So one of my employees just announced she's pregnant, almost 12 weeks. Lately she's been complaining about work, how it's too much to do etc. and I've heard she's made complaints that she's not paid enough to feel so overwhelmed. I'm trying to be sympathetic to her knowing she's probably feeling like crap right now but this girl has only been working for me for 5 months! I literally want to scream at her to suck it up or hit the road. Do you see my ass walking around here big as a house?! My ass isn't complaining and my job is way more stressful than yours so get over yourself! I seriously need to go on maternity leave already before I hurt someone.
My confession: I just licked the bottom of the wrapper to Boursin herbed goat cheese. It was pasteurized, so have no fear. It was also damn delicious, and I'm kicking myself for not buying more.
I'm a FTM and I'm not making any freezer meals because FUCKIN EW. "Just you wait" no. GROSS GROSS GROSS. I cannot eat food I made this month, freeze it...and eat it in October. Leftovers from the day before, sure. But some frozen stew-sicle? No thank you. I will likely go vegetarian and eat simple quick stuff that doesn't require cooking. Hellooooo farmers market!
Also with the whole meal prep thing. I don't see myself prepping a ton of stuff this early and freezing it. But probably at the end of September I'll be making sure I have quite a few crock pot recipes picked out and ingredients for those ahead of time. Even though I am a FTM I know there's bound to be days the first 2 weeks that neither of us are going to be up for much cooking. Especially since DH is a full time student and will only be taking a week off work.
My SO is a kitchen manager, so the food works out on that front too.and it is what my family does. But we eat a lot of sandwiches and soup, easy meals.
@DeeGreer yaaaaasssss! I'm not a leftovers person and the idea of frozen food scares me. I don't even like any frozen foods that aren't in the pizza or burrito family.
I got freezer meals in our deep freeze....frozen pizza's! If we're that hungry and don't feel like cooking....works like a charm with a box of mac n cheese!
I'm just making freezer meals out of my assumed laziness. I rarely get the whim to cook now, especially not when I'm tired, so having some fall backs in my freezer to heat up when I'm feeling particularly anti-cooking sounds amazing.
My FFFC is that I'm currently laying in bed surrounded by pillows with the door shut while my husband entertains the pets. I am exhausted, and he thinks I'm sleeping. Really, I just wanted some quiet and comfort to poke around online and read without the dog or cat distracting me. No regrets.
@DeeGreer yaaaaasssss! I'm not a leftovers person and the idea of frozen food scares me. I don't even like any frozen foods that aren't in the pizza or burrito family.
I was trying to remember what I ate in the early weeks and had no clue til I read this - frozen burritos. I ate so many delicious frozen burritos.
I want to just hide under a rock for a while. My kids are making me crazy, they are like zero help around the house. I've reached the point where bending over is just way too hard, and am threatening that if they don't pick up their toys, I'm going to sweep them into a big trash bag. I am so done with this week.
I want to just hide under a rock for a while. My kids are making me crazy, they are like zero help around the house. I've reached the point where bending over is just way too hard, and am threatening that if they don't pick up their toys, I'm going to sweep them into a big trash bag. I am so done with this week.
Do it! I have done it before (usually just hide the non junk).
Instead of making freezer meals, I've been stock-piling beer. For exactly 7 months.
My MIL keeps telling me I won't be able to drink because I'll be breastfeeding. I told her I will feed the baby THEN drink the beer. So there.
You can have a beer while breastfeeding. One beer won't damage your milk, and won't even reach it during the feed and good quality dark beer might even help your supply.
i think the whole point of "freezer meals" isnt so much as to make tons of meals and freeze them but more to stock up on things that are going to make your life easier so what i will be doing as far as freezing meals is making meat balls and freezing those, ill be stocking up on fries like sweet potatoes, wedges, waffle, shoestring ect. ill prob try to buy the tyson frozen chicken bites and wings some nuggets. frozen waffles are a must anything i can quickly take from freezer directly to cooking w.o any steps in btwn i agree with @DeeGreer i just cant do leftover food from a month or 2 before right now last nights leftovers are yuucckyy to me ! but if its prepped to put in oven w.o cooking we are changing the whole story, im also big on soups so i will be making a ton of broth and freezing it to use as a base all id have to do is add chicken or beef and veg or noodles or rice! ill also try and have all my veg cut up and prepped in containers so once again i can just go and grab what i need to make a good meal !
FFFC - Today was a crazy busy day ( DD 1st day of first grade, going away party for my son's best friend at daycare, MFM appt for me) so I am swollen and don't want to cook. Ordered pizza and when it arrived the delivery lady - probably in her 50s - looked at me and said "Whoa, what a belly! It looks like that baby is about to fall out of you." I said no, still have several weeks and she responded " I guess I'll be seeing more of you then. I doubt you can get close to the stove with a belly that big. Are you sure there's only one? I didn't get that fat with any of my 4 babies." I almost hit her, but instead took my food, and didn't tip her. Also called the manager and complained about how rude it was. They refunded my money and put a credit on my account for a fre pizza, but I'm still mad....
I don't see myself making a lot of freezer meals. Instead hubby and I are stocking up on meat. All of our friends farm so we bought half a steer from one and a whole hog from the another. We can get the animals processed however we like so I opted for cuts of meat that are easy to fix and I know we will use fast. Saves us tons of money anyways. I'm going to stock up on side dishes and frozen veggies instead.
My FFFC is that I am feeling really selfish lately. I don't have a lot of really close friends. My college friends all live between 2 and 12 hours away and I rarely talk to them regularly. And my extended family isn't very close. So I don't really have anyone other than my mom and husband to talk to about being pregnant. My mom has offered to do the baby shower but it is in supposed to be in less than a month and has no where to host it, has not planned anything, and hasn't even thought about getting invitations yet. I'm not trying to be gift grabby because there is very little we need as I am an extreme garage sale shopper. I just would like a little support from someone other than my hubby. It was the same way when we got engaged and got married so I suppose I should have just expected this.
I am beyond grouchy today. My husband brought his nine year old sister to our house today and I'm about to throw her out the window. She's so frickin annoying.
Between my stubborn germy husband picking fights with me, my remaining insane dogs, the fact that I'm still having to pack and put things into storage a year later because my house is just too damn small for the three of us (while my husband happily snores away in the bedroom),and that i have to drive two hours into town every time i have a doctors appointment ... I think I'm ready to just move back to my parents house, curl into a ball in the guest bed, and not leave until this baby is ready to make its debut. I'm so overwhelmed trying to simultaneously pack hospital bags, prep the nursery, handle paying bills, clean the house (because my sweet sweet husband can't seem to figure out how to do it himself despite having lived on his own most of his life and being perfectly capable the first four years of our relationship...) keep up with all these appointments and still play wifey. Now my MIL wants to come into town to visit for a few days, and my husband is getting the Deer Season Itch and it's taking every fiber of my remaining strength to keep him from buying hunting gear. Oh and convincing to him that after pushing out a baby the last thing I'll want to do is camp in a trailer with no heat, no shower, and no proper toilet with a fragile screaming newborn.
And if I find one more gigantic G.D. Spider in this house I'm going to load all of baby girls' stuff in the back of my truck and burn the house down.
I have a 2nd one. I've been friends with this girl for 30 years, she was my first friend. She's having gastric bypass done a few days after the shower another friend is throwing, it's more like hanging out than a shower. She's single, no fertility issues, has bragged about her IUD (yeah, really) and expects me to come visit her in the hospital after her surgery. She's decided she can't attend the shower due to surgery prep, which is a liquid diet. Sworn that for the next two weeks, starting two days ago, she can't leave the house, the liar just posted from a Marilyn Manson concert. Yeah, can't leave the house but is at a concert! I'm pissed at her, I don't even care that she wasn't coming to the shower, but lieing to me is unacceptable. Another friend who was told the same lie just texted me that she was told the excuse in response to seeing a movie.
I called my wife crying tonight because Wendy's didn't have the salad I wanted..
I also peed on the bathroom rug this morning as a result of puking. Not talking about just a few drips here.. I left a puddle. How was that even possible for me to produce that much urine since I peed the last time, five minutes before.
Re: FFFC
Stewsicle. Good word.
@DeeGreer yaaaaasssss! I'm not a leftovers person and the idea of frozen food scares me. I don't even like any frozen foods that aren't in the pizza or burrito family.
My FFFC is that I'm currently laying in bed surrounded by pillows with the door shut while my husband entertains the pets. I am exhausted, and he thinks I'm sleeping. Really, I just wanted some quiet and comfort to poke around online and read without the dog or cat distracting me. No regrets.
lmao
) mmmm , Beer!
My MIL keeps telling me I won't be able to drink because I'll be breastfeeding. I told her I will feed the baby THEN drink the beer. So there.
Edited because quote box issues . . .
If you can drive, you can nurse.
My FFFC is that I am feeling really selfish lately. I don't have a lot of really close friends. My college friends all live between 2 and 12 hours away and I rarely talk to them regularly. And my extended family isn't very close. So I don't really have anyone other than my mom and husband to talk to about being pregnant. My mom has offered to do the baby shower but it is in supposed to be in less than a month and has no where to host it, has not planned anything, and hasn't even thought about getting invitations yet. I'm not trying to be gift grabby because there is very little we need as I am an extreme garage sale shopper. I just would like a little support from someone other than my hubby. It was the same way when we got engaged and got married so I suppose I should have just expected this.
And if I find one more gigantic G.D. Spider in this house I'm going to load all of baby girls' stuff in the back of my truck and burn the house down.
I also peed on the bathroom rug this morning as a result of puking. Not talking about just a few drips here.. I left a puddle. How was that even possible for me to produce that much urine since I peed the last time, five minutes before.
I'm over being pregnant.