UO Thursday 7/15

fantasyflyte · July 2021

keikilove · July 2021

Ok, I finally have one that may be controversial. Growing up I never really thought about having a husband or getting married. (My Barbie took Skipper and her friends to the beach in her pink convertible, and sometimes Ken was invited to join us.) I knew I wanted kids but didn’t have any warm fuzzies about the idea of a partner. When I got into my 20s I realized I’d like to be married but hoped I’d have a husband who had to travel for work so I could have my space every week or every month and we could miss each other. My confession is that I’m now happily married (to a man who gets to WFH) but still think that my dream marriage with a husband who has to travel is the ideal setup for me.😄

optimistgardener · July 2021

@keikilove totals. I've been single for enough of my life to know that I need my alone time. Even if I eventually find a partner, I'd like one who also needs alone time.

bows22 · July 2021

lol @keikilove, I do feel like if MH was WFH during the pandemic we may have had issues, so I don’t totally fault you for your confession!

loveanddatadriven · July 2021

@keikilove I'm not at the level of "would rather MH travels" but since we both WFH, I definitely feel the "would rather MH works in an office" sometimes.

I've seen a few avid gardeners on the boards. My UO is that gardening is awful. Don't get me wrong, I love a fully functioning beautiful garden, BUT... digging is really hard in clay, there are big roots and rocks in the ground, dirt gets under my fingernails even if I wear gloves, big plants are expensive and I can't keep seedlings alive, when I finally get the plants in the ground they don't stick around long or our lawn service weed whacks them (why did they weed whack in a clearly mulched flower bed?!), the weeds take over the bed and I can't keep up with them. Don't get me started about the time I spent a day digging out the big vine in front of my house a couple months after I moved in. Turns out it was poison ivy. I was sick for a month and had to take serious meds.

keikilove · July 2021

@optimistgardener 💗

@bows22 Yes!😄 Also, I didn’t realize I called it a confession until you said it too. I guess I’ve done my UO & FFFC for this week with my one post.😉

@loveanddatadriven Oh my goodness, your weeding poison ivy story!😵 Sorry that happened.

paytonpedro · July 2021

@loveanddatadriven position ivy is no joke! I just found the motherload this summer at my family’s land RIGHT next to my camper. I’m currently pretending it’s not there while thinking about how I can get rid of it and not kill myself. It can be really dangerous. And apparently if you burn it the oils vaporize, get in the air, and can kill you! But as I mentioned in wto, I think I might be immune to it. Kinda thinking about touching it just for the hell of it but like also scared.

I’m pretty sure I ripped all this ^ out by hand at the end of last year.not to mention totally walked though multiple times.all the green going up this pine tree (and like 10+ others) is poison ivy.

And846 · July 2021

@keikilove so much yes. My DH actually travelled for work monthly up until Covid. Sometimes it was a week long trip and other times it was a 2 week trip. It worked perfectly and allowed us to miss each other and really have quality time when home. During Covid, he WFH so we had to learn to live with each other, me not get “me time” and it was hard the first few months. After 17 months (whose counting) he will go on his first trip soon.

kiki047 · July 2021

@paytonpedro " Kinda thinking about touching it just for the hell of it but like also scared."

I just laughed out loud at this. I sure hope you have some kind of weird immunity to it, for your sake, because that shit scares me almost as much as bugs.

@keikilove I'll admit, I also used to wish I had like a pilot husband who was never around but we'd have awesome reunion sex on weekends or something LOL, or else that I'd be the jetsetter who would travel the world but have someone to come home to. Then I met MH and I'm stuck to him like sand on sunscreen. But I've never known a single other person that I'd want to spend this much time with and be ok with it at the end of the day. My college roommate, maybe at the time but certainly not now.

loveanddatadriven · July 2021

@paytonpedro A tiny spot of it wouldn't be too uncomfortable if you want to try. When you've got it in a functional area or across a lot of skin, now that causes a lot of grief. The reaction takes 2 or 3 days to develop after exposure since it's T-cell mediated. Removing poison ivy is very difficult since it will keep coming back. We've been working on our front yard patch for 2 seasons now: dug it up as much as possible, buried the remaining roots in deep mulch, and attacked every shoot that comes up with a tiny targeted dose of Roundup. I haven't seen it in about a month so I've got my FX it's gone for good now.

Edited to add: I started feeling itchy looking at your pictures...

paytonpedro · July 2021

@kiki047 apparently like 20-25% of people don’t have a reaction. My whole life I've said we didn’t have any or I would have found it because I always ran around barefoot and spent a lot of time in the woods. It was literally right under (and over) my nose.

@loveanddatadriven that’s what I’ve read and probably before summer is up I’ll try it. 😬 my husband thinks I’m an idiot but I NEED to know. Lol. A friend said to cut it as low to the ground as possible and as high up as possible. Then spray the roots with roundup and bury them under dirt so they absorb it. I haven’t tried it yet. But I did cut it from around the one tree (the small clump) after wrapping my arms around it to tie my dog to it. Lol I sprayed that small amount with some kind of organic weed killer my grandma had and it hasn’t come back yet. It’s been like 2 months.

SmashJam · July 2021

@paytonpedro I am all of a sudden allergic after not being my whole life. The only explanation I can think of is that I know with allergies your first reaction isn't your worst, and it gets worse with each exposure (at least that's how it was explained to me), and maybe now I've finally been exposed enough times for it to affect me?

@keikilove my H goes on one trip a year to vegas for work, and he's gone for 10 days. I secretly love getting to cook all the stuff he won't eat and do whatever I want before bedtime, lol.

fantasyflyte · July 2021

@paytonpedro and then there's people like my brother who are extra allergic to it and need to take allergy meds to tamp it down in addition to like anti-itch stuff.

On the spouse thing, as an introvert I definitely thrive most when I can have time to myself. For the most part, my husband doesn't count as people in terms of being around people can be draining for me, but occasionally (especially when he gets into a talktalktalktalktalk mood) I just need him to not for a bit lol.

shortstack930 · July 2021

@loveanddatadriven 100% agree that gardening is awful! Also I tend to forget about plants and let them die so it is definitely not for me.

My UO is that I don't really care much for the beach. I think it's the sand. I love the water and the sound of the waves but I just hate sitting in the hot sun and getting sweaty and then the sand gets stuck everywhere. I would prefer to go to the beach either at night or when it's like cloudy and 80 degrees.

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