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Confessions!
We haven't done one of these in a while, and I can't think of a good "Friday Five".
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I confess that my anxiety is seriously acting up today since my phone got stolen last night and I feel so alone and stranded without it. I know people lived without them for years but I cant help but thinking the whole time I am driving what if something happened and I cant call for help. What if something happens to Matt and they cant reach me right away and so on. I even had nightmares about it last night.
I'm apparently still a horrible person from "letting someone down" a few weeks ago. I really wish I didn't care, but I do.
ETA: I will also confess that after some careful reflection, several of you are better friends to me than my own.
So I confess I'm about to go postal on a biatch.
The girl I was talking about yesterday who is starting to annoy me, well, all of sudden out of nowhere she decides it's her place to tell me what my "character flaws" are, and call me out on them.
Excuse me? Who the eff are you? My family? My DH? My close friends? None of the above. Back the EFF off.
I spent 4 hours yesterday watching the Lifetime William & Kate movie and some E! News special about them. I caught the wedding fever last night - WTH, right?
I confess that it annoys me when people update their FB page with what happened on a show that aired that night. For example, American Idol. I DVR it and it's frustrating when I see who was voted off on FB before I've even seen the show. I think I'm just going to have to not be on FB until I get a chance to see it.
Tiffany - we OMHs make the best friends ever!
@ Tiffany I am sorry to hear that but at the same time can relate. I made a comment to Matt the other day that I need more friends and he responded that I seem to have plenty. I asked what he meant and he said the girls from TK seem to post on your FB and care more about you than most of your friends from NE ever did. This made me really sad and happy all at the same time. The girls on here really are wonderful.
@ Summer WTF, how hard will it be for you to cut those ties since you will still see her in classes?
Re: Friends on here - my DH doesn't understand how I can be so friendly with a group of women I met on the internet, but I it's like I explained to him - you guys are real life friends who I just happen to talk to on the internet every day.
The other day I was on another board and one of the girls mentioned that she had met a group of ladies 10 years ago on the Knot and they had stayed in touch through the years and still got together at least twice a year, now bringing their kids along who are also friends. I thought about this group here immediately when she mentioned that.
ETA: To prove my point - you girls are the ONLY people besides my DH to know we are going to start trying for a baby soon. Neither of our families or other friends have been told.
Tiffany I am in the same boat with a friend. We considered each other our best friend. She was a bridesmaid, she called me first when she found out both times she was pregnant and each time she got engaged. We lived together for 2 1/2 years. I was at the airport waiting for her when she came home from Iraq. Love the girl and consider her my sister. Well the first weekend in April she had her son's bday party. I told her we would be there but we couldn't stay late because we already had tickets to the Rangers game.
Well Friday night had been a rough night with step daughter and she had a bad Saturday. Since she was going to the game with us I made her take a nap. I woke her up and we were getting ready for the bday party when girl went nuts. She slapped me, kicked her daddy and just threw a fit. I told her fine she wasn't going to the bday party and her daddy told her she wasn't going to the Ranger game. I called friend on the way to my parents house to drop off step daughter and she blew up at me for bailing on her. She still won't talk to me. Didn't come to step daughter's bday because she thought she'd "pay back the favor" and now doesn't want me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding.
I confess that I miss the girl but it's been nice to not be involved in all her drama!
I confess that I think I have ADD when it comes to doing work. I feel like I need little distractions every so often to keep me going. And by "every so often" I mean like every 15 minutes or so. I know this is actually counterproductive, but I just can't seem to help it. I guess I should also confess I have willpower issues, hahaha!
Re: friends on here - this morning, DH was looking at my phone, and he said, really slowly, "O-M-H G-2-G... what is that?" I said, well, it's all the girls I talked to while planning the wedding, that I still talk to, and we were gonna have dinner tonight, but we had to postpone it. He thought I was a little weird, lol.
Anybody got good plans for the weekend??
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Aww Lacey... I posted about American Idol last night but I didn't mention the name in my post, so you would only see it if you clicked on the additional comments, but yeah I guess staying off FB is the best idea bc most people talk in real time about that sort of thing.. ETA: For example, but the time I woke up this morning, there were already about 50 posts about the royal wedding already.
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Lacey- I CONCUR! 1000x. I hate when people do that. Someone did that for a Grey's Anatomy a few episodes back and totally ruined it for me.
BL-Well, actually, funny thing is I did really well about not getting defensive and tried to figure out where it was all coming from, and evidently I had said something yesterday and it came off completely wrong, and I had offended her. So, I apologized and explained myself and we resolved it. I respect the fact that she said something, although the way she brought it up made me think "Whoa, where are you going with this?" It made me realize she does value our friendship or she wouldn't have said anything. So, I think I'm going to just give it a chance
Leslie- My DH thinks the same thing I think, about being friends with girls I met on TK/TN. He thought it was weird that we went to someone's wedding I hadn't ever met. But, I don't think it's something I can explain to him. I talk to some of you girls more than I talk to my other friends, and tell y'all things I don't tell my other friends. And it helps that we're all at the same stage in our lives-and DH does get that.
ETA: And I hate when people use the term "IRL friends", like, we aren't all friends, and we're all "fake friends". To me, you're my "real" friends, just like anyone else.
I confess that every time I see this thread, I sing in my head the line from the Usher song:
"These are my confessions."
LOL!
I do it too
I feel like a baby for saying this, but the girls on the Getting Pregnant boards are just too mean for me. I feel like if you haven't been trying for more than a year you are not allowed to post on their board. You better not even think about posting a positive test result or something about being pregnant.
Examples:
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/52634748.aspx
http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/52635678.aspx
I guess these are the equivalent of the never ending vendor rec requests on the DFW TK board, but honestly if a random had come to AW a pic of her wedding dress or something we wouldn't have jumped her.
I remembered what I was going to confess earlier.
I confess that I cringe when I see people posting on facebook that they are pregnant and are only about 6 weeks along. One of my hs friends just posted it and a week later, she miscarried. Now that is all over facebook. I told DH this morning that whenever we get pregnant (if fb is even still around), we will definitely be waiting until after the 1st trimester.
And this is why I'm scared of TB. I think I'd be flamed for even thinking I could post on the board. I'm gonna stick with you girls!
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First "Confession" - I have been SUPER busy this week at work but all I want to do is be on here chit chatting with everyone!!!
Also, I am kind of upset with my mom. She has started talking to my aunt again...the aunt who WAS like a second mother to me and decided not to come to my wedding and told me I have a, and I quote, "Black Heart" for uninviting my cousins girlfriend (who was supposed to be a bridesmaid and was 8 mns pregnant and wouldn't return my phone calls and then two weeks before the wedding told me she didn't have a dress)
Umm HELLO...why am I the bad guy here!!
I confess that I am better friends with some of you than I am with most of my own "friends."
My DH doesn't understand it either!
I also confess that I wish that I was able to hang out with you ladies more often and not just for the occasional G2G. And there are times that I see something that reminds me of one of you, or something that I want to tell you and say "OH, I can't WAIT to tell _____ about this" and I go to text you, but I don't have anyone's numbers. Weird... I know.
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Thanks Deepthi!
It's still on the DL sort of, but we will be telling friends and extended family coming up in the next few weeks.
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I totally agree with this and why we have not made any announcements yet, and in fact, I don't think we will either. I think this is a personal thing that I will want to share with people on a more personal level.
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On one hand I get those rules because it can be traumatic for some who haven't been able to conceive and it's hard to be around that but on the other, holy crap. I'm sure their hormones are all over the place but it still doesn't excuse it.
And the bolded part above about duking it out...one thing I do not look forward to when/if I become a mom. So many treat it like a competition and I think it is absolutely ridiculous.
Me too! Totally.
I'm not going to lie... I know that Angela has her shoes already, but I still look for the style she wanted in purple everywhere I go (because they have them in black and silver EVERYWHERE). It's random, I know.
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I tried to but TN went all wacky. I fixed it.