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Monday Morning Vents
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Re: Monday Morning Vents
I have been having tummy issues since last Wednesday and have only eaten a small meal each day. You think I would've lost weight but my stomach is so bloated it appears I'm pregnant.
I have an incredibly difficult project at work and I keep running into more obstacles. It's so stressful. I want the project to be over!
Mine isn't related to Monday, but here goes.
For some reason, department stores discriminate against cute boys clothes and only have one rack of clothes for them, and a billion racks for girls. Yesterday, we drove 40 minutes to go to a mall in another location, since they have more stores than the one in our local area and we find absolutely nothing! Children's Place was dissapointing and there wasn't a GAP/Old Navy/Osh Kosh in sight. We go back home, just to sit on the computer and order clothes online which we should've done from the beginning. That's all I have.
This year, I worked my @$$ off. I worked through my maternity leave. I work nights. Weekends. I missed some of my deadlines on projects where budgets were cut. Otherwise, a pretty successful year. 2 months ago, my boss put me up for a huge promotion, and last week, he indicated that I was doing quite well in the process (it's not up to him, it's voted on by committee, senior leadership within the company - all C-level execs).
I got 3 out of 5 on my review, but the comments were exemplary. WTAF? I have no idea what I would need to do for a 4, let alone a 5. I can't see this helping with my promotion, and I'm sure my bonus is going to take a hit.
Why can't laundry fold itself??????
I was home alone most of the weekend, while my husband had to go out of town for work. He came home Sunday and I was supposed to get some me time Sunday afternoon. That was until I found a snake in my daughter's room when I was going to lay her down for a nap. Naptime didn't happen and she ended up sleeping with us last night, with all the rolling around and swinging of her arms, I didn't sleep great. A great way to start off the week.
I had it yesterday and spent all day in bed or in the bathroom. Thank god I feel a little better because H has it today. Be strong, DD. I can't handle you getting it again!
All was going well till I spilled coffee all over the laptop this morning causing it to not turn on. After a frantic call to dh I pulled out our old desktop and he came home to pick up the laptop to try and fix it. Then we couldn't get the computer to connect wireless to the internet so we had to run a cord to the wireless router, which means the computer is set up in front of the couch. I finally was able to get remotes back in to my work computer. I am on call till tomorrow morning so hoping no one has any issues tonight cause I am not in the mood.
And hoping ds2, who is 3 months old doesn't catch my strep
1) I need Christmas break to come, stat. I am mentally done and need to get away from work for a while, which makes these next few days harder to focus. I am kind of dissapointed in myself that I feel this way, and am also nervous for how I am going to keep my gameface on and get work done once I get back from break before my maternity leave.
2) I reached out to some colleagues for feedback after my most unconstructive review from my horrid CEO. Basically I have been told by 3 separate people that I need to be more of a bitch and more aggressive. Ummmm...ok?
3) We are having a chat with our nanny tonight about our childcare needs once DS starts pre-school next month, and also once LO2 arrives in early March. Her hours are going to get majorly cut, and I am stressing. Im not stressing about her walking (she takes great care of my son, but I dont especially like her as a person and know I can find another nanny), but just about the conversation in general. Ugh. I guess I really do need to be more of a bitch.
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I live in Florida. That's the first time we've ever had one in our house. I have no idea how it got in but I'm still freaked out.
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DS, my champion sleeper, woke up in the middle of the night both Saturday and Sunday night, cried on and on until one of us went in, then would start it all over again the moment he thinks we are leaving. We tried bringing him in bed with us but he doesn't sleep at all if he is in our bed. I'm usually quite a proponent of CIO, but now that he knows how to talk, it's heart-wrenching to hear him wail "mama, mama, please, please" over and over again. It was a 2 - 3 hour interuption on both nights. He is so tired that he has bags under his eyes. We are all so tired! I'm just praying he goes back to normal tonight. I don't know how I used to do this.
This is more of a general vent.....people who think they're above following directions intened for a group which they are part of drive me NUTS!!!!! (That's my professional ways of saying it....) Even more irritating, they usually act this way enough around their poor children that their children start thinking they're above following rules.
There's a time and place to bend rules. If you're going to do this, know when.
I don't care how tall your SUV is, clear off the f*cking roof. And you there, Prius-driver, you have NO EXCUSE.
One, my cousin posted this lovely status update yesterday on FB: "I don't get feminism. Family IS my career. I can't imagine my children being raised in daycare, or even by Grandma so that I could go out and compete in the workforce. I am thankful for a husband who honors motherhood and homemaking enough to make sure I can fulfill my calling as wife and mother by providing for our every need. I love my family!"
Two, I'm mad at myself for getting so pissed off by that status update that I had a hard time falling asleep last night.
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I think people who need to make blanket statements like that aren't really as happy about it as they would like you to believe...
Hope you get some sleep tonight!
Yeah, my response to that comment was: "I am happy when a mother who wants to stay home with her children is able to do so, and it is certainly a calling that deserves respect. But being a working mother does not mean one is not raising her children. I love my family, too, and the little boy who keeps coming over and giving me kisses knows who's raising him. Motherhood was a calling - but so was the practice of law, and I consider myself lucky and blessed that I get to do both."
I'm not sure what bothered me more: the fact that she wrote the status update in the first place, or the fact that 33 people "liked" it, often sharing their own views as to why a mother's place is in the home, with her children, the way God intended it....
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I agree with PP that she is probably not happy in her own life if she feels the need to post something like this. I am glad she can "fulfill her every calling" by staying at home, but some of us have other callings as well.
Yeah, you nailed it - she is Mormon and homeschools. It's a very particular mindset/culture that I do not share and am not a part of. I don't take any particular issue with it, it's just not for me. But man, it really chaps my ass when people think I'm not raising my kid because I work full-time.
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