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Friday Confessions - Titled edited to up participation
I have two.
H's work might send him to Baltimore in June for a week. He doesn't often have to travel because he is the only one in his district that can do certain things. I used to travel for work all the time as a consultant and I really want him to take this assignment, mostly because it means I'll have the apartment to myself for a week. I've only gotten that once before and it. was. AWESOME.
My grandfather only has a few months, maybe weeks, to live. My mom and my sister are headed up to CT to visit him this weekend. I'm not sure if I'm going to go and see him before he dies. I don't think I want to remember him like that, I'd rather remember him how he used to be. I don't think my family will ever forgive me if I don't go, but he's so far gone I don't think he'll know.
Re: Friday Confessions - Titled edited to up participation
Sorry about your grandfather fein. I understand because I said goodbye to my grandmother when she was very ill and not herself at all. Even though it's been ten years, I remember her when she was dying and it makes me feel sad. She was such a strong, independent woman and to see her in that condition was very difficult.
Mine is that I've been searching the interwebs looking at pups on the regular. I don't want another pup, but I have such an emptiness inside me that I wish I could fill. I miss the Murph a lot. Looking at other dogs out there seems to help a little bit.
I'm sorry, DL.
Those puppy and kitten sites never do anything but make me sad, even if I started out in a good mood. I can't imagine going in to it in your situation.
H and I have already decided we're not going to spend a bunch of money at the casino this weekend (going to celebrate my sister's bday) so we were talking about how to pass the time. I suggested sex in a stairwell or bathroom and H was all "casinos have cameras everwhere" blustery. I said, "well you're always trying to convince me we should make a sex tape, how is this any different?"
That did stop the bluster but he's still anti-casino sex. I told him, this is how marriages fall apart. All the excitement just dies. I mean really, what's the point of being married if you aren't taking chances on being arrested for public indecency at your sister's birthday party?
Right? I think it's hot!
Also you should change the name of this post to Confessions or something, we don't really use the FFFC acronym on TIP. Might get more people in here
ML is right now berating someone for posting about the giant Chinese characters a non-Chinese woman got on her back to memorialize the two 11 week miscarriages someone on MM had. It's full of "you can't tell someone how to grieve" and "I feel badly for her losses".
And I'm totally nodding my head at the OP.
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
I saw that too and completely agreed with the OP. I understand wanting to do something to memorialize your loss. I understand even wanting to get a tattoo. But the Chinese character tattoos are so common and unoriginal. They're a way to get a tattoo without actually thinking about what you want it to say. No one will ever ever ask you about them because we're all sick of seeing them, and given that she's white as the new driven snow I'm guessing they have no cultural significance.
I'm might be a cold-hearted shrew, but I'm imagining being instantly annoyed by a woman like that trying to shoe-horn the tattoos in to a conversation.
I get seriously *ANGRY* when my battery-acid voiced co-irker mispronounces (what seem to me) to be the MOST SIMPLE NAMES TO PRONOUNCE! I want to throw my stapler at her face so hard.
Yesterday she pronounced Janie as rhyming with Danny and I cant remember the last name now but it was something seriously simple and she mispronounced that as well. I was throwing dirty looks at her back.
She also has a habit of just fuuucking commenting on sh!t to no one in particular. Like yesterday she loudly proclaimed "I SMELL FRESH COFFEE! MMMM I LOVE FRESH COFFEE!" ....twice. She also often loudly whines things like "OW MY STOMACH HUUUUUURTS!" or "NO ONE IS ANSWERIIIIING THE PHOOOONE" and the whole time I look like this:
There is a thread on P&CE about what "fat" people eat and some of the former fat people or people who know someone who used to be fat now live their lives being constantly hungry as thin people.
I just can't do it. I wold rather die at 54 of heart disease than live to 89 being hungry all the time.
It saddens me that I think this way, but I just can't imagine that core, fundamental idea being changed in my mind.
I agree with you. And I'm so sick of people who get thin and then become smug about it. I have a coworker who's been on a diet for like 2 weeks and she walks around, reciting the calories of everything everyone's eating and when someone says they're trying to make a more healthy food choice... she cheers them on like the fooking Diet Guru.
And she still has a beer belly. So STFU!
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
awww ESD.
((hugs))
That drives me INSANE. Kudos for trying to get healthy, but don't preach it to everyone else.
I've been tracking calories for a long long time, because it works for me. So yeah, I can't probably ballpark what's in what someone is eating.... so I use it to ballpark what I am eating. No one wants that information. If they did, they would look it up. STFU!
This face is win. My "roommate" talks to herself sometimes and it's mildly infuriating. I never know if she's talking to me or not and I don't want to be rude. At least this woman sounds like you can zone her out without consequence.
We have floor to ceiling windows behind our desks at work. My coworker just pointed out the first chipmunk sighting of the season. I'll be spending the rest of the day watching for more chipmunks (and nesting...).
OMG now I just a completely different co-irker pronounce Fran?ois as France-ee-osis.
WTMF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??!!
LAME!
We've totally hit the emergency stairs at several local mall restaurants for the same reason (deciding how to spend the time when we have to be out there for another reason and don't want to blow cash at the mall). I am pretty sure we've been either on camera or at least heard making noises at least once.
If you watch "A History Of Violence" together, maybe he will see how hot stair sex can be, and it will change his mind.