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Enter here with your FWP
I'm home today with Grace and my sick nephew. Today is the first day my new cleaning company is scheduled to clean my house so I'm over my sister's house in the meantime. I'm impatiently waiting for someone else to clean my house so I can go home and not clean my house.
proof that i make babies. jack, grace, and ben, in no particular order
Re: Enter here with your FWP
This morning I drafted a lengthy email that, after some time away and a final proofread, I'm going to send to my daughter's teacher complaining about the ridiculous number of treats the kids in her class get at school from the teachers. Kids in school do not need to be bribed with sugar at every turn and it sends a mixed message to teach good nutrition and then feed them this crap. Frankly I wish they'd prohibit all the junk brought in for the 10,000 birthday celebrations as well, but I'm not going to win that battle... at least not yet.
I have one more that is embarrassing because I'm ridiculously upset about it: we've been having summer-like weather here for about 10 days. My son is wearing shorts. The next two days are going to be near 80.
It all comes crashing down on Saturday with a 25-degree plunge, and we're going to stay there for the foreseeable future.
It's like getting the chance to have sex with Christian Bale, only to emerge from the bathroom to find him drunk and passed out on the bed.
We can't decide on a hotel for our beach vacation.
Updated September 2012.
H and I can't decide where to vacation this year. We want to go somewhere new but don't want to spend a TON. We also don't know if we want to drive or fly. OR, if we drive, if we want to bring the dogs or not.
Not to mention trying to fit the vacation in with our crazy work schedules.
I have 13 days I need to use up before Aug. 1st or I lose them. *sigh*
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oooh, report back with the result of this if you don't mind. I'm feeling uneasy about the frequency of junk being served up to DD. She's only at her playgroup thing 3x a week for 2.5 hrs so I don't even know why they need to be eating (can 3-4.5 yr olds not go less than 3 hrs without eating?). And each and every snack time involves some junky stuff like juice, crackers, chips, cookies, muffins, etc. And then they are encouraged to bring in things like cupcakes for their birthdays on top of that. It adds up to a lot of crap, imo.
omg i hate all of you with your vacations! I need to get away so bad!!!!
Ya'll just need to come visit me in the M. It's going to cool off here tomorrow thanks to the rain, but by Saturday, it'll be 75 and sunny again. I love spring in Memphis - well minus the tornadoes and hail. Oh and tree pollen.
And question - can black folks have FWP? Is it FWBPP? Because I haz two problems - one I need a cleaning service. And two, should I use toothpicks or lolilipop sticks for the cupcake toppers for Nae's birthday party Sunday? Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.
KA is in Sin City. Go and see KA so that I can be insanely jealousE.
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if lollipop sticks work, use them. A friend had a bad experience (in HS for shits sake) with a toothpick in his gums (like between his middle front teeth) on top of a sandwich. I still take the toothpick right the hell out of the sandwich when I get one.
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We are moving in a week. Today is packing day (yet I am on the nest....). Tomorrow is moving guys load the truck day.
HOW am I going to cook a frozen pizza for dinner when my cookie sheets are packed?
They usually do really well right on the grate. But if you've already cleaned your oven, you should probably lean towards take out.
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I'll trade you. It looks like I'll be headed to Arlington for training. I'm not excited.
I love all these FWPs but this is making me LOL so hard.
I have a vacation FWP too. I don't know where we should go for our big mega-awesome vacation at the end of August. It's for celebrating my 30th (four months late) and could end up being our last big trip before spawning, so I want to make it awesome. I just can't choose!!! I may make a special thread soon polling you all about where I should go.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI thought of that. But how do I get it out of the oven and what do I set it on once I get it out? And how do I cut it?
My life is really rough right now, clearly.
Is moonshine hangover a FWP? I'm tired despite the fact that I basically take speed every morning. Though, if offered booze right now, I would not turn it down.
I want a pool in my backyard but my husband says no. I hate him so much.
Oh! I have my plastic surgeon consultation next week and I'm nervous. I really want to get a tummy tuck, too, but I'm a little bit scared of the recovery. I've heard it's much worse than a c/s (but, honestly my c/s were super easy recoveries, I felt fine w/in a day or two, so I assumed it would be worse - but how much worse??).
Last night, when I was drunk, I had a FWP. It was hard to complete my order while shopping online, but I persevered and my order confirmation was in my inbox when I woke up. See, you can overcome FWP! It's a miracle.
You could go to Spain and Morocco and get knocked up like I did.
Just sayin
Spain and/or Morocco are both on my (very long) list. No knocking up, as I am not running the marathon while pregnant. No way jose.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DWe just found out yesterday H is getting a free weeklong cruise with a balcony cabin as one of his bonuses at work. We're annoyed because we've already done all the weeklong cruise itineraries his employer offers multiple times and they won't let us pay the difference to do a longer cruise or something different.
Yes, we're annoyed at the offerings for a free vacation. It's awful.
Slightly less annoying, we're bringing the kiddo to a fancy, schmancy tennis tournament this weekend (shaddup, we're not going to any matches at stadium court with a crying kid. We're just doing grounds passes and strolling around the practice courts) and I'm starting to panic a little because I have yet to find a "family bathroom" on site for when my kid will need a diaper change. Waaaa.
I ran my half the weekend before we left for vaca.
That way I was skinny and hot for my trip.
After I came back from my vacation, the only running I could do was to and from the refrigerator, so....
lol... maybe they are a first world hillbilly problem? Or just hillbilly problems? I imagine if I had bigger problems in my life, or was an actual hillbilly, the hangover wouldn't concern me as much. But because my life is full of first worldness, I am whining about my moonshine hangover.
Hm. Now this may get me out there.