Lori Alexander 48: The Complaining of the Shrew

[louisa05]

56 minutes ago, Briefly said:

Mr. Briefly said ours broke today.  So I guess we should pray for it to heal, instead of going to the hardware store and pricing a new one.

Prayer for a broken lawnmower is easily one of the most outrageous things I've ever heard of, how in the world is that considered appropriate?  I could see if it was to pray for the person's circumstances but a lawnmower?  Maybe I'm missing something.

We had to pray for that lawn mower to be healed for a solid week. 

The place was completely insane. And full of Prosperity Gospel adherents. So if the lawn mower didn't heal itself, clearly the owner lacked faith or had some sin that needed to be dealt with. 

[Jellybean]

7 hours ago, Alisamer said:

. I need to figure out a better way of storing them... I'm an out of sight-out of mind type person, so stuff in drawers gets crammed in and forgotten. but my closet is both tiny and essentially useless - it's a reach-in with deep areas on each side that are inaccessible. So right now I have a floordrobe. I've considered removing the closet entirely and putting Ikea Pax units in there, but that's a lot of money and work, plus is bad for resale value on the house down the road. I've never found a clothes organizing system that works well for me, yet.

I really recommend drawers for anything that can be folded. If you arrange things vertically with the fold on top (as though you were putting your clothes into a filing cabinet) you’ll be able to see everything in the drawer without having things at the bottom that get neglected. 

[Carol]

Lori is never afraid to embrace her own ignorance.  If she knew anything about Charles Krauthammer she would know he intensely dislikes Trump and would never have penned that piece.  But, hey, he's her favorite Fox News commentator??  I cry bullshit.

God, she is stupid. 

[Demonfan]

Why in the world would Lori care about how many clothes I have? It is so ridiculous to me that she focuses on the most unimportant things. I don't care if anyone outside of my family has a huge walk in closet full of Talbot's clothes, or wears things from the thrift store. None of my business. SMDH

[Black Aliss]

5 hours ago, Sarah92 said:

 Modcloth has me addicted to looking at their skirts and dresses very longingly. I've bought a couple pieces and have loved them all. 

They have pockets! Dresses with pockets! One could hardly ask for more.

[Sarah92]

1 hour ago, Black Aliss said:

They have pockets! Dresses with pockets! One could hardly ask for more.

Yes!! I love me some pockets! And the fit and flare, 50's style is very flattering for the rounded, apple-shaped me. 

And my go to makeup is Colourpop because it's affordable and they have fun colors but also a lot of everyday wearables. If you love lipstick, colourpop is worth a try. And their eyeshadow is to die for in my opinion. Also they're a US brand that is cruelty free. Lol Lori would have a heart attack reading this. Look at my evil self encouraging women to spend more on "vanity". But goodness, a good lipstick can just brighten up your entire face and just add a pop of color to your life. I love a good Jezebel Red. 

[fluffy]

3 hours ago, Carol said:

Lori is never afraid to embrace her own ignorance.  If she knew anything about Charles Krauthammer she would know he intensely dislikes Trump and would never have penned that piece.  But, hey, he's her favorite Fox News commentator??  I cry bullshit.

 

You're right. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/krauthammer-interesting-take-trump/

[Sarah92]

I might be wrong but isn't Krauthammer the more liberal person at fox? I can't remember. But I have heard that his cancer has returned and he only has a few weeks.

I hope his last few days are rich and full of family and love. I hope he finds peace and rest. 

[IntrinsicallyDisordered]

9 hours ago, usmcmom said:

Confession: I have WAAAAYYY too many clothes. I am doing a giant closet purge right now because 

We recently found out we will be relocating to another state and my husband will be going down before me. I think I am going to take a bunch of clothes with me the first time I join him for a week or two. I will just leave them there and not have to pack a suitcase each time I go back and forth. 

This is how I moved overseas.  Back when you could have 2 pieces of checked luggage for free and a 3rd was only $25 I think (no more than $50 at least).  I visited my husband to be twice a year and once we knew we'd be getting married I started bringing over suitcases full of books and belongings and leaving any clothes I'd brought, on the way home I'd have a carryon and at least one checked bag that had another empty suitcase inside it.  One customs agent was very amused by my suitcase full of books, even though it almost threw his back out.

Everything leftover (lots more books, some personal items, some lamps, 1 piece of furniture that was sentimental) we paid to be brought over in a shipping container later.  

7 hours ago, Briefly said:

Mr. Briefly said ours broke today.  So I guess we should pray for it to heal, instead of going to the hardware store and pricing a new one.

Prayer for a broken lawnmower is easily one of the most outrageous things I've ever heard of, how in the world is that considered appropriate?  I could see if it was to pray for the person's circumstances but a lawnmower?  Maybe I'm missing something.

I am guilty of doing this throughout my life.  It goes:

- thing breaks

- I exclaim something like "Jesus Christ!  Don't be broken!"  

- my mother tells me not to take the Lord's name in vain

- I tell her I was praying, I am asking Jesus to fix the damned thing

- mother is not amused

It also happens when I read a terrible news story ("Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" works well there).

[Frog99]

Good gravy. She has no ability to write a coherent post, going from baby boomers to tv to schools to churches that aren’t battle ships. I swear all of that fermented food she eats has her intoxicated. 

And she has no sense of history. Welfare began in the 1930’s under FDR. There were single mothers and children then. There were men, women, and children working outside the home. There has never been a time when all mothers stayed home. Leave it to Beaver and shows like that serve up a romanticized and whitewashed version of life. She is so privileged and clueless. 

[Koala]

Lori:

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This torments my righteous soul (and yes, I am righteous....

Oh, Lori.  Let me help.

You aren't justifiable or virtuous in any way at all.  You beat your kids, you hit your husband, you used your parents as servants, and you treat other people abhorrently.  Frankly, you're just downright mean.  

But back to your original comment:

Then you beg the question:

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How bad is it going to get before Christians get rid of their televisions? 

Let the movement start with you, Lori.  Stop asking others when they're going to get rid of their televisions, and get rid of your own.  You have a steady string of posts about various ways you've been offended by television:

Referring to American Idol:

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This is suppose to be a family friendly show. I don't think it is anymore. The last two nights were awful, morality wise.

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Lady Gaga? How she coached them, what she wears, and her performance? Blech! Jordan Sparks...I didn't enjoy her performance considering she's wearing a purity ring. Steven Tyler's video was inappropriate for children to see. Lauren singing about being evil and Lady Gaga saying being evil isn't so bad at the end of the day.  Oh and I can't forget the Victoria Secret commercials 

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I use to love watching American Idol. The majority of the contestants are simply regular people. However, some of the female judges dress and dance so immodestly. I could never sit comfortably with my husband watching them with their breasts hanging out and moving sensuously all over the stage. What are these women thinking? Don't they know this is suppose to be a family friendly show?

More?  Sure:

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On my Facebook page yesterday I wrote, "John MacArthur said women should NOT watch soap operas {and I would add Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor, etc.} because they are ungodly and immoral. 

She would add DWTS, she says.  Funny, because she has several posts about watching it.  In one, she writes:

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 Last season, Meryl was on Dancing with the Stars. I rarely watch the show because I think the clothes the women wear are very immodest and many of the dances are immodest.

She doesn't watch...except when she does.  

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Inappropriate dancing to me are some of the dances on Dancing With The Stars...immodest clothing and sexy moves.  So You Think You Can Dance has some pretty risque dancing also. 

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Gilles Marini was on The View today.  {He is on Dancing With The Stars and other shows I don't watch.} 

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There was a big brouhaha awhile ago on the news about one of the dancing contestants on Dancing with the Stars {which I don't recommend watching} and one of the judges. 

On the Bachelor (which she's horrified by, but had to watch, because reasons...)

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A lot of you like this show, I know. I have a problem with it. I have only watched one season and that was because one of my oldest daughter's classmates was on it. I was disgusted with it back then and greatly disappointed that all the children from the Christian school our children attended were watching it because the young woman from their school made it to the final two so they watched the entire sordid show, sadly. 

Sadly, she ended up watching yet another season.  Why?  Never mind that...

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Yes, I watched Sean and Catherine get married.  I first watched The Bachelor many years ago because a girl Alyssa went to school was in it and made it to the final two.  

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 I was appalled at the show 

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 I still was very disappointed 

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It is not a show I would ever recommend to anyone! 

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Jimmy Kimmel had both of them take a lie detector test and they both passed.  HERE is the clip of it.  It is pretty funny

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I used to watch soap operas 

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 I love NFL football and movies,

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It seems every Super Bowl half time is soft-porn now. 

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I did like Monk a lot

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Well,  Downton Abbey is one of my all time favorites.

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I love watching Downton Abbey and Hallmark's When Calls The Heart. 

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Yes, I enjoy Hallmark movies

The solution is obvious.  Lori and Ken should get rid of The Beast.  Steve Maxwell can tell them all about it.

 

[AlwaysDiscerning]

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I am grieved when I see a show (This is Us) that many Christians “love” that began with a scene of a man’s naked behind, a threesome going on in a bed, and some women standing around in bras and underwear. I quickly decided it was not the show for me since we are to dwell on the pure and lovely and “abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22). 

I dunno, staring at a naked man's behind is dwelling on the lovely for me. 

[delphinium65]

Lori needs to read the rest of the Bible, especially the part that says 'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!'

[louisa05]

That post is so much nonsense. 

Here is a brief pre-Baby Boomers peek at some of my paternal family history: 

*One great grandfather was born about 16 months after his mother's husband died. Somehow, she got away with listing the dead husband as the father but we suspect that she didn't know who the father was. See the next item. 

*That same great great grandmother converted her home to a "boarding house" after her husband's death. Except in local history and gossip, it was clear that while several women boarded with her, male "boarders" never stayed for more than an hour or so. "Boarding house" appears to have been an euphemism. 

*Same great grandfather eventually abandoned his first wife (my great grandmother) and disappeared. He was eventually found, by accident, by one of his then adult children, living elsewhere under an assumed name with a new wife and family. There was no divorce, so he was also a bigamist.

*That great grandmother, who was likely mentally ill, abandoned her three children to a distant cousin and her husband who ended up mostly raising them. 

*Another great grandfather on that side bought an upstairs/downstairs duplex in his retirement years. He and my great grandmother lived upstairs and his mistress lived downstairs. He died unexpectedly on a vacation with the mistress. I remember this pretty well. 

*A great aunt on that side, born in the 1920s, was divorced twice. Her third husband had a baby with a mistress that they ended up raising together. She abandoned her two children from the first marriage and they were shuffled between extended family members for the majority of their childhood. 

So, yes, prior to the Baby Boomers, everyone was holy and sinless and committed to marriage and family. Of course. 

 

 

 

[delphinium65]

16 minutes ago, AlwaysDiscerning said:

I am grieved when I see a show (This is Us) that many Christians “love”

The first time I heard of This Is Us was Lori bitching about it.  I feel like I should thank her for that. 

[Imrlgoddess]

On 6/11/2018 at 10:40 AM, EowynW said:

"If you can't do it in a skirt, GOD NEVER INTENDED YOU TO DO IT."

Here, somebody hold my beer............

[polecat]

 

2 hours ago, Koala said:

I could never sit comfortably with my husband watching them with their breasts hanging out and moving sensuously all over the stage.

This quote by Lori ...

Dang -- I'm getting the funniest image of breasts, unattached to their owners, "moving sensuously" all over the stage, lolol. 

 

And an ETA: Lori is OBSESSED with breasts.

[klein_roeschen]

1 hour ago, louisa05 said:

That post is so much nonsense. 

Here is a brief pre-Baby Boomers peek at some of my paternal family history: 

*One great grandfather was born about 16 months after his mother's husband died. Somehow, she got away with listing the dead husband as the father but we suspect that she didn't know who the father was. See the next item. 

*That same great great grandmother converted her home to a "boarding house" after her husband's death. Except in local history and gossip, it was clear that while several women boarded with her, male "boarders" never stayed for more than an hour or so. "Boarding house" appears to have been an euphemism. 

*Same great grandfather eventually abandoned his first wife (my great grandmother) and disappeared. He was eventually found, by accident, by one of his then adult children, living elsewhere under an assumed name with a new wife and family. There was no divorce, so he was also a bigamist.

*That great grandmother, who was likely mentally ill, abandoned her three children to a distant cousin and her husband who ended up mostly raising them. 

*Another great grandfather on that side bought an upstairs/downstairs duplex in his retirement years. He and my great grandmother lived upstairs and his mistress lived downstairs. He died unexpectedly on a vacation with the mistress. I remember this pretty well. 

*A great aunt on that side, born in the 1920s, was divorced twice. Her third husband had a baby with a mistress that they ended up raising together. She abandoned her two children from the first marriage and they were shuffled between extended family members for the majority of their childhood. 

So, yes, prior to the Baby Boomers, everyone was holy and sinless and committed to marriage and family. Of course. 

 

 

 

The good old times. My family history may not be so juicy, but I'm the first oldest child concieved after the wedding.

My paternal grandmother had to raise 8 children from 1945 to 1953, because my grandfather was a prisoner of war in siberia. In the first few years of this time, she had to roam harvested fields for forgoten grain and potatoes to feed her children. My grandfather was lucky to survive this time and he met his youngest son and oldest grandchild for the first time when he came home. And were able to produce my father, the only child who had his father for his whole childhood. During and after this time until she reached pension, she also worked outside the home. And at the end of their marriage they lived like strangers.

My maternal grandmother had to marry at 19 in 1958, because my mother was on the way. She divorced my grandfather a year later. When my mother was 2 years old, her mother abendoned her in the apartment and borded a train for west germany. She was raised by her grandparents. After her first marriage, she was married again 2 times, the first divorced, the second she was widowed. Her last relationship lasted for more than 20 years, but they lived in sin, because her partner refused to marry her, but where a homemaker.

Yeah, to good old times

[saintmom]

@livinglongerthanyou .....my house will NEVER be clean.  Because, well, this guy....

And because more than likely LoriKen whined about 2.0, on Facebook, I've reported DOZENS of her posts, because under the Facebook reasoning "it offends and targets me".  Because I'm a working woman with children.....why is she targeting meeeee? 

Take that, you stupid cow.

[squiddysquid]

Guess what, I helped out in an operating theatre today and as it happened there were only women present

Female surgeons, nurses, anaesthetist, assistants at a catholic hospital mainly run by nuns, imagine that!

Good times!

@saintmomDo you think we could report some of her posts for violence? Especially the ones about spanking children?

[saintmom]

3 minutes ago, squiddysquid said:

Guess what, I helped out in an operating theatre today and as it happened there were only women present

Female surgeons, nurses, anaesthetist, assistants at a catholic hospital mainly run by nuns, imagine that!

Good times!

SHOCKING!!!!

[polecat]

Grandfather A was a member of the Lost Generation. Grandmother A is a member of the Greatest Generation. Grandfather and Grandmother B were members of the Silent Generation. My parents were Boomers, and I'm an Xer.

I can promise little Ms. Boomer Lori that there were plenty of shenanigans going on prior to the Boomers. I'm no fan of the Boomers, but most of the stuff she's complaining about was going on many, many decades ago. The big difference is that many of the things weren't talked about openly, becoming dark family secrets that could haunt or hurt people for years. Now, things are out in the open.

So that "old maid" gym teacher aunt with the "friend" or "companion" who lived with her that no one could talk about in 1915? She's living in the open, happily married to the love of her life, without worrying that someone is going to out her or worse. Or your dad's "uncle," who looked so much like him that they could be twins, who was only two years older than him, back in 1925? Today, they'd be raised as the brothers they are, enjoying the close family bond that is their birthright, with their mother able to celebrate and be proud of them both, whether or not she was married when either was born. 

Why Lori wants to go back to a time when people didn't even know who their family members were or who had to hide their love as something shameful or wrong is beyond me. These practices were plainly harmful. 

 

[Koala]

I am curious- Does a "ministry" count as investing most of your time somewhere other than your husband?  Because Lori has admitted that she spends a majority of her day, monitoring other adults online. 

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And I'm available in the chat room all the time...most...the majority of the day, to uhhh ,monitor it...

Ken has claimed that she "researches" for several hours a day.  And by research, he means scouring the interwebz for people to bitch/gossip about.

We all know that she maintains at least 2 Facebook pages, 1 chatroom, one Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and her blog.  She also monitors the Amazon reviews and other people's blogs/social media (religiously).

How does ANY of that = investing time in Ken?  I don't recall ever hearing her describe what she does for him.  Even meals= "my breakfast/lunch/dinner".  

 

 

@saintmom- he is GORGEOUS!  Is he just a giant love?  He looks so cuddly.  Saints are such beautiful dogs.

[louisa05]

44 minutes ago, klein_roeschen said:

The good old times. My family history may not be so juicy, but I'm the first oldest child concieved after the wedding.

My paternal grandmother had to raise 8 children from 1945 to 1953, because my grandfather was a prisoner of war in siberia. In the first few years of this time, she had to roam harvested fields for forgoten grain and potatoes to feed her children. My grandfather was lucky to survive this time and he met his youngest son and oldest grandchild for the first time when he came home. And were able to produce my father, the only child who had his father for his whole childhood. During and after this time until she reached pension, she also worked outside the home. And at the end of their marriage they lived like strangers.

My maternal grandmother had to marry at 19 in 1958, because my mother was on the way. She divorced my grandfather a year later. When my mother was 2 years old, her mother abendoned her in the apartment and borded a train for west germany. She was raised by her grandparents. After her first marriage, she was married again 2 times, the first divorced, the second she was widowed. Her last relationship lasted for more than 20 years, but they lived in sin, because her partner refused to marry her, but where a homemaker.

Yeah, to good old times

Yep. I've got more than that. But those are the ones that came to mind first. I'm sure every family tree has its fair share of stories of adultery, divorce, "early" babies, spousal abandonment, and---gasp!--working mothers. 

[saintmom]

Thank you, he's one of three we have right now....he's our special boy because he LOVES mud, water and anything dirty he can get into/roll in (the smellier and deader the better for him). He came to us abused/broken and afraid, but with countless hours of work with him, he's becoming a beautiful confident boy. 

The others will do everything in their power to avoid water/snow/mud/smelly things, so I guess we're lucky