I can commiserate. :grouphug: No words of wisdom. I'm in a funk too.

She was definitely correcting my language. I had picked up my dog and was trying to carry her across the street while the other dog was running around me, growling and snapping, and my dog freaked out and was flailing her legs, scratching me, and trying to get back down on the ground with the other dog. I let fly something that I do not normally say, immediately felt bad about it, but was more worried about getting my dog away without any bites than apologizing for my language. The neighbor apparently felt that my language was more important than preventing a bite. Maybe her dog just acts like a little meanie and would never actually bite, but circling me and my dog, growling, and snapping didn't give me a good feeling. Besides, there is a leash law. Dogs are not supposed to come running out into the street, period. I'll give them a pass if they are not threatening in any way, or if they are on strict voice control. But this dog was growling, snapping, circling, and the lady was laughing about how she was calling him but he wasn't listening. I started out very polite. "Please call off your dog." "Please call your dog." But now I'm the bad guy, and I'm ticked off because I feel like my language did make me the bad guy. :crying:

I've been "trying" to lose weight this summer. I joined weight watchers. In six weeks, I was down 9.2 lbs. During week seven I gained 7.6. Slow weight loss is great, except one bad week can erase months of good days. Sigh.

Glittery pasties make me think burlesque, which for some reason I see as an entirely different thing than stripping. Maybe it's the intent of the audience? I'm not sure. SaveSave

I did walk away muttering loudly about stupid irresponsible dog owners. I don't have much restraint when the adrenaline is pumping. Lol.

Yeah, I was just giving my impressions. But if I find out that someone frequents a strip club, yeah, I will think they are tacky.

This is why I can't get into reading fantasy. I get Slarnagrok mixed up with Larsgarnrock, and Flavshameiin mixed up with Flashvapeiin, and I have no idea what's going on.

It's probably common, among certain groups. In my mind, the people who would frequent strip clubs would be guys who are kind of slimy, used car salesman types who go around slapping each other on the backs and yelling "Boo-yah!" It just seems really tacky to me.

Well, it was two naughty words smashed together, so in hindsight, she was totally justified.

Never seen her before in my life. Hope to never see her again. :D

I'm sure that everyone else has better answers, but I think that I'm a cautionary tale about this type of habit. I was in a gifted program as a youngster, but in hindsight I was decently bright but not actually gifted. I was able to skate by through high school, and to some extent college, quit grad school, worked a series of dead-end, minimum wage jobs, and have tried to go back to school a couple of times for vocational programs, but never finished anything. Now I'm attempting to homeschool my kids, but it is not going well. I have no job skills. I wish that at some point I would have understood that I was developing a habit of laziness and that it could lead nowhere but bad places. At this point, with three young children, I don't know how to un-ruin my life.

No, I slipped and used God's name in vain. Letting me know that I was wrong (which I was, I fully admit) took precedence over containing her dog.

I need to go back and get the address so that I can call animal control, but I don't trust myself right now. I'm still in the "thinking murderous thoughts" state of adrenaline high. Lol. Fortunately, the dog didn't get any bites in. I'm just glad my kids weren't with me--if one of the had been bitten I'd probably be on the news.

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Hey, it's a trend today. We got attacked today too--and then the lady whose dog tried to attack mine yelled at me when I slipped and said a bad word. SaveSave

I am so steamed. My dog was attacked by a little uncontrolled ankle biter today. I picked up my dog and waited for the irresponsible owner to come get her little shit. My dog went nuts and scratched me in the face. I let a big bad word slip. And instead of concentrating on trying to corral her dog, the oh-so-pious owner lectured me about my slip. What the crap.

Showered, went to meeting, ran errands. Lady at weight watchers did a double take when she saw how mch weight I gained in seven days. Lol.

I don't have any. Probably because after writing profanity-filled posts, I tend to go back and edit before anyone complains.

We will be doing this in the next year or so, so I'm subbing. I can't fathom how this works.

I've never done these threads before, but I need some accountability. So.... shower weight watchers meeting (dreading this--I think I gained back all the weight I lost in two months over the past week. :crying: ) pick up some hot glue sticks and some hand soap at Joann. (not yarn, not yarn, not yarn....) meal planning. I have to take stock of what I have and plan for the rest of the month. We have a metric ton of food. I just have to cook it. work on a project with the kids. laundry school planning. what the heck am I going to do with these kids this year? :laugh:

I don't think that the fact that the oil melted the paint is a sign of danger, more of a like-dissolves-like kind of thing. :)

We're in the PNW. We pay about $370 every two months for water/electric/garbage. Gas ranges from about $25/mo in the summer to $150/mo in the winter. Phones are $45 per month each for dh and me. Internet averages out to about $50 per month.

I think that the sycamore fruits are pretty dry, aren't they? Little fuzzy-looking balls. So no soft smashed stinky fruit to slip on in the garden. I like gingko trees, but only the male trees, due to the stinky fruit factor.

Interesting. I'd never thought of that. No mega-churches near Big Bend? :laugh: How far do you have to drive to find a mini-church?

Wow, I've never heard of that either. Do you attend a church with a history of violent events?