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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Say anything
I went to DD for an iced coffee this morning. I ordered a medium and was told they were out of medium cups and I could only get a small or a large. In my pre-caffeine haze I could not get out the words to ask why they couldn't just put a medium amount in a large cup, so I just ordered a large even though I didn't really want that much coffee. I am mildly annoyed and needed to complain somewhere.
Re: Say anything
If I had asked for a medium coffee in a large cup at my local DD, the person making the coffee would have looked at me like I had three heads and then tried to give me a medium coffee in a small cup.
I think my local DD is the bottom of the barrel...
Isn't that what they usually offer when they're out of medium? I have encountered this a few times and they always gave me a med in a lg cup.
At the playground yesterday, there were two different moms who were on their cell phones the entire time (and we were there for almost 2 hours). I could hear them chatting away about what so-and-so posted on FB rather than playing with (or heck, even watching) their kids. I was judging them.
Yeah, I was kind of worried that something like this would happen if I tried to suggest it, so I just let it go.
LadyE, that is a long time to talk on the phone! I wonder if they were talking to a mom friend at a different park. They should just schedule play dates!
I would have too.
I judged a mom in my group pretty harshly the other day. I had to walk away from the table at one point to collect myself and remind myself that what she does with her babies has absolutely zero affect on me or my baby, so it's not worth it to care what she says.
Well now you have to tell us what you were judging her for
I play too many games on my iPad and need to stop so I can get other things done. It's a serious problem, people.
Starbucks ran out of tall size cups one day but I didn't realize (and they didn't say anything) until my drink order came out as a grande and I told them I had only ordered a tall. They were making all the tall drinks as grandes.
I heard an Activa commercial yesterday and I know they've always advertised that it will make you regular, but this particular commercial pointed out that you have to eat it 3 times a day. If you eat any yogurt 3 times a day you'll be regular!
Saw a funny post on FB today. It said, "Grammar: The difference between knowing your *** and knowing you're ***." hahahaha
I'm the same way with my iPod touch. It would be dangerous if I had an iPad.
We found out that BabyPeepers is a girl! A very healthy looking girl! Everyone is so excited. H has been saying from the beginning that the baby was a girl and I had a feeling too.
What games do you play? I need some new ones.
I wish I had an Ipad. DH doesn't buy into the apple hype so he has to thoroughly investigate and research all of the other tablets to find the "best" one technologically. Sometimes being married to a nerd has it's downsides when I just want to be part of the apple crowd.
This mom is kind of a show off and a little fake anyway. She's a very nice person and I believe she has a good heart, but she is a show off. Anyway, she is pregnant with #2 already and she said the other day that she wants to BF longer with this one because her dd "weaned herself at 7 weeks" which is impossible. She just threw in the towel and is blaming it on her DD. I remember her struggles and her unwillingness to just sit and nurse, she always wanted to go-go-go, shop, go hang out, go out to eat, and that affects you, sorry to say.
Then she said, "Well she was just so hungry, she needed solids at 3 months!" No baby needs solids at 3 months.
It was just annoying and it felt like a jab at BF moms who worked our asses off to BF as long as we have. If our babies were hungry, we sat down and nursed them until they were finished. Running around to entertain ourselves waited.
But again, I just remind myself that it has nothing to do with me and if she wants to rationalize her failure by blaming it on her DD, more power to her. It just makes her look like the azz.
Congratulations on the baby girl, peepers! So exciting. Have you already started picking out names?
BosMama, I've been playing a lot of Bejeweled, the Diamond Mine version. It's my sisters' fault, they got me hooked on it. I also just recently got on the Words With Friends bandwagon and have just been playing against Internet strangers.
Punky, I'd judge that mom too. But you're right to just walk away from it.
Ah, I dropped by Bejeweled addiction long ago. Now I'm addicted to Drop 7. I'm anxiously waiting for the new Angry Birds to come out next month.
There are a lot of little girls on this board!
...hello out there!
dx with anovulatory PCOS 2005
off bcp 11/11
a few rounds of clomid and femara... no response.
injectables/IUI 12/12... BFN
Feb 13 IVF cycle converted down to IUI due to low follicle response... BFFN
one last IVF attempt April/May 2013: 19 retrieved. 10 fertilized. 2 transferred in a 3dt. 4 frosties... BFP!!
EDD: 1/21/14... Induced early at 36+6. Our LO was born 12/30/13
I still haven't done this. Our 3rd anniv is in June
Congrats on the baby girl, Peepers!
I'm home again today. I probably could have gone to work, but eh. I'm still tired and my ribs are sore. I think I pulled something when I was so sick the other night. And tomorrow, I have to take a half day because I have to pick up the car in the morning. So I'll have worked 1 1/2 days this week, and I continued my streak of not being in the office a full week since before Christmas.
Congrats Peepers! That is so exciting.
Boston Baker I would be annoyed too!
Punky I would judge....I am probably guilty of judging a little too much when it comes to breastfeeding stuff.
My say anything- I am super annoyed about the amount of work it is taking me to dogsit my in-laws dog.
This thread is awesome... It's as ADD as I am (Oh look a chicken...)
My say anything- Yesterday, after teaching in Salem, I went for a drive up through the North Shore. I ended up in Essex to go through the antique stores. I was so annoyed by the price of most of the little pieces I found. $700.00 for a little side table with an iron base and thin piece of crap wood stuck on top. The table was cute, but not $700 cute!
Luckily it never came up too often IRL, but if I met half of the ladies IRL that I have seen on TB, I would probably have already killed myself from the judgement. Not bfing is already my #1 source of mommy-guilt, without anyone else having to add to it. I can't tell you how many times I have blamed myself for how sick DS has been in the last year. Sometimes it seems like there's endless judgement on top of the crap I already put myself through.
So... just offering another perspective. Not really relevant to the thread, because it sounds like the mom in question is just plain annoying, but more re: excuses for not bfing.
Oh gosh Lady E I hope you don't think I am like the crazies on the bump! I know breastfeeding is hard. I get annoyed when people who breastfeed think that formula is the antichrist. Like for instance last week a mom in a mom's group I go to pulled out a can of similac formula and said "does anyone know where I can donate this? My mother in law bought the wrong kind." Now I know this woman is supplementing with formula....I don't know why, but she is. The group leader says "Oh I don't know anything about formula. My babies were all breastfed!" I couldn't believe she said that. I was so taken aback my jaw must have hit the floor. Then another mom said very sarcastically "Oh the horror and stigma of formula." So then the group leader sort of mumbled something under her breath. I told the woman where she could donate the formula. It was such a strange exchange.
Haha no, I don't think you're a crazy Bumpie! I know I was long-winded, but I think my only point is that I judge myself more than anyone does haha.
I had someone approach me once at the mall when DS was an infant about FF and not BFing and it was really bizarre. I was so surprised at the comment that I didn't even respond.
*sigh* Some people are just weird!
Jeez, LadyE, how rude! I wish people would put as much effort into worrying about their own kids as they do worrying about everyone else's.
(That's not a slam on anyone here, so I hope it doesn't sound like it! I'm talking about the people who can't keep their mouths shut. Judge all you want in your head - goodness knows I do! - just keep it to yourself.)