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mrsconn23 · February 2017

Re: DH's scaring you.

DH just woke up and was heading to the gym. I saw his car at the end of the driveway, like he was leaving, and then looked back at my computer screen. I'm closed up in my office, so everything going on outside my door is muffled. I hear someone in the kitchen over my podcast. I paused my podcast and sat here for a second, thinking about escape routes. And then I call out for DH and he's all "Yeah?!" I'm all, "Oh I thought I saw you leave." He forgot something. *smh*

*Barbie* · February 2017

short+sassy said:

You have to give some guys credit, they know what is most useful. I worked at a company in a male-oriented industry (engineering). One of the civil engineers took paternity leave. His coworkers (all men) FILLED every surface of his office with diapers. And, because they were civil guys too, even made a little structure on his desk. Like a house of cards...except diapers.
Just goes to show, even engineers have their whimsical side...even if it's also a little on the nerdy side. No offense to any engineers . They're awesome and I like working with them, but I have to occasionally poke fun.

@short+sassy
*side-eye* OH RLY?

1) male dominated, yes, oriented? fuck no.
2) have you SEEN my shoe posts? i ooze whimsy.

short+sassy · February 2017

*Barbie* said:

short+sassy said:

You have to give some guys credit, they know what is most useful. I worked at a company in a male-oriented industry (engineering). One of the civil engineers took paternity leave. His coworkers (all men) FILLED every surface of his office with diapers. And, because they were civil guys too, even made a little structure on his desk. Like a house of cards...except diapers.
Just goes to show, even engineers have their whimsical side...even if it's also a little on the nerdy side. No offense to any engineers . They're awesome and I like working with them, but I have to occasionally poke fun.

@short+sassy
*side-eye* OH RLY?

1) male dominated, yes, oriented? fuck no.
2) have you SEEN my shoe posts? i ooze whimsy.

1) That was actually the word I meant and have dully corrected my post.

2) @*Barbie*, your shoes are FABULOUS. You do ooze whimsy .

*Barbie* · February 2017

@short+sassy

i'm an engineer (at least by education - i just boss them around at work)
my shoes today look like mirrors:

charlotte989875 · February 2017

*Barbie* said:

@short+sassy

i'm an engineer (at least by education - i just boss them around at work)
my shoes today look like mirrors:

I am so envious of your shoe collection. I want them all.

MissKittyDanger · February 2017

Couple things - I absolutely love this forum because you ladies are super helpful for future reference things

- @*Barbie* needs to share her shoe collection with us

- i just spent 90% of my afternoon with my coworker's 5yr old because she was sick this morning, so came to work. While coworker was in appts, it was easier I hung out in her office with kiddie. We're obv now bffs

short+sassy · February 2017

*Barbie* said:

@short+sassy

i'm an engineer (at least by education - i just boss them around at work)
my shoes today look like mirrors:

One of my former project managers lamented to me one time, "(Sigh) I haven't done real engineering work for years. Now all I do is budgets, meetings, and management."

With those super cute mirrored shoes, you can slyly stick just one foot in someone's office and spy on what their really working on .

NOLABridesmaid · February 2017

I can't seem to shake this darn cold. It's better, but I'm still blowing my nose and hacking.

levioosa · February 2017

@charlotte989875

My two methods for smuggling in alcohol

1. Big purse, alcohol at bottom of purse wrapped in a sweater. Sprinkle pads and tampons on top because the ticket person is almost always a teenage boy who will be too freaked out by the tampons to look any further.

2. I have an old huge purse with a hole in the lining big enough to fit a bottle of wine through. So I put the bottle in between the lining and the purse, and then fill the rest of the purse with enough crap to make it seem justifiably full. When it finally dies, I'm going to repeat this with a thrift store purse.

I'm not an alcoholic, I swear. They're just really intense about checking purses in my area and sometimes you want to go see a movie and drink. lol. Thankfully, movie theaters that offer alcohol are now becoming a thing near me.

*Barbie* · February 2017

@MissKittyDanger

My shoeoftheday is another menswear inspired flat by ninewest I love the mirror finishshoes flats abay dsw shoelover metallic silver soshiny menswear style fashion coach

kimmiinthemitten · February 2017

*Barbie* said:

@MissKittyDanger

I second the envy of your shoe collection, but I am curious...why do you always take them off in the car?

charlotte989875 · February 2017

kimmiinthemitten said:

*Barbie* said:

@MissKittyDanger

I second the envy of your shoe collection, but I am curious...why do you always take them off in the car?

I carry my shoes in to work. But that's because Ohio is cold, rainy, and generally not shoe friendly.

kimmiinthemitten · February 2017

charlotte989875 said:

kimmiinthemitten said:

*Barbie* said:

@MissKittyDanger

I second the envy of your shoe collection, but I am curious...why do you always take them off in the car?

I carry my shoes in to work. But that's because Ohio is cold, rainy, and generally not shoe friendly.

I just live in boots 7-8 months a year.

sparklepants41 · February 2017

charlotte989875 said:

kimmiinthemitten said:

*Barbie* said:

@MissKittyDanger

I second the envy of your shoe collection, but I am curious...why do you always take them off in the car?

I carry my shoes in to work. But that's because Ohio is cold, rainy, and generally not shoe friendly.

When I used to work in downtown Boston and then Harvard Square, I would take the T into work (now I drive). The bricks & cobblestone streets and sidewalks in Boston/Cambridge are BRUTAL on shoes - I always used to carry mine to work and just wear chucks or sandals or snow boots (depending on the season) on the train.

*Barbie* · February 2017

@kimmiinthemitten
i can drive in heels, but don't like to - so most of the time I wear flip flops out of the house and put my shoes on when I get to work.

secondary reason - weather - our garage is detached (not that we park in it, but still - so when i leave in the morning, i walk out one of the back doors and along a (covered) sidewalk, out the gate (or could go into the garage) to get to the driveway. the only problem is that whoever planned our yard, didn't grade it well, so if it rains, the sidewalk gets wet/muddy or turns into a lake. so in order not to ruin the shoes, i go with (platform) flip flops and use a towel/baby wipes when i get in the car. we need to re-grade the yard, just haven't gotten around to it.

despite the huge shoe collection, i'm barefoot (or in flip flops) whenever possible.

*Barbie* · February 2017

also re: shoes off in car - it's about a 7 minute walk from my office to the parking garage (they're attached, it's enclosed, it's just a long walk), so no matter how comfortable the dress shoes, i'm ready to be done with them - especially if i'm on my second round trip to the car in a day and/or walked around the office a lot.

OurWildKingdom · February 2017

levioosa said:

@charlotte989875

My two methods for smuggling in alcohol

1. Big purse, alcohol at bottom of purse wrapped in a sweater. Sprinkle pads and tampons on top because the ticket person is almost always a teenage boy who will be too freaked out by the tampons to look any further.

2. I have an old huge purse with a hole in the lining big enough to fit a bottle of wine through. So I put the bottle in between the lining and the purse, and then fill the rest of the purse with enough crap to make it seem justifiably full. When it finally dies, I'm going to repeat this with a thrift store purse.

I'm not an alcoholic, I swear. They're just really intense about checking purses in my area and sometimes you want to go see a movie and drink. lol. Thankfully, movie theaters that offer alcohol are now becoming a thing near me.

I'm not a drinker, but I have been known to smuggle in snacks and bottled water. I'll have to try the pad/tampon trick!

The play was awesome Friday night! Only problem is that I got us lost on the way home. A drive that should have taken 45 minutes took an hour and a half. We got home at 12:30, and I was too keyed up to sleep until 1:30.

I did not make it to the Saturday teach-in, sorry to say. Instead I slept in, then went to the craft store and thrifting, met with my sponsor, and had a chill early night with FW at home (her friend cancelled for Saturday night).

Yesterday was lazy till about 4:00. Then the three of us went to pick up another friend, went grocery shopping for snacks, then headed to FW's BFF's to watch the game. We had fun, but it was another late night (BFF lives on the opposite side of town). This time I did not get lost.

My ass was dragging this morning. Fortunately it was busy enough that the adrenaline kicked in and I didn't need caffeine till noon.

Jen4948 · February 2017

Work today is boring. There are old projects on my to-do list that don't belong there anymore but my boss is leaving them on. And there's not enough really interesting work to do.

I didn't have any stake in the Super Bowl, but it turned out to be an exciting game at the end-even though I don't like Tom Brady or Bill Belichick either. Some commercials I really liked.

short+sassy · February 2017

OurWildKingdom said:

levioosa said:

@charlotte989875

My two methods for smuggling in alcohol

1. Big purse, alcohol at bottom of purse wrapped in a sweater. Sprinkle pads and tampons on top because the ticket person is almost always a teenage boy who will be too freaked out by the tampons to look any further.

2. I have an old huge purse with a hole in the lining big enough to fit a bottle of wine through. So I put the bottle in between the lining and the purse, and then fill the rest of the purse with enough crap to make it seem justifiably full. When it finally dies, I'm going to repeat this with a thrift store purse.

I'm not an alcoholic, I swear. They're just really intense about checking purses in my area and sometimes you want to go see a movie and drink. lol. Thankfully, movie theaters that offer alcohol are now becoming a thing near me.

I'm not a drinker, but I have been known to smuggle in snacks and bottled water. I'll have to try the pad/tampon trick!

I'm sad to hear they check purses at movie theatres. WTF?!? I actually haven't been to a movie theatre in years, so I don't know if they do that where I live.

It's a huge invasion of privacy and I find the practice totally offensive. It's also pointless. If some nut job wants to bring in a gun or a bomb (or whatever these businesses are worried about), it's obviously super easy to hide anything like that at a movie theatre.

It's one of the reasons I don't go to NFL football games. Because I don't want to be caring a see-through f**king purse around to make myself an EASY TARGET for criminals. Thanks for unnecessarily endangering people's lives, idiot NFL. I'd bet I'm 10,000x more likely to be killed/injured by a criminal who can see inside my purse and wants the contents than a terrorist.

I also find all of that starting to tread on people's rights to keep their medical conditions private. Hard to do when you need to carry various medications at all times...that either get pawed through by security and/or is visible to thousands of people at NFL games.

I'm not saying there is no place for that kind of security. But movie theatres...no. I'm even "sort of" okay with the pawing for arenas/stadiums types of places, but not see-through purses. There is no place for that, unless you work at a casino or similar.

<<rant over>>

kimmiinthemitten · February 2017

short+sassy said:

I'm sad to hear they check purses at movie theatres. WTF?!? I actually haven't been to a movie theatre in years, so I don't know if they do that where I live.
It's a huge invasion of privacy and I find the practice totally offensive. It's also pointless. If some nut job wants to bring in a gun or a bomb (or whatever these businesses are worried about), it's obviously super easy to hide anything like that at a movie theatre.
It's one of the reasons I don't go to NFL football games. Because I don't want to be caring a see-through f**king purse around to make myself an EASY TARGET for criminals. Thanks for unnecessarily endangering people's lives, idiot NFL. I'd bet I'm 10,000x more likely to be killed/injured by a criminal who can see inside my purse and wants the contents than a terrorist.
I also find all of that starting to tread on people's rights to keep their medical conditions private. Hard to do when you need to carry various medications at all times...that either get pawed through by security and/or is visible to thousands of people at NFL games.
I'm not saying there is no place for that kind of security. But movie theatres...no. I'm even "sort of" okay with the pawing for arenas/stadiums types of places, but not see-through purses. There is no place for that, unless you work at a casino or similar.
<<rant over>>

You can carry a 4" x 6" clutch. I have a cute cross body for Lions games.

And the tampon trick works every time; we do it at concerts.

kimmiinthemitten · February 2017

*Barbie* said:

@kimmiinthemitten
i can drive in heels, but don't like to - so most of the time I wear flip flops out of the house and put my shoes on when I get to work.

secondary reason - weather - our garage is detached (not that we park in it, but still - so when i leave in the morning, i walk out one of the back doors and along a (covered) sidewalk, out the gate (or could go into the garage) to get to the driveway. the only problem is that whoever planned our yard, didn't grade it well, so if it rains, the sidewalk gets wet/muddy or turns into a lake. so in order not to ruin the shoes, i go with (platform) flip flops and use a towel/baby wipes when i get in the car. we need to re-grade the yard, just haven't gotten around to it.

despite the huge shoe collection, i'm barefoot (or in flip flops) whenever possible.

When I first started at my company, I had to be certified for forklift operation and that was when I was in the office and not in sales, so I always wore heels.

Our trainer tried to tell me I couldn't take the test; I showed him that OSHA and our company handbook didn't have a heel stipulation and he had to let me. And I passed.

Stupid man-jobs.

short+sassy · February 2017

kimmiinthemitten said:

short+sassy said:

I'm sad to hear they check purses at movie theatres. WTF?!? I actually haven't been to a movie theatre in years, so I don't know if they do that where I live.
It's a huge invasion of privacy and I find the practice totally offensive. It's also pointless. If some nut job wants to bring in a gun or a bomb (or whatever these businesses are worried about), it's obviously super easy to hide anything like that at a movie theatre.
It's one of the reasons I don't go to NFL football games. Because I don't want to be caring a see-through f**king purse around to make myself an EASY TARGET for criminals. Thanks for unnecessarily endangering people's lives, idiot NFL. I'd bet I'm 10,000x more likely to be killed/injured by a criminal who can see inside my purse and wants the contents than a terrorist.
I also find all of that starting to tread on people's rights to keep their medical conditions private. Hard to do when you need to carry various medications at all times...that either get pawed through by security and/or is visible to thousands of people at NFL games.
I'm not saying there is no place for that kind of security. But movie theatres...no. I'm even "sort of" okay with the pawing for arenas/stadiums types of places, but not see-through purses. There is no place for that, unless you work at a casino or similar.
<<rant over>>

You can carry a 4" x 6" clutch. I have a cute cross body for Lions games.

And the tampon trick works every time; we do it at concerts.

Thanks for the info. I only ever came across that it had to be see through and (I think) was also limited on the size, even for the see through purse.

I'll tell my H I'll agree to go to a game again if he gets me a small Saints cross body, like you are talking about. Sounds cute!

It's still really stupid and put yet another bad taste in my mouth for the NFL. Though, darn it, it's the only sport I follow.

levioosa · February 2017

The only time the tampon trick hasn't worked was in Vegas, because they've seen so much shit some tampons don't phase them. Lol. Ironically, the one time I tried it I only brought Motrin in its proper bottle for my cramps. They threw it out. I could have had E hidden in my swimsuit and they would have never found it, but hell no to the motrin. So dumb.

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