Confessions of a 20-something mother

[LilBee91]

It took me an embarrassingly long time to make the connection between Alea's screen name and Wicked.

[Confessions]

It makes me sad when Pwebbers fight. This has always been a relatively friendly and peaceful place for me. I know these are important issues and people have serious concerns, but it's still sad to read.

[Luet]

I agree. It's incredibly hard for me to stand up for any opinion that is the least bit controversial because I want so much for everyone to like me. But I felt like it was important to do so this time because it wasn't just my opinion that I was standing up for but friends that I knew felt the same way. It still makes me very anxious to disagree with people that I care very much about.

[mr_thebrain]

well, it's been coming for awhile, i've been noticing a bunch of tension and defensiveness on the board in the past couple months. it sucks, but it'll pass.

[Caspian]

Confession: I care way more about people being mean to my wife than I care about the well being of pweb.

One more reason I will never ever be a mod or anything like it.

[Luet]

I totally respect defending your wife. It is a great quality in a husband. However, I don't think anyone was being mean to your wife. They were discussing her role as a moderator of this forum. And I know that, with your rant, you devastated a very dear friend of mine.

ETA: sorry, just saw that you asked us not to post anymore about this tonight. But he did it first.
Anyway, I'm done now.

[Mich]

Confession: I was walking home after having my car towed to the shop after discovering that it wouldn't even start up to get to the shop itself (breath) and I passed by Powell's.

Despite the lack of $60 in my account, and the sure to be lacking hundreds if not thousands of dollars tomorrow, I bought four books, all at least $10. And then a smoothie and a flatbread sandwich.

It caught me in an extremely delicate emotional state!

[Petra456]

It makes me sad when Pwebbers fight. This has always been a relatively friendly and peaceful place for me. I know these are important issues and people have serious concerns, but it's still sad to read.

Earlier I was thinking of coming in here to confess something very similar to this, but decided not to because I also have this horrible feeling that it's not even my place to be upset about. I know it's stupid, but for some reason this whole pweb tension has really got me feeling out of the loop and not like an "important" member...

It could also just be that change is scary for me, and it's been a realllly long day.

So:

Confession: Today, i'm just sad in general. I feel like I don't belong.

[starlooker]

In summary of today:

First I was like: and a little

Then I was all

Then it was better and I was like :stoned kermit:

But now I'm all like

[Eaquae Legit]

Fred, given how out of the loop I've been, I kind of feel similar.

I got a husband and now a baby because of pweb, and now my home is fighting and it's weird, and sad.

[Confessions]

I still can't get over her. Why? Seven years ago, we were on the same three week trip. Since then, I've seen her a scarce handful of times. I really do not know this girl. Why must she keep showing up in my dreams?

[VelvetElvis]

It makes me sad when Pwebbers fight. This has always been a relatively friendly and peaceful place for me. I know these are important issues and people have serious concerns, but it's still sad to read.

Earlier I was thinking of coming in here to confess something very similar to this, but decided not to because I also have this horrible feeling that it's not even my place to be upset about. I know it's stupid, but for some reason this whole pweb tension has really got me feeling out of the loop and not like an "important" member...

It could also just be that change is scary for me, and it's been a realllly long day.

So:

Confession: Today, i'm just sad in general. I feel like I don't belong.

Pretty much everything you said.

[steph]

I feel the same. All the fighting is causing me a lot of anxiety.

[VelvetElvis]

I just realized that I have no library card. None. I think it happened when I was in college and was able to keep a membership at both this library (because the university and the public library had a thing going that made the student ID valid as a way to check out book from there) and at my hometown library. Now that I no longer am a legal resident of my hometown, but of the town in which I went to college, I cannot maintain my old membership. Now that I am no longer a student, and haven't been for a while now, I no longer have a student membership. I haven't had a valid library card in almost a year and a half. I feel so vulnerable.

[Luet]

I sobbed myself to sleep last night. I have no idea how much was pweb and how much was other life issues but it was all jumbled up together in a big mess of miserable sadness.

[starlooker]

**hugs**

I hear ya. I was stressed awake until 3:30 in the morning.

[Jayelle]

Well, at least we were all losing sleep together.

[starlooker]

Man, between standing vigil over Facebook waiting to hear baby news with everyone, and realizing that I had good company in my insomnia last night, I am learning about a whole different aspect of what makes Pweb such a community. Shared worries.

[VelvetElvis]

We are family!


Shall I break into song?

[starlooker]

Please do It's already stuck in my head now, so everybody may as well get up and sing.

[VelvetElvis]

*shuffles*

[Wind Swept]

[starlooker]

You are having way, way too much fun with that youtube thing

Also, I started to play it and Tara (on my lap, as always lately) was so distressed at the squeaky chipmunk voices and techno-beat that I had to stop it a few seconds in.

[Wind Swept]

You are having way, way too much fun with that youtube thing

Fun? I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about...

[Gravity Defier]

Delete all board cookies

I know this is computer jargon but I'm wondering what Pweb's official cookie is. I can't go with my favorite types just because they're my favorite types; they don't fit the personality of the board. I'm thinking chocolate anything is right out the door. Maybe vanilla or lemon based cookies.

If they are tasty, I will be happy to delete them.

[VelvetElvis]

Snickerdoodle. Traditional, but still not the popular one. And comfort food.

[Jayelle]

Limeaid cookies?

[Noodle]

[VelvetElvis]

I reserve judgement on those cookies until someone bakes them for me.

[LilBee91]

I officially need to look up a recipe for limeaide cookies. My mom has a lemonade pie recipe that could totally be changed to limeaide pie for Pweb. But I guess there is key lime for that...

[Luet]

I don't know why this feels like a confession but I'm totally excited that I'm ordering a microscope (with an LCD screen!) in order to do DIY fecal checks on Pheeny.

[VelvetElvis]

I don't use Google search.

[Jayelle]

I don't use Google search.

What is this I don't even.

[Luet]

I don't either, I use yahoo. I rarely use google if yahoo doesn't give me results that I like. Yahoo is just my home page (for mail, etc) so I'm used to it.

[VelvetElvis]

I don't use Google search.

What is this I don't even.

bing tends to give me the results I want right away, but with google I don't always get what I am lookingfor in the first couple posts.