Longest Thread EVER! (aka Random Thoughts Thread )

KatieGummow

@J&NL, you look gorg. Those burp cloths are super cute also! Glad you had such a great time!

KatieGummow

olenkapdx said:

Two things:
1. I had a sip of my sister's beer last night, my first taste of beer (or any booze) in nearly eight months.  It was the most crisp, refreshing thing ever and had to be pried out of my hand.   
2. We were out for dinner for her birthday (she and my mom are visiting me for my shower this weekend and it happens to be her b-day as well) and I suggested we go to a fancy French cake place for dessert afterward.  Initially they were excited, but then jet lag set in and they wanted to go back to their hotel.  The cake place was too far out of the way for me to bother going alone, so I made do with a slab of emergency Safeway cake I had at home.  But I am going to the fancy cake place soon, damnit!

I can't wait until I can have a whole beer. So good.

Sorry about the cake! Safeway is not a suitable substitute. You guys should probably get coffee and "pastries" this morning

KatieGummow

I haven't opened RTT in a while and am too lazy to go back and read, I hope I didnt miss anything important. Let me know what page I should go to if I did! Miss you ladies, hope you had and are having a great weekend!

chichi589

@J&NL you look great & I love that dress!

deidremaria

@Jellysparkles what's the name of the nursing home? I wanna check out their fb page and see the post

pineconey

I had a dream about wine. Oh my there was so much wine!! And I was letting myself sip a taste of each kind, but I wanted to drink the whole glass of ALL of them.
This is probably a combination of me having 3oz of ok wine last night and thinking about how I live in wine country and will be about 3w pp when it's spring barrel. *sigh* probably won't get to join the in laws on their yearly limo winery tour. Last year I went but I was getting over the flu so I didn't enjoy it... And said flu was what threw me off in tracking my body and is how I got pregnant the first time, which caused us to decide to go ahead and try again after our loss = this little rainbow I'm carrying.
Long story long....

It's the wine.

pineconey

kcp913 said:

I skyped with my brother last night and my niece was in the background (she's 3 and adorable) and when I put the camera on my dog, Bacon, she got all excited and ran over to "tickle" him. She was so thrilled with being able to tickle my dog, it was cute. There was no actual point to this story, but I wanted to share anyway.

that's what RTT is for

pineconey

so after 3 nights in a row where i swear i get up to pee after every REM cycle, i decided to try an experiment.
i weighed myself before bed last night, then again this morning.
3.5 pounds.
3.5 pounds of excrement during the night.

sheesh!

RocksInTheWater

pineconey said:

so after 3 nights in a row where i swear i get up to pee after every REM cycle, i decided to try an experiment.
i weighed myself before bed last night, then again this morning.
3.5 pounds.
3.5 pounds of excrement during the night.

sheesh!

Great experiment! Peeing more often during the night is so annoying.

pineconey

LoriMc12 said:

so after 3 nights in a row where i swear i get up to pee after every REM cycle, i decided to try an experiment.
i weighed myself before bed last night, then again this morning.
3.5 pounds.
3.5 pounds of excrement during the night.

sheesh!

Great experiment! Peeing more often during the night is so annoying.

at least it gave me a reason to be slightly less annoyed with getting up.  all i kept thinking was, "ooooh i wonder how many pounds THAT pee was!!"

sking72

@thomas930 I totally know what you mean, I was pet sitting my friends puppy and my pit had some food aggression, especially with bones. I put him in a separate room with a bone to keep him quiet. I agree with Kendra though! She's got some good advice!

Stace0616

My dreams are getting way too vivid and weird! This is the third day in a row where, every time I wake up, it's out of breath and in a semi-panicked state of confusion.

mrscrcalli

jellysparkles said:

I'd motorboat you so hard for this gif :x

mrscrcalli

@jellysparkles there's a new show called True Detective on HBO, it's insane. Google it, watch it.. Now.

deidremaria

Am I the only one who gets turned on when @Kendracoleslaw gets into AKC mode. If you and I were in the same class in elementary school I'd totally be jealous of you after bringing your mom in for career day.

jennypenny1014

thomas930 said:

Anyone have some advice on how to get two high energy dogs to be able to be in the same room without constantly playing/wrestling? 

My mom will be staying with us for about 2 1/2 weeks after Logan is born and her dog will be coming for at least half that time. Our dogs get along great, so great that they will not let up with playing...they could pretty much go on forever. I would love to not have to keep them separated so that my dog can get used to having the new baby in the house and our new routine right away. 

Do you live in a house with a yard, or an apartment? If you have a yard, and the weather is nice, let them play outside the majority of the day! That's all I got.

ETA: I posted before reading responses. I second what Kendra said instead.

Xxlilies

@thomas930 I wish had some tips for you
I have two American bulldogs that just play play play until they crash
Drives me nuts sometimes
They love each other ( my boy is 1 and my girl is 4 ) which I'm so grateful for but sometimes I wish they d just chill

There is no separating my two they just cry like they are pining for each other
Sometimes I can get them calmed down if I let them play for awhile and then take them on a walk
But they ll just be calm until they get their energy back then it's back to the rumbling

Xxlilies

dani+california said:

@toothpastechica, yeah we have a Thyme nearby! $42+ for a damn shirt, no thanks. I'm too cheap for that. Haha!

If I remember correctly u live in a nearby city to me
I hated thyme I ve only found two tops there and they were definitely not worth the price
I also hate how everything seems to be in god awful colours there
I didn't find any maternity at the h& m at Pickering town or Oshawa so have been doing a lot of non maternity mixed with a few old navy things
I've been living in tights and low rise jeans in larger sizes

thomas930

Thanks girls, seriously some good points made by all! I'm going to copy all this down and start making a plan today. If we can't get some contol before baby gets here then we'll just separate and gradually work on it.

kseccomb17

This baby is so low! I'm taking more zofran now than I did the rest of the entire pregnancy. I've been contracting off and on all night. I need good thoughts that baby cooks for 3 more weeks at the very least

Lindsay808

mrscrcalli said:

@jellysparkles there's a new show called True Detective on HBO, it's insane. Google it, watch it.. Now.

DH and I watch that. So good! And I know there's going to be some crazy twist in the end.

sking72

Just downloaded a contraction timer app. Don't know if ill actually use it but figured if I'm by myself when I start it might be helpful. But also served as another smack in the face how close we are! I have 47 days, what the hell! Last I knew it was like 75! Haha

Lindsay808

dani+california said:

This baby has the hiccups like 7 times a day. I made the mistake of using Dr. Google and read some comments about excessive hiccups and the possibility of the cord being knotted or wrapped around their neck. So now every time I feel the hiccups, I'm imagining my baby choking. That'll learn me!

This was totally me last week. I even called my doctor because I read some scary shit and was driving DH nuts worrying about it. Well, my doctor just said what I knew he would say but it was nice to hear - "Babies hiccup. In my days of practice, I have never seen it linked to a problem with the cord."   "> Then I felt silly. But it was still good to hear. 

WHY DO I DR. GOOGLE. 

~X(

Lindsay808

Can I AW this picture? I just love DH's face. He looks so smitten already

mrscrcalli

DH bought me this book today :x if you like Star Wars go get it! They also have Darth Vader and his little princess for the girls

BiggerinRealLife

@mamamonzo That list both made me laugh and made me ragey. T to the freaking P.

BiggerinRealLife

@Thomas930 Re: dogs. Two words: squirt bottle.

BiggerinRealLife

Last night the baby was keeping me up like crazy. I had a house party in my belly from midnight to three am. I made DH spoon me because that usually calms me enough to go to sleep regardless of my internal circumstances. When I woke up this morning, he says to me, "Man, baby. I could tell you were having a hard time because I could feel your belly rocking all last night. I could tell I wasn't really feeling the kicks (True. His hands were on the other side of the focus of the onslaught.) but I was feeling the shock waves and that was bad enough. I'm so sorry. (To my tummy) Little Baby! You've gotta let your mom get some sleep!"

Even though the Man doesn't get it, man does he get it.

Mamamonzo

BiggerinRealLife said:

@mamamonzo That list both made me laugh and made me ragey. T to the freaking P.

I know! I try to be very aware of his sleeping since he is working 12 hours every night and sleeps during the day. I know his sleep isn't that great, but fuck dude this is no picnic for me either!

Bluebird2318

mrscrcalli said:

DH bought me this book today :x if you like Star Wars go get it! They also have Darth Vader and his little princess for the girls

NEED IT. 

Bluebird2318

So my other BMB does this cute valentine shuffle every year and I think A14 needs to get in on this if enough of us are still hanging out next February. What they do is get a list of screen names (and the names of their BMB LOs) who want to participate--probably would start this part toward the very end of December or beginning of January. Once everyone is included we do a secret draw like on Elfster (probably about a month before Valentine's Day, so mid-January). You keep your match a secret, but what you do is sometime during that month you take a picture of your LO (a lot of the ladies stage a specifically Valentine's Day themed shoot) and turn that picture into a valentine for your draw's LO. Then on Valentine's day you post your valentines to reveal who you drew. 

Ex.) If I were to draw WoaC, I would take a picture of my A14 son and turn it into a valentine for her A14 son on the computer (typically by dressing it up as a valentine and including something like "Will you be my valentine, Gordon?"). On Valentine's Day there's a special valentine shuffle reveal post where I would post the valentine and tag WoaC. 

It's basically like an exchange but you get to AW your LO, you can do it all from home/over the computer, and it's FREE!

If you check out September 2012 you can see this year's reveal post to get an idea what I'm talking about. It's a LONG way out obviously, but I just thought it was the cutest thing if enough of us are still around. 

mrscrcalli

That sounds fun BLUE!!

DH and I are playing Mario Brothers the original! About to rescue the princess and beat Bauer!

BiggerinRealLife

Good job @MrsCrCalli! That game is tough! Back in the day, before all this endless lives crap. Kids these days have it so easy.

mrscrcalli

BiggerinRealLife said:

Good job @MrsCrCalli! That game is tough! Back in the day, before all this endless lives crap. Kids these days have it so easy.

I know!! And if you run out of lives you have to start over and re-conquer all the levels you beat! (

deidremaria

@Blubird2318 that sounds like so much fun! I just popped on over there. I couldn't take all the cuteness. If we're able to do that I'm totally in!

Bluebird2318

@deidremaria Right?! I can't even handle it! They did it in 2013 too, when all the babies were cute little 4-5 month old squishies. 

Link: https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/8807393/s12-cupid-reveal/p1

It's too cute for words, so be prepared before clicking. 

Lindsay808

That Papa Johns commercial bugs me.

"People think I'm just a punk kid making pizzas."

But I do want all the pizza in my bellllly.

fourthnlast

ColleenSwerb said:

My fucking hips hurt. The actual bones. Wtf is that? Is this normal?

Yup. My hips have been hurting for a long time. I've moved into the phase of waking up every 2 hours overnight because my hips hurt too much and wake me up. So then I roll over. But then I can only fall asleep on 1 side, so I am awake for 15 minutes and then roll over to the side I can actually fall asleep on, and then try and sleep for 2 more hours. I fucking hate it. 10 more weeks. Much sooner than it happened last time.

Yes. Fuck, this is me every damn night. 

Bluebird2318

Lindsay808 said:

That Papa Johns commercial bugs me.

"People think I'm just a punk kid making pizzas."

But I do want all the pizza in my bellllly.

All the pizza is a great thing, but for some reason I just can't do Papa Johns. It's their sauce I think. I want my sauce tangy/zesty and PJ's is sweet. FWP. (

sarlimes34

soo overly emotional today. already cried this morning and crying again as i type this. just very overwhelmed and feeling down about a lot of things going on in my life right now. didn't help that i just snissed either.