UO Thursday 7/6

peachy13 · July 2017

jlemons-2 · July 2017

I don't like summer that much. It's hot, I'm miserable. I saw a pumpkin at Hobby Lobby and it made me miss fall so so much.

peachy13 · July 2017

@jlemons-2 fall is the best time of year, period.

AFM, I don't like how grocery stores sell "easy" food. Pre-shucked corn, pre-made kebobs... I even saw a little "hamburger kit" over the weekend that had pre-cut tomatoes, onions, and lettuce. I know some people think these things are a god send but I actually kind of like the work involved when preparing a meal and think that prepping fresh veggies or whatever you're cooking makes the meal taste better. Who knows how long those tomato slices have been sitting in the hamburger kit?

NME44 · July 2017

@peachy13, I agree that I'd rather do the work myself than spend the extra for pre-cut veggies, but yesterday I saw a "meal kit" and it was just pasta and a bunch of tomatoes. And the package said, "the perfect saucing tomatoes!" And I was all, "yeah, right. I'm gonna sauce my own tomatoes. Okay." In this case it's actually cheaper to just buy pasta and a can of sauce.

elcd458 · July 2017

@peachy13 Our local store here has what they call the "Pick-and-Prep" area where they have a store employee or two slicing and dicing and prepping all the prepackaged stuff they sell. You can even select the produce yourself and take it over to the PnP counter and have them prep it for you. It's amazing! I am a total food-poisoning-paranoid crazy person, and don't trust prepackaged stuff from a supplier, but I LOVE the PnP at our store. I've been so exhausted this pregnancy that the extra 5 minutes it takes to stand upright to chop a pepper or slice a tomato can really get to me. LOL

kyrwyn · July 2017

@jlemons-2 I also hate summer. Especially how summer here rolls right into "Fall" and we usually get a heat wave for Halloween. Fall is my favorite and, since we don't really get Winter, most of my favorite things about Fall keep up until Spring.

MJDsquared · July 2017

Summer is awful. Fall is my favorite. Then spring. Then winter.

speach13 · July 2017

I love summer. My UO: I hate air conditioning. Even in the sweltering heat I wish I didn't have to have it on. DH and the kids would be miserable if I didn't have it on so I just suck it up and have to go outside every 10 minutes to warm up lol. I am that annoying person who is always cold.

peachy13 · July 2017

@elcd458 i could get behind that!

Piccola1988 · July 2017

You may not like this one, but my UO is that pregnancy is 9 months, not 10

Beware, my inner dork will show itself momentarily.

I assume this started with people rounding down to say that there are 4 weeks in a month (and then therefore 40/4=10), but 4 weeks is 28 days, and most months have 30-31 days. Really, there are 4 & 1/3 weeks in a month, so every 3 months is 13 weeks, and 9 months would be 39 weeks. Therefore, at most pregnancy is 9 months and 1 week, but you're not even pregnant for the first 2 weeks so to be rounding up seems like a major stretch to me.

I don't know why that bugs me lol, but it does. Pregnancy is long and it feels even longer - I totally get it! BUT that doesn't mean we have to forget how to do basic math.

blueskies17 · July 2017

@speach13 I normally hate A/C too, but pregnancy has made heat intolerable and I'm actually grateful for A/C now!

peachy13 · July 2017

@Piccola1988 makes sense to me! I don't get/like when people tell me pregnancy is 10 months. Also I do feel like we get the first 4 weeks free of charge.

MJDsquared · July 2017

I've never heard anyone say pregnancy is 10 months and now I'm weirded out that this is a thing!

Piccola1988 · July 2017

@MJDsquared really?! I hear it all the time! I actually even have a book which I otherwise love (Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy) where they say it constantly and it makes me crazy!

thatlauragirl · July 2017

@MJDsquared, I've never heard that either! That would definitely annoy me.

Tennis11785 · July 2017

@Piccola1988 - yes! 9 months not 10. Every time my husband asks me how far along I am and I respond with weeks, he asked me to "translate" it into months (or he tries to translate it using the typical 4 weeks = 1 month), and I have to keep explaining to him that doing it that way makes pregnancy look 10 months long, when it's only 9. We've had this conversation more times than I should admit.

eazybreezy225 · July 2017

I have a couple of them today because I feel particularly snarky.

UO#1: I can't stand it when moms refer to kids as "littles". And I roll my eyes whenever I hear it. All I think is "well aren't you just cute and trendy" thick with sarcasm.

UO#2: I also can't stand moms who feel they must provide fun and entertainment for their children on a constant basis. My SIL is this way and since her kids were old enough to walk she is constantly on the go taking them to any and every kid friendly theme park, amusement center, vacation.. I'm talking literally every. single. day. they are out doing something.
I definitely believe that it plays a roll in how her kids behave when they aren't constantly being stimulated. I hate babysitting them. My kids are low key and are perfectly happy sitting at the table with some crafts, but her children do nothing but complain of boredom. I'm a "oh you're bored? I have some housework you can do" type of parent.

UO#3: I love the "yoga pants, drinking wine while watching TV" mom cliche. I work hard as a mother, homemaker, and at my job (I'm a caregiver of the elderly disabled). If I want to spend my free time in comfy clothes while drinking alcoholic beverages and watching Cheaters and mystery crime shows I'm damn well going to do it.
Speaking of wine... I miss it... I'm too paranoid to drink while pregnant, but I think it's freaking awesome of you ladies who are comfortable enough to do it sparingly.

AMCsquared · July 2017

elcd458 · July 2017

@eazybreezy225 Maybe my UO is that I don't like the "wine mom" stereotype? Or actually, I should clarify, I don't like the blatant advertising of onesself as the wine mom stereotype. Don't get me wrong-- I too live for Riesling, murder shows and a good pair of stretchy pants-- but I've always felt like being one of those moms that walks around wearing a shirt with some trite cutesy wine pun or putting your kid in a onesie like "I'm the reason mommy drinks" gives off this nasty vibe of "I've had all these children and they are such a burden on my sanity and cramp my style." Like-- were you unware parenting would exhausting when you chose to have them?

I know people mean it in good humor, it just seems trashy to me to make it a focal point. No qualms about drinking or anything like that. I'm very much pro-"whatever helps you survive" as a parenting strategy. But excuse me while I roll my eyes at your kitschy "Mommy's Sippy Cup" wine glass.

flowerpower5838 · July 2017

I feel like this week I just have to tell myself that if I don't have anything nice to say I probably should shut the eff up haha.

My non-confrontational UO - I don't like cherry flavored things.Grape all day every day baby.

Tennis11785 · July 2017

Yaaaaassss. All the grape @flowerpower5838

elev2017 · July 2017

Following the lead of @flowerpower5838 with another non-confrontational UO... I HATE coffee or any coffee flavored items! Please don't kick me out of the BMB lol.

speach13 · July 2017

I wish there was a beer mom stereotype because I'd own that shit. DH brought home a pack of my favorite beer ever that's hard to get around here. Rat.

kyrwyn · July 2017

@speach13 Can we make beer mom a thing? Because I will totally join you on that.

speach13 · July 2017

@kyrwyn I'm cool with whatever as long as we keep the stretchy pants

SierraGood · July 2017

My UO this week is that my toddler is an asshole..... I know what kind of terrible mom says things like that but hear me out.... I have really bad nerve pain which makes it hard to move quickly my toddler has picked up on this and will do things she shouldn't then wait till I'm just close enough and hual ass to get away from me and laugh then sup and wait for me to hobble over then haul ass a second time before she finally falls over from laughing...

speach13 · July 2017

@SierraGood No, I'm with you. Toddlers are definitely assholes.

jackiesmom324 · July 2017

@SierraGood i dont have a toddler but i helped raise my little sister and i have to say she was equally annoying as a toddler as she was a teenager but maybe more as a toddler bc i couldnt even reason with her

i kind of want to hear the confrontational UOs lol

my UO today is i wish there were two ways of getting news - one where nothing about donald trump is mentioned unless its strictly in his presidential role but it would say (the president of the US withdrew from the Paris Agreement and that would be the end of his mention in that article) and nothing stupid he does would be mentioned and the other media outlet would just have all the stupidity and horribleness

*tw gun violence mention*
my other UO is really stupid but bear with me. i had a mass shooter training today ( i work in the hospital) and they were basically telling us that we should only fight the shooter as a last resort. i do get that. however i dont get why there arent more apps or something out there for people to mass message each other in the event of a shooting, or some sort of mass communication. i guess what im trying to say is i feel like the odds are against the one shooter in a building of 1000s of people yet it seems that the shooter only really gets overtaken when the cops come. Am I making sense? i dont know how to explain what im trying to say but it is something i always wondered about . LIke in the training I had today they said only attack the shooter if he is directly attacking you. but im like if the shooters back is turned and theres a huge fire extinguisher why would it be bad to strike him in the head with it sneak style (besides being shot on the spot if you make a noise, etc)... anyway morbid but something ive been thinking about.

tamaraaaa · July 2017

Third the asshole toddler opinion.

@leilagphillips I hate all things coffee too! So gross.

MJDsquared · July 2017

I don't like country music. (Exceptions include Carrie Underwood's entire first album and various older songs.)

Also give me all the cherry-flavored things, @flowerpower5838!

breezybee · July 2017

Uuummm...yeah I'm on the toddlers are most always asshole train. That doesn't make you a bad mom at all for thinking or saying that @SierraGood!

Tennis11785 · July 2017

Can I be on both team Wine Mom AND team Beer Mom?

breezybee · July 2017

Uuummm...yeah I'm on the toddlers are most always asshole train. That doesn't make you a bad mom at all for thinking or saying that @SierraGood!

SierraGood · July 2017

Glad I'm not the only one!!! Literally had to call my husband to take over cause I was just done with her tonight...

kaylawing · July 2017

@SierraGood my daughter is only 14 months so I'm not sure when she's officially a toddler, but she is exhausting me lately. When my husband got home today I went and hid in our room for twenty minutes just to get some quiet time.

sjis · July 2017

Yup, I agree toddlers are assholes.

My UO....I'm not an alcohol drinker anymore, though I did my fair share when in college. I've actually become allergic to wine and even taking sips of anything else makes me sick

So, I partake in stress relief of the weed kind! *Of course I stopped when trying to conceive, while pregnant, and nursing, but after it's all said and done I'm looking forward to smoking a fat one. It's how I unwind sometimes before bed.

There is so much stigma surrounding this: you're a bad parent, how selfish, you're lazy, etc. I don't see it any different than the wine/beer drinkers having a nightcap.

To each her own.

breezybee · July 2017

Lol @sjis I totally smoke weed. Not while pregnant, of course, but a little bong rip never hurt anyone

jackiesmom324 · July 2017

To each her own!! Applies to so many things !

ameliabedelia-2 · July 2017

I wish I liked weed, it's so much lower in calories than booze

ChelK3 · July 2017

@sjis @breezybee I'm right there with you. I enjoy wine, but I definitely miss bud more.. It seems so far away that I'll be able to partake again! At least with alcohol you can drink while breastfeeding by timing it out, but unfortunately marijuana stays in your system to long for that to work. Oh well, some day the kids will be older and it'll seem like it took no time at all!

moonlady-2 · July 2017

@MJDsquared Totally agree on not liking country music. Ick

@ameliabedelia-2 I don't like weed either! It's legal here, but I just don't enjoy it.

My UO- I hate baseball. It's so boring and slow. I can't stand that it is on EVERY. DAMN. DAY.

Give me football. All day, every day.

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