Monday mumblings

melody921

Jill Duggar is married! Who doesn't love to start the week with some Duggar news? ;-)

BeebopandBuddy

I loved the Jill Duggar wedding pictures but I hated that he didn't shave.  I love a little scruff but for your wedding?  I also can't imagine how you have a wedding with 1,000 guests.  It gives me anxiety just thinking about it.

Our electricity was flickering all day yesterday and we couldn't figure out why.  Finally, last night DH did some investigating and saw sparks flying out where the main breaker connects to the box! We couldn't shut it off because of the freezer/fridge but we unplugged and turned off everything in the house except those two things.  Needless to say, I did not sleep well last night just thinking about it.  

We shut off the main breaker before we left today and DH is going to work from home this afternoon so we can turn it back on.  Our stupid electrician can't come until 5, which probably means 7 judging by our past experience with him.  This better get fixed today, I cannot spend another paranoid night wondering if the house is catching on fire.

thebanich

I am about to punch one of our managers in the ovaries. She has an open position and two weeks ago I requested an advertisement from her. She sent me the job description. So I sent her an example and asked for the advertisement. She says she doesn't write them (YES YOU DO OMFG) so I make one for her and then send it and ask her to edit. She sends me back an email and asks me to make  the listed changes.

melody921

Can I just take a moment to whine about how whiny DH is when he's sick? I came close to strangling him at one point yesterday, as I was running errands, cooking food, organizing the house, visiting his step-MIL who just got out of the hospital after having a heart attack, and generally trying to keep the kids out of his hair. All while he moped around looking like the most pathetically ill person ever. 

Today, he finally went to the doctor. You know what's wrong with him? ALLERGIES. F-ing allergies, which I have every day of my life. Time to take some Zyrtec and suck it up, dude. I'm recalling how when I had strep throat and then the stomach bug, I had two kids climbing all over me, and I still needed to rally for a lot of things around the house. I propose creating a special retreat where all sick husbands can be sent until they recover, away from wives who are already overwhelmed by whining children.

MomtobeNJ

I was annoyed by 8:48 am this morning. I'm not even kidding. I looked at the clock because I was like, ALREADY?!?

June 30 is the end of our fiscal year and, without fail, everyone runs around like it's Armageddon for the last 2 weeks of the month. Did you not look at the calendar? Plan ahead a little, maybe? Then it's YOUR crazy, not mine.

Ugh.

melody921

BeebopandBuddy said:

I loved the Jill Duggar wedding pictures but I hated that he didn't shave.  I love a little scruff but for your wedding?  I also can't imagine how you have a wedding with 1,000 guests.  It gives me anxiety just thinking about it.

Our electricity was flickering all day yesterday and we couldn't figure out why.  Finally, last night DH did some investigating and saw sparks flying out where the main breaker connects to the box! We couldn't shut it off because of the freezer/fridge but we unplugged and turned off everything in the house except those two things.  Needless to say, I did not sleep well last night just thinking about it.  

We shut off the main breaker before we left today and DH is going to work from home this afternoon so we can turn it back on.  Our stupid electrician can't come until 5, which probably means 7 judging by our past experience with him.  This better get fixed today, I cannot spend another paranoid night wondering if the house is catching on fire.

I wonder if that's as much as the beard grows, lol. I think he's a pretty good-looking guy though. 

Hope the electrician can fix that. That's scary!

melody921

Banich4eva said:

I am about to punch one of our managers in the ovaries. She has an open position and two weeks ago I requested an advertisement from her. She sent me the job description. So I sent her an example and asked for the advertisement. She says she doesn't write them (YES YOU DO OMFG) so I make one for her and then send it and ask her to edit. She sends me back an email and asks me to make  the listed changes.

Helpless managers can also be sent to the man camp I'm envisioning. We'll expand it.

willy_gert

My old "supervisor" is now meddling in stuff in my new department.  He and I are about to have a Come to Jesus meeting, because he is WAY out of line.

I got new contacts this weekend and it is crazy how much better I can see.  I need to get new glasses now too.  Eyebuydirect.com here I come!  

Flamingemu

MomtobeNJ said:

I was annoyed by 8:48 am this morning. I'm not even kidding. I looked at the clock because I was like, ALREADY?!?

June 30 is the end of our fiscal year and, without fail, everyone runs around like it's Armageddon for the last 2 weeks of the month. Did you not look at the calendar? Plan ahead a little, maybe? Then it's YOUR crazy, not mine.

Ugh.

Ehh - I am finance and we run around like chicken's with our heads cut off for the last 2 weeks of every quarter. It can't be helped. I have lists of tasks, with start and due dates. They can't be started sooner and they are still due at the same time. It sucks, but can't always be fixed.

That said, I totally understand how frustrating it is to the non-finance people and totally get how much it sucks.

Flamingemu

Why am I even on here? I have a mountain of work and as I sit on a call, I bump. I should just decline all con calls this week, that would go over well.

melody921

willy_gert said:

My old "supervisor" is now meddling in stuff in my new department.  He and I are about to have a Come to Jesus meeting, because he is WAY out of line.

I got new contacts this weekend and it is crazy how much better I can see.  I need to get new glasses now too.  Eyebuydirect.com here I come!  

I just made an eye appointment for next week. I haven't been to the eye doc since before I was married (like at least a year before). DH and I just celebrated our 6th anniversary.

Pokedot

I agree on the scruff face although if he's like my brother that's as good as it gets.

The weekend was pretty good except DH had to work midnights. Trying to keep DS quiet was a chore. Then I find out when DH wakes up he's wearing ear plugs. Thanks dude.

I saw pictures on FB my brother's g/f posted about them going camping/fishing. My 6 month old niece was in the boat with them, in a booster seat strapped to the bench. I'm having anxiety just thinking about it. So stupid IMO.

Tomorrow is my mom's birthday and I haven't gotten her a thing yet. Go me.

melody921

Flamingemu said:

Why am I even on here? I have a mountain of work and as I sit on a call, I bump. I should just decline all con calls this week, that would go over well.

Conference calls = bump time.

melody921

BobKat22 said:

I watched a few Duggar episodes yesterday. I'm so lost. Who all is married? How many kids does the oldest son and Anna have? Is she pregnant again? I had a very bad weekend. My wisdom tooth had been hurting all week. This happened last time I was pregnant. It moved around for a week or so and went away. This time I was in so much pain I was waking up screaming and crying and thrashing around Friday night. You all know how I feel about ER visits. And my biggest pet peeve is dental problems in the ER. I was begging DH to take me in. He wouldn't. I found a walk in dentist Saturday. They said I have an abscessed tooth with the worst infection they've ever seen. Now I have to have surgery as soon as the infection clears up. Just what I want to do while pregnant. And I'm taking pain pills. I feel like a POS. And I look like I have a ping pong ball in my cheek from all the swelling going on.

Jill is only the second Duggar kid to get married, although Jessa is also in a courtship.

Josh and Anna have three kids.

I haven't heard she's pregnant again. Off to Google ...

melody921

@BobKat22, hope you feel better ASAP! That sounds horribly painful.

MrsKipper

I love all things Duggar! I was scowering all of social media yesterday looking for pictures. I'm so excited for them!

I don't have much today. I'm finally figuring out that if I want to get anything that resembles sleep I have to go to bed at like 9, which is way early for me, but Nola has been waking up super early lately so I can't sleep past 6:45 to 7:15 these days. That's after 2 to 3 MOTN feedings. Sigh. I love sleep.

MomtobeNJ

Flamingemu said:

MomtobeNJ said:

I was annoyed by 8:48 am this morning. I'm not even kidding. I looked at the clock because I was like, ALREADY?!?

June 30 is the end of our fiscal year and, without fail, everyone runs around like it's Armageddon for the last 2 weeks of the month. Did you not look at the calendar? Plan ahead a little, maybe? Then it's YOUR crazy, not mine.

Ugh.

Ehh - I am finance and we run around like chicken's with our heads cut off for the last 2 weeks of every quarter. It can't be helped. I have lists of tasks, with start and due dates. They can't be started sooner and they are still due at the same time. It sucks, but can't always be fixed.

That said, I totally understand how frustrating it is to the non-finance people and totally get how much it sucks.

Fair enough - I can't even imagine how chaotic their offices are right now. But when I was told something was submitted for approval 2 weeks ago, I follow up today and you tell me you never saw it and I have to stop what I'm doing and leave my program to drive over and hand deliver another request to you? I see red. 

MrsKipper

I'm really trying to stick to the way I was eating with GD while pregnant. I'm losing weight like crazy and trying to avoid eating all the sugar that I couldn't have the past 3 months. I know that if I stick to eating healthy I'll be in a good place once I'm able to work out.

I do need to go get a peach milkshake from CFA just to get it out of my system. I need the extra calcium because nursing, right?

melody921

My skin looks horrible! So much for thinking L'Bri was the answer. Right now, I honestly think it looked better a month ago. Any ideas for why the hell I'd be breaking out only along my jawline/top of my neck?

Flamingemu

MomtobeNJ said:

Flamingemu said:

MomtobeNJ said:

I was annoyed by 8:48 am this morning. I'm not even kidding. I looked at the clock because I was like, ALREADY?!?

June 30 is the end of our fiscal year and, without fail, everyone runs around like it's Armageddon for the last 2 weeks of the month. Did you not look at the calendar? Plan ahead a little, maybe? Then it's YOUR crazy, not mine.

Ugh.

Ehh - I am finance and we run around like chicken's with our heads cut off for the last 2 weeks of every quarter. It can't be helped. I have lists of tasks, with start and due dates. They can't be started sooner and they are still due at the same time. It sucks, but can't always be fixed.

That said, I totally understand how frustrating it is to the non-finance people and totally get how much it sucks.

Fair enough - I can't even imagine how chaotic their offices are right now. But when I was told something was submitted for approval 2 weeks ago, I follow up today and you tell me you never saw it and I have to stop what I'm doing and leave my program to drive over and hand deliver another request to you? I see red. 

That is unacceptable. I would too.

MomtobeNJ

BobKat22 said:

I had a very bad weekend. My wisdom tooth had been hurting all week. This happened last time I was pregnant. It moved around for a week or so and went away. This time I was in so much pain I was waking up screaming and crying and thrashing around Friday night. You all know how I feel about ER visits. And my biggest pet peeve is dental problems in the ER. I was begging DH to take me in. He wouldn't. I found a walk in dentist Saturday. They said I have an abscessed tooth with the worst infection they've ever seen. Now I have to have surgery as soon as the infection clears up. Just what I want to do while pregnant. And I'm taking pain pills. I feel like a POS. And I look like I have a ping pong ball in my cheek from all the swelling going on.

That sounds truly horrible. I'm so sorry! I hate anything related to dental work, so I can't even imagine. Ugh.

BeebopandBuddy

MrsKipper said:

I love all things Duggar! I was scowering all of social media yesterday looking for pictures. I'm so excited for them! I don't have much today. I'm finally figuring out that if I want to get anything that resembles sleep I have to go to bed at like 9, which is way early for me, but Nola has been waking up super early lately so I can't sleep past 6:45 to 7:15 these days. That's after 2 to 3 MOTN feedings. Sigh. I love sleep.

I consider sleeping until 6:45-7:15 sleeping in.  Mine are up by 6.  My mornings are sad.  Of course, we aren't dealing with middle-of-the-night wake up anymore (Thank you Jesus), so you definitely win on that front.

MrsKipper

BobKat22 said:

I watched a few Duggar episodes yesterday. I'm so lost. Who all is married? How many kids does the oldest son and Anna have? Is she pregnant again?

I had a very bad weekend. My wisdom tooth had been hurting all week. This happened last time I was pregnant. It moved around for a week or so and went away. This time I was in so much pain I was waking up screaming and crying and thrashing around Friday night. You all know how I feel about ER visits. And my biggest pet peeve is dental problems in the ER. I was begging DH to take me in. He wouldn't. I found a walk in dentist Saturday. They said I have an abscessed tooth with the worst infection they've ever seen. Now I have to have surgery as soon as the infection clears up. Just what I want to do while pregnant. And I'm taking pain pills. I feel like a POS. And I look like I have a ping pong ball in my cheek from all the swelling going on.

I used to get abscesses before I got my wisdom teeth out. They're the worst! I hope you get some relief soon!

Oh, and I love the name Holden Gray! I especially love Gray as a middle name!

jenndub

@BobKat22 I LOVE the name Holden!!!! So cute. And Gray is an awesome middle name, I love your choice.

Today is a really Monday-ish Monday. I wanted to kill DH before 5am this morning and things have not gotten better. I may need to walk to Starbucks to buy all of the pastries.

hmp1

MrsKipper said:

I love all things Duggar! I was scowering all of social media yesterday looking for pictures. I'm so excited for them! I don't have much today. I'm finally figuring out that if I want to get anything that resembles sleep I have to go to bed at like 9, which is way early for me, but Nola has been waking up super early lately so I can't sleep past 6:45 to 7:15 these days. That's after 2 to 3 MOTN feedings. Sigh. I love sleep.

When Leo was little and waking up multiple times at night, I went to bed when James went to bed and DH would stay up with Leo. It was worth getting that extra 2-3 hours even if it meant no real DH time for a couple of months.

MrsKipper

hmp1 said:

MrsKipper said:

I love all things Duggar! I was scowering all of social media yesterday looking for pictures. I'm so excited for them!

I don't have much today. I'm finally figuring out that if I want to get anything that resembles sleep I have to go to bed at like 9, which is way early for me, but Nola has been waking up super early lately so I can't sleep past 6:45 to 7:15 these days. That's after 2 to 3 MOTN feedings. Sigh. I love sleep.

When Leo was little and waking up multiple times at night, I went to bed when James went to bed and DH would stay up with Leo. It was worth getting that extra 2-3 hours even if it meant no real DH time for a couple of months.

Yea, I hate to lose my "veg out" TV time after Nola goes to bed but I'm entering zombie state. I'm realizing that I just need to go to bed really early until he starts sleeping longer stretches.

hmp1

melody921 said:

My skin looks horrible! So much for thinking L'Bri was the answer. Right now, I honestly think it looked better a month ago. Any ideas for why the hell I'd be breaking out only along my jawline/top of my neck?

I have never had great skin and it takes time for my skin to adjust to new products. It often looks worse before looking better.

Holly_1007

BobKat22 said:

Oh big news on the baby name front. I don't know how we became those obnoxious people that announced multiple baby names. It's quite embarrassing, but I'm a happy lady. I think DH wanted to cheer me up from all my tooth pain and told me we can use the name Holden. I'm ecstatic! It feels so right. So Holden Gray it is. Final answer. No take backs.

I love the name! I was pushing for sawyer though, I think Holden is too close to your DDs name (hope I'm not confusing names)

Flamingemu

Terrible person alert - tl;dr

Our dog is dying. I have made small comments in the past, but it is getting to be pretty 'any day now.' DH took Shady to the vet on Saturday and got some pain meds and an antibiotic for him since he is oozing out of his tumor on his stomach.

DH can't get Shady to take his pills (pill pocket treats only work on one of the pills) so I am shoving my fingers down his throat to get him to take the meds and redressing his wound every couple hours so he doesn't ooze all over my house. I am so completely sick of it all.

The dog still poops outside, eats all his food, and the pain pills are doing their job so we don't think he is ready to be put down.

Terrible person part - we can't take him with us on the 4th to Jersey for fear he will ooze on someone else's house or be overwhelmed with the change and we can't board him because that is just cruel at this point. I am sad/mad that we have to cancel our holiday plans because of our dog.

Also, I have never had a furry pet that I had to take care of at the end and am not really processing this how I expected.

Holly_1007

Flamingemu said:

Terrible person alert - tl;dr

Our dog is dying. I have made small comments in the past, but it is getting to be pretty 'any day now.' DH took Shady to the vet on Saturday and got some pain meds and an antibiotic for him since he is oozing out of his tumor on his stomach.

DH can't get Shady to take his pills (pill pocket treats only work on one of the pills) so I am shoving my fingers down his throat to get him to take the meds and redressing his wound every couple hours so he doesn't ooze all over my house. I am so completely sick of it all.

The dog still poops outside, eats all his food, and the pain pills are doing their job so we don't think he is ready to be put down.

Terrible person part - we can't take him with us on the 4th to Jersey for fear he will ooze on someone else's house or be overwhelmed with the change and we can't board him because that is just cruel at this point. I am sad/mad that we have to cancel our holiday plans because of our dog.

Also, I have never had a furry pet that I had to take care of at the end and am not really processing this how I expected.

I am so sorry you guys are going through this. Try to enjoy what might be your last few days with him

Holly_1007

When we were at the water park on Saturday keagan slipped out of the inner tube at the lazy river and went under. Obviously I was right there and grabbed him but he was panicking. I'm irrationally annoyed with DH about it. We had signed the boys up for swim lessons over the winter and keagan wasn't very receptive. When it came time to sign him up again DH talked me out of it, saying that he could teach the boys on his own much better than the teacher did. I agreed to not sign them up, but he literally hasn't brought them back to the pool since. Now I'm pushing to sign them back up for lessons and he is arguing with me over it.

melody921

@Flamingemu, I'm sorry you're going through that. I imagine I will have similar feelings when we get to that point with our dog.

melody921

Holly_1007 said:

When we were at the water park on Saturday keagan slipped out of the inner tube at the lazy river and went under. Obviously I was right there and grabbed him but he was panicking. I'm irrationally annoyed with DH about it. We had signed the boys up for swim lessons over the winter and keagan wasn't very receptive. When it came time to sign him up again DH talked me out of it, saying that he could teach the boys on his own much better than the teacher did. I agreed to not sign them up, but he literally hasn't brought them back to the pool since. Now I'm pushing to sign them back up for lessons and he is arguing with me over it.

I'd definitely sign them up. I'm behind the eight ball on this with DS, but I absolutely believe kids need swim lessons.

Flamingemu

BunkinMama said:

I'm sorry @Flamingemu‌ it must be frustrating and heartbreaking at the same time.

This is exactly how I feel, which I know is okay, I still feel bad about being frustrated though. 

melody921

I feel like I no longer have any concept of portion size because I just eat too much of whatever I want, whenever I want. I was at Target yesterday, and purchased a few Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers, with the hope that I can start getting back to a normal lunch. FFMC perhaps that I have turned to processed food in an attempt to rein in my shitty eating habits.

Flamingemu

Holly_1007 said:

When we were at the water park on Saturday keagan slipped out of the inner tube at the lazy river and went under. Obviously I was right there and grabbed him but he was panicking. I'm irrationally annoyed with DH about it. We had signed the boys up for swim lessons over the winter and keagan wasn't very receptive. When it came time to sign him up again DH talked me out of it, saying that he could teach the boys on his own much better than the teacher did. I agreed to not sign them up, but he literally hasn't brought them back to the pool since. Now I'm pushing to sign them back up for lessons and he is arguing with me over it.

Ha! I would be totally annoyed with my DH too and probably bickered with him about it the whole way home. I am glad Keagan is okay.

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Flamingemu

melody921 said:

I feel like I no longer have any concept of portion size because I just eat too much of whatever I want, whenever I want. I was at Target yesterday, and purchased a few Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers, with the hope that I can start getting back to a normal lunch. FFMC perhaps that I have turned to processed food in an attempt to rein in my shitty eating habits.

It works to relearn portion sizes. After a few weeks switch back to real food and weigh/measure everything. A few weeks of that and you will be able to eyeball it.

I like to guess and then stick something on the scale and see how close I am. #nerd

BeebopandBuddy

Holly_1007 said:

When we were at the water park on Saturday keagan slipped out of the inner tube at the lazy river and went under. Obviously I was right there and grabbed him but he was panicking. I'm irrationally annoyed with DH about it. We had signed the boys up for swim lessons over the winter and keagan wasn't very receptive. When it came time to sign him up again DH talked me out of it, saying that he could teach the boys on his own much better than the teacher did. I agreed to not sign them up, but he literally hasn't brought them back to the pool since. Now I'm pushing to sign them back up for lessons and he is arguing with me over it.

We just signed the kids up for the last session and I put Maya in the baby class with Ethan just because she has never done it before and I know she won't go in without us.  She has made a ton of progress in just 6 weeks and actually swam with just the life jacket on Saturday, without any assistance.  I was talking to one of the dads and his son is 4 and just starting.  I recommended starting in the class with parents even if it's a little young for them.  They learn so quickly that they can move up to the right class pretty easily.

Holly_1007

BobKat22 said:

BobKat22 said:

Oh big news on the baby name front. I don't know how we became those obnoxious people that announced multiple baby names. It's quite embarrassing, but I'm a happy lady. I think DH wanted to cheer me up from all my tooth pain and told me we can use the name Holden. I'm ecstatic! It feels so right. So Holden Gray it is. Final answer. No take backs.

I love the name! I was pushing for sawyer though, I think Holden is too close to your DDs name (hope I'm not confusing names)

No I don't think you are. DD is Hadley. So they have a quite a few common letters. I never wanted my kids to start with the same letter. But I just love Holden too much to even care. Now, their MNs are super close. Grace and Gray. DH really wants Gray and since I know he doesn't love Holden, I'm completely ok with letting him have full say on the MN. I'm also excited I get to keep wearing my H initial necklace now that both of them are H's. Silly, I know.

perfect! Both Holden and sawyer were on my list with Colby

Holly_1007

LoisLayn23 said:

Swim lessons aren't offered here until age 5, which sucks. They both love the water.

N just loves throwing her head back into her life jacket and yelling "back boat (float)" and splashing into the water. Which is super adorable but she is scary fearless.

even at the YMCA or something? Because we live in the city there aren't any swim classes offered publicly (to my knowledge)