1st day of Summer!

beachyone15 · June 2016

@minskat30 - Adorable pics! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow and keeping my fingers crossed that she gives mommy a little break.

minskat30 · June 2016

@labro - Anything vertical or semi vertical and she starts wailing...thankfully she does tucker herself out for a few hours at night. Otherwise I'd go nuts. I wish we lived closer too...what is this reason 512 to move to the good state of Georgia?

labro · June 2016

@minskat30
Reason 513: Our governor is slightly less of an asshole than Scott Walker AND he isn't getting paid off by the Koch brothers.

GoldenPenguin · June 2016

@minskat30 - literally cannot. I am so 100,000,000% anti-kids of my own, and those pictures made *MY* ovaries twitch, so that's saying something.

AlPacina · June 2016

@swazzle – I have never been to a show with more than one encore I don’t think. That sounds way stupid. Another kitten for you!

@LizzyTish88 – Is a jack and jill one of those fundraising parties? How was that? I know girls on the other TK boards loathe them. I’ve still never even heard of one happening by anyone I know.

@untouchablets – Yay! It’s your last week!!

@PamBeesly524 – The waiter thought you didn’t need 1.5 scoops of ice cream?!? That’s not even a double scoop! He doesn’t deserve to serve people food with an attitude like that.

@beachyone15 – They shouldn’t have even made Finding Dory. If you’re gonna start advertising it 3 years early, it had better be the funniest fucking movie ever.

@GoldenPenguin – Your dogs are so freaking snuggly and adorable!! I want them to use me as a pillow instead.

@500days – I always loved going back and visiting my teachers from my old schools. Then again, I was a huge dork. Happy summer vacation!

@labro – Under Armour is the freaking bomb. I’m so glad your ladies will be comfy!

@eilis1228 – Ooooo, tell me some of your The Office drinking game rules! I hope you love Dream Girls. It’s one show I’ve still never seen. . . I haven’t seen the new Miss Peregrine trailer yet. I will watch it later! I gotta go get the next book soon too.

@MissKittyDanger – I’m sorry you got so sick! That sounds just awful. Glad you're feeling better again.

@speakeasy14 – Your intern should be delivering newspapers for a job. It sounds like that’s about the brain capacity he can handle.

@TwoDimes – What a great surprise to see your aunt and uncle!

@minskat30 – Those pictures are the absolute greatest! What an awesome picture with her daddy!

AlPacina · June 2016

At this point in the day I couldn't convince myself to only respond to a couple of people. Although now everyone is gone and won't read what I wrote anyway, haha.

This weekend I finished The Girl You Left Behind, and I highly recommend it to my fellow readers. It's extremely emotional, but it's worth reading until the end. There is a prequel, apparently, so I think I might read that one next. Jojo Moyes writes in exactly the style I enjoy reading.

My trip out of town was nice. We had pretty good weather, but unfortunately my BF ended up in a white out at the mountain and didn't even really get to start ascending because they kept missing the trailhead. I'm glad they made the right decision to turn back. However, I DID NOT realize that by staying behind with the girls at the rental house, it also meant I'd be hanging out with four boys between 8 and 11 years old.

Here y'all are posting amazing baby pictures and getting me excited to have my own babies someday. Then I spend a weekend with those psychopaths and now I'm like NOOOOOOO.

labro · June 2016

@AlPacina I just wanted to say I'm still here to read your stuff! And ugh...a weekend stuck with a bunch of 8-11 year boys sounds pretty nightmareish to me!!! Luckily unless you plan on having a BUNCH of kids, it should be...mostly not horribly annoying most of the time.

I read The Girl You Left Behind but I had no idea there was a prequel! I'll have to check it out!

AlPacina · June 2016

@labro - I made the mistake of laughing at a fart joke one of them made, accompanied by an actual fart.... So then they just continuously made fart jokes (meaning mostly just farting on or near people), and then would look over to see if I was watching. I blame myself and my 12 year old boy-ish sense of humor.

Have you read any other Moyes books? That's my second one now, but I saw she has a ton of them!

eilis1228 · June 2016

@AlPacina I'm here! Some of the rules we did:

Anytime Michael messes up a common saying
Anytime Michael and Jan call each other "babe"
Anytime Jim gives one of his looks to the camera
Anytime the cameramen shoot through blinds
Anytime Stanley is cranky
Anytime Stanley does a crossword
Anytime Phyllis gets sexual
Anytime Angela talks about her cats
Anytime Michael is mean to Toby
Anytime Andy sings

We were sloshed! There are so many other ones we could have done too. Like anytime Michael and Darryl talk about black culture. Or anytime Dwight mentions beets. Or anytime Assistant TO the Regional Manager is said. Ahhh so many golden opportunities there.

Thanks for the rec on the Jojo Moyes book! I added it to my Goodreads wish list.

Also, this weekend I learned that the Hamilton soundtrack is on Spotify. I feel like such a dumbass for not checking there. I started listening to it today and thought of you and @GoldenPenguin. It's so good! And also SO long!

Lastly, hanging out with 8 and 11 year old boys all weekend sounds awful. That is the best birth control out there.

But it sounds like they thought you were pretty cool if they were trying to make you laugh all weekend, even if it was gross and annoying after a while.

AlPacina · June 2016

@eilis1228 - Wow, yea, you definitely set up those rules to get pretty hammered. I feel like especially 5, 9, and 10 because they are constant. Speaking of #9, Toby's going away party is simultaneously the saddest and most hilarious thing. You should just watch that episode and be consistently chugging beers until it's over, lol. Or until you pass out.

Let me know what you think of Hamilton as you continue to listen to it! I seriously can't stop. I know @GoldenPenguin and I would be MORE THAN HAPPY to get some group convos going.

LizzyTish88 · June 2016

@AlPacina The shower I went to was not one of those fundraising things. It was called a jack and jill because both men and women were invited. It technically wasn't called anything, just the invite was addressed to both BF and myself. If it were one of those things, I would have declined. I think people who have those fundraiser things try to call it "cute" names like "Jack and Jill" or "Stag and Doe" to get people to not think it's as tacky, which is wrong.

At any rate, there was plenty of food (the bride and groom got to take a ton home), and her parents hosted it to the fullest. There was a whole table with alcohol, along with a full open bar.

labro · June 2016

@LizzTish88 Huh, I guess I've always called it a co/ed or couples shower. Jack and Jill to me always equaled those fundraising things.

LizzyTish88 · June 2016

@labro Honestly I never heard of those fundraising party things until I came to TK. It's not something that is common in my area, at least that I know of.

GoldenPenguin · June 2016

LizzyTish88 said:

@labro Honestly I never heard of those fundraising party things until I came to TK. It's not something that is common in my area, at least that I know of.

Same here. I've known lots of people who have had Jack & Jill wedding/baby/etc. showers, and it's just because both men & women were invited. I had never ever heard of a fundraising "shower" until TK.

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