Wednesday Confessions

mamie329

Starting this one because I have to purge something shameful. 

* I kind of like Heidi Montag's "Body Language." Liked it when I heard it last year and still like it now.  

cruella013

I confess I don't even know what you are talking about - I'm so out of it.

Also going to confess that I have so much to do today (prep classes for tomorrow and clean) but here I am....

Here is a gross/TMI one - I confess that I'm happy that my poop has become very normal with our new eating habits - both quality and quantity (eating real foods - nothing processed).  You thought CM was TMI, I'll show you all!

mamie329

Oh cruella- you'll be sorry you asked. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D6urRiZXxA

Is it weird that poop talk is NOT TMI to me and CM is? I could tak about it for hours.  

chrissyvcm

I spent too much time playing with Chaz this morning that I didn't have time to wash my hair before work.

mamie329

Here's another one. I'm feeling very confession-y today. 

- Last night I bought ingredients to make baked ziti. This morning DH comes home with an almost full pan of his mom's lasagna - he stopped there this morning.  Even though it was no one's ulterior motive, I feel like his mom (a much better cook) just showed me up and thunderjacked my ziti plans. I'm ridiculous.  

cruella013

It wasn't that horrible - it motivated me to dust

Maybe its that for girls who spent a lot of time with boys talking about poop is just normal after a period of time, but boys don't talk about girly part stuff.

Kellybeth124

I got baby rabies from a siggy pic yesterday, no joke. Seriously the cutest newborn I've ever seen. Then I looked at the FB pics an old friend of mine from school put up of her baby and it immediately killed any desire. I feel bad, but her kid is just not cute.

hawkilady

mamie329:

Here's another one. I'm feeling very confession-y today. 

- Last night I bought ingredients to make baked ziti. This morning DH comes home with an almost full pan of his mom's lasagna - he stopped there this morning.  Even though it was no one's ulterior motive, I feel like his mom (a much better cook) just showed me up and thunderjacked my ziti plans. I'm ridiculous.  

 This would pisss me off too... although in my case, if DH brought home a pan of lasagna from his mom's (an Italian no less who's mother only speaks Italian) it would be Stouffers from the freezer.  She can't cook anything so I guess it wouldnt be so bad.

mamie329

Kellybeth124:

I got baby rabies from a siggy pic yesterday, no joke. Seriously the cutest newborn I've ever seen. Then I looked at the FB pics an old friend of mine from school put up of her baby and it immediately killed any desire. I feel bad, but her kid is just not cute.

There's always an antidote for baby rabies. Your friend's kid or walking into a store with screaming moppets running amok.  

mamie329

hawkilady:

 This would pisss me off too... although in my case, if DH brought home a pan of lasagna from his mom's (an Italian no less who's mother only speaks Italian) it would be Stouffers from the freezer.  She can't cook anything so I guess it wouldnt be so bad.

Really? I thought I was being insane about it. And coming from a off-the-boat Italian great-grandmother, the fact that your MIL can only do Stouffers lasagna cracks me up. Please don't tell me she eats Chef Boyardee and Spaghetti-Os. That would wreck me!  

hawkilady

Lately I'm finding it much harder to get rid of "baby rabies" - and I'm not going to do anything about it until next summer.

hawkilady

mamie329:

hawkilady:

 This would pisss me off too... although in my case, if DH brought home a pan of lasagna from his mom's (an Italian no less who's mother only speaks Italian) it would be Stouffers from the freezer.  She can't cook anything so I guess it wouldnt be so bad.

Really? I thought I was being insane about it. And coming from a off-the-boat Italian great-grandmother, the fact that your MIL can only do Stouffers lasagna cracks me up. Please don't tell me she eats Chef Boyardee and Spaghetti-Os. That would wreck me!  

 She does draw the line at Chef Boyardee (we actually discussed this last night at Olive Garden - which she thinks is the best restaurant ever - I'm not even sure how she can claim to be Italian).  

3 years ago I stayed here for Thanksgiving for the first time - she hosted and I went over early to help her.  She made the entire Thanksgiving dinner out of a box - she handed me instant potatos and jars of gravy and I didnt even know what to do with them.  Then she took a frozen pumpkin pie out of the freezer to thaw.  I about died.  The next year I "borrowed" her kitchen since our house isnt big enough and made Thanksgiving on my own.  Now DH's cousin's won't come to Thanksgiving unless it our year to be there since they know MIL wont be cooking.

shagadelk7

This is going to be a confession, and I apologize in advance if I offend anyone, but I think 98% of handicapped parking spaces are useless, and the probably about 75% of the people that use them do it out of sheer laziness.

In my 25 years of life, I've probably seen 20 people total get out of their car in a handicapped parking spot and actually look disabled. Typically people get out of the car as well as I can and stroll right into the mall like nothing is wrong with them. It just really irks me that people use them when they don't need them.

 ...and what's up with the 385739848 handicapped spots anyway. They're never filled. Ever.

cruella013

shagadelk7:

 ...and what's up with the 385739848 handicapped spots anyway. They're never filled. Ever.

You need to spend some time in FL

I agree that some people probably use them when they shouldn't.  But you can't always tell why people need the sticker.  My mom has MS and has an extremely difficult time walking, sometimes its worse than others.  If you were to see her get out of the car on a good day you may think she wouldn't need one (she just walks a little slower - she doesn't have a wheelchair or a cane).  But the more she walks the harder it is to keep walking, so saving her a few steps makes a difference.  I think most people share your thoughts, mainly because we expect to see the disability.  Still, I'm sure there are people out there who had a temporary issue and continue to use it even when they shouldn't.

mamie329

hawkilady:

 

 She does draw the line at Chef Boyardee (we actually discussed this last night at Olive Garden - which she thinks is the best restaurant ever - I'm not even sure how she can claim to be Italian).  

3 years ago I stayed here for Thanksgiving for the first time - she hosted and I went over early to help her.  She made the entire Thanksgiving dinner out of a box - she handed me instant potatos and jars of gravy and I didnt even know what to do with them.  Then she took a frozen pumpkin pie out of the freezer to thaw.  I about died.  The next year I "borrowed" her kitchen since our house isnt big enough and made Thanksgiving on my own.  Now DH's cousin's won't come to Thanksgiving unless it our year to be there since they know MIL wont be cooking.

Hilarous! "I didn't even know what to do with them." I wonder if she thinks you thunderjacked her TG meal now.  

shagadelk7

As far as the MS issue goes (when I see young people using handicapped spaces) I automatically think they have MS. I generally like to give people the benefit of the doubt and think that they're using it for a reason. I am really sorry about your mother, cruella. I know a lot of ppl with MS and it's a terrible thing to deal with.

What infuriates me, is when I see obese people using it. (again, I'll probably offend people), but, with exceptions (thyroid, depression, etc) the fact that a person is obese is because they made themselves that way. And I know there's no way of the random bystander being able to differentiate between someone that's just obese and someone who has a thyroid problem, but giving an obese person a handicapped sticker is just enabling them to do less work, thus making them more obese.....

 

cruella013

shagadelk7:

As far as the MS issue goes (when I see young people using handicapped spaces) I automatically think they have MS. I generally like to give people the benefit of the doubt and think that they're using it for a reason. I am really sorry about your mother, cruella. I know a lot of ppl with MS and it's a terrible thing to deal with.

What infuriates me, is when I see obese people using it. (again, I'll probably offend people), but, with exceptions (thyroid, depression, etc) the fact that a person is obese is because they made themselves that way. And I know there's no way of the random bystander being able to differentiate between someone that's just obese and someone who has a thyroid problem, but giving an obese person a handicapped sticker is just enabling them to do less work, thus making them more obese.....

 

agreed!  Its hard NOT to think it when you see it.  If there is no underlying medical condition obese individuals shouldn't be given the pass.  

It does really irritate me when people take advantage.  There have been plenty of times I've gone out with my mom and there were no handicapped spots left (so I would just drop her off).  For me the temporary ones annoy me.  I have a friend who was put on disability a few years back because of a legitimate medical issue.  She still receives disability from the government (and probably has a handicap sticker) and I really don't think she still struggles (it was an injury that should have healed within the past 3 years).  People like this irritate me. 

shagadelk7

Recenly in Massachusetts there was a report on the news about handicap stickers and the % of them which are expired/used by people whose names are not on them/basically faked a problem to get one and the numbers were insane. I want to say about 60% of them were misused.

I wonder if there's some sort of law that a store has to offer so many handicap spots based on the volume of ppl that go into a store. I feel like Walmarts and Targets have an insanely large number of spaces.

mofe

shagadelk7:

What infuriates me, is when I see obese people using it. (again, I'll probably offend people), but, with exceptions (thyroid, depression, etc) the fact that a person is obese is because they made themselves that way. And I know there's no way of the random bystander being able to differentiate between someone that's just obese and someone who has a thyroid problem, but giving an obese person a handicapped sticker is just enabling them to do less work, thus making them more obese.....

 

There used to be a lady at my work that was only like 40 and she was very overweight.  She used the handicap parking to walk into the building. She didn't have any problem walking a few blocks to get fast food.  She didn't even seem to want to make her life better by eating healthy.

mofe

FIL has a friend with season tickets to the Twins.  He had 4 tickets and friend said you can have them, no money wanted. I went to the game with M and 2 of our other friends. FIL tells me when I send his friend an email to say thanks to also ask where to send the check thinking his friend would say no need to pay for them. His friend  said that he wanted to give them as a gift but since FIL insisted that we pay for them he gave me the address to send a check.  FIL said he will pay for the tickets b/c if I would have known that we had to pay for them I wouldn't have used them and it was his fault that he kept saying we wanted to pay for them, trying to be polite.

 

luckycooky

mofe:

shagadelk7:

What infuriates me, is when I see obese people using it. (again, I'll probably offend people), but, with exceptions (thyroid, depression, etc) the fact that a person is obese is because they made themselves that way. And I know there's no way of the random bystander being able to differentiate between someone that's just obese and someone who has a thyroid problem, but giving an obese person a handicapped sticker is just enabling them to do less work, thus making them more obese.....

There used to be a lady at my work that was only like 40 and she was very overweight.  She used the handicap parking to walk into the building. She didn't have any problem walking a few blocks to get fast food.  She didn't even seem to want to make her life better by eating healthy.

This applies to seats on the bus as well.  I know that elderly and handicapped have priority on certain seats and I have happily given up my seat to them a number of times.  But the inability to say "no" to oreos is not a handicap it is a choice.  It pisses me off when people give me glares because they have to walk an extra 5-10 ft to a seat because I got on at the first stop and took the first available seat.

luckycooky

and my confession is that I'm crabby this week.  no particular reason - just crabby.

hawkilady

mofe:

shagadelk7:

What infuriates me, is when I see obese people using it. (again, I'll probably offend people), but, with exceptions (thyroid, depression, etc) the fact that a person is obese is because they made themselves that way. And I know there's no way of the random bystander being able to differentiate between someone that's just obese and someone who has a thyroid problem, but giving an obese person a handicapped sticker is just enabling them to do less work, thus making them more obese.....

 

There used to be a lady at my work that was only like 40 and she was very overweight.  She used the handicap parking to walk into the building. She didn't have any problem walking a few blocks to get fast food.  She didn't even seem to want to make her life better by eating healthy.

 This drives me crazy... it just makes me so mad that these people dont choose to do anything to help the situation.  Last night I watched some very obese people park in the handicap spot at Olive Garden, get out and walk (waddle in reality) to the door without any sort of apparent medical issues for dinner at one of the unhealthiest restaurants they could choose.

mamie329

hawkilady:

 This drives me crazy... it just makes me so mad that these people dont choose to do anything to help the situation.  Last night I watched some very obese people park in the handicap spot at Olive Garden, get out and walk (waddle in reality) to the door without any sort of apparent medical issues for dinner at one of the unhealthiest restaurants they could choose.

For endless pasta bowl no doubt.

Another confession:

I have done absolutely NOTHING today except order 9 wedding enlargements from shutterfly. Waste. Of. Space. 

mrscdobs

I confess that I love the shiiiit out of the Olive Garden.  I'd go there right now if I had someone to go with me (still pissed at the husband).

 

I also confess that I'm incredibly socially inept and my new job is forcing me to become more smiley, personable and friendly before I get a reputation of being the "antisocial girl".  I never used to be like that but last year I was forced into isolation and enjoyed my alone time (except when I was with my students.  They are the best!) 

gmk1784

my confession is that I just started a new job and I'm having serious internet withdraw since they have a "no surfing" policy.  At my horrible old job I sat around on the internet alllllll day long but now I'm worried about testing the policy.  But I did see that my boss had Facebook on her history today so they can't be too strict.

 

And I want to jump in about the handicap parking sticker convo. My cousin has cystic fybrosis and had to have a double lung transplant a few months ago.  He had a handicapped sticker because he got winded easily and used it at a bar (which we told him isn't the best place for someone who just had a lung transplant). Some guy made a jackass comment to him about using it since he looked perfectly normal. Dear cousin lifted up his shirt and showed his awful stiches and huge scar and yelled at the guy

kaleyandjason

I hate school; I hate class. I wish I could retire. My confession is I would totally quit school if I thought I could get a reasonably good job.

My other confession is that I found out today that my ex's pregnant girlfriend, is no longer preggo, and I now find it hard to believe she was ever was. She has a way of exaggerating things and if she really was, I apologize, I wish a miscarriage on no one. BUT, I have to say I am not in the least bit sad for her either. Flame away, if you wish!