Monday Bitchfest

Lecool · April 2016

Why is it impossible for people to clean up after themselves in the shared communal fridge at work? I went to put my lunch away this morning and I swear - something has mutated and come alive in that fridge. Now I'm scared to even eat my lunch later.

clover28 · April 2016

My MBF is my dog. He's a 7lb Yorkie that wears a diaper and eats poop. This morning, he brought a dead bird inside my house. I called my husband screaming and ended up scooping the bird into a slipper and throwing it (slipper and all) into the yard. So now I have no slippers because my dog is an asshole. My feet are cold.

picklesplease · April 2016

My MBF is DH. He took good care of me last night after my BFN, but part of that included going to Dairy Queen for ice cream in my car. When he came home, he put my keys in some random place and then proceeded with said ice cream. I assumed he had put the keys back in my purse like a normal person. Nope. I got out to my car this morning with no keys. I sat at the door knocking for 5 minutes because he wasn't friggin' awake and thought the loud knocks on the door were part of his dream. Then he got all defensive when I was upset because I was now late for work and couldn't get coffee. I have a horrible migraine and am practically falling asleep at my desk. He can be a great guy, but holy shit what an ass sometimes.

Dilynne · April 2016

In law rant. I know we just had a thread on this but ugh.

My mother in law. I love her, but lately she has been driving me particularly crazy. Three things in the last week:

1) She is insisting we replace the flooring in our living room, like right now. I have told her we can't afford it so she's offered to pitch in $250.00. We said thanks, we'll look at flooring when we can (because that's still between $250 and $500 we have to shell out). She called 6 times this weekend and left voicemails asking if we'd gone to look at the flooring yet, and then showed up unannounced and uninvited with flooring samples. I was already annoyed.

2) Our anniversary is next week and my mom wants to have a party for us. She called MIL to throw out some dates to see what works for her, then MIL called us and H told her he was working one of the days. So my MIL calls my mother and was like "how can you try to have a party for my son when he isn't even going to be able to attend? Didn't you think about that?" So now my mom is mad because she came across so rude.

3) I'm a little super bummed because my mom and dad separated lat October and mom won't let dad come to the party. I don't feel like having a family celebration when my dad is not invited, so I was talking to H's aunt last night at a dinner and in walks MIL and she goes "well this isn't your business anyway Dilynne. It is what it is. Why are you trying to be in everyone's business." K, first of all. I'm not trying to get in everyone's business. I'm trying to decide if I feel comfortable having a celebration without my dad there. Second, I want to throw something at you.

//rantover.

thj101 · April 2016

@Dilynne I don't understand the premise of offering money to solve a problem that isn't even theirs.. my MIL will do this too from time to time, and I'm like, no, why?! It is slightly annoying.

my MBF is people who don't understand the time, labor and effort put into handcrafted items. It amazes me that people will NOT buy at a local market directly from an artisan because they think it's too pricey, but WILL go to places like Etsy, or Hobby Lobby and buy the same type of things for much more! and sometimes pay shipping and tax on top of that! I just don't get it... and it's really discouraged me after this weekend.. It also pisses me off that they come in and say, oh I think my husband could make that... ok, well, let's have your husband try it.. (not trying to toot my own horn here btw) they have no idea the time, labor and tools required to make all of these things!

housewifehobbyist · April 2016

@Dilynne Sorry you're MIL is such a control freak. Yikes.

My MBF is with H, who like many of your partners is a bit of a hypochondriac. He was apparently feeling ill last week and instead of using the normal thermometer in the cabinet took my BBT from my nightstand and decided to put it in his bag and carry it around for a few days so he could take his temperature any time he felt bad. I took a cycle off after multiple losses and so didn't notice until today, when was finally ready and excited to start temping and trying again. Except when I woke up and reached for my thermometer this morning IT WASN'T THERE! I know I'm only CD4 so it's not a huge deal to start a day later but DAMMIT H!

leekat14 · April 2016

Me. My hair, my clothes, everything! Why can't I have one day with good hair and a great outfit!!! I cleaned out my closet yesterday and got rid of so many things that I don't wear and yet this morning I can't seem to find anything!!!

Lecool · April 2016

@thj101 That's so irritating. I work in the Creative field, so I totally get where you're coming from. Everybody thinks that they can easily do things themselves, even with no experience or required tools. I'm totally into buying handmade stuff, and try to shop locally when I can. I don't get why people don't understand how much really goes into creating things.

@Dilynne That's so annoying. Why does she even care about the flooring in your house.

@DoctorDonna That sounds like something my H would do. So frustrating! Hope you were able to find some coffee.

mrsstuessy · April 2016

TW: this is probably just a little bit insensitive in general. So, don't read if you are having a hard TTC day.

So, this is the only place I have to rant about this (besides to my poor husband who just feels bad when I rant). If one more bloody person who already has a child younger than DD gets pregnancy/gives birth this month I am going to throw a freaking tantrum in the streets. I just want to sit on the floor and whine... It's not fair! It's supposed to be my turn. This isn't how it was supposed to be. But then life just does what it wants, doesn't it. And now we are finally about to start trying and all these people are popping out kids like 5 minutes apart and I wanted my kids close. And now they are going to be at least 3.5 years apart. And I just want to kick a puppy.

I know, I am really lucky to have a child already. I totally will never take that for granted and she would totally be enough for us, if we never got another child. But, I wants lots of kids and my life has just not gone as planned and that is hard. I hope no one is upset since I already have one and am whining. I'm not sure what is off limits when it comes to that. Please let me know if I am being a TW.

thj101 · April 2016

@mrsstuessy you are not being a TW... It IS SO FRUSTRATING... I hear you... I feel the same way, even though I don't already have a child, I can still understand how frustrating it can be.. Because it feels like I'm surrounded by people who just pop them out like it's no big thing.. one of DH's friends and his wife got pregnant with an "oops" baby 6 years after his vasectomy... 6 years! and he had a vasectomy!

mrsstuessy · April 2016

@thj101 Good. I don't want to be annoying. I mean, we are just starting our TTC process, but I have been ready for a year and having to wait, mostly so that DH can get his life on track, is just so frustrating. I feel so behind.

picklesplease · April 2016

@mrsstuessy - No worries! I'm right there with you, lady! I had three people announce over the weekend that they are expecting...and I can't even have ONE.

Hang in there, girl. You rant all you want.

virginiaham · April 2016

@mrsstuessy already having a LO doesn't mean you have to discredit or diminish your desire for this LO at all. You have acknowledged that you are early on in the TTC game this time...it's frustrating but don't lose hope! Hang in there!

KristoKekerooni · April 2016

Guys. The power is out at work. It has been since I got here (2 hours ago), and they still haven't fixed it. My job is 100% dependent upon a computer and machines. I can't do anything. And my phone is being stupid and won't pull up Netflix. Ugh. I'm so done. It's gonna be hell when it finally works. I've missed deadlines due to this, All my lab machines need to be recalibrated, who knows if there was a surge and any are damaged. What a great flipping Monday.

HLD3194 · April 2016

@mrsstuessy you are me exactly! I love my DD more than life and I want her to be a big sister. I was pg and lost that baby in Feb. I had always dreamed of 2 under 2, Now I'll be lucky if I get 2 by the time she's 3...it's so frustrating because it seems like some women look at their husbands and get KU. I thought life would be different at this point but it has a funny way of surprising us right? People tell me, you're young you have plenty of time, you don't want your kids too close together what about the cost of college what about this what about that....well I say FU to them because it's what I want! How I want to live my life and raise my family. Ok end rant sorry about that got a lil carried away...Just know you're not alone and if you ever need to vent feel free to

hanshotfirst77 · April 2016

@mrsstuessy I feel the same way! DS is everything to me but I want so badly to give him a sibling and everyone is freaking pregnant and today I started spitting and had a temp drop the same freaking day I see what I thought were faint lines on two different branded tests. What the hell.

sldp123 · April 2016

I just wasted my entire lunch hour and then some sitting in the waiting room at Quest, and had to leave without even getting my blood work done. They had ONE person working, and at least 12 people in the waiting room. When I left, the woman had finished up one patient but hadn't called anyone else back for at least 15 minutes. I really think she just went on her lunch break. So annoying, and now I am going to have to go back tomorrow.

Megzb510 · April 2016

@mrsstuessy - I feel the same way. DH is 3.5 now and I've been trying for 9 months. I was ready when he turned 2, but DH was not. I wish we would have started so much sooner.

MonaLisaRalphio · April 2016

My MBF is extremely selfish, but I'm just gonna let it fly. Maybe a TW for anyone who is having a tough TTC day.

I don't know if any of you remember my intro, way back in the day when we had intro threads, but I mentioned that I was surrounded by no less than THIRTEEN women in my life who were pregnant. I've been holding my breath all this time, knowing that all of these women would be giving birth around the same time. That time is now. Several came in the last few weeks, three babies arrived last week, and another three are on the way any second.

I'm okay. I can handle this. I planned for this. There was chocolate.

What I can NOT handle is the new round of pregnancy announcements. You guys. Three on Friday. Two on Saturday. Another FOUR today. Every. Goddamn. Woman I know is pregnant. This is not shit I learned via social media from like, random girls I went to high school with. It's two co-workers. Three cousins. Three friends. One friend's wife. One girl gave birth to a baby and got KU again IN THE TIME I'VE BEEN TTC. It's not fair.

And, okay, I'm just gonna go deep because I'm already there. The women are generally okay humans, but their husbands/boyfriends are all, uniformly and unequivocally, absolute disasters. Flaky AF, absent fathers, drunks, deeply stupid, cheaters... they run the gamut of disastrousness. And I just get SO MAD that my cute, sweet, loving, amazing husband does not get to be a dad, when these assholes are knocking people up left and right and then swinging around their dicks like it makes them big men. My husband would be THE BEST dad. He is the sweetest human I've ever known in my entire life. He wants to be a dad so badly. He isn't as verbose a person as I am, so he would never say it, but I can see that it bothers him that these douchebags get to raise kids and we are still kid-free.

So, yeah. I'm fun to be around today.

canavara · April 2016

mrsstuessy - Don't think you're being a TW either! We're trying for first but I can already imagine the future where I'm like, "let's get started one number 2 so they'll be close in age" and OH being like, "nah let's wait for things to calm down" -- I think there's so much pressure when you've already had 1 and it's not really fair.

My MBF: This is so dumb, irrational, and unfounded of me but our apartment has trash rooms on every floor (just like a tiny room with a chute and an area for dumping cardboard boxes for recycling). Apartment management insists that everyone break their cardboard boxes down before getting rid of them. We've received a ton of packages in the past few days. And they're SO hard to break down. Everyone seems to triple tape boxes these days. Or send things in unibody cardboard boxes that don't break down. So I don't really know who I'm annoyed with, our apartment management and their completely reasonable request for the sake of space-saving or companies that ship me things in sturdy packaging so they get to me not broken.

MelissaM090 · April 2016

@MonaLisaRalphio I'm so sorry. That is ROUGH. I feel like I don't even know as many people in general as you know who are giving birth and getting knocked up simultaneously. That would be hard on anyone.

Mine is to celebrate the nice weather we're finally finally getting. I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but for the love of christ, PARENTS, TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT ROAD SAFETY. There are kids on bikes and skateboards everywhere and they're all just flying around corners and off curbs and through intersections without looking and most of them are all wobbly like they might steer their bike or fall off their skateboard into my direct path at any moment. Kids are kids. They have short memories. It's been a long winter. I DON'T WANT TO HIT YOUR CHILD.

Lecool · April 2016

@MonaLisaRalphio I'm so sorry. In the last month, I've had two cousins and two friends announce. It's really hard. I can't imagine THIRTEEN + all the new announcements. I can't help but compare my H and me to them and wonder why not us. I'm sending you the biggest internet hugs ever today.

cabu14 · April 2016

@MonaLisaRalphio that sounds pretty awful. I cant blame you for the chocolate at all. Its hard enough just regular people getting pregnant around you, but when you know the people are just not good humans it makes it so much worse

Sending you creepy stranger hugs tonight.

Paisley81515 · April 2016

@MonaLisaRalphio that's rough. I thought I had it bad in that department, but that's a lot of KU women. There's a running joke at work that there's something in the water because "everyone" is always KU and they make the joke constantly, meanwhile in just over here like, well its not working for me. (I know it's early for me but I've wanted it for so much longer than we've been trying for and at least 2 of the women in my department were TTA)

I already had a pretty big BF in WTO and don't have it in me to carry it over here, but my MBF in this instant can be that it took me 3 tries to write this post because TB kept saying "you don't have permission to do that"

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