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It's confession time. Spill!

lindylogana

I am working from home today without management permission. I know that everyone is out of the office so i probably won't get caught and even if I did so many people are out of the office today they would probably think they forgot.

jennaleigh23

my boss is off today and it's literally going to be the slowest day of the year so i'm contemplating logging onto netflix and watching grey's anatomy.. 

RWPhoenix

1) When visiting my extended family I had 1/4 glass of champagne to celebrate the holidays/new baby.

2) DD has been watching PBS for the past 30mins because I needed a shower.

ELauren88

On that note, my DD watches about an hour of pbs everyday, because she loves Daniel Tiger.

amc1087

No one is in the office and I spent all of the very slow last week working ahead, so I am on Netflix at work watching Friends.

soccsm13

ELauren88 said:

On that note, my DD watches about an hour of pbs everyday, because she loves Daniel Tiger.

My DS loves daniel tiger! I need that hour of quiet in the morning.

SlurpeeLove

If my boss doesn't come in, I'm totally leaving early.  Oh please oh please oh please!

RWPhoenix

soccsm13 said:

ELauren88 said:

On that note, my DD watches about an hour of pbs everyday, because she loves Daniel Tiger.

My DS loves daniel tiger! I need that hour of quiet in the morning.

That is what DD is watching, she is so engaged that I am just going to let her watch for a little longer. At least it's educational right?

ahsile10

I don't know if this counts as a FFFC but it's definitely kind of gross, and I wouldn't tell most people about it. LOL.

I was taking my gummy vitamins this morning and I sneezed right as I started to swallow one. A piece of it apparently somehow went up and into my nose. I had to blow my nose to get it out. It just happened to be yellow, and that helped up the gross factor when it came out.

That was interesting...

ahsile10

amc2511 said:

It's confession time. Spill!

All I can think about is how comfy and warm this fire looks as I sit here and freeze.

jgrace82

RWPhoenix said:

1) When visiting my extended family I had 1/4 glass of champagne to celebrate the holidays/new baby.

2) DD has been watching PBS for the past 30mins because I needed a shower.

On NYE I had a glass of wine and a few sips of champagne at midnight. It was awesome.

ahsile10

mischiefmama said:

My confession is that I've tried to get DS to watch TV and it just doesn't work.  Maybe I'll have to try this Daniel Tiger show...

Daniel Tiger is awesome. DD loves it. Then I had to go buy her some Daniel Tiger books. 

It also brings back all the memories of watching Mr. Rogers as a kid.

Tiffy217

I've had my daughter playing on the ipad for the last 1/2 hr so I can get her to eat breakfast. Sounds terrible but it's the only way I can get her to eat sometimes.

caymarks

@Flashy‌ Right after I got married my DH's brother asked him when he was going to knock me up (while sitting around the table for the Thanksgiving meal). It ticked me off big time and now I hate it when I read that someone is "knocked up"

SlurpeeLove

Flashy said:

I was a little rude to my MIL yesterday. She was being all chipper and asking about my last OB appointment (it was just a check the hb and do you have any questions type of appointment) and I have felt like total crap for what seems like weeks now and I just kind of blew her off. I think I hurt her feelings,

I also HATE when people refer to themselves as being "preggo". HATE. IT.

People at work now refer to me as "Preggers" once in a while instead of my name.  I assume throat punching is out?

OMG.  I totally had a moment the other day.  One of my coworkers touched my stomach.  I turned to him and said "my breakfast says thank you.  The baby is closer to my vajayjay and if you touch there I will punt you."  Needless to say, he went away quickly.  LMAO

abcdefghijk12345678

FFFC: Me and DH haven't seriously talked about names yet, and we won't find out the sex of our baby until late February/early March, but whenever I think about the baby, in my mind it's a boy named Isaiah. I'm probably going to feel ridiculous later if it turns out we're having a girl or if DH vetoes the name, but for now I feel like it's helping me bond with my baby.

ChristyM87

amc2511 said:

FFFC: Me and DH haven't seriously talked about names yet, and we won't find out the sex of our baby until late February/early March, but whenever I think about the baby, in my mind it's a boy named Isaiah. I'm probably going to feel ridiculous later if it turns out we're having a girl or if DH vetoes the name, but for now I feel like it's helping me bond with my baby.

My husband and I only have a boy name picked out but we both have this feeling that it is a girl. So I guess it is my daughter named Samuel

ifwisheswerefishes

Never any judgement for TV from me. DD watches at least a half hour every day, sometimes more than she should, mostly because of how awful I feel these days and it's just an easy way to distract her and keep her occupied. Always educational in some way, but still...

Mine is that I think people who rehome their animals because they're having a baby are irresponsible people who should have never been pet owners in the first place. Same with people who have exclusively outside dogs who never see shelter other than a kennel or dog house. 

ahsile10

ashslatts524 said:

I don't know if this counts as a FFFC but it's definitely kind of gross, and I wouldn't tell most people about it. LOL.

I was taking my gummy vitamins this morning and I sneezed right as I started to swallow one. A piece of it apparently somehow went up and into my nose. I had to blow my nose to get it out. It just happened to be yellow, and that helped up the gross factor when it came out.

That was interesting...

That happened to me once with a twizzler. It was honestly so bizarre.

I am SO glad I am not the only one. haha.

ifwisheswerefishes

kristhegirl said:

@ifwisheswerefishes‌ I've never understood outside-only pets. Why do you even have a dog if you never see or interact with it? A friend of mine has a livestock guardian dog who is exclusively outside, but he's a working dog and she still spends more time out with him (and the goats) than most people spend with their poor chained up outside dogs.

We had a mostly-outside St. Bernard when I was a kid. He slept in our attached-to-house garage and hung out on our enclosed back porch from spring-fall. Winter, he SOMETIMES came in the house, but mostly in his special heated garage apartment that my dad built for him (his tail could clear the entire table in one wag). He was a spoiled rotten baby. My ILs, on the other hand, keep their dogs outside PERMANENTLY even in the coldest weather, and get all on my case when I suggest bringing them inside because their fur is freezing. It makes me ragey. 

ahsile10

kristhegirl said:

@ifwisheswerefishes‌ I've never understood outside-only pets. Why do you even have a dog if you never see or interact with it? A friend of mine has a livestock guardian dog who is exclusively outside, but he's a working dog and she still spends more time out with him (and the goats) than most people spend with their poor chained up outside dogs.

My awful neighbors have 2 dogs like this. They are totally neglected and bored out of their minds. That means every time we go out in our back yard these 2 dogs bark non-stop, for as long as we are out there, even if it is hours.

I have never wanted to hurt a dog before in my entire life, but one of them got out and bit me a couple winters ago. It was snowing and we were outside with DD. I had like 50 payers on though and big winter gloves so all it did was pinch my skin. It didn't break through.

I knew it wasn't smart to put my hand in front of it, but it was running toward DD who was only 3 at the time. She was all like, "awwww! doggy!" So I just put my hand out in between her and the dog, and it totally snapped at my wrist. Much better me than her though. 

We have had all sorts of issues with these jerks next door, and I really thought about calling animal control on them. Now I wish I had.

Which brings me to my FFFC. I have imagined letting these dogs out to escape when no one is home. They would seriously be better off, no matter what happened to them, than they are living with these people. DH has threatened them with worse a few times (only to me), and quite often I think it would be more humane than their current treatment.

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Flashy said:

I was a little rude to my MIL yesterday. She was being all chipper and asking about my last OB appointment (it was just a check the hb and do you have any questions type of appointment) and I have felt like total crap for what seems like weeks now and I just kind of blew her off. I think I hurt her feelings,

I also HATE when people refer to themselves as being "preggo". HATE. IT.

Ha, I'm rude to my MIL constantly. She thinks I'm being snarky funny when in fact she is just waaaaaay too chipper and asks waaaaaaay too many questions for my pessimistic introvert self to handle rationally. I let her have it after she poked my bloated poop belly last week and giggled. NO. BAD MIL. NO COOKIE FOR YOU. 

So glad we live 800 miles away.

caymarks

My confession is that I am kind of side eyeing the ones that are saying they let their kids watch too much tv (30 minutes?!)

My kids have a show on of some sort all day long. They always have a toy in hand but they watch way more than 30 minutes of tv a day. We play games, play with play dough, etc but we always have tv on and it's being watched even if it's just glances in between playing.

ifwisheswerefishes

ahsile10 said:

kristhegirl said:

@ifwisheswerefishes‌ I've never understood outside-only pets. Why do you even have a dog if you never see or interact with it? A friend of mine has a livestock guardian dog who is exclusively outside, but he's a working dog and she still spends more time out with him (and the goats) than most people spend with their poor chained up outside dogs.

My awful neighbors have 2 dogs like this. They are totally neglected and bored out of their minds. That means every time we go out in our back yard these 2 dogs bark non-stop, for as long as we are out there, even if it is hours.

I have never wanted to hurt a dog before in my entire life, but one of them got out and bit me a couple winters ago. It was snowing and we were outside with DD. I had like 50 payers on though and big winter gloves so all it did was pinch my skin. It didn't break through.

I knew it wasn't smart to put my hand in front of it, but it was running toward DD who was only 3 at the time. She was all like, "awwww! doggy!" So I just put my hand out in between her and the dog, and it totally snapped at my wrist. Much better me than her though. 

We have had all sorts of issues with these jerks next door, and I really thought about calling animal control on them. Now I wish I had.

Which brings me to my FFFC. I have imagined letting these dogs out to escape when no one is home. They would seriously be better off, no matter what happened to them, than they are living with these people. DH has threatened them with worse a few times (only to me), and quite often I think it would be more humane than their current treatment.

Yesterday DH went out before DD and I were awake to let our dog out. He's a Great Dane/Weimaraner mix (that's important). All of a sudden, I heard my DH shouting outside the window, our dog crying, and a vicious sounding chaos of tiny dogs barking and snarling. When DH came back in, he told me that our neighbor's outdoor-only Pom and outdoor-only Chihuahua had broken loose of their pen and attacked Sherlock. DH had started beating on them with a stick in the yard until the owner came out and got them off. Our neighbor apologized up and down, but I'm still mad as fuck.  

caymarks

We have an outside only cat because DS1 is allergic to all animals. If an animal is in the house he starts wheezing and his eyes swell. He goes outside and plays with the cat and then comes straight in to wash hands and change clothes. He loves that cat but it can't be inside. He does sit on a swing in front of our picture window and the boys laugh and play through the window. The cat paws and plays back.

ahsile10

ifwisheswerefishes said:

ahsile10 said:

kristhegirl said:

@ifwisheswerefishes‌ I've never understood outside-only pets. Why do you even have a dog if you never see or interact with it? A friend of mine has a livestock guardian dog who is exclusively outside, but he's a working dog and she still spends more time out with him (and the goats) than most people spend with their poor chained up outside dogs.

My awful neighbors have 2 dogs like this. They are totally neglected and bored out of their minds. That means every time we go out in our back yard these 2 dogs bark non-stop, for as long as we are out there, even if it is hours.

I have never wanted to hurt a dog before in my entire life, but one of them got out and bit me a couple winters ago. It was snowing and we were outside with DD. I had like 50 payers on though and big winter gloves so all it did was pinch my skin. It didn't break through.

I knew it wasn't smart to put my hand in front of it, but it was running toward DD who was only 3 at the time. She was all like, "awwww! doggy!" So I just put my hand out in between her and the dog, and it totally snapped at my wrist. Much better me than her though. 

We have had all sorts of issues with these jerks next door, and I really thought about calling animal control on them. Now I wish I had.

Which brings me to my FFFC. I have imagined letting these dogs out to escape when no one is home. They would seriously be better off, no matter what happened to them, than they are living with these people. DH has threatened them with worse a few times (only to me), and quite often I think it would be more humane than their current treatment.

Yesterday DH went out before DD and I were awake to let our dog out. He's a Great Dane/Weimaraner mix (that's important). All of a sudden, I heard my DH shouting outside the window, our dog crying, and a vicious sounding chaos of tiny dogs barking and snarling. When DH came back in, he told me that our neighbor's outdoor-only Pom and outdoor-only Chihuahua had broken loose of their pen and attacked Sherlock. DH had started beating on them with a stick in the yard until the owner came out and got them off. Our neighbor apologized up and down, but I'm still mad as fuck.  

Poor thing. Hopefully he didn't have any serious bites or anything.

I swear, little dogs can be more vicious than big ones. Before my JRT was blind, she would go after my BIL's pit every time he sniffed her butt. He would drop down on the ground and cower. She never actually attacked him, but she sounded pretty scary. 

She likes having her butt sniffed even less now that she can't see (which I can totally understand); so I have to carry her every time we go to the vet or she is around another dog. BIL just said she had a "little dog complex."

ifwisheswerefishes

ahsile10 said:

ifwisheswerefishes said:

ahsile10 said:

kristhegirl said:

@ifwisheswerefishes‌ I've never understood outside-only pets. Why do you even have a dog if you never see or interact with it? A friend of mine has a livestock guardian dog who is exclusively outside, but he's a working dog and she still spends more time out with him (and the goats) than most people spend with their poor chained up outside dogs.

My awful neighbors have 2 dogs like this. They are totally neglected and bored out of their minds. That means every time we go out in our back yard these 2 dogs bark non-stop, for as long as we are out there, even if it is hours.

I have never wanted to hurt a dog before in my entire life, but one of them got out and bit me a couple winters ago. It was snowing and we were outside with DD. I had like 50 payers on though and big winter gloves so all it did was pinch my skin. It didn't break through.

I knew it wasn't smart to put my hand in front of it, but it was running toward DD who was only 3 at the time. She was all like, "awwww! doggy!" So I just put my hand out in between her and the dog, and it totally snapped at my wrist. Much better me than her though. 

We have had all sorts of issues with these jerks next door, and I really thought about calling animal control on them. Now I wish I had.

Which brings me to my FFFC. I have imagined letting these dogs out to escape when no one is home. They would seriously be better off, no matter what happened to them, than they are living with these people. DH has threatened them with worse a few times (only to me), and quite often I think it would be more humane than their current treatment.

Yesterday DH went out before DD and I were awake to let our dog out. He's a Great Dane/Weimaraner mix (that's important). All of a sudden, I heard my DH shouting outside the window, our dog crying, and a vicious sounding chaos of tiny dogs barking and snarling. When DH came back in, he told me that our neighbor's outdoor-only Pom and outdoor-only Chihuahua had broken loose of their pen and attacked Sherlock. DH had started beating on them with a stick in the yard until the owner came out and got them off. Our neighbor apologized up and down, but I'm still mad as fuck.  

Poor thing. Hopefully he didn't have any serious bites or anything.

I swear, little dogs can be more vicious than big ones. Before my JRT was blind, she would go after my BIL's pit every time he sniffed her butt. He would drop down on the ground and cower. She never actually attacked him, but she sounded pretty scary. 

She likes having her butt sniffed even less now that she can't see (which I can totally understand); so I have to carry her every time we go to the vet or she is around another dog. BIL just said she had a "little dog complex."

He's not hurt, just really jumpy (and he was already jumpy from his past pre-rescue abuse). I feel so bad for him. 

ifwisheswerefishes

caymarks said:

We have an outside only cat because DS1 is allergic to all animals. If an animal is in the house he starts wheezing and his eyes swell. He goes outside and plays with the cat and then comes straight in to wash hands and change clothes. He loves that cat but it can't be inside. He does sit on a swing in front of our picture window and the boys laugh and play through the window. The cat paws and plays back.

I'm a little more forgiving with cats, especially since we lived on a farm with barn cats out the freaking wazoo. I never had an indoor cat until I got married. 

ifwisheswerefishes

@3timemom that just makes me angry for you. What the fuck? I'm so sorry.

jlbaker08

ifwisheswerefishes said:

Yesterday DH went out before DD and I were awake to let our dog out. He's a Great Dane/Weimaraner mix (that's important). All of a sudden, I heard my DH shouting outside the window, our dog crying, and a vicious sounding chaos of tiny dogs barking and snarling. When DH came back in, he told me that our neighbor's outdoor-only Pom and outdoor-only Chihuahua had broken loose of their pen and attacked Sherlock. DH had started beating on them with a stick in the yard until the owner came out and got them off. Our neighbor apologized up and down, but I'm still mad as fuck.  

I have a black lab mix and a rat terrier that we take to the dog park sometimes.  Since the lab mix is big, we go to the "big dog section".  Once, my little dog was playing with a ball and another dog came over to steal it and they got into a fight.  I proceeded to beat the dog off with whatever I had in my hand at that moment, maybe a leash or stick or something.  My poor little girl has a Napoleon complex but still, the other dog was too aggressive, not playful.  I know dog parks are places where dogs are supposed to be able to run free, but if you don't have a dog that is socialized and you can't be bothered to keep an eye on it, maybe you shouldn't bring it to a dog park.  I've also see a few dogs come in with muzzles and others that come in but are not allowed off their leashes...  If you can't trust your dog to let it go play, it shouldn't be around the other dogs.

edit for clarification: mean dogs suck and I'm sorry your giant was attacked by 2 little meanies

ahsile10

kristhegirl said:

@3timemom‌ that's horrible! What the hell are they thinking??

This. Seriously? WTF?

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3timemom said:

I unwrapped the Christmas gifts we bought for my FIL and SMIL. I am wrapping her gift up and giving it to my mom for her birthday on Sunday and I may keep my FILs gift for myself or save it for someone else. They told my husband yesterday not to bother cimjng to their house this weekend because they didn't get our kids any gifts for Christmas because they got my nephew things and went to my BILs house for Christmas.

These are your grand kids too! I'm so mad I don't even care anymore. This was the last straw for me in a whole list of other things.

Wtf?! This is a really shitty thing for grandparents to do. I'm glad you are repurposing their gifts!

ahsile10

Another thing that has been bothering me... That I feel guilty about.

I have been a little irritated by the fact that my coworker scheduled off the entire week + a few more days of and around my due date. We are the only 2 that work in the office. Obviously, I will take off anyway whenever I have to, but it just irritates me.

I haven't told the managers (who rarely work in the office) that I am expecting yet, but I told her a long, long time ago before she scheduled her time off.

The reason she scheduled off is that her daughter is due with her first baby, and coworkers 1st grandchild, 4 days before me. That's what makes me feel guilty for being irritated. 

It's just that I planned to schedule the week before my due date as vacation, expecting to be miserable or hopefully even have this baby early, and now I expect my managers to complain and make this difficult for me to take off until I freaking go into labor since we are the only 2 employees that actually work inside the office daily.

I'm sure the thought never even crossed her mind since she is so excited, but It just really irritates me all around. I'm not mad at her, just really irritated by the whole situation.

ChristyM87

3timemom said:

Thanks guys. It has been coming for a long time. Just before Christmas I was telling my husband about how I felt and he was like they don't do all that. They never come to any of our kids birthday parties and have never bought then birthday gifts. I saw my nephews birthday and Christmas gifts from them, it was OBSCENE what they got them. They spent a fortune in my BIL and SIL for their wedding shower and didn't get us anything. I have tried to let it go but ever since my SIL had her baby 2 weeks after we had our son it's been getting worse.

No advice but I am sorry you are going through this

ifwisheswerefishes

mischiefmama said:

3timemom said:

Thanks guys. It has been coming for a long time. Just before Christmas I was telling my husband about how I felt and he was like they don't do all that. They never come to any of our kids birthday parties and have never bought then birthday gifts. I saw my nephews birthday and Christmas gifts from them, it was OBSCENE what they got them. They spent a fortune in my BIL and SIL for their wedding shower and didn't get us anything. I have tried to let it go but ever since my SIL had her baby 2 weeks after we had our son it's been getting worse.

This is just insane!  Is there a reason for the disparity?  I just don't get it.  What are they thinking?

I feel you on the "husband not seeing his parents' faults" thing. We have been dealing with major disparity ever since we were dating -- obviously not to this level, though. I'm so, so sorry that you're dealing with this. Is there any way you could sit down with DH and lay it out for him, hardcore, without really causing a rift in your relationship? This is not just you, but now it's your children, too. 

slamar3

I am slightly proud of myself for not ever wanting alcohol. Prior to getting pregnant my husband and I dramatically slowed down on drinking because we both have gotten ourselves into alcohol induced trouble on multiple occasions, but my husband made an exceptionally large mistake last February. But I still wanted wine all. the. time. Since being pregnant I really don't care about alcohol. Even wine. That is huge for me. And everyone on here talking about having/wanting a drink and still nothing. I feel like I finally got my big girl pants all the way on!

ELauren88

I got a gift card to my local natural parenting boutique for Christmas. I'm totally going to buy more diapers, even though I told DH I would look for other things we "need".
Need my ass, have you SEEN rumparooz new prints?? That's a necessity.

c-elizabethf

@3timemom‌ Ugh I'm sorry you have to deal with that, that sucks that they act like jerks.

ahsile10

lavendergrrl said:

I think this is beyond terrible parenting, and is abuse in multiple ways. And what makes it worse is that many Americans subscribe to her beliefs, so they think this is acceptable behavior. This is not the way to treat ANY animal, and even more disgusting that it's his service animal.


FFFC: I've always hated, despised, loathed (insert countless synonyms here) Sarah Palin. I think giving stupid people like her public platforms to spread ignorance and misinformation is a very serious problem in this country. And it's not just limited to politics, I think the Kardashians (among others) are just as worthless.

What is he supposed to be doing, using the dog for a stool?!

pearlv88

kristhegirl said:

@ifwisheswerefishes‌ around here it's almost all chihuahuas and pits, and the pits are chained to the dog house. No heat lamps, no fan in the summer, just a dog house. It infuriates me. The chihuahuas at least get to run around, but they are still outside dogs, period.

OMG as owners of two chihuahuas, who I treat as my babies, this breaks my heart!