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HeffalumpHeffalump member
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Because I am not trying to steal NOLA's thunder or anything.

1.  Took DS for his 1 yr checkup and that kid is on the 99th percentile curve for height.  Pedi says he's the size of an 18 mo. old. 

2.  My mother is driving me up the goddamn wall.  She's such a Debbie Downer, and I tried to be sympathetic for a while, but now I'm just UGH.  Her house has been for sale a while, so she was complaining that no one was coming to look at it.  (I think it's overpriced for her market, but it's not really my business.)  Then someone came to look at it, and she complained that they were running late.  Then they made an offer and she complained that it was below her asking price.  (Again, I hate to be unsympathetic, but Negotiation 101, right?)  Then she countered, and they're trying to see if they can get approved for more $$$, and she's bitching to me that they "should have had all their ducks in a row before they bothered to see the house."  Seriously?  You have an effing offer and they're trying to make your counteroffer work, and you're still not happy?  Also, she thinks their realtor "shouldn't have shown them the house if they couldn't afford it."  I think she may be turning into a classic crabby old lady, the kind who yells at kids to get off her lawn.  I'm already bracing for her annual email rant about the kids who ToT in her neighborhood but don't live there.  When I mentioned on here a few months ago that I couldn't see us being happy with her living with us, this was a big part of it.   

3.  I need some good weather vibes.  The last time we went to the mountains, it rained literally the entire time.  Just checked the forecast, and there is an 80% chance of rain Friday (when we were going to go hiking) and Saturday (when we were going to take the kids to this small-time amusement park up there).
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Re: Randoms (NOT questions)

  • NOLABridesmaidNOLABridesmaid member
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    Please steal it.:)

    Your mom sounds like my mom.

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  • *Barbie**Barbie* member
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    2) when we were selling our house in Philly, we got an offer from a couple who could not afford it, and would never get approved for financing. (They gave us a financial disclosure - their combined monthly income wasn't going to cover the mortgage payments, especially if they wanted to eat and use electricity.) I can understand her frustration on that level, because it was basically a waste of our time even fielding the offer and countering. 

    (That said, I can understand why she's driving you BSC.)
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    my random:

    one of baby mo's little friends told me that i am a character on his wii (his mother confirmed this is true). i don't know how to feel about this. on one hand, cute; on the other hand, tres weird.

    yellow fever starts early, yo.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    someone has to be at the top of the chart :)

    re: Hmo's I remember arguing w/ someone when the song "Stacy's Mom" came out (I do like Fountains of Wayne a lot, FWIW) that this was not a new phenomenon.  They insisted it was and I threatened to go force them to read critical discussions of Poe's "To Helen" that was to his childhood BFF's mom he crushed on.
    But WiiMom sounds either super cute or super creepy.

    My own
    I'm struggling with helpful people this week.  My pants don't fit right because i asked the Mr. to please take thema nd put them on the drying rack.  he did.  And he does it wrong so the waistband was damp this morning and it's STILL uncomfortable 12 hours later.

    And the ILs picked up Buffy this week, and were to meet me @ my house after they went out w/ her--but I got stuck in traffic hell (45 min in park for no discernible reason).  While they were hanging @ my place they very helpfully unloaded all the dishes out of the dishwasher.  Which would have been much more helpful if the dishes hadn't been dirty.

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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    (although, positive random, the people who work one-on-one w/ students have noted (more than 1 of them has noted) that there has been a 'marked decrease in neediness" since Sept.
    So these people are now math-confident enough to try and fail on their own, instead of needing hand-holding.
    YAY)
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  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    GBCK said:
    someone has to be at the top of the chart :)

    re: Hmo's I remember arguing w/ someone when the song "Stacy's Mom" came out (I do like Fountains of Wayne a lot, FWIW) that this was not a new phenomenon.  They insisted it was and I threatened to go force them to read critical discussions of Poe's "To Helen" that was to his childhood BFF's mom he crushed on.
    But WiiMom sounds either super cute or super creepy.

    My own
    I'm struggling with helpful people this week.  My pants don't fit right because i asked the Mr. to please take thema nd put them on the drying rack.  he did.  And he does it wrong so the waistband was damp this morning and it's STILL uncomfortable 12 hours later.

    And the ILs picked up Buffy this week, and were to meet me @ my house after they went out w/ her--but I got stuck in traffic hell (45 min in park for no discernible reason).  While they were hanging @ my place they very helpfully unloaded all the dishes out of the dishwasher.  Which would have been much more helpful if the dishes hadn't been dirty.

    GBCK, my MIL will do the dishwasher thing when she's here. She doesn't own a dishwasher so it confuses her. By default, I keep ours locked so the kids don't get in it and I won't run it until it's full. So she'll see a half full, locked dishwasher and think  it's okay to unload. Which then results in washing way more items because I can't tell what is dirty and it's all mixed together.
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  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    I just picked up 9 gallons of paint for the house. We have 117 boxes of tile in the garage. I really want to call in to work tomorrow and Friday and just get a jump on all this floor/paint business. But I have no more days to burn. I simultaneously can't wait for it to be over and I can't wait to help.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    I re-washed the glasses and the plates (we ahve a crap dishwasher, so we do basically 'do' the dishes before we do the dishes, ya know?) and stuck silverware back to re-run, but I"m sure there were things I missed unless I want to re-wash EVERYTHING--which I don't.
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