It’s the 14th and nobody is selling real Christmas trees? What the scrooge-y heck?!! and no, I am not paying $85 for 5’ blue spruce. I’d rather donate to a charity at that price point…
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We got a holiday Christmas card from my husband’s nephew and were a little shocked that he and his wife now have two kids. We weren’t aware of the existence of the second one! I messaged DH’s sister and she said she thought we knew. The baby was born on November 8. DH’s family is sure different than mine, ha!
The long and painful journey has come to an end. The house is SOLD. Buyer 2 (I had thought that deal was dead) closed today.
I never want to sell a house again in my life. The entire process is broken - I don’t even know where to begin to explain how and why.
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I know the salary wasn’t what you had hoped for, but no one in your household has had a job for 6 months and the benefits and possibilities for advancement were great. And, I hate to say it, but you’ve been out of the workforce for 7 years and you are trying to change fields. You are going to get entry-level pay. I won’t say it because I value our relationship. And you all have savings to see you through. And maybe things will work out the way you hope.
Also, my cousin died of ALS today. Not a great day here.
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Nevermind
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One day after close, new owners have dumpster parked in my driveway! Don’t know why they were not in a bigger hurry to close - winter is coming.
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Tired of parents saying they are crushed, or their kid is devastated, because they didn’t get into their <10% acceptance rate school via ED/REA.
Do people not understand math probabilities?
Parents need to do a better job of explaining what a 90-95% rejection rate actually, truly, really means, and stop focusing so much emotional energy on ED. There are another 7-15 schools still in play.
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Sad that it’s a moral dilemma for you to decide if you’ll attend a Christmas Eve service with us. 
Especially since I attended my parents’ fundamentalist church I didn’t agree with every time I visited them. It’s just a show of respect in my eyes.
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yes,I am not responding to his texts. It was ignore/mute him or outright block him and/or shoot off my mouth. To wit : after FOUR days of mercilessly detailed hourly updates about his DiL and mansplaining labor to me, YES I posted a comment “we have a baby at last” for my 52 Facebook friends. The only ones who even KNOW her are FAMILY WHO ALREADY KNEW, right down to baby name and “approved” spelling of the nickname (she will grow to 13 and decide on another one!!!) which was announced in a big reveal at the small shower that lasted 4 hours with 75 people! OMG! Just stopppppppppp.
So YES it seemed like a way to participate and YES I deleted it once scolded for reasons of keeping the peace but CHEESEANDRICE
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I probably sound ungrateful, but I have to say this somewhere…
I love you, and I like See’s candy a lot, but I really don’t need over 6 pounds of chocolate, especially from someone who simply shouldn’t be spending the money. (Not to mention I’m sure my son already got me two cans of my favorites, I got him a 2 pound box of his favorites, and I got my husband two boxes of what he really likes).
Have to go pick up our cat’s cremated remains tonight. it sucks.
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My kitty with kidney disease has stopped eating. I think his time is short.
I simply do not see the point of a lengthy thread on experiences in applying to college where the vast majority of posts deliberately omit the names of colleges. How is this helpful to anyone trying to glean useful information for their kids later on?
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Censorship Is the Refuge of the Weak.
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Very wet and windy today. So glad to have the house sold and not have to worry about water in the basement or trees coming down.
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How can C.S. Lewis’s Christmas Sermon be so misunderstood? Those who use it to justify their very unchristian beliefs need to read it more carefully.
Well dang. Roof started leaking. Sigh.
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I’m sorry that your youngest child has had problems with drugs and alcohol. It’s gut wrenching and I can only imagine how hard it’s been on you & your DH.
BUT just because YOUR kid went through that doesn’t mean that OUR kids “are definitely hiding drugs & alcohol” in the house from DH & I. Besides, you haven’t seen or spoken to my kids in 13 years, so how would you even know what kind of people my kids are?
It’s only out of respect of the long standing friendship that your husband & my DH have had that I don’t yell at you. You have always been a pushy, self-righteous person who thinks and acts like you are better than everybody else. 13 years my DH & your husband haven’t seen each other in person and after 2 hr, you kick my DH out of your house.
Maybe there’s a reason why your youngest child doesn’t want anything to do with you. Maybe you need to stop lecturing the kid and just love her. Stop trying to be so controlling.
Meanwhile, I’m glad that I no longer have to pretend to be polite to you anymore. in fact, I don’t have to see you or talk to you ever again. I’m glad about that.
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Comparison is the thief of joy…put on internal repeat loop!
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To the duo who performed at the senior center…
Maybe you needed community service hours. Maybe you thought this would be nice. Maybe you wanted an audience.
Your audience was old, but not deaf.
You may want to practice next time.
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