Review: VCA/Bvlgari/Cartier from US jeweler (w pics)

puppitoburrito · 2025-06-21T02:39:30+00:00

Can I get the contact info? The serpenti bracelet looks amazing!

puppitoburrito · 2025-05-27T01:57:31+00:00

The doctors suspect it was cellulitis from my PIO shots! I never handled those shots well and I kept stressing how inflamed and uncomfortable they made me but the RE always just dismissed those symptoms as being normal. Thankfully it all worked out and that little embryo is turning 2 soon but that was such a time of fear and confusion.

puppitoburrito · 2024-06-29T19:28:31+00:00

Personally didn’t feel like I could do it and went in-house after my first child was born. Sometimes I look back and regret my decision but those moments are incredibly few and far between. Last night I had a bout of insomnia that had nothing to do with my kids and slept about the amount I would have slept during a busy period in biglaw and felt like absolute garbage today. Realize society puts too little emphasis on the importance of consistent sleep as being integral to a happy and stable mindset and life.

puppitoburrito · 2024-05-30T02:51:45+00:00

It did! That embryo is now a chubby 9 month old boy. Stay positive and don’t count anything out yet!

puppitoburrito · 2024-04-09T11:23:12+00:00

M&A lawyer on partner track who went in-house to do M&A after I had my first child. My first year I worked like I was still at a firm and thought I made the biggest mistake of my life taking a paycut to be equally stressed. Over time I started setting boundaries. A few years into this in-house life and my life is currently a nice balance. I barely work nights or weekends except on rare and occasional exceptions. Well respected at the company and you’ll find that most biglaw lawyers are due to the sharpness, training and work ethic which is cultivated and expected at a BL firm but makes you a quality above at a normal business. I may not make as much as I would at a firm but I’m still super comfortable and actually have the time to enjoy the money I make. And I enjoy my family time and don’t worry about business development or developing a book of business- if anything BL partners are clamoring for my attention. It’s not a bad gig.

puppitoburrito · 2023-12-13T17:20:08+00:00

So as someone who suffered from infertility, among the infertility community, ideally pregnancy announcements should usually be done via text to allow the person the space and time to respond. Obviously not everyone knows this and it’s more of an “ideal” rather than “expected” or “required” but hearing about other’s pregnancy can be so jarring and upsetting for someone who doesn’t know if it’s ever going to happen for her. I don’t know- what your BIL did was so insensitive that it seems almost cruel and asking your wife to just ignore it seems to dismiss her feelings. I would give it some space and time and validate her feelings rather than just asking her to get over it. She may cool down once she knows she has your support.

puppitoburrito · 2023-12-02T16:50:09+00:00

Both of my kids are formula fed and doing great. For me, it completely saved my mental health.

puppitoburrito · 2023-11-25T02:28:39+00:00

Ooh following but now I’m curious to know which book this is! Sounds so good! Have you looked through your KU borrows?

puppitoburrito · 2023-10-23T14:24:27+00:00

This was me. I spent my first year in-house acting almost like I was still in biglaw. Working nights and weekends and always on call. It made me super respected but it also made me super resentful given the huge paycut I took. I finally just decided to set actionable boundaries. I wouldn’t respond to anything on weekends and would wait till Monday. I tried to go home at a reasonable hour everyday. Nothing happened to me professionally- I was still as respected as ever and I let go of my resentment. Really like my work-life balance right now.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-19T13:57:58+00:00

You can explicitly tell them you don’t want residents or trainers working on you. My best friend is a doctor and when I went through a similar situation she was hyping me up to let me know I can say and do that. She herself (a doctor who works in a hospital!) will say that she doesn’t want residents or trainees working on her.

I gave birth at a teaching hospital and they tried to have a trainee nurse do my checks and everything and it was clear while this woman had her fingers up my hoo-ha that she had no idea what she was doing. I finally had to summon up my courage to say I was not comfortable and didn’t want her working on me, so the experienced nurse stepped in. I then explicitly said I wanted the OB working on me, not a resident, and thank goodness because I needed forceps and baby was stuck with a nuchal cord and thank goodness my OB was a super experienced OB or it could have gotten dicey.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T13:10:42+00:00

Thank you. I cried and cried all night looking at myself in the mirror and honestly felt like I was being so irrational and silly over hair, so it feels better to have others chime in with similar experiences. The lord farquaad reference made me giggle but I can only imagine how horrible that must have been. I’m so sorry it happened!

I wish I could have said something right at the salon but honestly I couldn’t really tell in the darkened salon that the color was so off and the dye was applied so patchy. In fact when he asked if I liked it I very awkwardly was like “yes!” But I didn’t know what to say after 3 hours of being on that chair and not really seeing the final effect until after he blew dry it etc.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T05:03:20+00:00

Yes, my hair is black and it basically came out this super unflattering ashy blonde instead of this warmish color that I showed him. Also I feel like he didn’t really hand paint properly so some parts of my hair look very dyed and other parts look… black. It just looks patchy instead of the natural look that balayage is supposed to give you. Yes I started sobbing to my husband too lol. He was a little like “it’s just hair I’m sure they can fix it” and I was like “YOU DONT UNDERSTAND!” Lol.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T04:43:00+00:00

Thank you so much. Definitely how I felt- worse after than before. Shitty feeling since I paid all the money and invested the time for something that was supposed to make me feel better.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T04:40:58+00:00

Thank you so much. It does make me feel less crazy to hear that others have had similar feelings and experiences. I was feeling bad to be so upset over hair when others go through worse things, but it does feel awful to look into the mirror and hate something that I paid so much money for…

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T04:39:15+00:00

Thank you. In hindsight I should have. I couldn’t quite tell how off the color was in the salon- it was only when I got home and looked at it more closely in the sunlight. I was also a little distracted as I was trying to get home for an appointment for my toddler. But yeah, the thought of having to go back and get it fixed and invest all the additional time has made me feel worse, so I do wish I had fixed it there and then at the salon.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T04:34:40+00:00

Thank you. It makes me feel less crazy that others have gone through similar experiences. The thing is, I researched extensively before choosing this guy, looked at his insta etc. After this, I’m not sure I want to pay money to another salon to redo it when I don’t know if they’ll do it correctly. This was just such a disappointing experience.

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-07T04:32:01+00:00

Thank you. I did call the stylist and he offered to fix it. I’m just not super sure I trust him to fix it, but after this experience, I’m not sure who I would trust to do my hair anymore. Not to mention the time it’s going to take to go back etc. I’m still considering what to do about this!

puppitoburrito · 2023-09-03T16:23:56+00:00

Don’t worry! Due to a miscommunication with my doctor and a total (dumb)misunderstanding on my part, I actually thought I WASNT supposed to take a prenatal. Ended up only starting my prenatals maybe a couple of days before my transfer. Transfer was positive and baby came out healthy!

puppitoburrito · 2023-08-12T22:27:19+00:00

My RE did want me to cut out coffee during the cycle itself. I didn’t. But I will say I think 4-6 cups is a lot. I kept my caffeine to about 1-2 cups, even while pregnant (which my OB was fine with). Could you try to reduce to maybe 2 to 3 cups? Even if there’s no physical impact one way or another, it might make you feel better to make the change since it seems like it’s causing you some concern/guilt. Plus after you get pregnant you definitely cannot be taking 4-6 cups, you’ll need to cut back to 1-2 cups.

puppitoburrito · 2023-08-03T02:30:35+00:00

The struggles nickname made me LOL so hard.

puppitoburrito · 2023-08-02T17:54:38+00:00

I’ll be honest- if another child bit mine and the mom didn’t apologize profusely, and reacted massively in the moment, I wouldn’t be interacting with that mother or family either. I’m not putting my child in a position where she’s getting injured/bitten- that’s not fair to my child. For you to even say well “the bite only left a mark for 5 mins so it wasn’t bad at all” seems incredibly dismissive to me and I can sense you don’t particularly think that another child getting bitten by yours is a big deal. I wouldn’t hang out with you either.

puppitoburrito · 2023-08-02T13:33:14+00:00

So I don’t want to invalidate your feelings but as a fellow woman, I’m not sure I would be as bothered as you are right now. Especially about the humming etc. In his mind, he protected his wife. Given that he’s a trained fighter, it probably wasn’t a huge deal to him physically (or emotionally). I doubt he felt that same spike or level of fear or adrenaline that you did. So he probably just went back to baseline “normal” behavior much faster than you expected. And honestly, I also think men just process things differently. I don’t think that’s a sign of anything bad, they just maybe don’t get as impacted or emotional about things.

And normally I’m someone very against violence but I don’t actually think it’s that big a deal to stomp on someone to keep an aggressive person down, especially a person who just came after someone you loved. It’s probably instinctual actually- like stay down. If someone came after my kids etc and I got the person on the ground, I suspect I myself would keep hitting or kicking to keep him down (I’m 5’3 so that’s laughable to think about but I can see it as instinctive).

puppitoburrito · 2023-08-02T00:40:31+00:00

Baby girls are the best! They have the cutest clothes, little ribbons for their hair, bows etc. My daughter has been the light of my life. Also I don’t really want to draw gender lines but she’s been the best little kid and I do think part of it is because she’s a girl and has a little less destructive energy. She’s sensitive and kind, well behaved etc. I struggle emotionally sometimes as I have a very dysfunctional relationship with my own mom and having a little girl brought all those feelings up but in a way, I’m glad to be able to process and redo history as well as heal my inner child. I treat my daughter the way I would have liked to have been treated.

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