I remember my mother saying she loved me exactly once: last October. For real. First and only time was when I was 36 years old. It is fucked up. Of course, it was followed by how she decided I "deserve nothing" from her (meaning, she cancelled her life insurance which would mean I could bury her not at my expense - now I have to pay for that as well) cause of the time when I was 30 when I "kicked her out of my house" (she was living with me) at the time cause she slapped me in the face for not stopping my work for all of 20m to do something for her - during work hours (I work from home). So I asked her to move out, paid the deposit on her new apartment, bought her a fridge and a stove (rental places don't come with appliances here), but the way she tells it, I "kicked her out to the street like a dog".
That is when I realized that once a narcissist, always a narcissist, and there is absolutely nothing I can to make our relationship even 1% better. It is what it is. #Groupthink
Baby Jane took care of it. #trollpatrol
If you buy a set and don't want them too crazy, you can cut the outer half of a set and use just that. #Groupthink
You called? I spent most of my 20s being pretty damn bitter about my parents. I've managed to get past the bitterness, but I don't think I'll ever be big enough to really forgive. #Groupthink
So sorry for it all, but especially the shoulder.
Your ex boyfriend is a freaking ass. It is bad enough to break up with you now, but then to stiff you on the rent? I fart in his general direction. #Groupthink
It never happened for me (stretching them out with use). However, heat is the enemy of spandex, and makes it all baggy, so I'd try tossing them in the dryer (in a pillowcase or one of those mesh baggies to protect them) and see if heat helps. #Groupthink
It was my mom's invention. I feel it is the only good legacy she left me, haha. #Groupthink
I hope at least your parents/her husband's parents are comfortable enough that they never really need this money they spend on them to support themselves. Cause if that fell on you/your BIL's siblings, it would be extra horrible. #Groupthink
Replied to the wrong person, see above. #Groupthink
Also, even with no business degree or previous experience, if you actually do need a loan later and walk into a bank with all the stats of your business for the past year, they'll analyze that and you are actually likely to be able to get a loan or at least a credit line. I've been in business since 1998, and while I never got an actual loan, after 2 years I took all the accounting info from my business to a bank and they gave me real credit though it was a tiny, tiny part-time level income at the time. #Groupthink
That is beautiful. Your dad is a good person. #Groupthink
I feel you. My back neighbor is fucking crazy, and she has the sketchiest people working in her house - like, everytime she has anyone doing any repair that, she is coincidentally robbed the week after the repairs are done. So she basically only hires criminals.
Now she has said criminals working on her roof for nearly a month, and I'm afraid to go to open my closet drapes or to go to the back of my house to hang the laundry, cause I think every time I open the back door, these dudes are trying to figure out how to break into my house and rob me. Argh. #Groupthink
Well, you better not, cause you are pregnant and every time you eat lentils, you get instantly thinner! So they might be dangerous for your baby. #Groupthink
It also makes cleaning the hairs out of your brush so easy, cause they'll come out with the hose. #Groupthink
I love lizards! They eat mosquitoes and flies and spiders.
Sadly, my cats tend to kill them. #Groupthink
My husband's sister's fancy lifestyle (for example, she has a personal trainer) has been subsidized by my husband's mother into the poorhouse. My MIL had 6 rental properties 10 years ago, now she has the place she lives at only - and she just begged my husband to sign so she could sell it (he'd made it a condition that he sign to avoid her being homeless, but so much for that). For a year a few years ago, we were sending her $600 a month for groceries until we realized said groceries were to feed my SIL's children so she could keep spending like she is rich, then I cut her off. A year ago, she inherited $150k from her father and she has 0 of it now.
She claims she will buy a bigger place with the sale of this place, but we don't believe it. We think she'll end up renting a dump to continue supporting his SIL. It is her life and her money, but I understand that in the end, we'll have to end up supporting this woman who hates me and who is vile to me, and because of her vileness, it won't be under my roof, so it will cost me even more. I feel just as frustrated as you do. #Groupthink
That sounds delicious. Any lunch that has hummus and Swiss in the same lunch is full of win.
I had carrot, cucumber, sausage (the Italian kind, not the gross hot dog kind), rice, and lentils. Can't forget the lentils.
No Minka Kelly? Cause they are twinsies.
Same here. My best friend needs to wash twice a day to look ok, and she eats maybe 1/10 of the dietary fat I eat. People are different. #Groupthink
Pretty much. I was so oily as a teenager that I had to wash daily with 3 shampoos + an apple cider vinegar rinse.
I think a combo of aging, hypothyroidism, and 3 rounds of Accutane dried me out in the face and scalp.
I have a tiny bit of oil at the roots, but the way I solve that is: take piece of pantyhose, cut it. Jam that into my hairbrush. That way when I brush, the small amount of oil at the roots is trapped on the pantyhose. Whenever I clean my hairbrushes, I just toss the pantyhose away with the hair and put in a new piece. That means I basically don't need to wash just cause the roots are a bit oily while the rest is still pretty dry.
