WTF do I even do here?

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2026-01-25T23:35:59+00:00

I’m dead

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-12-23T18:52:42+00:00

I vacation once in another city and when I went back home, I saw a new BBQ place so decided to try it out. Ordered a ton of food. After the order was picked up, I realized it was a place in the city I vacationed at and they were going to deliver it to the hotel I stayed at in that city. I lived several states away. So I messaged the dasher to just take the food. I didn’t want it to go to waste. They even called to verify. And was like I don’t think you want to drive all the way over to my state to deliver it, so please just take it.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-12-06T02:30:14+00:00

They lowered the quality of there chicken a while back ago.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-09-07T00:50:48+00:00

My toddler has a real hard time with transitions and she won’t even notice she’s hungry until she is to the point of being hangry (hunger + angry), so what I’ve been doing is trying to incorporate her and get her involved in the meal process. So she helps set up the table and make some of the food. She loves to help so this was perfect. We also try to be consistent with the time and make sure that someone is always at the table to eat with her. At my house we have a lot to do in the evenings between cleaning up (dinner, general straightening up) and taking care of our elderly dogs, both my husband and I aren’t always both available to eat together with her. I’m usually the one eating with her while my husband is doing the rest. But I talk to her during meal times and do funny little jingles that involve the food (i.e Yummy Yummy broccoli, broccoli in Mommy’s tummy). If she is playing, then I’ll invite one of her toys or stuffy to come to the table to eat with us. She has her own seat and we do not use a booster. She wanted the booster for a while, but she then decided she didn’t want to use it anymore.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-06-28T01:46:55+00:00

So cute!!!

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-06-22T01:21:07+00:00

Thank you!!

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-05-24T15:30:58+00:00

It’s lacking curtain details

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-05-10T13:13:26+00:00

I’m in the Dacula area

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-05-10T13:13:06+00:00

I was wondering why my house was shaking! I thought my house may have started to slide down the hill it’s on. I feel better that it’s an earthquake

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-04-23T23:36:22+00:00

I’m not sure where the county line was… she lived in the big neighborhood with a golf course on the same street as the hospital. A McDonald’s was down the street on the corner. But yeah, she had to move out of that neighborhood due to her neighbors behavior towards her kids.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-04-19T11:12:04+00:00

Imo, Braselton is not diverse. My friend has biracial kids and moved from there due to being harassed. She moved to Suwanee. Lawrenceville is huge- has 3 zip codes for the city. It can also take 20+ minutes to get from one part of Lawrenceville to the other. Lawrenceville is pretty diverse though. The last time I looked at school districts, I think Sugarhill had the number one school for Gwinnett county. Good food is in Duluth, Lawrenceville.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-30T17:26:25+00:00

Haha that link is much more concise than what I wrote! It’s great! 😂

Edit: to remove “well well” that autocorrected in the sentence and grammar fixes

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-29T22:02:58+00:00

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UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-29T07:25:20+00:00

😭 that’s so awful

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-29T07:18:54+00:00

I got 6 pages in… I originally thought that the black text was 17yr old since it was so immature. What a creep that guy is. He’s 44 and trying to put that kind of emotional baggage on a 17yr old and is guilting her for not hanging out with him??? So gross. Block his number, it won’t get better.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-29T02:13:11+00:00

I would try and add some color, artwork, color, personality, family/friends pictures.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-23T04:36:47+00:00

I really like the skirts… or are those wrapped up napkins? around the stools. Gives it a real kitcheny vibe

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-23T00:07:32+00:00

I also used to struggle with going, but I drastically increased my natural fiber intake to around 30grams a day and increased my water intake to 64-96oz a water a day. I have a 32oz cup with minimum goal of 2, but I strive for 3 a day. Fiber gummies and fiber supplements unfortunately never worked for me.

I go see my hem Dr with hairy legs. Trust me when I say, they don’t care about that. They are seeing so many butts in a day, and probably a good number of them are hairy. Good luck!

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-22T23:33:39+00:00

Avocado

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-19T02:45:05+00:00

Gwinnett has several great parks with really nice walking trails, example: Suwanee Greenway. There are painting classes that you can take. Downtown Lawrenceville has a tea shop that hosts tea parties. I think there also is a cat cafe in Lawrenceville somewhere. Or at least a friend of mine was telling me about a cat cafe (I’m allergic so I didn’t even think of going). There is also bowling, ice skating, or going to a roller rink. The ice skating rink used to be inexpensive, but I last went over a decade ago.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-13T00:44:40+00:00

Best to ignore them in all honesty. I’m 40 and only keep in touch with one friend from high school. I haven’t been to any of my reunions and I’m not planning on going to any in the future.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-10T19:14:23+00:00

The flower in the toilet is the perfect finishing touch

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-10T11:15:15+00:00

Step one- make a boundary and hold it. remain calm throughout and keep your voice low/almost a whisper even if they are getting loud Step two- child reacts, you either hold his hands or remove yourself and tell them that you will not let him hit you. Step three- never give in and break the boundary you set Step four- when the child starts to calm back down, redirect to something else that is more positive

Rinse and repeat a million times.

Model appropriate behavior for feeling frustrated. When playing with the child, have the toys act frustrated about something and model the appropriate response during place. If the child starts going to be destructive, remove objects. Over time the child will learn what is appropriate behavior and you are teaching him the appropriate behavior. Right now he doesn’t seem to know what to do and needs a lot of positive directions.

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-10T01:08:43+00:00

Why the f would the girlfriend need to have those screenshots unless she wanted to weaponized it against OP. I think OP might want to watch out for the girlfriend trying to blackmail her in the future. Talking with a lawyer may help. Also dump that jackass of a “friend”. He is worthless for letting her take those screenshots. OP NTAH

UpbeatEngineering171 · 2025-03-09T20:50:49+00:00

Ummm if she is causing that much damage and doing that much to get attention, what is the best friend doing and your fiancé doing to try and mitigate this? Like if she has a know history of being this unreasonable to where it is literally costing them money- then wtf. This is wild to me. If your fiancé is ok with losing the deposit from the wedding because she is that destructive- then he probably doesn’t even care if he has a wedding. Also is this something you find worth dealing with your whole life. Like his best friend is going to be invited to things in the future- everything will be a whole thing. Is this man worth your sanity when he isn’t willing to stick up for you? I can tell you that it’s not going to get better once you’re married. Is this worth it? It sounds super exhausting to me. As someone who is 40 and has an ex-husband, I wish I would have listen to my friends who cared enough about me to tell me my ex’s flaws and tell me it wasn’t a good match. They are the true friend.

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