting. I caught up one day, but by the time I was done, I couldn't remember what my random thing was.

ETA - typing on mobile is hard before coffee

zellatrix

I posted this in the random thread the other day, but since none of you look at it, I will post it here. There is absolutely no reason to "catch up" with the random thread. It is just one long stream of consciousness. Just go to the last page and jump in, very rarely does a post even lead to a discussion. 

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tourqeyes said:

My kid was playing with a knife from his cooking set this week and he came up to me with it and said "I'm going to cut you." I knew in that moment I was absolutely winning at this parenting thing.

I know he doesn't get it, but I'm thinking here that I'm raising a little serial killer now.

My 3 year old keeps coming up to my belly and asking if he can break the baby.
:-q

zellatrix

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<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>> With DS it took almost 4 days for him to be born. My mum showed up about 30 minutes after we called her and spent the next 4 days driving me effing crazy. I couldnt eat because they were prepping me for the possibility of a csection. She ordered PIZZA to my room! I hadn't eaten solid foods in 2 days! I feel no guilt! Also, once everyone knew he was born, people started showing up and then we had to explain why nobody could see him. Nope. I don't care if anyone calls me a biatch for this one- I have no issues with not telling anyone until baby is born and I am ready to actually deal with people.

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Our hospital gives us a "special" dinner after having a baby. Ours happened to be on Valentines day. My in laws came and sat in our room while our food got cold so they could hold the baby. And then got pissed at a friend of mine because he was taking pics of our newborn because the "flash is going to hurt his eyes". For the record, the flash was bounced off the ceiling. FIL then proceeded to tell me that we probably gave the baby the flu because we took him to Target after we were released to get my pain meds and we all got out of the car because I wanted to walk around after being in the hospital for four days. He did not get the flu...