May 2007 Weddings
HokieLaw
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Re: Flame Free Friday!
The whole "We got invited to a friend's party thing" brought this on:
Over the time MH and I have been together, we've lost a significant amount of friends. So one day I asked one of the ones whom I know will be totally honest with me WHY people don't like us/like hanging out with us.
In a nutshell, he told me its MH's cynical, super sarcastic attitude that often comes off as superior and self-righteous.
MH and I were talking the other day and he said something about how we never get invited because people don't like him. I just pretended not to hear him because I couldn't say anything without lying.
This is going to sound stupid but at my shower i heard this phrase about 10 times and it started to get under my skin. "Your really not that big at all i guess" Now i realize i have never been miss skinny nor will i ever be im just not made that way, but dont assume because im pregnant im going to be ginormous. By the last few times i said just so you know i only have gained 15 lbs thank you very much. Maybe its just my hormones but all this came after Nick went around telling his mom and sister that i was getting massive, which hubbys if your reading dont say to your pregnant wife!
Ok so in regards to my comment yesterday, I saw a picture of someone and the shoes were on the wrong feet and I'm pretty sure it was an accident but still, how can you not notice? I had to sit there for a moment to make sure. (That's as much detail as I'm going in. I don't want to be a biotch)
DH's friend is having his 25th birthday party tomorrow and we were invited. Part of me wants to go the other part is dreading going because I have no desire to go out and get plastered. I hate when the people around me get like that and I have to interact with their stupidity. We would take the limo in with them and not drive, so I'm really stuck with them.
DH started taking MBA courses in Fall 2005. We thought he had one class left, so I go on-line and look at the class times. We do some more digging and it looks like he needs 5 more classes, not ONE. That is about 10,000 we were not planning on spending. I'm livid! The reason: they had him sign up for classes he didn't need. Realisticly he should have been done by now but nope!
(HUGS) I am finally pregnant and I still feel bitter and jealous when people get pregnant on their first month trying.
I have two fairly awful confessions, both about my sister and BIL. I want to start by saying I love my sister to death but...
She is already saying she wants to start trying for her second baby in April 2011 and I really hope it takes them longer than it took them to get pregnant with their first (1st try) because I am annoyed that their timing worked out exactly how they want and how everything was so freaking easy for them and it took me over 2 years and a bunch of fertility treatments for me to get pregnant. I am just bitter that everything is so easy for her and so hard for me (sorry for the pity party). I just want them to understand even a tiny bit of what i went through because they were not super supportive, to their credit I think they just didn't know what to do or say.
Also I was alittle nervous for their baby because my BIL is a very hairy man and I was afraid their baby would look like a little monkey, thankfully she is cute and very un monkey like.
I totally busted out laughing reading this. Jo, I totally love you - you are one of the funniest people I know, if not THE funniest. LOL
It's actually crossed my mind that I'll feel really badly if/when Greg and I start TTC, I come up pg quickly (not directed at Jo.)
PLEASE, PLEASE dont feel guilty (Paula, you either). I shouldn't feel bitter or jealous, but I can't help it at this point. I would never tell anyone IRL though, only in FFF.
I love you girls, all of your babies and all of you that are pg.
It REALLY angers me when I see reverse racism or interracial couples make a big deal of their races.
Our neighbor's fiance is black. (She's Caucasian.) She sometimes makes comments that I'm just SHOCKED by... I can't believe some of the racial comments she'll make and it makes me sad because I think it's that kind of "joking" comment that helps keep racism alive.
For what it's worth it doesn't bother me at all. I love his little face. To be honest the only person that really bothered me when it happened was my sister, we were just about to hit the 2 year mark trying and I think it just hit to close to home. One of my best friends got pregnant by accident after we had been trying for awhile, that didn't even bother me.
I can only begin to understand what you guys are going through and you guys are always in my mind. I wish none of you ladies have to go through this much struggle.
LOL Paula
I wouldn't be mad at all
Thanks Mel. Now let's get back our regularly scheduled FFF, lol.
ITA.
And Jen, FWIW, I think I get what you're saying - I know those of you who have struggled or continue to struggle aren't UNHAPPY for those that get pg easier (in most cases, LOL), but it stings and is painful. I don't think it's horrible or flammable - I think it's human and understandable!
No, because you'd be freaking out the driver wouldn't see it either and you'd constantly be a back-seat driver! LOL
Jo, it's SO common, though. Around here, it's all the time - more deer were killed this year by motor vehicles than hunters.
This exactly. Knowing what you ladies are going through or went through makes me so upset.
This is too funny! I was a little nervous Declan would come out very hairy and with a unibrow (like MH has before he shaves between his eyebrows everyday!). And that is why I call Declan "monkey" because he had a hairy back, arms, and legs when he was born. LOL!
Yeah your right I would annoy the crap out of the driver. I am just nervous since the deer was laying down already there was just alittle damage to my car, I can't imagine what would have happened if the deer was standing up
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
Oh, I have another one.
My mom is completely taken with my sister's baby, which I understand, it's the first grandbaby. But everything has to revolve around my sister and the kid already...we can be talking about anything in the world and she can bring it back to the baby. The worst part is, my other sister is getting married in July and that's fallen completely off the radar. I have to keep reminding my mom that we have a bridal shower and a wedding to plan in addition to a baby shower and a baby...you can always see her get a little bummed when I mention it.
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
This is going to sound horrible, but they say that braking to try to stop the deer is actually THE WORST THING you can do. You're supposed to just ease off the gas, I believe and stop after you've hit it.
You drive an Escape, right? FWIW, Greg NAILED a deer going 65 mph a few years back in his Grand Am. The car was pretty bunged up, but fixable and he was okay. Cars can be fixed - that's why you have insurance.
Also, I swear if it ever happens again, go all Bevery Hillbillies and toss it in the back of the SUV.
Fresh dinner! (That's a joke!! LOL Kind of. People around here do it all the time. Food pantries even accept them!)
That's the worst feeling. I am ashamed to admit it now, but I actually did not go to someone's baby shower because I was in a pity party and couldn't handle it.
We're going out with two of the people Greg hung out with in college (D, a guy, his wife S, and a female friend, C.)
In college, Greg used to have THE BIGGEST CRUSH on C. She, of course, was "in a relationship" (but slept around in college), and never gave him the time of day. (This resulted in a HUGE fight between Greg and I several years back because it was pretty evident he was still harboring some resentment for not being given the time of day by her.)
Every time we are going to see C, I go to great lengths to look my best. And even though things are better and that's all resolved, I can't help but dislike her a little.
Tonight I'm hosting our company x-mas party at our home. I'm not the least bit looking forward to it. I'd love to be able to invite my 3 co-working and their families and tell my boss to F-off. I can't even bare the fact that I'm letting this A-hole into my home, it's going to be a crapy night.
The reason for my hostility, yesterday at a meeting w/ a client where I was being thrown under the bus, I was forced to defend myself. After the meeting my boss told me I was defensive and needed to admit when I was wrong, the thing he wants me to admit I'm wrong about, a mistake HE made when writing the spec.