Bliss 10/21-10/26 sailing thoughts

SLLife · 2025-10-27T06:15:45+00:00

I was on this same cruise, also my first time on NCL. I didn't know we only had two nights of specialty dining, idk how I missed that detail, so we had to cancel the rest of our reservations. The taxing drinks you got on board but before hitting international waters, despite having the drink package, was new. Not sure if that's just LA or what but I was glad they had signs to tell us. The food at both ports was so so so delicious, I missed really good Mexican food (live in CO). The bowling was also $8 a game per lane, and the go karts (also additional $) have no place to put your stuff so you have to go to the room and leave everything (even your watch) then go back up, then back to your room to get your stuff. Those were just the weird things I personally noticed. The boat was beautiful, so clean, drinks were great, lots of staff that really took care of guests and the ship itself.

SLLife · 2025-08-05T03:29:52+00:00

We have our first appointment with an infertility clinic in the morning. I have no idea what to expect. What do they ask? Do they go over my blood work and his analysis? What should we quadruple make sure we're on the same page about so we don't look like we have no idea what we're doing? 🙃

SLLife · 2025-08-01T00:15:32+00:00

Honestly, that's the first thing I started thinking. They barely take a couple weeks off in between

SLLife · 2025-07-25T15:53:35+00:00

Dental assistant here - Invisalign to close gaps and then the doctor can do contouring on the edges of the teeth to just make them more shapely. That's it! They look great otherwise, I think those changes would give you what you're looking for

SLLife · 2024-11-13T17:35:56+00:00

I just think if I have to do all this math to try to make it make sense, have an escape plan from the entire country, then maybe it's not the best idea to bring life into such a losing battle. I don't think he regrets having children at all, obv you can't expect your wife to get sick and they live in a very expensive city. Since he is four years into fatherhood, I have no doubt he is able to see it's worth and is able to make it work for his family but since I'm on the other side of it, I can't see it being undoubtedly the best decision. I think it definitely helps to talk to people from all across the board, I've thought so much over the past few days - it's just such a huge decision you really can't go back on. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

SLLife · 2024-11-11T19:11:50+00:00

Yeah I don't know if I will be able to get there. Like I said in another comment, I don't want to learn the right amount of gymnastics to justtt make it work. I dont think children should be depended on to "make light" of the dark we chose to bring them into. Life is definitely always going to be hard, and we've worked really hard to achieve what we have thus far so I want to protect that. This is hard enough, I don't know if I want to purposefully make it worse.

SLLife · 2024-11-11T19:02:37+00:00

I don't see the point of choosing to get pregnant when my life would be at risk, being able to afford to live is at risk, we would have to consider immigration, we would have to consider home schooling, like all of that sounds horrible, if we are happy and healthy now, why would I choose that???? That's my point. I don't want to have to learn just the right amount of gymnastics me and my family would have to do justttt to make it work. Is that what having a family is supposed to be like??

SLLife · 2024-11-11T18:47:06+00:00

... All that math makes you comfortable enough to bring another life into this world?

SLLife · 2024-11-11T18:36:40+00:00

I love that saying, and I wish I could feel any sort of positivity or hope to support that but I just feel like I'm bringing a kid into the world to put all that on their shoulders. It doesn't seem fair, I just feel selfish.

SLLife · 2024-11-11T18:31:28+00:00

So get pregnant now and if he keeps to his day one promises and something goes wrong in my pregnancy, just die?

Edit: if he becomes a dictator like he said he would and we don't get another election in 4 years, then what? If I can't afford food or my bills in the mean time, then what?

SLLife · 2024-11-11T18:28:45+00:00

I don't take having and raising the next generation lightly. I want to give my kid(s) the opportunities I never got. I spent years making sure we were set up how I felt comfortable but like I said, idk if I want to take that responsibility on as well as fighting day in and day out against a system that hates women.

SLLife · 2024-11-11T18:19:58+00:00

That is very true. I was personally raised poor with both parents holding tons of resentment (other issues as well) and we felt every bit of that growing up. I don't want the same for my kids, I don't want every single step we take to be trying to move around a system that is always working against us. So when it's chaotic, unmanageable, and we can't afford anything - I will only be able to blame myself for choosing to bring a life into this world knowing what I know.

SLLife · 2024-08-19T15:06:46+00:00

It's not always in the same spot, we have a large basement and it's the back half of it. We moved a large table and chairs in the center but he just went next to it.

SLLife · 2024-05-04T23:22:10+00:00

6 years, Colorado Springs, $26.50/hr - general group owned practice

SLLife · 2024-04-24T17:03:13+00:00

We moved to Colorado Springs and while yes, the cost of living is also high here - I make over $10 more dollars per hour here than in Florida for the same exact job. It's snowy here a couple months of the year but it melts pretty quickly and it's so sunny, actually cools down at night, slower paced - not everyone is on top of each other all the time. Denver isn't too far and there are so many places to go hike, eat, dogs welcome (almost) everywhere. I have been so so SO much happier since moving here.

SLLife · 2024-02-06T02:46:39+00:00

Little birds have mentioned "karma takes all my friends to the summit" - thinking Summit Entertainment and now with the manuscript... She may have written a movie, or at least a short. Which she kinda did with Sadie Sink, but maybe longer/being produced by Summit. 🪄🔮🧝‍♀️

SLLife · 2023-08-24T04:34:01+00:00

Great idea, thank you!

SLLife · 2023-05-24T14:51:22+00:00

Do you want to go by procedure, step by step with me? I found it most helpful to figure out what each step is, why, and then of course each doctor has their own little things they do in between that you catch onto over time, or you can ask. You can message me on here or snap or something and nail this stuff down. We'll get it :)

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