Say it here cause you can't say it directly- the get it off your chest thread (Part 1)

Hypocrisy is just as unpleasant as dishonesty.

You know your neighborhood has become upscale when the HS punks TP your neighbor’s house with Charmin. :))

Who travels 5500 miles to go a wedding?

Me apparently.

It is painful watching an 8th grader (who has procrastinated) trying to eek out a research paper, a position paper, and a historical fiction pioneer journal. Not quite the 11th hour, but too close for comfort. I hope this will be a painful lesson learned, not the pattern of the future…not sure I would survive the latter (even if she does X_X )

Someone called me “middle aged.” (I’m young at heart)

Why do some posters have to constantly criticize others, especially kids for not already knowing the answer. Yes, there’s some basic information anyone should be able to find with a 2 hour Google search, but there’s a lot of questions, which don’t fall into that category. It gets even more ambiguous on issues where universities play realpolitik and don’t say what they really do or carefully craft their verbiage to avoid saying anything meaningful at all.

Very happy to be a bracket buster!

I really don’t feel like working today.

It’s a lot of money. I hope it’s perfect.

If passports are so important, and need to be safeguarded so carefully, WHY does the State Department require that you send the ORIGINAL passport to them for renewal by the USPS? Even with tracking, there’s no security there - how many times have things gotten lost? And since the address says “National Passport Processing Center”, do they really think that thieves won’t know there’s a passport in there? You can’t even make an appointment to deliver one to a passport center in person unless you need it in less than 2 weeks.

Have they never heard of identity theft, or a still-fairly robust black market in genuine US passports???

I miss my son. Terribly. Breaks are never long enough.

Sometimes I wonder if I have adult ADD. I sometimes wonder if that isn’t an excuse for the fact I no longer feel like working.

I can do this, I can do this. I have no choice. I have to do this. I love you, dear and will do everything I can to help and support you.

Leaving for Culebra tomorrow night. No crises tomorrow at work… please…

I have been telling you for over a year that the way you decided to handle the issue was not effective.
Please do not tell me that I never told you to send it registered mail. I also mentioned having a lawyer write
a letter but you probably do not remember that either. Your lack of street smarts frighten me. Or is this just
another example of your passivity?

I don’t even freaking believe this! I asked to use the Parish House two months ago and was told that I could and I am infuriated. You say you can’t move the confirmation class because you need the TV set! Bull! there’s a whole school building full of TV sets! I’ll talk to the principal myself if you won’t. Father needs to get involved and tell you to move the class and I’ll ask him to if I have to. We’re just not asking that much of you. You can even cancel it and reschedule it another day! You still have time. We’ve belonged to that parish for 26 years and we deserve some consideration too. I am not having my husband’s retirement party in an office!

What kind of 20 year old takes her boyfriend to a cold city and hangs out with her aunt and older sister ? Mine…
By choice <3

Thank you for positive thoughts and prayers as my darling husband undergoes his back surgery tomorrow.

Please let the home inspection go well!

So… your oldest grandchild has gotten married and she is the first. And she looks adorable and blissfully happy in her wedding photo on FB and so does her wife. So how are you liking that? I know you, I know how horrible and judgmental you are and I know that you’re choking on it! You love her and yet you disapprove, don’t you? Which will win? Or will it be an eternal battle?

For the sake of the new couple I hope that love wins out, but to be honest, I hope it’s a painful process for you to get there.