It's a different world. I get so sick of constantly seeing updated photo's of their children as if saying, hey look, I've got something that no one has ever had before. I like seeing their kids and, even to some extent, watching them grow, but, I don't need an update every half hour. Also the fact that your infant just smiled at you, is hardly front page news. Gas is quite common in newborns.
Mysterious, love it!
I so agree.
I don't like the Christmas (brag) letter, look what I've done, how great I am, etc. etc. Annoying. I got a letter every year from an a girl from high school, that was only in my graduating class of 700 kids. Anyway, she sent them every year. I sent he one back a couple years ago, told of the DVC, cruise around the caribbean, etc. We didn't hear from her this Christmas.It's a different world. I get so sick of constantly seeing updated photo's of their children as if saying, hey look, I've got something that no one has ever had before. I like seeing their kids and, even to some extent, watching them grow, but, I don't need an update every half hour. Also the fact that your infant just smiled at you, is hardly front page news. Gas is quite common in newborns.
I don't like the Christmas (brag) letter, look what I've done, how great I am, etc. etc. Annoying. I got a letter every year from an a girl from high school, that was only in my graduating class of 700 kids. Anyway, she sent them every year. I sent he one back a couple years ago, told of the DVC, cruise around the caribbean, etc. We didn't hear from her this Christmas.
I'm glad you look at this with humor. Guess you are the lucky recipient of her "wonderful" life in words.
Not!
The weather has been quite contrary lately...Who turned on the winter? 29, flurries and crazy loud wind. @StarWarsGirl I hope you kicked the groundhog out because tonight's dinner is going to be groundhog ragu (not the jar stuff) with green squash over cavatappi
For high school, we did several things. My grandma did something at her house just with a few family members. My long-time friend graduated the same time as me, so we did a small thing with our family members here. She had a party she claims was mine as well. I tell her no, it was all hers. She didn't really want a party either; her parents forced it. We did a really awesome trip to DL and Hawaii as a family. Then my graduation gift from my parents was a trip to WDW which I took with my long-time friend who also graduated. I didn't do the whole prom thing or senior week or even a yearbook. I can't say that I'm sorry about it either. I'm $80 richer not having bought a yearbook, $100+ richer not having gone to prom, and I went to WDW instead of senior week.
I changed my mind. I keep my toasty.. thank you!
hey! us Ratchet and Clank series have been wanting tv series or a movies since the 90's!My boys are weird. I've been trying to go see Zootopia since it came out without any luck.you'd think doing the pre order of the game would be enough
You know whats funny? a "small wedding' in my country means at least 50 people...I think the core of the issue is that people mean well, and they can't help but inserting themselves into the picture (as in, "I'd love a big party with lots of people, lots of food, and a band."). They assume everyone thinks like they do.
Reminds me a little of years ago when hubby and I got married. We wanted a small wedding with 28 people (closest friends and family only). We also wanted a nice honeymoon trip, and by keeping the wedding small, it saved us a boatload of money. (We paid for everything ourselves.) Most people were fine with a small afternoon reception; but of course, there's always a few that are almost offended
Exactly! We are not party people either...over here it's tradition to have a big bash for your 40th birthday. 12.5 years of marriage is also a huge one. Our 12.5 year anniversary coincided with hubby's 40th birthday...we went for a weekend away instead of having a big party. I turn 40 this year and we won't have money for a party because we're going to Disney. I'm considering it as my birthday trip, even though it's months before my bday. People may not like it, but I'm not obligated to throw a party, and as I hate being the center of attention, I'm not going to!I think the core of the issue is that people mean well, and they can't help but inserting themselves into the picture (as in, "I'd love a big party with lots of people, lots of food, and a band."). They assume everyone thinks like they do.
Reminds me a little of years ago when hubby and I got married. We wanted a small wedding with 28 people (closest friends and family only). We also wanted a nice honeymoon trip, and by keeping the wedding small, it saved us a boatload of money. (We paid for everything ourselves.) Most people were fine with a small afternoon reception; but of course, there's always a few that are almost offended
The parents of the Junior and Senior classes (those are the classes allowed to attend prom) do a Casino night after prom party every year. They set up black jack tables, poker, a wheel of fortune, etc and you use the money you win (you get monopoly money as you enter) to buy chances for prizes you want. Local businesses donate prizes and the bigger the prize, the more a ticket for that raffle costs. If you lose all your money, you can spin a wheel to get more, but you can only spin so many times in the night so you don't just keep coming back to spin and not have to risk the money to buy tickets. Then at the end of the night, they do a drawing for each thing. I won a shelving unit thing that I used in my college dorm room. My brother won a tv/vcr. But that party is just for our school (and their dates)...we lived in a town with only one school, but it was part of a larger district. Since a lot of people had dates from the next town over, they always staggered prom nights so no one had to choose whose prom to go to, they could go to both. But the grad night party was district-wide. Any graduating senior from our school, the big school in the other town, the alternative school, or the Christian schools were allowed to attend. So it was a HUGE party. My graduating class had 37 students, including 5 exchange students and 3 students from the big town who came to our school because they had an overflow problem. The big town high school had over 400 graduating seniors. The alternative had around 20 and the Christian school I think had 3. Even our prom after party that allowed dates and included Juniors as well as Seniors wasn't half as big as the grad night party!
80 bucks for a yearbook??? And I thought ours were expensive at $20!!! I did go to prom both years. Junior year I had a boyfriend who lived across the state. I went to his prom and the next week he came up for mine. Senior year he had a lame excuse and was obviously not that into me anymore, but I had already bought the tickets. When he said he couldn't come, I tried to find another date, but everyone in my class already had dates and no one I asked from out of town could make it. I decided not to go. 2 days before prom, I was tutoring at the school and a guy who had gone to school with us from kindergarten up to that year before transferring to the Alternative school came to see some of his friends who had to be at tutoring. (If you had a D or lower in any of the core classes, you were required to go to tutoring and the top 4 students in the senior class were the tutors. So I was a tutor with 3 others) It was a really slow night and I didn't have anyone to tutor right then, so I was talking to him and he asked if I was going. I said no, because I couldn't find a date. He really wanted to go with all his friends, but couldn't because he wasn't a student at our school anymore. He could only go if he had a date from our school. So we went together for convenience. I didn't have to stay at home or have the humiliation of showing up stag, he got to go...We danced together once and posed for pictures and then went our separate ways and hung out with our own friends. I was rather like Paris Gellar from Gilmore Girls. Not intense like that, but kind of a pariah. And I didn't have a cousin to pay to take me to the prom, so it worked out well.
We aren't either. Our wedding cost next to nothing. We had only had immediate family. Dress included , it was only about 150.00$. We drove to Florida, and stayed on a cabin on the beach. Total was less that 300.00$. For the wedding and honeymoon.
Our graduating class had 700 students, one school for the county.
