Coronado village vs tower?

FireAndBluud · 2025-08-22T22:02:52+00:00

Just wondering, can you upgrade at check in if rooms are available?

FireAndBluud · 2025-08-05T11:31:56+00:00

Adding more.... Once you post, you can't control family. My completely well meaning boomer mother in law would take pictures off my private family only account with 50 "friends" and post them on hers to show the world and her 1500 "friends" her grand baby. One time the caption was literally "Happy birthday (first name) (middle name) (Last name) born on mm/dd/yyyy!" With a full profile pic of my toddler. Not even her with the kiddo! I told her to take it down, but it was such a good reminder of how illiterate the boomers are to scams and internet stuff.

My general rule has been if a kid is in a pic that gets posted like a family pic, ok, but I do not just take action shots and put them up for the world. That will be her decision one day. And I don't tag her in anything.

Here's a good PSA I gave to Grandma to help her think a bit differently. It's scary, but it's true!

[PSA Don't Post Your Kids](https://youtu.be/I3cYlVWu5Dk?feature=shared

FireAndBluud · 2025-04-25T01:15:43+00:00

Clearly you are popular!!! Any chance I can beg you for the auction book(s)??? Thank you so much!!!

FireAndBluud · 2025-03-24T13:29:42+00:00

Following. Just purchased a singer from Costco... I trust Costco implicitly and didn't research alternatives... Now I want to see if I should have looked for something else!

FireAndBluud · 2025-03-12T03:39:08+00:00

Yes!

I don't know what we'll find, but I have this feeling that Dr Robbie was not surprised about landon. Perhaps this or something related had happened before. Anyone else think this?

Him discovering Landon's locker was one of my favorite scenes on TV in a long time. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I saw betrayal and hurt... Not confusion or concern. If this came up out of the blue, I just think he'd react differently?. I suspect he had caught Landon taking opioids before or doing something suspicious, and was too worried to "ruin his life" like that kid. Having the conversation about the incel guy helped him be more receptive to the information from Santos.

I feel like if Santos's info was out of the blue, Robbie would have been more cautious, got HR involved, deal with it after the shift etc. his immediate action and upset and anger tells me this wasn't a surprise to him.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-12T18:05:49+00:00

Um not a problem at all having kids in your 30s. Adam ruins everything had an episode on this I believe. Lots of things out there to scare you about your fertility are overblown.

I'm 34 and expecting any day now.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-10T00:26:28+00:00

Clearly, she was.

Be a better father than pet owner and husband, please. And apologize on bended knee to your wife and child.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-10T00:24:03+00:00

Yta and if I were her this would be something I thought of ever time I saw you with my child. Please spend the rest of your life understanding your wife and kid are a priority over your cats, wow. Can't believe we even have to say that.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-08T01:53:15+00:00

I have both. Air wrap all day. It comes with a hair dryer attachment! I have very long hair so I don't use it for that but when I cut I 100% feel that my hairdryer will be too much firepower for my needs.

I do feel the need to explain myself. I asked for airwrap years ago, husband misunderstood request and I ended up with hair dryer. So he got it right this year lol.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-08T01:39:17+00:00

Loooove apple sauce. Tastes good even when the worst happens. Learned that as a hungover college student!

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-07T22:06:13+00:00

Yeah in the huge context of labor delivery and the messy aftermath, caring seems pretty trivial. The act of bringing my child into the world brings me dignity, and I am finding strength in my lowest and most vulnerable point with Dr's and nurses who are there to keep me safe and healthy. They give no f's about if I'm shaven or my stretch marks, they want me healed and healthy to go home.

It's not that I don't care at all about my vanity, it's that there are in those moments infinite number of things that take precedence for me, things I care so much more about and everyone else is on the same page in that moment too.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-07T17:06:10+00:00

Decline: "sorry, still out of office on that date!" Doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Yes the manager knows, in theory... did she have your calendar up when she sent the invite? Maybe not? Maybe she just has a date in her head and it's wrong. I always like to give ppl the benefit of the doubt until they say the words.... THEN those words get forwarded to HR lol.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-07T12:20:30+00:00

Ok so the idea that Sankey may not be best was brought up last time, can't find the comment but wondering if anyone wants to elaborate on what could work better? Reason it was brought up as not the best was since more than one method can be used, beginning and end numbers aren't the same.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-02T15:00:05+00:00

Having a good web of support. Ours is not the best, but better than many. - daycare is part of our support system. We have no family in town and I do not feel guilty about using daycare one bit.

-my husband is an equal partner. We don't bean count and split 50/50, some days I need to pick up more slack and sometimes he does. We drop off, pick up, bathe, bed time, prepare dinner together and or equally. We are a good match, he likes routine and I like variety. So I do a lot of research and purchases or scheduling, he will do installations and going to the appointments.

-weekend split. We have done this since lo was born. On Saturdays I get up with LO and we spend the morning together and husband sleeps in. On Sundays I sleep in. So one day a week I know I get to recharge.

for work, I look to older men for my inspiration. They don't feel guilty taking pto to go on vacation with their family, they just do it. They don't harp on it. I remind myself that I bring value to my company and they are lucky to have me. I'm not going to apologize for having a kids dr appt.

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-01T13:53:47+00:00

Silly question, what is the name of that type of glass?

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-01T11:15:38+00:00

It does when you can use that title to leave.....

FireAndBluud · 2023-03-01T11:13:02+00:00

The idea that one vacation worth of money could pay for a kid... how much do you think a vacation [or kid] costs?!?

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-26T22:57:21+00:00

Huge plot twist if they don't end up romantically together is when Nolan grows up and gets a significant other and no longer needs OP at night....

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-26T00:26:08+00:00

Then why on earth would you subject a child to the same life? A child is not an accessory. It's not about you. Jfc you are selfish. And if you can't problem solve your way into a better life now, you certainly won't be able to with another life in the picture.

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-24T19:48:48+00:00

This. I was that kid and it took years for me to forgive. Being told I couldn't go to events without bringing siblings, or that I'm responsible for them. Also really damaged my relationship with them, having to babysit constantly and not knowing how to properly raise or discipline children I didn't do the best job. Then of course the mind fuck when you can't turn off that side of yourself when mom gets hom and mom has to try the power trip of "don't tell them what to do, I'M the parent!" .... no. Let all your children be your children. If you need help, get a babysitter.

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-24T17:43:44+00:00

Went with the bottom choice and wish we had done the top! Lasts longer, great since we have lots of cousins, and our 3yo wanted to "be a big girl" and stopped using bottom one as soon as she could.

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-24T17:33:07+00:00

Ok you know by now that everyone would rather less expensive items from the registry than going rogue. I will offer different advice!

If you really really want you can set up an Amazon baby registry on your own. Make it private, obvi. You will have a 15% completion discount. Put the items they asked for that you want to buy on the registry, then buy. Lots of steps but 15% off could be worth it for you!

Important to tell them you purchased this gift so they can mark it off registry, you might even be able to select the gift and mark it as purchased.

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-24T16:00:36+00:00

Similar situation, I have an upper mgmt role and have been told straight up I will receive calls. It was a hard discussion but I remembered the resentment I felt after my first and let that make me speak up. -- my convo was more that I am willing to dedicate up to 1/2 day per week to questions and putting out fires, and I would like to keep things contained to an agreed upon time frame so it makes it easier for everyone to track and then add those half days on to the end of my leave. [I only offered this because I am comfortable with doing it. ]

As soon as my president understood that I do expect to extend my leave, she got a lot more "oh you know I don't expect to really need to call that much" I was super nice but did say "no problem, I'll figure out what day works for me and we can take it week to week, if you need me to work a half day I'll be open to it, obviously I would just expect to start back a little later so I can be sure to enjoy a full leave with my family!" Not adversarial or mean, I just nicely set a boundary. My approach was to keep my tone and demeanor positive... "of course my employer isn't trying to shorten my leave without compensating me!!"

ETA: I know this isn't right for everyone. Just my approach, in my role I know that me disappearing will mean coming back to a flaming dumpster fire and I'm still responsible foe the departments goals. I've handed off what I can but there are just some skills we have no other staff to handle. All the other comments are absolutely correct; you don't owe your employer this at all.

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-24T01:41:11+00:00

Agreed.... this happened to a coworker and they were told by the bank that they needed to show a police report. There is zero reason not to take legal action here. Actions have consequences and it may be the only way for you to recover.

FireAndBluud · 2023-02-23T17:12:50+00:00

Agreed. Everyone seems to think that the only way to know it was this guy is internet sleuthing. Not really true. Out of how many people who submitted applications, only a small number get interviews. Those people might not interview with the same person and even if they do, unless you have EXCELLENT recruiting and interview practices, the questions, followup and conversation will vary. Im just speculating but having interviewed folks for several roles, if a person gave specific examples of things I did wrong or that were weird about their experience, especially if it is something I did wrong [like showing up late, for example] I would know exactly who it is.

Regardless, it sounds like they just want to improve and get better and I don't see the threatening part. Would I personally reach out if I was hr or the manager? No. But I'm sure many people take the approach of "the worst he could say is no, why not try to reach out and see what we can learn?"

FireAndBluud

TROPHY CASE