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MrsGoodkat · November 2012

SpitsNGiggles:
Someone posted last week about their step grandma making them feel like crap basically because they weren't her "real" grandkids. The comment really hit home to me and has made me change my ways. Instead of saying my brother's gf's daughter, I say my niece. I don't remember who the bumpie was, but thanks.

That's awesome. I have an aunt that refers to us as my uncle's nieces and nephews. It's like...you're still our aunt, even by marriage, and have been our entire lives. You can call us your nieces and nephews, too.

LuckyDad · November 2012

KlondikeBar:
I am Snoopy in A Charlie Brown Christmas. I view Christmas lights as a competition. I am the reigning champion of the neighborhood and I will never be outdone. Screw the enjoyment of the children. It's all about the glory. I deserve a ribbon.

LuckyDad · November 2012

Pfft:
Confession: I never decorate for the Holidays; I just DGAF.

Me and Holiday Decorations are a lot like me and Halloween costumes.

Good intentions about a month out. Combination of laziness and frugality kick in. Half ass something about a week ahead of time. Wonder why I even bothered.

LuckyDad · November 2012

halliekathleen:
I bought Christmas gifts for the kids at Toys r Us. The other day I went to Once Upon a Child resale store and spent 100 on toys and I am going to take the Toys r Us toys back. My kids are too young to know the difference between used and new toys and I am too cheap to spend hundreds of dollars on toys they may or may not play with. Plus, the used toys are in great condition!!!!

Yes

Just make sure you clean them real good.

I love used video games. Especially now that I'm a dad and am about 12 months behind the latest and greatest games. "New to Me!" is great when you can just buy used copies of stuff people bought months ago and are bored of.

LuckyDad · November 2012

J+MS:
Please don't make this FFFC about oral and taylot swift. I need something interesting to read whilr my peers bore me to death with their ppt presentations.

I wouldn't say no, were I a single gentleman.

LuckyDad · November 2012

Manneek1977:
I missed UO yesterday-so I will add it here..Hope ya'll do not mind....

I hate just about every car insurance commercial. Especially that damn Flo, she irks the $hit out of me....

I wouldn't say no, were I a single gentleman.

Mrs.adambabycakes · November 2012

HilarityEnsued:
EllaHella:
HilarityEnsued:

BlueRidge8:
I give Adair beanie weenies once a week and she freaking loves them.

What is a beanie weenie? A toy? A veggie hot dog? Something even more exciting?

How do you not know this? Are you communist or something?

Apparently... so it's hot dogs and baked beans cooked together? Interesting. DS is in an ongoing cold war against vegetables, so I'm always on the lookout for new things to attempt to feed him. He's revolting against veggies by smashing them in his hand and then smearing them in his hair. Good times.

DD actually gagged and threw up a little at the dinner table when H and I got her to eat a couple bites of veggies. They were steamed and covered in a cheese sauce! WTH!? Whatever, they were delicious. Then she says"I don't like vegebals."

Karbird5 · November 2012

My confession is that I lurk enough here I had my own bump dream. I ran into the cutie from twatley's siggy looking HOT and we were having this cute flirty conversation at a party and my dream self was thinking that I have to memorize every detail about this so I can tell her all about it! Then he turned into Logan from Gilmore Girls and we started a relationship and then somehow he turned into my douchey college boyfriend and cheated on me. Maybe it was the NyQuil.

GrayGhost13 · November 2012

LuckyDad:
Pfft:
Confession: I never decorate for the Holidays; I just DGAF.
Me and Holiday Decorations are a lot like me and Halloween costumes.
Good intentions about a month out. Combination of laziness and frugality kick in. Half ass something about a week ahead of time. Wonder why I even bothered.

Hahaha! This is like pretty much the story of EVERY holiday in my house. Both my husband and I have big dreams and poor follow-through when it comes to doing festive homemaking sort of things.

LuckyDad · November 2012

Here's an actually flameful confession from my sordid past inspired by the sheets thread:

In college, there were several occasions where I had a young lady over and sometimes had a different young lady over without cleaning the sheets in between. Sometimes it wasn't my fault, since you can't always predict when a booty call will happen and be expected to clean up, but in 20/20 hindsight I really should have been washing my sheets every time I DTD, even if that would have meant a lot of laundry. I was pretty disgusting in my college years and early 20s. I'm not the cleanest guy now, but present me would have to spend a day decontaminating to live in the squalor I had no trouble with back then. It's amazing any girl slept with me based on my living quarters, but I suppose it wasn't much different than the competition. Men are gross.

RockyTopVols · November 2012

LuckyDad:
Here's an actually flameful confession from my sordid past inspired by the sheets thread:
In college, there were several occasions where I had a young lady over and sometimes had a different young lady over without cleaning the sheets in between. Sometimes it wasn't my fault, since you can't always predict when a booty call will happen and be expected to clean up, but in 20/20 hindsight I really should have been washing my sheets every time I DTD, even if that would have meant a lot of laundry. I was pretty disgusting in my college years and early 20s. I'm not the cleanest guy now, but present me would have to spend a day decontaminating to live in the squalor I had no trouble with back then. It's amazing any girl slept with me based on my living quarters, but I suppose it wasn't much different than the competition. Men are gross.

Guilty.

missyishere · November 2012

Hesterlicious:
RockyTopVols:
iheartsippycups:

You do realize that some stores have specific people to collect carts. Therefore if "selfish" people didn't leave their cart in the parking lot, they would not have a job.
Are you one of those assholes who lets their kids throw shiit all over the floor at restaurants and say "oh, they pay people to clean that shiit up. Later!" and roll out?
Same concept.  Technically, yes... they have someone who does all of that. But it doesn't make you less of an assshole. 
 

These people are always lousy tippers. You better leave a dollar per item on the floor if you want decent service next time. Making a server bend over is asking for trouble and soggy food is the worst.

I'm said ahole, but I try to get the big stuff. We are always great tippers, even more now that we have a messy child.

JessiRaye · November 2012

ReeseFox:
This will probably get me flamed but I need to get it off my chest :

My 10 y/o is annoying. She really, really gets on my nerves. She's a complete drama llama/AW sorry can't think of a more appropriate term and it's exhausting. She's been this way since birth so you would think I'd be used to it by now, but no. Some days I want to ship her off somewhere so I don't have to deal with her. I'm probably the only mom in the world actually looking forward to the sullen teen phase.

On the flip side, she's a really sweet, smart, funny when she's not forcing it kid and I'm blessed to have her... I just wish she'd shut up occasionally.

ETA: I think mobile Bump ate my parentheses so I apologize if that was hard to read.

No flames from me, lol. My 7 year old is so high energy and non stop 24/7 that I find myself wanting to bang my head on a wall. I tell my H all the time how much I love DS but my nerves are shot. And he doesn't have a behavior issue because he is a saint at school. He just needs constant interaction; so anyway, I feel your pain!

MJHershey · November 2012

Hesterlicious:
I had over 700 posts on the bump in one week.

You are my hero. i am seeing "gold" on my horizon...

MJHershey · November 2012

Karbird5:
Maybe it was the NyQuil.

That'll do it.

MJHershey · November 2012

When I get KU, I'm hoping that I lose 15 lbs in my first trimester like I did with DS because I am seriously feeling flabby mcflabberson.

(note, I did not try, I was just not very hungry and was running (with my doc's blessing)... plus no beer kinda helped).

MJHershey · November 2012

Like the "orphan" runs I mentioned in another post, when I worked at a grocery we had to take turns bringing the carts in, and yes that included from random places. but it sure didn't pay us more and was really annoying when cold, windy or raining.

CoffeeBeen · November 2012

I am so effing pissed that I missed the shopping cart debate. We live about a mile from a grocery store and even though our subdivision is a 100% dead-end, we periodically get shopping carts in our neighborhood. There was one on the sidewalk in front of my house this morning. I've been livid all day.

robinsokj · November 2012

I'm totally guilty of not washing sheets in college.

I had (clean, safe) dirty fun and I don't regret a minute of it.

Ahhhhh college, how I miss thee

zeptattoo · November 2012

HilarityEnsued:

I seriously hope that the lady/troll yesterday that was talking about mixing flour into her baby's formula was MUD. It physically pains me to think of a little baby not getting enough to eat... I wish I had the funds and resources to scoop up all hungry kids and feed them. Kids going hungry is the most devastating thing to me.

A lady in front of me at Publix had her two kids with her yesterday. She was checking out and her total was like $75. I guess she only have $60 in cash, and kept trying to put things back and make it work. I freaked out that her kids wouldn't be getting food because she couldn't pay for it. So I paid for her entire purchase. DH asked when I got home how I spent over $125 at freaking Publix on a random Thursday grocery run (we usually do big grocery trips on the weekend), and I told him about the lady. He told me I probably got played. I hope I didn't, but I don't really care.

It really doesn't matter if you got played or not. You did a wonderful thing for a total stranger. Kudos!

littlemac1117 · November 2012

zeptattoo:
HilarityEnsued:

I seriously hope that the lady/troll yesterday that was talking about mixing flour into her baby's formula was MUD. It physically pains me to think of a little baby not getting enough to eat... I wish I had the funds and resources to scoop up all hungry kids and feed them. Kids going hungry is the most devastating thing to me.

A lady in front of me at Publix had her two kids with her yesterday. She was checking out and her total was like $75. I guess she only have $60 in cash, and kept trying to put things back and make it work. I freaked out that her kids wouldn't be getting food because she couldn't pay for it. So I paid for her entire purchase. DH asked when I got home how I spent over $125 at freaking Publix on a random Thursday grocery run (we usually do big grocery trips on the weekend), and I told him about the lady. He told me I probably got played. I hope I didn't, but I don't really care.

It really doesn't matter if you got played or not. You did a wonderful thing for a total stranger. Kudos!

+1

LuckyDad · November 2012

gwinnygirl:
If we're going to judge stuff we did in college, then there may be no hope for me.

Super lame confession - I forgot to rinse the conditioner from my hair this am.

Congrats! Now it's leave in!

LuckyDad · November 2012

robinsokj:
I'm totally guilty of not washing sheets in college.
I had (clean, safe) dirty fun and I don't regret a minute of it.
Ahhhhh college, how I miss thee

I feel like the gross part of it was not switching the sheets between partners. It's a little like having a guest over and giving them bath towels someone else used.

MJHershey · November 2012

humptydance:

I had mind blowing explosions last night.

jk.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha · November 2012

Funny you should all be talking about returning carts: When I got to the store yesterday, I noticed some jerk had left the police car cart (there's only one of them, too) on the other side of the parking lot. I didn't have the kids with me but it still pissed me off. Then as I got out of my car, I noticed a man (not an employee) went to retrieve it. I caught up with him and thanked him.

FTR, I have a 3 year old, a 16 month old and I'm 19 weeks pregnant, yet I manage to always bring my cart back to the corral. It's really not that hard.

Now my FFFC: I told DD1 (she's 3) she would get to come to the hospital with me to see the baby on TV (aka - I was going to take her to my anatomy scan). Except she would have had to stay in the waiting room for a good part of the u/s - meaning DH would have had to stay with her. So we went without her and I plan on showing her an u/s video on Youtube and tell her it's her little sibling.

Kitiara5512 · November 2012

Kitiara5512 · November 2012

HilarityEnsued:

RondackHiker:
I do not want to feel the obligation to travel to all parents every single holiday.
If we are closer, it'll be a real shock that she still doesn't see us on every single one of those days.

My ILs (well really my MIL, my FIL DGAF about anything except bridge) are the same way. What pisses me off to no end is that they are both retired, have a very solid amount of cash they are sitting on, and for whatever reason, just won't travel down here to see us. They live several states away, so it's not a quick trip by car, but it's less than 2 hours on a plane.

I guess what really annoys me about the whole situation is that they don't really seem to actually care. They are planning a 2 week trip to New Zealand, and yet they have seen their only grandchild once in his life.

YILs suck. I'm sorry.

Kitiara5512 · November 2012

LoisLane23:

I really hate Kitiara's siggy.

Before anyone gets pissy and calls me a homophobe, I'm not. I just don't like to see people making out every time I scroll past something she says. I would also hate 2 straighty's going at it.

I care enough about your opinion to do something about it. Eventually.

Kitiara5512 · November 2012

RockyTopVols:
EllaHella:

https://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/28/business/la-fi-oil-refineries-20110429

This is reported quite frequently (like everytime profits are announced) in major for real news outlets.

lol at the "for real news outlets".

So what is your ideal solution? Government stepping in and regulating prices?

I am not disagreeing that the practice of gasoline costs is shady and in need of reform.

I am not saying government regulation is a bad thing either. How would it be regulated though. If they pay _____ per barrel of oil, then they can't exceed a certain amount? More goes into it than the cost of oil. It costs money to refine it. And pay the people who refine it. And do R&D. etc etc etc etc.

I know the traditional Supply & Demand model doesn't exactly equate in the gasoline scenario because most people, especially here in the US, are dependent on it and don't have a choice.

So how does the market change to make it fair for consumers and producers?

Switch prices over based on supply and demand and not on speculation. Thats how we fix it.

megzway · November 2012

ReeseFox:
This will probably get me flamed but I need to get it off my chest : My 10 y/o is annoying. She really, really gets on my nerves. She's a complete drama llama/AW sorry can't think of a more appropriate term and it's exhausting. She's been this way since birth so you would think I'd be used to it by now, but no. Some days I want to ship her off somewhere so I don't have to deal with her. I'm probably the only mom in the world actually looking forward to the sullen teen phase. On the flip side, she's a really sweet, smart, funny when she's not forcing it kid and I'm blessed to have her... I just wish she'd shut up occasionally. ETA: I think mobile Bump ate my parentheses so I apologize if that was hard to read.

DD is 4 and I feel ya. DD is full of drama daily and I often say I hope she's one of those goth chicks who mope around. Because if she keeps this up into the teen years I might just run away. I don't do dramatic well.

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