June 2015 Moms

The Daily Gripe

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Re: The Daily Gripe

  • @virginiaunicorn11 I hope you find resolution to this situation smoothly and quickly. Its hard enough moving but putting you in limbo like that sucks!
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  • @virginiaunicorn11 yikes!!!! I'm sorry. That's really hard.
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  • edited September 2015
    Thanks, ladies. I typed out way too long of a response.
    Basically, DH and I have decided the world is our oyster, now that our stuff is sitting with international movers. So we are on the active hunt for our "dream jobs" (what that is and where that is, tbd), and if we find something, we will take it. And if not, London awaits. Eventually.
    Meanwhile I scheduled drinks with a big boss tomorrow, so I can casually ask WTF before I meet with my actual boss on Tuesday.
    Blah blah, promise not to tweet all the drama here for the next 9 months. Ultimately, it's not the worst problem to have...
  • When you get an email from hr that they're turning the air off at noon for repairs, yes, by all means wait till it's hot. Then they go ahead and turn on fans in addition to the air. I guess they want us to either freeze or burn up. Then you go to the car to get a jacket and the hvac van is parked outside, but no one is fixing anything. This building was renovated a year ago and we constantly have heating and cooling issues, plumbing issues, and rain blowing in causing mold and they keep "fixing" it, but are actually too cheap to pay for a permanent solution
  • KaLikeAWindKaLikeAWind member
    edited October 2015

    mellymar said:

    Seriously? Another mass shooting? What the hell is wrong with us? What is it about our American culture that makes people who just want to shoot a bunch of other people? [-( (rhetorical question. Willing to discuss if someone wants to, but not expecting an answer or wanting to open a specific debate)

    Aaaand, here's why DH and I are willing to put up with all the nonsense from my employer, in order to get back to a country that doesn't allow this to keep happening. I almost forgot.
    Exactly. Maybe once DH finishes his service we'll sell every damned thing we own and move to the UK to hang out with our buddy TillDogg (a girl could dream)

    Edited, stupid spelling
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  • I'm really upset about the shooting too. It's getting to the point where the stories only even stick around in the news for a few days, we are so accustomed to mass tragedy here and still nothing changes. Every day I think about the world our babies were born into, I guess we can only hope our generation can change some things..
  • I dropped my phone today and ruined the LCD. I took it to a repair place and it was going to be $180 to fix. So I bought a new phone, but it won't be here until Tuesday. Womp womp. Looks like no pumping and bumping for me until the new phone arrives. How will I survive at work?! ;)
  • I'm so over this boot I'm wearing for my broken foot. It's throwing my posture and making everything sore.
  • @kezdk after living in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and in Rockaway, Queens, NY during and after Super storm Sandy, I've definitely seen my share of slack-ass, or crooked-ass, or just plain heartless contractors (not personal experience in those places, just hearing stories from friends, neighbors, co-workers, clients). Then once we moved here I spent a whole summer trying to reach a mason for some very needed repair work and mutha would never call me back!
    What a bunch of assholes. Sincerely pisses me off. I feel you
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  • edited October 2015
    Super long story, warning, sorry!

    When we moved to Germany in summer 2014, a coworker offered to take our lizard for the year. (We aren't Reptile People, we just had a lizard.) It was nice of her, but she was the one who offered.

    We were in touch once or twice during the year, and she said her family was enjoying the lizard, and they would keep him as long as we needed them to. When we got back to the States, my uncle died the day we landed, we had a new baby, we had to vacate our apartment, etc. So it was a month before I got in touch with her. I didn't tell her all this because we aren't super close - relatively close at the office, but not IRL.

    When we get in touch a week ago (three days before the movers are coming), she says they don't want the lizard... but they know we are moving, so find it a new home before December when they go on vacation. Cool. I told her I would put it on Craigslist, and have someone pick it up. She was fine with that and sent me a photo to use.

    Tonight, she calls to say that I've been taking advantage of her, and she is mad she hasn't heard from me. They will keep the lizard, but only because I'm basically sticking them with it and they have no other option. She can't believe I'd skip town without doing something about it... and also she heard I was in the office in my first month back (just to meet with my boss! The day after the funeral, when I was still hosting my cousins!), and she thinks it's devious of me for not telling her or calling her.

    So I apologized profusely, said I must have misunderstood but I thought I had til December. I will be back for a few days at the end of this month, and worst case scenario, I can take the lizard then.

    She says, "Oh, so now you're coming back? For your visa, and you weren't going to tell me?!"
    Me: "Um, no... In Jewish tradition, we do an unveiling of the tombstone a year after someone dies, so I have to be here for my grandfather's unveiling. It's not work related."

    Suddenly she backs way off. I repeat I will find a home for the thing ASAP and she says, "No, you're misunderstanding me AGAIN. You do have until December. I just thought you weren't coming back. You haven't been straightforward with me this whole time."

    I can't figure out what this woman wants. We left things as she would talk to her husband, because if I'm going to put the lizard on Craigslist, maybe they just want to keep it. But I've been taking advantage of her and she just wanted to tell me that.

    I'm so confused. And embarrassed and hurt.
  • @virginiaunicorn11 people are just plain weird.
  • @virginiaunicorn11 that is strange. And weird. And seems like there are bigger issues than just the lizard.
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  • dalinhardtdalinhardt member
    edited October 2015
    Ugh.... I know this is petty but every time we have gone to the doctors with Raylen they call him a girl. Is it so hard to read a chart. Anyone else have this issue?
  • At church, we haven't been taking LO to the nursery for Sunday school bc the lady in there is old & all she does it rock the baby. It could be screaming it's head off & she's rocking away shooshing it. She's a little crazy. Well we've had about 5 or 6 people tell us it's hurting her feelings that I keep her in my Sunday school class (to which I don't give a flying flip), but last Sunday she was dedicated & she went in there for a bit with her & was okay.
    This Sunday, she is asleep on the way to church & needs a full nap so I was going to keep her in the service (small southern church, no big deal). This woman walks over to take her & I tell her no she's going to nap. She picks up the carrier and WALKS OFF WITH MY BABY... My DH looked at me like we were going to hurt her. Another woman saw & took the diaper bag & went with her. I go in after church & she hasn't napped... So I tell them she NEEDS to nap (I'm trying to be civil, this is church). Another lady comes to get me 20min into SS because she's crying her head off, still no nap & she's ready to eat. I have to pry her from the woman to feed her & I say, SHE MUST NAP. She plays with her. My poor baby is SCREAMING when I pick her up & this crazy lady is like, "she doesn't like me anymore..." She passed out before I could buckle her in.
    I complained to our pastor & I refuse to let her near by baby again....... Ughhhh.

    Ummmmm that's not okay! I'm a church-going southerner too and heaven literally better help that lady to not die right there in the middle of church! You're a better Christian than I am, I would have probably gone psycho on someone for that... We've had our fair share of annoying church opinions, mostly from my husband's aunt. She is sooo bossy and has told us that we're backsliding for keeping her out of church. We've tried going and keeping her in the service with us, but the music is too loud during worship, and then she's too loud during the sermon. I don't want to take her to the nursery either, I just don't want her out of my sight, I don't know those people well enough..although I don't think it would really make a difference if I did hah. I'm just not ready for that. Soo we are right not just not doing the church thing...flu season is coming and I don't want to risk it, and it's just too hard.
  • @virginiaunicorn11 wth? This lady... What is she doing? She makes no sense. [-(

    @dancegurl1118 @AlyLynn07 @dalinhardt sorry your LOs keep getting mistaken for the alternate sex! #-o I'm lucky that my little dude looks like a little dude more every day. I haven't had someone call him a girl for a while now


    My gripe - I have a Nook ereader, its about 2 years old. I love it. But I've mistreated it badly. Totally my fault. I've dropped it many times, despite the fact I have it on a 'leash'. And I've totally cracked the corner really bad, despite the fact I have it in a case. But even despite all that, its still served me faithfully. Except now its not holding a charge like it used to. I still get some time on it, sure. But basically I'm barely using it, so its in standby mode 95% of the time, but I'm having to charge it almost as often as when I was using it during my commutes in NYC, and on my lunch breaks, which amounted to 3 hours of actual use a day. I keep coming upstairs and starting to read to LO before bed and am shocked to see I have 9% battery. Good thing the kid falls asleep usually around 10 minutes with the new routine. I'm just going to have to get into the habit of charging it every day, I guess. Somehow maybe I'll remember to work that into some kind of daily routine. Maybe. Somehow.
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  • @mellymar download the nook app that way if your device is not charged you can still read to LO.
  • I think my LO looks so much like a girl but still she is constantly called a boy too! (I probably just think she looks like a girl because she IS a girl).. Also one nurse at the ped constantly calls her Cecelia which I knew would happen when I named her Celia but like.. Just read it, only one C. But I'm too polite to correct her soo..
  • Now I have LOs cold. Wasn't BF supposed to keep her from being sick? Why do my boobs keep letting me down?!
    TTC: 1/2014 BFP: 9/24 EDD: 6/8/2015 Sorry for the poor man's siggy...ticker won't load regardless of how many tips I read.
  • Now I have LOs cold. Wasn't BF supposed to keep her from being sick? Why do my boobs keep letting me down?!

    I'm sorry you're both sick. It really makes MOTN feeds extra miserable. I'm EBF and have found that while it doesn't necessarily prevent her from being sick, she recovers faster or gets a less severe case of what I have. DS has had back to back colds (after starting preschool) and she only caught one of them. Hope you both feel better soon!
  • Sorry @dancegurl1118 that doesn't sound like much fun :( Get better soon!
  • @virginiaunicorn11 Whoa. Yes, that's majorly weird and sounds like she has some creepy obsession with you almost!
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