Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))

smashley_mashley wrote: »

Boston is on our list of places we would love to visit. My husband is 7'2" and my husband hates flying as he gets quite claustrophobic (even when getting the emergency exit rows or the bulk heads). We have flown to Vegas, San Fran, and New York. We were in NYC for Christmas and New Years 2012 and after that he was done with flying. So far, from where we live, we have driven to Seattle (13.5 hours), Spokane (10.5) hours, Minneapolis (19) hours and we've done this one twice as we are Vikings fans, and last but not least, Chicago (26 hours and we stopped in MN to catch a Vikings game). 28 hours was about our max we could do in one shot and Boston is about 42 hours w/o stopping. Hence, why we would love to move closer to east once we save some more $$$.

I wish I had kahonas to pick up and move every three years to check out new places. The stress of trying to find a new place to live and work would be a bit much for me, I think.

Wow, I thought I had a tall one, but your hubby has him beat as my guy is only 6'9".

edit: fix tags

ythannah wrote: »

smashley_mashley wrote: »

marissafit06 wrote: »

Boston is on our list of places we would love to visit. My husband is 7'2" and my husband hates flying as he gets quite claustrophobic (even when getting the emergency exit rows or the bulk heads). We have flown to Vegas, San Fran, and New York. We were in NYC for Christmas and New Years 2012 and after that he was done with flying. So far, from where we live, we have driven to Seattle (13.5 hours), Spokane (10.5) hours, Minneapolis (19) hours and we've done this one twice as we are Vikings fans, and last but not least, Chicago (26 hours and we stopped in MN to catch a Vikings game). 28 hours was about our max we could do in one shot and Boston is about 42 hours w/o stopping. Hence, why we would love to move closer to east once we save some more $$$.

I wish I had kahonas to pick up and move every three years to check out new places. The stress of trying to find a new place to live and work would be a bit much for me, I think.

Wow, I thought I had a tall one, but your hubby has him beat as my guy is only 6'9".

Not sure why quoting isn't working. Jealous. My husband is only 6'2".

ogmomma2012 wrote: »

FluffySandwich wrote: »

So.... *secretive whisper*.... do you guys think I should go for the $35 box of 12?

Go here: http://www.massnutrition.com/p-2090-quest-bar-12bx.aspx Save a little monies. Pick a flavor, depending on the shipping it's about $28 bucks compared to what you found on that other site.

Can't Living in Canada and they don't ship here. Everything's more expensive in Canada

shawnaes91 wrote: »

I've been eating like crap all day today. Had to go and fast and get my blood taken this morning an as soon as it was over I stopped and got food at the first place I could so I wouldnt keep feeling sick. But after that it just kept spiraling
I've felt sick all day and my husband has jut refused to help with the baby in any way and the only thing that made me feel better was to just eat. I totally ruined my own day and I plan on getting back on the wagon tomorrow.

I had blood tests on Tuesday. You totally get a pass! It does mess with you. I'm sorry your husband wasn't more helpful. Tomorrow is a new day.

I am nowhere near being caught up on posts, but wanted to nonetheless throw in a confession (or two )...


All the talk in recent years about steel-cut oats, and oatmeal this-and-that, left me feeling a bit like I was a kind of reluctant 'non-participant', given that I couldn't find oatmeal whose texture or plain-as-could-be/don't-mistake-this-for-paper-pulp taste didn't disappoint... and left me bereft, with nary-a-yet-identified, viable-for-inclusion-in-my-life, 'long-term relationship' -worthy option...

I tried all manner of 'entries' into the will-I-like-this?, never-ending, oatmeal 'sweepstakes' 'taste test', including a brand that was straight-from-Ireland (of all things!), and seemingly as 'rustic' as one could get (though happened to involve oats cut into pieces smaller than the diamond-cut 'nothingness' associated with top-security shredders used by various 3-initialled government 'entities' (it was like 'powder' (?!), and seemed better suited for use in conjunction with making skin-soothing oat 'pastes', or being dropped into bathwater, to calm dermatitic whatnot))... but aside from the not-what-I'm-looking-for-but-tastes-alright Trader Joe's oatmeal-with-flax 'instant', whose cost resulted in my not considering it a 'serious contender' for carte blanche eat-it-up -edness, I felt rather 'stuck' (and, frankly, somewhat surprised), and didn't know what to do next, in my it-shouldn't-be-this-difficult search for an oatmeal that involved the 'kind' of oats I recall eating at one point during my early adolescence (of all things to have a maintained-by-the-mind memory of! (don't get rid of *this* one -- she might need it one day, for reference-based comparative purposes, decades from now)).


And so... I looked high and low (literally, as well -- I didn't let store shelf-height affect my search ) for a close stand-in to that Goldilocks-ian oatmeal from long ago... until... I finally seemed to have 'given up' (I regret to say (I'm not a 'quitter', but there is only so much I can do in said quest to 'seek and find' that of which I speak, and only so much I'm willing to spend in 'time and treasure' (lol -- am imagining my flying overseas, and answering border officials, as to 'the purpose of my visit' ("to find some freakin' oatmeal, of all things..." ))))...


Alas (at long last!)... I seem to have (finally!) found a quasi-twin-like, perhaps-a-distant-cousin, oatmeal-specific 'answer to a prayer' (I didn't actually pray on the matter, mind you, because (and among other reasons) how ridiculous would that look and sound?!, for me to 'beg at my bedside', on folded knees, and with tipped head, closed eyes, and tears streaming down my face, while ferventing 'pleading my case' for an end to such oatmeal-deprived 'misery'...?! ;P ).


...and as I type this (rather ridiculous ) 'admission', while being just moments away from 'sending it on its way', for MFPers in Confession-Land to 'share my pain', and hand me a fresh pillow, to rest my weary, search-exhausted head on (though -- and to be clear -- NOT ShibaEars's pillow (her confession -based FYI-heard-loud-and-clear, that <<< I will lose my mind if anyone ever puts their feet on my pillow. ETA: Or sits on my pillow. Or folds my pillow in half. You know what, nobody should ever touch my pillow. >>> assures that a form of 'mutual destruction' might be imminent, were anyone to accidentally hand me hers (so double check the nametag, just to be safe, 'kay? (thanks)) ;P ))...

...I happen to be eating a bowl of said oatmeal at this very moment (and practically hear a choir singing, as I do so, given my newfound delight in eating these glorious bits of chewy, huge, 'flake'-like oats (I could cry, I'm so 'incommensurately' overjoyed by the reality of this stuff!)), and am partaking of such with some fresh-squeezed orange juice (only the second time in my life that I've squeezed my own orange juice! (<-- confession #2)), and the more-pulp-than-a-'blizzard-edition'-snow-globe orange juice triumph that I have in this glass reminds me of (though tops!) the previous-best glass of orange juice I was ever treated to in my life... at a quaint little cafe in Toronto, while dining outside, on a Sunday morning, with still-empty streets, and the sunshine 'singing' to me as I drank from that nectar-esque, near-microscopic-in-serving-size, might-as-well-have-been-served-in-a-shot-glass -- but was nonetheless heavenly -- juice... whereas here, and now, I happen to be drinking the largest freaking glass of the stuff (and am practically 'chewing' my orange juice, there's so much pulp!), while by a street whose current near-emptiness is due to the dismal rain falling from the sky (as opposed to its 'coming in' from any other direction, that is (in case that wasn't clear) ;P ), while temperatures drop precipitously (and precipitation-ously), what with this April night being forecast, as it is, for a mix of rain and SNOW (?!!!)... (yeah, I suppose I'd rather be at that tiny Toronto cafe, with some sunshine and warmth, instead of this 'meteorological mistake', even if it meant that I'd be served approximately 1/20th the amount of orange juice I'm currently 'swimming' in)...

FluffySandwich wrote: »

TALENTI GELATO?? My mom was obsessing over this when I last visited her, telling me about how amazing it is. It was on sale when we went to the store, so she bought some salted caramel kind. It really is amazingly delicious... can't find it in Montreal anywhere :P I guess I'll try to find a Quest bar, too. Cookie dough is one of my favorite flavors of anything, ever.

Me too. It really bummed me out when I heard the less than stellar reviews the Talenti cookie dough flavor has been getting.

JPW1990 wrote: »

New confession. I know, I'm supposed to be all rah rah bacon about everything, because keto. I just saw a post on fb of bacon wrapped oreos.



I think I'm going to keep that picture around for any time I want to completely kill my appetite. (no offense if you're into that sorta thing)

I thought this was Oreo stuffed cabbage leaves! I'm almost relieved it is bacon. Still gross, though.

Talkradio wrote: »

JPW1990 wrote: »

New confession. I know, I'm supposed to be all rah rah bacon about everything, because keto. I just saw a post on fb of bacon wrapped oreos.



I think I'm going to keep that picture around for any time I want to completely kill my appetite. (no offense if you're into that sorta thing)

I thought this was Oreo stuffed cabbage leaves! I'm almost relieved it is bacon. Still gross, though.

Cabbage stuffed oreos just makes me think of these.

spacequiztime wrote: »

FluffySandwich wrote: »

TALENTI GELATO?? My mom was obsessing over this when I last visited her, telling me about how amazing it is. It was on sale when we went to the store, so she bought some salted caramel kind. It really is amazingly delicious... can't find it in Montreal anywhere :P I guess I'll try to find a Quest bar, too. Cookie dough is one of my favorite flavors of anything, ever.

Me too. It really bummed me out when I heard the less than stellar reviews the Talenti cookie dough flavor has been getting.

Maybe that's a good thing for me. I could probably fill a pool with cookie dough ice cream, jump in head first, and devour it all like the sugar-crazed freak I am! "Cookies and cream" anything also does it for me!

ythannah wrote: »

marissafit06 wrote: »

Not sure why quoting isn't working. Jealous. My husband is only 6'2".

I may have severely messed up the quote tags in my last post.

And don't be jealous. It's a PITA buying clothes for him, especially as all his height is in his legs and he's not a "big" guy... try finding 38" inseam pants in a normal size waist. Most of the Big & Tall sizing seems to be for waists in the 40" and 50" ranges.

^^^^^This^^^^. Try finding a 42 waist with a 40 inseam! the big and tall stores don't make clothes for tall and thin. Hubby needs a large tall and has to order almost everything online and we just pray it fits because we have to order from the American online stores such as JCP or Haggard (and have to pay for shipping and duties). If it doesn't fit, we often have to pay return shipping. Kohls has a good online selection for large tall shirts as well as pants but the don't ship to Canada. When it comes to clothes shopping, he wished he never lost the weight (389 to 279) because when he was heavier, he could find clothes w/o an issue. Lets not even talk about finding track or sweat pants for the gym. We've even tried calling suppliers directly. Just can't find them.

smashley_mashley wrote: »

ythannah wrote: »

marissafit06 wrote: »

Not sure why quoting isn't working. Jealous. My husband is only 6'2".

I may have severely messed up the quote tags in my last post.

And don't be jealous. It's a PITA buying clothes for him, especially as all his height is in his legs and he's not a "big" guy... try finding 38" inseam pants in a normal size waist. Most of the Big & Tall sizing seems to be for waists in the 40" and 50" ranges.

^^^^^This^^^^. Try finding a 42 waist with a 40 inseam! the big and tall stores don't make clothes for tall and thin. Hubby needs a large tall and has to order almost everything online and we just pray it fits because we have to order from the American online stores such as JCP or Haggard (and have to pay for shipping and duties). If it doesn't fit, we often have to pay return shipping. Kohls has a good online selection for large tall shirts as well as pants but the don't ship to Canada. When it comes to clothes shopping, he wished he never lost the weight (389 to 279) because when he was heavier, he could find clothes w/o an issue. Lets not even talk about finding track or sweat pants for the gym. We've even tried calling suppliers directly. Just can't find them.

I've been ordering a lot, mostly tops, from King Size Direct and Casual Male XL. Carhartt has a tall size range that he really likes, but he's a pretty casual dresser. We have to get him a suit for a wedding this year and I'm just dreading it.

I couldn't find flannel sleep pants or fleece pants with a long enough inseam so I ended up making them myself. The fleece pants ended up super long (I forgot that they aren't worn as high as regular pants) and he keeps saying, "I've never had pants that were too long for me before"

ythannah wrote: »

smashley_mashley wrote: »

ythannah wrote: »

marissafit06 wrote: »

Not sure why quoting isn't working. Jealous. My husband is only 6'2".

I may have severely messed up the quote tags in my last post.

And don't be jealous. It's a PITA buying clothes for him, especially as all his height is in his legs and he's not a "big" guy... try finding 38" inseam pants in a normal size waist. Most of the Big & Tall sizing seems to be for waists in the 40" and 50" ranges.

^^^^^This^^^^. Try finding a 42 waist with a 40 inseam! the big and tall stores don't make clothes for tall and thin. Hubby needs a large tall and has to order almost everything online and we just pray it fits because we have to order from the American online stores such as JCP or Haggard (and have to pay for shipping and duties). If it doesn't fit, we often have to pay return shipping. Kohls has a good online selection for large tall shirts as well as pants but the don't ship to Canada. When it comes to clothes shopping, he wished he never lost the weight (389 to 279) because when he was heavier, he could find clothes w/o an issue. Lets not even talk about finding track or sweat pants for the gym. We've even tried calling suppliers directly. Just can't find them.

I've been ordering a lot, mostly tops, from King Size Direct and Casual Male XL. Carhartt has a tall size range that he really likes, but he's a pretty casual dresser. We have to get him a suit for a wedding this year and I'm just dreading it.

I couldn't find flannel sleep pants or fleece pants with a long enough inseam so I ended up making them myself. The fleece pants ended up super long (I forgot that they aren't worn as high as regular pants) and he keeps saying, "I've never had pants that were too long for me before"

I wish I knew how to sew. I tried making a pair of boxers in Jr. High home ec class. It was a nightmare. My seams weren't straight and my hems were all uneven. I am not sure if I would even try to attempt it.

Talkradio wrote: »

shannonbun wrote: »

Confession: one of my roommates wigged out, made up lies about me, peaced out for 2 days, and moved out while I (and my other roommate) was at class. And I really don't even care that she's going off the deep end. There's less than a month left of school and she's pulling this ridiculous attention seeking stuff... I probably *should* care, but I've only got sarcastic apathy.

And I might be going over my calories tonight to celebrate... Haha whoops

You might appreciate this link... A blog that I read did an afternoon chat about the worst roommates ever. Some of the stories are so funny, but whoa, also horrifying.

Warning: not for the squeamish. http://www.gofugyourself.com/your-afternoon-chat-your-worst-roommate-ever-03-2015

EWWWWWW!

Just caught up on this thread after a week away because we can't randomly internet at work anymore.

Confession: When the news first hit about our new rules at work my first thought was about this thread and I was far sadder than I should've been.

Adding to the discussion from a few pages ago about names and nicknames: my name is Rita (named after the Beatles song hence my name here) and when I was younger I had a really good friend named Rosa. Together we were known as Rosarita refried beans

I've stopped working out for the past 4 months because of college exams stressing me out and tonight i ate 5 pieces of pizza (( uugghh i just feel really unmotivated and constantly exhausted because of work and school, any advice?