First off, SO...don't act like a bitch if I don't want to wake up when *YOUR* alarm clock goes off to get it on. I still get 20 more minutes of sleep. Fuck off.
Second one goes out to my asshole dog who decided to dig up the backyard this morning. Fuck you.
I have two this morning...hence my eagerness to start the thread myself!
#1: I haven't had a SINGLE MORNING in three weeks at work where I actually got to come in and get my room ready to go. I have had morning duty, a parent conference, or some kind of meeting pretty much since coming back after Christmas. I got here this morning SUPER excited that I finally had a morning to get ready for the day, especially considered I was out Friday and even organizing my train-wreck of a room after a sub takes time. Guess what I got in my email? A reminder about our morning staff meeting. SERIOUSLY?!?!? So a full staff meeting today, morning duty tomorrow, team meeting on Wednesday, club sponsorship on Thursday, and a parent conference on Friday. JUST GIVE ME ONE DAMN MORNING TO GET READY TO TEACH!
#2: My DD is in the "older 1's" class at school because there was no room yet in the 2 year old classroom (even though she turned 2 before Christmas). Ok, no big deal. But it became a HUGE deal when I confirmed last week that two of her classmates were moved up to the 2 year old classroom. One of them is older than her, so no big deal, that kid should go before her. But another of them is actually YOUNGER than her! NOT okay! She is in a room with kids who are barely 1.5 years old, and 6 months at that age is huge! I haven't been able to speak to the director since I confirmed the other kids moving, even though I've been trying since last Wednesday. So today when she wasn't there at drop off, I called to leave her a message that I wanted to speak with her. She actually just got back to me. Turns out that she has been looking to move my daughter, but just hasn't gotten the spot made available yet. The reason the younger kid moved up before her was the director happened to see his dad first to ask him. Why the heck didn't you just CALL me to ask? I would have said YES 100%! I've been waiting to move her! It isn't fair that just because his dad happened to be around when she was that he got a priority move over my daughter! So she told me that she's looking to move her a week from today, which is great, but I'm still really annoyed at how the move is being handled. The care and learning she gets at this preschool is fantastic, it really is. But the communication to parents really isn't that great, I've learned about things going on sometimes because of just picking up on them myself. And the fact that I've been insanely irritated and upset, to the point of tears, about this for almost a week is really maddening.
Sonic brought my cheese sticks out with no Marinara this morning and thought that'd be okay since they were out...after I had ordered extra.
Don't be all pissed at me when I don't want them without marinara.
lol this morning? I didn't know they served cheese sticks for breakfast. I got pissy the other day when I went through the drive thru and waited FOREVER for my strawberry milkshake and after they asked me twice (once through the box and once when I paid) if I wanted whip cream (uh, duh) they handed me the milkshake with no whip and said "Sorry we're out"...I was gonna drink it anyway but they should have prepared me. I was pretty bummed for a moment.
If one more person tells me it's quiet in my department today I might punch them. We have a huge trade show, same one we have every year around this time. Where do you think our sales team is? No I am not mad I don't get to go. No I am not going to slack all week.
Mine goes out to DH this morning. He is "so sick" that he tossed and turned and moaned and complained all night long. I barely got any sleep last night because he wouldn't shut up. When I asked him to tell me his symptoms all he said was that his throat is killing him and that he is going to stay home from work You have got to be kidding me! I have zero sympathy. It's so annoying that he acts like he's on his death bed for the most minor things. If I acted like this every time I felt even the slightest bit uncomfortable, nothing would get done around here. And now I have to deal with his crap all day while he lays in bed doing nothing. Ugh. I'm already done with today and it's only 7:30am.
My BFM goes out to my face today. I woke up bright red. WTF? My BP isn't off, I was actually shivering this morning because pregnancy makes me not want to sleep with covers on no matter how cold I am, and I know it's not sunburn... but my face is red. Almost like I was just working out. I've been up for 4 hours, and it's still red. I took a cool shower to see if that helped...NOPE. I'm not generally a vain person, I don't wear or own anything other than eyeliner as far as makeup goes, so I don't have powder or whatever that stuff is to cover it up. But dangit...there is enough going on with my body to not need one totally random extra stupid thing to make me pissy. Just UGH!
I'm totally going to bitch about my body today. I can't believe my body does not have what it takes to make a baby anymore. Granted, baby is doing great and he's thriving inside. I on the other hand, am a complete mess.
My legs haven't cramped this much in my entire life. Constant nightly charley horses from my inner thigh, my calves, the back of my legs, and other muscles I didn't know could cramp. I've been very diligent on drinking water, eating bananas, and other methods. I think for now I found something that works. My OB suggested taking magnesium and calcium supplements twice a day and along with the hydration and bananas, I've had two nights of restful sleep. Other than that, I've been afraid to fall asleep at night.
Had my glucose done on Friday and I passed! I also found out I'm anemic so now I have to take iron supplements. So now, on top of my prenatals, I'm taking my blood pressure medicine, calcium, magnesium, fiber(for constipation), and iron supplements(which will cause more constipation). WTF.
Now I'm going to bitch about my husband, who since last night has been a jackass. Whenever I ask him to do something, or say something to him he argues back at me. This morning I called him to ask if he can bring the bed frame to our bed up so we can get the bed off the floor because I'm having a hard time getting in and out of bed lately. He started arguing with me saying it was never a problem before. Trying to tell him now it is because the baby is getting bigger he cuts me off saying I didn't have a problem like that with the last baby. I'll have you know, jerkface, that we did have the bed up when I was pregnant and we took the frame out AFTER the baby was born.
The fact that it's Monday is enough. Also, my daughter is leaving tomorrow for Job Corps. It won't be another 2-3 weeks before she comes home to visit. I threw a party for her yesterday and after everyone left, I asked her to help clean up and she threw an attitude and complained how she had to get up 4 different times to help me out. Except for the 2 year old (who can't do no wrong at this age), my family members are being assholes.
I have 2 today. Plenty of other pregnancy-related complaints, but those are there every day, so I'll stick to something new and different.
#1 The dog (Jones) has been mopey since we had to put our older one down a few weeks ago. So, we've been keeping an eye out at a few different rescues, and after talking to a facebook acquaintance who volunteers at the shelter where we got Jones, we went down on Saturday afternoon to try meeting a few of the dogs they had based on her suggestions. Jones was a complete turd and acted like he was seriously going to murder the other dogs. He was slightly better with the second one than the first, but still not enough to even be off-leash together. So now we're back to the drawing board and hoping that a smaller, female dog will be a better match. Meanwhile, he has continued moping around the house the rest of the weekend.
#2 goes to DH (poor guy gets this almost every week, I think). He's been snoring really bad since getting back from his trip last week. Not coincidentally, he's been drinking almost every day since getting back from his trip last week. I have pointed out multiple times that there seems to be a correlation, but he refuses to see it. It's not that he's been drinking a ton, but 2 large gin and tonics or 3 beers in a day, every day, is rather excessive. Especially when we do not have the food budget to support that. If he drinks tonight, I might smack him upside the head.
@rebelone....from one Mama on the floor to another...I feel your pain. I almost royally pissed DH off this weekend when I tried to buy an UGLY AF bed frame at goodwill just because it was the right size for our mattress and only $30. I then proceeded to have a breakdown on the way home because I am so over not having a bed on a frame. I have come to the conclusion that I will end up having to buy something to suit my needs for the time being because I don't expect him to build ours anytime soon. He keeps saying it's not an issue, he will continue to help pull me up off the floor in the mornings. I'll believe that at those 3am feedings when I see it! Here's hoping your bed gets put up soon!!
Why is it always work related? Last Friday I didn't go into work since I had my three hour GTT and my boss is letting me make up the time. I asked our newest technician, who's been full time in the lab maybe 7 months to change the media on our cell culture that day. It's something that she will be 100% responsible for when I'm on maternity leave, so I purposely did not make up a spare bottle of media since she will have to do it and has already been taught what to do. I come in today to a stinky incubator with a third of flasks contaminated! I let her know what happened and she kind of blew it off. She let me know that most of the flasks (I'm guessing the ones that were ok) she used the media I prepared and only some were media she prepared, but was all confused as to what the problem might have been. Really? Ugh, now everyone is pushed back some and I have to scrap an experiment.
I just want to whine about being at work instead of cuddling with DH and the pup, because it's his day off and the dog has been super affectionate for the last few weeks. I think it's the hormones but she won't leave my side when I'm home and freaks out when I get home from work. It's adorable and she appreciates me more than anyone I work with.
First, they still do not have a transition plan in place for whenever I go on leave. I am currently the only therapists with our group qualified to service patients through one of our agencies and if I need to train another one of my coworkers on the paperwork, policies, etc, I'd like to make a plan for that. There are a couple of other options too but it just seems like it's not being taken very seriously and I don't want anything falling back on me in case I need to take off early, which I don't anticipate but you never know.
Also, hounding on productivity numbers in my line of work is neither practical nor good for team morale. As we continue to grow as a company, focus on employee satisfaction has really taken a sharp downward turn from where I'm sitting. Sigh. I hate business politics.
@rebelone@briterfly84 I must be the only one who LOVES having my mattress/box spring on the floor. I refuse to put it back on a frame unless it's a platform type - solely because I know that it will end up having so much junk under it, and I had so many toe/shin injuries as a kid from my stupid box springs. On the floor forever!
I could totally use a new, larger mattress though.
1. Stomach, what the heck? I haven't had morning sickness since week 18, but for some reason in the car on the way to my OB appt it suddenly CAME BACK. Shoutout to my OB's medical assistants, though, who, when I called saying I'd be late for my appointment because I was sitting in their parking lot covered in my own puke, ran down with wet wipes and febreeze and assured me they'd dealt with this plenty. Still, not a great way to start the morning. Especially in my brand new, fabric-interior car
2. I'm trying to do our taxes and not only has my husband misplaced half his W-2s, he also apparently didn't fill out the withholding documents for the various substitute teaching jobs he did this year! So there goes our expected refund, and now we have to pay the government
@rebelone@briterfly84 I must be the only one who LOVES having my mattress/box spring on the floor. I refuse to put it back on a frame unless it's a platform type - solely because I know that it will end up having so much junk under it, and I had so many toe/shin injuries as a kid from my stupid box springs. On the floor forever!
I could totally use a new, larger mattress though.
Yeah I'm also fine with having the mattress and box spring on the floor especially since it keeps from putting junk under it. We purposely took our bed frame out because it's much better, and our 2 year old can get on and off easily and if she does fall we aren't so high up. I just can't do it anymore. It's a feat of strength just rolling over from one side to the next but if I want to get on it, it's so low I gotta kind of plop onto it and there's been times I've had to ask my husband to help pull me up. But I'm all for putting it back on the floor once I have the baby and gain my mobility back.
First, I suddenly can't take deep breaths, and when I stand up, my whole stomach cramps and hurts.. I'm a few weeks into my 3rd, but now it feels official.. Ouchy.
Second goes to DH. Yes, we have to accomplish things in the house. Yes, we're on a deadline! NINE weeks Mr. We don't have time to keep putting crap off (looking at you, pile of projects), because our son will be here before you know it! Argh!
So not quite a BFM to be honest... It's more of a complaint for a future bitchfest that's going to come soon...
One of my sisters went to buy me the glider rocker I put on my Amazon registry, and it has already been purchased so she called me to ask who did it and what to get me instead. Amazon has a thank you list you can look at. Turns out it was my grandma, and my sister wasn't actually all that upset about it.
Here is the problem. My mom has wanted to buy us the stroller/car seat combo since I picked it out in like October. She's been setting aside small bits of money for it and was going to use some of her tax return for it. I have told EVERYONE on the planet that my mom is getting this for us, so don't get it. There are a billion other things we need. I just saw my FMIL bought it. Now my mom is going to go batshit crazy when she can't buy us one of the bigger items, and it's going to add fuel to the fire in the invisible feud they are in against each other (read as my mom is crazy and thinks there is an actual competition, when I dislike both of them equally)
The only other "large item" is the changing table/dresser which is more money, and I'm sure my mom won't be able to come up with the other $50 for it on her own. I might offer to cover the difference when she discovers this on her own, but I am NOT going to bring it up or tell her before she finds out...
Now I'm trying to wrestle with not being ridiculously angry with FMIL because I told her so many fucking times my mom is getting that for us that it came up EVERY SINGLE TIME we have seen them in person. I'm sure she wasn't thinking "I'm going to piss off Ivy, because I don't really like her, and screw her mom too!" But some days I wonder if she does think like that... She's nice-ish to me? But I always get the sense of her thinking I'm not good enough for her son. And of course I can't confront her about it because A: I was peeking when I shouldn't have, and B: I can't really justify yelling at someone for buying us a present, no matter what the circumstances are surrounding it.
(BTW told my fiancé's about this all last night and he looked me dead in the eye and said "Your mom is going to go insane when she finds this out." And proceeded to laugh because what can you do? I on the it her hand get to deal with the emotional fallout of my mom >.<)
@Knottie9983816 Oh man that would make me crazy! And I'd definitely wonder the same things too. I'm wondering, would it possible for you, when your mom finds out, to give her a list of the things that are necessities for you, things you REALLY need, that while not big ticket items are still must-haves, that equal the price of the stroller? Honestly I'd appreciate that even more because it makes sure more of your bases are covered and there are less "things" you have to get.
@Knottie9983816 Oh man that would make me crazy! And I'd definitely wonder the same things too. I'm wondering, would it possible for you, when your mom finds out, to give her a list of the things that are necessities for you, things you REALLY need, that while not big ticket items are still must-haves, that equal the price of the stroller? Honestly I'd appreciate that even more because it makes sure more of your bases are covered and there are less "things" you have to get.
This! Or maybe she could put together a "bath kit" or something similar with multiple smaller items - baby tub, towels, shampoo, tub toys, etc. Not that you necessarily want to encourage the competition, but it looks like she put in more effort when you unwrap this: compared to this
@Knottie9983816 Oh man that would make me crazy! And I'd definitely wonder the same things too. I'm wondering, would it possible for you, when your mom finds out, to give her a list of the things that are necessities for you, things you REALLY need, that while not big ticket items are still must-haves, that equal the price of the stroller? Honestly I'd appreciate that even more because it makes sure more of your bases are covered and there are less "things" you have to get.
I agree that I would look at the other things you need and give her those ideas. In all honesty, I would have saved the link for the travel system and taken it off of your registry to begin with. Maybe once your mom finds out and then moves on to another gift idea, take that off the registry. Or find something else that isn't on there that you need and give that to her as an idea.
@cmjenkies@rebelone...I would even go for the mattress/boxspring combo because it would put me a foot off the ground. But mine is just the mattress...on plywood...on the floor. But I am also a girl who likes to jump into bed, literally! I want mine to be high! Give me that extra storage under the bed. I will make use of it for sure!
@Jules08What do you mean by take it off the registry? It's on Amazon so it hides whatever is already purchased unless you specifically select purchased items in sort...
@mrstrax I love that idea! And yeah you're right it does look like a lot more thought went into it!
@Jules08What do you mean by take it off the registry? It's on Amazon so it hides whatever is already purchased unless you specifically select purchased items in sort...
@mrstrax I love that idea! And yeah you're right it does look like a lot more thought went into it!
I mean delete it so no one else sees it as something you want and buys it.
@Knottie9983816 is there a way that your mom wouldn't know FMIL bought it? Like, are you guys having 2 separate showers with them not attending the same ones? If so, you could totally return one of the systems and get all the other necessities without having the emotional fall out. Otherwise, I would definitely encourage what PP said and play up the angle of contributing so much more to the new baby and saving you guys so much time gathering all the little things. She could use all that frustration to fuel her shopping spree on all things baby!
@Jules08What do you mean by take it off the registry? It's on Amazon so it hides whatever is already purchased unless you specifically select purchased items in sort...
@mrstrax I love that idea! And yeah you're right it does look like a lot more thought went into it!
I was gonna say the same, that bummer it was on your registry. My parents wanted to buy us the travel system also so I never even put it on my registry. HOWEVER, I like the idea of a 'bigger=more items' sell on this for your mom. Idea: ALL THE CLOTH!!!!!!! Baby will use that every single day, without a doubt, while the stroller is just for outings.
@Jules08What do you mean by take it off the registry? It's on Amazon so it hides whatever is already purchased unless you specifically select purchased items in sort...
@mrstrax I love that idea! And yeah you're right it does look like a lot more thought went into it!
I was gonna say the same, that bummer it was on your registry. My parents wanted to buy us the travel system also so I never even put it on my registry. HOWEVER, I like the idea of a 'bigger=more items' sell on this for your mom. Idea: ALL THE CLOTH!!!!!!! Baby will use that every single day, without a doubt, while the stroller is just for outings.
OR maybe she can buy you the convertible carseat since most travel system seats only go up to 35 lbs?
BFM goes to my body this week! I've been sick for 2 weeks now, and for the last week every time I cough I pee myself. Sometimes its just a tiny bit, but other times...not so much Yesterday was so bad I had to change my pants and underwear 5 times. FIVE TIMES!!!!! WTF!?!?!? This is such bullshit. After changing the first set today I finally got a genius moment and decided to use a pad. And yes I feel it was a genius moment because I went a week without thinking of it lol
I got another one. I just called my OB office about filling out MLOA papers and requested 12 weeks and they said they can only give me SIX WEEKS depending how my wound heals, with a cesarean!!! WTF!!
I got another one. I just called my OB office about filling out MLOA papers and requested 12 weeks and they said they can only give me SIX WEEKS depending how my wound heals, with a cesarean!!! WTF!!
6 weeks seems short, but 12 seems long. I know the standard around here is 6 weeks for vaginal delivery, 8 for c-section.
I have a hard time thinking of things to bitch about, but I guess I'm pretty stressed out about how my husband can't find a job. Why is it so hard to find a job these days? He has two bachelor degrees, knows Chinese and has 7 years military service and he can't even get some stupid job working in a warehouse so we can pay our bills and not have to go back into the military? It's very frustrating. He has been accepted to at least two medical schools but might not be able to get hired at Starbucks.
I got another one. I just called my OB office about filling out MLOA papers and requested 12 weeks and they said they can only give me SIX WEEKS depending how my wound heals, with a cesarean!!! WTF!!
6 weeks seems short, but 12 seems long. I know the standard around here is 6 weeks for vaginal delivery, 8 for c-section.
Well hell, I'd take the 8 weeks, which I got two years ago with my last C Section. But this time they're only saying I can only get six.
I got another one. I just called my OB office about filling out MLOA papers and requested 12 weeks and they said they can only give me SIX WEEKS depending how my wound heals, with a cesarean!!! WTF!!
6 weeks seems short, but 12 seems long. I know the standard around here is 6 weeks for vaginal delivery, 8 for c-section.
Well hell, I'd take the 8 weeks, which I got two years ago with my last C Section. But this time they're only saying I can only get six.
That's weird. Like @AEG84 I've heard that you get 6 for vaginal and 8 for c/s. Why the hell would they only give you 6? Maybe they don't want to commit to it til it's time? Are you scheduled for c/s again or trying vbac?
My 18 year old sister happens to be my step sister but was adopted by my dad when he married her mom because her bio dad had nothing to do with her. I have known and loved her as a little sister since she was 4 and I was 20. I adore her and she is my sister. We are very close. She has an older sister who is absolutely the worst human being I have ever met. She constantly belittles everyone, including her young son. We rarely see her because it is impossible to be around her for more than5 minutes. Her son is special needs and she calls him a retard to his face and says shes trying to get pregnant so she can have a normal kid. She says this with him, 5 years old, sitting right there. This is just the tip of the iceberg in the horrible things she does all the time. She has treated my sister just as poorly her whole life. My sister is graduating from high school this May (how can that be!?) and she has decided to go to college near where I live. Now her crazy bio sister is going on a rampage on Facebook about how my sister doesn't care about "blood" and loves her step sisters more than her real sister. Excuse me, I am her real sister, thank you very much and I have loved her and been there as she's grown up and not treated her like shit her whole life. I'm biting my tongue on this because my sister is trying to navigate it respectfully (she really is one of the sweetest kids in the world) and I don't want to get involved in FB drama with a crazy person. It just bugs me so much to see her crazy sister intentionally trying to hurt her.
And I'm extra bitchy because I'm not sleeping well with all the hip pain and peeing all night!
@rebelone I didn't mean to imply that 6 was ok - hope you didn't take it that way. Definitely push back and insist on some answers for why 6 weeks would be sufficient. That doesn't make sense to me!
Re: BFM 2/1/16
First off, SO...don't act like a bitch if I don't want to wake up when *YOUR* alarm clock goes off to get it on. I still get 20 more minutes of sleep. Fuck off.
Second one goes out to my asshole dog who decided to dig up the backyard this morning. Fuck you.
#1: I haven't had a SINGLE MORNING in three weeks at work where I actually got to come in and get my room ready to go. I have had morning duty, a parent conference, or some kind of meeting pretty much since coming back after Christmas. I got here this morning SUPER excited that I finally had a morning to get ready for the day, especially considered I was out Friday and even organizing my train-wreck of a room after a sub takes time. Guess what I got in my email? A reminder about our morning staff meeting. SERIOUSLY?!?!? So a full staff meeting today, morning duty tomorrow, team meeting on Wednesday, club sponsorship on Thursday, and a parent conference on Friday. JUST GIVE ME ONE DAMN MORNING TO GET READY TO TEACH!
#2: My DD is in the "older 1's" class at school because there was no room yet in the 2 year old classroom (even though she turned 2 before Christmas). Ok, no big deal. But it became a HUGE deal when I confirmed last week that two of her classmates were moved up to the 2 year old classroom. One of them is older than her, so no big deal, that kid should go before her. But another of them is actually YOUNGER than her! NOT okay! She is in a room with kids who are barely 1.5 years old, and 6 months at that age is huge! I haven't been able to speak to the director since I confirmed the other kids moving, even though I've been trying since last Wednesday. So today when she wasn't there at drop off, I called to leave her a message that I wanted to speak with her. She actually just got back to me. Turns out that she has been looking to move my daughter, but just hasn't gotten the spot made available yet. The reason the younger kid moved up before her was the director happened to see his dad first to ask him. Why the heck didn't you just CALL me to ask? I would have said YES 100%! I've been waiting to move her! It isn't fair that just because his dad happened to be around when she was that he got a priority move over my daughter! So she told me that she's looking to move her a week from today, which is great, but I'm still really annoyed at how the move is being handled. The care and learning she gets at this preschool is fantastic, it really is. But the communication to parents really isn't that great, I've learned about things going on sometimes because of just picking up on them myself. And the fact that I've been insanely irritated and upset, to the point of tears, about this for almost a week is really maddening.
Don't be all pissed at me when I don't want them without marinara.
I'm totally going to bitch about my body today. I can't believe my body does not have what it takes to make a baby anymore. Granted, baby is doing great and he's thriving inside. I on the other hand, am a complete mess.
My legs haven't cramped this much in my entire life. Constant nightly charley horses from my inner thigh, my calves, the back of my legs, and other muscles I didn't know could cramp. I've been very diligent on drinking water, eating bananas, and other methods. I think for now I found something that works. My OB suggested taking magnesium and calcium supplements twice a day and along with the hydration and bananas, I've had two nights of restful sleep. Other than that, I've been afraid to fall asleep at night.
Had my glucose done on Friday and I passed! I also found out I'm anemic so now I have to take iron supplements. So now, on top of my prenatals, I'm taking my blood pressure medicine, calcium, magnesium, fiber(for constipation), and iron supplements(which will cause more constipation). WTF.
Now I'm going to bitch about my husband, who since last night has been a jackass. Whenever I ask him to do something, or say something to him he argues back at me. This morning I called him to ask if he can bring the bed frame to our bed up so we can get the bed off the floor because I'm having a hard time getting in and out of bed lately. He started arguing with me saying it was never a problem before. Trying to tell him now it is because the baby is getting bigger he cuts me off saying I didn't have a problem like that with the last baby. I'll have you know, jerkface, that we did have the bed up when I was pregnant and we took the frame out AFTER the baby was born.
The fact that it's Monday is enough. Also, my daughter is leaving tomorrow for Job Corps. It won't be another 2-3 weeks before she comes home to visit. I threw a party for her yesterday and after everyone left, I asked her to help clean up and she threw an attitude and complained how she had to get up 4 different times to help me out. Except for the 2 year old (who can't do no wrong at this age), my family members are being assholes.
It's a boy! Grow baby, grow! EDD: 4/22/2016
#1 The dog (Jones) has been mopey since we had to put our older one down a few weeks ago. So, we've been keeping an eye out at a few different rescues, and after talking to a facebook acquaintance who volunteers at the shelter where we got Jones, we went down on Saturday afternoon to try meeting a few of the dogs they had based on her suggestions. Jones was a complete turd and acted like he was seriously going to murder the other dogs. He was slightly better with the second one than the first, but still not enough to even be off-leash together. So now we're back to the drawing board and hoping that a smaller, female dog will be a better match. Meanwhile, he has continued moping around the house the rest of the weekend.
#2 goes to DH (poor guy gets this almost every week, I think). He's been snoring really bad since getting back from his trip last week. Not coincidentally, he's been drinking almost every day since getting back from his trip last week. I have pointed out multiple times that there seems to be a correlation, but he refuses to see it. It's not that he's been drinking a ton, but 2 large gin and tonics or 3 beers in a day, every day, is rather excessive. Especially when we do not have the food budget to support that. If he drinks tonight, I might smack him upside the head.
First, they still do not have a transition plan in place for whenever I go on leave. I am currently the only therapists with our group qualified to service patients through one of our agencies and if I need to train another one of my coworkers on the paperwork, policies, etc, I'd like to make a plan for that. There are a couple of other options too but it just seems like it's not being taken very seriously and I don't want anything falling back on me in case I need to take off early, which I don't anticipate but you never know.
Also, hounding on productivity numbers in my line of work is neither practical nor good for team morale. As we continue to grow as a company, focus on employee satisfaction has really taken a sharp downward turn from where I'm sitting. Sigh. I hate business politics.
I could totally use a new, larger mattress though.
1. Stomach, what the heck? I haven't had morning sickness since week 18, but for some reason in the car on the way to my OB appt it suddenly CAME BACK. Shoutout to my OB's medical assistants, though, who, when I called saying I'd be late for my appointment because I was sitting in their parking lot covered in my own puke, ran down with wet wipes and febreeze and assured me they'd dealt with this plenty. Still, not a great way to start the morning. Especially in my brand new, fabric-interior car
2. I'm trying to do our taxes and not only has my husband misplaced half his W-2s, he also apparently didn't fill out the withholding documents for the various substitute teaching jobs he did this year! So there goes our expected refund, and now we have to pay the government
Yeah I'm also fine with having the mattress and box spring on the floor especially since it keeps from putting junk under it. We purposely took our bed frame out because it's much better, and our 2 year old can get on and off easily and if she does fall we aren't so high up. I just can't do it anymore. It's a feat of strength just rolling over from one side to the next but if I want to get on it, it's so low I gotta kind of plop onto it and there's been times I've had to ask my husband to help pull me up. But I'm all for putting it back on the floor once I have the baby and gain my mobility back.
It's a boy! Grow baby, grow! EDD: 4/22/2016
First, I suddenly can't take deep breaths, and when I stand up, my whole stomach cramps and hurts.. I'm a few weeks into my 3rd, but now it feels official.. Ouchy.
Second goes to DH. Yes, we have to accomplish things in the house. Yes, we're on a deadline! NINE weeks Mr. We don't have time to keep putting crap off (looking at you, pile of projects), because our son will be here before you know it! Argh!
One of my sisters went to buy me the glider rocker I put on my Amazon registry, and it has already been purchased so she called me to ask who did it and what to get me instead. Amazon has a thank you list you can look at. Turns out it was my grandma, and my sister wasn't actually all that upset about it.
Here is the problem. My mom has wanted to buy us the stroller/car seat combo since I picked it out in like October. She's been setting aside small bits of money for it and was going to use some of her tax return for it. I have told EVERYONE on the planet that my mom is getting this for us, so don't get it. There are a billion other things we need. I just saw my FMIL bought it. Now my mom is going to go batshit crazy when she can't buy us one of the bigger items, and it's going to add fuel to the fire in the invisible feud they are in against each other (read as my mom is crazy and thinks there is an actual competition, when I dislike both of them equally)
The only other "large item" is the changing table/dresser which is more money, and I'm sure my mom won't be able to come up with the other $50 for it on her own. I might offer to cover the difference when she discovers this on her own, but I am NOT going to bring it up or tell her before she finds out...
Now I'm trying to wrestle with not being ridiculously angry with FMIL because I told her so many fucking times my mom is getting that for us that it came up EVERY SINGLE TIME we have seen them in person. I'm sure she wasn't thinking "I'm going to piss off Ivy, because I don't really like her, and screw her mom too!" But some days I wonder if she does think like that... She's nice-ish to me? But I always get the sense of her thinking I'm not good enough for her son. And of course I can't confront her about it because A: I was peeking when I shouldn't have, and B: I can't really justify yelling at someone for buying us a present, no matter what the circumstances are surrounding it.
(BTW told my fiancé's about this all last night and he looked me dead in the eye and said "Your mom is going to go insane when she finds this out." And proceeded to laugh because what can you do? I on the it her hand get to deal with the emotional fallout of my mom >.<)
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I agree that I would look at the other things you need and give her those ideas. In all honesty, I would have saved the link for the travel system and taken it off of your registry to begin with. Maybe once your mom finds out and then moves on to another gift idea, take that off the registry. Or find something else that isn't on there that you need and give that to her as an idea.
@mrstrax I love that idea! And yeah you're right it does look like a lot more thought went into it!
I mean delete it so no one else sees it as something you want and buys it.
It's a boy! Grow baby, grow! EDD: 4/22/2016
Well hell, I'd take the 8 weeks, which I got two years ago with my last C Section. But this time they're only saying I can only get six.
It's a boy! Grow baby, grow! EDD: 4/22/2016
And I'm extra bitchy because I'm not sleeping well with all the hip pain and peeing all night!
@rebelone @AEG84 my doctor's office says 6 weeks for vaginal and 10 for c/s. I thought that was common practice