I hate smoke detectors. I hate smoke detectors so much. Just let me die in a fire, please, that would be so much better than dealing with this thing chirping at me at 4 am and necessitating me climbing my pregnant ass up to the top of a stepstool and having a neck-twisted ragefit at the worst-designed battery compartment on earth while both of my dogs have panic attacks and cower helplessly in the bathtub.
In the year 2016, how is this machine still so incompetently designed that it does this to me. Please. It should be capable of sending me a nice polite automated text two days in advance so I can Amazon Prime some 9-volt batteries (instead of running to three different stores because they're all sold out) and just slide them smoothly into a nice automated battery slot.
but no, no, instead we're going to make my entire day go down in a Hindenburg of fury
I hate, hate licking stamps and envelopes. I am baffled that in the year 2016 one can still be faced with this daunting and disgusting task. Adhesive. We have it now. Let's ditch the old school lick 'em stamps and envelopes and embrace our future, please.
@Merciel - Replace your batteries whenever the time changes (2 x per year). The batteries may not be dead yet, but at least you won't ever have to deal with the chirping.
My unpopular is that sometimes when my husband is talking about OUR son he will refer to him as my baby for example: after you have your baby we can do blah blah blah. It's not enough to make me mad because I know he doesn't mean it the way it sounds but it still irks me a little bit when he does it.
My husband does this also but he finally caught on to how how much it annoys me and how it is just incorrect so when he does it he quickly says "our baby" or "the baby" now.
Along the same lines as calling babies creepy things-I HATE when adults refer to each other as "mommy & daddy" or any derivative. It's one thing if you're talking to your child "daddy's home" or "ask mommy," but when they talk to each other, in adult coversations, it's creeps me TF out!
I definitely don't refer to DH as Daddy to my friends, but if I'm around DS, I do. The reason? I used to refer to DH as Ben in front of DS, if I was talking to DH or other adults and by 15 months, DS had figured out that Daddy and Ben were the same person. He started referring to DH by his actual first name. This has fizzled out now that I mostly refer to DH as Daddy.
I get what you're talking about @kbrands7. Three thoughts from all this. 1. When I worked in daycare we had several kids over the years who referred to one or both of their parents as babe or honey because it's what they heard the other parent use. I always thought it was sort of cute.
2. There's still something unsettling for me when spouses don't put the "your" classifier in front mom or dad. I don't want my DH to say to our kid,"Here comes mom," I'd rather him say, "Here comes YOUR mom." I know it seems small but it just rubs me the wrong way. I'm not DH's mom and he and LO aren't siblings.
3. I also hate when friends refer to their parents as if they are universal parents. Example... "I'm going with mom to dinner tonight." What? Who's mom? Your mom? Because you're not going with my mom. I want them to say, "I'm going with MY mom to dinner tonight." Mom is not a name, it's a title, and a role we use towards our moms out of respect for her position/ relationship in our lives.
----Forever having QBF's------
DD now at 2.5 knows DH and my first and last names. It's adorable to hear her say them. She's able to identify that she calls us mommy and daddy but we have other names as well. The best part of that is when DH does something he's not supposed to (i.e. Says something is "stupid", we don't use that word) she will get so serious and say CODY! She only calls him by his real name when he's in trouble and I absolutely love it!
Just the other day she called me babe. I was so caught off guard. She said well, that's what daddy calls you. It was so adorable. I've asked her not to call me babe anymore, though
I hate smoke detectors. I hate smoke detectors so much. Just let me die in a fire, please, that would be so much better than dealing with this thing chirping at me at 4 am and necessitating me climbing my pregnant ass up to the top of a stepstool and having a neck-twisted ragefit at the worst-designed battery compartment on earth while both of my dogs have panic attacks and cower helplessly in the bathtub.
In the year 2016, how is this machine still so incompetently designed that it does this to me. Please. It should be capable of sending me a nice polite automated text two days in advance so I can Amazon Prime some 9-volt batteries (instead of running to three different stores because they're all sold out) and just slide them smoothly into a nice automated battery slot.
but no, no, instead we're going to make my entire day go down in a Hindenburg of fury
I hate, hate licking stamps and envelopes. I am baffled that in the year 2016 one can still be faced with this daunting and disgusting task. Adhesive. We have it now. Let's ditch the old school lick 'em stamps and envelopes and embrace our future, please.
I hate manually creating pie charts for 3 years worth of business. Wouldnt you think in 2016 we would have a reporting system to run reports??? NOOOOOO
I have been doing pie charts since 1:00. I am taking a Toblerone break.
@Merciel - Replace your batteries whenever the time changes (2 x per year). The batteries may not be dead yet, but at least you won't ever have to deal with the chirping.
The problem is that taking the batteries out long enough to change them causes the chirping to go off again. And the compartment is so poorly designed that it takes me FOREVER to do it. (I don't know how all the guys in these youtube videos slot the batteries in and out so smoothly, it never ever ever works remotely like that in real life. Not for me, anyway, not with these cheap #*&$#$ plastic compartments.)
I really just want to solve all my smoke detector problems via point-blank shotgun blast. Thinking about it makes me feel so soothed and peaceful. Violence: sometimes the answer!
I do not allow anyone besides DH and myself to drive DD in the car. It is unpopular with MIL and people who think I am crazy.
My ILs drive around with my toddler-age niece and nephew out of their car seats all the time. They've done it since my nephew was about a year old. They live in the country and think that it's not a big deal. We will be having a serious conversation about it if/when they keep our baby.
My in-laws do this, too. I've seen their lack of safety with the nieces and nephews, that I refuse to let my boys ride with them. (if baby is crying because he/she doesn't like their carseat, they hold them out of the seat or unbuckle them.) But the last time I let my kids be unsupervised at their house, they took my kids to the pool in the back of the truck. (Going to the pool without me is also something I don't like.) My four-year-old ratted them out by telling me. I had to remind them, that riding in the back of a truck is not okay with me. It is how my 7-year-old brother died while on our farm and I have valid issues of why I don't approve.
@Dantzscher32 I just don't understand why they would want to compromise children's safety like that. While they may be "driving carefully," you never know what another car/person/animal/debris in the road could do.
Married: May 2012 DS1: May 2016 DS2: Jan 2019 Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
@Merciel - Replace your batteries whenever the time changes (2 x per year). The batteries may not be dead yet, but at least you won't ever have to deal with the chirping.
The problem is that taking the batteries out long enough to change them causes the chirping to go off again. And the compartment is so poorly designed that it takes me FOREVER to do it. (I don't know how all the guys in these youtube videos slot the batteries in and out so smoothly, it never ever ever works remotely like that in real life. Not for me, anyway, not with these cheap #*&$#$ plastic compartments.)
I really just want to solve all my smoke detector problems via point-blank shotgun blast. Thinking about it makes me feel so soothed and peaceful. Violence: sometimes the answer!
----qbf------ I agree that the chirp is awful and seems to be puppy kryptonite. We have First Alert alarms that have a side-slide-out battery compartment. It's a quick and easy battery change. Plus, they take 2 AAs. The downfall is that they are a bit over sensitive sometimes, though I think may ionization models are.
Along the same lines as calling babies creepy things-I HATE when adults refer to each other as "mommy & daddy" or any derivative. It's one thing if you're talking to your child "daddy's home" or "ask mommy," but when they talk to each other, in adult coversations, it's creeps me TF out!
I definitely don't refer to DH as Daddy to my friends, but if I'm around DS, I do. The reason? I used to refer to DH as Ben in front of DS, if I was talking to DH or other adults and by 15 months, DS had figured out that Daddy and Ben were the same person. He started referring to DH by his actual first name. This has fizzled out now that I mostly refer to DH as Daddy.
I get what you're talking about @kbrands7. Three thoughts from all this. 1. When I worked in daycare we had several kids over the years who referred to one or both of their parents as babe or honey because it's what they heard the other parent use. I always thought it was sort of cute.
2. There's still something unsettling for me when spouses don't put the "your" classifier in front mom or dad. I don't want my DH to say to our kid,"Here comes mom," I'd rather him say, "Here comes YOUR mom." I know it seems small but it just rubs me the wrong way. I'm not DH's mom and he and LO aren't siblings.
3. I also hate when friends refer to their parents as if they are universal parents. Example... "I'm going with mom to dinner tonight." What? Who's mom? Your mom? Because you're not going with my mom. I want them to say, "I'm going with MY mom to dinner tonight." Mom is not a name, it's a title, and a role we use towards our moms out of respect for her position/ relationship in our lives.
----Forever having QBF's------
DD now at 2.5 knows DH and my first and last names. It's adorable to hear her say them. She's able to identify that she calls us mommy and daddy but we have other names as well.
The best part of that is when DH does something he's not supposed to (i.e. Says something is "stupid", we don't use that word) she will get so serious and say CODY! She only calls him by his real name when he's in trouble and I absolutely love it!
Just the other day she called me babe. I was so caught off guard. She said well, that's what daddy calls you. It was so adorable. I've asked her not to call me babe anymore, though
My boys, too! When DH is "in trouble" or he doesn't respond after they yell, "Dad" they call him by his name! My boys start calling me by my name after family has been in town. I think it's cute.
My unpopular is that sometimes when my husband is talking about OUR son he will refer to him as my baby for example: after you have your baby we can do blah blah blah. It's not enough to make me mad because I know he doesn't mean it the way it sounds but it still irks me a little bit when he does it.
My husband does this also but he finally caught on to how how much it annoys me and how it is just incorrect so when he does it he quickly says "our baby" or "the baby" now.
---Qbf--- Ugh when I was pregnant with my first DH decided he was always going to say "my baby"...not our baby, the baby, his name...no "my baby". Idk why but it pissed me off to no end. One day I finally had a hormonal rage at him and informed him he didn't make this baby on his own and it wasn't just his. He got the point and just used his name from then on. All of our babies have been referred to by their name as soon as we know the sex since then. I like that better anyway because after all, our baby is a person and does have a name. I like to use people's names lol
@jessiedee13 I would prefer to be using the name also but we are still stuck . . . we started calling her by name but then suddenly MH decided he wasn't quite on board. Now he won't even discuss names. He keeps saying "lets just wait and see" as if she will pop out with a name tag on or something. I get that some people feel that they will "Know" the name once they see the baby but I'd rather have something planned ahead of time.
My unpopular is that sometimes when my husband is talking about OUR son he will refer to him as my baby for example: after you have your baby we can do blah blah blah. It's not enough to make me mad because I know he doesn't mean it the way it sounds but it still irks me a little bit when he does it.
My husband does this also but he finally caught on to how how much it annoys me and how it is just incorrect so when he does it he quickly says "our baby" or "the baby" now.
---Qbf---
Ugh when I was pregnant with my first DH decided he was always going to say "my baby"...not our baby, the baby, his name...no "my baby". Idk why but it pissed me off to no end. One day I finally had a hormonal rage at him and informed him he didn't make this baby on his own and it wasn't just his. He got the point and just used his name from then on. All of our babies have been referred to by their name as soon as we know the sex since then. I like that better anyway because after all, our baby is a person and does have a name. I like to use people's names lol
I'm the one that gets trouble for this all the time! I constantly talk to my husband about "my baby," and he does not like it. My excuse is that right now she is inside of me, and it's kind of hard to remember to extend something growing inside of me from "my" to "ours." Working on it though, I see how it's annoying.
I call the futurebaby "Young Alexander Charles" in a horrible Alfred Pennyworth imitation (an imitation that is so unrecognizably bad that nobody ever has any idea what I'm even trying to do until I tell them).
When I'm annoyed because it's kicking me in the stomach it is "YOUR baby" all the time though.
I hate it when people refer to a baby boy as "lil man". It makes my skin crawl.
I have a friend who calls her son, lil stud and i have always thought its weird.
Kind of along these same lines, I've heard two of my friends refer to their kids as "sexy". Usually in a joking manner but it seriously creeps me TF out.
WHAT. Who on earth refers to their child as sexy?! NO.
My UO is that I hate... HATE... hashtags. When people use them on facebook I just want to delete them from my life forever. It annoys the crap out of me.
YUP. I posted last week about how i HATE when people talk in hashtags. The whole damn sentence is a hashtag or each individual word. AHHHH
Ugh, I HATE IT when people do that. What are they trying to accomplish? I don't understand it.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
I was actually talking to a young mother who was trying to make an appointment for her son with a specialist and the prompts said "Please press the pound sign" and she looked at me, completely confused, and said "Which one is pound?!" I tried to explain it as a tick-tack-toe board and she said "Oh, why don't they just call it the hashtag?"
Just... Wow..
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
These are all so lighthearted! I am going to light a match and see if I can set off a debate.
My UO: I think it's good to get away from your spouse, do things alone and be apart from each other. My H is overseas for work and coming back tonight. I hung out with friends while he was gone, I cuddled with my dog on the bed, I watched TV alone and ate out of a bowl while balancing it on my stomach. Yeah, we sent each other love notes which I really came to enjoy reading first thing in the morning, but seriously, absence makes the heart grow fonder, y'all.
I agree with this 100%. My DH and I spend time apart. Sometimes I will go to where I used to live and either stay at my moms or my best friends and just visit for a day or two. It's nice. I love it when I get texts saying that he misses me and I've been gone forever. Lol it's cute.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
I definitely think in this group I'm not the norm, but I hate the thought of decorating a nursery. Looking one up? Great. Pins? Great. Enjoying when completed? Awesome. But the actually decisions and shopping part?
It is just too overwhelming, and I end up just netflixing.
Along the same lines as calling babies creepy things-I HATE when adults refer to each other as "mommy & daddy" or any derivative. It's one thing if you're talking to your child "daddy's home" or "ask mommy," but when they talk to each other, in adult coversations, it's creeps me TF out!
I've done that - mostly by accident.
Mama to Three Girls: Twins born March 2014 at 26 weeks due to preterm labor and our 37weeker born May 9th, 2016!
I'll join you in the hate on smoke detectors- the one at our old place went off nonstop. Even boiling water caused it to go off. Finally we just started putting wet paper towels over it....and of course always forgot to take them off once we were done cooking, ha. Luckily we never had a real fire!
My unpopular is that sometimes when my husband is talking about OUR son he will refer to him as my baby for example: after you have your baby we can do blah blah blah. It's not enough to make me mad because I know he doesn't mean it the way it sounds but it still irks me a little bit when he does it.
My husband does this also but he finally caught on to how how much it annoys me and how it is just incorrect so when he does it he quickly says "our baby" or "the baby" now.
---Qbf--- Ugh when I was pregnant with my first DH decided he was always going to say "my baby"...not our baby, the baby, his name...no "my baby". Idk why but it pissed me off to no end. One day I finally had a hormonal rage at him and informed him he didn't make this baby on his own and it wasn't just his. He got the point and just used his name from then on. All of our babies have been referred to by their name as soon as we know the sex since then. I like that better anyway because after all, our baby is a person and does have a name. I like to use people's names lol
I'm the one that gets trouble for this all the time! I constantly talk to my husband about "my baby," and he does not like it. My excuse is that right now she is inside of me, and it's kind of hard to remember to extend something growing inside of me from "my" to "ours." Working on it though, I see how it's annoying.
@jessiedee13 I'm going to have to start correcting him more in a nice way and maybe he will catch on lol! I do for the most part, and then he corrects himself, but I thought we had chosen a name but my husband doesn't use it ever I'm not sure he is sold on it.
I hate smoke detectors. I hate smoke detectors so much. Just let me die in a fire, please, that would be so much better than dealing with this thing chirping at me at 4 am and necessitating me climbing my pregnant ass up to the top of a stepstool and having a neck-twisted ragefit at the worst-designed battery compartment on earth while both of my dogs have panic attacks and cower helplessly in the bathtub.
In the year 2016, how is this machine still so incompetently designed that it does this to me. Please. It should be capable of sending me a nice polite automated text two days in advance so I can Amazon Prime some 9-volt batteries (instead of running to three different stores because they're all sold out) and just slide them smoothly into a nice automated battery slot.
but no, no, instead we're going to make my entire day go down in a Hindenburg of fury
First of all, you are hilarious. Second of all, two words: Nest Protect.
Worth every damn overpriced penny when you don't have a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector waking your child in the middle of nap or nighttime.
My UO has to do with kid's songs. I was looking for some kids songs to download to my iTunes. I don't know why, but I find some of these songs totally inappropriate. Perhaps b/c my view of the world has lost all innocence. But for instance I downloaded 150 Toddler Songs for 7.99. Some of these I had heard of before and some I haven't. This one for instance disturbs me a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJZIOLn3O0
And then there is Found a Peanut which talks about finding a peanut, discovering it is rotten, and eating it anyway and then dying and going to heaven but being sent to hell and then waking up. WTF?!?!?! I was taught that song as a child, but I had never heard those verses before.
My UO has to do with kid's songs. I was looking for some kids songs to download to my iTunes. I don't know why, but I find some of these songs totally inappropriate. Perhaps b/c my view of the world has lost all innocence. But for instance I downloaded 150 Toddler Songs for 7.99. Some of these I had heard of before and some I haven't. This one for instance disturbs me a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJZIOLn3O0
And then there is Found a Peanut which talks about finding a peanut, discovering it is rotten, and eating it anyway and then dying and going to heaven but being sent to hell and then waking up. WTF?!?!?! I was taught that song as a child, but I had never heard those verses before.
I can't stand most kids' music, for this reason and others. I limit it as much as I can, and I just try to make sure DD learns the common classics like Old McDonald, Wheels on the Bus, etc.
@jewels1020 and @Pascal86 I'm so glad DH and I just agree I guess lol with our 1st he wouldn't even talk boy names with me...he was 100% convinced it was going to be a girl...and we're on our 3rd and final baby...boy #3 lol but once we started talking boy names we realized we both actually hate them all...so we just chose names we could live with...Spencer, Preston and Brayden lol it worked so well for us. I give props to anyone that can wait until birth to name their child lol because I'd be a crazy lady doing that...I like to have everything planned...well that's able to be planned that is lol
@jessiedee13 yeah I give mad props to those who can wait till birth to pick a name but I just know I am not one of them! Lol im going to talk to my husband tonight about whether or not he likes Leo like we have talked about, make sure he's still up for it! Lol this whole naming business is harder then I thought! Lol
Re: UO Thursday 1/14
1. When I worked in daycare we had several kids over the years who referred to one or both of their parents as babe or honey because it's what they heard the other parent use. I always thought it was sort of cute.
2. There's still something unsettling for me when spouses don't put the "your" classifier in front mom or dad. I don't want my DH to say to our kid,"Here comes mom," I'd rather him say, "Here comes YOUR mom." I know it seems small but it just rubs me the wrong way. I'm not DH's mom and he and LO aren't siblings.
3. I also hate when friends refer to their parents as if they are universal parents. Example... "I'm going with mom to dinner tonight." What? Who's mom? Your mom? Because you're not going with my mom. I want them to say, "I'm going with MY mom to dinner tonight." Mom is not a name, it's a title, and a role we use towards our moms out of respect for her position/ relationship in our lives.
----Forever having QBF's------
DD now at 2.5 knows DH and my first and last names. It's adorable to hear her say them. She's able to identify that she calls us mommy and daddy but we have other names as well.
The best part of that is when DH does something he's not supposed to (i.e. Says something is "stupid", we don't use that word) she will get so serious and say CODY! She only calls him by his real name when he's in trouble and I absolutely love it!
Just the other day she called me babe. I was so caught off guard. She said well, that's what daddy calls you. It was so adorable. I've asked her not to call me babe anymore, though
I have been doing pie charts since 1:00. I am taking a Toblerone break.
The problem is that taking the batteries out long enough to change them causes the chirping to go off again. And the compartment is so poorly designed that it takes me FOREVER to do it. (I don't know how all the guys in these youtube videos slot the batteries in and out so smoothly, it never ever ever works remotely like that in real life. Not for me, anyway, not with these cheap #*&$#$ plastic compartments.)
I really just want to solve all my smoke detector problems via point-blank shotgun blast. Thinking about it makes me feel so soothed and peaceful. Violence: sometimes the answer!
Little brother was born October 1, 2012.
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
I really just want to solve all my smoke detector problems via point-blank shotgun blast. Thinking about it makes me feel so soothed and peaceful. Violence: sometimes the answer!
----qbf------
I agree that the chirp is awful and seems to be puppy kryptonite. We have First Alert alarms that have a side-slide-out battery compartment. It's a quick and easy battery change. Plus, they take 2 AAs. The downfall is that they are a bit over sensitive sometimes, though I think may ionization models are.
Well I think I just decided what I'm getting for my birthday this year.
Little brother was born October 1, 2012.
---Qbf---
Ugh when I was pregnant with my first DH decided he was always going to say "my baby"...not our baby, the baby, his name...no "my baby". Idk why but it pissed me off to no end. One day I finally had a hormonal rage at him and informed him he didn't make this baby on his own and it wasn't just his. He got the point and just used his name from then on. All of our babies have been referred to by their name as soon as we know the sex since then. I like that better anyway because after all, our baby is a person and does have a name. I like to use people's names lol
I'm the one that gets trouble for this all the time! I constantly talk to my husband about "my baby," and he does not like it. My excuse is that right now she is inside of me, and it's kind of hard to remember to extend something growing inside of me from "my" to "ours." Working on it though, I see how it's annoying.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!Just... Wow..
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!I agree with this 100%. My DH and I spend time apart. Sometimes I will go to where I used to live and either stay at my moms or my best friends and just visit for a day or two. It's nice. I love it when I get texts saying that he misses me and I've been gone forever. Lol it's cute.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!Frozen hot chocolate
It's one ... Or the other. It cannot be both frozen and hot. Why?
It is just too overwhelming, and I end up just netflixing.
Mama to Three Girls:
Twins born March 2014 at 26 weeks due to preterm labor
and our 37weeker born May 9th, 2016!
@jessiedee13 I'm going to have to start correcting him more in a nice way and maybe he will catch on lol! I do for the most part, and then he corrects himself, but I thought we had chosen a name but my husband doesn't use it ever I'm not sure he is sold on it.
Worth every damn overpriced penny when you don't have a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector waking your child in the middle of nap or nighttime.
And then there is Found a Peanut which talks about finding a peanut, discovering it is rotten, and eating it anyway and then dying and going to heaven but being sent to hell and then waking up. WTF?!?!?! I was taught that song as a child, but I had never heard those verses before.
First Pregnancy
Second Pregnancy
- BFP: 09/11/2015
- EDD: 05/25/2016
Baby Born04/15/2016
PGAL