The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[ShoalFox]

We have had lots of animals end up in our neighborhood. They come down from the mountains. Foxes, deer, antelope, and we had a moose. That was the craziest of all. Oh, and bear. And snakes. We don't live in the country, but near the Rocky Mountains.

The most common animal in my neighborhood is peacock. They're really funny birds. There's also a couple stray cats and I saw a fox once, but only once.

 

[donaldtoo]

Donald is a trendsetter!

 

[donaldtoo]

And he has nice legs, too @donaldtoo.

It's from all the strutting...!

 

[Wrangler-Rick]

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.

 

[donaldtoo]

These are always such tricky issues. I know what you mean, exactly.

We live hours away from our family, which is actually quite helpful at Christmas. We don't have visitors at that time. Instead we visit with family before and after. Our focus is on our little family and I make very few plans. We do what we feel like when we feel like it and just go with the flow. It makes things so much more enjoyable. The first year we informed people we would not be traveling or accepting visitors was a big deal but they got over it.

As far as the negative people, I have been slowly and subtly been cutting negative people out of my life. I know we can all have negative moments and I don't meant that we have to plaster on a grin during the bad times. I'm talking about those people who are negative and destructive 90% of the time.

Yea, family dynamics can being crazy (to say the least) sometimes. All our family, immediate, intermediate, extended, etc. , has always been pretty close, for the most part. We feel very fortunate in that regard. But, I've seen and heard horror stories. When the kiddos were little, we traveled all over Texas visiting the great grandparents, great aunts and uncles, cousins, etc.. I'm the oldest of four and got married and started my family first. Boy howdy, did we ever do some travelin' those first several years. It was all worth it though, and we wouldn't trade it for anything. As the great grandparents started to pass and more immediate family grew larger, the natural progression took over and the major holidays became closer to home. All my sibs and their families live close as well as my folks.
Family should be a refuge, not a curse. Wish it were for everyone.

 

[catmom46]

I have never seen a rabbit using make up! So cruel. I don't use make up and never will. If we can't accept each other, then I say look away! In my case get at least ten feet from me!

Yep, I don't wear make-up on a regular basis, only on special occasions, which are few and far between. But my lack of use is more due to sheer laziness, although I like your reason better.

 

[catmom46]

Well after two months of being in the hospital and then in rehab, step grandfather finally made it home today. And he's apparently a very happy camper.

Yay!

 

[catmom46]

How does your daughter handle that? I've heard of love languages but I don't know much about it...it makes sense though. My dad grew up in a time when children were expected to be silent and he grew up working for his dad. He had a really poor example of expressing emotions/love, so he's really not good at that, and as a kid, I thought he must not love me because he didn't really know how to express it. Now that I live on another continent THOUSANDS of miles away and with an ocean between us, we have a MUCH better relationship. My dad's only way to express love was to give me things that he would have liked to receive...like...when I was 8, instead of the Rainbow Bright doll I asked for, he got me leather work gloves. In his mind, he was getting something really nice...something HE would have really loved to get as a gift. But to an 8 year old girl, it said "I don't know what you want and can't be bothered to find out, so here you go...now you can help me fix fences." And when I was 16, he got me an ironing board chair (it's a wooden chair that you can flip the back up to turn it into an ironing board, and if you flip the back over all the way, it becomes a step ladder). Now, it's a very handy thing to have, but he got it for me "so I could attend to my domestic responsibilities." Now that I'm older, I can meet him where he is, and ignore the misogyny and recognize that he MEANT well, just didn't express it well. But your daughter is still young..is he better at speaking her love language? It's so hard when you're young and you don't understand the gestures for what they are.

Actually, love languages apply to spouses/mates, not parents/children: http://www.5lovelanguages.com

My parents were similar to yours in that they raised me and my siblings the best way they knew how, which wasn't the ideal way, but definitely demonstrated love on some level. We can only improve upon our parents' way of raising us, right?

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

We have signs for coyotes and wolves. But no signs for ferrets yet.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.

Bazinga

 

[StarWarsGirl]

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@figmentfan423 We've got a sign!

 

[Cesar R M]

I try things a least 5 times, before I decide I don't like it. Okay sometimes, many times. I hated all olives growing up, now I go to them for a snack.

same here with olives, just used to hate them, now I love them. I sometimes eat them alone as snack.

 

[donaldtoo]

I have a friend on the other side of town that hands out candy to the kids and offers up a can of beer to the parents he knows accompanying their kids.

Now, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout...!!!

 

[catmom46]

same here with olives, just used to hate them, now I love them. I sometimes eat them alone as snack.

Yummy!

 

[Cesar R M]

brb, need to punch a wall to retain my manlyness after such adorable photo set!

 

[Cesar R M]

What makes you think I like Elsa? This display in my room?
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Or this?

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Or this?
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Perhaps it's my lock screen?

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Or my tea cup that has Elsa on it?

Or my two shirts with Elsa?

Or the fact that I sang Let It Go twice in the car today and then came home and played it on the piano?

What is it?

you know what you need? a Frozen themed car, and founding a Frozen religion

I mean, In russia there is a religion for Gadget (from the rescue rangers Disney cartoon)

 

[Cesar R M]

Mmm...churn makes me think of butter.

when you're hungry.. anything can resemble food *remembers that banana part of the Minions movie*

 

[Cesar R M]

Funny! I love the cartoon where he gets out of the shower or bathtub and wraps the towel around his waist and yet he has no pants!

plot twist.. he actually wear pants, that are printed just like his skin (white feathery + orange feet)

 

[Cesar R M]

There's a Robot Chicken short where they make fun of that with Gadget and the Rescue Rangers. Too mature for this website though!

eeh, but gadget does wear a full body suit! or does it involve the other male characters?

 

[Cesar R M]

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested.

but what if you both are crazy? and the "doctor" was a shaman man with a shoe for a hat? :O