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June 2016 Moms
mrsschmity
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Twatwaffle Tuesday
mrsschmity
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Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet today....who's got Twatwaffles they need to rant about?
Re: Twatwaffle Tuesday
EDD: 06/25/2006 M/C: 11/03/2005
EDD: 04/08/2012 M/C: 09/03/2011
EDD: 12/27/2012 Born Sleeping: 07/19/2012
EDD: 12/07/2013 M/C 05/30/2013 & 05/31/2013
EDD: 07/01/2016 Born sleeping: 03/02/2016
Every time a potential employer asks me about my education and what kind of degree I have I cringe - because I don't have a degree. I received a voicemail today from the HR lady I was working with last week on a job. She called to tell me that while my experience and career background are outstanding and make me a very marketable candidate, that they could not offer me the job because their office only lets them hire individuals with a degree. For the exact same position that I have been doing for years.
Let me follow up with that by saying I 110% believe in the importance of post-secondary education and urge anyone to pursue a college degree. With that said, I am one of those people who went to college for a year, tried to finish my Associate's degree on and off over the next 2 years, but got caught up in the workforce before ever completing it. Do I wish I would have finished? Of course. However, the experience I've gained in my career has been worth it.
When I hear about employers completely negating any professional work experience just because one does not have a degree, it is frustrating. Now if it was a doctor or some other field that requires medical knowledge or something along those lines, that is a different story. I'm in Project Management though. It isn't life or death. I know what I'm doing, and my experience proves that. Argghh.
Also, Facebook. I'm sick of racist ignorant stuff being posted and "liked" constantly. And the amount of useless crap on it. I decided its a waste of my time and energy and deleted the app off my phone.
Today's twatwaffle is either my new car... or DH's bosses nosey Nellie wife, I can't decide. We bought a new car on Friday, it stayed in the garage ALL weekend because we were bums, and I have only been driving it since 8 this morning, but somehow DH's bosses wife found about our new car and called my MIL to ask if I was pregnant, and she told her yes, but that it was a secret. Now half of our tiny town knows before almost all of our family! And we had planned to announce this Thursday. Thunder stolen. Ugh.
My acne is a twatwaffle. Where the f is my angel glow pregnancy skin? Hmph.
ETA: Congrats on the new car!
Me: 26 | DH: 27
To make a long story short, she was supposed to pick me up at 6, but didn't show up until after 7 and the party was over an hour away. By the time we got there, it was basically my usual bedtime lol. I didn't want to be a buzz kill or anything, so I sucked it up and stayed until the party ended at 11, while hinting at my exhaustion. Then she insists that she has to "make an appearance" at the after party in the penthouse suite of the hotel. COME ON! You have worked there a few months and like 25 people went to the "after party," nobody is going to expect you to show up for anything! Finally she agreed to leave after 15 minutes of awkwardness and I got home around 1 am, feeling incredibly grumpy about the whole thing. Thankfully DH took care of the kids for a bit the next day so I could sleep until like 8 am.
DS2 5-18-2014
DD1 EDD 6-21-2016
So me and DH haven't had the best year this past year and she knows that. We are working on things but this (unplanned) pregnancy seems to have thrown things off.
So today coworker asks me how DH has been (he's not really happy about the pregnancy). I have her a run down and used that time to do some complaining about how he doesn't come to bed until after 3am and a bunch of other stuff. Stuff that definitely bothers me but not the end if the world. I understand he's struggling with the reality of this so I'm giving him a lot of leeway.
Anyways coworker responds by telling me that me and DH should just split up and spend time apart. She said that clearly I can't handle his behavior and its bad for me to be stressed. Pretty sure I'm pregnant and notching and complaining is allowed without having to split up from my husband! Crazy woman.....
Anyway. She has been PESTERING me about taking Christmas pictures for her Christmas card. She wanted me to go out and buy new outfits and I told her from the get go that I really didn't want to do them, so if she insisted, then she needed to buy what she wanted me and DH to wear. I have 5 siblings (technically 7, but 2 aren't hers so) and I'm the oldest with the youngest being 11 so I understand why she wants to still do the cutesy Christmas cards with matching outfits to send to her friends/family. However, I don't get why I have to be in them. I'm 24, married, on my own with my own child on the way. Not to mention that DH and I send out our own cards every year.
So I don't know. Maybe I'm really the twatwaffle here, because I know it's so much easier to just go along and appease my mom, but I just feel like if I do that, I'll spend my whole life doing that (which truthfully, I have up to this point) and end up unhappy and walking on eggshells like my mom and my aunts are when they're around my grandma and that's not what I want... or maybe I'm just hormonal. Who knows.
Just got a letter that my prescription for Metanx will no longer be covered because it's a "medical food" not approved by the FDA, but the FDA didn't regulate vitamins. I need this to keep my homocystiene in check from MTHFR so that I don't get blood clots among many other issues.
Are you f#$%&ing kidding me?!?! I've been taking this prescribed vitamin for over 3 years and my insurance hascovered it. And now they pull the rug out? I don't know what I'll do now. We're talking $90+ a month without insurance. So pissed!
BFP #4: 8/20/15 EDD: 4/26/18
Stop it.
I hate taxes.
And the girl keeps poking my stomach and shouting "ducky!" (They think my ultrasound looked like a duck) even though I have repeatedly told her to stop.
These kids have zero boundaries and their parents do not discipline them at all. Which often makes my job damn near impossible. How can I get them to do anything when there are zero consequences if they don't do what they're told? So frustrating.