Wake up! Confessions

mkrupar

6 hours LVB? That's insane. That bridge sucks.

[Deleted User]

Ok, I'll be back later.

I am about to meet H for lunch and then run a few earrands.

Moneypenny424

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[QUOTE]I confess that I'm a religious person, but this post rubs me completely the wrong way: <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_attire-accessories_pray-just-ordered-dress-china" rel='nofollow'>http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_attire-accessories_pray-just-ordered-dress-china</a> Yes, God cares about the small stuff. But he also gave us brains, and likes it when we use them instead of doing something everyone said was a bad idea.
Posted by opalsky007[/QUOTE]

I actually thought it was a joke when I first read it--I was disturbed that it wasn't.

**runs off to pray that my MIL buys me peanut butter eggs for Easter**

mkrupar

mmmmm Peanut Butter Eggs. My favorite!

opalsky007

MP: I know, right? It certainly took a weirder turn than I was expecting.

scottswife1106

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[QUOTE]I confess that after almost 3 years of living here, I feel like I should have more friends than I do and I fear that it's because I'm a loser and no one wants to hang out with me. I know it's irrational, but I somehow made friends after college before I moved here and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]

This is one of the reasons why I think we will never move from Chicago. I have a ton of friends and I know that making friends is not the easiest thing to do.

emilyinchile

My favorite part of the A&A thread is where someone prays something about Jesus' blood coming down over the dress. I understand it's a phrase, but I'm pretty sure no one wants a bloody wedding dress.

annakb8

Emily, I thought that post with Jesus' blood was completely sarcastic at first. My mind was blown when I realized further down the thread she was being completely serious.

Birdie1483

LVB and KyKate are literally my only friends outside of work. FI and I were good friends with one of his coworkers for a year or two, but then he got weird, started dating a girl and stopped asking us to hang out.

A lot of the people we know here (coworkers) grew up here, so they have all of their high school or college friends and have no motivation to hang out with new people.  They also don't really think to invite us along when they're going out with other people. FI's friend that I just mentioned would be hanging out with FI and then be like "oh dude I gotta go watch the game with some friends" and then would leave without inviting FI. Like really?

It just makes me feel like a loser, especially after hearing about how a guy I went to high school with has all of these social plans now that he lives here and he's been here less time than me. Is it because he's a single guy or something?

cengle

That thread was a bit weird. I mean, I guess I don't necessarily judge people who pray over things like that, but I certainly can't take them seriously. It's like, dude. God's a bit busy right now. He gave you common sense for a reason.

LDYGTR13

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[QUOTE]My favorite part of the A&A thread is where someone prays something about Jesus' blood coming down over the dress. I understand it's a phrase, but I'm pretty sure no one wants a bloody wedding dress.
Posted by emilyinchile[/QUOTE]

Thats what I was thinking. I think it's cool to say "Hey, big J up in the sky, can you please send some happy vibes to OP b/c she's worried about her dress? Help her calm down and man up. Kthanx. Amen"

aleighk1

FI and I don't really have friends. We do, but they all smoke weed like it's going out of style. We only have one set of couple friends but we do something with like once or twice a month. Mostly we hang out with my family. Lame-o's, party of two.

pinkpinot

I've been having an affair with numerous Cadbury Cream Eggs. 

Snippylynn

wtf.  /that thread is silly.

TheCranberry

I've eaten a whole bag of mini reese's cups between yesterday and today (mostly yesterday), and I want to buy another bag. 

aleighk1

Oh and I have a confession.

I reallllly need a summer job (my after school closes for the summer) and the daycare I worked at for like a year and a half before I moved for college, just called me and asked me to come in for an interview. Really? Do you not remember that I worked there for a year and a half. Do I really need another interview? Anyway, I confess that I don't want to take this job. 1. Because there's a new director and I've heard terrible things about this lady and 2. It's like a 30 minute drive from where I live. 

mkrupar

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[QUOTE]LVB and KyKate are literally my only friends outside of work. :( FI and I were good friends with one of his coworkers for a year or two, but then he got weird, started dating a girl and stopped asking us to hang out. A lot of the people we know here (coworkers) grew up here, so they have all of their high school or college friends and have no motivation to hang out with new people.  They also don't really think to invite us along when they're going out with other people. FI's friend that I just mentioned would be hanging out with FI and then be like "oh dude I gotta go watch the game with some friends" and then would leave without inviting FI. Like really? It just makes me feel like a loser, especially after hearing about how a guy I went to high school with has all of these social plans now that he lives here and he's been here less time than me. Is it because he's a single guy or something?
Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]

Birdie I'm sorry. I was in a pretty lonely position when I was living in Cincinnati. I moved there only know a cousin (who's like 10 years older than me). One of my coworkers had lived there all her life and it was ridiculous how social she was, but yeah, like your FI's friend never thought to invite me along. I got pretty close with coworkers, but it was very rare that we would hang out outside of work regularly. Usually a happy hour once a month or something. Don't get me wrong, I love those people, and wish I could go back to visit sometime soon. It was just hard trying to fit in I guess.

pinkpinot

I've lived in Pennsyltucky for 3 years now, I think and I don't have many friends in the area.  But with 3 dogs and a Kindle, who needs human interaction? 

Beachy730

Let me preface this confession by saying that I'm beyond thrilled to have H back home with me again, so don't get me wrong.  But man, there have been a couple times that I'm thinking "when do you leave again?"  I keep telling myself he's only been home a couple weeks now, he is still enjoying it.  But seriously, put your effing coffee cup in the dishwasher!  And I know he is trying to figure out my routine, but I find myself redoing everything he does at night.  Like he is leaving the wrong lights on, and setting the alarm to the wrong setting.  And then of course there's the selfish things of not wanting to share the TV.

I also confess that I acted like a brat last night when I went to bed because he insisted on watching some show on Nat Geo channel.  He loves that crap and History channel, and I would rather stare at a blank TV then watch it.  So after I decided to go to bed early with him to cuddle for a bit and watch TV since he is back to work this morning, he insisted on watching that.  So I rolled over and read my Kindle, and yelled at him when he wanted to spoon me.  Yep, I was a brat.

Edit: to make sense

LisaChris2011

1) I confess I judged one of my FB friends recently- she is a new mother of an infant child (4-5 months old) and she recently posted about looking forward to an all-girls trip with old college friends in New York.  I judged her at the time for leaving her infant child at home so soon.  I am not a parent, so I probably wrongly judged and I don't know anything about parenting, but I did think "how can you leave your infant baby so soon?"

2) My FI paid off a credit card of mine that I had since 18, that had nearly $3,000 of a balance.  I confess this was probably something I should have paid off, but he offered to do it, and I feel relieved I don't have credit card debt anymore.

Birdie1483

I think I was just spoiled in the coworker/friend department. I became very close friends with a coworker at my last job back home and she's the one that introduced me to FI. She would invite me along to their stuff and we became very close.

I was also part of a young professionals group that had a bunch of non-Evansville people because Evansville is lot like Louisville in terms of high school friends. I didn't really have any friends to come back to after college and my close friends were still in graduate school, so it was nice hanging out with other people who didn't have those attachments and had the mantra of the more the merrier (because we didn't know anyone else).

I've tried joining the YP group here, but the committee I went to was full of a bunch of geeky guys who were married with kids. I keep telling myself I need to go to another committee meeting, but that gets into the whole going outside of my comfort zone thing and I usually chicken out. Everything that FI is in to is full of old retired men.

kcscejal

I have one really good friend here. She's moving next month to Georgia and then I won't have any friends that live close by.

FutureMrsTR

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wake up! Confessions : I don't even know how you could get in and out in 15 minutes. They make it impossible!
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]

I confess that I did not read what Mery quoted at first and assumed this was a continuation of all the sex talk.  And it made me CQTM :)

I don't have any confessions at the moment.  I'm sure I'll think of some in a mo'.

Birdie1483

I'm going to end my pity party and go grab lunch.

annakb8

The only friends we have here are people from back home or college or law school (in FI's case). The only "new friend" I've made since moving to DC over 2 years ago is FI, and he barely even counts since we went to college together and have tons of mutual friends. Making friends is hard stuff.

pinkpinot

Making friends is hard when you're older & settled down.  The only way I really meet people is if they are dating/engaged/married to someone H knows.

louisvillebride21

Why don't you invite THEM out? I went out for drinks on Friday with a random woman from work. It was nice to do somethng different

FutureMrsTR

DNB - my best friend's H is in the Marines and she felt exactly the same way when he came home from his first tour overseas.  No matter how much you missed him, you got into a routine being on your own and now it's being disrupted.

LisaChris2011

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[QUOTE]Making friends is hard when you're older & settled down.  The only way I really meet people is if they are dating/engaged/married to someone H knows.
Posted by pinkpinot[/QUOTE]

I agree, or unless, you have a big commonality with another couple/person. 

Recently we met a couple on a camping trip.  THey happened to live in our area.  If it wasn't for the gal emailing and initiating to hang out, we'd probably not have stayed in touch.  And I'm glad she was the initiator because sometimes I lack follow-through and am just content being in my comfort zone.  They are an amazing couple so I am glad she emailed.

mica178

Wow, Opal, that A&A thread was... special.  I'm religious too, but my prayers aren't going towards Chinese copies of designer dresses.  Sorry.

My confession:  NFP isn't hard, but I miss the nice by-products of the BCP.