Twatwaffle...the random people who ALWAYS say that their doctor told them this, but they just don't believe them, so please, reassure me, random internet strangers.
My twatwaffle is the people who owned our house before us. They seemed to have painted the upstairs rooms (at least) themselves and while it looks like a passable job, when you look closely they got some color on the baseboards and ceiling. Trying to paint the nursery over a less than stellar paint job is a huge pain because my tape lines for the baseboarda aren't lining up with the actual lines of the paint and we'll likely have to paint at least some of the baseboards and ceiling since there's a thin line of green paint between the yellow of the room and the white of the ceiling/baseboard. Also, my MIL is making it out like its hugely ambitious to paint a 10x9 room and seems to think we'd be better of hiring someone. They better not make negative comments about the paint job when its done or I'll go all crazy hormonal lady on them (but it looks pretty damn good if I do say so myself).
Our previous owners did the same thing! I have a brown line of paint between my mint green and the ceiling. When I did my bathroom, I tried covering their paint and it just looks worse. At least it isn't super noticeable.
SAME! It's awful. Even worse is that the previous owners at our house painted horrible colours everywhere (including neon lime green in the stair/hallway). The nursery was previously bubblegum pink...now it's light grey...but we will have to repaint the baseboards now, too, since there is still so much visible pink on them. *sigh* Some people should not be allowed near a paintbrush.
I'm jealous of you ladies loving your maternity jeans.
My maternity jeans are twatwaffles. I ripped a hole in my normal jeans yesterday and had to wear my mat jeans today. I have to wear them with a belt, but if it's too loose they fall down and if it's too tight they're uncomfortable. There are no front pockets, which I use all the time, and I keep trying to undo the fake fly.
At least they look good. I might be trying some different ones. I got the Old Navy stretch waist jeans. Any suggestions?
I only wear the overbelly, I got some from kohl's the other day and I also but from motherhood. I tried the underbelly and felt like I was holding them up all the time.
My mother!! My mom decided after I had my DS she was going to have another baby! I love my brother to pieces don't get me wrong BUT! My mom is sooo lazy! She works 2nd shift (noon -830pm) and my step dad is a farmer plus works outside the home(always busy). Well my mom asked if I would watch my brother in the mornings so he didn't have to be in the barn when it's so cold until my step grandma gets him! I agreed why not we live across the street he's a good kid! Well my moms work is 10 mins away and she drops him off at 830 am!! Then at night after dinner my step dad brings him back over to go to the barn well then my mom calls to tell me she's done and EVERY night she needs to run to Walmart/grocery store! Well on top of it we took in my grandma she's in a wheelchair and we didn't want her living alone which she's great but I asked my mom to come help her leave(yes she drives a 100% handicap accessible van) due to the icy weather and the driveway being slick and she told me she would I asked my grandma if she came to help and her response was "was she suppose to?" So my mom basically didn't return the favor and I'm overly annoyed!
Zika is an f-ing twatwaffle and f-ing up all my travel plans. I can't decide whether to ignore it (the risk is so so low) or not go ANY of the places I want to go.
Me - I'm grumpy and feel sick (not pregnancy sick, like legit stomach problems sick). And because everyone is pissing me off and making me even grumpier. So pretty sure I'm a twatwaffle for being so over sensitive about everything.
The people I nanny for - the little girl has an ear infection so she was sick and grumpy. And the boy had a full on meltdown because sister kept him awake last night and he didn't want to go to piano lessons because he was too tired. And their parents were both working from home and let the kids get away with terrible behavior that those kids never ever do when mom and dad aren't home because they know I don't tolerate it.
DH - we are moving in two weeks and he refuses to help me pack until the last minute because he doesn't want to be "living out of boxes". Well he works the weekend of the move so I'm going to be dealing with the movers all by myself and cleaning all by myself. So I'm basically doing everything all by myself. Gah!
In addition to the second/third baby shower threads on here I have to deal with it in real life. I've just been invited to a co-worker/friend's baby shower for her FOURTH kid. Her rational is "well my last kid was 7-8 years ago so I don't have anything for a baby anymore and need stuff".
Oh for the love, are you kidding me?! That is maddening. I'm all for celebrating a new life and I don't begrudge a mama/baby pair some gifts...but what she said just sounds so selfish.
No. Even worse, when I expressed my shock to someone close to me I thought would also feel the same way HER response was "well, I plan on doing the same thing for my third pregnancy...I mean, I don't have anything for the baby anymore so what am I supposed to do?". Gee, I don't know (sarcasm). Just getting gifts isn't a reason to have a party.
In addition to the second/third baby shower threads on here I have to deal with it in real life. I've just been invited to a co-worker/friend's baby shower for her FOURTH kid. Her rational is "well my last kid was 7-8 years ago so I don't have anything for a baby anymore and need stuff".
Oh for the love, are you kidding me?! That is maddening. I'm all for celebrating a new life and I don't begrudge a mama/baby pair some gifts...but what she said just sounds so selfish.
No. Even worse, when I expressed my shock to someone close to me I thought would also feel the same way HER response was "well, I plan on doing the same thing for my third pregnancy...I mean, I don't have anything for the baby anymore so what am I supposed to do?". Gee, I don't know (sarcasm). Just getting gifts isn't a reason to have a party.
-----qbf, TB hates me apparently-------
You mean when you make the choice to have a child YOU'RE the one responsible for buying everything for them and not your friends and family?
In addition to the second/third baby shower threads on here I have to deal with it in real life. I've just been invited to a co-worker/friend's baby shower for her FOURTH kid. Her rational is "well my last kid was 7-8 years ago so I don't have anything for a baby anymore and need stuff".
Oh for the love, are you kidding me?! That is maddening. I'm all for celebrating a new life and I don't begrudge a mama/baby pair some gifts...but what she said just sounds so selfish.
No. Even worse, when I expressed my shock to someone close to me I thought would also feel the same way HER response was "well, I plan on doing the same thing for my third pregnancy...I mean, I don't have anything for the baby anymore so what am I supposed to do?". Gee, I don't know (sarcasm). Just getting gifts isn't a reason to have a party.
-----qbf, TB hates me apparently-------
You mean when you make the choice to have a child YOU'RE the one responsible for buying everything for them and not your friends and family?
It's not Tuesday anymore but fuck it. My twatwaffle is my landlord. I met her last January while working at a car dealership and she ended up not buying a car but asked if I'd be interested in renting her house. It seemed like magic, we were looking for a house to move into that June which was precisely when hers would be available. I told her what our price range was, she offered the rent exactly in that range, and called me 1-2 a month for the next 5 months to make sure I was still interested. When we were prepping to sign the lease she asked to meet our dogs, loved them, and mentioned the NON REFUNDABLE $300 deposit due for our pets. Two dogs and a cat turned into $900. We decided to go with it since we LOVE the house and were planning to stay 4-5 years (with her blessing, she kept telling us she loved us so much she'd like us to stay forever). That was in June. Since then she has: Decided rent needs to be done in cash every month and she comes by the house to pick it up/check on the house. Flipped out on my husband while I was at work because our dogs MIGHT be killing the grass in the backyard (something she has no way of knowing unless she's looking over the fence, and were she, she'd know the grass is fine) Repeatedly mentioned how many other people want to rent the house Repeatedly mentioned how she should be charging us way more (we're paying 1k a month for a small, 1970s 3 bedroom with a backyard and a medium sized workshop in the back in a moderately nice area of Colorado Springs). Come over and yelled at me for having cardboard boxes by the garage (waiting for trash day) Revealed her boyfriend lives 5 houses down the street, she works with our neighbor on the right, and comes by twice a month to have lunch with the neighbor on the left and that they've been "keeping an eye on the house" Revealed she rented the house because she divorced her abusive husband and moved into this house, but had to leave because he's been stalking her ever since. He's come by the house asking for her several times while I was home, my husband caught him trying to go into our backyard and he let our dogs out (this was the first week in the house, the back gate is now bolted and padlocked), we've found cigarette butts and beer cans in our front yard (we don't smoke or drink beer but he does) and we've repeatedly had a truck drive by shining a flashlight into our windows. Called to complain because she isn't sure she feels comfortable with our two large dogs in the house/yard.
This month when she came by for rent she mentioned the lease was up in a few months and asked if we were planning to stay. I gave her a weird look because A) we told her when we moved in that we wanted to stay for 4-5 years and wanted to be sure she was on board with that I'm 19 weeks pregnant and due to deliver the same month our lease is up so no shit we're planning to stay. She then made a weird comment about the rent again, leading me to believe she's going to try and hike our rent up $200 the month I bring a baby home, despite that other homes of comparable size and age are going for $750 in this area. If she does that I'm going to have to find another house that will work with our recovering credit (layoffs suck) and my dogs while dealing with a newborn. YAY.
@heathersaysso - that's awful. I'm so sorry you're dealing with such a crappy landlord situation. You definitely don't need all that added stress in your life
@heathersayso that sounds awful! Also, check your lease to see it is says her boyfriend can come onto your property. You do have rights as a tenant. Document the litter/craziness. Personally I'd move to be somewhere calmer, even being preggo.
@heathersaysso ugh that's awful. I think I would rather deal with moving around my due date than put up with that for another year!! The dude shining lights and throwing beer cans in your yard is a deal breaker for me! I'm sorry it hasn't been what you expected
Married July 2014 DD born June 2016 Second due August 2020 (team green!)
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The people I nanny for - the little girl has an ear infection so she was sick and grumpy. And the boy had a full on meltdown because sister kept him awake last night and he didn't want to go to piano lessons because he was too tired. And their parents were both working from home and let the kids get away with terrible behavior that those kids never ever do when mom and dad aren't home because they know I don't tolerate it.
DH - we are moving in two weeks and he refuses to help me pack until the last minute because he doesn't want to be "living out of boxes". Well he works the weekend of the move so I'm going to be dealing with the movers all by myself and cleaning all by myself. So I'm basically doing everything all by myself. Gah!
-----qbf, TB hates me apparently-------
You mean when you make the choice to have a child YOU'RE the one responsible for buying everything for them and not your friends and family?
My twatwaffle is my landlord. I met her last January while working at a car dealership and she ended up not buying a car but asked if I'd be interested in renting her house. It seemed like magic, we were looking for a house to move into that June which was precisely when hers would be available. I told her what our price range was, she offered the rent exactly in that range, and called me 1-2 a month for the next 5 months to make sure I was still interested. When we were prepping to sign the lease she asked to meet our dogs, loved them, and mentioned the NON REFUNDABLE $300 deposit due for our pets. Two dogs and a cat turned into $900. We decided to go with it since we LOVE the house and were planning to stay 4-5 years (with her blessing, she kept telling us she loved us so much she'd like us to stay forever).
That was in June.
Since then she has:
Decided rent needs to be done in cash every month and she comes by the house to pick it up/check on the house.
Flipped out on my husband while I was at work because our dogs MIGHT be killing the grass in the backyard (something she has no way of knowing unless she's looking over the fence, and were she, she'd know the grass is fine)
Repeatedly mentioned how many other people want to rent the house
Repeatedly mentioned how she should be charging us way more (we're paying 1k a month for a small, 1970s 3 bedroom with a backyard and a medium sized workshop in the back in a moderately nice area of Colorado Springs).
Come over and yelled at me for having cardboard boxes by the garage (waiting for trash day)
Revealed her boyfriend lives 5 houses down the street, she works with our neighbor on the right, and comes by twice a month to have lunch with the neighbor on the left and that they've been "keeping an eye on the house"
Revealed she rented the house because she divorced her abusive husband and moved into this house, but had to leave because he's been stalking her ever since. He's come by the house asking for her several times while I was home, my husband caught him trying to go into our backyard and he let our dogs out (this was the first week in the house, the back gate is now bolted and padlocked), we've found cigarette butts and beer cans in our front yard (we don't smoke or drink beer but he does) and we've repeatedly had a truck drive by shining a flashlight into our windows.
Called to complain because she isn't sure she feels comfortable with our two large dogs in the house/yard.
This month when she came by for rent she mentioned the lease was up in a few months and asked if we were planning to stay. I gave her a weird look because A) we told her when we moved in that we wanted to stay for 4-5 years and wanted to be sure she was on board with that
DD born June 2016
Second due August 2020 (team green!)