Caribbean Nesties
3 out of 4 dead babies agree! pepsi is better than coke! - EdithBouvierBeale
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I hate love and marriage. I got married so I could destroy these things from the inside. - NoisyPenguin
It's a good thing my circle of trust is as giant as my vagina. That only leaves a couple people out. - Cali
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TGIF
Seriously one of the worst weeks ever. I had to lay off 3 employees on Wendesday, but the good news is, I get to keep my job and take on a lot more work for no more money to help pick up the slack from the folks I had to let go.
I also had a 'support group' meeting with the adoption agency last night that quickly degenerated into a discussion about what kind of marketing the agency is doing to bring in birthmoms, and I was not impressed with the answer. When we signed up, the agency placed about 12 - 15 families per year. This year they've placed 4 so far. Things are not looking good.
I also had to buy clothes because I have gone up a size.
Fenton, please vibe and pray for me. You are my only hope.
3 out of 4 dead babies agree! pepsi is better than coke! - EdithBouvierBeale
Lordy. Grow some balls and stop lurking. It's like stealing from the internet. Jesuschrist. -- AudreyHorne
I hate love and marriage. I got married so I could destroy these things from the inside. - NoisyPenguin
It's a good thing my circle of trust is as giant as my vagina. That only leaves a couple people out. - Cali
Re: TGIF
That does sound like a pretty craptastic week Groomz. What are you and Jimmy doing this weekend to decompress from all that?
Are you 100% committed to this agency (financially or otherwise) or would you still consider other options?
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Actually, there was no story there Cali. Just a fun title.
We've already paid the agency fees, so we're committed financially. Our fees never expire, so we could put this adoption on hold and work with an adoption attorney, pay all of those fees, and then reactivate this adoption if and when we get a child elsewhere. I've been thinking about it, but I want to give it some time before I bring the idea up to Jimmy. I think he's having a harder time than I am right now (in regard to the adoption) and I don't want to give him the impression I'm giving up.
Tomorrow we're driving down to Myrtle Beach with my sister and her boyfriend, and we're spending a week at a resort, so we should get in plenty of decompressing. I think adoption strategy conversations will either wait until we're back, or happen on a beach with a frozen fruity drink.
3 out of 4 dead babies agree! pepsi is better than coke! - EdithBouvierBeale
Lordy. Grow some balls and stop lurking. It's like stealing from the internet. Jesuschrist. -- AudreyHorne
I hate love and marriage. I got married so I could destroy these things from the inside. - NoisyPenguin
It's a good thing my circle of trust is as giant as my vagina. That only leaves a couple people out. - Cali
groomz, i think you need some bacon.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I think if I brought it up right now (just after having had the meeting) he'd think I was giving up on the plan we have in place and it would discourage him. Jimmy does not like to have a plan B for anything, and I usually have to finesse him into considering other options once we've made some kind of decision. If I had brought it up before the meeting, he'd be fine with looking into things, and if I bring it up after we've had some time away from the situation, he'll be fine. But right now, I think he's still smarting from a less than positive meeting (and I am too) and I think any discussion we had about other options would be emotionally charged and not based in the logic we need to actually make any kind of decision.
And we're not about to do anthing next week anyway since we'll be on vacation, so I'm gonna let it be for right now.
BTW, I'm putting in my notice that I will not be here next week. But I will be at the Caribbean something something Resort, so I'll be here, just not....here.
3 out of 4 dead babies agree! pepsi is better than coke! - EdithBouvierBeale
Lordy. Grow some balls and stop lurking. It's like stealing from the internet. Jesuschrist. -- AudreyHorne
I hate love and marriage. I got married so I could destroy these things from the inside. - NoisyPenguin
It's a good thing my circle of trust is as giant as my vagina. That only leaves a couple people out. - Cali
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I will be sending T&P for you. Not just T&P though.
Kevin Bacon T&P. And my T&P will include T&P that Kevin Bacon will be at your Caribbean resort.
I won't vibe or prey for you, but I will come to Philly and go to some Walgreens in low income areas and open all the condom boxes, stick needles through the condoms, then reseal the boxes. It's all about supply and demand.
I make my own miracles.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
Fenton, you're like the fairy godmother of unwanted pregnancy.
Groomz, that sucks. I'm sorry. Is there anything you can do to get your money back from the agency because they are not fulfilling their mission (to get desperate young knocked up gals to give wonderful folks like you their babies)? Have they explored why the number of matches is so far down from prior years? I would have thought that in a recession, more babies are put up for adoption, not fewer.
Apparently, placements are down across the board, not just at my agency. They mentioned another large agency that is no longer taking adoptive families because they have too many on the waiting list already.
Abortions are on the decline as well. It seems there are just more and more douchenozzles using contraception because they are greedy selfish whores. And there is a rise on single moms keeping their babies.
We can't get our money back, and in fairness, they said from the start that the average wait was 2 years. We're at about a year and a half now, and we knew going in that we could end up on the long end of that average.
3 out of 4 dead babies agree! pepsi is better than coke! - EdithBouvierBeale
Lordy. Grow some balls and stop lurking. It's like stealing from the internet. Jesuschrist. -- AudreyHorne
I hate love and marriage. I got married so I could destroy these things from the inside. - NoisyPenguin
It's a good thing my circle of trust is as giant as my vagina. That only leaves a couple people out. - Cali