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Confessions, anyone?
I'm trying to think of what I have to confess.... (but basically just trying to get some chatter going!)
Re: Confessions, anyone?
I'm sure I have some....I always think of them like oh I should confess this next time we do one of these but then I forget. I guess thats a confession though that I spend time thinking of what to confess when we have these posts.
my boss does these social skills groups for kids and he always gives them snacks and a juice box, well I was starving the other day and didnt want any of my snacks so I snuck into his office and took one of the little kid snacks (it was the gummy fruit things).
I didn't actually steal a snack from a kid, just one of the ones he usually gives to the kids, I felt i needed to add that lol.
LOL! I was doing the same thing this week and now can't think of what I wanted to confess!
I feel bad saying this but the guy we have come clean our office every morning is just strange. He's a high school student with special needs and has a mild form of autism...but some of the things he does are just weird. And I hate when I have to be in the office alone with him which is usually 3 days a week.
These confessions are flame free right? LOL!
I do the same thing. Maybe we both need to get out more.
I hope other people do some so I don't look too crazy
The other day my hair was really frizzy, I work upstairs from a CVS I went down the hair product aisle and not so subtly put alittle hair cream in my hair to smooth down the frizz. I didn't want to buy a whole bottle when I have two sitting at home.
I totally do this with Toby. Sometimes he'll bark back at me while I'm talking like he's answering questions and knows what I'm saying.
I think my mom is crazy sometimes. 2 weeks ago she told me it was alright to drink wine while pregnant and asked how I don't miss having wine. Yes I love my wine but I actually haven't wanted any at all this whole pregnancy even though my OB said I could have a glass every once in a while. Then last night my mom asked about my heartburn and was very concerned that I have to take a Pepcid almost everyday to help the heartburn. She thinks the medicine isn't safe for the baby.
Well my OB wouldn't have told me I could take it if it's not safe...and she's the one that thinks it'd be better to have wine. WTH??? Makes me wonder what is going through her head sometimes!
I talk to one of my favorite cousins almost daily, shes more like a big sister to me. She knows all about us TTC. She has 2 kids and has lost 2. She keeps messing around, shes not married and keeps thinking shes pregnant. This is just driving me nuts, its getting to the point where im avoiding talking to her.
I really want to tell off a good friend of mine that ive known since high school. Ive just had it with his whining and complaining about money, its his own fault hes where he is and im tired of feeling bad that dh & i are doing better then ever as far as where we live and money and etc.
Ok one more...my mom gets really jealous over my MIL. There's no reason to but she does. Well my MIL has been very generous in buying us things for the baby and the last time my mom was over I made sure to show her everything we got from MIL. I knew what would happen but I still did it. My mom got so upset and decided she wanted to try and outdo MIL by buying a whole bunch of stuff for the baby.
I know it's bad to "play" my mom like that but sometimes she gets so jealous for no reason and why not let the baby benefit from it? LOL!
I talk to Xena all the time, Joanna. She even turns her head back and forth like "I'm listening, Mom." I'll have entire conversations with her, minus her side. LOL
My nephew was supposed to call the other night (he's allowed to call one person on his approved list every night now that he's in the rehab home.) We never got the call. (My mom and sister said they put us on the list; my mom said all she could remember was my cell phone number, so that's what she gave them.) I blame us not getting the call on either my mom or my sister - I really suspect they had something to do with it (even something stupid like they gave them the wrong number.)
I'm kind of resentful toward my mom right now (more so than usual). I found out from my MIL that my mom has a cell phone (and uses it sometimes), but my mom's never given her number to me and always told me she'd never get one... and never use one except in emergencies if my dad made her get one. I guarantee calling my MIL about something Pampered Chef related wasn't an emergency.
I have no ambition to start raising money for my JDRF 10K in May. In this economy, I really fear I'll NEVER hit my $250 goal and now fear I'll let my team down (and I'M THE FREAKING TEAM CAPTAIN!) I also am dreading mentioning it to my Mom and sister (who both joined the team last year.)
I watch Rock of Love Bus.
I really want to re-paint our family room and master bedroom but I am too scared to tell DH. I thought about just starting to paint one day while he was gone and when he gets home being like "surprise".
I do too! I promised myself I wouldn't get sucked in this season but it happened anyway! I am so glad he sent that skanky girls Ashley home last week.
My boss usually lets me leave early on Fridays so I am trying to get my work done asap for if he does but I can't get myself to sign off of here.
Also as a spin off since my boss lets me leave early so often on Friday's I get pissed when he doesn't let me, even though I should just be grateful for the times he does let me leave early.
I don't like when my name my name is on the "connect with these online nesties" thing, It used to make me feel super cool but now I kinda think it's creepy, like somone is watching me or something. And OMG when I was typing this my name was on the list!!!
CREEEEEEPY!!!!
I feel like everywhere I turn is someone with BOTB. I can't get away from it. LOL And the more I see/hear/read, the less I want any of my own.
Said nephew previously mentioned? Both Greg and I think I feel more maternal toward him than my sister, his actual mother. She seems more like he's a bother, but of course puts on a show about how excited she is he's in the area. (His rehab house is like 2 miles from our house, which is only 35-45 minutes drive for her; she also picks up/drops off her step-daughter in the nearby vicinity. I guarantee Greg & I go see him more than she does now that he's there... the 2 hour visit would be too much to take out of her time.)
My grandmother on my moms side who lives in GA wrote me a letter out of the blue. I havent heard from her in over a year. Her letter started out very nasty criticizing my weight when she hasnt even seen me to know that not only did i lose weight but i did it for myself and not anyone else! She started going into i think you have diabetes cause of your weight and i threw the letter down and was crying. She hasnt seen me in MULTIPLE years so she has no idea and secondly i do not have diabetes.
I called my mom and told her how ticked off i am and she said well you know grandma has always been that way and only calls me and your aunt and uncles to just yell at us about why we all live in ohio and etc and i said why is that behavior acceptable. One of my uncles hangs up on her everytime because she just belittles people. Im sorry but my real father never got away with that crap with me and neither will she. She will be receiving a nasty letter back informing her that i do not want any more contact with her. I reached my limit with her and i wont take it anymore.
People reasoning that someone has "always been that way,.. and always will" is the thing that gets me the most angry I've ever and will ever be. It turns my stomach and makes me want to actually physically hurt the person.
Because the world is not static... it changes. And we must change/adapt with it. Historically, if you didn't change, you didn't survive. And I wish people with that "I'm not changing for NOTHING" attitude... I wish they'd stop surviving.
brain break:
my mom bought our whole family (hubs, me, kids) tickets to Alaska in July. My husband is all freaked out about it, he hates when my parents pay for anything, not that we could afford the trip this year while house hunting, but still he's all pissy about it. The thing that gets me is that I HAVE to see his mother and his ENTIRE family every Sunday, I get to see my mom, sometimes my dad once-twice a year since we moved. Honestly my parents didn't buy tickets to see us, we're just bringing the kids. But still, I hate that my husband can't just be greatful and get over it. I have to say that even if we could afford it this year my mother would not let us pay, she's very stuborn and using "its my birthday and I all I want is to see my grandkids" as her excuse for planning all of this, I should also add she bought tickets for my brother, SIL, and nephew (who we haven't seen yet) as well, so this will not only be a chance for me to go home, but also for us to meet our nephew. ok that's my confession, my hubs is a big whinny baby when it comes to anything money related and it drives me nuts.
I have had this exact coversation with people many times! Just because someone has always been a jerk, people should just accept it? I don't freaking think so!!! MH used to always say that about his friend whenever I would complain about it, oh well thats just the way he is, I don't give a crap if thats just the way he is, he isn't going to talk to me like that!!! Whew can you tell that pisses me off too?!
While my grandfather is in fairly good health and a great mental state, I very much fear his passing. I love both my maternal grandparents greatly; my grandmother is in questionable mentality nearly all the time now and has a difficult time walking. My grandfather is better and sharp as a tack.
And yet I fear my grandfather passing away, but not my grandmother. I'll miss either, but my grandfather is my male rock. I always know I've got him there, strong, capable, intelligent, and caring.
MH and I have plans to go to dinner and a movie tomorrow night. My dad asked us what we were doing and I told him. They asked if we minded if they came too. So basically I am going on a double date with my parents. I am ok with it because they will pay for everything and we are trying to save money lol.
I can relate to this completely! My stepdad and maternal grandfather are my rocks. I seen how unreliable my real dad was so i appreciate the other men so much more. I love my dad's parents but since its been rocky with my Dad and I, its rocky with them also. Dh doesnt have any living grandfathers and once mentioned it to me and it freaked me out to think of my grandpa dying.
The thought keeps running through my head about my nephew: when he's released from this rehab home, he can't live with my sister (his mother) due to her circumstances. (Yes, she's a real winner.) Which everyone keeps assuming that means nephew will go live with my parents.
This causes me to panic. I was the last "child" to come out of that household and the thought of my nephew being raised in the location they live in, with my parents as his primary "role models", with my horrible father influencing his every move in life? That genuinely makes me nauseous...
So the thought keeps running through my head "is there ANY WAY Greg and I could take him in? He's 17...he'd be near things that at least he could get a job...." I keep running through if it's feasible, if we could afford it in any way, shape, or form, and if we could make it through having a teenager, even if he'd live with us only a few years.