UO Thursday 8/04

Steelerfan78

fourPsinapod

After the co-sleeping debate, I can't wait to see what shows up here today! 

fourPsinapod

For my own UO.. I do not find myself enjoying summer at all. I hate the heat. I hate sweating like crazy at night. We even have a pool but it's almost too much work to get DD all ready and sunscreen'ed up just to spend a few minutes in there until she gets bored. I've probably been in the pool 3 times the whole summer. I need fall weather like right now. 

MonaLisaRalphio

@fourPsinapod What?  How did I miss a co-sleeping debate?!

fourPsinapod

MonaLisaRalphio said:

@fourPsinapod What?  How did I miss a co-sleeping debate?!

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!

eta: STM thread 

Xstatic3333

MonaLisaRalphio said:

@fourPsinapod What?  How did I miss a co-sleeping debate?!

Ask a STM+. It escalated quickly. 

skiingstark

Sorry mine gets political cause it is on my mind with the election coming up and there are so many pregency issues in politics right now. 

I am sick of maternity leave or the lack there of it in USA. I am dealing with it at work right now.  And I am sick of woman voting against themselves, they say they would like better maternity leave but then they vote for people who specifically say they will do nothing about maternity leave in this country. It is driving me nuts. I am sorry but the only way we are going to get this is if we all rise up and demand regulations on business to say yes we get paid maternity leave. I know it is a dirty word to some people but really, when is enough, enough. Every other 1st world country can do it, why can't we? 

Also I am sick of congress not working. How can we not even get basic funding for Zika?!! Apparently funding will start running out at the end of this month. I am just sick of this and most of these clowns will get re-elected again, because reelection rates are really high in this country. Bah....
 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-break-zika-funding_us_579fa9f4e4b08a8e8b5efaaa

Munchie2.0

I'm so sleepy today I can barely form an opinion

Xstatic3333

On Zika, I don't understand how so many people were taken by surprise about Zika spreading in the Caribbean when it has been a major news story since at least last December. H and I watched it carefully and considered it in our travel plans before even TTC. Pay attention, people! I also don't understand worrying about Zika but not learning about the biology and habits of the mosquitoes that spread it so that you maximize your protection efforts. 

My UO does not apply to Florida. Initial projections about what would happen or not happen there were much more ambiguous and I can certainly understand how planning a trip to Orlando seems safe, even now.  Clearly many on this board live there and are figuring it out just fine, though my heart goes out to those that are worried. I'm talking about being surprised at 10 weeks pregnant that a cruise to Puerto Rico is not advisable and that sort of thing. 

Gretchypoo

my UO is that I hate the terms DS, DD, and DH. It sounds so saccharine when I say it in my head! I love my Hubs but calling him "dear husband" drives me crazy. ;-)

Munchie2.0

Gretchypoo said:

my UO is that I hate the terms DS, DD, and DH. It sounds so saccharine when I say it in my head! I love my Hubs but calling him "dear husband" drives me crazy. ;-)

In my head I say "designated Husband" 
or "damn husband"

Gretchypoo

Munchie2.0 said:

Gretchypoo said:

my UO is that I hate the terms DS, DD, and DH. It sounds so saccharine when I say it in my head! I love my Hubs but calling him "dear husband" drives me crazy. ;-)

In my head I say "designated Husband" 
or "damn husband"

omg I love "Damn Husband" -- adopting this!

jab3-2

HAHA I like damn husband. I could think of a few others too I started writing just H instead.

Jlk2016

Munchie2.0 said:

Gretchypoo said:

my UO is that I hate the terms DS, DD, and DH. It sounds so saccharine when I say it in my head! I love my Hubs but calling him "dear husband" drives me crazy. ;-)

In my head I say "designated Husband" 
or "damn husband"

In my last BMB, I was upset with H One night while reading posts and designated it as "dick head"..... It stuck, I can't help it.

MommaBean

I just write H too.

Mine: I hate the expression "love tits." Just seems gratuitous and grammatically incorrect (when used as a verb)

kswiger06

MommaBean said:

I just write H too.

Mine: I hate the expression "love tits." Just seems gratuitous and grammatically incorrect (when used as a verb)

I'm a bit slow at getting things sometimes. I'm the worst person to tell a joke to because you actually have to explain it to me more often than not, So the first several times I read "love tits" I was completely baffled. I was like "what is that?" Lol  I finally got it though.

kirstynikole

I don't always trust doctors.

I've worked in the medical field and know they're only human. I know various doctors research and flock to certain research/practices more than others. I've been misdiagnosed during pregnancy on two separate occasions from two separate doctors about major problems. So yea I often Dr.Google my heart out and then obviously follow up with a doctor. 

If if I hadn't googled last pregnancy, I wouldn't have known I had cholestasis and demanded the proper bloodwork to diagnose and be induced at 38 weeks. 

*tw*
If i hadn't googled this pregnancy and gotten a second opinion, I would've taken pills to lose my baby, because a doctor didn't do a full medical work up and follow up like she should have. 

MonaLisaRalphio

Gretchypoo said:

my UO is that I hate the terms DS, DD, and DH. It sounds so saccharine when I say it in my head! I love my Hubs but calling him "dear husband" drives me crazy. ;-)

I hate the terms, too, and I refuse to ever use them.  You'll never even hear me say "my H."  I thought about trying it and just couldn't bring myself to do it.

I'll take you one further, though: the terms "hubs" and "hubby" gross me out.  He is my husband.  Sometimes I call him My Human.  That's about as sappy as you'll ever see me get.

Gretchypoo

my other UO is that I hate the Olympics. They are ridiculous, outdated, expensive and dangerous. Especially with the allegations of sexual abuse on coaches from athletes, the fact that it is always a shit show and bankrupts whatever city in which it takes place, the fact that the athletes often start training VERY young and are denied a proper education and sometimes deform their bodies... I can't get behind the Olympics. #endrant

kirstynikole

@MonaLisaRalphio this made me lol 

My human. Yes. Yes that will do. 

BumpasaurusRex

UO: I think if your company provides you with paid leave, it's shitty to go on leave knowing that you don't plan to go back to work and not give them proper notice.  It's fine if you know ahead of time that you don't want to return but at least let them know before you go on leave.

Xstatic3333

BumpasaurusRex said:

UO: I think if your company provides you with paid leave, it's shitty to go on leave knowing that you don't plan to go back to work and not give them proper notice.  It's fine if you know ahead of time that you don't want to return but at least let them know before you go on leave.

All of the yes. It hurts all of us who legitimately want to stay at our jobs and exacerbates pregnancy discrimination. 

BumpasaurusRex

Xstatic3333 said:

BumpasaurusRex said:

UO: I think if your company provides you with paid leave, it's shitty to go on leave knowing that you don't plan to go back to work and not give them proper notice.  It's fine if you know ahead of time that you don't want to return but at least let them know before you go on leave.

All of the yes. It hurts all of us who legitimately want to stay at our jobs and exacerbates pregnancy discrimination. 

Exactly.  Don't try to cheat the system by being dishonest because it's a disservice to the rest of us who are doing the right thing.

It shouldn't be treated as a severance package.

Jlk2016

I hate play dates. I do tons of stuff with my kids and sometimes my girlfriends and their kids join us, but planned out "play dates" with a bunch of people I don't know and have to pretend to like, nah, not for me.

leprechaunlady

Jlk2016 

In my last BMB, I was upset with H One night while reading posts and designated it as "dick head"..... It stuck, I can't help it.

When i first started lurking on the boards anytime i saw dh i automatically thought dickhead too and  call my husband dickhead a lot (jokingly though sometimes not so jokingly).

Gingersnap

Would I be a horrible mother if I said that sometimes I think Damn Daughter? 

bdesterhouse

BumpasaurusRex said:

UO: I think if your company provides you with paid leave, it's shitty to go on leave knowing that you don't plan to go back to work and not give them proper notice.  It's fine if you know ahead of time that you don't want to return but at least let them know before you go on leave.

We have a ton of women that do this where I work. They will come back from maternity leave for a week and then say this is too hard and decide to be stay at home moms.  I am not saying that after a month of being back to work that some people might realize it, but making that decision a week after being back was in my mind pre determined and you knew all along.

It makes it less likely for those of us who can't stay home to get better maternity benefits. 

MrsP052909

So a couple of weeks ago my husband came home from work with a pure bred German Shepard puppy (mind you we already have two dogs). Of course the kids saw it first so I couldn't tell him to take it back. Now I'm stuck taking care of a herd of animals and children while my husband is on his night shift rotation. I don't even think I like the dog!
That was more of a rant but in my house it's a UO because everyone loves this freaking dog!

Lafreeman21

My UO: anytime a nice lady tells me not to lift anything heavy, I imagine fireman squatting them with dark glee. I mean, one metal folding chair? I'm not lifting it with my uturus. 

WinchesterGirl

@fourPsinapod This is all I can think of.



My UO is that I like my bacon soft, not crunchy. We went to Ireland a few years back, and I was in hog heaven with their streaky bacon!

jab3-2

Mine is that I'm not going to miss my kids when they go back to school. Granted, I know mine have some differences that make raising them especially challenging sometimes, maybe that's why, don't know? I love them more than anything but I'm probably going to be singing that song, "celebrate good times, come on!" Once school starts up in a few weeks. There's good and bad to school vs summer of course and believe me, there's nights I sit and cry about how fast they're growing up but... Yeah lol

lfrank12

Again on the Zika topic, I'm really annoyed by the people I hear saying "well I don't plan on getting pregnant so it's fine", then travel to an affected country, come home and don't take any precautions (simply applying bug spray!) that would prevent it from spreading here. If you don't about getting Zika, that's your choice and that's fine. But don't be careless to potentially endanger those of us here who can't help it. 

PerraSucia

I hate cards against humanity. 

It was fun ten years ago but if I have to play one more time I may cry. 

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skiingstark said:

Sorry mine gets political cause it is on my mind with the election coming up and there are so many pregency issues in politics right now. 

I am sick of maternity leave or the lack there of it in USA. I am dealing with it at work right now.  And I am sick of woman voting against themselves, they say they would like better maternity leave but then they vote for people who specifically say they will do nothing about maternity leave in this country. It is driving me nuts. I am sorry but the only way we are going to get this is if we all rise up and demand regulations on business to say yes we get paid maternity leave. I know it is a dirty word to some people but really, when is enough, enough. Every other 1st world country can do it, why can't we? 

Also I am sick of congress not working. How can we not even get basic funding for Zika?!! Apparently funding will start running out at the end of this month. I am just sick of this and most of these clowns will get re-elected again, because reelection rates are really high in this country. Bah....
 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-break-zika-funding_us_579fa9f4e4b08a8e8b5efaaa

EVERYTHING she just said.  Literally.  I ain't even got nothin to add. Shoo!

kirstynikole

PerraSucia said:

I hate cards against humanity. 

It was fun ten years ago but if I have to play one more time I may cry. 

This. My older sister is still all about this game and now it just gets obnoxious to me. I still like me some apples to apples though. Lol so maybe I'm just a lame mom now. 

MLRocha

I think that everyone should just sit their bare cheeks down onto the toilet seat and not be so worried about random germs touching their butts.  Or, put one of those fancy seat covers down first (and please make sure it goes down when you flush).  It's the people who insist on hoovering above the seat who are peeing on the seat and making the restroom gross for everyone else.

Yes, I may have just returned from the office ladies' room.  And, my company does supply seat covers.  And, yes, the stall I used had pee on the seat.  Why?!?

fourPsinapod

BumpasaurusRex said:

UO: I think if your company provides you with paid leave, it's shitty to go on leave knowing that you don't plan to go back to work and not give them proper notice.  It's fine if you know ahead of time that you don't want to return but at least let them know before you go on leave.

Yesssss. I've seen some people mention this on here and I give them major side eye to the extreme. 

BumpasaurusRex

@fourPsinapod  Someone in the FFFC had mentioned it last week so that's what made me think of it. 

fourPsinapod

BumpasaurusRex said:

@fourPsinapod  Someone in the FFFC had mentioned it last week so that's what made me think of it. 

Meanwhile I'm just hoping to take 3 weeks off and hope I don't get nonrenewed (teacher contract) for "other" reasons. And here people are like "I can't wait to deceive my employer for my own personal gain!" Lol.

rachoochoo2

Jab3 said:

Mine is that I'm not going to miss my kids when they go back to school. Granted, I know mine have some differences that make raising them especially challenging sometimes, maybe that's why, don't know? I love them more than anything but I'm probably going to be singing that song, "celebrate good times, come on!" Once school starts up in a few weeks. There's good and bad to school vs summer of course and believe me, there's nights I sit and cry about how fast they're growing up but... Yeah lol

@Jab3
I am so with you! My oldest daughter is on the spectrum and really does not do well with changes in routine. The first month of break was pure hell and meltdown galore. Finally after that she seemed great but now that we're shifting back to school mode and I'm adjusting our schedules back it's God awful again and I just want to drop her at school, where she acts like an angel. 3 more weeks!

Partyof6?

@Jab3, I swear, minus the margarita and of course watching my caffeine intake, lol, this will be me in a couple weeks.