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September 2012 Moms
miss50
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Self-induced pity party! My crib! Tonight Only!
miss50
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I am unemployed right now and have been for five months. Horrible timing I know. My degree is practically worthless. My GPA wasn't exactly desireable. My car has issues. I forgot to pay DH's phone bill!
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Re: Self-induced pity party! My crib! Tonight Only!
We thought our lease was up November 30th. Then we got a letter saying it was August 31. Thankfully, it was a typo, but the date is September 30th.
Can we say inconvenient? Luckily, we had an idea of where we wanted to move to. I've been on the phone this afternoon trying to negotiate some prospects, but I'd much rather just take a nap.
Vroom, vroom.
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I'll play, I'm feeling whiny.
When we moved from TX to PA 2 summers ago, we weren't able to sell our house. So we still own a 3 bed, 2.5 bath home in Austin, TX, but have had renters in it the entire time.
They signed an 18 month lease 6 months ago but we just found out this week that they're breaking it because the husband lost his job. We have one month to find new renters or we are in big trouble.
Did I mention that DH is in law school full time? My business is supporting our family just fine, but it is NOT going to handle another full mortgage very well. F.
Before we were married, my husband bought a home to rent out to his siblings and their friends while they went to college. The last one graduated this May and it feels like we're never going to be able to sell it:/ We're having to pay all this money to make updates AND paying the mortgage...it is pretty frustrating, I can agree.
I am sorry Combies....two mortgages is a lot to have on your plate. We have a very modest home currently, but have an offer in on another, but have to sell our home before getting the next one. It just isn't selling. Plus, we've had no rain and our yard looks horrible.
I can't postpone my big student loan since it was a private school loan. I've been been on time with all my previous payments, but it is their policy.
On a positive note, I still just look like I am fat to people who don't know me. I figure I have about three more weeks to interview before I am part of the don't-call-she's-pregnant list.
A cousin had this similar problem. My suggestions...in this order..
Look outdoors for the problem. You may have an outdoor area that is the cause. Stray felines tend to get them in the yard.
Check old carpet, especially in the basement.
She couldn't get rid of them for anything! ANYTHING! The bombs didn't even work. Good luck, I feel for your puppy. Also, seems like the older the dogs are the harder time to fight those damn things off.
I'm miserably sick. I've slept about a total of 6 hours in 3 days (the middle night I didn't' sleep at all), my eyes and nose are running, my ribs and back hurt from coughing and sneezing, my head is raging. My toddler is also sick. Yesterday that meant he laid around with a fever all day, today it means he cries *constantly* and desperately wants to play without feeling well enough to and wants food that he doesn't actually want to eat.
I want a d@mn sick day.
We're in the midst of potty training (inadvertently doing baby-led potty training? it is going well overall), so this afternoon after naptime DS was in underwear when he had diarrhea. It luckily contained in his underwear, but changing that was about a billion times harder than changing a similar diaper. We both ended up in the shower, covered in shiit, with me desperately trying to clean him faster than he could get poop on his face and him crying because he is sick and mom was being weird and he "made a mess! yucky!" (he said that. poop freaks him out. We're actually really careful not to say anything like yucky about poop ever). All the while my eyes are weeping and I feel all woozy-headed.
Plus during all of this I'm trying to get used to having GD and pricking my finger on schedule and paying a lot of attention to what I eat, when I just want to drown myself in ice cream. And I know I need to get more exercise with the GD, but I feel so miserable that hasn't happened all week, and my back is suffering for it.
/whine.
I realized about 3 minutes ago that my account regular account was in the negative. I got a paycheck this week again because the company I am working for can't get its sh!t together. UGH! So now I have to stop at the bank on my way home. At least it will take my account out of the negative.
I so need a nap and do.not.have.time.tonight. we have so much on the go. I am basically going to the bank, then home to eat, going to pick up some CD that I bought, then we have a housewarming party tonight. It will definitely be an early night especially since we have an out of town wedding tomorrow! BLAH!!
ETA: bump burp? posted halfway!
I will play too.
I'm also sort of unemployed - I graduated in May after doing a 9 month unpaid iinternship for my school counseling certification. Halfway through the internship - LO decides to surprise us with his unplanned September arrival. While I still finished, there isn't any sane district that would hire me being due in September.
I did find something part-time at an agency that is willing to have me start even this late in pregnancy, and I start next week after a few weeks of the director waffling about me starting now.
BUT, since I technically haven't been working since last fall due to the internship, the carefully planned out savings that we had to get us through my internship year (plus some student loans that we planned for) is gone. Emergency fund = gone. All/any extra money = vanished into medical bills.
And the bonus round? DH's ancient car finally decided that NOW was the best time to kick the bucket. Guess who has to go pick up the new car tomorrow. Thank goodness we found something affordable, but still!
Awesome, no? I'm half-panicked that we won't even survive through my maternity leave - which can only be the minimal 6 weeks.
I moved down to Florida 2 years ago and discovered just how frickin' annoying fleas are to deal with. My heart goes out to you.
My best suggestions are to treat the yard if she goes outside regularly. We use "Over and Out" ant killer which I guess had an active ingredient that kills fleas as well. We started using Sentinel for heartworm treatment on our dogs as well, because it helps to prevent baby fleas from hatching. Finally, we vacuumed every day for a week and then I wanted to kill myself but it did get things under control. Best of luck.
Sometimes, I'm hilarious.
I do want to join! My degree is also basically worthless and I want to go back to school but I can't figure out how to financially finagle it without resorting to tons of student loans and that terrifies me.
I have felt out of breath for the last week and that combined with the heat is making me so cranky, which is making me upset that I can't deal with things better which is making me sad for being upset... cue endless, pointless, self-induced cycle of stupidity.
Also, TGIF!
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I wish I could invite ya'll over for a slumber party.
Ice cream, chocolate, yogurt, fruit! Sounds good right? What movie should we watch? Something that can at least make us cry and forget about sickness, debt, flees, school, work, etc!
Keep it coming if you want....I'm hear to listen all night. Kicked the DH out to hang out with his friends. That is better than him dealing with my pity party.
I just read on pinterest today that if you mix baking soda and borax, and sprinkle it on the carpet then vacuum it up a bit later it should kill fleas.
Underwater basket weaving? Or Sport Management?
My mom recently had a terrible flea problem...her dog's first time dealing with fleas! In her case nothing fixed it until she got a pill from the vet. HTH!
The good side of my pity party? DH is finally home. He brought tissue with lotion and aloe in it and night time cold meds. He also brought V8 which is all of a sudden the best thing ever. He further agreed that it was in our best interest to order from Jimmy Johns tonight so that he could take care of both me and DS. As soon as I finish eating this nectar of the gods, I'm going to take cold meds and go to bed early, and he is going to wake me when it is time for my next finger prick.
So yes. I'm hopeful that nothing else super poopy will happen tonight.
After not sleeping much or at all for 3 nights, my doctor told me to go ahead and take Nyquil. I did. I already feel better and can't wait to sleep (decided to wait til after finger poke in 35 minutes). I feel floaty and more relaxed than I have in a while.
I would feel the same way!! Actually the name that DH liked originally I just flat our refused because my BF has been pushing it. She thinks I should name our child after her. Um no. Some days I don't even like her. And it isn't like she'd ever reciprocate. She is just egotistical and wants to feel special. Luckily DH and I agreed on another name pretty easily.
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