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this girl annoys me
community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/62761323.aspx
I understand missing home foods but shes being so negative!
Re: this girl annoys me
Maybe I am reading the wrong post but to me she doesnt sound annoying she sounds like she is pregnant and is craving pizza. While the lumping th whole London food scene as bad is probably taking it to far, she doesn't sound that annoying to me .
Holy lack of pregnancy spacing, Batman.
I vote bragplaint more than anything, which definitely is annoying.
It's London, not a village in Africa. You are not lacking, sister.
Yikes. I actually know a couple that have kids who were born slightly less than 11 months apart. The evening after the doctor okayed her for sex after her first was born, she conceived her second. She had bought into the 'if you're breasfeeding you can't get preggo' myth.
ETA What annoys me most is that she calls her favorite processed foods 'real food'. I understand people having cravings, but really, you can make mac and cheese from scratch. She apparently wants the boxed stuff and/or pizza from a specific pizza joint. I realize not everyone enjoys cooking as much as I do, but seriously, that's not 'real food' that's comfort food, and she should just have someone send her a preggo care package.
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What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DSee that part I totally understood. The dutch hamburger was just wrong. It is not how you cook a real burger. If I was craving a proper burger in holland I would have said the same thing.
I'm most amused that she has to go from London to Ireland to "have our babies."
"We go to Ireland to have our babies there though and stay with the in-laws""
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Now Nesting from Chicago, IL My nail blog:
Yeah, she's annoying. She has "the New York is the center of the food universe attitude." That annoys me no end. Other places have good food too.
We all get it. If you are away from home, it's hard to get your favorites. I know that. I spent months trying to find dried kidney beans here for red beans and rice. I still can't find decent bulk pork sausage, and don't get me started on the non-variety of cheeses for cooking. But she's in London, go out and explore and find new things. I was only there for a week on vacation once and found all kinds of restaurants, with all kinds of different cuisines. Surely she should be able to find something close enough to home.
slightly off topic, here, but have you found replacements for Andouille and Tasso yet? I just found dried beans at an Asian store last week.
My sister and I are 11 months apart. Um...oops.
Thankfully not in the same calendar year, though. That would be even more embarrassing for my obviously-an-oops-baby sister.
Me? I was totally planned.
This. I should add that I wasn't side-eyeing her for the Irish twins. If medical issues hadn't been a factor, we might have started TTC only a few months after DD got here.
Oh, but Dutch hamburgers ARE wrong, and there's no way you can get them right unless you make them yourself (and then still, since the beef is different....)
(Funny story: as a child I always thought I hated hamburgers, as I'd only eaten one once, in NL, and it was gross and I refused hamburgers ever since. It wasn't until my grandma in the US ordered me a hamburger in a restaurant at age 11 and I was polite enough to eat what grandma ordered for me, that I realized: dude -- hamburgers are AWESOME!)
But hamburgers are a food that cannot be shipped, kraft mac and cheese is a boxed food, which can A: probably be found in a store catering to expats B: if not, be mailed to her.
Oh yes, those kids had the same birth year, baby 1 was a januari baby...
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DTrue that. They sell it even at the Monoprix here, in the "American food" section. How is it possible she can't find it in a city like London?
When I hear people say that I wonder if there are two cities called London, the one they've been to where there is no food outside of dodgy pubs without actual functioning kitchens and the one I've been to where the food is amazing. I don't understand why people who are quick to paint broad generalizations aren't more discerning about where they eat.
I'm actually totally with her on the pizza issue - I grew up on Long Island too and NY pizza is just different than pizza anywhere else. I can't say it's 'better' than the rest of the world, but it definitely is it's own thing. When I left long island at 19, I spent lots and lots of time whining about bagels and pizza and I was just in Pittsburgh. Now... I would pay extortionate amounts of money for a proper piece of pizza!
But yes - saying 'all food in NY is amazing and all food in London is horrible' is absolutely ridiculous!
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
You don't find it odd? I didnt fly back to the UK to have my dd just because my dh and ds were born there.
Yeh, it's kind of weird, but nothing I think worthy of eye rolls. I thought she was doing it more for the help of her in laws? I for sure would not fly anywhere just to have babies. I'd rather come home to my own house from the hospital.
Yep, that is what she said. She actually said her child is the favorite grandchild (of 8) because she was the only one born in Ireland. The whole situation is not normal, at all. Her IL's are just as capable of flying to England to help out with the babies, which would make a whole lot more sense than flying a pregnant woman to another country just to have a baby.
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I mean, I was as miserable as they get for the first few months I lived there and hated EVERYTHING, especially the food. But beyond those few couple of rough months I think everyone has to realize that there is good food in a city like London and definitely places to find pretty much all the stuff you could be missing from the US. And good god, NY style pizza is not the only good pizza in the world. Blech. And the flying to Ireland to have the babies is SO BIZARRE I cannot even begin to talk about it. It's just weird. I cannot fathom DH asking me to go back to N.Ireland to have our kids or what I would say if he did (beyond "are you insane?!").
I think her plug came out a month before her due date and week before she was to leave and she didn't take the flight.
2012 Reading Challenge
Now Nesting from Chicago, IL My nail blog: