Couch 82: If you're happy and you know it, be a number!

Makes sense...

Yeah. Well, I guess **** happens. I'll just start with the new one and hope for the best.

lol I often feel this way when I read things. I refrain from commenting though. I try to stick with the lesson from Bambi... If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say nothing at all. Keeps me from getting into trouble.

Me, too...I just went and cleaned my bathroom because I felt so irritated. Cleaning always makes me feel better.

So my teenage son's room is a pigsty - I've been telling him to clean it all WEEK while he's been off school, nothing. We have a family friend coming into town tomorrow and we're going out to lunch with him. So I told my son a few minutes ago, you HAVE to have your room clean before Mike gets here tomorrow at 11 or you're not going to lunch with us. But looking at your room, it's going to be a close finish." He said "You don't think I can do it?" I said "I don't think I could do it, that's what I think." He said I can. I looked doubtful. He said. I can do it! You want to bet? I'll bet $5 I'll get it done. I took the bet.

Needless to say, I am looking forward to winning $5 from my son. And I'm gonna take it, too!!

Is that wrong? LOL

Me too... I've been cleaning my house this afternoon, trying not to think about quitting therapy. Just taking a little break to see if it worked, but the thoughts about quitting popped right back into my head as soon as I shut off the vacuum cleaner. Back to cleaning.

I find cleaning immensely therapeutic in itself (and yes, distracting)...but then it's also a HUGE component of my OCD. I can do it for 10 hours straight w/out stopping, so my Ts might not necessarily agree with my assessment.

Well, that works in some cultures, but not in others. In many countries (for instance some Eastern European countries), that reasoning is considered rude, because it is seen as dishonest to say only the nice things. Needless to say, neither way of looking at it is right or wrong in an absolute sense - in linguistics we talk about using different 'cultural scripts' in communication. On an English-language forum, it is natural to use Anglo cultural scripts. Not that there are many unified such scripts, either - I think it's pretty fascinating how different the cultural scripts can be in different English-speaking cultures.

Anyway, it just makes me exasperated when people give misleading general advice based on their own individual, positive or negative, experiences. I do it too, I'm sure, so I try not to give advice... sadly, I sometimes fail. So I really shouldn't say anything when other people do the same thing. *focuses hard on xkcd: Duty Calls *

If all of you who like cleaning didn't live so far away...

Interesting point. I've never considered that other cultures would see that as dishonest.

I just find if I don't have anything nice to say I just stay out of it lol. It depends what it is. Typically, if it might piss me off or cause me to get very wrapped up in it then I avoid it. Especially given my current mental state.

Love xkcd! Always relevant.

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I only clean to avoid grading.

I don't this but my ex does, I kind of feel like it's bribery, I tend to encourage then to be clean in the house and they can live in a messy room until they can't see the floor then I pull out sanitary guns, OH&S ssteps in.

My mother was a housecleaning nut. When I got out on my own, I simply decided I did not care that much nor notice so I was not going to worry about it. I sweep up the dog hair about once a week, and dust every few weeks when I can ignore it no longer, but other than laundry and dishes - I don't do much cleaning on a regular basis.

One of the bazillion reasons I never wanted children - I would have to clean regularly. Right at the top along with I would have to put up a christmas tree and let them have annoying friends - it just was not worth it.
And don't get me started on the clueless childbearing who use strollers out in public with regular people.

It has been drizzling here all day and we have not had sun in what seems like a month or so. I am cranky and the dogs are restless. They hate walking in the rain more than I do.

49 degrees and sunny here today. of course it's sunny most of the time where i live, except when it rains in the summer. pretty much.

You'll remember... until you don't

I hate cleaning. No. When I'm not depressed I'm pretty good at staying on top of it. But I'm rarely not depressed which means my house is filthy. *sigh*

I had 3 kids.. and also hate strollers. The big clunky ones anyway. My kids were all petite, so I carried them forever in one of those things that straps them to you. When they got too big for that, I just used one of those little umbrella strollers when needed.

Why on earth would using a stroller by "clueless"?

Because they take up more than their fair share of room, run them into others, block things others are trying to get to and generally act like they are the only people on earth or are super special because they procreated. Recently one guy who apparently needed to jog with octuplets on a narrow walking path by my house whacked my dog. At an event with a lot of people crammed into a small space - a person with an empty stroller being manned by the previous occupant - allowed the creature to ram into people and items, and then had the audacity to react like it was our problem they could not control either the vehicle or the creature.
If you are the one person who used a stroller responsibly, then great - but my experience with people with children has been otherwise.
Some people agree with me:
http://blog.themobilityresource.com/...baby-strollers

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/fa...anted=all&_r=0

Maybe SD sees them as snowplouhgs to make a path through the people and not caring whos heels they scuff up...
Did not see sd post. My internet and brain are a bit slow

Maybe they are just parents trying to manage getting around with kids in tow rather than staying confined to home, damaging their back from carrying their kids, or risking losing kids who might run off otherwise. Heaven forbid families actually get out and about.

Not my problem nor that of anyone else but themselves. If one brings their children out in public - make sure they don't bother other people. I don't let my dogs bother people and their children - I expect people to provide the same consideration with their children.
And I agree - heaven forbid.

I'm picturing SD shaking her head muttering "breeders!"

I hate being plowed into in stores/parks/sidewalks. I'm fat and damn near 6 feet tall, tell me you didn't see me!

Meh, for every parent who uses a stroller like a snow plough there's a pet owner who refuses to clean up their dog's poop. In my old apartment complex I had to clean up poop from in front of my apartment every single day. Didn't matter how much I complained, those people just didn't care.

I'm in the process of getting an adaptive stroller for my son. Those things are big. And I have plenty of days when I'm angry enough to slam people in the ankles for being in the way :evilgrin:


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Walking away from this.

I have a friend who was visiting Yosemite a few years ago...he told me about a woman who was attempting to "push" a stroller up a difficult trail that he and his wife were hiking on. I'm still not sure if that makes me want to laugh or bang my head against the wall...