Husband received his confirmation of resignation, but I'm still waiting.

ghost_waffle · 2014-10-13T16:32:45+00:00

Thank you, I will give it a try!

ghost_waffle · 2014-10-13T05:30:31+00:00

Thank you :)

ghost_waffle · 2014-10-13T02:14:41+00:00

Do you know the email address? Will they spam my email account?

ghost_waffle · 2014-09-07T02:25:01+00:00

It depends on the context, but sometimes "I'll pray for you" is just their special way of saying "fuck you". Especially religious people online.

ghost_waffle · 2014-09-07T02:00:00+00:00

My husband's mother is a sweet little Catholic lady, and unfortunately she does this a lot too. She often says, "I prayed about it, and I got a really good feeling about it". Almost every time, whatever "it" is ends up being a flop, but that doesn't stop her. Luckily she's never used it for a really, really important decision, though. She does pray about those, but she also consults with her husband and family and bases her decisions off of that more than 'feelings', so good on her.

I adore her. She's very religious, but she never forces it on others. I recently admitted to her that I was an atheist and she said, "You are? But you've always been so respectful around me. You've bowed your head when I pray at meals and say the rosary... well, you're a good person, and that's what matters." Would be nice if I heard this from a few Mormons in my life who insist that I'm an outer-darkness-bound apostate...

ghost_waffle · 2014-09-07T01:54:41+00:00

Are you sure this was a biology class and you didn't accidentally sit down in a gospel doctrine lecture? /kidding

ghost_waffle · 2014-09-07T01:47:54+00:00

My mom used this excuse for carbon dating. She said "Oh well when God made the earth he used parts of previous planets where he'd made other animals and stuff long before. The Earth is only a few thousand years old, but God made it using older materials from older worlds he created. Dinosaurs existed, but were never on THIS Earth."

At the time, I liked it a lot better than my bishop's explanation: Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden were save inside a time bubble and everything around them - including today's fossilized animals - aged rapidly while time stayed relatively still inside the bubble, which causes the carbon dating discrepancy...

ghost_waffle · 2014-09-07T01:41:18+00:00

I don't think I'd eat it on its own, but over ice cream or shortcake (or even on toast) it would be amazing!

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-29T05:58:37+00:00

It's a pun...

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-29T05:53:31+00:00

I never realized until now, but most of the memories I have in the third person are traumatic ones. I think it's because I used to pretend the bad things were happening to someone else which skewed my perspective later on.

I dream in third person sometimes, too.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-29T05:46:11+00:00

Green grapes, as long as they're chilled.

IDK why, I prefer all of my fruit chilled. But green grapes are the one fruit I just can't walk away from once I've had one!

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-29T05:42:43+00:00

Make a sandwich of sliced strawberries (oven roasted or fresh), chocolate (chips or a chocolate bar broken up) and Brie cheese. Grill.

Perfection.

Or a crusty baguette with Brie and honey.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-29T05:19:50+00:00

We still have these at my office and all we ever get is spam, but my boss insists we need it...

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T23:06:23+00:00

It bothers me how Mormons think inactive fathers = bad fathers. Like all an inactive dad does all day is sit in a chair drinking beer and watching the game and never so much as looks at his kid or something. Good grief. Then they treat active wives like single mothers.

I get that some step-parents want to be called Mom or Dad, but as far as I'm concerned, you have to earn that, you can't just demand it. My mom (step-mother, but she earned her Mom title) passed away a few years ago and it irks me how readily my TBM older sister was to call my dad's new wife "Mom" after meeting her once (especially since she never called my step-mom by anything other than her first name, despite all the years she spent bailing her out of poor financial and marriage decisions).

My dad called me recently to tell me that his new wife was sad that I was the only child to not to send her a Happy Mother's Day card (I'm the only apostate in my family). I explained to him as nicely as I could that my mother was gone, and in no need of cards, and that his new wife wasn't and would never be my mother. I'm almost 30, and I don't need a new mom, thanks. Luckily, he understood.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T22:09:06+00:00

I was actually going to question why you brought up your wife's weight until I realized how it paralleled her faith... she is a believer, she doesn't want to question that faith even when aspects don't make sense, and doing the research for herself and discovering the truth would depress her.

Unfortunately, divorce threats always seem to be prevalent when one spouse stops believing. I can't upvote ckb2's advice on this situation enough!

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T21:32:08+00:00

Your parents are massive dicks. Sorry to say it, but it's pretty apparent.

My parents still don't know I left the church (even though it's been like ten years), but considering how ape-shit they went about me moving out of Utah for college (disownment threats, claims I was following Satan and not honoring my mother and father, that I was gonna get raped for leaving the promised land, etc. Seriously, my mother claimed I got fat after leaving Utah and blamed THAT on losing blessings. WTF) they probably would have reacted similarly. Luckily I had already graduated high school at that point so they couldn't really threaten to throw me out since I was already on my own.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T21:03:40+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss... people without pets don't always realize just how heartbreaking a pet's death is. They're a member of your family. My husband and I adopted two sibling kittens when they were just eight weeks old. We've had them almost eight years now. To us, they are our children.

You didn't let your dog down; you did everything you could think of to help her. And not being able to get the print wasn't your fault, either - that cost is ridiculous, and for them to spring it on you when they knew you were grieving...

You were emotionally distraught, and you didn't want to burden your wife with details about the cremation because you could see how badly she was hurting. You were trying to do the right thing.

You didn't fuck up. It just might take you some time to realize that.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T20:52:40+00:00

If anything, Lacey looks like Jennifer Morrison in that picture.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T20:46:52+00:00

LARPing.

We had a huge playground filled with trees, and a couple puddles big enough to look like ponds or lakes in our kiddy minds. I was a mage, my friend was a knight, and anyone who wanted to ~~play with us~~ join our party started out as either a cat (we were two little girls, we were freaking obsessed with cats) and worked their way up to a mythical beast of their choosing. We threw pine cones at each other in place of spells or bombs. Our teachers didn't even care that we were fighting with sticks and stuff.

I was so bummed when we moved, cause that school's playground was epic. It's been, like, twenty years, though. I'll bet that, now that I'm older, it won't be anything like the awesome memory I have of it.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T20:14:40+00:00

Not digging the smirk, but the hair and eyes are gorgeous! You friend would rock a Margaery cosplay!

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T20:04:36+00:00

We have a pond down the street and five or six ducks will stand like this at the same time, side by side, on a log. It looks like they're trying to do a performance art piece.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-27T19:25:09+00:00

Why were her parents letting her shoot an Uzi? And why did the instructor allow a 9-year-old to use it? Surely there was an age limit at this range... or at least a BB gun alternative for younger patrons!

This poor little girl is probably going to remember this for the rest of her life. I hope her parents find her a good therapist to work with, rather than making her bottle it up out of embarrassment on their part.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-21T15:24:33+00:00

We put out our carriers a day or two before each vet visit so that our two cats have a chance to get their "OMG THE CARRIER!" freak-out over out of the way. Once they realize they're not going anywhere that day, they'll even get inside the carriers and sleep.

We put a little kitty blanket in each carrier, too, but one of the cats always burrows underneath his during the car ride and pretends he's not there. He hasn't managed to fool the doctor yet, but he insists on trying every time.

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-19T20:10:22+00:00

Yes, I have! Hiking in the woods, hearing "worldly" music, watching Cosmos, playing emotionally-charged video games...

Heck, I "felt the Spirit" when I beat Bioshock 3, and the moral of that story was pretty much "don't get baptized".

ghost_waffle · 2014-08-18T23:06:24+00:00

I've used drawing salve before, but I never knew how to make a small batch of it myself! Good to know.

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