FFFC- flame free friday confessions

kimb311

OK Ladies! Not that we would flame anyone here, but it is fun to confess your sins!

I'll start.....I totally fake my pregnancy "glow" with a cream blush I just happen to buy at the start of my 2tri. Everyone assumed it was the glow and being out of 1tri hell....and I drink 2 cans of diet coke a day. It is still under the 300mg of caffeine and that is the only artificial sweetner I have at all....so yeah, I suck as a selfless pregnant woman.

mcwhittaker

My FFFC is not baby related

I'm totally exhausted, no matter how many times I tell people at work that we just don't have the staff to do xyz item, they just try and pass the buck. I am supposed to have a staff of 13, we're down to 4 people.

I seem to be unable to 'not care' if things get done or not and it's stressing me out and making my blood pressure even worse.

I really need to just stop feeling guilty about taking days off to rest, and anytime someone calls me from work and says "you sound really tired", I want to snap back with "well i'm being asked to do what can't be done and i'm over 7 months pregnant, you do the math".

And finally, I cannot freaking WAIT until maternity leave... no matter what anyone says, dealing with one small screaming infant will be CAKE compared to dealing with all the screaming adults I work with. For once, i'll be able to focus on ONE thing instead of 5 at a time.

Anyone that says otherwise clearly has NO idea what i do for a living  

Ebeth_in_ATL

I too am still drinking diet coke.  Did it with each of my other kids.  Cheers, sistah!

 Let's see... My house is a total wreck yet here I sit.  I may still be milking the "exhaustion" thing to DH even though I've gotten my energy back in the last couple of weeks. 

ALF222

I want a CS. I know it is major surgery and much longer recovery, but the idea of pushing for hours scares the crap out of me. I feel like a bad Mom already!

molly11258

I ate a tuna sub from Subway today - my first tuna in 5 months - it tasted so good!

LauraLynneC

I want to win lotto so I can quit my job.  even just a small lotto. 

 I'm sick of my commute, I don't connect with my co-workers (the one I was most friendly with is on my LAST nerve) and I have zero job satisfaction.  But because I'm the sole breadwinner, I don't have a choice.  Job listings in my area for my job are paying 30% of what I make so changing jobs isn't an option (even if I weren't pregnant).  I feel stuck.  I resent every aspect of it. 

(I AM grateful that we're not homeless and that we're able to survive without my husband's paycheck - we're even still putting money in savings and retirement - but I'm still just tired of all of it...)

spedi

Every day when i get home from work, I park DS in front of a DVRd cartoon for 30 minutes and power nap. DH got home early yesterday and walked into the bedroom and FOUND me dead to the world.

Peppernut

Okay, I'll bite...  I'm still so wound up from how high-risk Margaux was that I can't seem to quite relax and enjoy this new pregnancy.  I keep waiting for the scary news shoes to drop.  I even lurk on the high-risk board.  This pregnancy is testing as textbook-perfect and I need to chill.

fabfive

Peppernut:

Okay, I'll bite...  I'm still so wound up from how high-risk Margaux was that I can't seem to quite relax and enjoy this new pregnancy.  I keep waiting for the scary news shoes to drop.  I even lurk on the high-risk board.  This pregnancy is testing as textbook-perfect and I need to chill.

i am with you on this!  can't get myself to believe it's a "normal" pregnancy! 

mcwhittaker

I just got off the phone with Benefit's services and i'm LIVID.

I read online that i get 12 weeks FMLA, that i get 6 weeks short term disability and 100% and anything after that is 70% until i reach the 12.

The benefits administrator tells me, no, i get 6 weeks short term disability, after which if i remain on leave, i go to UNPAID status, i have to pay my benefits 100% on my own even if i choose to use my vacation time to supplement my income so they will pay 0 percent of my health insurance, etc for my husband, myself and my new baby.

End result, I have to go back to work after only 6 weeks of leave, and i'm so upset because i absolutely HATE my job right now. I told my boss i don't want the same position when i return but we've had so many people quit, i don't even think that's going to be an option for me now.

I was upset that i would only get to be there 100% for my daughter for only 12 weeks, i'm totally pissed off that i only get to be a stay at home mom for 6 weeks now.

This country totally sucks when it comes to employee care/rights, and we still can't keep any jobs on shore.

Sign me up for a winning Lotto ticket too please, LauraLynne. 

SFAug07

I don't like being pregnant. I am so excited to have another child but I just don't like pregnancy at all - and I have no pregnancy symptoms! And I am not looking forward to the newborn stage at all. If only I could have a one year old child without pregnancy right away...I enjoy DD so much more now that she can communicate.

rpm22

Pepper, I am right there with you.  i walk into every midwife appointment expecting to not hear a heartbeat, and expect the baby to be dead.  It has really made me slightly crazy.  I have even started to get super anxious about my 4 year old.  I think I may go see someone about it......it feels totally irrational.