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meggiednm · June 2011

lawby2005 · June 2011

I never have anything juicy but mine is I bought Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life to read on my Nook, ya know to spice it up a bit, and jeez how boring!!!! Hmm

Lisichka · June 2011

Mine is pretty flame worthy. I think. They're fixing our shared driveway today (we live in a condo building) and it's so loud. Well, kiddo's been under the weather and sleeping horribly the last couple of days, so she really needs a nap today. Chances are that she won't nap with all the noise out there, and I really really don't want to go for a walk with her (to get her to sleep in the stroller). I probably will if she's having a really hard time falling asleep. But I just don't want to. Not today. Not in this weather.

meggiednm · June 2011

I think i might kinda not like my pt job hostessing... I mean, it's fine, it's easy and i get paid...but i have no faith in work places that don't put their faith in me. I have questions that don't get answered, i get left in the dark about things and then get looked at like i'm stupid when i don't know...I really find myself having a hard time caring about any of it cuz all i'm doing is walking people to their tables at a restaurant!! And they act like we're working with sensitive material!! Confused I understand that it's their business and it's important to them.

I just really hope that i can last thru the summer, or that it gets a bit better once i'm more settled and i can hang on to this as a weekend job during the fall semester...

Or i'm gonna quit. Wink

Temp663997437501443 · June 2011

Lisichka:
Mine is pretty flame worthy. I think. They're fixing our shared driveway today (we live in a condo building) and it's so loud. Well, kiddo's been under the weather and sleeping horribly the last couple of days, so she really needs a nap today. Chances are that she won't nap with all the noise out there, and I really really don't want to go for a walk with her (to get her to sleep in the stroller). I probably will if she's having a really hard time falling asleep. But I just don't want to. Not today. Not in this weather.

Not even remotely flame-worthy. I'd get pissy too if I couldn't sleep with construction noise.

Temp663997437501443 · June 2011

I was asked three times at a retirement dinner the other night if I was TTC. These people are not meaning to be rude, but I am just appalled that people think this is ok to ask. Mostly it's my older friends who all have kids and think that everyone should be having them too.

I think next time someone other than my close GF's (who allll know where I stand on the issue) ask, I am going to say, "I don't like this conversation topic" or something like that and leave it at that. I just need to practice this response. For strangers I need a more snarky version.

Lisichka · June 2011

315bride:
I was asked three times at a retirement dinner the other night if I was TTC. These people are not meaning to be rude, but I am just appalled that people think this is ok to ask. Mostly it's my older friends who all have kids and think that everyone should be having them too.
I think next time someone other than my close GF's (who allll know where I stand on the issue) ask, I am going to say, "I don't like this conversation topic" or something like that and leave it at that. I just need to practice this response. For strangers I need a more snarky version.

Thanks for backing me up on the construction noise vs. napping kid issue, Amy. And I have to agree with you on this TTC conversation. It drives me up a wall that people think that just because kiddo is almost 3 that means we really have to get to trying for another one ASAP. Especially when it's random older family members. DH's grandma even goes a step further and asks me when we're going to have a boy. Like, WTH, grandma, do you even know how this works?

Sorry for the rant, I didn't mean to hijack your confession, but this topic really gets me frustrated.

musiscout · June 2011

315bride:

I was asked three times at a retirement dinner the other night if I was TTC. These people are not meaning to be rude, but I am just appalled that people think this is ok to ask. Mostly it's my older friends who all have kids and think that everyone should be having them too.

I think next time someone other than my close GF's (who allll know where I stand on the issue) ask, I am going to say, "I don't like this conversation topic" or something like that and leave it at that. I just need to practice this response. For strangers I need a more snarky version.

With rude questions, I always enjoy asking it of them- male, older, doesn't matter. Ask them, "Are you TTC?" I was asked if I was pregnant as soom as we got married. I asked them if they were pregnant.

adozenroses · June 2011

musiscout:
315bride:

I was asked three times at a retirement dinner the other night if I was TTC. These people are not meaning to be rude, but I am just appalled that people think this is ok to ask. Mostly it's my older friends who all have kids and think that everyone should be having them too.

I think next time someone other than my close GF's (who allll know where I stand on the issue) ask, I am going to say, "I don't like this conversation topic" or something like that and leave it at that. I just need to practice this response. For strangers I need a more snarky version.

With rude questions, I always enjoy asking it of them- male, older, doesn't matter. Ask them, "Are you TTC?" I was asked if I was pregnant as soom as we got married. I asked them if they were pregnant.

I know I am late to the game, but I like this! I am starting to do it. I have an older single friend who asked me if I was pg when I was feeling ill the other day. I just flat out asked her if she was pg.

The one that really irks me is when older people (parents' friends) make comments about how thin I am, then I want to ask them why they are so fat. Although, the comments stopped in the last couple years. I guess I gained weight :-/

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