General chatter while we wait (and commentary on the "pull out method")

[Jenn Pope]

Dobby that was the most crazy night I have heard someone has live through recently

 

[PrettyInInk42]

Oh, and SO said it looks like it has evil glowing eyes and I said it must be a girl then. lol

 

[shaescott]

Dobs wow that’s insane and terrifying, I’m so sorry you went through that. It’s so scary to me that so many men think they’re entitled to women and when they get rejected they freak at the woman for daring to deny him his “sacred right” or something (I’m sure there are women who do it too, but I’ve personally only heard of it with men). So messed up. I’m so glad you ladies are safe now.

Jez aw I’m sorry about the detergent have you been able to get the smell out of the dishes? I agree it’s dumb to have the sanitize light but no sanitize button. Makes zero sense!

CB I think your hair looks gorgeous! I could not pull that off but you’re rocking it! I always say the best lens is the one on the human eye, our eyes capture those images better than any camera (unless they use editing and photoshop). The mirror likes me much more than the camera does, and the camera always makes me feel bad about myself. It’s just that the camera can’t capture light the way we do.

Pretty did you get to meet the guy from Fantastic Beasts? I would’ve been thrilled to meet him or anyone from the Harry Potter universe movies. You and Alex are so cute! Yay for awesome ultrasound!

Gigs I’m pretty sure the baby only starts getting squished in there later in the pregnancy, but I could be wrong.

Sorry to whoever I missed, I love you all.

Re: phone my “battery health” is at 79% and it has a caption that says my battery is significantly degraded. It just turned 79%, it had been at 80% until yesterday, and the message only showed up when it hit 79%. If I’d had this phone for 3 years that would be fine, but this is the replacement phone for my previous battery failing and I’ve only had it about a year. That’s why I’m kinda mad at Apple. I basically can’t trust getting another replacement because clearly the 6s batteries are all already degraded due to it being an old phone model (they probably don’t make the batteries for it anymore). So I’m gonna need to get one of the expensive new models. I’m legit getting ads to “upgrade your iPhone 6s to an iPhone X!” Or something like that, I’ve been getting them for months.
Okay, rant over.

 

[pacificlove]

CB, wow! Love the hair! Like Shae, I doubt I could pull that off

Pretty, glad to hear you had a good ultrasound experience Based ok that HB, my guess is girl, both my boys were lower from the get go. Are you going to find out the gender?

Dobs, your night out sounds scary! So sorry you had to experience that!! Glad you got away before shit hit the fan.

Shae: I have heard the same thing about apple messing up their batteries on purpose. However, ask anyone senior and they will tell you that today's machines aren't built as sturdy as "back in the day" promoting our consumerism and "throw away attitude". My parents very first clothes dryer still ran 30 years later but I would not expect our current dryer to run for nearly that long...
FYI: even though my brother works for apple, we all have Androids my phone is made by Google and love it.

Jez, so how will you get the stench out of the dishwasher? Vinegar cycle?

Afm: we are on a boil water advisory. Ugh. DH is going to fill some water bottles at his office today so we don't have to continue to buy water from the grocery store.
I had DH look at my bottom last night: he says he could barely tell a difference from before birth. 4 weeks pp.

 

[shaescott]

PL that’s very true about things not being made to last anymore. My microwave is 30 years old and still running. My washer and dryer are probably in their mid-20s, not sure but they’re probably as old as I am. I hate throwing things away, I would keep the same phone forever if it functioned well.
SO is always trying to convert me to android. My whole family has Apple which means iMessage for all of us so I really have no interest in switching. I just wish I could see when he reads things like I can with my parents and sister. But I can’t have both without using some outside app or something.
So sorry about the water issue glad things are healing up though

 

[gigglebox]

Another reason i'm glad we have well water!

Pretty glad to hear your appointment went well! The pic reminds me of a "beenz" i think it's called...time for that ticker!

Shae phones are creepy. I'm sure it's advertising to you about a new phone because you have been talking about it on here.

 

[pacificlove]

Shae, true. Android doesn't have a built in messenger, however there are plenty other platforms. We use WhatsApp, I can see when my message sent, that it arrived and that it was seen. It runs on data/wifi, you can do phone calls and FaceTime calls. I use it for text messaging as well as international phone calls it has replaced our landline plus my international family and friends have a way to see me and the family which is something the landline can't do yet. BTW: I don't find it uses a lot of data when out and about. Maybe a good app for your SO?

Gigs: our water I believe comes from nearby streams/ponds. Not sure of the underground situation here or why this entire area is connected this way. Anyway, some part in their treatment failed.. I miss the well we had at our previous place. The water tasted great and required no treatment at all, straight up out of the ground and it was tested multiple times a year due to the commercial kitchen. Ours here tastes like chlorine some days. Yuck!

 

[gigglebox]

Not sure if you can get it there but we have a Berkey water filter. It holds 3.5 gallons and dilters out basically everything. It also corrects the ph -- I actually tested this with a water test kit vs. straight out of the tap (tap was 6.5, it was 7 after going through the berkey). It's a little pricey but it lasts forever! The filters have to be rinsed and replaced every now however, but even with our old filter there was a difference in the water.

 

[pacificlove]

Gigs, wow. That looks like a wonderful "little" gadget. I'll have to show DH. Might be a good investment, especially if our water system fails more often. It's cheaper then reverse osmosis systems and with those you have to add the minerals back in if you want any. I wonder if it takes out arsenic?

 

[claireybell]

Pretty - lol @ evil glowing eyes haha!

Pacific ace about your bottom lol!

Thanku re hair comments, i say im stepping out of my mum zone lol & Rileys teacher today said she loved it ha!

Just sat here watching one born every minute.. still gets me every time ‘blub blub’ lol

 

[gigglebox]

I've still never seen OBEM! How can i watch if I don't have standard tv? Is it on hulu or netflix?

Pl hubby says he thinks it does take out arsenic. It would be nice to be able to ignore all the warnings on water and just run it through the berkey!

I remember the first time i cleaned outs out the top part where you fill it was all gross and coated with some mystery film (like how your shower gets around the drain). The bottom, where the filtered water fills, was pristine.

 

[claireybell]

It could be on NetFlix gigs.. have a search theres probs episodes on youtube aswell

 

[DobbyForever]

I know I had OBEM somewhere on my tv be it Netflix or prime or on demand. Didn’t end up watching it though

Pretty congrats! I agree suspiciously “girlie” heartbeat. So glad they let you bring SO in.

Shae our phones are scary. I get ads for things I TALK on the phone or in person about. I get stalking what I look at while in app, but knowing they track other ways is creepy af. I think I mentioned once my poor friend had her pregnancy spilled because she was looking at stuff on amazon and it showed up in everyone’s newsfeed as “so and so was looking at cribs! You should too!”

Cb youre not a regular mom, you’re a cool mom! I do love the hair though.

Pl so sorry about the water troubles!

Thanks ladies! Just the culture these days is like wth?! So I told my friend no more bars and probably never dating again. Things were fine at the bar, it’s a cute place that is a taqueria in the day and bar at night in Palo Alto. Things didn’t go south until my friend (love her but needs a babysitter when drunk) wanted to hop in a car with guys she doesn’t know well/at all. And DTMV is usually a safe spot. It’s not a place you go to get rowdy so idk how/when that changed. They definitely had up extra lighting and security but it was out of control on one corner

 

[shaescott]

Dobs that’s nuts, I can’t believe they would share what people were looking at without their permission. I’d never heard of it doing that before. I sure hope that’s not a normal thing cuz I don’t want my Facebook friends seeing what I’ve searched on amazon, noooo thank you. No need for my 91 year old grandfather to get an ad saying his granddaughter was searching for vibrators
Also I’ve definitely had ads for things I only spoke about in person, not even over the phone, just in the presence of a phone. At this point it’s like they’re in my head, I get ads for things I didn’t even say out loud, but I’m sure that’s a coincidence because I don’t think it’s possible for my phone to read my mind

 

[DobbyForever]

Lol well they do pattern analysis so they predict what things you would want based on what you search. But they are for sure listening somehow. Big reason I haven’t installed the Echo Dot thing I got from Christmas.

I think they stopped doing the sound so loooed at or so and so bought situation but yeah I felt so bad for her. We all pretended to not know but yeah. Awk. And I would hope certain things wouldn’t show up lol

 

[DobbyForever]

Did J delete her YouTube?!

 

[DobbyForever]

Ugh was watching that polygamist show sister wives. I’m just sad facing the reality that I will never have a wedding, and even if I did my dad wouldn’t be there. I will never have a fun, loving pregnancy. Just feeling cheated.

 

[shaescott]

Dobs nope

 

[shaescott]

Dobs yeah I figured it was a pattern thing, using psychology to predict what I’ll be interested in. My parents mentioned getting Google home or something and I was like hell to the no, major pass.
Also aren’t the sister wives pretty miserable? I haven’t seen the show but I would sure as hell be miserable. You’ve still got time, you’re still young, but even if you don’t find a guy you’ve got A. I understand feeling cheated though, your pregnancy experience was not ideal.

 

[DobbyForever]

Oooo she changed the name then? I was searching jctsquared