Random thread- for all things random.

SuperTinkerham

Tonight my neighbor is throwing a raging party. We were invited & I'm not feeling it. Being the only PG lady/non drinker sounds lame. If rather stay home, rent a sappy movie and eat pizza.

purpleXdandelion

I have been craving sushi all week. I am finally getting it for lunch today! It's literally all I can think about.

purpleXdandelion

alwaysnc4me said:

purpleXdandelion said:

I have been craving sushi all week. I am finally getting it for lunch today! It's literally all I can think about.

Me too!!!! On my way to get some Philly rolls right now. Nom, nom, nom!!!!

Yum! That's what I get too. Except I hate the giant block of cream cheese in it so I substitute cucumber. Kinda takes away the point, but salmon+avocado+ cucumber is sooo good.

zellatrix

My elective ultrasound to find out the sex is today. We tried once and the cord is between the legs. Going back in a couple hours to try again. My anxiety is through the freakin roof.

SuperTinkerham

Good luck @zarkarellla

MonkeyJD

I just bought 40 prefold diapers, 10 doublers, 20 wipes & 2 pail liners at a cloth diaper warehouse sale for $60!!! I am very happy!!!!

SuperTinkerham

I just found a deal for cloth diapers on Craigslist. I'm meeting them tomorrow. 10 new pocket diapers for $45.

V1981

I'm going to go broke on baby girl clothes. I almost miss shopping for a boy. Sweatpants and a tee. Now there's bows, leg warners, diaper covers.....Zulily is my enemy. Somebody get me off here https://www.zulily.com/e/hes-arrived-shes-arrived-collection-69982.html?pos=3&section=top&tab=baby-maternity&ns=ns_000400293|1393109290779

Katieryan13

JamieSejkora said:

Holy cow, just did some lurking around the other BMBs and found a post flaming away at an insensitive post.  I wondered how bad it could be...it was bad...very bad.

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12267883/jack-and-jill-gender-test/p1

ETA: Not sure why everything is underlined and I don't know how to get rid of it either...strange

Wow! I am only on page 3, but she just keeps digging herself in a bigger hole. What a piece of work.

emineminem

AW AW AW SS AW SS AW SS SS AW!!! (You have been warned.)

I just got preapproved for a mortgage! So proud of myself for finally taking the first step!

rach1285

@V1981 not to fuel the shopping frenzy...but if you or anyone else likes leggings go to www.babyleggings.com use the code "5LEG" and you can get 5 pairs for free! They are beyond adorable, you just pay for shipping, but those things are expensive when you pay full price!

beff12

We had dinner with my in-laws tonight and my MIL was telling us about a new girl at their church that's about our age. DH plays guitar and she told him, "I think you would have really liked her! She plays guitar and has hair like Beth's, she's real cute!!" Umm okay, I'll just be over here being your son's wife...I think he already "likes" me. And then my mood was shot for the rest of the evening. Nothing quite like not measuring up to your MIL.

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Dining at Olive Garden is 10x better when you can wear maternity pants.

dobbyisfree

Serious question. I've never ordered furniture from anywhere but Raymour and Flanigan and they have always delivered my stuff and put it in whatever room I ask. Now this nursery furniture from BRU or even Pottery Barn - is delivered to your house via UPS... so it may sit in your driveway if no one is home, and then you are required to somehow move a 180 lb dresser upstairs? That just sounds like way too much weight to carry up a staircase and around a few corners. Am I totally overestimating the difficulty, or is it completely normal to hire a moving company to help for something like this? I feel really ignorant because I've never dealt without delivery, and I didn't buy any big furniture until after I moved into my house so it wasn't a big deal. I get why they don't do it, just wondering how people normally get around It. DH has already refused to try...

Ylvelill

beff12 said:

We had dinner with my in-laws tonight and my MIL was telling us about a new girl at their church that's about our age. DH plays guitar and she told him, "I think you would have really liked her! She plays guitar and has hair like Beth's, she's real cute!!" Umm okay, I'll just be over here being your son's wife...I think he already "likes" me. And then my mood was shot for the rest of the evening. Nothing quite like not measuring up to your MIL.

That is lame *hugs*

rach1285

amlonica said:

Serious question. I've never ordered furniture from anywhere but Raymour and Flanigan and they have always delivered my stuff and put it in whatever room I ask. Now this nursery furniture from BRU or even Pottery Barn - is delivered to your house via UPS... so it may sit in your driveway if no one is home, and then you are required to somehow move a 180 lb dresser upstairs? That just sounds like way too much weight to carry up a staircase and around a few corners. Am I totally overestimating the difficulty, or is it completely normal to hire a moving company to help for something like this? I feel really ignorant because I've never dealt without delivery, and I didn't buy any big furniture until after I moved into my house so it wasn't a big deal. I get why they don't do it, just wondering how people normally get around It. DH has already refused to try...

Totally normal, we opened up the box downstairs, checked to make sure nothing was broken, then carried it up a few pieces at a time to assemble in the room. Don't try to bring up a 180 lb dresser.

ginger313

amlonica said:

Serious question. I've never ordered furniture from anywhere but Raymour and Flanigan and they have always delivered my stuff and put it in whatever room I ask. Now this nursery furniture from BRU or even Pottery Barn - is delivered to your house via UPS... so it may sit in your driveway if no one is home, and then you are required to somehow move a 180 lb dresser upstairs? That just sounds like way too much weight to carry up a staircase and around a few corners. Am I totally overestimating the difficulty, or is it completely normal to hire a moving company to help for something like this? I feel really ignorant because I've never dealt without delivery, and I didn't buy any big furniture until after I moved into my house so it wasn't a big deal. I get why they don't do it, just wondering how people normally get around It. DH has already refused to try...

DH owns a moving company, and there are plenty of people who hire them for stuff like this. They even have a toolbox on each truck to take apart and put together furniture while on the job. Just call a couple local movers to get a quote! Totally worth it.

BoraBoraBaby

2ag said:

JamieSejkora said:

Holy cow, just did some lurking around the other BMBs and found a post flaming away at an insensitive post.  I wondered how bad it could be...it was bad...very bad.

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12267883/jack-and-jill-gender-test/p1

ETA: Not sure why everything is underlined and I don't know how to get rid of it either...strange

So I think she's totally BSC, but the blood test I think she's talking about isn't a Harmony/MaterniT21, it really is just for sex but she was too psycho to explain herself.

I think she took one test but has since heard of the test "you can take at the doctor's office." I think she is referring to the MaterniT21. My blood is still simmering but was in a raging hard boil while reading that.

dobbyisfree

Thanks guys. The furniture comes assembled so besides taking out the drawers i didnt know how to put it in parts. Im glad to know movers wont think im crazy if i go that way. But pottery barn delivers via UPS... so its shipped based on weight... that shit is crazy. Were dresser shopping today with a wood sample from the crib because im being a bsc pregnant woman demanding matching furniture :-)

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pfeilele

I can't stop buying cloth diapers. It's a problem.

TallMomma29

I think this is more fitting for an FFFC, but the crazy, crazy people on these Bump boards really freak me out (I'm talking about the posts where you can't figure out why a person would even think/say something like that, or you feel burning rage toward the poster because they said something so completely awful/heartless).  I don't run into people like that in real life (maybe I'm just lucky?) and it freaks me out that so many BSC people are reproducing.  

Last night I couldn't sleep and I was randomly browsing the TTGP board.  It simultaneously made me wish I had participated when I was TTGP, and it also contributed to my "holy crap, there are crazy, crazy, CRAZY people in this world!"  Prior to getting pregnant, I apparently lived in an oblivious world where I thought most women (i.e. those not appearing on Jerry Springer) were relatively sane and mature.   Eesh!!

eortman

I went to the grocery store specifically to buy myself some Reese's peanut butter eggs, which I bought. But I also bought myself a whole angel food cake. Angel food is the healthiest cake right? :-)

abchittam

amlonica said:

Thanks guys. The furniture comes assembled so besides taking out the drawers i didnt know how to put it in parts. Im glad to know movers wont think im crazy if i go that way. But pottery barn delivers via UPS... so its shipped based on weight... that shit is crazy. Were dresser shopping today with a wood sample from the crib because im being a bsc pregnant woman demanding matching furniture :-)

I did this with DS. I had a full size bed, dresser and entertainment center that was a set. We chose to leave the dresser and entertainment center in DS's room so I wanted the crib and anything else to match. It was an absolute pain to find everything to match! The crib, changing table, and glider all came from three different places. Although it was a hassle, it was the best thing we could have chosen to do. He has furniture to get him all the way through until he moves out. And the way my changing table is made, it will convert to just a regular dresser when we get ready. It was a great investment! Thanking myself for it now.

SuperTinkerham

pfeilele said:

I can't stop buying cloth diapers. It's a problem.

I'm so ridiculously excited to start building the cloth diaper stash.

alyssa719

SuperTinkerham said:

pfeilele said:

I can't stop buying cloth diapers. It's a problem.

I'm so ridiculously excited to start building the cloth diaper stash.

Tried to order super awesome PUL to continue building my stash and the company's website had a problem and won't let the order go through.  They're also not open on weekends.    I love the patterns, but hate waiting!!

pfeilele

alyssa719 said:

SuperTinkerham said:

pfeilele said:

I can't stop buying cloth diapers. It's a problem.

I'm so ridiculously excited to start building the cloth diaper stash.

Tried to order super awesome PUL to continue building my stash and the company's website had a problem and won't let the order go through.  They're also not open on weekends.    I love the patterns, but hate waiting!!


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What website?? I want to make a bunch of nb fitted but don't feel like taking the time to find a good site. Do they have natural fibers? I guess I could order pul too and make some aio's. Ah love it. I convinced my husband we needed a bunch of fitted diapers for DS because he needs more absorbency.

TugboatSheila

I got some major perspective today on my life.

I was having lunch with a friend and we were "bitching" about work. I was talking about cleaning up everyone's messes, the dumb emails I answer and the various trivial shitty things that happen. 

Then it was her turn.

She's a social worker and told me that she was having a hard time at work because one of her clients (she works with younger kids through a school) had told her about how her mother starting prostituting her out at the age of 8 to get drug money. My friend said she was having a hard time figuring out how to help this young woman out of this situation. 

I immediately felt like the biggest jackass in the world for getting pissy about emails and incompetence. 

I also can't shake the sadness of what that poor girl went through and the injustice of how that mother did not take care of her children. 

alyssa719

pfeilele said:

---------- What website?? I want to make a bunch of nb fitted but don't feel like taking the time to find a good site. Do they have natural fibers? I guess I could order pul too and make some aio's. Ah love it. I convinced my husband we needed a bunch of fitted diapers for DS because he needs more absorbency.

@pfeilele: The one with the awesome PUL is diapersewingsupplies.com.  They also have natural fabrics.  The other one I was looking at, when I was upset about having to wait an extra day or two (because obviously I'm going to have this baby in the next two weeks) was naturesfabrics.com and they had *some* cute PUL, but not as much.  Their prices were less, and they had a *LOT* more of a selection in the natural fibers. 

I love the AiOs for life (I used disposables with DS so like the ease of them being the same thing), and if you get the hemp fleece, please let me know whether the absorbency is really as incredible as they say.  It seems fantastic if you can have an overnight with only 2 layers of the soaker, but it's expensive!!

ghostof5letters

I really hate this thread. I think it's canabalizing the board and making it really boring. 

Myanswer true

I am feeling so much more excited about having a little boy now that I've finally gotten to go shopping somewhere besides Walmart. That sounds really dumb, but it was nice to find boy clothes that were my style and didn't break the bank. So many adorable tiger onesies!

littlemissmarla

taxes are done and e-filed!!!!! i hate that shit

Ylvelill

@JP27

Yeah sometimes it good to see what the other half deals with

pfeilele

ghostof5letters said:

I really hate this thread. I think it's canabalizing the board and making it really boring. 

I agree.

pfeilele

@alyssa719 thanks! I'll have to check those out.

I would have to say that my favorite natural fiber of all time is hemp. It's amazing. I don't know about 2 layers amazing because my kid pees a lake at night, but it's good. Try babykicks - they have nice stuff made from hemp to try. It has good resale if you want to get rid of it too. The cloth diaper swap on fb is awesome as well - that's where I get stuff to try when I don't know if I'll like it. I have a hard time dropping money on fabric that I don't know much about.

TallMomma29

ghostof5letters said:

I really hate this thread. I think it's canabalizing the board and making it really boring. 

I think this thread is great for super random thoughts that don't need a separate thread (ie I pooped and now I don't look pregnant anymore). But I don't think anyone should feel like they need to put any random post or topic here. If anyone wants to actually have a discussion about something and wants other people to chime in, they should start a new thread! UNLESS what they want to say is already covered to death somewhere else (ie pictures of their bump, announcements about the sex/name, or questions that have already been covered 3 times in the past week). ;-)

alyssa719

@pfeilele, I'm not "out" on facebook... and may not be until this baby makes its' grand entrance, so the fb stuff sucks for me.    They have like, "hemp heavy fleece" but at $15+/yd. Meh.

mrscurlygurl

Weren't we trying to see if it would get to 1000 comments and then if it would keep going? 

Ylvelill

Just 123 to go!

pfeilele

alyssa719 said:

@pfeilele, I'm not "out" on facebook... and may not be until this baby makes its' grand entrance, so the fb stuff sucks for me.    They have like, "hemp heavy fleece" but at $15+/yd. Meh.

Gotcha. Well definitely join once LO is here if you get half yard of it though, it's gonna make a bunch of inserts. I'll order it and tell you if I like it, but it's gonna have to wait a couple weeks because I just went crazy buying stuff this week