Congrats. Enjoy the honeymoon period.
Having a baby ages you at least a decade.
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Congrats. Enjoy the honeymoon period.
Having a baby ages you at least a decade.
b1e9a8r5s
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First day back at work after girl #2. Sucks to be back, but such is life. #2 is a doll and pretty "easy" (i'm not the one getting up to feed her at night, I know) to deal with. But her 17 month old sister is such a handful. We went to the Shedd yesterday for my last day off and it was a S show. Full meltdown, rolling on the ground, screaming. Fun times.
RayP
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The more time my wife and I spend here, we become less and less interested in having a kid. At least in the immediate future.
b1e9a8r5s
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The more time my wife and I spend here, we become less and less interested in having a kid. At least in the immediate future.
Lol. It was probably just a bad idea on are part. The 17 month old wants to run around and in a public place like that with 1000s of people, you have to keep grabbing her to keep her from going the wrong way or being run over. Too much for her at that age. We had done the zoo a few days earlier and it went pretty well, but we pushed our luck and it blew up in our face.
Kids are great though. I think I want a 3rd (we haven't decided either way), but hopefully with a little bit larger of a gap this time.
CourtneyDagger50
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I don't find s2 of 13 Reasons pointful. I'm so bored, but I'm in this far I can't just stop.
s1 was based on a book, and there is only one book. So... meh.
s1 was based on a book, and there is only one book. So... meh.
Watched the first episode of 13 reasons why season 2 today, was fairly bored. Will finish the season though, because I basically never leave a show unfinished.
Finished Punisher a few days ago, that was really good.
Tried Trailer Park Boys, not my style and I am pretty damn NOT picky, so won't be following through on that one.
Also currently watching Jessica Jones - through like 5 episodes or so I believe - enjoying this one as well.
Started "The Rain" with the wife as well on Netflix. The show jumped right into the plot, no build up. Then it got slow in the 1st episode, then a cliffhanger end to episode 1. That's as far as I've made it so far.
That's just my current Netflix shows
Finished Punisher a few days ago, that was really good.
Tried Trailer Park Boys, not my style and I am pretty damn NOT picky, so won't be following through on that one.
Also currently watching Jessica Jones - through like 5 episodes or so I believe - enjoying this one as well.
Started "The Rain" with the wife as well on Netflix. The show jumped right into the plot, no build up. Then it got slow in the 1st episode, then a cliffhanger end to episode 1. That's as far as I've made it so far.
That's just my current Netflix shows
DisgruntledHawkFan
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Mindhunter on Netflix is really good. It's about the FBI developing psych profiles.
Agreed, already seen that one. Great show, looking forward to season 2.
TLEH
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Haven't seen Narcos yet simply because I'm not looking forward to reading subtitles the whole time
heard good things though.
TLEH
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I know Spanish very well but I've watched Suburra which is Italian with subtitles and I didn't mind it.
Blue Liner
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Had to head down to Springfield Saturday. Left around Noon from the NW Burbs. I know it's further south and all and weather can change, but it was legitimately 15 degrees warmer down there than it was up here. Same thing when I headed back on Sunday. Maybe this is completely normal and common and never realized it but it just never struck me as being far enough away that the temps could change that drastically. It was like I was in a different state altogether, which in reality when you get south of Joliet you pretty much are in a different state than the Chicago metropolitan area, but that's another talk for another time.
ChiHawks10
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Pretty much normal when you get that far south, at least in spring and fall. Summers are closer in temp.
Blue Liner
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Granted, it was abnormally cool up this way over the weekend too. That cool front obviously didn't stretch that far south.
ChiHawks10
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Yeah, the cold front that just came through for a day or two never made it that far down, but this is completely normal for spring and fall. They warm up sooner in the spring, and stay warmer later in the fall. Hell, I live in Bolingbrook, and sometimes there's a difference of 10 degrees between there and my parent's house in Worth, about 15-20 miles east and south. It's usually warmer by me than by them. Granted they have a lot more forest preserves and such that hold moisture and cool air around, and they're also closer to the lake, so they tend to get the cool air off the lake as well.
Went to Davenport a few weeks ago for soccer, when we left to come home my car said 55 degrees, when we got home it said 90. Thats not normal
Blue Liner
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That's how it was on Sunday when I drove back up. It was around 80 when I left Springfield and it was 47 and rainy in the Chicago area. Not cool.
ColdSteel2
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Heard them talking about this on AM 720:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...-to-kick-deadbeat-son-out-of-their-house/amp/
Why is it that these people often have children of their own? God bless those kids, there’s a lot of this going on in my area and I’ve heard some sad stories.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...-to-kick-deadbeat-son-out-of-their-house/amp/
Why is it that these people often have children of their own? God bless those kids, there’s a lot of this going on in my area and I’ve heard some sad stories.
ChiHawks10
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Yeah, saw an article about it on the Yahoo homepage, but haven't read it. I can understand it to some degree. The boomers have kinda screwed the millenials and whatever the next generation is, moving forward. All they did was talk about and push their kids into college, and now those kids graduate with 100k in loan debt, but can't find a job worth a damn to pay any of it off, so they're stuck living at home with Mom and Dad since they can't afford anything other than their student loans and a car note. I couldn't imagine being in my mid 20s or late 20s and having 100k+ in loan debt... It's outrageous. And that's not even getting into how/what they did as far as influencing/causing the housing market crash, etc. The boomers have absolutely screwed things up beyond belief, to be completely honest. At least most of them. But it would get too political if I kept going on about it.
Hell, my fiance has something like 50-60k in loans that we'll be paying for years upon years. They're deferred right now, but they won't be forever. If they weren't, her payments were something like $500 a month. I have a friend who has an almost $1000 a month loan payment... and he makes like 60k a year... My fiance has the luck of being a teacher, though, so a lot of her loans eventually get forgiven/washed away if she teaches in the state for X amount of time or whatever. Something along those lines.
ColdSteel2
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I understand that, we’re all in the same boat on that one. There definitely wasn’t any eye to the future with regard to who was voted in and what laws were passed, etc.
I took a blue collar path in my life and my family isn’t thrilled with it but whatever, I moved out young and am doing ok I guess.
I think what you’re talking about, people with ambition who are saddled with debt and other problems, is different than someone who has no drive, takes advantage of overly loving parents and complains when they don’t comply to their demands.
And the main point is this guy has a kid. There are a lot of 30 year olds with kids living with their parents or other family members who took them in. You should use protection if you can’t afford to take care of a kid and should you happen to have one anyway, you should be a good father or mother to them in addition to working to provide for them instead of treating them like a pet. That’s where I take the biggest issue with this lifestyle. You should read the article, this guy sued his employer at his last job for asking him to work weekends. This is not the same as our generation getting the shit end of the stick in the economy. That’s something we all deal with independent of how our parents raised and treated us.
ChiHawks10
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Yeah, I was just generalizing as I hadn't actually read the article.
And don't have to explain the kid thing to me, I agree with you entirely. I had one at 16. Sacrificed going away to play college/junior hockey, and half my teen years raising a kid, as well as my entire 20s. Worked full time, went to HS still while working 35+ hours a week at garbage jobs, and am now getting ready to send her off to college in a year. I'm lucky in that it'll be completely paid for by scholarships, her great grandmother, and myself.(I'm in a position to be able to help). Otherwise, she'd be in the same boat that most the millenials are.
Just going off what you're saying in here, yeah, the guy is a lazy, scumbag of a person, and he's not really the ones I'm talking about with my original post.
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ColdSteel2
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Yeah, good on you, I already knew that about you but thanks for further sharing. Like you said, it’s the sacrifice. Kid or no kid, that’s the missing element with these people.
And the self delusion is what holds them back. A cousin of a friend has two kids, lives with family, works part time, late 20’s, has a late 40’s boyfriend she has spend the night all the time, he has chronic knee issues, his job said he could work a desk job but instead he is not showing up and trying to get disability. She has 2 kids, he has 3, all they do is play house in my friend’s family’s home because they allow it to happen.
The kids run wild, one almost hurt herself running down a flight of wooden stairs dragging a blanket the other day. Her other child is riddled with anxiety issues, always asking everyone who’s going to watch me tonight, tomorrow, the next day, the kid is f***ing 5. I actually met the man’s kids one time, he brought them up to a bar, they were like high school aged, they need help badly, I’ll leave it at that. These two people are basically retired from jump street and will not shut up about how they are the best parents. I just don’t know how those kids are going to turn out, we’ll all see in about 5-10 years.
As for your original point, yeah, I don’t know what we do, just keep fighting, we’re never going to get back what we put in, just got a crap deal, need to make as good of a lemonade as we can out of this mess.
ColdSteel2
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Started a vegetable garden, any tips? Kinda concerned because there are a lot of birds around, will they eat them? I’m thinking about putting some netting around them.
Ace Rothstein
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Look into how much everything needs to be watered, especially once everything flowers. Peppers won't need as much water as cucumbers or lettuce. We've been hit or miss most years. Two years ago we probably had 70-80 cucumbers throughout the summer whereas last year we had somewhere around 300 tomatoes. We've had a lot of luck with cayenne peppers as well.
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