UO Thursday (8/18/16)

westcoastfoodie · August 2016

Let's here 'em ladies!

queen_frostine · August 2016

Going off a conversation on a previous thread - I am not a fan of suntans. I try to protect myself from the sun as much as possible. My mom does outside work and doesn't bother to wear sunscreen, and her arms are just so brown. I think people look best with their natural skin tone.

CopperBoom86 · August 2016

@RainMira9e - Agreed. "Embrace the paste!"

blaf322 · August 2016

I have zero desire to embrace the paste... But fears of skin cancer keep me lathering up on the sun screen. That doesn't mean I won't spray tan now and then.

krzyriver · August 2016

I don't go tanning anymore, but I'm not as religious about my sunscreen as I probably should be. So if we spend a day out in the sun, I usually get some color and I don't worry about it too much. Not because I'm ignorant to the problem it could cause, but what's done is done. I try to be better the next time.

CopperBoom86 · August 2016

@bnsmith85 - I've had several spray tans throughout the years. I've had a professional spray me and I've tried a couple "Mystic Tan" type machines and they always make me look orange. I think it's because my skin is so white to begin with. Like, if it had any color to it at all, maybe it would react with the spray and look brown, but on a pasty white base, it just stays orange

Edited to add:
I mean, just look at my legs. I don't know that it gets any whiter lol.

Schell2013 · August 2016

I thought the 50 shades of grey series was good. I liked them. Watched the first movie and can't wait for the second one to come out.

krzyriver · August 2016

@Schell2013 I haven't actually read them because I dislike the author for personal reasons, so I can't really judge anyone who likes them. But most of the girls I work with love them and are very upset about my firm decision to never support EL James.

mizzkbrat · August 2016

I like to lather up with oil and bask in the sun.

bosslady925 · August 2016

I wear sunscreen, but am all about laying out in nice weather to get a tan.

50 Shades - books were so poorly written, but were definitely hot. I never saw the movie.

mothernorth · August 2016

I embrace my paste. But I would definitely try out a spray tan. Sometimes "Jesus you need some sun!" And "Are you sick?" get old.

bamacoop · August 2016

I love getting a tan!

@krzyriver I'm with you on not reading Fifty Shades. But that's a combo of my conservative Catholicism and my love of actual literature. (I've read excerpts online and I know I wouldn't make it through with the bad writing, even if I didn't mind the subject matter.)

sjo_thetwins · August 2016

I will recommend again - anyone who likes the idea of 50 Shades but couldn't get behind the bad writing, the Beauty Series by Anne Rice is written much better and is truly a better story. Sort of the same concept. Except there are no Audis or helicopters.

serenaxo84 · August 2016

I try and use a lot of sunscreen- but I am a person that thinks everyone looks better with a tan. This product is awesome to give your face a bronzed glow.

https://www.sephora.com/alpha-beta-glow-pad-for-body-with-active-vitamin-d-P309104?skuId=1412212&icid2=products grid:p309104

krzyriver · August 2016

@bamacoop Bad writing doesn't always turn me off. I've read plenty of books that aren't the best but the story was enjoyable. And I'm Christian, but I still enjoy my erotica. Lol. But understandable why those books are not for you.

Honestly, I would probably enjoy them (to an extent) if I read them. I just really, really hate that woman. Lol. No offense to anyone who likes them.

serenaxo84 · August 2016

My UO: I keep ordering off etsy and I am constantly disappointed.

bamacoop · August 2016

@krzyriver Yeah, I tend to read most anything except erotica or romance books, but I'm not one to say others shouldn't read it.

I'm uber Catholic and love...LOVE, Game of Thrones and I get looks for that. Also, you should've seen the faces of the people in my young adult group when I told them I had seen (and liked) Brokeback Mountain. I might as well have said I set a puppy on fire!

krzyriver · August 2016

serenaxo84 said:

My UO: I keep ordering off etsy and I am constantly disappointed.

Whaaaaat?! No! Etsy is the best! Lol. Why were you disappointed? The quality of the products you bought?

serenaxo84 · August 2016

@krzyriver yes! Like I've done invitations and for some reason they never print out the way I expect them to. The bday shirts I've ordered have been nice but it's mostly the paper products.

scostel2 · August 2016

Alright I was just inspired for one. Warning: this just applies to me and is not a judgement on how others choose to parent! My biggest motto is "you do you"

My UO: I'm anti-cosleeping and don't want my baby in our room, pretty much at all. We want to try to crib sleep the baby right away and we left the futon in the nursery so one of us can stay in there if needed rather than bring the baby into our bedroom. Someone in my husband's family gifted us with a co-sleeper and it went promptly in the return pile.

TheBeeCharmer · August 2016

@scostel2 we have the baby in with us for 2-3 months but never longer. I'm very perplexed at long term "bed sharing" as well. I need my sleep, my time and time with my husband. The kids have their own space.

samkins · August 2016

I.liked 50 shades , found it entertaining.

I'm a sunscreen Nazi, no joke. I'm the whitest person ever so I look at the sun and burn. I'm all for the spray tan.

Count me in on the no co-sleeping train. I'll have her in the bassinet in our room for 2-3 months but after that she has a beautiful nursery and crib.

ibabyloveb87 · August 2016

50 Shades was enjoyable simply for the content. The writing was horrible and I could have done without book 3 really.

Im a sunscreen nazi but I have olive skin that tans (sorry y'all!), so it doesn't matter what SPF I wear, I'm going to get color. I'm probably the most pale this summer simply because I'm way too hot to be outside much these days.

cassieleeanne · August 2016

I too like 50 Shades, but I thought the movie could have been better, we will see what the next one is like.

I used to tan but not anymore, I do use sunscreen now though so I don't burn.

Baby will sleep in a bassinet in our room for the first few months, then into the crib in the nursery which is right across the hall. I would be too scared to roll on them to have them in my own bed.

mizzkbrat · August 2016

I always said I wouldn't co sleep, but I'm in the 2 months too train and only because I'm lazy and will be nursing. Once the 2 months is up I want my bed and my FI back to myself

AshleyGemini24 · August 2016

Usually i forget the sunscreen and burn once really bad in the summer. The burn then fades to a tan and i am able to keep it most of the summer.

I read the whole 50 shades series. I wasn't very impressed with the movie.

I find the Olympics ro be extremely boring.

mrszoess · August 2016

my ticker size comparison this week is Nutella. I hate Nutella

westcoastfoodie · August 2016

@AshleyGemini24 Also not a fan of the Olympics, but I really don't like sports to begin with.

@mrszoess I hate Nutella too!!! People think I'm crazy. Blech.

serenaxo84 · August 2016

We didn't co sleep at first. LO did sleep in our room for the first 2 months but not in our bed. Around 9 months we started bringing him in our beds in the morning just to get more sleep. Sleeping in the rocker at 4am every morning was getting to be too much for both of us. Now we have an almost 3 year old that sleeps in his own bed but def comes in our room most nights around 3am and sleeps in bed with us. I am planning on borrowing a friends co sleeper this time around- I am having another c section and just think it will be easier for me. But baby will definitely be out of our room before I go back to work.... And while we aren't a cry of our family- I am going to try to not rock this one to sleep completely every single night.

blaf322 · August 2016

@mrszoess - whaaaat?! Something is wrong with you, woman!

@scostel2 - same here... I have zero desire to co-sleep. I will have to be in a very desperate state for that to ever happen

queen_frostine · August 2016

@ashleygemini24 I agree about the Olympics. (Haven't and have no desire to read or see 50 Shades).

annabenanna · August 2016

I didn't plan on co-sleeping at all.... but @LauraPCOS' post on FB is making me nervy now!!!

sportiegrl1213 · August 2016

I too, liked 50 Shades but liked Sylvia Days Crossfire Series much better.

I admit I love to tan... I'm so sad at the fact I'm so pale this year...

And my UO is that I'm starting to hate the saying "but it's all worth it!" If I hear "enjoy your freedom and sleep now, because you'll miss it! Oh but it's ALL worth it!" Why does everything about becoming a parent have to be sugar coated... There are gonna be days that I'm gonna hate it and I'm gonna cry and want to run away... Lol. Of course it's gonna be worth it but let's just call a spade and spade and admit somedays raising a child isn't going to be all it's cracked up to be!

mrszoess · August 2016

@sportiegrl1213 if one more person says that to me I'm gonna choke them

Schell2013 · August 2016

I also adamently planned when my first came along I wouldn't be sleeping with them. I didn't even buy a basinette cause I planned to put them into their own bed right from day 1.
Well that all went out the window after her traumatic delivery where they thought she would die when they were running into the OR. I couldn't put her down for months, and I was so beat up from my ECS that I couldn't even get out of bed so to go get her from her crib wasn't an option.

booksandicecream · August 2016

1. My paleness knows no bounds. I have so little color that I actually glow light blue. Ironically I worked as a lifeguard in Miami for 4 years and I had to get a few colleagues on board to rub me down every couple of hours. I have also asked strangers to put sunscreen on my back. I've had sunburn so bad I bled. Suffice to say I am VERY pro-sunscreen. Also, a fellow lifeguard (very dark African American) confirmed that he also gets sunburn, even if you can't see it, so everyone should lather up!

2. I do not usually like romance/erotica, but I enjoyed 50 Shades of Grey, primarily for the back story. SO much good psychology there!! I also like that the book started a public conversation about different kinds of sex. Dom/Sub CAN be normal and I think the book's popularity helped people realize that. HOWEVER! The book is NOT a depiction of a healthy relationship, so if my teenager were reading it, I think it's really important to have a discussion with them about not idolizing the characters.

3. Not liking Nutella is like not liking sunshine. Although I don't like chocolate cake, so I'm a total hypocrite

4. I HATE the fact that society sugarcoats pregnancy and birth. I tell anyone who asks the truth. My (very religious conservative) father asked how I was and I told him all about my shortened cervix and cramping. Poor man almost choked.

ETA because I forgot my UO: I hate when people write "awe" instead of "aww". Overuse of the misspelling cheapens the beauty of the word awe.

kmtz89 · August 2016

@books&icecream my husband (who is obviously black-african) sunburned for the first time in his life on our honey/babymoon. He was like "why does it feel like my back is on fire!!!"

side note: I sunburned at that time too (in April) and I still have discoloration on my arms. It's not super noticeable but it's weird and it's never happened to me before so I wonder if being pregnant had/has something to do with it.

JamieK1882 · August 2016

I liked the concept of the 50 shades of grey books but got bored with the sex scenes, there's only so many ways you can say the same thing. Never saw the movie and no desire too.

i used to LOVE to tan. Constantly in tanning beds throughout high school and some of college. I use sunscreen now, but not on a daily basis. Only if I know I'll be outside for long periods in the sun.

We started DD in her crib in the nursery on night 3. Plan to do the same with this one, but I also plan to try breastfeeding again, so if it's successful we'll see what happens. I've learned that the best laid plans with babies always change.

blaf322 · August 2016

@books&icecream... I totally use awe and never put a second of thought into it. But you're, obviously, totally correct. It's a misspelling. Guess I will be changing how I've been using that one lol

TheBeeCharmer · August 2016

Parenting is the worst thing ever...but it's totally worth it!

mothernorth · August 2016

I guess I just don't have any UOs anymore... and I actually TRY...

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