FFFC 6/3/16

texasmama2014

Nikkoli98

I consider butter (real butter,  preferably from grass fed cows) as a legitimate health food,  and have no problem what-so-ever consuming about a stick or two per week all by myself.

jaceru

After having my 3 hour glucose test yesterday morning and then work in the afternoon, I was so hungry that I stopped in Walgreens on on the way home and got a bag of Doritos that I absentmindedly ate on the couch while watching teen mom 2. When I finally looked in the bag, I realized that I finished almost the whole thing. Oops. 

ballofmeat

I sometimes dream that I would get fired from my job so I can have a longer maternity leave. Then I remember we need my job for income. Damn. Stupid student loans. 

BritMC18

@Nikkoli98 - me too! No shame in the butter-game I joke around with hubby that it's my favorite side item. 

BritMC18

My FFFC is that I'm sitting in bed at 10:30 am playing Animal Crossing on my Nintendo DS while drinking a Coke and eating a bag of Lay's Sour Cream & Onion chips. I plan on doing this all day. 

pelorunningmama

@midwestbaby Same. Except my dream is that my company would be acquired. If so, we get a year's salary and all of our existing stock grants immediately vest and become ours. 

Work is super slow today so I am planning on binge watching Downton Abbey.

Curls919

Jcr727 said:

After having my 3 hour glucose test yesterday morning and then work in the afternoon, I was so hungry that I stopped in Walgreens on on the way home and got a bag of Doritos that I absentmindedly ate on the couch while watching teen mom 2. When I finally looked in the bag, I realized that I finished almost the whole thing. Oops. 

I showed up at my glucose test with a large coffee and bagel. As soon as the blood was drawn I went to town. I was so hungry!!

ballofmeat

@LWC1112 Oh man that would be amazing. 

I also told DH I wanted the entire DVD set of downton abbey for my push present so I could watch it all over again while on maternity leave. 

ballofmeat

@BritMC18 I freakin love animal crossing. I haven't opened my town in forever, I'm sure it is weed ridden. My FFFC for animal crossing is I am a time jumper. 

BritMC18

@midwestbaby - AC is my achilles heel... I'll put it down for months then re-start my town and play for months before getting bored again. You should get your copy out and we should exchange friend codes!  

I'm also a time-jumper (big time!) in AC. I have two copies of the game, and I try to stick to current time in one town, but it's just too easy to jump ahead.

ballofmeat

@BritMC18 I will try and dig it out from the basement this weekend and PM u if I can find the charger for it. 

BritMC18

@midwestbaby - yes! Please do! 

bearsandbeets7

My FFFC: I have been ugly crying for the past 20 minutes because I got the call that I failed my 3 hour glucose test. It's not the end of the world, it's just food, but man why does everything in pregnancy have to be so damn hard! I just want a healthy baby and having GD complicates things even more. Alright that's my pity party, back to your regularly scheduled confessions. 

ballofmeat

@Lynnlove28 That stinks! I think you are entitled to a pity party. I'd be upset too. 

texasmama2014

@Lynnlove28 pity party it up. so sorry you have to go through this!

cal031686

All my clients except one family kept their kids home today because of Strep which is going around like crazy in our town. I wanted to have another day of nothing and cleaning our house so we can get moved back in, so I messaged them early this morning saying DD wasn't feeling well and I would be closed today. I really struggle with doing it, but now that its done, I am enjoying every minute. I've slept in and am now watching TV and bumping from bed.  

nanner26

@Lynnlove28 That truly sucks. I'm sorry!

I don't know how much more "advice" I can take. Every time someone starts I'm internally rolling my eyes so hardcore. I know people mean well but good lord let me live. 

The worst part is I haven't been home since December and so I'll have a whole new batch of people to give me tons of advice in the next couple of weeks. Fun! 

JournoGrl23

@Lynnlove28 I'm so sorry! I think you're allowed a pity party.

My FFFC is related to what some of you already said regarding work. I hate my job so much. Right now we're down two people in our department because one person got promoted and another quit. Corporate wants to save money by not replacing those positions, which is causing the rest of us to work OT without getting paid for it of course. I flat out refused to do that. But I secretly hope my friend who works with me gets the job he's been interviewing for just as I go on maternity leave. Then that stupid newspaper will be left with only three copy editors, which doesn't even begin to get the paper out each night. Maybe then they'll learn their lesson on purposefully being understaffed to save some money. Also, I'm planning to quit 30 days after I come back from maternity leave since we're moving. I can't wait for that!

mmclark10

@Lynnlove28 Pity party is well deserved!  Sorry you have to deal with it.

1faceinacrowd

My FFFC is that I was almost 10 minutes late to a meeting with my boss yesterday where I was going to be asking for a raise. I'm literally NEVER late to meetings and I seriously just blanked (I blame the stress over asking for more money, combined with total pregnancy brain). 

I seriously lucked out because as I arrived at her office, 8 minutes past my meeting time, she was just finishing up with the person before me and she apologized for making me wait (at which point I admitted that I was running a little behind myself).
She ended up saying yes to giving me a significant pay raise.

jacmkelley

I made myself a wrap, in an effort to eat something healthy. It didn't fill me up so I was going to make another one and saw the Mac and cheese and grabbed that instead. I'm enjoying it way too much and already thinking about the blueberry scones I just bought and how delicious they would be warmed up. I'll be doing that.  

beenabee

@1faceinacrowd congrats on the raise!!

texasmama2014

I'm really bad at multi-tasking. I'm attempting to email people and clean my office at the same time and I'm failing so miserably. (Clearly, since I'm posting this here.)

Mfuller76

@Lynnlove28 That's totally deserving of an ugly cry... Sorry to hear you got bad news.

@1faceinacrowd Congrats on the raise!

My FFFC: Pregnancy has somehow turned me into a terrible driver. It's embarrassing how many curbs I run over on corners and I now have this fear that I'm going to take out a cyclist. Not that I've been close - I'm probably just overly anxious. But if you see me coming, you might want to stay away from the right side of my car!

Snaps816

@midwestbaby I fantasize about that kind of thing, too. I don't want to get fired, but I have this dream scenario where the company comes to me and says since business has been so slow, they'd like to lay me off with a decent severance (say, 2 months' pay, when I have three months till my due date). I would take that in a heartbeat! 

@Lynnlove28 So sorry about your GD test. I don't blame you at all for crying/having a pity party. One of the most frustrating things with pregnancy is how we have things happen to us that feel out of our control. And being on restricted diet sucks no matter the circumstances! But I am sure you'll power through this. 

@texasmama2014 I hear that. I sit down at work to start a task and then the next thing I know I'm on here and I'm not even sure what happened. 

My FFFC is this: my DH is going to have to work all through the weekend, until late at night each day. While that really sucks for him and I will miss spending that time with him... I am secretly pretty excited about a whole weekend of "me time." I love being able to just putz around and do whatever I feel like doing, and I know that once this baby comes that might not happen again for a long, long time. I am going to work on baby stuff though, because lately that's all I want to do anyway! And I think I will make nice breakfasts for DH and I to eat together each morning. I'm not totally selfish. 

jacmkelley

I have another one - the Nursery thred gives me anxiety. Literally every time I see it I stress out so bad. We have so much to do in this little ones nursery. And every time I see it has more posts in it I realize that means more people are working on their nurseries and then there's us. 

JournoGrl23

@jacmkelley me too! To be honest yesterday was the first time I looked at it because I feel so behind! We have the crib and the glider set up and we have a mattress. That's it. That nursery thread makes me feel like I'm way behind schedule.

kristynmac

jacmkelley said:

I have another one - the Nursery thred gives me anxiety. Literally every time I see it I stress out so bad. We have so much to do in this little ones nursery. And every time I see it has more posts in it I realize that means more people are working on their nurseries and then there's us. 

The only thing I have done is look at the different threads to get ideas. Everything is in a pile in the corner of the nursery and I have not touched it! 

jmw386

Hope this makes you ladies feel better - We haven't even decided whether we're turning the guest room or the office (aka the tiniest bedroom you've ever seen) into the nursery, let alone started putting it together.  If it is the former, we need to paint.  We would probably leave the double bed in there for guests, meaning it wouldn't even be a dedicated nursery.  If it is the latter, we need to move the desk and other junk somewhere else in the house, and we still will not be able to fit a glider into the room.  I think we're both avoiding it because we know we're screwed either way.

jacmkelley

Ok, you've all quailed my fears. At least I'm not the only one who has left it for last! I told DH we have to get in this weekend. I'm starting to feel the heat a little bit.

Mfuller76

@jmw386 and @jacmkelley I'm in the nothing-in-the-nursery boat too! We're remodeling our house and can't move back in until the end of the month. Until three days ago, the nursery didn't even have flooring, although it is painted. Definitely a little stressed knowing we're only going to have 4 weeks to get everything bought and set up! 

jacmkelley

Mfuller76 said:

@jmw386 and @jacmkelley I'm in the nothing-in-the-nursery boat too! We're remodeling our house and can't move back in until the end of the month. Until three days ago, the nursery didn't even have flooring, although it is painted. Definitely a little stressed knowing we're only going to have 4 weeks to get everything bought and set up! 

By Monday I'll only have 4 weeks left Inducing at 37 weeks. I'm freaking out lol

Mfuller76

@jacmkelley Well, as my MIL told me, all you really need is some diapers and a drawer to put the baby in. It'll all be good.

texasmama2014

@jacmkelley We won't have a nursery. We live in a camper, so our DD will stay in her crib and baby will go in the RNP for awhile.  I figure I have a few months. I kept DD in the RNP until I caught her standing up in it...

For all you moms feeling bad about stuff you don't do:  I don't do decorating. I haven't even gotten anything out of storage. I have bought no clothes. I only have a few "gender neutral" swaddles.  If this baby is a boy he will basically have to run around naked for awhile, or rather, lay around naked.  I cook as much as I can, and try to be healthy but DD basically lives on grapes, watermelon, graham crackers, cheese, pizza, and milk. I'm lazy. And its ok.

AliKay20

I don't want to take time off from work lately! As much as I welcomed the idea of taking 12 weeks off from work when LO arrives, I am just a little past seven months at this company and I finally reached a striving point where I know what I'm doing/people are seeing the value add in my work towards my clients and internal team, etc.

I've had few clients tell me how I've been of huge help and support asking me to come back as their consultant even after mat leave so I'm now sort of disappointed that I will be having this huge break when I finally have the rhythm down!

Couple of months ago, I was looking forward to mat leave esp since I was still in training/don't really know about my role phase.

Life is full of great timings! Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to meeting our baby but I'm now afraid I'll have to find that rhythm and build it back up after I've been away for so long!! 

tisunge602

I have been fighting toddler bed battles all week. Today's naptime battle was the worst yet and had both DS and I in tears on multiple occasions. I am at the end of my rope, and you better believe I'll be handing the reins over to DH tonight since it's FRIDAY! #sorrynotsorry

lotsofsunshine

I hear ya @tisunge602!

DS and I have really struggled this week. I'm exhausted and he has been cooped up inside due to crazy rain all week. My mom called and asked to have him tonight. Normally, I hesitate because I really don't like sharing. But today, I think he and I both need the break.

ballofmeat

I'm in the opposite boat for the nursery. Ours is done, but now I'm wishing I still had some projects left for it. I'm going a bit stir crazy with nothing left to do except wait. 

cait5413

JournoGrl23 said:

@jacmkelley me too! To be honest yesterday was the first time I looked at it because I feel so behind! We have the crib and the glider set up and we have a mattress. That's it. That nursery thread makes me feel like I'm way behind schedule.

Our nursery has a crib mattress (but no crib), some sheets, clothes, and toys, and some art for the walls that is sitting on the floor. No glider, no dresser/changing table, nada. We do have a pack n play set up in our room. My shower isn't until June 12 and we just moved into our house a couple of weeks ago. I am panicking, a bit.

tmk0325

I too am avoiding the nursery thread. I wish we had a nursery to get ready. I just got a dresser from a garage sale that I hauled into our living room to put baby clothes in and our tv on top of it. We live in a 700 sq ft apartment and as much as I can't wait for our shower next weekend, I have literally no idea where I'm going to put stuff...