Confessions of a 20-something mother

[starlooker]

I'm doing a lot of confessing lately.

Anyways.

Everytime we spend more than $50 on some unnecessary household purchase, I get a little resentful, thinking that is money he could be saving towards buying me a ring.

I am not proud of this. At all.

It's just a) he's really not great with money saving and doesn't exactly make a lot, and b) I don't know if he's thinking ahead or saving for that or not, and c) I really do want a pretty ring someday (note, the operative word here is "pretty," not "expensive"). And not too far off into the future, either.

ETA: And I'm really annoyed that this post started a new page, which means I will have to see it evertime I open this thread until enough confessions have been made that I can forget it.

[neo-dragon]

I know, I know, I'm afraid of everything but this XKCD is a big one for me, though I would find it preferable to be left than to have someone stay with me and wishing they were elsewhere with someone else. I should just stop saying I hate guys or that they're stupid and just say that they scare me.

Confession: I spent several minutes trying to decide which stick figure girl I would choose.

[Jeesh_girl15]

That was so wrong.

[Eaquae Legit]

I resent people for things that aren't their fault and which no one can really fix.

[Bowen]

I called my brother an ass today in front of his kids because he was being a bit rude to his wife. I probably should have done it privately, but I wanted the family to know that I didn't approve of how he was acting.

[Confessions]

But somehow, this doesn't hurt as much as it did three years ago. It's not that raw, searing pain. Granted, I felt quite suicidal at several points during the day, but the pain is, in a way, dulled, once removed. Like it's not really my pain anymore.

That, of course, might only be because of the other one. Now, the other one... if I actually had to deal with that, I could conceivably find myself plunging all the way to the bottom.

Thankfully, I've been spared that torture.

[starlooker]

I'm hoping everyone no-shows so that I can finish studying the I/O psych workbook I have. And review someone's assessment results. I need way, way, way more time than I actually have these days.

[Gravity Defier]

Adam's review of Gone With the Wind, in which he quoted that one line that really did make me swoon from just reading it, sent me on my way to youtube to look for the clip (before he sent me an offline message with a link to it ), which brought up related videos, one of which was for this one viewer's top 30 movie kisses. The music set to the 3 videos it took to show all the clips was Des'Ree's "Kissing You," from W.S.'s Romeo and Juliet *nostalgic, I-was-in-love-with-Leo-in-8th-grade-because-of-that-movie-and-part-of-me-still-is sigh* and is one of my favorite love songs of all time.

My confession is that I swooned, so to speak, 30 different times watching the videos on youtube, my lips -of their own accord- puckered and tingled a little throughout, I felt an ache somewhere in the general vicinity of my heart, you couldn't separate me from my pillow with the jaws of life as I was/am in a very cuddly mood, and I have watched many chick flicks since to try to, I don't know what...make myself sick of all the mush by overexposure. Not only is it not working, it's possibly making it worse.

My second confession is that I don't mind right now that I really am that pathetic, it's a good sort of suckiness, because I had one hell of a morning/early afternoon. *grin*



My third confession, not exactly related to the above, is that I thought Quinto's Spock (not the actor who played him but the character himself) was sexy, pointy ears, bad eyebrows, and bowl haircut and all. Especially when he gave into those pesky emotions and grinned.

[powerfulcheese04]

My third confession, not exactly related to the above, is that I thought Quinto's Spock (not the actor who played him but the character himself) was sexy, pointy ears, bad eyebrows, and bowl haircut and all. Especially when he gave into those pesky emotions and grinned.

Actually, I just think Zachary Quinto is hot. His Sylar is the only kind of bad boy I've thought was attractive. Mmmmm.

[Gravity Defier]

Mmmmm.

In this picture, yes. (Have I mentioned I love glasses on men?) Honestly, I'm still mostly diggin' on him in Spock pictures versus Quinto pictures.

[locke]

confession, when I mentioend that I might catch the train down to comiccon this year, my boss mentioned she might go this year because she wants to hang out with Zachary who she worked with on a stage production of Twelfth Night (I think a shakespeare stage play). To which I replied, "nice, we should all go out for drinks that night." to which she affably agreed. so if things go right I might meet Sylar.

[powerfulcheese04]

Uhm... if you meet him, Adam, I'm going to be SO JEALOUS! You should like, get an autograph on a napkin and mail it to me. kidding, kidding (mostly).



And, Alea, I agree... that's a really good picture.

[zeroguy]

Having Hiphopopotamus/Rhymenoceros bumped in the "Funny Words" thread reminded me... It seems recently that nearly every time when one of my friends says something that's wrong or whatnot, someone starts quoting that rap. "Where'd you get that preposterous hypothesis?" and so on.

I also almost always respond to "this is delicious" (or any kind of expression of something tasting good) with "this is caketown!" Although usually it's just in my head.

After being around the internet for awhile, fewer and fewer things seem to phase you. I like to think I'm not put off by much anymore, but transhumanists still kinda freak me out.

Watching "Milk" renewed some of my hatred of Christianity (at last as it exists in the US), which isn't really fair.

[starlooker]

Not sure if this is more of a confession or a personal triumph --

We're finally taking down the Christmas tree.

[Mich]

Not sure if this is more of a confession or a personal triumph --

We're finally taking down the Christmas tree.

[starlooker]

[neo-dragon]

Not sure if this is more of a confession or a personal triumph --

We're finally taking down the Christmas tree.

You know, if you had just waited one more month it would have officially been up early instead of up late.

[Gravity Defier]

There are blue Christmas ornaments hanging over our dining room table from two Christmases ago. There are red, burgundy, and cream ornaments hanging over our couch from this past Christmas.

I'm in charge of the decorations and I could take down the set over the table but I got my brother to put the ones up over the couch and only someone taller can get them down again.

I am not making a fuss to either take them down or have any of them taken down for me.

[zeroguy]

I just noticed (edit: err, I was told; but I guess being told made me notice?) that Alucard is Dracula backwards. I don't play Castlevania games or watch Hellsing or anything, but still. I've heard that name often enough for the past several years...

[Yebra]

I just noticed (edit: err, I was told; but I guess being told made me notice?) that Alucard is Dracula backwards. I don't play Castlevania games or watch Hellsing or anything, but still. I've heard that name often enough for the past several years...

Vampires always do this. They're very unimaginative.

[Mich]

It's actually a bit of a joke among me and my friends. I was reading online about a legacy of flame-wars among fan-subbers for Hellsing. Some of the subbers thought that his name was supposed to be "Arucard," and the others logically pointed out that his name was merely "Dracula" backwards. Flaming ensues.

[neo-dragon]

With "r" and "l" being interchangeable in Japanese, sometimes you just have to use some common sense.

[Confessions]

confession: I don't remember a time that someone began an IM with me on AIM. I only ever start conversations, and if I'm online and don't start something, AIM will idle for months. I don't see the point of logging on anymore.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

Confession: I love Eminem's music. I even love Relapse.

[Confessions]

Every time I read someone else posting as Confessions, especially if they're talking negatively about someone else, I try to figure out who could've wrote them, because otherwise I assume they're all about me.

[Luet]

Confession:
This is old and on the long side, just to warn you. My former best friend (who sided with my abuser over me) had been abused herself in the past. In one case, it went on for over a year and even though I had met the guy once, I didn't find out about it until years later. After everything went down between us, I became obsessed with finding this guy and somehow avenging her. In my traumatized mind, I thought that by sticking up for her and doing what she hadn't done for me, I would feel better. I found out his full name, where he lived, what kind of car he drove and his license plate. I drove to his apartment complex and staked out his mailbox. The most sane thing I planned was writing an anonymous letter telling him that I knew what he had done and that if he ever went near her again, I would make sure he went to prison. The more crazy daydreams consisted of finding him and saying the same thing in person (ending with a kick to the crotch), and keying his car and/or slashing his tires. I never did anything and I never will. I was trying to prove my loyalty to someone who didn't want it and anyway, she wouldn't have wanted me to do anything to him. But still, whenever I go into the Starbucks that I know he used to frequent, I take a quick look around. I have no idea if I would even recognize him or what I would do or say, if anything. But yeah, I just wanted to get this off my chest.

[zeroguy]

Recent conversations have revealed that I may, in fact, use the shot glasses in our apartment more than I use regular glasses. Maybe not much by, since I don't use either very much, but I think it's probable that the shot-to-normal usage ratio is more than 1.

[Luet]

For the first time in my life, I can't remember if I did something important (put the mortgage bill in the mail). I wrote the check, put it in an envelope, addressed it and put a stamp on it. I know I brought it in the car with me with a couple other papers yesterday morning but I have no recollection of stopping at the mailbox to actually *put* it in the box. I assumed I had forgotten to but when I looked in my car this morning, I couldn't find it anywhere. And the only thing I can think to do about it, is wait to see if the bank cashes it (fortunately it's a local bank). I really need to get off of this new migraine preventative drug because it is totally making me dumb and it's freaking me out.

[Oliver Dale]

You could save yourself the stamp (and the stress) if you just auto-paid it. Just sayin

[Luet]

I pay everything else online but this is a small, local bank that doesn't have online billing (it's not MY bank, just has my mortgage). I mean, it's in the same zip code as me and only has one branch...it's really small. And it is not usually EVER a problem. This is the first time in my 14 years of paying bills that I have had this happen (and I don't know for sure that I didn't send it). I never pay anything late, ever. I plan on calling them the day it is due and if they haven't received it, then I can just go in person and pay it.

[Gravity Defier]

As I was leaving the store, my mom looked to the west and saw:



and said "I wonder what's on fire..."


My confession is that, naturally, I start humming "Danger! High Voltage," specifically the "Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?" part.

I curse both zero and Jeff.



My other confession is that I was bad today and spent money, after all my lectures to myself about needing to save and pay things off. The only reason I'm not returning the things as we speak is because they're for work and it was (just barely) less than $20. Okay, also because it's colorful and there's glitter involved.

[starlooker]

Today's xkcd pretty well describes my weekend.

[neo-dragon]

Confession: I make jokes about how messy my desk is at work, but I'm actually sort of embarrassed by it.

[daPyr0x]

Confession: I find it really hard to empathize with my girlfriend's sick grandmother because I'm caught up with how my girlfriend's treating me because of it.

[Rei]

I sometimes feel like everyone I see is secretly judging me.