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Since the Social Threads seem to have been done away with, this is the new home of the VS Social Thread. We talk about everything from VS to Beauty to Coupons to Hot Deals...and of course, our personal lives.
Roll call! Let's get back to what we do!
Please PM everyone who was a part of the VS Social Thread to inform them of our new home.
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here [cnn.com]'s the 2 arms and 2 legs cost type of accommodations i reeeeally really want to stay in. we'd be going during high season too, boo.
Ughh...today is not my day. Woke up with my neck hurting and right now I have an insane stomach ache.
Peeved that I didn't get to workout today.
Ughh...today is not my day. Woke up with my neck hurting and right now I have an insane stomach ache.
Peeved that I didn't get to workout today.
we went on 1 cruise once (our first for both of us) and i don't think either of us enjoyed it that much. i don't think we'd want to do a cruise around the world. (one of the reasons is we both get pretty seasick - i think i'm actually worse! : eek: ) if i'm around water i want to be IN it, not hovering over it! :lo l: :e rmm: i won't have a month off anyway. i'll probably take 2 or 3 weeks off total, but that includes preparations before the wedding.
here [cnn.com]'s the 2 arms and 2 legs cost type of accommodations i reeeeally really want to stay in. we'd be going during high season too, boo.
Ughh...today is not my day. Woke up with my neck hurting and right now I have an insane stomach ache.
Peeved that I didn't get to workout today. : (
Ughh...today is not my day. Woke up with my neck hurting and right now I have an insane stomach ache.
Peeved that I didn't get to workout today.
Getting my last laser treatment! Totally forgot to advil and my stomach is empty, not that i have advil on my anyway. This will not be fun.
Ughh...today is not my day. Woke up with my neck hurting and right now I have an insane stomach ache.
Peeved that I didn't get to workout today.
i want bone for the neutrality, but i'm afraid it will look wedding-y. i kinda have a feeling what yall are going to pick
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here [cnn.com]'s the 2 arms and 2 legs cost type of accommodations i reeeeally really want to stay in. we'd be going during high season too, boo.
Really cute
i want bone for the neutrality, but i'm afraid it will look wedding-y. i kinda have a feeling what yall are going to pick
I have a student who took the first exam of the semester, but didn't take the second or third exam and didn't hand in the term paper. He attended class at the beginning, missed a bunch, attended for a couple weeks, and then missed a bunch again. He e-mailed me to make up one of the exams and then never did.
Apparently he has tons of doctors' notes because something is wrong with his chest, but he hasn't come in to show any of them to me. (I don't think he's lying; he just hasn't given me any of them.) I feel bad because he's a nice kid, and he e-mailed me to ask what he can do about his grade because he doesn't want to fail--but one of my TAs knows him and saw him doing a dance routine with his frat at Greek Week.
I can't give him a "No Work" because he handed in his first exam, and I feel like he's missing too much to get an "Incomplete." That would be almost a whole semester's worth of work to make up. So should I just give him an F and call it a day?
I am tempted to buy some
But really, when would you EVER splurge like that again? Highly likely not ever...so why not, if you guys can afford it...see it differently...you can buy less of whatever it is with a GWP/deal/whatever..and then put what you would've spent for makeup/clothing/shoes anyway into a separate savings for that to just create that illusion that in the end, it's not really that bad. Maybe that would help or something?
About my DBF - I have no freaking idea. I think he's stuck on the fact that I spent anyway and because I do spend, I ended up wasting money. Even though I am returning
It's not for lack of trying--if I had done things differently, school-wise, I would have a career already, too, with an actual salary rather than a sack of beans every two weeks for teaching at a grad student rate. I got a Master's in 2010 (in professional writing) so I do a lot of freelance editing on the side... it helps, but I realized I don't want to "just" be an editor for the rest of my life. So I started a PhD program in psychology, decided the branch I had chosen wasn't for me, and transferred to a Master's program in Couple/Family Therapy instead.
I'm really happy now, but I kick myself that it took me so long to figure everything out. I feel so far behind everyone else. I keep telling myself that I need to go to work every day for the rest of my life and really enjoy it--which I will--but it doesn't do much to make me feel better in the moment.
FWIW, BF used to be disastrous with his finances. My parents and I taught him how to budget and spend wisely, and now he's done a total 180 and is so much better about everything. So there is hope! And honestly, I kind of feel that if you're never "taught" how to manage money, it's tough to figure out on your own. There should be a "Real Life Finances 101" class in high school or freshman year of college to clue kids in and keep them from screwing up.
I try not to think of the fact that our rent payment is essentially the equivalent of what a monthly mortgage payment would be, because we don't have a full 20% to put down now. I can't wait until BF gets a teaching job and I can start a career, too, so we can work off two incomes. We save as much as we possibly can, and we're both really frugal, but it's hard when I make next to nothing and he's sort of in limbo since he just graduated.
Really, I wish money wasn't so important. It just stresses me out.
Personally, I wish I started out differently with my finances. Once I had paid off my student loans, it was like OMG, I have all this extra money to spend! And I was putting money away, but not putting ENOUGH away. When I figured that out, it seemed too late and went into saving overdrive.
And I'm going to be in student loan debt AGAIN because I'm going back to get my Masters. Heck, I'm even 2 years behind you and red in doing that, even though it's usually what's required with at least a 4 year working experience before I go for my MBA. So on top of that, 90% chance not working for that period of time, plus needing to save up for a wedding, a house, honeymoon, it just seems like we'd have to postpone A LOT of things.
For my DBF, he was never taught about good finances and his family has been in financial trouble because of a couple of wrong moves. He has a lot of stuff, but, he doesn't seem to have put his feet in quicksand or anything yet. He also gives allowances to his three younger sisters, that's $300 right there that could be going into savings, but I understand his kind heart. There are things that he does that I don't understand such as allocating a high Christmas present budget to his family. I get that's something he wants to do, but he's always gifting them things randomly, isn't that enough, can't he pare down that budget? My family doesn't do Christmas, so that's a nice chunk for me saved. I just get annoyed because he then gets annoyed at me when I try to talk to him about finances because he's "doing all he can," but wants to live comfortably. On the flip side, he thinks I have it nice because I no longer have debt, etc...and he used to get mad because I was able to save more than he could, monthly and he makes 3 times as much as I did! So WTF, where's all the money going?
I just want to be able to make up the gains that we lost compared to others and not let that happen too late in life. I just don't think reality has hit him yet, but he says I'm the one not being reasonable. Sigh. All this seems like it would be easier once we're in the same city. Sorry for the long tirade.
I have a student who took the first exam of the semester, but didn't take the second or third exam and didn't hand in the term paper. He attended class at the beginning, missed a bunch, attended for a couple weeks, and then missed a bunch again. He e-mailed me to make up one of the exams and then never did.
Apparently he has tons of doctors' notes because something is wrong with his chest, but he hasn't come in to show any of them to me. (I don't think he's lying; he just hasn't given me any of them.) I feel bad because he's a nice kid, and he e-mailed me to ask what he can do about his grade because he doesn't want to fail--but one of my TAs knows him and saw him doing a dance routine with his frat at Greek Week.
I can't give him a "No Work" because he handed in his first exam, and I feel like he's missing too much to get an "Incomplete." That would be almost a whole semester's worth of work to make up. So should I just give him an F and call it a day?
I don't see how he couldn't have expressed his intentions for making up all this time. I'd give him an F.
I don't see how he couldn't have expressed his intentions for making up all this time. I'd give him an F.
If he'd brought me the notes or made up the second exam when I agreed that he could, it might be different. But I feel like he's missed too much--and I would rather not have him make up the better part of the semester over the summer. He wouldn't even get the same amount out of the course... it covers birth through death.
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