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April 2012 Moms
U/O!!
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I also was not aware that the gifs made noise, because I don't have my speaker on ever. If they do make noise I would say it isn't necessary to hear? because I find them funny even with no noise.
Especially when they are gifs from arrested development.
I don't like the ones that are short and move a lot. They get strobe-y and make me feel like I am going to have a seizure. I especially don't like the strobe-y ones in siggys.
I do think a well timed gif is HI-larious. I look and giggle, but then scroll them out of the window.
Mine: I think it is weird when people don't walk somewhere even if it is really close, but just drive everywhere. Maybe it is because I never had a car until recently so I am used to walking places. But to my train in the morning it is a 0.4 mile walk down my street.(8 minutes) I see neighbours who live closer than me pull out of their driveway and drive to the train then park. I don't get it? It costs $4 per day to park there and it probably would take only 5 minutes for them to walk?
When I get OFF my train in the morning it is 1 mile to my office. It takes me 15 minutes to walk. If I take the subway it takes at LEAST 15 minutes usually as it's so busy and crazy in the mornings. Walking is much less stressful and more predictable - it always takes the same amount of time. But if I tell somebody I walk the mile to work, they say "wow" as though I said I walk 15 miles to work every day or something. Obviously if it is pouring rain or a snowstorm or something then I would take the subway. maybe. Sometimes I still walk. I like walking!
Jane Austen sends me into a bit of a rage. I think her stories are inane. Emma made me want to claw my eyes out just so I could stop reading it. Want something romantic from that era? Read Jane Eyre or Villette.
I love love love Jane Eyre. I could never get into Jane Austen. I use to love Gone With the Wind but after doing my junior high school thesis on it, then my teacher showing it so she could grade the papers I can't watch or reading ever again.
I listen to mostly FM radio. NPR stuff just bugs the sh!t out of me with the soft voices.
I hate admitting that I'm over GWTW, b/c I went through a maaaajor GWTW phase in middle school, and it used to be my favorite book. But I think I've seen the movie a few too many times, and now I am just over it. There, I said it! haha.
eta: I don't like Jane Eyre. I thought it was boring. But I love Wuthering Heights. Emily 4-eva!
Oh man, Wuthering Heights is one of those books that I want to love, but all of the characters are so unlikeable. And whenever one of them almost redeems themselves, they do something to be unlikeable again. There is a new movie version coming out that looks pretty cool though.
Remembers to wear a hat when I meet Bellewithablade. Wait I don't wear hats. Hangs twisted snarled bunhead in shame.
Oh man! This is a fabulous UO already!
I love coffee. I love starbucks coffee. I love Biggby coffee. The only coffee I don't like is my in-laws 2-day-old-reheated coffee.
I don't see the need to be snarky about the ZOMG, I'm pregnant posts, but, if you never posted much on here before, why are you coming out to tell us this? Go to your new BMB!
I admit, I am now a GIF slore. I'll get over it soon!
Team Aniston all the way! Team Dickens all the way! Team Jane Eyre all the way!
I love public transportation with all my fiscal-conservative soul. I vote for money to be spent on public transit ALL. THE. TIME. I hate living in the south because there is no decent transportation system and I wouldn't be safe on the city bus system. I hate that Americans are so obsessed with cars! Not for any good reason, though. Just because I love sitting on a bus/subway/light rail and NOT DRIVING.
THIS!!!!!!!!
I hate Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and all the romantic, girl novels from that time period (or maybe just all the novels from that time period in general).
It's the writing. I can't stand the way the books are written, because when I read the cliff notes or watched the movies, I like the plots.
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Maybe I'll have to re-read it. But the first time around was so unpleasant I don't have any motivation to read it again.
Yes I really am not a fan of driving. I'd much rather not drive. It bummed me out when we had to move to the burbs and I had a baby and then had to get a car. I wish I could get everywhere I needed to go without ever being in a car but sadly that is not the world we live in.
Luckily I am a new and nervous driver so hubby usually does most of the driving when we have places to go, especially if it involves highways. I hate highways, they make me anxious.
I love that where we live now even though we are not in boston anymore I can still get into boston and to my job without having anything to do with a car. Public transport is awesome
LOl to the nerdy UO! I think my favorite book of all time was "Go Ask Alice". I read it when i was younger, and it was the first book that captivated me, and i couldnt put down. I am sure if you have ever read it, you probably think it was terrible and depressing. There was just something about it.
I agree with Mikehoncho on going back in time, and giving wise words to your 18 year old self. I would have loved to have a chat with young Jackie and tell her to change her major. One of the many things i would tell her.
See, Im opposite. I would have no problems taking little dude on a vacation during school time while he is in elementary. I would ask the teacher for the work of the week and BAM... off on vacation we go. Im sure a one week vacation in the middle of April will not affect him for the rest of his days. Thats just MY opinion though.
I love Walmart, target etc. When people say it's crap stuff it's like... um yeah. Duh. The price is reflective of that. If you buy a piece of furniture for a hundred bucks and it turns out to be crappy then you are the idiot, NOT the cheapass (but awesome) store that sold it to you.. lol
I also loved go ask alice.
Walmart and Target are my favorite stores. They have everything. I feel bad for specialty stores, but not enough to keep me from Walmart/Target. The only complaint i have about Target, is i get a headache from all the red color sometimes.
Love Jane Austen (have the P&P board book). Love Jane Eyre, cannot stand Wuthering Heights. And I cannot stand Catcher in the Rye. I re-read it a few years ago, and good lord, is Holden Caulfield a self-centered douchebag.
I like DD coffee, though that's not remotely an Unpopular Opinion.
I hate bagpipes. I used to like them until I went to a wedding (as a waiter) hungover and the bagpipers had to practice for an hour before the wedding. It was agony.
I get irrationally angry when people won't take public transportation. I work in DC and I have a friend who will drive to the hair salon rather than take the bus because she's unfamiliar with the bus route. Instead, she has to give up her parking spot, fight traffic, find another spot, and pay for all the parking. She's terrified of the unknown and it drives me crazy.
I guess another UO is that I get irrationally angry when people won't try something new. A bus route, sushi, a new store, a new food, a new place, etc.
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I don't get why people think Jane Eyre is so romantic, even though I love the book and the Brontes in general (and have been to their home). Mr. Rochester is a manipulative, creepy, abusive a-hole who only wants Jane after he's been humbled and realizes she's wealthy. I wish she could do better.
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I think people hate Walmart for the way the employees are treated more than anything else.
I don't know anyone who hates Target. How could you hate Target?
mm 2/17/11 * dd born 4/20/12 * bo 1/3/14 * edd 1/21/ 1/15
I LOVE to drive. I prefer to drive. Public transportation scares the shiiit out of me. I used to work at a counselling office (when we moved to our current city full of no film work) and we had A LOT of city bus drivers come in. Most are a cup of crazy and I cant imagine putting my life in their hands.
I will drive to the corner store. Because it is more than one corner away. I will drive to get a coffee cause I am too lazy to make one. I will drive for the sake of driving.
Next summer I am hoping to do a road trip... West to East and back. Im super excited. To drive.
And I drive an Avalanche. So it is not a prius. It is a truck.
And I love it.
Yes! Romantic is the last thing I get from Jane Eyre. Controlling douchecanoe preying on a damaged girl FTW.
No! He loves her from the beginning when he sees her in the lane.
I was like "uh huh, yep, that's right" UNTIL I read this blasphemous opinion on CITR. For shame woman!
I love this UO so far.
I do love Wuthering Heights, despite what Tamb so perfectly put, their all self absorbed. I love Jane Eyre too, but agree I don't find it romantic.
I desperately love Kate Chopin's The Awakening. When I read it in high school, it changed a lot of my views about myself and social roles and expectations. I can't wait until my daughter is older and we can read it together and discuss. That's pretty nerdy of me too.
I just love books. Lots and lots of books. I want to have a house with a library so effin bad.
I was thinking very similar thoughts about our gtg! Haha
Me too! I wanna be Belle.
I read this as jizz hands and was very confused.
On that note, I'm off to class.
MIKEHONCHO, OUT.