once you hit 30, it's like opposite world...

meme

GTFLYGIRL wrote:

OMG...I saved mine too!! People think I'm crazy.

Well.....Maybe not beause I saved it. Maybe just because.

I assumed everyone did :eek:

GreenTeaDisease

Brain of J.Lo wrote:

I didn't have one of those either. But yeah, they suck.

Baby showers, though, are full of people talking about the gross aspects of their own pregnancies, the pregnant woman's pregnancy and then gross things about babies. Plus, there are embarrassing games. But, at least there is cake. So that's a good thing.

I can't handle gross pregnancy discussions (and I pretty much consider everything about pregnancy to be gross). I took a writing class a while back and this girl insisted on writing about her most utterly nauseating pregnancy, birth, breast feeding, and child rearing experiences. ugh...this is what I fear when my close friends start getting pregnant.

and it's not far off! I moved back here and suddenly ALL my friends are talking about marriage and babies, just with whatever guy they happen to be with.

MattCameronKicksButt

This thread IS funny but only because I and everyone here that does have kids know that they're fantastic. Even if they do come as a surpise-or shock!

That being said, I'm 27 now but when I was about 25/26 I decided I really wanted a baby. Not sure why because I couldn't stand children up until then.
Funny I had this conversation with my friends mum when I was sixteen and she laughed and said 'Don't worry. At some point in your life it'll all change and you'll decide you want a babby'. She was right!

Not that there's anything wrong with not wanting children. I'm just saying you could well change your mind at some point in your life.

smarchee

GTFLYGIRL wrote:

OMG...I saved mine too!! People think I'm crazy.

um, you saved your test ? like the thing you pee on ?

Yeild2PearlJam

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

...your friends start hoping for *positive* pregnancy tests.

shudder.

hahahaha


Made my day right there.....

kenshunt

Well come Sunday i'll know what it feels like to be the big 30

ladygooddiva

well i made before my friends could asked..i got my baby 2 months after i reach 30;)

Brain of J.Lo

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

TEven if they do come as a surpise-or shock!

So true. To stay on the topic of the thread, I have yet to hope for a positive pregnancy test. But, I'm sure glad that one* of them did end up that way.









*I actually had two, because I was hoping at least one would be negative...lol.

Brain of J.Lo

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I can't handle gross pregnancy discussions (and I pretty much consider everything about pregnancy to be gross). I took a writing class a while back and this girl insisted on writing about her most utterly nauseating pregnancy, birth, breast feeding, and child rearing experiences. ugh...this is what I fear when my close friends start getting pregnant.

and it's not far off! I moved back here and suddenly ALL my friends are talking about marriage and babies, just with whatever guy they happen to be with.

I like hearing stories, but there are just some details that I don't need to hear.

When you're pregnant, you are so inundated with information about what is happening to your body and what will happen to your body...and you see so many doctors and so many people see so MUCH of your body...that you lose your inhibitions about it all.

Steve Dunne

kenshunt wrote:

Well come Sunday i'll know what it feels like to be the big 30

happy bday you ole fart!

(who the hell am i kidding!)

GreenTeaDisease

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

Not that there's anything wrong with not wanting children. I'm just saying you could well change your mind at some point in your life.

I already changed, I used to want kids (though I've NEVER wanted to experience pregnancy).

But I probably won't ever really have like a hormonal need to have kids again, I think I am too medicated. I've been on the pill (which works by mimicking pregnancy) for so long due to medical problems that I'm barely even attracted to men anymore, let alone having maternal needs.

kenshunt

Steve Dunne wrote:

happy bday you ole fart!

(who the hell am i kidding!)

Thanks, well it's exciting i guess.

GreenTeaDisease

kenshunt wrote:

Thanks, well it's exciting i guess.

I'm right there with you. 2 weeks from now.

eyedclaar

34 and don’t ever, ever want kids. However, within the last two years, all (I mean all) of my friends had babies. My wife and I think they are all completely mental, but they keep trying to talk us into it. And yes, the “Oh you’ll change your mind someday” speech is going to get someone punched in the mouth. Yeah, and I might change my mind about wishing a wolverine would appear out of nowhere and chomp on my dick too.

GreenTeaDisease

eyedclaar wrote:

34 and don’t ever, ever want kids. However, within the last two years, all (I mean all) of my friends had babies. My wife and I think they are all completely mental, but they keep trying to talk us into it. And yes, the “Oh you’ll change your mind someday” speech is going to get someone punched in the mouth. Yeah, and I might change my mind about wishing a wolverine would appear out of nowhere and chomp on my dick too.

there's some kind of plan in motion that my group of friends is going to pass around the baby clothes "when we each have a baby." somehow, I am automatically part of this. they are already picking out the clothes. it's like they refuse to even hear me when I say "I don't think I'm going to have a baby. I don't think I'm going to have a baby. I don't think I'm..."

and I'm not sure, but I think one of my friends was trying to convince me to get back with my ex boyfriend last night, even as I was saying "we're not right for each other, and we live 750 miles apart..."

eyedclaar

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

there's some kind of plan in motion that my group of friends is going to pass around the baby clothes "when we each have a baby." somehow, I am automatically part of this. they are already picking out the clothes. it's like they refuse to even hear me when I say "I don't think I'm going to have a baby. I don't think I'm going to have a baby. I don't think I'm..."

and I'm not sure, but I think one of my friends was trying to convince me to get back with my ex boyfriend last night, even as I was saying "we're not right for each other, and we live 750 miles apart..."

Yeah, it is weird how some people just can't fathom not having children. Having that conversation with a Mormon is like teaching a cricket algebra. As far as I'm concerned, I'm doing the planet a favor. The last thing we need is more humans... especially ones descending from my demon spawn.

dunkman

eyedclaar wrote:

Yeah, and I might change my mind about wishing a wolverine would appear out of nowhere and chomp on my dick too.

hope springs eternal

GreenTeaDisease

eyedclaar wrote:

Yeah, it is weird how some people just can't fathom not having children. Having that conversation with a Mormon is like teaching a cricket algebra. As far as I'm concerned, I'm doing the planet a favor. The last thing we need is more humans... especially ones descending from my demon spawn.

that's my opinion too. there's a hilarious Onion article somewhere that's like "we have to save the environment for my 5 children." When people tell me why they want kids, it's always like "my clock is ticking" "I want to be a mommy" "I want a little me." Those don't really seem like convincing enough arguments to me.

plus, being pregnant looks really, really, really disgusting.

wait I'm gonna look for that Onion article, I love it:

We Must Preserve The Earth's Dwindling Resources For My Five Children

By Brenda Melford
June 28, 2006 | Issue 42•26
OpEd2

As we move into the 21st century, it is our responsibility to think of the future of the earth—not for ourselves, but for those who will inherit what my husband and I leave behind when we're gone. If we do not join together and do what's best for this, our only planet, there may not be an environment left in which my five children, and their 25 children's 125 children, can grow up and raise large upper-middle-class families of their own.

Nothing less than the preservation of my descendents' lifestyle itself is at stake.

Imagine a world devoid of pristine wilderness for my progeny to explore on the weekends in the sport-utility-vehicles of the future, leaving my youngest son, Dylan, with nowhere to blow off steam on off-road adventures. Imagine a world in which my beautiful middle son, Connor, is denied his twice-daily half-hour hot showers because of water shortages. Picture what it would be like for my oldest boy Asher, preparing to start his first semester at Stanford, to have to go without basic amenities such as cable television, satellite radio, central air, or massage chairs, all because of the shortsighted squandering by his parents' generation of our non-renewable energy sources today.

Though it seems like a far-off nightmare, this terrible vision is all too possible. Would you want to live in a world where my five children had to endure such horrible deprivations? I know I wouldn't.

If we don't take action now, my daughters Kimmy and Jenna may not be able to blow-dry their hair for 45 minutes to an hour each morning, nor may my future sons-in-law cut their grass atop enormous, diesel-powered riding mowers. In fact, they may not even have lawns—at least not the lush, verdant kind that requires constant watering and pesticide treatment. It's conceivable that one day my five children's spacious yards may be entirely composed of synthetic Astroturf, or—God forbid—those tacky wood chips my sister in Arizona uses.

In a cruel irony, those wood chippings will get more expensive as the world's timber supply continues to shrink.

Encroaching urban sprawl has already begun to spoil the view from the porch of our beautiful new summer home on Lake Wakenaka. Sadly, the view from the bay windows of our first summer home, the one we built at our Woodland Acres property six years earlier, has already been ruined by such unchecked development. Must my children grow up in a world where only one of their parents' summer homes is surrounded by the beauty of nature? It's unthinkable, I know, but we must face facts.

This is to say nothing of the deleterious impact the destruction of our global ecosystems will have on the wildlife my family enjoys hunting. Biodiversity is crucial to another 100 years of deer-, quail-, duck-, bear-, moose-, bobcat-, and bison-shooting summer recreation for my descendents.

We must take steps immediately to devise safe, alternative energy sources that my future offspring can safely consume. If we don't develop new fuels now, there will be none left for those who issue from my loins to burn and continue to burn for all time. I don't want my 625-odd great-grandchildren to have to wait 20 or 30 precious seconds for their toilets to flush. I don't want their 3,125 children to live in a hellish society where they cannot own their own snowmobiles. And I shudder to think that my 15,625 great-great-great-grandchildren may not be able to have TVs in every room that they can leave on all day and all night. Is it our right to deny my progeny of their gargantuan RVs and motorboats, as well? Of course not.

We cannot, in good conscience, lay such a burden on tomorrow's generations of Melfords. My children are the future. And at the end of the day, isn't it family—my family—that truly matters?

eyedclaar

dunkman wrote:

hope springs eternal

Actually, it's a tradition for your 30th B-day here in Idaho to prove your manhood. As disturbing as it seems (to outsiders), the only way to survive their vice-like jaws is to have a raging hard-on.

dunkman

eyedclaar wrote:

Actually, it's a tradition for your 30th B-day here in Idaho to prove your manhood. As disturbing as it seems (to outsiders), the only way to survive their vice-like jaws is to have a raging hard-on.

so you're in Idaho?

*strokes the other 49 states off his list of places to search*