Right? Guess I missed this somewhere in an earlier installment. Putting someone in your WEDDING PARTY that you obviously don’t know well enough to know something as important as them being SWINGERS is a total psycho move IMO.
Also surprised as Claire definitely sounds hotter than Girl. Shocked she’d allow her to stand next to her.
Had a friend who did the missionary thing as a career for a while. She got home from one of her trips right before another friend and I were going on a long weekend beach trip. We had already paid for the condo, so we invited her to join us for free just bc we hadn’t seen her in so long. Long story short, the entire trip was MISERABLE bc of how cheap she was. She refused to pay for dinner out, so she’d literally eat before we went and then would eat whatever my friend I left on our plates at the restaurant. She hustled guys at the bar for drinks all night (despite being married) just so she wouldn’t have to pay for them. To think my friend and I thought by inviting her and not making her pay a share for the room, that she might treat us for the weekend. NEVER AGAIN. People, be cheap all you want, but not at the expense of others.
My younger brother got married about 3 years before me. In fairness, he’d been dating the girl for like 9 years, so it’s not like I didn’t see it coming. But at the time of the wedding I had just broken up with my own boyfriend of 7 years. I drank a lot that summer…
Congrats! The best advice I give to all my engaged friends is to have a short engagement. The stress of the details will be there no matter what, so you can either be stressed for 6 months or stressed for 2 years. I’m picking 6 months every time.
And to echo what everyone else said…the day goes by too quickly for you to notice the details anyway.
There was no advice here regarding the most pressing concerns related to vacationing with your in-laws: how to determine who’s paying for everything, expectations for how much time you can get alone, and most importantly, how to discreetly take a shit.
Currently follow a C list friend who is pedaling one of those MLM diet plans but will just post flattering photos of herself with her kid/dog/a cup of coffee DAILY and each caption is just this long ass paragraph about finding happiness/living your best life/omg life struggles amirite?! and it’s beyond annoying.
TL;DR: please stop trying to parlay your MLM bullshit into becoming an instagram influencer.
Probably asking for downvotes here as well, but I know plenty of girls who have gotten boob jobs and then they overall just look a little…fatter. I’m just saying, think about your body proportions before you take the plunge. It’s also just not natural for a rail thin girl to have DD’s.
I get to do this every week when my mom finds out my husband and I didn’t make it to church yet again. Coming up with a unique excuse to cover up the fact that we just got too drunk the night before is getting kind of hard.
Moving is 100% the WORST. It’s actually top 5 on my list of “most hated things.”
Also agree with your post-apocalyptic description. I just moved states in the fall, and there was definitely a 5 day period where I ate Jersey Mike’s subs everyday because I had already packed away all my kitchen items and there was no way I was wasting money on groceries that I would just have to throw out. Related: moving is expensive.
Coming up on 10 years without my dad. It’s a damn crime he’s not here for his grandkids, as he’d 100% be their favorite member of the family. Take comfort in knowing he *is* here, just in a different way.
Shockingly accurate. I took a swing at my then-boyfriend twice during the early days of dating, and both times can be attributed to tequila. Also, can remember my husband randomly yelling at me and storming out of a bar (in front of my brother and sister in law I might add) because after some vodka he all of a sudden remembered how mad he was that I was going on a girl’s trip in a few weeks instead of to dinner with his parents.
Spot on. Currently in the waiting stage for my last two close friends who haven’t gotten married yet (aka overanalyzing everything with them and trying to be encouraging that “28 isn’t too old”…FML), and already dreading what will be a painfully long engagement for both.
I’m gonna respectfully disagree here. My husband and I took engagement photos, but really only because they were included by our photographer as part of the wedding package. But we actually like them more than our wedding photos. In our wedding photos, we basically look like different people because we’re so dressed up, and honestly nervous and stressed. But in our engagement photos, we’re wearing normal clothes and are in a location that was fun and meaningful for us.So having those around the house I think gives people a better sense of who we are.
But I guess if someone is in my house I’d hope they already know me…
YES. Love this site and have been reading for a while, but I just turned 30 and sometimes feel like I’m too old. More content for those of us dealing with career issues, marriage, kids, finances would be awesome. I enjoy a good early 20s blackout tale as much as the next person, but don’t want to feel like the oldest kid here.
Oh god. So my husband was within a few thousand points of hitting companion pass again on Southwest for 2018 and we decided to take a mileage run trip on Friday to make sure this happens. For some reason it’s just now occurring to me what a nightmare this could turn out to be…
But to fly free for the next year, I guess I’ll suck it up.
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When did so many 19-22 year olds start reading PGP? Literally couldn’t relate to any of these.
Little confused by the pregnancy test story. Like, you know the test isn’t going to be positive less than 24 hours after the sex, right?
Right? Guess I missed this somewhere in an earlier installment. Putting someone in your WEDDING PARTY that you obviously don’t know well enough to know something as important as them being SWINGERS is a total psycho move IMO.
Also surprised as Claire definitely sounds hotter than Girl. Shocked she’d allow her to stand next to her.
Had a friend who did the missionary thing as a career for a while. She got home from one of her trips right before another friend and I were going on a long weekend beach trip. We had already paid for the condo, so we invited her to join us for free just bc we hadn’t seen her in so long. Long story short, the entire trip was MISERABLE bc of how cheap she was. She refused to pay for dinner out, so she’d literally eat before we went and then would eat whatever my friend I left on our plates at the restaurant. She hustled guys at the bar for drinks all night (despite being married) just so she wouldn’t have to pay for them. To think my friend and I thought by inviting her and not making her pay a share for the room, that she might treat us for the weekend. NEVER AGAIN. People, be cheap all you want, but not at the expense of others.
My younger brother got married about 3 years before me. In fairness, he’d been dating the girl for like 9 years, so it’s not like I didn’t see it coming. But at the time of the wedding I had just broken up with my own boyfriend of 7 years. I drank a lot that summer…
Congrats! The best advice I give to all my engaged friends is to have a short engagement. The stress of the details will be there no matter what, so you can either be stressed for 6 months or stressed for 2 years. I’m picking 6 months every time.
And to echo what everyone else said…the day goes by too quickly for you to notice the details anyway.
There was no advice here regarding the most pressing concerns related to vacationing with your in-laws: how to determine who’s paying for everything, expectations for how much time you can get alone, and most importantly, how to discreetly take a shit.
Currently follow a C list friend who is pedaling one of those MLM diet plans but will just post flattering photos of herself with her kid/dog/a cup of coffee DAILY and each caption is just this long ass paragraph about finding happiness/living your best life/omg life struggles amirite?! and it’s beyond annoying.
TL;DR: please stop trying to parlay your MLM bullshit into becoming an instagram influencer.
Was intrigued by the title of this article. Stopped reading at the paragraph beginning “This past weekend was my last sorority formal.”
Go back to TSM. Nobody feels sorry for you.
Literally pictured Elizabeth Olsen’s character as Claire the entire time I read this.
Probably asking for downvotes here as well, but I know plenty of girls who have gotten boob jobs and then they overall just look a little…fatter. I’m just saying, think about your body proportions before you take the plunge. It’s also just not natural for a rail thin girl to have DD’s.
I get to do this every week when my mom finds out my husband and I didn’t make it to church yet again. Coming up with a unique excuse to cover up the fact that we just got too drunk the night before is getting kind of hard.
Moving is 100% the WORST. It’s actually top 5 on my list of “most hated things.”
Also agree with your post-apocalyptic description. I just moved states in the fall, and there was definitely a 5 day period where I ate Jersey Mike’s subs everyday because I had already packed away all my kitchen items and there was no way I was wasting money on groceries that I would just have to throw out. Related: moving is expensive.
Coming up on 10 years without my dad. It’s a damn crime he’s not here for his grandkids, as he’d 100% be their favorite member of the family. Take comfort in knowing he *is* here, just in a different way.
Shockingly accurate. I took a swing at my then-boyfriend twice during the early days of dating, and both times can be attributed to tequila. Also, can remember my husband randomly yelling at me and storming out of a bar (in front of my brother and sister in law I might add) because after some vodka he all of a sudden remembered how mad he was that I was going on a girl’s trip in a few weeks instead of to dinner with his parents.
Relationships are awesome.
Spot on. Currently in the waiting stage for my last two close friends who haven’t gotten married yet (aka overanalyzing everything with them and trying to be encouraging that “28 isn’t too old”…FML), and already dreading what will be a painfully long engagement for both.
I’m gonna respectfully disagree here. My husband and I took engagement photos, but really only because they were included by our photographer as part of the wedding package. But we actually like them more than our wedding photos. In our wedding photos, we basically look like different people because we’re so dressed up, and honestly nervous and stressed. But in our engagement photos, we’re wearing normal clothes and are in a location that was fun and meaningful for us.So having those around the house I think gives people a better sense of who we are.
But I guess if someone is in my house I’d hope they already know me…
YES. Love this site and have been reading for a while, but I just turned 30 and sometimes feel like I’m too old. More content for those of us dealing with career issues, marriage, kids, finances would be awesome. I enjoy a good early 20s blackout tale as much as the next person, but don’t want to feel like the oldest kid here.
Oh god. So my husband was within a few thousand points of hitting companion pass again on Southwest for 2018 and we decided to take a mileage run trip on Friday to make sure this happens. For some reason it’s just now occurring to me what a nightmare this could turn out to be…
But to fly free for the next year, I guess I’ll suck it up.
The best is the MLM “girl bosses.” No, those are not businesses and pedaling Rodan and Fields from your Facebook page doesn’t make you a boss.