B*tch Fest/WTF?!? 4.10 - 4.16

hp_momma

DH is getting ready to go back to the field for a couple more weeks. We're in the awful in-between stage of I don't want him to go but at the same time just leave already! 

hp_momma

bacorrea said:

I'm so hot. I was adjusting my shoes and started sweating. I hate being hot.

I'll trade you any day! I'm so tired of putting on sweaters and jeans. Can I just wear a tank top and some flip flops already?! 

RedInLove

Wiping! It seems like no matter how little or much I output and how much paper I use, I still manage to miss some and drop down my leg when I stand up. WTF??

redheeler

nda_roxybabe said:

@sweaterboots Isn't it so fun breathing fire all night? My Dr. said I can't just take the Zantac when I feel like it, I need to do it every. single. day. I've tried to make a habit of taking it with dinner, but slip sometimes.

Get the 300mg Zantac, you'll thank me later :-) 

sweaterboots

@PartiallyDomesticated Can I still take 2 x day? I usually need one after lunch and then right before bed! TYIA

kns1988

WTF, it isn't Thursday? I was looking for the UO thread because I actually have one today! I'll probably forget it by tomorrow. 

kns1988

@achays11, Sorry about your husband's license. That's definitely extra stress that you don't need right now. Do you have any neighbors that could help out if you were home? 

mspacman34

@sweaterboots Have you tried a wedge pillow or elevating the head of your mattress? I used to get horrible reflux at night and sleep with a wedge pillow since then.

jlonie614

+1 to the dual monitor and +1 to the wiping...Cottenelle moist wipes for the win!!

WTF to upper management, what do you mean you didn't know you had to update the current year forecast to compare to next year budget. This is the same process we have been using for the last THREE YEARS. Why oh why do I need to remind you AGAIN??!?!?! Oh and learn to use a Pivot Table already.  

WombThereItIs

sweaterboots said:

@PartiallyDomesticated Can I still take 2 x day? I usually need one after lunch and then right before bed! TYIA

I take Zantac 150mg twice a day and supplement with tums for breakthrough stuff during the day. My doc is 100% cool with that. Also taking a unisom at night seems to conk me out through some of the less severe heartburn too. 

Hansolosparka

@RedInLove I'm in that fb group! I posted a pic last weekend of us at the movies with DS glasses on. It's a great group!!

achays11

@kns1988 we're not close with our neighbors. Hopefully one of my cousins will be available if I can't wait. 

ShadeofGreen816

WombThereItIs said:

sweaterboots said:

@PartiallyDomesticated Can I still take 2 x day? I usually need one after lunch and then right before bed! TYIA

I take Zantac 150mg twice a day and supplement with tums for breakthrough stuff during the day. My doc is 100% cool with that. Also taking a unisom at night seems to conk me out through some of the less severe heartburn too. 

@sweaterboots THIS! I'm on 150 twice a day also. I did some research and Zantac (ranitidine) is one of the better studied antacids in pregnancy and one of the bigger studies was done on this dosage. I also am supplementing with Tums. Damned heartburn. I've never had it ever before this pregnancy, which I am now thankful for, but UGH. How do people deal with this all the time? It's TERRIBLE. 

redheeler

@sweaterboots I think you can, they're designed for those who have to take 2x 150mg, I would just check with your doctor though, don't take my completely non-medical advice lol

SKZW

achays11 said:

@kns1988 we're not close with our neighbors. Hopefully one of my cousins will be available if I can't wait. 

@achays11: Just chiming in to say that stinks about his license---it's definitely bad timing all around! Sorry you have to deal with that. And Re the MOTN potential: Are you close to the hospital? Would you be able to take a cab for not too much money?

Jens_Hoes

achays11 said:

@kns1988 we're not close with our neighbors. Hopefully one of my cousins will be available if I can't wait. 

This is totally irresponsible of me, but if I were in your situation I'd still have him drive. Obviously you have real life consequences and I don't, but I can see my husband doing that. I say that partly because unbeknownst to me at the time, he picked me up for our first date with a suspended license. I didn't find out until later in our relationship when he said "if we get pulled over we're switching because I don't have a license". I should have ran then lol

RedInLove

@achays11 Can he apply for an early reinstatement due to hardship? 

redheeler

Jens_Hoes said:

achays11 said:

@kns1988 we're not close with our neighbors. Hopefully one of my cousins will be available if I can't wait. 

This is totally irresponsible of me, but if I were in your situation I'd still have him drive. Obviously you have real life consequences and I don't, but I can see my husband doing that. I say that partly because unbeknownst to me at the time, he picked me up for our first date with a suspended license. I didn't find out until later in our relationship when he said "if we get pulled over we're switching because I don't have a license". I should have ran then lol

I personally would do this too, screw the consequences, H has lost his license so many times that he hasn't had it longer than he has I'm sure. 
I would have a different opinion if he had never held a license at all or something, but if there's no other option it's not like he doesn't know how to drive, just that he shouldn't  i know that here most cops are understanding and would probably look the other way if they pulled you over anyway 

achays11

Thanks for the support ladies! Our lawyer said that we could probably get away with him driving me, even if we happened to get pulled over, but it would basically be another day in court and I'm not willing to do that plus pays any fees associated with that. If it were just restricted, I may let it slide, but it's completely suspended. We are trying to get the judge to say that he can drive me and DD with the restricted license after 5/19 because I won't be able to drive after the baby and DD needs to get to school. If worst comes to worst, yes I could take a cab to the hospital and have him wait at home with DD until someone can get there to watch her. 

It's just frustrating because he got the DUI in February and it has taken them this long to suspend his license. They could have done it right away and then he would be restricted and I wouldn't care as much. This is just making me upset with him all over again, and I was finally getting back to a good place. 

rkstro2

@achays11 ugh that totally sucks that they haven't done anything up to this point and then now all of a sudden it's suspended.  That is terrible timing.   

@hp_momma Sorry your DH is going back into the field so close to the due date.  

ok so I've bitched about my coworkers non stop lately but after asking my opinion on what to do about the May call schedule they did the opposite and ended up putting me on call the weekend of may 19-20.  I'm due 5/29z. Hahahahahahaha I told him it was his responsibility to find me a backup person.   I'm hoping to go into labor that weekend just to spite him for being a bad scheduler.  

slowmo

@achays11 - I'm so sorry! That's very stressful and probably makes you upset with him and what happened all over again (that's how I would feel, anyway). FWIW, I took an Uber to the hospital last time. I wasn't in active labor but had to report to L&D for high blood pressure. It was a 45-min drive and a bit pricy (but way less than a cab or car service). The best part was seeing the driver's face when he pulled up and saw me sitting on my stoop with a big belly and an overnight bag. I had to reassure him that I wasn't going to have a baby in his backseat.

jayandaplus

@achays11 That's a terrible situation and I'm sorry you have to even think about it. Do you know what you're going to do if you go into labor before 5/19? Fingers crossed you don't!

achays11

The hospital is about 5 miles away from us, so it shouldn't be too expensive of a ride. If I go into labor before 5/19, I'm honestly hoping I'm at work. I think that would be the easiest. I can have a co-worker drive me and then MH can find a way to the hospital. My guess is that it will probably happen before 5/19 and in the most inconvenient way possible. 

Louise_Belcher

I am so mad at myself. There is a huge high school robotics competition on campus starting today and we were warned a million times that parking would be an issue and plan for extra time. I got here early this morning and got to park in my normal lot, but then had to leave for a unnecessary hearing test for DS. When I returned I had to park about 1/2 mile away from my building and while getting dressed this morning I blanked on all of this and wore heels and a dress also it's raining. Seriously Louise! These swollen feet are your fault!

hp_momma

WTF. DD2 is so stubborn. I tell her she needs to clean up her mess of toys or she's going to time-out. She chooses time-out. I tell her that she needs to share with her sister or I'll take the toy back to the store, she tells me "here take it back". She's going to make me insane. 

sweaterboots

@mspacman34I have the U-shaped pregnancy body pillow and sleep with a firm pillow on top of that.  I'm elevated quite a bit but it's still an issue

@WombThereItIs @PartiallyDomesticated@ShadeofGreen816 you guys. I took two 75mg last night (didn't have time to run out and get the proper 150mg tablets) and it changed my life. I slept better than I have in ages!!  We even had baked turkey sausage ziti and I'm lactose intolerant and it didn't effect me.  It's a damn miracle. Thank you!!! 

onebadmotha

WTF to the man who yelled at me in the CVS parking lot this morning- only stopping when he noticed I'm pregnant. I was turning left into the parking lot and he was trying to turn left out of the parking lot- he thought he had the right of way. He was very, very wrong- but still came back to yell at me after I had parked and was on my way into the store. He apologized when he realized I'm pregnant, but that should NOT make a difference! Also, he still maintained that I was wrong. Ugh. People. 

achays11

@hp_momma my DD is same the way! I tell her to do something or I'm going to take a toy away and she says "which one are you going to take away?"

hp_momma

achays11 said:

@hp_momma my DD is same the way! I tell her to do something or I'm going to take a toy away and she says "which one are you going to take away?"

Yessss. Threats make no difference to her. Or prizes/treats. Basically the child can't be persuaded to do anything! 

bacorrea

hp_momma said:

WTF. DD2 is so stubborn. I tell her she needs to clean up her mess of toys or she's going to time-out. She chooses time-out. I tell her that she needs to share with her sister or I'll take the toy back to the store, she tells me "here take it back". She's going to make me insane. 

Bahaha I love her. She would get along great with my DD. 

redheeler

sweaterboots said:

@WombThereItIs @PartiallyDomesticated@ShadeofGreen816 you guys. I took two 75mg last night (didn't have time to run out and get the proper 150mg tablets) and it changed my life. I slept better than I have in ages!!  We even had baked turkey sausage ziti and I'm lactose intolerant and it didn't effect me.  It's a damn miracle. Thank you


SITB:
i completely missed that you're only taking the 75mg! You can have up to 4 of those. I haven't found I've needed more than 150mg often, but you can definetly take more if it stops working!

hp_momma

bacorrea said:

hp_momma said:

WTF. DD2 is so stubborn. I tell her she needs to clean up her mess of toys or she's going to time-out. She chooses time-out. I tell her that she needs to share with her sister or I'll take the toy back to the store, she tells me "here take it back". She's going to make me insane. 

Bahaha I love her. She would get along great with my DD. 

It's so different than DD1 who strives on order and routine! They share a room so I can already forsee a Full House moment with tape down the center of the room to divide the neat and messy sides... 

redheeler

Reviving this, because my H deserves it.
This morning he decided to go off and buy a home gym (that we couldn't afford) and now it is in my lounge room after I asked it be put literally anywhere else -.- 
that I could deal with. But I am 36 weeks pregnant, with a cold. DS also has a cold, H is fine. So why the F**k is H the one napping on the lounge while I deal with a sick toddler and clean the kitchen?! Ugh! I just want all the strong cold and flu drugs

llenadevida900

I don't care it's so late for bitching, but I am so over our shared laundry. We have front loaders, which smell like mildew, so our clothes smell. And people don't clean out the dryer lint traps. We. Are. Adults. This isn't college anymore! I don't want to pay an arm and a leg for stinky clean clothes and other people's lint! (And now I whine. Time for bed.)

redheeler

llenadevida900 said:

I don't care it's so late for bitching, but I am so over our shared laundry. We have front loaders, which smell like mildew, so our clothes smell. And people don't clean out the dryer lint traps. We. Are. Adults. This isn't college anymore! I don't want to pay an arm and a leg for stinky clean clothes and other people's lint! (And now I whine. Time for bed.)

Try running a cup full of white vinegar through with your laundry, at worst it'll smell like vinegar, but it should  kill the mildew smell

BabyMC517

You shouldn't have a vinegar smell because the smell goes away once it's dry I wash out towels with vinegar and then baking soda st least once a month to get that musty smell out. Should help with your machine too to clean it out. 

ChristinaWild

+1 on the vinegar! It still sucks that other people can't clean out the lint, but at least your dryer won't smell. I do this all the time and the vinegar smell won't stick around!

cato99

Aaaaaugh @Jens_Hoes I know this happened to you recently but we just had a skunk incident and I want to dieeeeeeeee

I came home late from dinner with a friend and let my dog out to the pitch-black dark yard to pee and there was clearly a skunk or, idk, 20 skunks or 500 skunks just waiting there. There was an explosion of smell and immediately it was EVERYWHERE in the house. Both from my dog running back in in a panic and streaming all over the house until I could catch and contain him, and just the fact that the skunk exploded right next to/under the door.

I played the pregnancy card and had my husband and brother in law bathe Cato 3 times with skunk shampoo at like 2 am but even the next morning the smell is inescapable, even in our 3rd-story bedroom. 

Should I just give this house up for lost and burn it to the ground or move to the other side of the world or 

Jens_Hoes

@cato99 we gave our dog a bath and let hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dish soap sit on him for 5 min and rinsed. We bathed him multiple times for a very long time the day of and day after. 
Lots of air movement candles and febreeze helped with then smell in the house. I washed everything the next day including bedding and all our clothes to avoid the smell getting back on any of us. 

Good luck!!! It sucks balls lol

cato99

@Jens_Hoes brb going out to buy the whole Bay Area out of febreeze! And there is A LOT of laundry in our immediate future.

ugh this is the last unscheduled Saturday before the baby comes and I had such hopes for baby-related nesting!