Monday Bitchfest

JustCricket · May 2014

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JustCricket · May 2014

I'm preemptivly bitching about my 14 hour drive up to see the IL's this weekend. I mean I'm excited to visit them, and go to a state I've never been to before.. but yea... it'll be a grand trip there.. and back.

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mrsdanielleM2010 · May 2014

JustCricket said:

I'm pre-emptivly bitching about my 14 hour drive up to see the IL's this weekend. I mean I'm excited to visit them, and go to a state I've never been to before.. but yea... it'll be a grand trip there.. and back.

You do an inordinate number of long ass road trips

mrsdanielleM2010 · May 2014

My bitch is that summer vacation is still 46 days away.

JustCricket · May 2014

mrsdanielleM2010 said:

JustCricket said:

I'm pre-emptivly bitching about my 14 hour drive up to see the IL's this weekend. I mean I'm excited to visit them, and go to a state I've never been to before.. but yea... it'll be a grand trip there.. and back.

You do an inordinate number of long ass road trips

this is the last one for a while. We take our dogs with us on these trips... and I'd rather do driving then put them in the cargo of a plane or board them up for a week. Both of which cost too much damn money.

Irisheyes1247 · May 2014

We are planning to take a trip, leaving tomorrow for NJ then on to Philly. We were planning to stay with my cousin in Philly, she graciously offered. She texted yesterday that she thinks her son has HFM. So we will most likely stay at a hotel. Which means our trip will cost a lot more, which is fine but it was going to be fun to stay with them. Plus he's sick and I really really wanted to visit and have my girls play with her son, since my kids don't have any cousins and we don't get to see her often, and I don't know if we should even be around them, since HFM can apparently be contagious for quite a long time. Blah. Normally I am not a germ-paranoid person, I don't know why this is freaking me out.

kmbk27 · May 2014

6,000 some people in the metro area still without power from the storms last night - unfortunately, my work is not one of them. I would not have been mad at all to get to work and turn around and go home.

aliciak316 · May 2014

I'm starving and we have no food in the house. It's my own fault I know, I'm in charge of the couponing making the grocery list and I like to be the one to go to the store, even though my hubby will go if I ask him too. But I'm still mad

rebennett06 · May 2014

kmbk27 said:

6,000 some people in the metro area still without power from the storms last night - unfortunately, my work is not one of them. I would not have been mad at all to get to work and turn around and go home.

I was really hoping this as well. Driving to work I saw a few tree branches down, but not even enough to have an excuse for being late!!

My bitchfest is actually from yesterday- my DH tells me "I was going to get you a mothers day card, but I couldn't figure out how to get away from you today to get it...sooo..." So what you are saying is you just didn't do anything>?? thanks a lot buddy!!

Beedeck · May 2014

My boss is out sick with a sinus infection and my coworker, who sits right next to me, should be out sick with a sinus infection but instead he is here next to me infecting my space. I'm going to be seriously pissed if I get it and have to use up my sick days because he didn't want to use his.

kmbk27 · May 2014

rebennett06 said:

kmbk27 said:

6,000 some people in the metro area still without power from the storms last night - unfortunately, my work is not one of them. I would not have been mad at all to get to work and turn around and go home.

I was really hoping this as well. Driving to work I saw a few tree branches down, but not even enough to have an excuse for being late!!

My bitchfest is actually from yesterday- my DH tells me "I was going to get you a mothers day card, but I couldn't figure out how to get away from you today to get it...sooo..." So what you are saying is you just didn't do anything>?? thanks a lot buddy!!

Sorry about your Mother's Day! Did you lose power at all? I think work did at some point, but we had it at home throughout. We have a branch in our yard from the neighbor's tree, but it's not too big and didn't cause any damage, thankfully.

drae86 · May 2014

Oh hell no. We have three people in our office (including me - the youngest). The other two men in my office are titled 'project managers'. Well they apparently don't know how to manage because we've had about 6 or 7 jobs on the books going out this month but because they don't know how to manage the client or the arch they just informed me that we have 4 of those jobs going out this week (timewise this is practically impossible). They can go to hell because I've been asking for to work on these jobs for the last few weeks when I haven't been busy and I refuse to work 15 hr + work days to make this happen because they don't know how to properly do their job. I'm preggo and putting my well being before this shit. Ah, and this is an ongoing problem that just causes more and more stress!!

rebennett06 · May 2014

kmbk27 said:

kmbk27 said:

6,000 some people in the metro area still without power from the storms last night - unfortunately, my work is not one of them. I would not have been mad at all to get to work and turn around and go home.

I was really hoping this as well. Driving to work I saw a few tree branches down, but not even enough to have an excuse for being late!!
My bitchfest is actually from yesterday- my DH tells me "I was going to get you a mothers day card, but I couldn't figure out how to get away from you today to get it...sooo..." So what you are saying is you just didn't do anything>?? thanks a lot buddy!!
Sorry about your Mother's Day! Did you lose power at all? I think work did at some point, but we had it at home throughout. We have a branch in our yard from the neighbor's tree, but it's not too big and didn't cause any damage, thankfully.

We lost it for about 5 minutes. We are way out west where it hit pretty bad so I'm surprised we didn't see more damage! I didn't even see any really on my way to work. We did get a piece of a neighbors siding in our front yard, but other than that nothing really in our neighborhood! Glad you guys didn't get any damage either!!

drae86 · May 2014

mrsdanielleM2010 said:

My bitch is that summer vacation is still 46 days away.

well then my (2nd) bitch is that i dont get a summer vaca! oh unless i get fired for my first bitch

blue+skies · May 2014

I was going to bitch about various things, including my daughter's new habit of pooping and peeing outside and on our deck, having way more to do this week than will get done, and being exhausted because I keep overdoing it and can't talk myself into taking a break. But then I saw this morning that Parenthood was renewed for another season and now I don't even care about all of my bitches. Peace and harmony has been restored in my life.

mapchick77 · May 2014

Gah! The condo my husband and I have been trying to sell for the past 6 months (thank you crappy winter, crappy real estate market and crappy management company) is FINALLY under contract to close next week. Then we find out they are having a vote this week to approve some major re-wiring work in the building to the tune of a nice special assessment. The vote takes place a week before we are supposed to close. Nothing like one last kick in the ass on our way out. We feel terribly guilty about leaving this for the new owner when they won't even be involved in the vote so DH and I decided we want to pay it. Now I find out they aren't assessing the payments until after the work is finished. Yes, we'll be out of there by then but I just feel really crappy about the whole situation and I hate to leave that on our buyer. I think we are going to try and pre-pay our assessment in advance. I loved living there but if I had it to do again I would never have bought that blasted condo.

bf43005 · May 2014

Mine is from Saturday. I'm angry at the raccoon who kept messing up my morning run with our dog by following the same trail I was on. Of course then the dog didn't want to do a nice jogging pace, she wanted to rush after it so they could "play" together.

wrightpalomo · May 2014

@MermaidsMagic‌ keep it and pay the fine!

Beedeck · May 2014

Yuristar said:

My bitch is that I I've been craving watermelon for like 5 months, and now that I finally had it, it gave me a tummy ache

I can eat myself sick with watermelon, did it last pregnancy and DH just cut some last night so I'll probably do it again. It's so addicting and refreshing.

Mrs. Pleimann · May 2014

It snowed over 2ft this weekend! Not exaggerating... Just had to shovel, clear the roof, we're running low on fire wood, lots to do but don't want to be out in it. My husband is still in Alaska for the next two weeks so it's all on me. So done!

JustCricket · May 2014

PeopleKnowMe said:

Why can't McDonald's remember to put BBQ sauce in my bag when I order chicken nuggets? BBQ sauce from home just isn't the same as theirs.

I know!!! Why do they even ask if they're going to forget the sauce!!!!!! This happened to me the last two times I ordered it.

hizah05 · May 2014

Every May my village has a garage sale weekend and then a garbage pick-up week that follows where you can throw as much out as you want with no garbage stickers/fees. This year they reversed it. Throw out all your garbage is this week and the garage sales are the weekend. So inconvenient! They probably realized they would have a whole lot less to pick up if they did it this way. I'm just annoyed since we are moving next week and have so much to get rid of!

pbeckaroo35 · May 2014

drae86 I'm gonna take a guess here and say you work in the construction industry? Engineer?

We are Architects and the last 2 weeks have been filled with clients that need everything NOW!!!

blue+skies · May 2014

shimmer475 said:
My bitch is that I decided it would be a good idea to wear a skirt since it's 86 degrees here today and I did not take into the account that my thighs seem to be growing faster then my belly. Every time I walk my thighs rub together and I feel like I am ripping layers of skin off! Looks like someone will be investing in giant tubs of baby powder this summer (

Body Glide! It looks like a stick of deodorant that you get at sports stores (or amazon!). I have always used it religiously on "hot spots" for long runs, but it has also been very handy for pregnancy too. I rub that stuff all over to prevent chafing!

Groxb · May 2014

My bitch is my own damn fault. I waited too long yesterday to put sunscreen on at the pool.

I'm now an itchy, painful lobster. Including my bump.

Sorry, Allie!

blue+skies · May 2014

pbeckaroo35 said:
drae86 I'm gonna take a guess here and say you work in the construction industry? Engineer?

We are Architects and the last 2 weeks have been filled with clients that need everything NOW!!!

I used to work in the construction industry too (7 years for an industrial gc), and everything was needed the day before they even asked for it. I worked so many freaking hours, but of course was a salary employee. I miss working a lot, and I miss certain parts of that job, but I do NOT miss that job as a whole. I look forward to getting back into the working world after kiddos, but I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up!

But anywhos, just wanted to give a shout out to the other ladies in the construction field (and related fields too!), I understand all your pains!

pbeckaroo35 · May 2014

blue+skies shauna813

The best is when people are like "all you have to do is draw something right?" Um no, that's not how it works at all.

drae86 · May 2014

pbeckaroo35 you guessed right, I'm an EE! i'm used to May being the month of stress since we do a lot of educational and health care work but good lord this is ridiculous. I would normally blame it on the architects

but this is completely my PMs fault (altho one arch is def on my hate list by sending backgrounds and then saying 100% CDs are due in 3 days)!! There's literally not enough hours in the day to get 4 jobs out by Friday

we just got backgrounds and them set up too. starting from scratch with no as-builts! Its nice to complain to people that get it!! Oh and i can't even work late tonight because we have the bradley class which lasts 3 hours! Okay, i'm done i think.

drae86 · May 2014

blue+skies said:

drae86 I'm gonna take a guess here and say you work in the construction industry? Engineer?

We are Architects and the last 2 weeks have been filled with clients that need everything NOW!!!
I used to work in the construction industry too (7 years for an industrial gc), and everything was needed the day before they even asked for it. I worked so many freaking hours, but of course was a salary employee. I miss working a lot, and I miss certain parts of that job, but I do NOT miss that job as a whole. I look forward to getting back into the working world after kiddos, but I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up! But anywhos, just wanted to give a shout out to the other ladies in the construction field (and related fields too!), I understand all your pains!

dont go back, whatever you do!!!

i'd gladly hand over my degree for my time and money back! now i just want a farm! find something you love!

wrightpalomo · May 2014

@MermaidsMagic Maybe just photocopy the pages you need? Unless you need the whole book.

@Crystalangel79 Your ILs are constantly saying crazy shit. Your SIL sounds atrocious. When I have to deal with her type I try to take solace in the fact that they have to live their whole lives being like that and I get to go on being happy and not insane. Good luck!

My bitch for the day is effing maternity clothing. Sure the crap is comfortable but I can't find anything that is my style. I even went to effing Pea in The Pod this weekend ready to just spend some money to get something cute but I didn't like anything, at any price point. I have seen some things I liked online but I am not an online shopper... guess it's time for that to change.

shyviolet101 · May 2014

My MIL keeps trying to order my husband to take "belly bump pictures" and send them to her every month. I take them every few months because I just don't like pics taken of me. It pisses me off when she keeps texting me "Where's my pic" like I'm obligated to send her pics of my belly. I'll send you TONS of pics of the baby, MIL, don't worry, but you're not getting my fat pics every month.

shyviolet101 · May 2014

shimmer475 said:

My bitch is that I decided it would be a good idea to wear a skirt since it's 86 degrees here today and I did not take into the account that my thighs seem to be growing faster then my belly. Every time I walk my thighs rub together and I feel like I am ripping layers of skin off! Looks like someone will be investing in giant tubs of baby powder this summer (

I have this issue too. My fix is dry body oil spritzed on the inner thighs seem to help with the rubbing.

shyviolet101 · May 2014

shauna813 said:

crystalangel79 said:

My SIL insisted that I need to CONTROL the size of my baby and to make sure that I have a petite baby bc their family is known for notoriously big heads. She said baby's size is a reflection of me... what mom eats/drinks/exercises. Seriously? The things that come out of her mouth. Either she only thinks about eating/exercising or she is only obsessed about it with me bc she is always commenting on my diet (and she lives on the other side of the world so has no clue how we eat). This is the same lady who told me I should eat less dairy and drink less milk bc it is high calorie. I responded, "ummm, Im lactose intolerant. I havent had a glass of milk in like 15 years." What are YOU girls doing to "control your baby's size?" She assumes someone overweight will have big babies and smaller people will have petite babies. Such horse crap. PS... We havent told in laws yet of LO's issues and this is why... Insensitive, uneducated, idiotic things that are said. We are going to tell MIL when we get there and let her tell everyone else while I just try and avoid SIL's sharp, critical tongue the entire trip. No matter what she will blame it on weight. She even thinks my DH (tall, fit, size 34 waist) is overweight. She also said SAHMs dont contribute and put too much burden on the husband and in Sweden they are so much more progressive bc moms dont stay at home and America is stuck in the 1950s. I told her no... Here women get a choice and are accepted either way. THAT is more progressive to me. I have gotten to a point where I just cant stand to be around her. Lord give me strength!!

~*~ TRAPPED IN THE BOX ~*~

Your SIL sounds like a huge asshole. I don't know how you hold your tongue around her comments!!! Stay strong girlie!

HAHAHA! How does she explain how I gained 90 lbs in my previous pregnancy and still only had a 6 lb baby? My son's still a little guy 5 years later. I've also known plenty of women who gained the obligatory 25 lbs and had 9 lb babies. What does she know? Nothing, obviously! Silly lady.

hizah05 · May 2014

wrightpalomo said:
@MermaidsMagic Maybe just photocopy the pages you need? Unless you need the whole book.

@Crystalangel79 Your ILs are constantly saying crazy shit. Your SIL sounds atrocious. When I have to deal with her type I try to take solace in the fact that they have to live their whole lives being like that and I get to go on being happy and not insane. Good luck!

My bitch for the day is effing maternity clothing. Sure the crap is comfortable but I can't find anything that is my style. I even went to effing Pea in The Pod this weekend ready to just spend some money to get something cute but I didn't like anything, at any price point. I have seen some things I liked online but I am not an online shopper... guess it's time for that to change.

Try Pink Blush Maternity. It's online but I thought their stuff was really cute and it didn't remind me of maternity clothing. I hate the shirts that are bunched on the seems for stretching and have such a hard time finding ones that aren't. They had a lot of great stuff.

brittneyandadam · May 2014

My bitch is right along with @Groxb‌. We went to the Tulip Festival on Sat and it was supposed to be cloudy and rainy...nope! Sunshine the entire day. I'm itchy and sore and hot pink...but not on my bump, thank goodness!

ashleymae6 · May 2014

My husband's 92 year old great grandma called me 'fatty' at dinner with his entire family last night and then very loudly asked how much weight I have gained. She is lucky she is old and that I don't have issues with how I look. I just ignored it, but dang!

Groxb · May 2014

brittneyandadam said:

My bitch is right along with @Groxb‌. We went to the Tulip Festival on Sat and it was supposed to be cloudy and rainy...nope! Sunshine the entire day. I'm itchy and sore and hot pink...but not on my bump, thank goodness!

Sun burns are the worst. Bump burns are just super sad. Score one of Mom Of The Year over here.

Fishyhatch · May 2014

hizah05 said:

@MermaidsMagic Maybe just photocopy the pages you need? Unless you need the whole book.

@Crystalangel79 Your ILs are constantly saying crazy shit. Your SIL sounds atrocious. When I have to deal with her type I try to take solace in the fact that they have to live their whole lives being like that and I get to go on being happy and not insane. Good luck!

My bitch for the day is effing maternity clothing. Sure the crap is comfortable but I can't find anything that is my style. I even went to effing Pea in The Pod this weekend ready to just spend some money to get something cute but I didn't like anything, at any price point. I have seen some things I liked online but I am not an online shopper... guess it's time for that to change.
Try Pink Blush Maternity. It's online but I thought their stuff was really cute and it didn't remind me of maternity clothing. I hate the shirts that are bunched on the seems for stretching and have such a hard time finding ones that aren't. They had a lot of great stuff.

I fully second Pink Blush! I have the same complaint, unable to find cute maternity clothes that were reasonably priced and my style. The discovery of Pink Blush was like a light shining down from the heavens (or maybe its just my hormones that made me feel like angels were singing to me upon going to their website lol). Anyways, good luck!

My Monday Bitch: Dear Brain, please stop obsessing and worrying if what you registered for was the "right" version of said item for us (aka travel system, baby carrier, etc). Stop second guessing every damn decision you made yesterday. For real, baby girl is going to be just fine with whatever you chose. I would greatly appreciate it if you would just chill out and let me sleep as peacefully as possible when you're getting up to pee every few hours. Thanks~ your hormonal, sleep deprived owner.

ConversationFear · May 2014

I wish I could elaborate more, but I will leave it at this.

I am tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt, and like a fucking fool expecting that the things I do actually matters and will reap positive results. It's time to turn the bullshit hope machine off in my mind, because it has gotten me nowhere except heartbroken every single time.

whitney4126 · May 2014

At least 75% of the time, I hate my job. I went to school a very long time, and took out a shit load of debt, all for a job that stresses me the f*** out, that I find virtually no enjoyment out of, and that doesn't even make me that much money. I also will never be able to be a stay at home mom (which I never thought I would actually want), because I have $100K worth of student loan debt, and we've looked at rearranging our bills in every possible way, but DH will never make enough to manage it. So, today I'm totally stressed out because I was super duper legitimately sick last month during a court appearance (vomiting and physically could not drive to work on time), and had to have someone cover for me. Well they didn't do exactly what I asked them, and now we have a real scheduling conflict for future court dates. My client is totally pissed at me, and I have to go before a totally unpredictable judge in the morning to plead my case for a continuance, who will likely make me put on the record in open court the details of my pregnancy sickness, and still may not grant it. I've talked this situation out with multiple colleagues, and they all agree that any other judge would be totally understanding, and this would be no big deal, but not with this judge. I just do not need this stress right now (or ever).

an02102 · May 2014

shimmer475 said:

My bitch is that I decided it would be a good idea to wear a skirt since it's 86 degrees here today and I did not take into the account that my thighs seem to be growing faster then my belly. Every time I walk my thighs rub together and I feel like I am ripping layers of skin off! Looks like someone will be investing in giant tubs of baby powder this summer (

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