Rante Macabre

[Ontarkie 14,307]

13 hours ago, rrobin0609 said:

Out of curiosity, how many of you all have traveled with your kids when they were infants to go see family? My husband mentioned a while ago that he wanted to go see his parents before the end of the year (like, October/November). When he first said it I told him I'd probably stay here to help cut down on costs and make my move toward a career change that I already pushed off a year due to pregnancy, but I wasn't going to tell him he can't go as it would be pretty hypocritical of me since we live 4 miles from my parents and see them all the time. And then he mentioned he'd want to take our daughter with him so she can meet her grandparents and he'd be okay with going just the two of them. Every cell in my brain is screaming no, but I know its more complicated than that. If the tables were turned and I wanted to travel alone with her no one would bat an eyelash since I'm the mom.

 

I'd love to go with them if I could, but it may not be possible. Just want to put some feelers out and see what the wise sages of VJ think.

Young babies are like potted plants they travel easier than when older. If you nurse or a soother/binky what ever you want to call it to help with the ears popping it is much easier. 

 

4 hours ago, janet3 said:

I have missed you guys sooooooo much. I am glad you are all still here and doing well (well....you know....for the most part.... I realize it’s a “rant page”....so I guess I should say “everyone contributing is still functioning and coherent and stuff”....yay!!!)

 

Well....I’m here....looking forward to being here with all of you guys (MY PEEPS!!!!!)

 

Okay....work became crazy, life became crazy, I started this crazy “budget” thing where I worked until I kill myself, lost my password to VJ, didn’t have free time (AT ALL)  My dogs are itchy. I think I have pneumonia. And Mr Wonderful has a cold (which is OBVIOUSLY much worse than what I have). 
 

But....geez Louise.....I have missed you guys.

welcome back. It's crazy here all the time too. 

 

[TBoneTX 45,604]

Thanks to everyone's zealous and long-term withholding of reputation points, we will permanently fall into second place on VJ's all-time list probably by Thursday, sigh and bye man.

 

Bad everyone!  Bad, BAD everyone!  

[TBoneTX 45,604]

16 hours ago, ledingham said:

1:Many am the night after my pea brain cat decides to vomit all over all of my freshly washed bedding.

Time of cat-barfing precised, see and  A ma'am.

You need to contribute to this VJ poll, si A ma'am:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/356713-cat-barf-si-man/

 

[TBoneTX 45,604]

13 hours ago, rrobin0609 said:

how many of you all have traveled with your kids when they were infants to go see family?

The answer is:  Many, si RR ma'am.

As Ontarklar says, it's a lot easier to travel with them in a carrier than when they're ambulatory, si RR ma'am.

However, we would NEVER let an infant go overseas without its mommy, no RR ma'am.

Not never, not nohow, no man.

Edited March 4, 2020 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 45,604]

9 hours ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

up in the air [...] by plane

Obviously, duh DA man.  

Or, brilliantly stated, whee DA man.   

[TBoneTX 45,604]

5 hours ago, janet3 said:

I have missed you guys sooooooo much.

Bad absent JMany ma'am!  Bad, BAD absent ABSENT JMany ma'am!

5 hours ago, janet3 said:

I am glad you are all still here and doing well

Thank you for acknowledging our ongoing status as preeminent Business Typhoon in the POTS industry, si JMany ma'am.

5 hours ago, janet3 said:

everyone contributing

Everyone has NOT been contributing, as in reputation points to us despite our ongoing appeals, must be deaf man.

5 hours ago, janet3 said:

I think I have pneumonia.

Is that the lung and the short of it, huh JMany ma'am?

5 hours ago, janet3 said:

Mr Wonderful has a cold

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Mr. 2x+y*, si he man.

     *thusly named for his fluency in Algeria's national language of Algebra, si man

[TBoneTX 45,604]

We are going straight from the POTS office to a furniture store (and retail, no less) to meet Mrs. T-B. to satisfy her insane obsession with getting new bedroom furniture and at full retail price, oh bind and gag us and tie concrete around us and drop us into the piranha-filled Amazon or some other river man.

[TBoneTX 45,604]

Deal, read man:

 

Whoever gives us/our posts a total of Many reputation points during the next Many weeks will be shipped a premium Pre-Owned Toilet Seat of our personal selection, almost absolutely free*, $i man.  So let's get with it, whee man!   

 

*after product & shipping/handling charges, $i man

[TBoneTX 45,604]

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

furniture store

Mr$. T-B.'$ mi$$ion accompli$hed, $i man.

We got a Many-piece ([2+2+2]-piece) set for our bedroom, $i man.

We got a Many-piece ([2+2]-piece) set for the guest bedroom, $i man.

It cost $Many00, $i man.    

 

However, this was a discount off $ticker price, $ome $aving$ man.

Nice lady manager gave us $Many00 off that, she man.

In fact, when we agreed to the initial discount, she gave us another $Many00 off for not beefing, whee man.

Price includes tax, delivery, & set-up too, included man.

 

Delivery window is only 2 hours wide, not like phone/cable companies man.

Lady manager can't guarantee but will try to meet our exact preferred time, enlightened she man.

 

Mrs. T-B. then bought a couple of other pieces for her own self, tag along with the free delivery man.

 

And, we just went to the supermarket to get boxes, not yet cut down man.

These will serve as temporary transfer stations for the junk occupying our current furniture, anticipatory we man.

[TBoneTX 45,604]

41 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

went to the supermarket to get boxes

We set them all at the foot of the stairs to carry them up, prep we man.

When we returned for the second armful, Cat T-B. was peering at us from inside a box, typical miu man.

Proving yet again:  "At the earliest possible moment, every box & bag in the house must have a cat in it, si man."

[cdneh 3,112]

I was expecting the delivery of a quite large and heavy box tomorrow. The UPS guy is pretty good to get stuff into the house.

 

We left at noon to take the car in for service, yikes that was a spendy trip, and when we got home the huge box was leaning up against the porch wall. 225 lbs it weighs, and  yes I did get in inside, in pieces. Some assembly required. Tomorrow is another day.

[TBoneTX 45,604]

On 3/4/2020 at 1:12 AM, TBoneTX said:

reputation points

It seems that we have some respect here after all, si man and oj tak.

We are still holding to a tenuous lead, but it is unstable, teetering on edge of cliff man.

 

Generous reputation-point-bestowing DA man JMany ma'am Eh ma'am RR ma'am A ma'am Asia and everyone else man/ma'am!  Generous, GENEROUS reputation-point-bestowing, REPUTATION-POINT-BESTOWING DA man JMany ma'am Eh ma'am RR ma'am A ma'am Asia and everyone else man/ma'am!

[TBoneTX 45,604]

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

I did get in inside, in pieces.

Sorry that you fell apart during this process, si and sigh Eh ma'am.

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

Some assembly required.

We have found baling-wire and duct tape valuable in putting ourself back together in such situations, si Eh ma'am.

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

Tomorrow is another day.

Fizzically-restored-on-Friday Eh ma'am!  Fizzically-restored-on-Friday, FIZZICALLY-RESTORED-ON-FRIDAY Eh ma'am!

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,093]

16 hours ago, cdneh said:

I was expecting the delivery of a quite large and heavy box tomorrow. The UPS guy is pretty good to get stuff into the house.

Way back when I was at my first place in San Diego (it's less plausible to me that that was almost twenty years ago than that I've been married almost a year), I bought a desk that I'd need to assemble myself. Guy from the store got it out to my car, but there was no way I could carry the box up to the third floor (no elevator there) myself. So I ended up taking it up in pieces (and leaving some parts I had no intention of using in the trash). Finally got rid of that desk last summer when updating the 2nd bedroom outfitted as my home office to be a functional guest room (new one being somewhat narrower).

[cdneh 3,112]

5 minutes ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

Way back when I was at my first place in San Diego (it's less plausible to me that that was almost twenty years ago than that I've been married almost a year), I bought a desk that I'd need to assemble myself. Guy from the store got it out to my car, but there was no way I could carry the box up to the third floor (no elevator there) myself. So I ended up taking it up in pieces (and leaving some parts I had no intention of using in the trash). Finally got rid of that desk last summer when updating the 2nd bedroom outfitted as my home office to be a functional guest room (new one being somewhat narrower).

Similar thing. My NZ flatmate bought herself a desk, and we went to uplift it. Huge box, she swore she could see my car shrinking the closer we got to it. The chap himself with the box on a dolly thought there was no way to get it  in the car either. Oh ye of little faith. Right there in the parking lot I opened the box and indeed was able to get it all in. And that left him with the box and wrapping to look after. She still had it right up until she died last year. Her Nephew has it now.

I was driving a Toyota Echo, I think they call it a Yarris here. Amazing what you could fit in the boot of that thing.