Monday Morning Vents

LoCarb · November 2013

Anyone?

LoCarb · November 2013

I wish my company was closed for Veteran's Day. I had a lot of errands and phone calls/emails to thank serviceman I know. BTW-if you are in the service or a Veteran a huge THANK YOU!

I'm overwhelmed with my workload and have little direction on 'new' projects. It's consuming my time, providing additional stress and I'll be working late all week. Ugh!

financialdiva · November 2013

First day back from vacation sucks! The stuff piled up at home, the emails piled up at work- awful!!!!

I also have a 2 or 3 hour meeting schedule everyday this week- with two three hour meetings tomorrow. WTF? I hate meetings, especially long ones!

FemShep · November 2013

This is a stupid vent, but here we go....

Long story short, because we share custody of DD1 with her biodad, the only options for putting up our Christmas tree are the weekend of 11/16 or the day of 12/1, after we arrive home from our Thanksgiving travel (our flight lands after midnight), when we have to do all the normal weekend errands to get ready for the upcoming week (grocery shopping, etc).

DH just can't wrap his head around putting the tree up before Thanksgiving, so we're going to have the Day From Hell on December 1, exhausted, stressed, and putting up a tree. Gah.

Yep, this is totally a first world problem, and I'm going to be decorating with a smile on my face, but I just needed to vent about a silly preference from my otherwise awesome DH.

wpavalko · November 2013

Sure, I'll play!

There is a huge project that coworker (who I get along with really well) needed to complete, but his back surgery got moved up to today. So I got stuck finishing the project for him. Boss (who is being very difficult about every.little,thing lately) sent me an email this weekend confirming what needed to be done for this week. I am happy to help out coworker, but now boss is all POed that I didn't come in this weekend to work on it. He is also upset that now my timetable to complete my project is pushed back to next week. Does he magically think that I can complete two full time projects at the same time?!? As a side note, he is perfectly able to help with one or both projects, but chooses not to because he would rather focus on writing up the results for said project. My mantra today is "7 more weeks".

MamaAllison · November 2013

GTT test today... Ugg. Was eating my protein breakfast (eggs) as directed by my doctor this am and I'm sitting there thinking to myself, I bet ten bucks DH is going to come down and be like, "why are you eating eggs?" Even though I told him I have this test like a million times and how I'm not looking forward to it. Of course he did just that so I felt pregnant lady justified on going off on him a little bit. I love how men don't need to worry about ANYTHING with regards to pregnancy.

Also, last night was a poor night to forget to take my Pepcid.

Lastly, eggs are disgusting.

mrsshawnavanb · November 2013

beaubecca said:

Ugh I have Monday afternoon vents leftover from this morning.

1. DH put a damper on my mood last night/this morning by grumbling about being off and "not really having a vacation day anymore" I encouraged him to take LO to daycare for a couple of hours so that he could get a haircut and run errands. But he woke up and showered and got ready to leave (before me!) and said he planned to leave LO at DC all day so he could do a bunch of stuff. That didn't sit well with me - I'm not sure why. I look forward to days off with LO and wish he did too. He looks at it as more of a chore and I don't know why but it hurts my feelings.

2. When I got to work everything blew up. Annoying meetings, HR issues with a staff member, and another problem staff member who had been getting better decided to be a no show/no call. Grrrrr.

3. I have a lot of work piling up and the one person I need to resolve/answer to some of these issues is on paternity leave. I definitely am in support of him being on leave but am frustrated that there was not a good contingency plan/support person in place who could speak to his work load!

4. We are getting broker by the day and my dog had to go to the emergency vet yesterday costing us $400. Whoo hoo.

OK vents done. If you made it this far you get a cookie.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who struggles with this. DH is off every Monday and DD goes to daycare anyways. It annoys the $hit out of me. I am with you, I sooo look forward to my time with LO. Don't get me wrong, I am sometimes envious that I do not have a "me" day every once in awhile but at the same time I love spending time with my girl so it makes up for it. In DH's defense, he is UBER productive on Mondays and gets tons of stuff done that he would not be able to with DD home but still, would it kill him to enjoy a day with his baby once or twice a month?! ugh

mae0111 · November 2013

@beaubecca - my DH really struggled with that when we had DD1, and it lasted (on and off) for about 2.5 years. In a particularly heated discussion, after DH had been away a TON for work and for fun guys trips, I was asking him to change yet another guys weekend from 2 nights away to just one. He said that he worked hard, and deserved to have fun. I believe that's when I screamed, "WHERE IS MY F-ING FUN?!?!" It hadn't occurred to him at all that while he was away, I was pulling double duty, 100% solo. DD1 is an easy kid in general, and I took full advantage of the time that he was away to have lots of special mommy-daughter outings. But as good as she was, and as much fun as we had, it was still difficult to not have a reprieve.

But it finally sunk in with him when DD kind of stopped caring whether he was around or not. She didn't greet him with the "DADDY!" squeal when he returned from a trip, she didn't run up and give him a hug... he had become just some guy that showed up for a few hours here and there. Luckily, he realized it, and stopped all of the "fun" travel without us. DD1 is 4, and they are best buddies now.

Good luck... hopefully he'll realize what he's missing before it's too late.

NicoleWI · November 2013

Oooh, oooh! I have vents! I know all of this pales totally compared to all the horrible world news, but here are my petty issues:

1. The dishwasher broke. This is not good. We fill it up to the brim every day. I don't know when I am going to shop for a new one and how long it will take to get it installed. UGH.

2. We didn't make it to the grocery store this weekend and totally need to re-stock. Plus now we are going to stock up on paper goods, too.

3. DD1 never has accidents, but she did last night. Had to start her bedding and give the nanny instructions on the rest.

4. Our shower tiler did a totally sh#$%y job and now we may have to eat $1200 in materials PLUS pay someone else to take it down and re-do it.

5. We are in the midst of all kinds of renovations and it's starting to wear on us.

michaelaskedlauren · November 2013

I have had an especially craptastic day of, which at it's peak included my boss telling me she "am not very good at my job and thinks I just push paper around", despite never having given me a negative review in the 4 years I have reported to her. It was awesome.

The silver lining is that it gave me clarity as to my next steps after my maternity leave, and it gives me an excuse to order something extra naughty for dinner and give myself extra cuddle time with DS.

Karla CS · November 2013

I'm late to the party..

Blowouts. Major, terrible, nasty, up the back and front blow outs. We were on vacation for the weekend, and of the 3 poopy diapers we had, we had 3 blowouts. 2 of them were on the road, with no bathrooms nearby, so we had to just strip her down on the side of the road. And to think, when we were packing her bags, I thought to myself.. THIS IS WAYYYY TO MANY OUTFITS FOR HER!

On the plus side, we found out that she really likes diaper changes al fresco.

reb84 · November 2013

My monday morning vent (and probably all week) is that my neighbor's who put their house up for sale by owner in Oct are closing in Dec. My house has been on the market since May with no offers. DH doesn't understand why I'm upset; I know life is not fair but I just want to wallow in self pity about it right now. I don't have to be happy for them.

welly01 · November 2013

This is probably a FFC but I'm so annoyed at all the "work-at-home" moms "advertising" on my FB page. I get a continuous stream of Plexus, Mary Kay and Thirty-One crap. If you're a SAHM, congrats, I'm jealous of you. But please stop advertising all. the. time. about all the stupid stuff you have to sell in order to stay home.

Divallyn · November 2013

welly01 said:

This is probably a FFC but I'm so annoyed at all the "work-at-home" moms "advertising" on my FB page. I get a continuous stream of Plexus, Mary Kay and Thirty-One crap. If you're a SAHM, congrats, I'm jealous of you. But please stop advertising all. the. time. about all the stupid stuff you have to sell in order to stay home.

I feel the exact same way. In fact I was complaining to a fellow working mom about this last week. Except I am not jealous of staying home. I did it for a year and it was very clear I was not cut out for it.

Want a personalized experience?

Monday Morning Vents

Re: Monday Morning Vents

Choose Another Board

Search Boards