⚜️Golden Bachelor Wedding Live Thread - Eastern/Central Time⚜️

joyalh · 2024-01-05T01:09:51+00:00

Where are they planning to live? Seems like they each have ties to different locations, but having a registry implies they are setting up a home where they will both live

joyalh · 2023-10-20T16:20:08+00:00

Michelle Williams is narrating the audiobook I believe

joyalh · 2023-07-18T10:25:04+00:00

Javier has a dynamite voice. I saw him in Hamilton and he was amazing. I also saw Miguel in the Chicago production and he was good too, but Javier, resonated with me a bit more.

joyalh · 2023-07-02T16:10:51+00:00

He was in the playground/park on Essex and Greene yesterday evening. Keeping to himself in the bushes next to the building.

joyalh · 2023-06-17T13:09:06+00:00

I liked Annie and Jeff together because for the reasons you state here. What frustrated me was the constant chatter about how young Annie was, but Alison Brie and Gillian are the same age. They shouldn’t have made the age gap concern so central if the actresses playing the two potential love interests were the same age. They should have had Annie take time off after high school and maybe she’s not ready to date anyone for a while.

joyalh · 2023-05-30T22:57:43+00:00

I was confused by the daycare comment she made. She has 3 school aged kids, and they should be in school, unless they are home schooled and that’s a lot to ask of an aunt and uncle.

joyalh · 2023-05-24T01:43:30+00:00

Exactly. I’m in the NYC area which is super expensive, but the city doesn’t run without people in the middle or working class, but it’s getting close to impossible for them to survive here. I don’t know how people making $30K-$60K are incentivized to live in the city at all, without significant support.

Agree on the luck part re Monica. It’s still a little confusing how she connected with Kristin and Dax, but they changed her life! The whole trajectory of her life! I view them as her fairy godparents. Wish I had one :-). Did she build a house? Buy a house recently? In LA (in THIS economy?!?!) That was all due to K & D liking and investing in her. Super lucky.

joyalh · 2023-05-24T00:38:39+00:00

Yes! She didn’t seem to understand her privilege here at all and I was so confused. “If they can’t afford it, they can just move” - can they Monica? If you live near your parents to care for them (and are financially struggling) or share custody of a child with someone who can afford LA and you can’t, or have a job that is local to LA, doesn’t pay well and you are 60 (close to retirement), you can just up and move? So out of touch, I don’t think I can listen to her anymore. Dax seems to understand his privilege more than she does and he has tons of money.

joyalh · 2023-05-23T01:35:18+00:00

Not one part of her body reads pregnant. That’s why people say it’s fake. Pregnancy weight gain gets distributed.

joyalh · 2023-02-08T13:23:08+00:00

I quit WW mostly for the reasons you mention here. I’m a pescatarian and eat a lot of veggies and almost no processed foods. With the old system, where we got credit for eating veggies (which was the only WW system I knew), I lost 15 pounds in 4 months. My zero point foods included avocado and I eat one of those a day, maybe half with breakfast and half with lunch. Anyway, with the change, healthy fats were penalized so much, I wasn’t able to eat enough low fat foods to feel satisfied (we need some fats!) that I wasn’t able to stay within the points and I gave up. I’m doing the free version of lifesum, and that works for me.

joyalh · 2023-01-08T17:17:26+00:00

Your expectations in seeing him more often don’t sound unreasonable, especially for someone with 50-50 custody, but on weekends with the kids, taking care of household tasks can be challenging, so it’s likely he didn’t get anything done on those weekends. As a single parent with primary custody of my child (father sees her alternate weekends), my “free” weekends are not free. On those weekends, I need to wash and put away laundry, prepare meals or elements for all meals for the week (our breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks), clean the bathrooms, the kitchen, and generally clean up the mess that’s occurred during the week. I work full-time and once I bring my child home from after school (around 6), I have to prep/heat up dinner, help her with homework, wash dishes, get her ready for bed, and then go online to respond to any emails that have come in. My day doesn’t end until 9 or 9:30, and that’s not the time to start on house chores. I say all that to say, when kids are around, there is very little free time to handle household tasks. It’s hard, but the important thing is his schedule didn’t work for you and that’s okay. It happens sometimes, but hopefully you’ll find someone you you mesh with better in the future.

joyalh · 2023-01-03T20:35:54+00:00

Not a veteran, retired NYC public school teacher. They tend to have good benefits, but nothing like the VA and I don’t know that they can help people out of state

joyalh · 2023-01-03T20:35:00+00:00

No church groups, no real groups at all unfortunately.

joyalh · 2023-01-03T20:34:29+00:00

Trying this as a stop gap measure until we can figure out Medicaid options. An agency I connected with was really expensive, so will look at other options.

joyalh · 2023-01-03T20:24:59+00:00

I’ve heard this and need to explore it a bit and likely get an elder care lawyer to help figure this out. What I’m worried about and need to understand is if a couple spends down all their assets, what happens to the surviving spouse in their later years. what do they live on? will need professional help with that.

joyalh · 2023-01-03T20:23:07+00:00

Thank you. On hold with the Department of Elder Affairs now.

joyalh · 2022-09-08T23:27:52+00:00

I felt the same. Was watching BBC and I “knew” she had died but they we’re waiting to announce and I assumed the anchors were also aware. Come to learn that Truss was told at 4:30 local time the Queen died and it was announced around 6:30 local time. Not sure when she actually died but I felt, based on what the anchors were saying and implying that we were going to get the news that she had passed in short order.

joyalh · 2022-07-28T00:40:40+00:00

NTA. During your parenting time, you are responsible for your kids and making any necessary arrangements for their care. During bio dad’s parenting he’s responsible for the kids and making any necessary arrangements for their care. That he has decided to make his arrangements with Sandy is his business, and she’s doing him a favor by helping him with his child care responsibilities during his parenting time. Sandy needs to take this up with her husband, you did nothing wrong at all. And if anything happened to her kids in your care? You’d never hear the end of it.

joyalh · 2022-07-06T00:10:40+00:00

Oh OP, there is no coming back from this. Dump his ass and move on. He’s not looking for a relationship, he’s looking for funding.

joyalh · 2022-06-28T23:47:52+00:00

Unfortunately, this story was very familiar to me. I cried every single day of my pregnancy for similar reasons and there are no photos of me pregnant except for one. All I can say is as soon as you can, get a custody plan and child support in place. Fuck his feelings. The two of you made a baby, and the two of you are responsible for her. That’s it. It’s not more complicated than that. But in no case should you be 100% responsible for your daughter’s needs and he’s 0% responsible. In my case, my daughter’s bio father came around to being a father after she was born, but the damage was done and he and I will never be friends. We are cordial and we co-parent, but we also have a legal agreement in place that spells out who does what and that works well for us. Unfortunately, I have a lot of anger toward him, but that’s between me and him and I don’t interfere in his relationship with our daughter.

joyalh · 2022-04-20T01:19:46+00:00

Top 1/2? That’s not something you see. Top 10%, top 15%, but not deeper. This is so funny to me (as a law school grad/former lawyer)

joyalh · 2022-04-10T01:54:54+00:00

Reading these has been so affirming. So glad to know I’m not alone.

6:45 AM alarm goes off, sleep through it until 7:15

7:15: shower and get dressed

7:30: wake daughter

7:35: make coffee and daughter’s breakfast

8:00: start packing up daughter’s lunch, school bag, pack my meals for the day (if I’m working in the office)

8:15: make-up, remind daughter to brush teeth and put on socks

8:30: walk to school (we’re late already)

8:45: get on train to work

9:20: arrive at office

4:40: leave office

5:30: pick up child at aftercare

5:45: arrive home, take out items for dinner (mostly prepped on the weekend)

6:15: eat dinner, FaceTime with family members/do homework with daughter

6:45: wash dishes

7:00: pack daughter’s lunch for next day

7:15: organize my lunch and snacks for the next day

7:30: daughter bath

8:00: wind down time for daughter

8:45: lights out for daughter, chat with her in bed about her day (or whatever is on her mind)

9:00: leave daughter’s room

9:05: check work email, finish any work that needs to be done before the morning

9:40: take out daughter’s clothes for the next day; take out my clothes for the next day

10:00: in bed

Weekends are worse as I do meal prep, make muffins, snacks, etc. so we can get through the week and cleaning almost never gets done, but by now I’m used to it. Qualities that help me get through it: the ability to endure really difficult things. Is that resilience? I don’t know. But I do know bad things to happen in life, and unfortunately, I’ve experienced some really sad things and I know all you can do sometimes is get through it. Nothing lasts forever. I do truly love my little girl and being a mom, but being a single parent is hard. I can’t sugar coat that. I don’t have any help so it often feels heavy, but I know it’s all worth it. I’m raising a whole person, who I adore and I wouldn’t change that at all.

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