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Unpopular Opinions, Rants, Complaints, etc
Post 'em!
I'm sick of all these actors making albums. Seriously? Quit trying to sing. God Bless Reese Witherspoon for NOT making an album after "Walk the Line".
Re: Unpopular Opinions, Rants, Complaints, etc
1. I pretty much ate cupcakes for breakfast and lunch yesterday and Im down 3 pounds. Awesome and weird at the same time.
2. Getting a kindle was one of the best and worst things to ever happen to me. Being able to get pretty much any book I want within seconds is awesome, but my bank account hates me for it.
DH complaint: He has been swapped starting this business and I knew he would be. I think we are crazy for him doing this and having a baby at the same time but it is going a lot smoother than I thought it would be.
My complaint: I have to schedule appointments with him to make sure he has time to do things like look at day cares. Yes, we are 3 freaking weeks away from my due date and we still do not have anyone to watch LO once my maternity leave ends and DH is not worried at all and I am freaking out.
Donald Trump is an idiot with the worst hair in the history of the world. His ego is bigger than the national deficit, IMO. I'm so over him and I'd love to see him get stomped out quickly if he does decide to run... which I'm not even sure he will, he's waiting a month to announce if he is. I think he's really testing the waters now and hopefully will find he has no ground to stand on.
Ugh.
He's pretty much the biggest AW ever.
Random: I'm allergic to cantelope. I've never eaten it, but if I touch it, I break out in a rash.
I did a happy dance when I realized that all kids in our family will be at their mothers' for Easter therefore we don't have to bend over backwards to fit anyone's schedule.
I can piggyback off this then. I applaud this. I hate when people who aren't religious at all use religious holidays as a reason to party, buy stuff, celebrate, eat, see family, etc. I know it's an UO, but I don't care.
I'm not Irish, I don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Or Cinco de Mayo. Or any other holiday national or religious, that doesn't pertain to me. If I want to see family, have a nice dinner or party it up, I will because I just want to. I don't need a reason to justify it, and I don't want to take away from others who are celebrating for the real reason. And I think it's crappy when family casts guilt on others for not being there when that's not what the holiday is about.
...that got ranty
Hate me cause I use any holiday as an excuse to drink
You mean any time you're with your family all day long you need a drink? Cause I know that all too well.
LOL Why yess.... That's EXACTLY what I mean
You'd be a great candidate for the Zorn drinking club. How well do you take shots of Seagrams?
Seagrams? I've only had it mixed. I'm not a real shooter.
So... I have a query for you. Most employers automatically give Christmas as a day off. Do you think they should stop doing that & just have Christian employees use vacation time in order to celebrate Christmas?
Essentially, I think it would be fairer for those with other religious beliefs, like the Jews so they could celebrate their holidays as opposed to Christian holidays where they're arbitrarily given a day off of work.
I think that the general population of this country celebrates Christmas (religiously or not) so it makes sense for employers to give it as a vacation day. I'm not saying I think religious holidays should be outlawed to anyone who doesn't practice that religion, to each his own, I just don't understand it. I'd never celebrate Passover (last night) because I'm not Jewish. I don't see why a non-Christian would celebrate Easter. But that's just looking at it from a black and white perspective, which I realize not everyone does.
In New York, we had all major holidays off from school, both Christian and Jewish. Workplaces also gave the Jewish holidays off as well, but non-Jews would still be expected to go to work.
I guess what it boils down to is I hate when people use religious holidays as an excuse, whether it be to do something (buy gifts), or to get out of something (work, school, etc).
Another random: not allergic to cantelope but I cannot stand to eat any sort of melon. There is something about the taste of any melon that makes me want to
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Were the Jews expected to work on Christian holidays? That doesn't make sense.
No, I'd assume not since most businesses are closed on Christmas. But I don't know for sure they took entire days off as Jewish holidays don't technically start until sundown that day I believe. Anyway, I know we were off of school, but we also went well into June in NY because of the holidays. We didn't get off Hanukkah though.
My Godfather is Jewish as well as some other close family friends. We celebrate Easter but every year we would celebrate Passover with them as a way to show support and respect for their beliefs and celebrate our differences. I always thought it was wonderful that I was exposed to other religions and practices.
I can kind of see what you mean about someone randomly celebrating Passover on their own if they're not Jewish but I think there are a lot of circumstances where people who may not be extremely religious celebrate holidays that are religion-based. DH and I are both more agnostic than anything, yet my mom was raised Catholic and appreciates the family coming together for Easter. We are there to support her.
I completely agree with this. I had a friend growing up who was Jewish and her family would invite me to their celebrations and I learned a lot.
I'm just saying I hate when people use holidays as an excuse to miss work, school, or buy gifts. The materialistic stuff and the laziness or whatever, is what irritates me. I think my opinion has been lost in all of this.
I do understand what you mean, and I do agree that a lot of people focus on the materialistic aspects of holidays that are meaningful to people for other reasons.
Technically at the clinic, that is how they do it: every holiday is out of your bank, whatever days you choose to take. Granted most support services are shut down on the most popular holidays just due to lack of volume in workers, but if you wanted to work on Christmas in an empty office, you could.
My complaint is also Easter related: I really hate compulsory family gtg holidays, as you can imagine. We haven't gone to church since I had morning sickness, and I still don't feel comfortable going. Nevertheless, my mother started lecturing me about it and pushing me to go back immediately after I recovered from my c-section, saying I owed it to Michael to educate him religiously and needed to show DH my priorities with God. 1. Michael is 4 months old. I'm still trying to educate him against waking me up 5 times a night. 2. My priorities are exactly as they are. I don't feel like my church lines up with my beliefs and therefore I don't feel the need to show up there just to prove I believe in Easter. But I know she's just going to hound me allllllllllllllll week. She even offered to watch Michael so we could go without him, but we haven't been out alone at all, so I sure as hell am not going to church on our first outing.
On top of it, my birthday is Saturday. So this weekend is basically a family death march. Last year I got tons of phone calls asking what we were doing for my birthday, and she essentially demanded that we host a cookout for just them (again, I had morning sickness). Then she asked a dozen times what cake I was getting for myself and each time suggested it be an ice cream cake because that's what she likes. I like chocolate, but she can't eat that. So I had to get an ice cream cake to shut her the eff up. And she couldnt' eat hamburgers, so I had to buy turkey burgers. And she wouldn't eat half the other stuff you normally have, so I had to buy alternative food for her there too. Then I get to open the presents that are typically her idea of what I want, which she never asks and is always some weird knockoff version of what I'd really use. Then she'll insist I tell her how much I like everything about 10 million times and self-congratulate her wonderful shopping techniques while everyone pretends to stare at something really interesting.
I am really sorry, but my brain just exploded.
All I have to offer is zombie hugs
How is it that my BABY is going to be 3?
BFP-2/25/11; 8 Wk U/S-3/25/11-No HB, measured 6.5 wks; D&C