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kvruns

I didn't watch the Meghan and Harry special but I saw an article on it - they got married 3 days before the wedding everyone saw and didn't tell anyone until this Oprah interview 

mrsconn23

I watched the whole thing.  Fuck the Royal family.  Also, The Crown is a love letter to their asses. I do have some sympathy for Harry for how difficult it must have been to break away and realize the family relationships will never be the same and/or may never recover.  That's hard, no matter the truth of the situation.  But damn that was a lot of bombs to throw in 2 hours. 

OMG this weekend was ridic.  We got the living room painted and most of the detail work done.  We didn't get any flooring pulled up, but we'll start that tonight.  

Yesterday, our neighbor was having a dead tree taken down.  They came over and offered to take down our dead tree.  The price was right (we'd looked into it and it was going to be $$$$$ and they offered to do it for $$).  We still have a ton of wood to split, but it's one worry off our plate since the tree had a shit ton of limbs come down during a nasty storm last year and had been something we'd been wary about for awhile now. 

We're going to get our floors on Weds and they'll be installed next weekend!  Whee! 

CharmedPam

fun stuff, @mrsconn23.  The feeling of everything being done is like no other!
@kvruns, I didn’t see it, nor do I really care about any of the Royals, but was was their reasoning behind the 3 day ahead thing? 

Weekend was meh. I was on a zoom call Friday evening, and some of my new friends got into a tiff.  Happened so fast, and I didn’t even know why it happened or what was even said?  I stayed up till 2:40 talking to the people left and i hope it’s smoothed over for everyone  for this weekend. Saturday, most of the morning I was hungover. M came over and we went to chick-fil-a for lunch. His first time ever!! I couldn’t beileve it. We walked outside for a bit, taking advantage of this good weather, had a shamrock shake, home for TV and pizza.  Sunday, we have a ritual of Little House on the Prairie watching from 9-2, while we usually comment and make fun of it.  Often googling how accurate the show is. 

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Casadena

H wasn't interested in watching Harry and Meghan last night but I want to watch soon!  I've been reading about it and don't care about spoilers - sounds intense.  

We're heading out shortly for an appointment at the vanity/solid surface bath and shower place.  Our plumber/handyman who is helping us recommended we look at "solid surface" shower walls as opposed to tile or an insert.  The only seams would be in the corners and apparently it's becoming much more popular?  Not totally sure what we will decide but nice to see what the options are.  

Weekend was super nice.  We spend all morning saturday outside and went outside 2 different times yesterday to play.  It was so nice to be in the fresh air.  Babe has a little cold but seems to feel a little better this morning even though he's a bit stuffy.  

@mrsconn23 that's awesome about the tree!!  It's amazing how much $$ removal can be sometimes.  

mrsconn23

@CharmedPam, they wanted something for themselves because they felt the royal wedding of it all wasn't for 'them' as a couple, but for show for the family. 

MissKittyDanger

Didn't watch but saw enough to be upset. The headlines comparing Meghan and Kate are terrible.
She reached out when she had PPD and basically got denied.

Harry is protecting her like he wished someone protected his mother.

ILoveBeachMusic

I watched the last half of the M&H special. I understand their anger against the tabloids and all the racist stuff. I think it is really sad that his family relationships have been torn apart (except with the Queen and Prince Philip). However, I have no sympathy for "they took financial support away from me". Seriously! Senior royals are paid for doing their "jobs". If you don't do the job, you don't get paid. That money is from the taxpayers FFS. Also I seem to remember but may be wrong, the before they got married/engaged Harry said he wanted to make sure she understood what royal life would be like(at least as much as possible). So I don't understand how they can say she had no idea what it would be like. I'm sure they will now be ostracized from anything royal. I really hope their marriage works so that have each other for support.

Not much going on today. I need to read a book I borrowed from a friend last fall so that I can return it LOL! I got my first Pfizer shot on Friday. My arm was just sore on Saturday. That is the usual side effect for the first shot. The second one will be on the 26th - those side effects are usually more severe but better than having Covid!

CharmedPam

mrsconn23 said:

@CharmedPam, they wanted something for themselves because they felt the royal wedding of it all wasn't for 'them' as a couple, but for show for the family. 

I can get behind that actually.  Their PPD really IS a PPD. So pandemics and being a princess when you don’t want to be a princess are my two non side eyes.

mrsconn23

Also the only. "sure, Jan" moment I had was when Meghan was all "I just had no idea what I was getting into! I didn't google anything!"  I mean I fully believe she didn't know the depth of what being a member of the Royal Family would be, but like you can find out stuff.  What happened to Diana didn't happen in a vacuum. 

MissKittyDanger

Saturday we were suppose to see IL's but M had rough dairy issues night before and was still not feeling great, then I must have eaten something that didn't digest well because I was having horrible issues.
Once it was out of our systems, we were fine.

Sunday we did go. BK didn't nap, so just before dinner she ended up curling up with a blanket on SFIL's lap and watching frozen. It was so sweet.
She basically just ate rice and ice cream for dinner lol

mrsconn23

MissKittyDanger said:

Didn't watch but saw enough to be upset. The headlines comparing Meghan and Kate are terrible.
She reached out when she had PPD and basically got denied.

Harry is protecting her like he wished someone protected his mother.

She was actually pregnant when she was having suicidal ideations.   

MyNameIsNot

It was a great weekend here. Friday I had just finished work and was outside with the pup when I got a call from the recruiter on the role I'd interviewed for. I got the offer! It's a promotion and comes with a nice pay bump, so I'll be starting the new role in April! 

The rest of the weekend wound up just being celebratory merriment. We drank a bottle of champagne and ordered splurge take-out and did basically nothing productive. Now I'm waiting for my official documents to get processed and waiting for my current manager to pop up available so that we can figure out a transition plan. 

MissKittyDanger

mrsconn23 said:

MissKittyDanger said:

Didn't watch but saw enough to be upset. The headlines comparing Meghan and Kate are terrible.
She reached out when she had PPD and basically got denied.

Harry is protecting her like he wished someone protected his mother.

She was actually pregnant when she was having suicidal ideations.   

Oh I must have misunderstood.  

Regardless she reached out! Urg ... that's just hard to hear

kvruns

congrats @MyNameIsNot that's awesome

kvruns

Weekend was decent here, got a nice amount of outside time enjoying the sun. I'm trying to do better of being in the moment with B even though somedays I have no desire to play. Being in the sun definitely helped though. 

Work is busy busy busy. Boss was out with family emergency stuff so some more fell on my plate. She's kinda back this week but I'm trying to step in where I can to take things off her plate. The looming new stimulus plan is going to throw a wrench in things too. I'm sure it will happen tomorrow when I'm booked in meetings all day and have to find a way to get a write up out - that's how it always goes!

Jen4948

My bosses scrambled today's schedule and moved everything into the afternoon and evening, screwing up my plans for the evening. Plus I had to remove an article that took me forever to put up on the website (full of graphics) because "it read too much like an ad." I actually do agree that it read too much like an ad but was kid-gloving the author and he was a little prickly to work with. 

So Harry and Meghan had (literally) a PPD on their "wedding day." But it is sad that Meghan asked for help and The Firm wouldn't give it.

mrsconn23

ILoveBeachMusic said:

I watched the last half of the M&H special. I understand their anger against the tabloids and all the racist stuff. I think it is really sad that his family relationships have been torn apart (except with the Queen and Prince Philip). However, I have no sympathy for "they took financial support away from me". Seriously! Senior royals are paid for doing their "jobs". If you don't do the job, you don't get paid. That money is from the taxpayers FFS. Also I seem to remember but may be wrong, the before they got married/engaged Harry said he wanted to make sure she understood what royal life would be like(at least as much as possible). So I don't understand how they can say she had no idea what it would be like. I'm sure they will now be ostracized from anything royal. I really hope their marriage works so that have each other for support.

See, I read it more as they were told they were going to have some sort of income at least for a time and then it was pulled, and quickly. before they had other means and they were given no reason.  I think it was just another blow in the whole situation for them.  They said they made the entertainment deals so they can have income other than what Diana left Harry.  Which it sounds like they're blending what they care about and also her previous career and industry contacts.  It's murky at best and they've quickly made it work. (Yes, they have a TON of privilege and had a massive leg up by being famous and the controversy surrounding their entire relationship)

Whether or not they 'deserved' to continue to get paid is...up for debate.  But I also think being a royal person isn't a job, so the whole notion of it being paid to 'be' is outdated and should be challenged.  I know there's a lot of Brits who loathe the Royal family because they take tax money to do appearances and say nothing. 

missJeanLouise

@MyNameIsNot Congratulations!

I didn't watch, might eventually, but just generally don't care much.

Nothing a lot going on here. Counting down the weeks until Ramadan, then it will almost be time for our trip to the States for the summer. FX things will be half way normal by then.

mrsconn23

Casadena said:

@mrsconn23 that's awesome about the tree!!  It's amazing how much $$ removal can be sometimes.  

DH did some investigating and it was going to be at least $1k and possibly closer to $1500 to $2k.  They offered well below $1k. 

Our neighbor works for his FIL's construction business and knew these tree guys through that.  I know he and DH have chatted on and off about the trees.  It was nice of him to help us out and get them more business in the process.  

ILoveBeachMusic

mrsconn23 said:

ILoveBeachMusic said:

I watched the last half of the M&H special. I understand their anger against the tabloids and all the racist stuff. I think it is really sad that his family relationships have been torn apart (except with the Queen and Prince Philip). However, I have no sympathy for "they took financial support away from me". Seriously! Senior royals are paid for doing their "jobs". If you don't do the job, you don't get paid. That money is from the taxpayers FFS. Also I seem to remember but may be wrong, the before they got married/engaged Harry said he wanted to make sure she understood what royal life would be like(at least as much as possible). So I don't understand how they can say she had no idea what it would be like. I'm sure they will now be ostracized from anything royal. I really hope their marriage works so that have each other for support.

See, I read it more as they were told they were going to have some sort of income at least for a time and then it was pulled, and quickly. before they had other means and they were given no reason.  I think it was just another blow in the whole situation for them.  They said they made the entertainment deals so they can have income other than what Diana left Harry.  Which it sounds like they're blending what they care about and also her previous career and industry contacts.  It's murky at best and they've quickly made it work. (Yes, they have a TON of privilege and had a massive leg up by being famous and the controversy surrounding their entire relationship)

Whether or not they 'deserved' to continue to get paid is...up for debate.  But I also think being a royal person isn't a job, so the whole notion of it being paid to 'be' is outdated and should be challenged.  I know there's a lot of Brits who loathe the Royal family because they take tax money to do appearances and say nothing. 

I know there are a lot of Brits against having a monarchy. I don't have a dog in that fight lol. However, they(the royals) do all talk about their responsibilities as being royal - that is what they are paid for. I have to laugh that they had to scramble to supplement their monies from Diana - it was millions of pounds! I have no sympathy - there are people who are really suffering from job lost and reduced income so don't complain about you only have your inheritance to live off of! Non senior members of the royalty have to work real jobs. They stepped back from being senior members; therefore, expect to work. On a side note, I didn't realize that "senior" royals change as minor children reach majority. Princess Margaret was demoted from seniority when Prince Edward was of age. Her income was reduced and she wasn't happy about it according to The Crown (who knows if that part is accurate). I thought that was interesting. So eventually, I guess, Harry and Meghan would no longer be senior royals.

kvruns

I thought that about their income too, I mean Meghan would presumably have had income from being an actress and whatever you get paid for shows reairing. So I'm sure it was a shock to have it taken away - and man that would suck - they should have had other money aside from the inheritance anyway on which to live. Now I don't know how much the security and stuff they wanted costs, I'm sure that would be spent quickly. 

edit: this talks about Meghan's net worth estimates which is interesting https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a35727672/meghan-markle-net-worth/

banana468

The payment part to them is so fuzzy to me and either Harry is just that naïve or the Royals really hurt them.  That said, if they're sad that they have to work I am going to lose sympathy.  This is what people do and you can't eat your cake and have it too. 

However until the royal family puts more weight on the allegations made towards Prince Andrew vs. those surrounding Megan and Harry I don't have a lot of care in what they say.   

Weekend was decent.  I pulled out the Instant Pot and made delicious chicken thighs with marinara sauce (served over polenta) and then yesterday I made pulled pork.  After making pulled pork in the oven for the Daytona 500 and using 5 hours in my oven I am preferring this method.  Start to finish including cutting up the pork and browning it first was 2 hours done and dusted.     

STARMOON44

Charles is worth $100 million dollars. Harry has $10 million, roughly half of it tied up in his house. If it’s true that security was suddenly pulled and Charles didn’t offer to cover the cost out of his personal funds going forward, even temporarily, I think that’s unforgivable. 

mrsconn23

ILoveBeachMusic said:

mrsconn23 said:

ILoveBeachMusic said:

I watched the last half of the M&H special. I understand their anger against the tabloids and all the racist stuff. I think it is really sad that his family relationships have been torn apart (except with the Queen and Prince Philip). However, I have no sympathy for "they took financial support away from me". Seriously! Senior royals are paid for doing their "jobs". If you don't do the job, you don't get paid. That money is from the taxpayers FFS. Also I seem to remember but may be wrong, the before they got married/engaged Harry said he wanted to make sure she understood what royal life would be like(at least as much as possible). So I don't understand how they can say she had no idea what it would be like. I'm sure they will now be ostracized from anything royal. I really hope their marriage works so that have each other for support.

See, I read it more as they were told they were going to have some sort of income at least for a time and then it was pulled, and quickly. before they had other means and they were given no reason.  I think it was just another blow in the whole situation for them.  They said they made the entertainment deals so they can have income other than what Diana left Harry.  Which it sounds like they're blending what they care about and also her previous career and industry contacts.  It's murky at best and they've quickly made it work. (Yes, they have a TON of privilege and had a massive leg up by being famous and the controversy surrounding their entire relationship)

Whether or not they 'deserved' to continue to get paid is...up for debate.  But I also think being a royal person isn't a job, so the whole notion of it being paid to 'be' is outdated and should be challenged.  I know there's a lot of Brits who loathe the Royal family because they take tax money to do appearances and say nothing. 

I know there are a lot of Brits against having a monarchy. I don't have a dog in that fight lol. However, they(the royals) do all talk about their responsibilities as being royal - that is what they are paid for. I have to laugh that they had to scramble to supplement their monies from Diana - it was millions of pounds! I have no sympathy - there are people who are really suffering from job lost and reduced income so don't complain about you only have your inheritance to live off of! Non senior members of the royalty have to work real jobs. They stepped back from being senior members; therefore, expect to work. On a side note, I didn't realize that "senior" royals change as minor children reach majority. Princess Margaret was demoted from seniority when Prince Edward was of age. Her income was reduced and she wasn't happy about it according to The Crown (who knows if that part is accurate). I thought that was interesting. So eventually, I guess, Harry and Meghan would no longer be senior royals.

Oh I totally think the money was waxed on about for too long.  That time could have been better spent. 

I also felt like the were more upset about the lack of security detail than money.  I do completely understand their feelings of shock when they were told Archie would not be protected since they were still working royals.  However, I'm curious to know how far that extends in the royal family anyway.  Are Fergie, Beatrice, and Eugenie protected under the crown or do they have to hire their own if they want it?  

mrsconn23

banana468 said:

The payment part to them is so fuzzy to me and either Harry is just that naïve or the Royals really hurt them.  That said, if they're sad that they have to work I am going to lose sympathy.  This is what people do and you can't eat your cake and have it too. 

I don't think they're upset they have to make their own income.  I think they were explaining why they are doing what they're doing now (not that they have to) because there has been criticism that they've 'gone Hollywood'.  But why wouldn't they make money in a way they know how to and where there is interest in paying them to do so? 

MissKittyDanger

Good news - warm weather coming

Bad news - BK has zero rain boots and I need to purchase this week lol

It's suppose to be above 0 for basically the next 2 weeks with rain on Thursday.
I'm looking at these boots:

Toddler Girl's New Arrivals | Shop Online | JOEFRESH.COM

Also MIL showed us one of BK's bday gifts - it's a tiny apron with unicorns on it! It might just be dress up but we're hoping BK will be more into helping in the kitchen soon.

I think tonight I may have her try on her "splash suit" tonight - in case you aren't familiar, it's basically like a snow suit but for water/rain play. We have splash pants at home but daycare it's easier to send the whole suit lol We can also change her clothes easier.

short+sassy

My day really had the rug pulled out from under it!  I was supposed to have my second vaccination shot in MS and I'd taken the whole day off work to do that.  I wanted to double check my appointment time, plus I also needed to print my confirmation e-mail that has the bar code and bring it with me.  I opened the e-mail I thought it was, but it was just a reminder to schedule my second shot.  I called the 1-800 number and found out they had no record I'd made the appointment!  WTF.  Really irritating and annoying, because I know I made the appointment on their website.  I did it the afternoon I got home after getting the first shot.

A few bright sides, all things considered.  The customer service rep I talked to was able to make an appointment for next Tues. (March 16th).  I already got the confirmation e-mail for that (my precious).  At least I found out before I made the 4-hour r/t to Biloxi, because that would have hugely pissed me off.  I also found out at 8:15am, so I sent my boss an e-mail about what happened and still came into work.  I lost two hours of the day that I'll need to take as vacation time, but a lot better than losing the whole day, especially since I'll need to take a sick day next Tuesday for the same thing.

I'm not really upset anymore, but I am still feeling discombobulated, lol.

banana468

mrsconn23 said:

banana468 said:

The payment part to them is so fuzzy to me and either Harry is just that naïve or the Royals really hurt them.  That said, if they're sad that they have to work I am going to lose sympathy.  This is what people do and you can't eat your cake and have it too. 

I don't think they're upset they have to make their own income.  I think they were explaining why they are doing what they're doing now (not that they have to) because there has been criticism that they've 'gone Hollywood'.  But why wouldn't they make money in a way they know how to and where there is interest in paying them to do so? 

Got it.  I haven't watched any of the interview and appreciate the explanation.  

It makes a ton of sense that they'd go with what they know.  It's also got to be different to be in a Hollywood public eye vs. a British public eye when they have some semblance of control in the US vs. in Britain where they were still subject to the scrutiny. 

climbingsingle

I haven't watched the interview yet but I've seen some articles posted about the highlights. I feel awful for both of them. It's like they can never win. "No, we won't protect you or get you any help you desperately need but how dare you walk away when we shit on you." "Go make your own money BUT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

VarunaTT

Black Twitter was hot over that interview, for good reason.  I haven't watched it, IDK if I will.  I don't really care about the royal family, but I  I don't think Meghan was prepared for the massive racism that shot her way.  There was one article that compared other articles about Kate and Meghan touching their own pregnant stomachs.  The articles about Kate were all glowing and how wonderful her pregnancy look was and how sad they were about her difficulties; the articles about Meghan were how she was trying to draw attention to herself and she should just stop being such an AW about her pregnancy.

I hibernated this weekend.  I should've gone outside and let the sun touch my skin, but I just couldn't convince myself out.  I did do laundry and some other chores I needed to do, so that was good.  Otherwise, SSDD.

charlotte989875

I watched the interview- I don’t care how they make their money or how much tea they spill on the Royals- the racism and indifference and harm they were subjected to be people who are supposed to be family is gross. Get that money.