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Now it's morning and you've changed it back to "Married". And you're not answering anyone's questions. No doubt soon, like in the past, you'll start complaining that people are sticking their nose into your business. Honey, you're the one putting it on FB. You don't want people to know, keep it to yourself. Oh, but then you would just complain that nobody cares, wouldn't you? And either way, nobody understands. Of course not.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
And yes, I've just unsubscribed from your updates.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Please stop looking down your nose at our school. Yes, our school is smaller than yours but we are in an older neighborhood. Yes, our gym is also smaller than yours. So we are sorry we have limited seating. But would you like to know what we have that is not limited?
We have manners. We teach our students not to be sore losers and that it is ok if we don't win because we are an elementary school and with our basketball team, it really is all for fun.
- Elena
We have higher test scores because we have a big focus on academics. Our teachers are dedicated to making sure their students succeed.
- Elena
We teach our students not to bully and to also respect others. When we come to your school we are a good representative of our school. We do not jump up and down trying to dislodge your security camera. Please don't do that to ours.
- Elena
PS- yes the camera was on so we did see your child doing that while you just stood there and let him.
- Elena
Really? And today your coach is going to accuse our team of cheating?!? She was one of the referees!
- Elena
from iPhone
The teams were supposed to play again today but apparently the other school chose to cancel instead. Isn't that a forfeit and we win by default?
- Elena
I don't even know. It's so weird. Started 2 weeks ago and i didn't really pay any attention to it, but it's not going away. I injured my knee in high school and it took several years to fully heal, but hasn't been a problem since my early 20s. I don't have time for this! Grrr.
- Que Sarah Sarah
I guess yelling at students is the perfect way to start Valentine's Day at our school! Lighten up a little bit! The kids are excited about their parties this afternoon!
He makes me call the insurance company to fix HIS pick-up truck windshield. I am now on the call 15 minutes with some agent who neither recognizes our policy# and after reading the VIN# she keeps insisting I tell her what type of vehicle. Me: Chevy 98 pick-up, extended cab, shortbed. TK is on the registration. We still don't exist.
I hand phone to husband while he is peeing, he can answer his own damn truck questions. This would be like me having him call my gynecologist to discuss wah-hoo issues.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
My alcoholic and abusive father left and divorced my mother when I was 11...I haven't see him in over 25 years. I grew up poor since he refused to pay child support. Now I hear that my mother is considering remarrying him. I'm speechless...
At least you're an adult. My parents, who divorced when I was 8 would still hook up from time to time and at one point mom moved back in. She left us with my drunk father. It confused and infuriated me. I have no love for my mother to this day. That warm fuzzy feeling you're supposed to have for mom, NOPE.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
I guess...I kinda feel like that lost kid I was at 12 again you know the kid who just shows up at the neighbors house at dinner time hoping they will have some pity and feed you cause your drunk dad took off and your mom is too busy partying all the time to even remember she has kids...ok I'm bitter. I said it.
- furrworld
dude, if she wants to fuck up the remainder of her life, let her. you don't have to be a part of it. if she doesn't realize what she is doing or how it hurts others, she never will. can't change her.
- Mary Carmen
I can't be a part of it and neither will my brother.
- furrworld
Well there you go. Just imagine how much less complicated life will be now that you don't have to worry about her. I know it sounds harsh, but she is making a decision that has some serious consequences.
- Mary Carmen
She's the only mother I got even if she is a sucky one..I will always worry about her. Classic child of an alcoholic.
- furrworld
Sorry I didn't mean to minimize what you're going through I think the main point was going for was I can relate.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
@g dub you didn't no worries. It's sad so many people can relate to this. I appreciated your comments. :)
- furrworld
This will be an absolutely and obscenely unpopular comment, and I mean no disrespect to you, but they're living their lives. They're just two kids in love. Like the rest of us. Take the alcohol out of the equation (and, yes, I know you can't) and it's suddenly not a thing. I'm a kid and I'm a parent; I understand the absolute disconnect that occurs when children start viewing you as a...
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- Akiva
I was thinking the same thing. Love does make people do irrational things, but then again, love isn't everything, which is something that people don't realize. Especially when you are a parent, and someone has done your child wrong, then love goes out the window. However, not everyone thinks like me, so this is when you get a scenario like this one.
- Shevonne
What Shevonne just typed. I'm terrified of Rochelle's fiancé. He's going to be in control of my children. I don't at all like the feeling of powerlessness. I'm absolutely desperate trying to see him as a good father and goddamn him if all of the evidence points to yes, that he's a good father, a good man. I want to hate him for stupid reasons but I can't. I need him to be my best friend...
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- Akiva
The hardest thing to do is realize your parents are people. Furworld, bounce that thought back and forth. Compassion for the failed person and disassociation with the parent part.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
As much as I would like to say they are 2 crazy kids wanting to be together I will never get the memory of my drunk father viciously beating my mother in front of me when I was a child...not a smack...pounding her with his closed fists...that's not love and that's a big reason why I wont have anything todo with it.
- furrworld
I'm so sorry. I know this is something very hard for you.
- Shevonne
Knowing a lot of the backstory of this, I can say that this is not love. It is probably loneliness on both their parts. If I had to wager, I'd say more on your mom's part than your father's. You have to let your mom make her choice, just like she will have to accept the repercussions of those choices. Nothing I know of your dad makes me think he understands or comprehends what love...
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- Mary Carmen
it's happened a few times in the past 3 months. no warning, no explanation, nothing. just the unanswered question of how did i piss them off or offend them.
- Joe The Sausage
But it wasn't me, so REJOICE :oD xxxx
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Have you been interacting with them as they had been doing with you? If so, very odd. If it was more a one dimensional subbing, I guess I would understand more.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
@Janet: if you mean have i been largely ignoring their posts for the past few months (as they have mine) then no, cos i have been commenting on theirs. :P
- Joe The Sausage
@Joe, than the unsub was odd. Nothing in your posts is ever off the park (imho). :)
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
Sorry, kiddo, but you're not ducking out of here to go play all day today. I know what your room looks like, and you were already given the heads up about cleaning today. —Seriously, don't even look all crest-fallen at me or I'll give you a good reason to be bummed out. /parental-lyrics
ABC News broke into programming with grave expression and precise phrasing suitable for reporting an assassination or terrorist attack to tell us about...a pop singer dying? really, ABC News? yes, it's tragic, but it's hardly worth winding us up about. i think i just heard the last of your credibility dropping off the face of the world.
I don't have that many offline friends any more, especially guy friends. And do you know why? It's because my husband drove them off by being an insanely jealous asshole.
Yesterday I went to NYC to meet an online friend that I have known for about 10 years, for the very first time. We went and had coffee and talked and talked, and made origami out of the receipts...then got lost trying to find the Chinese restaurant we planned on eating at, eventually found the place and ate dinner. Then we walked back to the train station and I went home. The whole time I was gone, my husband was at home with my daughter acting all crazy, as if he thought I was never coming back. As if he thought I was running away with another man. He told my daughter that he didn't understand why I needed to go to NYC to meet some strange guy from the internet. My daughter had to explain that this is not some strange guy. It's a friend, someone her age who I have known since he was 16 and he probably looks up to me like I am his aunt or something. She had to explain that I had other children besides her, ones I didn't give birth to, that I am an "internet mom" with many sons and I was finally getting a chance to meet one of my children for the first time. (yeah, she gets it)
- April
If your partner is going to meet up with someone and run off with them, then there is obviously something wrong with your relationship in the first place. I have no issue with my wife meeting other people (male or female) that's she's known online for years. OK, if it was going on all the time, I'd get tired of it, the same as she would if I were to be out at a bar, six nights a week.
- Ian May
We are talking about a guy that doesn't want me working outside the home because I might have to interact with men. My husband would probably make me wear a burka when I left the house, if he thought he could get away with it.
- April
lovely party with a nice spread on the table, but i had to watch everyone else eat cos all my body can handle for the past 5 days is water and probiotic tablets. blergh.
Ha! A screenwriter on the "Making It" podcast said that he hated Final Draft but that it was the best thing out there and he'd totally give the #sideeye to any writer that submitted to him outside of Final Draft.
- Spidra Webster
Apparently, Deutsche Bahn employees really, really, really don't like it when the general public uses their trash bins for recycling.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
As we don't have paper recycling bins in our apartment complex, it was suggested, when I first got here, that we use the bins at the Regional/S-bahn stop across the street from where I live to recycle our paper stuffs.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
Today, I got accosted by one of the DB peeps, who, from what I could (barely) make out, asked if I was going to throw my trash in the bin, that I was not allowed to, and, would call the police if I attempted to do so. I said that I wasn't and walked away, with the guy yelling after me as I was doing so.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
Yeah, it was rude, but y'know, it's -20 C, I'm trying to get my errands done, and threatening me with arrest for my attempts to help the environment, in the gotdamb cold, is NOT the way to influence my way of thinking.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
I came home and told hubs we either find another place to recycle the paper stuffs, or we stop separating the paper out from the rest of the trash. I am NOT having this.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
Should've moved to Ireland. If you were in Ireland, they probably would've asked you what time they could pick it up to recycle it for you.
- Bubba Botts
Here, some towns have mandatory recycling, and some towns don't. People living in the towns that don't, that care about the environment and are willing to go out of their way to dispose of their stuff properly, usually find a nearby town that does and then cart their recycleables to that town's Department of Public Works recycling yard. They never ask you to prove you are a resident before taking your stuff, they just assume you are. Maybe this is an option where you live?
- April
I am so ready to move out of this house which has been a plumbing and rodent nightmare. I love the neighborhood, but damn. Today: water all over the kitchen floor. My dishwasher has sprung a leak.