# Self reflection doesn't always have to hurt (an MMP Thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 15, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745 "2012-10-15T02:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/141 "2012-10-17T13:40:41Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I didn’t watch the debate. I don’t watch debates - they just piss me off. I will read some fact-check articles to see how each side is spinning and which side is spinnier… Personally, I feel like these media events are just for show and in the grand scheme of things, they don’t mean much. What pisses me off the most is that most politicians are too concerned about their party “winning”, whatever that means, while the country as a whole continues to lose. \*GRRRRRR \*- no more politics. That’s why I avoid GD… I’m ignoring politics. Early voting starts this week. I’m going to do my usual: download the ballot, look up every candidate’s website, write down who I’m voting for, take it to the early voting place while wearing my Kermit pin, and do my civic duty. Having thrown my vote away early, I shall continue ignoring politics until sometime next year. Having no TV or internet has done wonders for keeping the angry down. I’m starting to get frustrated with this internet thing. I’m going to give Complicated Friend another week and then I’ll contact Computer Guy to see if he knows what the hell. Maybe, maybe one of them will be able to remote into my computer and poke some things. Avast can update. Nothing else can/will. Maybe Steam, but I have that set to offline mode so it won’t have a fit if it wants to update itself. I would like to be able to update my programs and keep Windows happy. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/142 "2012-10-17T14:22:02Z")
{{{ **Taters** }}} Thanks guys. Today is better. I’m working on homework and hope to get at least one, maybe two assignments finished before going to the Y tonight. My only issue is my usual one that sitting here at the computer all day makes me HUNGRY!!! Ah well, this too shall pass. ETA: My other issue is that I moved a bunch of clothes around last week and I seem to have lost my comfy yoga pants so I’m still sitting here in a nightgown. Hopefully my comfy pants will resurface eventually. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/143 "2012-10-17T15:49:50Z")
Lunch time! And I’m finding errors in drawings that other people did - does no one check their work?? This isn’t weird stuff, either, it’s pretty basic - an item one typically purchases in inches is shown on the bill of material as “4 each” - 4 each what? Definitely not inches in this particular case. _\_ I just don’t get it. Oh, and on top of that, it’s Revision C of the drawing, so it’s been changed 3 times - no one picked up on that in any of the previous changes? Seriously?? Oh well, it all pays the same… until this stoopidity drives the company out of business. Lunch is leftover ravioli and a granola bar and lemonade. It was the quickest and easiest thing I could grab this morning. I’ll try to pack a sammich for tomorrow. We shall see. **swampy** , did your mucky-mucks go back from whence they came?? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/144 "2012-10-17T15:56:08Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > ??? Not sure I’m understanding you, which probably represents a brain failure on my side. 🙂 > > Still upper 80s here due to hit 90 or 91 Thursday. Good news is that forecasts say we’ll be around 73 by Sunday. I _ **hate** _ hot weather. Hehe, nah I shouldn’t have used hyphens there, my bad. 😛 Garbage, cleaning, and wrangling cats out of trees = done. Today is a mess. I sure hope it clears up, ugh. Unemployment funds didn’t come through; no reason why. Can’t access bank of america due to site errors. We have bills that require money from this that is..where? Can’t get hold of EDD cause nobody answers, ever. Can’t access the email attached to my edd debit card because supposedly I have forgotten both the password AND my secret question word…not possible. It IS possible that I haven’t used the account in over 6 months so it’s gone fallow. I found the Kindle the account was attached to and am trying to resuscitate it to see if I can access from there. And it’s only wednesday 😃 HAPPY APPRECIATION DAY!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/145 "2012-10-17T16:15:04Z")
**MOOOOOOM** I think they have moved in. Permanently. One of ‘em is sick so she went back to the hotel. This tells me at least one more day. Unless, miracle of miracles, it just means they’re stayin’ the night and headin’ out in the mornin’. A bear can dream! 😃 I should eat **N.O.L.** but I don’t feel like it right now. I should be feelin’ hongry cause I smell food from the break room but I’m not. Weird for me. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/146 "2012-10-17T16:45:10Z")
Cousin just texted me to say she had babbeh girl on monday night 🙂 Won’t get to squee over small person properly until probably the day after Christmas unfortunately, as I live a few hundred miles away. I was a little worried, as with No. 1 kiddo she wound up being rushed to hospital in a nambulance (she’d was planning a home birth with qualified midwife, all okayed by the local hospital- fairly normal here), and needing something like 4 pints of emergency blood transfusion… Even though everyone was OK in the end, it’s still very nice to not have a repeat! {{ **Sticky, Taters and anyone else who wants one** }} ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/147 "2012-10-17T16:56:31Z")
12:41 and it’s cold outside. Sucks, I have to walk hell pup at 1. Hundred pound puppies are hard to walk and this one is clueless. She can be sweet, she can be cute, but having her take off and pull me backwards when I am halfway up a fight of stairs is not cool. Then on to look for a new place to live. Sucks, but the petty bullshit has plucked my last nerve. The bf is probably going to have to move too because of his family that he was nice enough to take in off the street. His aunt got pissed at the landlord for not making some repairs quickly enough and decided that calling the county and turning him in was the best way to handle it. I told him we should both give a great big ‘fuck you’ to our respective families and get a place for us and our kids, and NOBODY gets a forwarding address. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/148 "2012-10-17T17:46:41Z")
{{{ **Taters** }}} yeah, 70 is young now. Hope he can pull through! {{ **Sticky** }} too. **Spaz**!! My favorite MMP readhead\* 😃 How _you_ doin’? - No, **Sticks** , purple is **not** red. It isn’t orange either 😛 So, we’re having elections here as well. January 22. I can’t wait for the campaigning :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/149 "2012-10-17T17:52:48Z")
OJ and Papajohns for lunch, yummers. Got the Tuscan 6 cheese pizza and ate 3 slices. I have yet to gain any weight though. I am not complaining, but I have heard contradicting opinions on how much you should/shouldn’t gain during pregnancy. My goal is no more than 20 lbs because I started out at 235lbs and I can’t get HUGE again like I did with the twins. I got up to 270lbs with them and it took me almost 5 years to get back down to 235lbs, while my goal is to get back to 200lbs, which is what I was when we got married. Oh well, a girl can dream. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/150 "2012-10-17T18:12:08Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > **Spaz**!! My favorite MMP readhead\* 😃 How _you_ doin’? > > - No, **Sticks** , purple is **not** red. It isn’t orange either 😛 \*::loudly clears throat:: \* Have you seen my latest picture? ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/151 "2012-10-17T18:18:08Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > {{{ **Taters** }}} yeah, 70 is young now. Hope he can pull through! > > {{ **Sticky** }} too. > > **Spaz**!! My favorite MMP readhead\* 😃 How _you_ doin’? > > - No, **Sticks** , purple is **not** red. It isn’t orange either 😛 > > So, we’re having elections here as well. January 22. I can’t wait for the campaigning :rolleyes: > [@anyrose](#): > > \*::loudly clears throat:: \* Have you seen my latest picture? Poor men, then can’t win with us, can they? Right,\*\* flytrap\*\*? 😛 I’ve got one homework project done and now I’m going to start studying for the dreaded Praxis. Ugh. Onward and upward, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/152 "2012-10-17T18:27:58Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > \*::loudly clears throat:: \* Have you seen my latest picture? Sorry, natural red-heads only. You’re my favorite _long-time_\* Long Island Jewish mumper, though! - I just remembered that \*\*Ivory \*\*moved recently-ish! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/153 "2012-10-17T18:48:14Z")
_pouts_ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/154 "2012-10-17T18:49:58Z")
My brain is fried. I think I’ve done all the damage I can do today. Ten minutes to quit o’clock… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/155 "2012-10-17T18:50:55Z")
Off to class soon. Peer evaluation today. First one is a long time, and at a new place that doesn’t know me that well. I’m sure it will be fine, but still a bit nervous. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/156 "2012-10-17T18:53:16Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Sorry, natural red-heads only. > > You’re my favorite _long-time_\* Long Island Jewish mumper, though! > > - I just remembered that \*\*Ivory \*\*moved recently-ish! :eek: 😃 > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > _pouts_ _Now_ look what you did. You owe her some chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/157 "2012-10-17T18:54:08Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > _pouts_ Why? You get to be a favorite in a different category! Jeez, people, this is difficult! I luvz ya all, OK? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/158 "2012-10-17T18:55:19Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Why? You get to be a favorite in a different category! > > Jeez, people, this is difficult! I luvz ya all, OK? 🙂 Apparently “being difficult” is a strength of mine. Sorry to all of you out there. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/159 "2012-10-17T18:56:31Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Apparently “being difficult” is a strength of mine. Sorry to all of you out there. That’s OK, sometimes I can be quite hard too. What? 😛 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745/160 "2012-10-17T18:58:55Z")
Hugs to everyone who needs them. I am sitting with my feet up in preparation of Christmas shopping here in the UK so that I don’t have to carry a bunch of presents over in suitcases when I come back at Christmas. Must get back to drinking wine! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-reflection-doesnt-always-have-to-hurt-an-mmp-thread/637745.md?page=9)