The Official Good Girls Thread

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We finished moving earlier this week, so I'm not doing great. This has been a rough week. DH is already saying he may not want to stay here. It was his idea to move down here in the first place. I told him I'm not moving again, so he says he'll pay someone to pack everything up & move us next time. He knows I'm too cheap for that though. He would have paid someone this time. I'm sick of moving & am unable to do it again period. Sorry, for the rant. Your post just hit a soft spot. Dealing with so much pain & hearing him already say he may want to move again has made me less than pleased.

The typhoon nearing Japan looks scary! DH says the oceans are crazy rough out there!

Heeeey ladies! I feel like whenever I read this thread, I understand what people are talking about less and less I'm a loser.

He told me the other day he remembers being born. He's full of randomness.

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I've been looking at Loft recently and saw this cardigan [loft.com]. How does the sizing fit? I'm a S in VS and XS in Express. How's the quality? I'm hoping for better than VS and Express. Any idea how often they do sales? I know I missed the 4th of July sale.

we're home from the land of smiles! I see a lot of us got back around the same time Attachment 2784552
I totally did 15 days in carry on luggage ! The wedding was insanely huge (1200-1400 guests) and beautiful. probably the biggest budget one we will ever attend... It was actually covered on the local news and our hotel told us they saw us it was just the reception and the bride had 3 different dresses; 1 for the press conference, 1 for reception and 1 for the afterparty... Which turned out to be the dancing part of the reception. We had a good time although my overly ambitious dance moves at the wedding landed me a nasty foot sprain that required a hospital visit and crutches/wheelchair for the last half of our trip :/ I danced with the father of the bride, bridesmaids, their tailor that had custom made all the suits for the men and his BF (despite claiming to know no English, he exclaimed to me "I f-ing love you!" ), really anyone that would come near me was in danger of some kind of modified cha-cha. We had a blast despite not understanding any of the toasts and 90% of the music. They are a fun loving people that have rhythm and that's really all you need.

can you imagine if he could?! scarred for life!

we're home from the land of smiles! I see a lot of us got back around the same time Attachment 2784552
I totally did 15 days in carry on luggage ! The wedding was insanely huge (1200-1400 guests) and beautiful. probably the biggest budget one we will ever attend... It was actually covered on the local news and our hotel told us they saw us it was just the reception and the bride had 3 different dresses; 1 for the press conference, 1 for reception and 1 for the afterparty... Which turned out to be the dancing part of the reception. We had a good time although my overly ambitious dance moves at the wedding landed me a nasty foot sprain that required a hospital visit and crutches/wheelchair for the last half of our trip :/ I danced with the father of the bride, bridesmaids, their tailor that had custom made all the suits for the men and his BF (despite claiming to know no English, he exclaimed to me "I f-ing love you!" ), really anyone that would come near me was in danger of some kind of modified cha-cha. We had a blast despite not understanding any of the toasts and 90% of the music. They are a fun loving people that have rhythm and that's really all you need.

we're home from the land of smiles! I see a lot of us got back around the same time Attachment 2784552
I totally did 15 days in carry on luggage ! The wedding was insanely huge (1200-1400 guests) and beautiful. probably the biggest budget one we will ever attend... It was actually covered on the local news and our hotel told us they saw us it was just the reception and the bride had 3 different dresses; 1 for the press conference, 1 for reception and 1 for the afterparty... Which turned out to be the dancing part of the reception. We had a good time although my overly ambitious dance moves at the wedding landed me a nasty foot sprain that required a hospital visit and crutches/wheelchair for the last half of our trip :/ I danced with the father of the bride, bridesmaids, their tailor that had custom made all the suits for the men and his BF (despite claiming to know no English, he exclaimed to me "I f-ing love you!" ), really anyone that would come near me was in danger of some kind of modified cha-cha. We had a blast despite not understanding any of the toasts and 90% of the music. They are a fun loving people that have rhythm and that's really all you need.

As for the rest of the trip, what a neat place! We spent half the time in downtown Bangkok, with the other half split between staying on the major river that runs through there and flying up north to see some elephants and the different food, handicrafts and temples that the North offers. You would be walking down a block and there would be 7-eleven and them BAM, a beautiful temple gilded in gold and sparkly mosaic and/or a shrine (they are a pretty superstitious ppl). They have something like 80k temples ?!

The humidity was darn near unbearable and you prayed for the sun to go away. As for Mosquitos, downtown was not bad but anywhere else we went, we were being bitten throughout the day. When I followed my plan of permethrin-coated clothes plus insecticide for exposed parts, I was completely successful in avoiding bites. When I skipped insecticide once, my feet were covered and it took the zap-it, cortisone cream and antihistamine to keep me from drawing blood from scratching. .


The fashion was really neat to observe and waaaaaay less conservative than it was made out to be. I could have bought so many clothes there, but my immobility put a real damper on it. the people we were with wanted to shop almost everyday which was kind of lame when you think about how far you flew, only to spend all your time in a mall... in any case, is it just me or do they wear their clothes much looser in SE Asia? I wonder if that's out of necessity for the heat/humidity combo. They also did their peplums right - longer and with better structure.


The food was to die for! Omg, I didn't know what I was eating half the time (we had people order for us) but it was delicious. You know what's crazy? They are really good at Italian food. I never would have expected that. DH's cousin would only order that and we would try it and wow! Indian food was good too. I'm told the phö was outstanding. America/Western European was meh. We made it about a week before needing to take peptoB everyday...TMI, I know I really wanted to take a cooking class but our trip organizer put the kabash on anything she was not interested in herself, despite half of us being really into the idea and there being loads of cooking schools around. instead she organized another shopping trip, surprise surprise. Had ppl not spoken up, we would have eaten at trader Vic's, Benihana and Hard Rock Cafe everynight.... very difficult to travel with ppl uninterested in exploring the world around them

I got 2 tumbler sets instore at VS today, the little instant win thing, isn't a scratch-off, which is a little disappointing, it's just a thing to scan on the VS app for a coupon on backpacks..

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remember the song "it must be the honey"? our kids are too young to know the original with "money". ds was watching a movie from 2005 that used it as background music (the original song), and says, "that's the song in the commercial".