Official Vent Thread for the Moderate Christian Forum

[MrJim]

Couldn't think up a snazzy title 'cause I have to VENT

I was trying to get home this evening but was slowed down because they are HANGING FREAKIN' CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN TOWN ALREADY

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i hate christmas...

[Michie]

I don't mind Christmas. Infact I'm grateful for it. It's the pressure that goes along with the holiday that gets me.

My vent-
This colder weather is making me tired & lazy!

[PreachersWife2004]

Here's my vent:

My pelvic bones hurt, I'm supposed to be on bedrest, yet the first question out my husband's mouth is "whatcha cookin for supper?" and then after I explain that I wasn't planning on cooking since I cooked yesterday, husband failed to ask me what HE could cook for ME.

Now, I love my husband and I know he has a lot going on between prepping for Sundays, and watching the boys, but would it kill him to just offer to cook me something?!

Oy!

[Michie]

Here's my vent:

My pelvic bones hurt, I'm supposed to be on bedrest, yet the first question out my husband's mouth is "whatcha cookin for supper?" and then after I explain that I wasn't planning on cooking since I cooked yesterday, husband failed to ask me what HE could cook for ME.

Now, I love my husband and I know he has a lot going on between prepping for Sundays, and watching the boys, but would it kill him to just offer to cook me something?!

Oy!

No it would not.

I say we kick his butt. ;)

[Criada]

Here's my vent:

My pelvic bones hurt, I'm supposed to be on bedrest, yet the first question out my husband's mouth is "whatcha cookin for supper?" and then after I explain that I wasn't planning on cooking since I cooked yesterday, husband failed to ask me what HE could cook for ME.

Now, I love my husband and I know he has a lot going on between prepping for Sundays, and watching the boys, but would it kill him to just offer to cook me something?!

Oy!
:hug: :hug: :hug:

[PreachersWife2004]

Ya know what, after seeing what hubby made himself for supper last night, perhaps is a good thing that he never cooks for me.

Have any of you guys heard of "bachelor chow"? :sick:

[Joykins]

Beckie, isn't there a ministry in your church that does meals for families that need it (i.e. the mom is on bedrest)? Can you get these ladies to help your husband out a bit?

[PreachersWife2004]

Beckie, isn't there a ministry in your church that does meals for families that need it (i.e. the mom is on bedrest)? Can you get these ladies to help your husband out a bit?

Well, yeah, there is, but the ladies are old and more infirm than I am!

Last week when the boys were sick, one lady brought over a casserole. Casseroles, as you know, are the staple food of sick and grieving people - at least that what everyone who cooks them thinks. ;)

Well, the only person who could actually stomach the casserole was our dog. And that's just because she's dumb. We certainly appreciated the effort though.

I can cook if I can do it in stages. One of the family's favorite meals is stew meat marinated and then broiled, plus rice. It is the easiest meal to cook because I don't have to slave over the oven or stove. It's also the best and most filling, in my opinion.

We eat a lot of TV dinner type meals in this household, even before I went on bed rest this was a staple of ours. I'm not a chef by any means!

[Joykins]

You need a few good those recipes where your husband just has to dump everything in the crock pot and turn it on. For example, chicken and salsa and a little taco sauce...good in little soft tortillas.

[PreachersWife2004]

You need a few good those recipes where your husband just has to dump everything in the crock pot and turn it on. For example, chicken and salsa and a little taco sauce...good in little soft tortillas.

That's one of my son's favorites. He LOVES it when we have taco night. I have to laugh at him. And taco night is another easy one, because Matt can cook up ground beef without killing us.

[Joykins]

That's one of my son's favorites. He LOVES it when we have taco night. I have to laugh at him. And taco night is another easy one, because Matt can cook up ground beef without killing us.


:thumbsup:

Don't make a mockery of taco night (http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/son_youve_made_a_mockery_of). ;)

[Catherineanne]

Couldn't think up a snazzy title 'cause I have to VENT

I was trying to get home this evening but was slowed down because they are HANGING FREAKIN' CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN TOWN ALREADY

i hate christmas...

My ageing parents were burgled last week while they were on holiday, and d and I spent three days clearing up so they didn't arrive to a mess. We even got the window mended before they got home. They came home on Sunday, and my older brother didn't come to meet them because he was helping put the Christmas lights up in his town. I rang when m&d got home, and asked if OB wanted to talk to them, and he said he had people in, and would ring later. Only he didn't bother.

So, I hate burglars, and Christmas lights, and my selfish, thoughtless brother. And I also hate having to be a parent to my parents, and do stuff for them that I have no-one to do for me. Like ringing insurance companies to sort out their claim. I was burgled in February, and had all this to do on my own.

[Catherineanne]

Now, I love my husband and I know he has a lot going on between prepping for Sundays, and watching the boys, but would it kill him to just offer to cook me something?!


Sorry you are not well, PW.

My favourite two minute meals are:

Baked potato with anything
Toasted sandwiches
Sausage, potato, chopped veg plus tin of salsa sauce, all cooked together in slow cooker or oven
chicken pieces ditto above
And best of all, box of Indian/Chinese for however many, all ready to heat up and serve.

There is a time for everything under the sun. A time to cook, and a time to improvise.

[Michie]

*snip*There is a time for everything under the sun. A time to cook, and a time to improvise.
Now theres a kitchen motto if I ever saw one! ^_^

[Rochir]

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i hate christmas...

Same here!

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[Rochir]

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Don't make a mockery of taco night (http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/son_youve_made_a_mockery_of). ;)

Ok, instant vent:

I WANT TACO BELLS HERE IN GERMANY!!!! ASAP!!!!!

We don't have any chain selling fast food tacos, it's not our tradition. But I know them from my time in the US

I WANT A TACO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!:mad:

[Criada]

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:)

[PreachersWife2004]

I love Taco Bell. Count that as one of my biggest pregnancy cravings.

[Joykins]

I am all kinds of into a taco fiesta!

[MrJim]

Have any of you guys heard of "bachelor chow"? :sick:

:yum:

In my bachelor days I subsisted on either beans (usually black-eyed peas) & rice or tuna & noodles. Anything else was frozen or carry-out.

[MrJim]

...now I'm hungry too~Took 3 hours to get to my first job in Vienna VA 'cause the Dulles Toll Rd, which isn't supposed to be quite as bad as 270, was WORSE (320 miles driving today)

[PreachersWife2004]

:yum:

In my bachelor days I subsisted on either beans (usually black-eyed peas) & rice or tuna & noodles. Anything else was frozen or carry-out.

sounds about right. Matt adds onions and tomatoes and anything in the fridge that looks like it might be going bad. :D

[MrJim]

sounds about right. Matt adds onions and tomatoes and anything in the fridge that looks like it might be going bad. :D

lot more ambitious than I ever was^_^

[Criada]

:hug:
Have you thought of eating something, Jim?
It's usually a good cure for hunger....
:D

[Michie]

Taco Bell is an abomination.

Yea verily....

[BelindaP]

:thumbsup:

Don't make a mockery of taco night (http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/son_youve_made_a_mockery_of). ;)

I wish they had a ROFL icon here at 4U. That article was great!

[MrJim]

:hug:
Have you thought of eating something, Jim?
It's usually a good cure for hunger....
:D

Waitin' for the mrs to get it around...

[PreachersWife2004]

Taco Bell is an abomination.

Yea verily....

Ach...you blaspheme. TB has saved me many a night where I might actually have to cook something!! ;)

[Michie]

Ach...you blaspheme. TB has saved me many a night where I might actually have to cook something!! ;)
I can't handle it.

It's not even close to what mexican food really is.

Plus it just tastes bad,

Repent!

Repent I say!:P

[MrJim]

Veteran's Day tomorrow and there'll be some patriotic thing where we vets are "recognized"...i usually do the quick "bob" up from the pew, 'cause as an anabaptist I don't accept the military service for believers as a good thing...mennonite thing ya know ;)

THEN, congregation raised some $5,000 for new pew cushions which were put on a couple weeks ago, but couldn't raise $600 for the mission goal last month.

...guess that's all~oh, i hate christmas too.

[Rowan]

It's not even close to what mexican food really is.



Exactly !!

[Rochir]

I can't handle it.

It's not even close to what mexican food really is.

Plus it just tastes bad,

Repent!

Repent I say!:P

No! I will always love TB!:yum:

[ladyt28]

THEN, congregation raised some $5,000 for new pew cushions which were put on a couple weeks ago, but couldn't raise $600 for the mission goal last month.

That, sadly, is a perfect example of the world we live in. We had a huge fire in the city started by a homeless woman who was told she could not have the warmth of the jail without committing a crime - so she did. The building had a "historical" mural on the side of it...for a soda pop. There was a fundraiser...to save the mural....and it was an "empty bowl" fundraiser that that. I asked one of the college girls selling the bowls of she understood how much irony was in the whole thing - all I got was a blank stare. I was so embarrassed for our city.:(

[ladyt28]

and Tace Bell IS horrid, I don't care how convenient it is. We have a lot of Mexican immigrants where I live, several have started rester aunts - once you have authentic, you can never return to "what in the world is this?"

[meh]

~I am venting about my bathroom, which seems to be falling apart. The toilet is leaking and this morning the shower head cracked and fell off and the resulting stream of water that was coming straight from the pipes or something was so forceful it was knocking me all around against the walls. My nephews think this story is heeeelarious. Why do things around the house always start needing repair right around the months it's time to start buying Christmas presents? I think appliances and what-not get together and plot this while we are sleeping.~

I like Taco Bell. But I'm really more in the mood for Burger King at the moment.

[MrJim]

I like Taco Bell. But I'm really more in the mood for Burger King at the moment.

mmmmm....double whopper.....:yum:

[meh]

Ok now seriously. Two months with strep throat? Fever? Swollen glands? Are antibiotics no longer working on anything anymore? :o

Boy do I like these venting threadies^_^

[Hentenza]

THEN, congregation raised some $5,000 for new pew cushions which were put on a couple weeks ago, but couldn't raise $600 for the mission goal last month.



Change the name of the mission goal to pew cushions. That ought to do it.;):D:P

[MrJim]

No! I will always love TB!:yum:

:scratch: I thought it was always sauerkraut and warm beer over there...:P

[DaRev]

I have learned first hand that Mexican food tastes better the closer you are to Mexico. I can't even imagine what it would taste like in Germany! :P ^_^

[PreachersWife2004]

Hiya DaRev!! :wave:

[DaRev]

:wave:

[porterross]

Howdy, y'all. :wave:

[DaRev]

Spoken like a true Texan. :P

[Joykins]

Taco Bell is nothing like good Mexican (or even good Tex-Mex which is really what I like best) but it is cheap and has a cheap greasy heart-attack-in-a-shell goodness of its own :D

[porterross]

I live on the border of Mexico and our Taco Bell does quite well, but it's not the preferred drive-thru. There are plenty of other, authentic Mexican restaurants that are worth waiting a bit longer in line for. I love Mexican food!

[SumTinWong]

I love the holiday of Christmas, but i hate what the people of this country guided by the stores have turned it into. Black Friday? keep it. Shopping for gifts for people who don't need the junk you buy? Keep it.

We do not buy or receive gifts for Christmas, we do not decorate or play that silly music. On Christmas, I will spend time with my wife in church or we will go for a walk some where and be free from what this holiday has become.

[DaRev]

I love Mexican food!

I love your Mexican food, too. ;)

[porterross]

I love the holiday of Christmas, but i hate what the people of this country guided by the stores have turned it into. Black Friday? keep it. Shopping for gifts for people who don't need the junk you buy? Keep it.

We do not buy or receive gifts for Christmas, we do not decorate or play that silly music. On Christmas, I will spend time with my wife in church or we will go for a walk some where and be free from what this holiday has become.

While I agree that the demands for personal gift-giving and secular celebrations are over the top in many areas, the season of Christmas is and should be quite magical. It's all what we make it and what we guide our families to focus on that makes the difference and helps block out the materialism of what should be about the birth of our Savior. :crosseo:

I don't think giving gifts to those we love is offensive to God, but the greed definitely is. As for the music, not all of it is silly. I love listening to Christmas hymns any time. :)

[PreachersWife2004]

I love Black Friday. I buy all my Christmas presents in one day and I spend less than $200 for 10 kids. Kinda hard to beat that. This year, though, I will be fighting the crowds in my scooter, since modified bed rest really doesn't allow you to shop on your feet!

I love Christmas, even the asides from Jesus' birth. I realize that sounds very heathen of me, but don't get me wrong. I know first and foremost what Christmas is all about, and so do my kids. But, we also look at the season as a time for giving back to people who have given so selflessly to us, and others too. Just everything about the holiday can be wonderful as long as keep the focus on what is truly important.

I just wish they'd let Halloween pass before they started putting up Christmas decorations up...

[DaRev]

I love the holiday of Christmas, but I hate what the people of this country guided by the stores have turned it into.

I, too, hate what this holiday has become. I was a single father raising three kids for a number of years with subsistance means. Christmas was not always a happy time for me. The commercialization has so overshadowed the true meaning of the holiday that the birth of the Savior of the world has become almost a second thought.

[shrewdsnake]

Christmas is what people make of it. If you are a Christian and don't like what it's become then change what you do. Can't control others and how they celebrate. We have told several family members we will not do gifts more then $10.00, if they spend more and want to gripe they are free to but we don't care. We love to decorate and have friends over and cook. We also take time to thank God for giving us such a wonderful gift. I like gospel music all year long so Christmas music doesn't bother me.

[SumTinWong]

I think Christmas should be a time of caring and sharing but it has turned (at least in my circles) into a time of obligations. We are obligated to buy this for this person and they are obligated . . .blah blah blah.

I gotta tell you I have been so much more into the season since I gave up the rat race. It is and always should be about the gift of God to us, not the gift of man to us.

My sister has two girls and she forbids people to smother her kids in toys. They do not need them, they have plenty, one is enough from each grandparent, etc.. . Anyway I applaud what she is doing.

[Tenebrae]

~I am venting about my bathroom, which seems to be falling apart. The toilet is leaking and this morning the shower head cracked and fell off and the resulting stream of water that was coming straight from the pipes or something was so forceful it was knocking me all around against the walls. My nephews think this story is heeeelarious. Why do things around the house always start needing repair right around the months it's time to start buying Christmas presents? I think appliances and what-not get together and plot this while we are sleeping.~

I like Taco Bell. But I'm really more in the mood for Burger King at the moment.
We have burger (http://www.burgerfuel.com/)fuel

Totally outclasses Burger king

[BelindaP]

We have burger (http://www.burgerfuel.com/)fuel

Totally outclasses Burger king
That wouldn't be hard. ^_^

[Tenebrae]

That wouldn't be hard. ^_^
My favourite studnut stilton

Lots of real beef patties, avocado and stilton cheese

Hmmmmmmm

[edb19]

There is a time for everything under the sun. A time to cook, and a time to improvise.

Now theres a kitchen motto if I ever saw one! ^_^

Catherineanne, I'm with Michie on this - you need to market your little saying - nicely framed. I'd mount it over my stove (and on the fridge door, and pantry door, and over the door to the kitchen and maybe even on the kitchen table)

[edb19]

ok - since we're pretty much venting about husbands and food. . . . I cook Thanksgiving dinner almost every year and will again this year. Starting about a month ago my husband starts on his annual rant that I cook too much food and I should do less this year.

Agreeing mentally I planned my Thanksgiving menu accordingly (am cooking a turkey breast only, am getting pies from a neighborhood bakery, and am even cutting out a couple of traditional holiday side dishes)

So last night DH asks about my menu plans which I shared. His comments - what about people who like dark meat - shouldn't you fix a whole turkey, how about adding a small ham, what about pumpkin bars? All I can say is it's a darn good thing I wasn't armed:mad:

[MrJim]

ok - since we're pretty much venting about husbands and food. . . . I cook Thanksgiving dinner almost every year and will again this year. Starting about a month ago my husband starts on his annual rant that I cook too much food and I should do less this year.

Agreeing mentally I planned my Thanksgiving menu accordingly (am cooking a turkey breast only, am getting pies from a neighborhood bakery, and am even cutting out a couple of traditional holiday side dishes)

So last night DH asks about my menu plans which I shared. His comments - what about people who like dark meat - shouldn't you fix a whole turkey, how about adding a small ham, what about pumpkin bars? All I can say is it's a darn good thing I wasn't armed:mad:

Sounds like a great guy~did I miss something?:P

[MrJim]

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[RadicallyTransformedMom]

ok i am here to vent about my non-sleeping children!
none of my 3 children are good sleepers! its 1am right now and 2 of them are awake..i want to SCREAM!!!! Arghhhhhhh! i hate this soooo much! i am sick of losing sleep...ok...make it 3..now i hear the baby crying as well...i cant believe this! when am i going to get some stinkin SLEEEP???

[Criada]

Praying, sis.
:hug: :hug: :hug:

[Tenebrae]

ok i am here to vent about my non-sleeping children!
none of my 3 children are good sleepers! its 1am right now and 2 of them are awake..i want to SCREAM!!!! Arghhhhhhh! i hate this soooo much! i am sick of losing sleep...ok...make it 3..now i hear the baby crying as well...i cant believe this! when am i going to get some stinkin SLEEEP???
Hope you got some sleep

[RadicallyTransformedMom]

thanks for the hugs and prayers..

still sleepless

[Criada]

Still praying!

[PreachersWife2004]

Oh I hear ya on that one, RTM. My two babies were solid sleepers until the youngest started his second round of teething. Now neither of them sleep through the night, and I'm such a sucker, I always have one in bed with me in the wee hours of the morning. They always start out in their crib, though. Last night it was our middle child who couldn't get to sleep. Ugh.

And we've got the baby on the way, who will wake up every two hours for the first eight weeks.

Sleep is a foreign concept to me these days!

[MrJim]

Since there is no sunday school the next two weeks instead of starting a new chapter the class had to sit through a Beth Moore video~didn't know Hillary Clinton had a born-again dispy/premil sister, what a long hourhttp://bestsmileys.com/frustrated/4.gif

[Izdaari]

Since there is no sunday school the next two weeks instead of starting a new chapter the class had to sit through a Beth Moore video~didn't know Hillary Clinton had a born-again dispy/premil sister, what a long hourhttp://bestsmileys.com/frustrated/4.gif
I call her "Too Much Coffee Girl". ^_^

Sometimes she has really good messages, but her style is hard for me to take. :swoon:

My church is much more apt to play Rob Bell videos. They're short, like 10-20 minutes, and he's low-key and conversational. And so far I've found his insights very wise, very right on, things I could meditate on months afterwards.

[Criada]

Why does my mother hate me?
:sigh:

[ladyt28]

Why does my mother hate me?
:sigh:
Oh hon - I am so sorry about this! :hug:It's hard to say anything without knowing specifics and I wouldn't want you to share more than you'd want to but the first thing that comes to mind is how sadly successful the enemy is at poisoning and breaking hearts.

Lord, I pray for our sister Criada and her mother. We lift them up to You Lord for Your love and guidance. May You lay a heavy burden on the mother's heart making this hate too painful to keep up. May You fill her with Your love and understanding and forgiveness. And if this woman refuses to open her heart, may You wrap your loving arms around our sister to help her understand that she has done nothing to "earn" this. Please Lord help this family as our time on this Earth is simply too short to let things like this continue without Your help. This I pray in Jesus name, amen.:prayer:

[Valentine]

:amen: -- I join with you in this prayer.

[RadicallyTransformedMom]

Oh I hear ya on that one, RTM. My two babies were solid sleepers until the youngest started his second round of teething. Now neither of them sleep through the night, and I'm such a sucker, I always have one in bed with me in the wee hours of the morning. They always start out in their crib, though. Last night it was our middle child who couldn't get to sleep. Ugh.

And we've got the baby on the way, who will wake up every two hours for the first eight weeks.

Sleep is a foreign concept to me these days!
none of my 3 children have ever been good sleepers..i dont know how long someone can go with lack of sleep..im coming up on almost 4 straight yrs without it here..lol..i think i forgot HOW to sleep ..really! Lets hug each other!!

[Valentine]

none of my 3 children have ever been good sleepers..i dont know how long someone can go with lack of sleep..im coming up on almost 4 straight yrs without it here..lol..i think i forgot HOW to sleep ..really! Lets hug each other!!

:groupray: :hug: :hug: and :prayer: