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missteacherlady16

Your weekly [not so] Flame Free Friday Confession

MRSCORKER

So, I've been watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Somehow, I missed it while it was actually on TV. My confession is that I am a little too emotionally invested in Lorelai and Luke's relationship. This is harder on me than Ross and Rachel! I actually had a dream about them last night because apparently, I have no life and am consumed by fictional characters. I'm almost finished season 5 so no spoilers!!! 

anj27

I punched myself in the eye this morning, like I think it might bruise. 

missteacherlady16

anj27 said:

I punched myself in the eye this morning, like I think it might bruise. 

Lol how did you do that? 

DCHokiemom

DD is 18 months old and going through a very clingy "mommy" stage.   She wants nothing to do with DH when I am in the room and I know it hurts his feelings a little.  I don't say it to him, but I am sort of enjoying it, I think it's cute and I know there will come a time when I am not the person she wants the most. 

LoveIsOwlYouNeed

@DCHokiemom I was gonna say, see how he feels in a few weeks when she's like perma-attached to his leg...

My FFFC: DH had to work last night and I ended up watch Girl Meets World while I ate dinner and I semi-enjoyed it.  Cory + Topanga 4ever!  

anj27

@missteacherlady16 I was putting my armwarmers on (best thing ever) and I accidentally let go as I was pulling it up and my fist kept going. I told my husband to expect a call from the authorities because who will believe that I gave myself a black eye? 

missteacherlady16

LoveIsOwlYouNeed said:

@DCHokiemom I was gonna say, see how he feels in a few weeks when she's like perma-attached to his leg...

My FFFC: DH had to work last night and I ended up watch Girl Meets World while I ate dinner and I semi-enjoyed it.  Cory + Topanga 4ever!  

No shame in your game! I enjoy Girl Meets World. No, it's not as good as Boy Meets World, but I still enjoy it. 

murray1030

@MRSCORKER I get it! That's how I feel about New Girl with Nick and Jess. I was so into their relationship. I hated when they broke up.. It's all too much!

My FFFC.... I lie to DH when I haven't gotten enough sleep and need to nap. I love him dearly but he feels that if he's up, I have to be up too. Well I have been on daylight all week, which I'm not used to, and I've had like 3 hours of sleep. So naturally I come home and nap. Well he wakes me up when he gets up to ask if I'm getting up.. I lie and tell him I'm sick or have a migraine.. That gives me an hour or two of uninterrupted sleep. I'm sure he doesn't believe me anymore at this point but it's the only way he will leave me alone lol.

ShallowSeas

My HSG x-ray is hanging on my fridge.  I'm sure not many people have a picture of their uterus and Fallopian tubes hanging on their fridge, but I'm proud of it. 

sarah0985

missteacherlady16 said:

LoveIsOwlYouNeed said:

@DCHokiemom I was gonna say, see how he feels in a few weeks when she's like perma-attached to his leg...

My FFFC: DH had to work last night and I ended up watch Girl Meets World while I ate dinner and I semi-enjoyed it.  Cory + Topanga 4ever!  

No shame in your game! I enjoy Girl Meets World. No, it's not as good as Boy Meets World, but I still enjoy it. 

Girl Meets World watcher here too! I get all excited when old characters return. It's definitely not as good as boy meets world but I still like it. 

whiska

I still have dreams about a guy from high school.  He was two years older, so cute, took a special interest in me but we never dated because we were always with other people.  So it became more like a big brother thing. About twice a year I have these really vivid, intense dreams about him; it's always intimate and romantic, but never sexual, if that makes sense?  I would never tell DH.  I wish I knew what they mean... DH and I have been together 15 years so maybe I just miss having that will we or won't we feeling?

MamaMunn

My little brother, who is still in high school, has a field trip coming up for his anatomy class to a cadaver lab. My mom and I have been arguing over which of us should get to help chaperon!! We both work in the medical field so something like this really excites us! The whole time my brother is just sitting there looking at us like we are the 2 weirdest people on the planet. 

atcwag

Sometimes I let my 2 y/o DS play on my phone for 20m so I can catch up on a guilty pleasure show like Teen Mom. 

whiska

@MamaMunn I taught anatomy with cadavers for a few years!  I really miss being in the lab; human bodies are so cool.  My obgyn advised me to stop when we started ttc, unfortunately, since formalin is teratogenic.  

ETA - sorry, I didn't mean that as a PSA or to say you shouldn't go!  I had to stop because I was in the lab 5 hours a day, much of that talking/teaching over the bodies and breathing a lot of the chemicals in. Much more than you would get on a field trip tour!

FloridaStanley

severmilli12 said:

My HSG x-ray is hanging on my fridge.  I'm sure not many people have a picture of their uterus and Fallopian tubes hanging on their fridge, but I'm proud of it. 

I've had DS's hip and spine X-ray on my fridge for nearly a year, lol

juliehollz13

I don't like Adele's new album. I love her old stuff but the new stuff is crap. I change the radio station every time I ear "Hello" come on. 

Lecool

@MamaMunn Whoa! What an interesting experience. I've been listening to Stiff: The Secret Life of Cadavers (audiobooks FTW!) and it's been totally interesting. I don't know if I would personally want to go to a lab and see cadavers myself, but reading (listening!) about them and all of the scientific advances that they've contributed to is super fascinating. 

LoveIsOwlYouNeed

@missteacherlady16 and @sarah0985, I fully intend to take the shameless reboot watching to Fuller House next month too.

missteacherlady16

LoveIsOwlYouNeed said:

@missteacherlady16 and @sarah0985, I fully intend to take the shameless reboot watching to Fuller House next month too.

Uh, I just told DH in no uncertain terms that I am watching the reboot, which means that he is too. 

anj27

I  Full House.

murray1030

Yessss I am anxiously awaiting Fuller House. That was THE show back in the day. Hope it lives up to the hype

sarah0985

LoveIsOwlYouNeed said:

@missteacherlady16 and @sarah0985, I fully intend to take the shameless reboot watching to Fuller House next month too.

Yessssss! I hope they do it as well as gmw! Not ignore the backstory or characters but still be its own show!

britters314

During my last TWW, I lurked on the BMB I would have been on if I was pregnant and convinced myself I would be joining them (I was waiting for my Wondfos to arrive in the mail, so I couldn't test yet). Then, of course, I got my period. My only consolation is that if I ovulate at my normal time and get KU this cycle, I'll be on that same BMB.

Paturkey

FFFC: I am tempted to change my month/cycle from 7/7 to 4/4. I've been here a while now and it's bothering me a little. The truth is that first month was more NTNP, the second month was anovulatory, and the fourth month DH was away for 2.5 weeks spanning the entire FW and then some so we had no chance. Soooo, if I only count months where we were *really* trying and I ovulated and we were both together, I'm on month/cycle 4. I know it is totally meaningless and no one but MH and I truly care about this, but I think it might make me feel better (and it's more accurate to our attempts). Plus, I'm 35 so 6 is really the magic number for me and I don't think we're there yet. Maybe I'll wait until next cycle and move on to 5/5 instead of 8/8... I suppose my other FFFC is I clearly have put way too much thought into this.

MRSCORKER

Paturkey said:

FFFC: I am tempted to change my month/cycle from 7/7 to 4/4. I've been here a while now and it's bothering me a little. The truth is that first month was more NTNP, the second month was anovulatory, and the fourth month DH was away for 2.5 weeks spanning the entire FW and then some so we had no chance. Soooo, if I only count months where we were *really* trying and I ovulated and we were both together, I'm on month/cycle 4. I know it is totally meaningless and no one but MH and I truly care about this, but I think it might make me feel better (and it's more accurate to our attempts). Plus, I'm 35 so 6 is really the magic number for me and I don't think we're there yet. Maybe I'll wait until next cycle and move on to 5/5 instead of 8/8... I suppose my other FFFC is I clearly have put way too much thought into this.

I totally get this logic and feel where you're coming from. I would go with 5/5 if I were you.

shaami1986

@MRSCORKER I did the same thing about a year ago and I felt actual anxiety over that relationship as if it were my own lol Also, (this could be a FFFC in itself) I feel like Rory's acting is so stiff and staged and awkward. I'm not sure if that was intentional, like for the character, but the way she would talk and give those terrible half hugs to people just seemed so fake haha

@Paturkey I totally get that train of thought and I have gone down that road too. Once I started temping and using OPKs, I looked back on other months and thought "wow, since I was probably off completely with the timing should I even count them?" If I don't, then I wouldn't be on 7/7, it would be more like 3/3...

My FFFC is that I just don't understand this whole LuLaRoe phenomenon. I guess the patterns are just a little too much for my taste and seem kind of...juvenile maybe? I actually was looking at a recent sale a friend of mine posted thinking that I would order a dress or shirt or leggings if they had a solid cloth or toned down pattern cause I heard they were so comfortable...but $38 for a t-shirt, $35 leggings and $78 dresses just seem a bit much for online facebook sale clothes. I go to The Loft or Nordstroms and can get those staple pieces for the same or less.

MRSCORKER

shaami1986 said:

@MRSCORKER I did the same thing about a year ago and I felt actual anxiety over that relationship as if it were my own lol Also, (this could be a FFFC in itself) I feel like Rory's acting is so stiff and staged and awkward. I'm not sure if that was intentional, like for the character, but the way she would talk and give those terrible half hugs to people just seemed so fake haha

I don't have a problem with her acting, I just assumed those were character choices. I do have issues with the characters decisions. I understand that she's young and you make mistakes, lord knows I did, but damn... Logan? He's clearly an awful human being, MOVE ON. Also, don't sleep with married men, even if he did get married when he was 12 and it's obviously not going to work regardless. Just a good rule to live by. 
I also have legit anxiety about Luke and Lorelai. This happens to me sometimes with shows/books. Usually it means the characters are well written and the actors have good chemistry or I just really identify with one of the characters on a very deep level. Work is seriously getting in the way of my binge watching abilities today! 

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britters314

@MRSCORKER   I loved Logan! I thought he was actually a really great guy toward the end of the show.

g8rmama_16

@Paturkey I feel the same way sometimes too, but for different reasons. I feel like my first three months were not real because I was just so unprepared and uneducated. They were really NTNP (as in, we pulled the goalie but my body wasn't really ready). I honestly feel like this is my first month where I actually have a fighting chance!

My FFFC is that the Navy (I am active duty) made a big deal about changing the maternity leave policy from 6 weeks (criminal) to 18 weeks. Everyone freaked out and was all "the navy loves women!! They support moms!!" And I actually reconsidered getting out until I got to at least take advantage of it one time. Yesterday they announced they were reducing it to 12 weeks. The secretary of the navy was like it is not as great as 18 weeks, but it is good enough. While that is still good and the norm out in the real world, that was quite a mean bait and switch for some women who may have made decisions based on the first change. The women who are currently under the program still get the 18 weeks, but I am sure there are plenty of women who reenlisted or extended their career because of that (or it tipped the scale if they were on the fence).
This may not be a confession, but it is a WTF situation that I feel like bitching about. 

shaami1986

MRSCORKER said:

shaami1986 said:

@MRSCORKER I did the same thing about a year ago and I felt actual anxiety over that relationship as if it were my own lol Also, (this could be a FFFC in itself) I feel like Rory's acting is so stiff and staged and awkward. I'm not sure if that was intentional, like for the character, but the way she would talk and give those terrible half hugs to people just seemed so fake haha

I don't have a problem with her acting, I just assumed those were character choices. I do have issues with the characters decisions. I understand that she's young and you make mistakes, lord knows I did, but damn... Logan? He's clearly an awful human being, MOVE ON. Also, don't sleep with married men, even if he did get married when he was 12 and it's obviously not going to work regardless. Just a good rule to live by. 
I also have legit anxiety about Luke and Lorelai. This happens to me sometimes with shows/books. Usually it means the characters are well written and the actors have good chemistry or I just really identify with one of the characters on a very deep level. Work is seriously getting in the way of my binge watching abilities today! 

Edited for clarification

Seriously! And losing her virginity to the married man to boot! I'm definitely not perfect, but my first was not married haha Logan is a d-bag and so are his parents, if everyone treats you like crap, take a step back and stop being so eager to please! I definitely do the same thing with shows and books, I get attached to characters as if they are real and then I feel embarassed

MRSCORKER

bcooke314 said:

@MRSCORKER   I loved Logan! I thought he was actually a really great guy toward the end of the show.

I haven't gotten that far yet. I'll hold off judgement until then

Edited for spelling.

atcwag

missteacherlady16 said:

LoveIsOwlYouNeed said:

@missteacherlady16 and @sarah0985, I fully intend to take the shameless reboot watching to Fuller House next month too.

Uh, I just told DH in no uncertain terms that I am watching the reboot, which means that he is too. 

I may or may not own all original seasons on DVD. Pretty much the best present DH ever got me...2nd to NKOTB tickets. 

atcwag

shaami1986 said:

@MRSCORKER I did the same thing about a year ago and I felt actual anxiety over that relationship as if it were my own lol Also, (this could be a FFFC in itself) I feel like Rory's acting is so stiff and staged and awkward. I'm not sure if that was intentional, like for the character, but the way she would talk and give those terrible half hugs to people just seemed so fake haha

@Paturkey I totally get that train of thought and I have gone down that road too. Once I started temping and using OPKs, I looked back on other months and thought "wow, since I was probably off completely with the timing should I even count them?" If I don't, then I wouldn't be on 7/7, it would be more like 3/3...

My FFFC is that I just don't understand this whole LuLaRoe phenomenon. I guess the patterns are just a little too much for my taste and seem kind of...juvenile maybe? I actually was looking at a recent sale a friend of mine posted thinking that I would order a dress or shirt or leggings if they had a solid cloth or toned down pattern cause I heard they were so comfortable...but $38 for a t-shirt, $35 leggings and $78 dresses just seem a bit much for online facebook sale clothes. I go to The Loft or Nordstroms and can get those staple pieces for the same or less.

I  LLR. There are definitely some patterns that are tweenish, but some that are totally fun. Leggings with a tunic and boots is my jam. And don't knock the leggings til you try them. "Like butter" isn't an overstatement. Soooo comfy! I'm super frugal and still love LLR. And whatever consultant is selling leggings for $35 is a sham. Leggings were $22 before the new year and $25 now. 

Lulucooks

FFFC:  The only thing that makes me feel like I'm actually still actively TTGP is reading these boards.  I've been trying sooooooo long I'm pretty sure that we won't get pregnant without medical intervention, but aren't in a place to pay for that at this time.  

MRSCORKER

Lulucooks said:

FFFC:  The only thing that makes me feel like I'm actually still actively TTGP is reading these boards.  I've been trying sooooooo long I'm pretty sure that we won't get pregnant without medical intervention, but aren't in a place to pay for that at this time.  

*Creepy internet hugs*
That must be incredibly frustrating. I sincerely hope you get a BFP soon and don't have to worry about medical intervention. I'm sorry you're in that position.

Lulucooks

MRSCORKER said:

Lulucooks said:

FFFC:  The only thing that makes me feel like I'm actually still actively TTGP is reading these boards.  I've been trying sooooooo long I'm pretty sure that we won't get pregnant without medical intervention, but aren't in a place to pay for that at this time.  

*Creepy internet hugs*
That must be incredibly frustrating. I sincerely hope you get a BFP soon and don't have to worry about medical intervention. I'm sorry you're in that position.

Thanks ^_^ I didn't mean to be a downer, I reread my post and it does seem kinda pitiful of me.
Fiance will be finished with school in a few years and then we can pay for all the injectables and x-rays and tests and whatever else may be needed that we want, lol.  Plus I'll be over the dreaded 35 so I'll be able to immediately be seen.  
Silver linings I suppose.

MRSCORKER

@lulucooks No need to apologize, you're not a debbie downer. This process is horrible sometimes and that sucks. It's ok to feel frustrated and sad and even angry about it. I hope you don't have to wait until your SO is finished with school but at least that is a light at the end of the tunnel. 

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anj27

@Lulucooks I'm sorry. I want to hug you.

JamieK1882

I'm at a work conference that is ~4 hours from my home. I drove up last night because I told DH I had sessions to attend this morning, but really I just wanted to sleep in a hotel room without his snoring, order room service, and relax. Sorry, not sorry.

murray1030

@Lulucooks I'm so sorry. I can't imagine how frustrating it all must be. And no, you're not being a Debbie-downer. You're venting to people who understand you. That's why I love this board so much. One day we can be hopeful, one day angry, one day devastated... And everyone will understand. I'm glad you can find some peace here. FX for good things to come!
edited because I hate when people don't use the proper your, you're etc... And I totally did it.. Ugh