I'll start I guess! My FFFC is that I have watched an embarrassing amount of birth vlogs on YouTube in the past week. And I cry every single time. At work.
I was asked to give a speech on Saturday, for about ~1000 people. I sent them my speech, per their request over a week ago. Last night they called and told me they over booked the speakers and wanted to know if I could cut the time in half. I told them I would, but I've been practicing all week (I am *not* a professional speaker, this is a favor, and I'm not getting paid), and I don't want to adjust it... so I think I am just going to keep it mostly the same- because I find it rude I was asked less than 36hrs prior to delivery.
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My fffc is that I kicked my car doors yesterday to get them unfrozen. I am hating this car this week but dh would be so mad if he knew. boring but it's all I got.
FFFC: I'm intentionally ignoring my SMIL because all day yesterday I was really hormonal and I knew if I said anything to her that it wouldn't come out the nice way I wanted it to, it would be filled with snark and sarcasm and the battle isn't worth it. So I haven't answered her
Hubby and Me Friends since 2008 Started dating: July 1st, 2013 Engaged: July 1st, 2014 Married: July 1st, 2016 R born: July 8th, 2017 N born: June 30th, 2019 Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022 (maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
I really need to clean my oven. It was dirty when we moved in and smells terrible. But I don't really know how. I've never had a self-cleaning oven before and I just really don't know how it works.
I really need to clean my oven. It was dirty when we moved in and smells terrible. But I don't really know how. I've never had a self-cleaning oven before and I just really don't know how it works.
Ours is self-cleaning but I'm too scared to try it. Apparently the self-clean setting can cause some serious fumes if it's really dirty. A friend of ours in our apartment complex had to leave her place for the day WITH her dogs because she said the fumes were unbearable. Maybe do some research and see if there's a way to clean it manually instead of with the "self clean" option?
@AdaByron you should try some of those baking soda oven cleaning recipies that say they're no scrub. Then let me know what works cause I do not have a self cleaning oven, I bought it 2 years ago and haven't cleaned it once. Oh but I would convince dh to do it because baby.
@AdaByron you should try some of those baking soda oven cleaning recipies that say they're no scrub. Then let me know what works cause I do not have a self cleaning oven, I bought it 2 years ago and haven't cleaned it once. Oh but I would convince dh to do it because baby.
On all my other ovens I've used the Easy Off cleaning stuff. You don't have to scrub, but you do have to wipe it all out in the end and it's pretty gross. But according to the manual you're not supposed to use any cleaners on this one. I don't know if it means I can't do that at all, or you just don't use cleaners with the self-cleaning setting.
Another FFFC: my 2.5 year old is home sick today, but acting completely normal. He asked for ice cream at 9:30 am and I said yes. Now we're baking cinnamon rolls.
I need to do our self cleaning setting too. Our oven needs cleaned so bad. I just always forget to do it until evening and I don't know how long it takes and don't want it to be on while we're sleeping. Maybe that will be my goal this weekend.
I just shaved my legs for the first time in probably a month. I think my razor dulled before I finished the first leg.
***** TTCAL/Forever Buddy to Cour10e****** -m/c at 11w2d due to partial molar 2008 -m/c #2 2009 Beautiful daughter born February 2011 **Ultimate TTCALer 2009**
We had an ultrasound yesterday and FOUND OUT THE SEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I can't tell you guys yet because I am secretly concerned my sister (who knows I am on here) is lurking to find out before we tell our families on Sunday. lol paranoid much?
The ultrasound tech at the MFM's office gave us a 90% guess on what baby is, but I don't believe her yet because it's early. But I am very upset I don't know for sure yet. Like to the point where I cry over it. Stupid me.
Me (K)-27 DH (T)-30 2 Rainbow DDs L-10/26/10 and A-03/27/14 2 Angels- 10/26/09 and 02/03/15 Surprise BFP on 10/25/16!!! Baby Firecracker is due on 07/02/17!
The ultrasound tech at the MFM's office gave us a 90% guess on what baby is, but I don't believe her yet because it's early. But I am very upset I don't know for sure yet. Like to the point where I cry over it. Stupid me.
I thought I would feel this way (because 15 weeks seems to early to tell via U/S) but the tech said it was 'definitely a insert sex here'. And the MFM came in and within 2 second said he agreed. So I am confident in them. I guess worst case scenario we get a surprise at the anatomy scan! lol
I really need to clean my oven. It was dirty when we moved in and smells terrible. But I don't really know how. I've never had a self-cleaning oven before and I just really don't know how it works.
The wonder about self cleaning ovens is that you do nothing! I use easy off too - but if the food stains have been baked in and rebaked in plus it has been there for some time then it would be time to break out the self cleaning function. The smell is horrific because it literally burns the food stains off. It takes several hours and I normally do it in the summer so I can open all the windows in the house and go outside. I wouldn't stay in there while it self cleans... because it does smell like chemical fumes.
My 4.5 year old was running a fever yesterday. DH was planning on working from home today anyways. Me...I am working from home just for fun. Haha. DS is perfectly fine today but I am milking having to be home because he is sick.
This is the fifth day in a row I've brought myself and DD to Chick-fil-A for lunch. I order the "healthy" items- market salad for me and grilled nuggets and fruit for DD, but I still feel kind of bad for spending the most money. But also I still feel like warm death marinating in vomited bile, and I'm solo parenting all month while DH travels to San Diego, Grand Rapids, Boston, NY, and across the pond to London, so I don't really feel TOO bad about it...
I really need to clean my oven. It was dirty when we moved in and smells terrible. But I don't really know how. I've never had a self-cleaning oven before and I just really don't know how it works.
Ours is self-cleaning but I'm too scared to try it. Apparently the self-clean setting can cause some serious fumes if it's really dirty. A friend of ours in our apartment complex had to leave her place for the day WITH her dogs because she said the fumes were unbearable. Maybe do some research and see if there's a way to clean it manually instead of with the "self clean" option?
Yes, the fumes are crazy! Do it in the summer when you can open the windows.
If you want to do it manually, you can but oven cleaner.
The thought of smelling a self cleaning oven while pregnant with a super nose, is enough to actually make me gag while typing this!!!! Don't do it guys! LOL
I did it last month before we had the inlaws over for Christmas. So many fumes, set the fire alarm off - cue crying kids and barking dogs. Luckily it was a decently warm day (40 degrees) so I got to air out the 1st floor. 2 birds 1 stone...
My FFFC is I went to my last appointment alone, DH watched LO. I mentioned that there was some blood the first time we tried after me being pregnant. She said it was totally normal and to just listen to my body. Sooooo, I told my DH we couldn't do it because they said my body wasn't ready. And he hasn't bugged me for two weeks now! And I don't feel bad at all!!! I'm still puking nonstop.
@LoveLee85 Same! My two biggest nausea/migraine-related regrets so far have been 1) letting our landlord install a new radiator and 2) using washing machine cleaner for a wash cycle. The former gave me a migraine each time we tried to turn on the radiator overnight, so now I just have a space heater in there, and the latter stunk up the house so badly that I thought I was going to suffocate on laundry cleaner smells. We ended up opening the windows in the middle of a cold spell, heat bill be dammed. AWFUL.
So my recommendation is only expose yourself to fumes if you can stand to open your windows/doors a couple of times during the process. This stuff the worst while pregnant. Never again.
@AdaByron I have also read that the self cleaning feature can be not the greatest. When we moved into our new place (the previous owners were NOT the cleanest people ever) I just made a paste of baking soda and water, slathered the oven, let it sit (overnight, since we didn't need to use it) then wiped it all out with a sponge. Still a bit of scrubbing, but nothing too bad and I didn't have to risk any harsh chemicals or the self clean setting.
As for my FFFC, I strategically announced to the office when I knew one of my colleagues wouldn't be here so she'd be the last to know. She had an idea that we were thinking about trying, and constantly "sneakily" tries to ask if I'm KU. Now everyone knows but her. Oops. No shame!
I kind of ruined DH's bday yesterday... When I was driving home from work Wednesday night (1.5 hrs), my oil light kept flashing on. So DH checked it in the morning and I had NO oil in the reservoir! So I took his car to work, and he had to bring my car to the shop, walk home in the rain, and be stranded all day. I figured I had a leak, especially since it had been so cold last week. Nope, I just went over 10,000 miles without an oil change
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I've cooked maybe twice since Thanksgiving. Its been take out or cereal every night. I'm sick as a dog all day near about every day. I don't even care at this point as long as my little girl gets fed.
This is the fifth day in a row I've brought myself and DD to Chick-fil-A for lunch. I order the "healthy" items- market salad for me and grilled nuggets and fruit for DD, but I still feel kind of bad for spending the most money. But also I still feel like warm death marinating in vomited bile, and I'm solo parenting all month while DH travels to San Diego, Grand Rapids, Boston, NY, and across the pond to London, so I don't really feel TOO bad about it...
Lol. This is the 4th day in a row I've had Chick-fil-a for breakfast. Love chicken biscuits. It's my one pregnancy indulgence.
This is the fifth day in a row I've brought myself and DD to Chick-fil-A for lunch. I order the "healthy" items- market salad for me and grilled nuggets and fruit for DD, but I still feel kind of bad for spending the most money. But also I still feel like warm death marinating in vomited bile, and I'm solo parenting all month while DH travels to San Diego, Grand Rapids, Boston, NY, and across the pond to London, so I don't really feel TOO bad about it...
Lol. This is the 4th day in a row I've had Chick-fil-a for breakfast. Love chicken biscuits. It's my one pregnancy indulgence.
Guys...the closest Chick-Fil-a is over TWO HOURS AWAY!!!!! Don't make me drive there today. LOL
Ok, so I bought yellow cake mix and milk chocolate frosting. I also have tortilla chips sitting on the dresser and kinda want to open the frosting and dip the chips in it... also MIL asked why I feed my son that crap (spinach apple and peach organic baby food to name one) and I told her that it is because it is healthy for him and he LIKES it. Better than the garbage she tries to feed him, like potato chips and fatry bacon grease fried things. I'd rather train his taste buds early, that is all.
DH asked if I wanted to go out for lunch because I've been whining about buffalo chicken wraps. I had a meeting I couldn't make it back in time for so I double booked my calendar then sent a note saying I would be late because I'm double booked. Nothing's gonna get in the way of my wrap!
DH asked if I wanted to go out for lunch because I've been whining about buffalo chicken wraps. I had a meeting I couldn't make it back in time for so I double booked my calendar then sent a note saying I would be late because I'm double booked. Nothing's gonna get in the way of my wrap!
My FFFC for today: I had my 16 wk appt first thing this morning, and even though it took 1.5 hrs, I still convinced DH to go out to breakfast. HOLLA all you can eat pancakes at IHOP! Then we had to speed-clean the house bc my inlaws were coming at 1pm. As soon as they got here, I had DH take them out so I could work from home this afternoon, but I've just been bumping the whole time. And I'm already planning on telling them I'm super-exhausted at 7pm.
Highly monitored internet and no cell service in the office, so I'm postin' and ghostin' while I'm workin'
Thanks for all the advice on cleaning the oven. I will probably just ask DH to clean it with Easy Off this weekend, and wait for nicer weather before I try the self-cleaning feature.
On a seperate note, I feel like participating in the food topic here, even though I already did a FFFC and even though I posted this same thing in Random Chatter. Forgive my over-posting I went to the grocery store just to buy this stuff. Nothing else. I didn't even need anything else, I specifically went to potato chips and ice cream. I have never felt so pregnant.
Hubby and Me Friends since 2008 Started dating: July 1st, 2013 Engaged: July 1st, 2014 Married: July 1st, 2016 R born: July 8th, 2017 N born: June 30th, 2019 Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022 (maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
Here's another one, that's on the lame side. I HATE pregnancy/breastfeeding boobs. Hate them. I love my tiny barely B boobs. I can get away with not wearing a bra and all my shirts fit right and boobs sweat is at a minimum and I just like the way they look.
My pregnant boobs are floppy hot messes with ridiculously large areolas. I hate the feeling when they squish together and it makes sleeping on my stomach so uncomfortable. I could give a shit weather my husband thinks they are sexy. They are a nuisance, and I CANNOT WAIT until approximately May or June of 2018 when I stop breastfeeding to have my barely B's back FOR GOOD. I'm a 2-and-through woman. No more babies after this one. God just that thought of complete bodily autonomy forever gives me all the tingles. Only one and a half more years...
I'm so angry at the whole Zika thing for ruining all the potential island locations for our spring vacation that I'm almost considering going somewhere anyways. Now I'm angry at myself for being so selfish for even considering it. Wtf is wrong with me.
I didn't have time to have a real lunch at work. So I ran to the 7-Eleven across the street and got a spam musubi. It's so bad for me, but what I wanted right now.
@Rotu101 Come to Hawaii! We are Zika-free (except for the few cases where people contracted elsewhere and hopped on a plane to Hawaii, but it didn't spread further than that).
@Rotu101 they say just planning a trip as in the research and deciding what would be fun is good for reducing stress. So you could plan a vaca there, just don't book anything.
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-m/c at 11w2d due to partial molar 2008 -m/c #2 2009
Beautiful daughter born February 2011
**Ultimate TTCALer 2009**
My fffc is that I kicked my car doors yesterday to get them unfrozen. I am hating this car this week but dh would be so mad if he knew. boring but it's all I got.
Friends since 2008
Started dating: July 1st, 2013
Engaged: July 1st, 2014
Married: July 1st, 2016
R born: July 8th, 2017
N born: June 30th, 2019
Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022
(maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
-m/c at 11w2d due to partial molar 2008 -m/c #2 2009
Beautiful daughter born February 2011
**Ultimate TTCALer 2009**
Me (K)-27 DH (T)-30
2 Rainbow DDs L-10/26/10 and A-03/27/14
2 Angels- 10/26/09 and 02/03/15
Surprise BFP on 10/25/16!!! Baby Firecracker is due on 07/02/17!
If you want to do it manually, you can but oven cleaner.
So my recommendation is only expose yourself to fumes if you can stand to open your windows/doors a couple of times during the process. This stuff the worst while pregnant. Never again.
As for my FFFC, I strategically announced to the office when I knew one of my colleagues wouldn't be here so she'd be the last to know. She had an idea that we were thinking about trying, and constantly "sneakily" tries to ask if I'm KU. Now everyone knows but her. Oops. No shame!
Dating: 12/21/2001
Married: 09/08/2012
BFP: 11/16/2016 EDD: 07/27/2017
Baby Fish born: 08/01/2017
When I was driving home from work Wednesday night (1.5 hrs), my oil light kept flashing on. So DH checked it in the morning and I had NO oil in the reservoir! So I took his car to work, and he had to bring my car to the shop, walk home in the rain, and be stranded all day.
I figured I had a leak, especially since it had been so cold last week.
Nope, I just went over 10,000 miles without an oil change
Highly monitored internet and no cell service in the office, so I'm postin' and ghostin' while I'm workin'
Me: 26 Him: 27
Dating: 5/2011 Married: 6/2014
Mirena out/TTC: 02/2016
BFP #1: 12/01/2016
EDD: 07/24/2017
Then we had to speed-clean the house bc my inlaws were coming at 1pm.
As soon as they got here, I had DH take them out so I could work from home this afternoon, but I've just been bumping the whole time. And I'm already planning on telling them I'm super-exhausted at 7pm.
Highly monitored internet and no cell service in the office, so I'm postin' and ghostin' while I'm workin'
On a seperate note, I feel like participating in the food topic here, even though I already did a FFFC and even though I posted this same thing in Random Chatter. Forgive my over-posting
I went to the grocery store just to buy this stuff. Nothing else. I didn't even need anything else, I specifically went to potato chips and ice cream. I have never felt so pregnant.
Friends since 2008
Started dating: July 1st, 2013
Engaged: July 1st, 2014
Married: July 1st, 2016
R born: July 8th, 2017
N born: June 30th, 2019
Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022
(maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
My pregnant boobs are floppy hot messes with ridiculously large areolas. I hate the feeling when they squish together and it makes sleeping on my stomach so uncomfortable. I could give a shit weather my husband thinks they are sexy. They are a nuisance, and I CANNOT WAIT until approximately May or June of 2018 when I stop breastfeeding to have my barely B's back FOR GOOD. I'm a 2-and-through woman. No more babies after this one. God just that thought of complete bodily autonomy forever gives me all the tingles. Only one and a half more years...
@Rotu101 Come to Hawaii! We are Zika-free (except for the few cases where people contracted elsewhere and hopped on a plane to Hawaii, but it didn't spread further than that).