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  1. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    Both my parents had cluster B personality disorders (mother was borderline, father a narc), which made for fun times growing up. Which is to say, I sympathize. Reading some info on the cycle of abuse might help too... it explains love bombing, etc. And it was really helpful for me to read that...
  2. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    That's a good line of thinking. Cheaters cheat because something is broken inside of them. Therefore it's up to the cheater to fix themselves and make amends, not up to the rest of the world to forgive them. What a jerk.
  3. sheeplady

    Need Some Help With a Gift

    He sounds like an involved father. Would the gift of a professional photographer to do a family shoot be apropriate? This tends to be expensive, so could you share in this expense with someone (s) else? Or, for a less expensive gift, if you have some of his favorite family pictures, perhaps a...
  4. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Rompers are already back. And now they're unisex.
  5. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I had to get a new engine block under recall for my subaru due to it eating oil. Guy from the place is calling with all this over priced, optional work. Harassing me every hour with something new, despite me telling him to not call me unless it was critical to the recall. I told him I didn't...
  7. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    I didn't think a visitation schedule could be enforced with a teen who doesn't want to go, anyways. My understanding is if a child says no they don't want to go in court, the judge won't make the child go. And good for her.
  8. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, that's because the baby boomers were alive then. And we know ANYTHING good was invented by the boomers. See: feminism, the civil rights movement, women wearing pants, food, vaccines...* *this is a bad joke. No boomers were harmed in the making of it. I love the boomers, please don't...
  9. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    I think you should give him a deadine (check with the lawyer as I know some states are weird about storing stuff) and tell him to get his stuff. He wants his cake and to eat it too. Either that or he's figuring out his new girl, who moves guys in she's known less than 6 months with her 3 young...
  10. sheeplady

    You Know You're in Canada When...

    Wait, this isn't standard Canadian decor?
  11. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    I'm very sorry this is all happening, Amateis. He sounds like a Grade A Ass, select rotten cut. If it makes you fell any better, no one with substance moves in with someone that quickly... and no one in their right mind let's someone they know is so flaky move in with no job and then exposes...
  13. sheeplady

    A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942

    Two things hit me: the amount of discarded paper and the chalk in the sink. The paper looked like when I was working on my dissertation... as I made my edits I dropped my paper copies on the floor page by page. I still edit this way (final edits on paper and then transcribed). Apparently I am...
  14. sheeplady

    Best superhero?

    My 4 year old daughter would say wonder woman because "she's stronger than all the boys." She's outgrown her wonder woman costume she wore 2 Halloween's ago, and has been pestering for a new one.
  15. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes, Americans love Greek yogurt so much lots of store's even have store brands. Where I used to live (New York state) was a major producer of it. Years ago I used to make a dip (strained yogurt) that I think ended up a lot like Greek yogurt... but now I can just buy Greek yogurt in the stores.
  16. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I'm not sure how my parents would've felt about a bank manager not wearing business professional... it could have gone either way. In my line of work, I find I often am dressing down to do my research and some of my consulting work (I run my own business on the side). People have a lot of...
  17. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I think there's a portion of society that still expects someone in a suit to stick it to them. My parents were this way, and considering their history with "institutions" in which people wore suits, it's a bit understandable. (My mother, for instance, wanted to buy a house and had to go 3 banks...
  19. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Where I work we have a dress code (small liberal arts college) that specifies business wear (business casual to formal). I hate business casual, simply because as a woman it requires you to have so many clothes. No one expects (even a woman) to have ten seasonal suits... but if you're wearing...
  20. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I think that when I was young (this was the 1980s) they were starting to transition to more of an "outdoors" store and completed that transition by 2000. They'd carry brands like Columbia in addition to the surplus. One of my cherished items from there was a Columbia hat... it looked like a...
  21. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    My first ever product from LL Bean was a backpack, when I was in the ninth grade. All the rest of mine had busted in a few months and someone told my parents that they made a good backpack. I carried that for five years, until college, when both large compartment zippers busted and I got...
  22. sheeplady

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Yeah, this is so class based it's sort of irritating. My grandmother got her first pair of shoes when she was 12 and went to work for an undertaker and his wife as their maid and cook. She was still wearing those shoes when she married my grandfather at 16, and well through the war. My other...
  23. sheeplady

    The wonder of wedding bands

    I just want to post a reminder that gentlemen are the guests of us ladies in this space. Behave like gentlemen or get the boot.

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