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lulu1180 · September 2016

Let's hear them ladies!

*flame free not guaranteed

JDW0325 · September 2016

I don't like Game of Thrones.
I tried, just can't get into it.

hupp0013 · September 2016

I have not watched any of the Twilight or Harry Potter movies. I also have not read any of the books.

adirat · September 2016

@JDW0325 My husband loves Game of Thrones. I think it has a meandering plot with no direction, wastes a lot of time on meaningless stuff while ignoring potentially interesting things, and objectifies women to the point where I feel angry watching it (the show has gotten marginally better about this in the recent season though). So I feel you hard.

My confession is that sometimes when I'm having a hard TTC day, I will read a novel or watch a movie about evil children (think Damien in The Omen) to make myself think it isn't that bad not to have a baby after all.

spk112 · September 2016

I hate football. Specifically, the NFL.

vflux33 · September 2016

@adirat That is hilarious! I love The Omen and The Bad Seed.

@JDW0325 and @adirat I hate GOT too--like, with a passion, also in a large part because of objectification (but yeah, I heard that isn't as bad as it used to be and I knew I hated it i the 1st episode and stopped then). MH watches it too, which is fine as long as I don't have to sit through it pretending to be entertained.

@spk112 I hate football too, along with most other spectator sports. Luckily, I married more of a car guy who never makes me sit through sports.

My FFFC is that lately I have been really into shows about surviving in the wilderness with no supplies (except Naked and Afraid because it's too gimmicky). It's become a minor obsession thankfully shared by MH. Also I don't like New Girl (sorry and no offense to folks who do but it's just not doing it for me).

SaphireSweetie88 · September 2016

@JDW0325 @vfluxx33 - I can't get into Game of Thrones either. I have tried and I feel like I am losing brain cells. @adirat - My DH likes it too. I try to plan my cleaning or laundry (which is in the basement) around when he's watching it so I don't have to sit and watch it with him.

My FFFC is I can't stand DH's cousin because I think she's lacks ALL common sense, maturity, etc. I have her on FB just so when I am having a bad day, I can go look at her page for some good laughs and face palms.

hartmich · September 2016

adirat said:

*snip*

My confession is that sometimes when I'm having a hard TTC day, I will read a novel or watch a movie about evil children (think Damien in The Omen) to make myself think it isn't that bad not to have a baby after all.

This is GENIUS.

@vflux33 I don't know if I can ever forgive you for not liking New Girl!

vflux33 · September 2016

@hartmich I'm sorry! I don't think it's the worst show ever, and my BF loves it too. I'm just just really particular about comedies and tend to like the darker ones with a smaller audience. I hated Friends too, so when I don't like a 30 minute comedy that typically means it will be the most popular thing ever that everyone loves.

eggplantface · September 2016

@SaphireSweetie88 I have FB friends like that too! I hide them from my news feed, but when I want to feel better about my life I stalk their page and get cheered up because at least I'm not stupid.

H is going to be gone next week and while I will miss him, I am excited to not be nagged for a week (I'm a *tad* messier than he is). And to eat all the terrible things I'm afraid he would judge me for, like homemade queso for dinner. Every night.

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SaphireSweetie88 · September 2016

@hartmich - You and I can be New Girl buddies lol

@eggplantface - YES exactly lol. Enjoy your DH free time and do you!

berg · September 2016

I don't like The Walking Dead. DH loves it and I just can't handle it. The noises are one thing, after a while I can get past it (no I can't), but the plot is stupid. It's the same thing all the time. The zombies come forcing the cast on the run, they find a new place to hole up but it's controlled by another community of people that they either have to befriend or kill or a combo, but then the zombies get in again, and then they're on the run until they come across this new place, but there are people living there, and on and on and on. And not for anything but I watched that finale last season and I'm mad for the fans. It was worse than not knowing which door Ross picked, Rachel's or the bald girl's. *Sigh* End rant.

PeachyTeachy · September 2016

@eggplantface Queso=life!
Image result for queso meme

I was looking for a specific queso gif of a kid licking the bowl then crying when it's all gone, but I couldn't find it

Every once in a while I make a crockpot of homemade queso and it's the best day ever.

My FFFC: I love Toddlers and Tiaras. It's the best show to watch and then yell at people for making dumb choices. In real life I try very hard to not be judgemental of others' parenting decisions.

hartmich · September 2016

It looks like we're ALL in agreement that queso is in fact a staple, and a well-balanced meal.

motherhubbard19 · September 2016

@adirat I think that is a wonderful idea! Haha

@hartmich and @SaphireSweetie88 Can I join the New Girl buddy club? I just started it a few weeks ago and already watched all 5 seasons on Netflix. I love it!

@berg I am with you on The Walking Dead. DH and I watched the first few seasons and then just couldn't deal with it anymore. None of the characters are likable IMHO.

I guess maybe my FFFC could be that I love GoT and football (college only). But I will also say that I do not see the obsession with The Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise and whatever other spin offs there are. It is nothing but a bunch of bitchy women fighting over some guy that they don't even know. I could just never get into it.

Edit: I just had chips and queso at lunch and I most definitely hate myself LOL

eggplantface · September 2016

PeachyTeachy said:

@eggplantface Queso=life!

I was looking for a specific queso gif of a kid licking the bowl then crying when it's all gone, but I couldn't find it
Every once in a while I make a crockpot of homemade queso and it's the best day ever.

This is 100% my plan.

Image: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d8/ac/73/d8ac739b42795e466f40f1dd0f415cfa.jpg

Fun fact: I was out with a friend at a Tex-Mex restaurant and I ordered queso and she says "Oh, you'll miss that the most," and I said "Miss what? Queso?" She says "Yeah, you can't have queso when you get pregnant because no soft cheeses." And I died a little inside. BUT she was wrong because you better believe I researched that. As long as the cheese is pasteurized before you melt it, it's fine. AND I'm pretty sure Velveeta is so pasteurized you could leave it in a warm, damp room and it would still be fine in a month. Moral of the story: I was a little scared, but everything is fine, because queso.

adirat · September 2016

@eggplantface Thank you for sharing this information about queso! Thank goodness. I never would have thought it fell into that category. Isn't the point pasteurization, not softness? Also regardless I will be eating queso during pregnancy as much as I damn well please.

lulu1180 · September 2016

After reading this, all I can think about is my guilty pleasure food - pizza rolls. Thanks @eggplantface !

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eggplantface · September 2016

lulu1180 said:

After reading this, all I can think about is my guilty pleasure food - pizza rolls. Thanks @eggplantface !

OMG, that first gif, yes. And Turk too. TRUTH.

pretzel2plus1 · September 2016

I don't have a confession today, but please share the recipe for homemade queso, @eggplantface and @peachyteachy! I always need more queso in my life!

laurad75 · September 2016

My FFFC... I just snuck out of work to get a manicure.

ChefRamsay · September 2016

My FFFC

I voted in the board reorganization surveys. I had been lurking for months (years?) at that point so I felt it effected me and wanted my vote counted. Hope that's ok.

eggplantface · September 2016

pretzel2plus1 said:

I don't have a confession today, but please share the recipe for homemade queso, @eggplantface and @peachyteachy! I always need more queso in my life!

Oh mine is the simple one: 16 oz package of Velveeta cut in small cubes, 1 can of Rotel tomatoes and chiles, mix in crock pot, wait for it to melt, pour directly into your mouth. I may also try adding a can of refried beans, I saw someone suggest that, sounds delicious. You can also put the cheese and Rotel in a large pan on the stove if you don't have a crock pot. It melts faster that way anyway.

vflux33 · September 2016

@eggplantface @adirat There's a nutritionist named Sally Fallon who actually advocates eating unpasteurized organic milk and cheese while TTC and KU (and all the time really) if you have access to it because the pasteurization process kills off a lot of the nutrients and as long as you get it from an uncontaminated source it's fine. She argues that ancient cultures didn't pasteurize anything and had less fertility issues than we have. Between all the conflicting info my head is exploding and I think the only thing that will make it better is eating cheese. And some wine. Wine too.

Aurora1973 · September 2016

My FFFC is that I don't feel a post is complete if I don't include a gif. I spend a stupid amount of time searching for just the right one, too...

I'm going for this:

Image result for you like me gif

But will totally accept this:

Image result for you like me gif

(and I love Whose Line is it Anyway?)

JDW0325 · September 2016

My husband makes the best queso

2 cans of chili magic starter beans, a crap ton of Mexican shredded cheese, a block of cream cheese, small container of sour cream, a pinch of
sriracha sauce, and a squeeze of lime. DELICIOUS

edit- forgot the sour cream!

delujm0 · September 2016

adirat said:

@eggplantface Thank you for sharing this information about queso! Thank goodness. I never would have thought it fell into that category. Isn't the point pasteurization, not softness? Also regardless I will be eating queso during pregnancy as much as I damn well please.

You will all be happy to know that I did extensive cheese research during my first pregnancy and can now share that with you today. If you are buying cheese in the US, 98% of what you can buy is pasteurized. Yes, you can go to a specialty place and find like legit French Brie that is unpasteurized, but you're not going to see much of that at like the Trader Joe's or whatever. In a vast vast majority of cases, you are absolutely fine to eat ALL OF THE CHEESE YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. I very much doubt that most Mexican restaurants in this country are importing queso fresco, unless they are super fancy places, and I think queso fresco is generally pasteurized anyway...so proceed.

In other news, I legitimately had no idea I was supposed to avoid hot dogs while pregnant, and I had to have had like a hundred turkey dogs during that time. I know now that it's not specifically hot dogs, it's the nitrates that you're supposed to eat only in moderation, but I truly was eating like 4 hotdogs a week. Oops.

adirat · September 2016

@vflux33 I should have put in an unpopular opinion yesterday that I plan to ignore most "pregnancy food" advice since it all seems to be baseless. So yeah I get that. You gotta do you. People will pry cheese from my cold dead hands if I am lucky enough to get pregnant soon.

I actually do not think it's safe generally to eat unpasteurized products unless you know the source, which I living in the NYC suburbs obviously do not. But if I lived on a farm I would feel differently I'm sure.

That said, "Ancient cultures didn't do/have X and that's why we have fertility issues" is not a legitimate claim for anything since literally everything we experience now is so different, and we don't actually know much about ancient cultures' fertility since we don't have good records (and so many women died during childbirth). I read something similar about technology and how you shouldn't use cell phones because the existence of cell phones kills all sperm, which appears true in a localized way (keeping your cell phone in your pocket next to your testicles seems to decrease sperm count) but is certainly not true to the point this person was making about how all cell phones should be destroyed.

The world of TTC is crazy. I'll join you for that wine.

lulu1180 · September 2016

Aurora1973 said:

My FFFC is that I don't feel a post is complete if I don't include a gif. I spend a stupid amount of time searching for just the right one, too...

I'm going for this:

But will totally accept this:

(and I love Whose Line is it Anyway?)

This board and you ladies have definitely made me up my gif game!

vflux33 · September 2016

@adirat I was very loosely paraphrasing her--the argument sounds much more legit if you hear her get interviewed/read one of her books, and there's a lot more to it than dairy. That said, if I lived in a place without a lot of farming I'd go pasteurized all the way. I live in a farming community so I feel safe going unpasteurized here, but not doing it 100%.

More importantly, wine.

CrystalPDX · September 2016

@adirat that is an amazing suggestion I love those movies!

I hate Gilmore Girls and Friends.

lund · September 2016

Fun fact: I was out with a friend at a Tex-Mex restaurant and I ordered queso and she says "Oh, you'll miss that the most," and I said "Miss what? Queso?" She says "Yeah, you can't have queso when you get pregnant because no soft cheeses."

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/0w/vqdnpn3jmks0.gif

@adirat I'm totally with you on ignoring most of the "what you can't eat while pregnant" crap.

spk112 · September 2016

OH. I have another one.

I have never seen Star Wars.

BigBadWolf12 · September 2016

I have a feeling I will get flamed....but here it goes:
i thought quest was short for quesadilla ... until @eggplantface opened my eyes this evening, I had no clue it was a thing...

ChefRamsay · September 2016

spk112 said:

OH. I have another one.

I have never seen Star Wars.

*Insert Luke 'that's impossible' gif here*

Someone wanna help me out? I'm at work and can't gif atm.

eggplantface · September 2016

Buthayna said:

I have a feeling I will get flamed....but here it goes:
i thought quest was short for quesadilla ... until @eggplantface opened my eyes this evening, I had no clue it was a thing...

Please, please tell me you just didn't know what it was called, but you've eaten the food. Because if not I may have to mail you queso.

ChefRamsay · September 2016

You guys know queso literally means cheese, right?

Basherbaby · September 2016

ChefRamsay said:

spk112 said:

OH. I have another one.

I have never seen Star Wars.

*Insert Luke 'that's impossible' gif here*

Someone wanna help me out? I'm at work and can't gif atm.

Image: https://media.giphy.com/media/Hk04hIz9UENuo/giphy.gif

lulu1180 · September 2016

@ChefRamsay @spk112

Image: https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7abL1nxw0AvOK1pu/giphy.gif

Edited to change gif because @Basherbaby beat me to it

Basherbaby · September 2016

@spk112 @ChefRamsay I have a slight obsession with Star Wars. Our engagement party had a Halloween theme just so I could dress as Darth Vader and we may or may not have had a lightsabar duel in our engagement photos...

My confession is that i absolutely hate cheesecake.

ladystinson · September 2016

Velveta with salsa instead of rotel is really good too!

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