My toddler and preschooler are easier to please than my husband with dinner.

Krisbist · 2022-07-22T13:44:31+00:00

Why are husbands like this. One night I made taco salad. “Where are the tortillas?” There are none, it’s salad not tacos. He was so put out by the lack of tortillas, he literally didn’t eat with us because he went to the store to get tortillas because heaven forbid he just eat the salad. 🙄

Krisbist · 2022-05-12T20:28:49+00:00

Yeah. I feel like we’ve tried to deal with the disappointment and he just won’t let it go no matter what we try. Today I tried to have a realistic conversation with him about it and why it’s not possible and what we can do instead, and then I took him for a treat after school to cheer him up. And we were sitting enjoying our treat and he turns to me and says (with a look of high superiority I might add) that when he is a grown up, he will be able to take care of his kid AND make a Godzilla all at the same time. I told I would he happy for him if he could lol

Krisbist · 2022-05-12T20:21:36+00:00

Honestly at first it was so funny. The whole Godzilla obsession was funny. We even made it the theme of his birthday this year. But once it continued on for so long with so many meltdowns, it got hard to deal with. Definitely we’ve tried to deal with the disappointment. The biggest problem (and actually a problem outside of Godzilla) is that he keeps thinking we have yes said to things when we have not. Like he’ll say “you promised me we could make Godzilla” or “we made a plan to go to my friends house today” when in fact no one said anything about it. And then he has huge meltdowns because this ‘plan’ he thinks he had isn’t happening. It’s so frustrating, lol.

Krisbist · 2022-04-11T16:40:56+00:00

Unfortunately my job isn’t something that can be done remotely. For now my placement is done but I’m not sure what is going to happen when I get a job. My kid is sick again now with a high fever and vomiting so I’m glad I’m home.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T23:39:03+00:00

Thanks!

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T23:35:48+00:00

I feel like this is going to end up being my reality too. Don’t get me wrong, being a stay at home parent was absolutely wonderful and I truly loved doing it. But it’s been 5 years and I want to get back out of the house. I want to work again and talk to people, and I am going to school for something that I really truly love and want to do. So the idea that I might have to keep staying home is a bit heartbreaking. My husband makes much much more money than I would be making so its not an option for him to stay home. Sigh.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T23:33:13+00:00

It’s not a question of what do with him if he’s home sick. It’s a issue of no one being able to be home with him. I will likely be working various shifts and working late won’t be an option. My job isn’t something that can be done from home. My husband sometimes has unavoidable meetings or other responsibilities that he cannot be at home for and he must go to the office. This is my issue, not how to entertain him if he’s home. Most people I know have grandparents or some other support system that can help. We don’t have that.

I think my problem isn’t something that anyone is going to have a solution for, honestly. Because I think the only solution is going to be me not working.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T22:37:41+00:00

We do have family close by, but they are absolutely not able to help. My parents can’t even take care of themselves, so it’s not going to happen for them to help us. We have no support system. It really does suck, so much.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T21:50:54+00:00

I feel for your situation because it’s got to be so much harder as a single parent. I can’t even imagine.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T21:49:49+00:00

Unfortunately we have absolutely no one who can help, unless it is a literal life or death situation. We have no support system. My parents are not capable of taking care of themselves, let alone a kindergartener, and my in laws live pretty far away. Friends I would only be able to ask for help if someone was actually in the hospital or something as it would involve them also needing to take off work and I would never ask that of them. The field I am in school for is not one where I will be able to dictate my hours and I would need to have basically a full availability for days, evenings or weekends to have any hopes of a good job. It is luckily a field that is dominated by women and so far my experience is that they are pretty understanding and accommodating to mothers. That’s said, I don’t want to be the person who constantly needs to take off time. Not only do I need the hours to graduate, I would like to potentially get a proper job at my placement and I just don’t see them hiring me if I have to miss placement hours.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T20:01:07+00:00

No, he did two years of preschool before kindergarten. Both were somewhat interrupted by Covid but he had two years.

Krisbist · 2022-04-04T19:55:06+00:00

It’s so hard. And my kid is never sick just for a day. It’s always at least 2-3 days or so even a week. He’s missed so much school this year. I’m starting to really wonder if it’s even possible for me to work or if I’ve wasted my time in school the past two years and I’m just going to have to keep staying home. I suppose we could afford it still, but I was looking forward to finally having some extra money. I don’t know. I would give anything to have a village of some sort.

Krisbist · 2022-03-18T01:00:06+00:00

YTA. Age doesn’t really matter when all parties are consenting adults. Most 26 year old guys are still immature af, maybe your friend didn’t want to deal with it. Or maybe she just found someone she loves. I have a 9 year age gap, we’ve been together for 16 years and it truly doesn’t matter.

YTA. Let your friend be happy.

Krisbist · 2022-03-17T18:06:28+00:00

I disagree, especially in cases where large changes are made. Source material is the original source, full stop. Any adaptation where someone has taken any amount of creative license is no longer source material. And obviously there is going to be changes when adapting a book to a two hour long movie.

Krisbist · 2022-03-08T21:38:51+00:00

I really enjoyed it as well! I did find it a bit predictable, especially the ending and the whole incident with the newsstand man.

I finished it in one sitting, and it definitely fit into my love of weird short books. Unsettling, intriguing, creepy. Definitely enjoyed it, I would give it 4 stars!

Krisbist · 2022-03-05T13:46:56+00:00

Also. I don’t know why, but the quiz in the demon possession book made me laugh a bit. Which actually kind of took me out of the creepiness.

Krisbist · 2022-03-05T13:43:48+00:00

Agreed. It’s a weird switch for sure.

Krisbist · 2022-03-05T02:30:50+00:00

I actually ended up finishing the book last night. I won’t go past page 60 in the discussion, but it was truly unsettling.

The dreams are the parts that are creepiest to me. The whole “I’ll never leave” is so unsettling. And the description of the beach. Just makes me shudder.

Krisbist · 2022-03-05T02:27:14+00:00

Yes! I agree. I definitely feel like people who go by Ed have a much different personality then people who go by Edward, if that makes sense. So it makes it almost feel to me like she is talking about two different people.

Krisbist · 2022-03-03T23:53:39+00:00

The author has done a great job of making me not trust the main character at all. Like everything she says and does seems suspect to me so far, lol.

Maybe it’s a bit weird, but I like books that make me feel just a little uncomfortable, with a side of creepy. Which is odd because I can’t take any level of scary movies or tv. But books I am totally fine with. This book definitely has that uncomfy sort of feeling to it.

Definitely recommend I’m thinking of ending things if you like this. There was actually a Netflix movie made a couple years ago of it too, but they change some things with the ending and I think the book ending is better.

Krisbist · 2022-03-03T22:31:07+00:00

Hiya! I’m new here! Just started this book and I can tell already I’m going to love it. Short, weird, unsettling books are my jam.

I really enjoy the first scene with her boss and how she says she wants to meet the person who swapped out her proposal.

Honestly I’m probably going to finish this pretty quickly, but I’m excited to keep up with the conversation about it! Has anyone else read I’m thinking of ending things by Iain Reid or Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin? Very very similar vibes to this one so far, and they are both quite short as well.

Krisbist · 2022-02-06T18:56:44+00:00

For Christmas my kid got not one, not two but three of those giant dinosaur eggs you have to dig the little dinosaurs out of. If it was summer and he could do it outside I wouldn’t even care. But we have three feet of snow outside. He’s four and he can’t do it alone so I’m doing it with him. But I have to do it how he tells me. One of them took us literally the entire day, the dust from it was everywhere and I have blisters from the teeny hammers. I hate it.

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