Monday Bitchfest 5-2

beforeyou · May 2016

Anything bugging you all today? Let's hear it!

beforeyou · May 2016

I normally have high blood pressure which I take meds for. Well today I have felt awful and dizzy all morning, took my blood pressure a few times and it's pretty low for me, so I'm not really sure what to do. On top of that I'm doing this fun thing now where if I don't eat like every hour I get super nauseous and gaggy. Is this work day over yet?

BmcD2016 · May 2016

I've had several people at work piss me off already and that was by 8 am. I wish everyone could be self motivated and a good problem solver, but obviously they just can't.

ShallowSeas · May 2016

My appetite is driving me insane today. No matter what I eat I still feel hungry and I'm stuck at work with limited food

Sheybre · May 2016

So I had my DH's jeans drying outside yesterday. Forgot to take them in last night. It poured. So I throw them in the dryer at 5 am. Apparently the heating element in our dryer went out. Jeans will not dry. He's about 3 hours late to work. I need a new dryer, a pizza and a 3 day nap.

m6agua · May 2016

Mine is my digestive system. Get it together already!

KilgraveMadeMeDoIt · May 2016

I have zero motivation to get anything done. None whatsoever. But I have a TON to do this week. Meetings and planning sessions and home visits and whatnot. Ugh. I just want to sleep and eat cookies.

peachykeen17 said:

I normally have high blood pressure which I take meds for. Well today I have felt awful and dizzy all morning, took my blood pressure a few times and it's pretty low for me, so I'm not really sure what to do. On top of that I'm doing this fun thing now where if I don't eat like every hour I get super nauseous and gaggy. Is this work day over yet?

I have normal BP but the drop is leaving me dizzy for sure. It's normal for your BP to start falling late-first trimester and it reaches its lowest around the mid second trimester before it starts going up again. Definitely have a talk with your doctor, they may want to adjust your meds, though I'm sure you've already done that.

mrs_hoyahoo · May 2016

This weather! It's like 60 degrees and rainy all this week and it was like that all last week too. I need warmth and sunshine. It's making me irritable and I have much less patience for my toddler's shenanigans. It's currently calling for nice weather this weekend - if that forecast changes I might actually cry!

aguamala · May 2016

Anyone else feeling crazy territorial? I have a roommate until I move into my Fiance's house. Normally I'm totally fine with sharing a living space with someone who isn't family, but as I am going into my second trimester, I find myself very sensitive and put off by her energy and mere presence. Is this normal? Also, my second trimester was promised to be chill, but my hormones are raging! I cry almost every morning, and somedays hate everyone and snap at my best friends for nothing. Lastly, I just want to quit all of my responsibilities and read baby books home alone with tea. Worst. Monday. Ever.

grannysmith912 · May 2016

I had to throw up in my bedside barf bucket last night. After dumping the contents in the toilet, I started walking to the laundry room to wash out the residue, but H told me to stop and leave it there, and that he'd take care of it so that I could go back to bed. He didn't wash it out last night though, so it's still just sitting there in our laundry room, and if I walk past it another time I might be ready to barf in it again...

I feel like it's been like this the whole pregnancy; I appreciate his help so much, but there are just some things that really need to be taken care of immediately, not a couple days later!

PurpleBrunette · May 2016

A few of my coworkers thinks it's cute and endearing to call managers "Dad". Which always bugs me, but then today when a manager asked me something and I replied "no" she quipped "It looks like all your kids are grumpy today!" I about near lost it. Instead I kept my cool and calmly and politely sent her a private message asking her to never refer to me as the manager's kid again. She laughed and made a comment about it should make me feel young again since I'm going to be a mom soon. I literally almost went through the wall to murder her. I'm proud of myself for merely replying "I actually find it quite insulting and I am quite proud to be how old I am".

Like, WTF!!! Just because you don't want to act professional and want to act like a child means I want to be under your umbrella. And thank you very much, but I'll skip the patronizing undertones that referring to my manager as a 'dad' carries. Also EWWWW. And just because you think your life is great at 24 free-as-a-bird-lifestyle doesn't mean that I am not damn pleased with where I am in life after 30 years with my great career, fantastic marriage, successful husband, growing side-business and our perfectly planned first child on the way.

Not that it really matters either, but I'm a supervisor and the managers are anywhere from a year to 5 years older than me. She's 22.

forevertired · May 2016

grannysmith912 said:

I had to throw up in my bedside barf bucket last night. After dumping the contents in the toilet, I started walking to the laundry room to wash out the residue, but H told me to stop and leave it there, and that he'd take care of it so that I could go back to bed. He didn't wash it out last night though, so it's still just sitting there in our laundry room, and if I walk past it another time I might be ready to barf in it again... I feel like it's been like this the whole pregnancy; I appreciate his help so much, but there are just some things that really need to be taken care of immediately, not a couple days later!

Ugh that sucks. He sounds like my DH. He tries so hard to be helpful but he just really can't handle taking care of all of the things I normally do. I appreciate everything he does, but when I've been sick for weeks he just can't keep up. I feel for you!

xiphos13 · May 2016

I'm gonna try to write this in a way that won't give too much personal information away. (I'm super paranoid about staying anonymous, especially when it comes to bitching.)

The place that I work at is extremely small. On a slow day, my job is pie. But something that's extremely frustrating - I'm not allowed to order any supplies. Since I can't do that, it's up to me to send a text to the owner or his wife and let them know when we're running low on things so they can take care of it. This has proven to be a constant annoyance because they will NOT order things when I say they're needed.

For example, last Monday, I said we needed 2 items ordered. He said he'd order them. If he would've ordered them that day, they would've been here on Wednesday. Here we are a week later, I'm out of one item and going to run out of the other. The order still hasn't been placed. If I text asking when we should expect these items, I'll get a snarky response about keeping up with inventory and letting them know before we run out. Keep in mind, the items in question would cost the company less than $20. They just drag their feet.

Also, having to go through the wife is just as frustrating. She is as bad as her husband with ordering. She also tries to do things to be helpful, but they're things that could either be done by me or the other girl in the office or they're things that are not helpful at all. The husband will have awkward talks with us about what we should do during our downtime, but they ignore the fact that I could be so much more useful if they'd let me. I'm not the most intelligent person out there, but he can be quite condescending with these talks. I used to help manage a restaurant that brought in over $2.3 million per year. I've handled ordering and highly confidential information when I worked at a college. I think I can handle things around here.

Part of me would think that they're doing this to make my transition easier when I do have maternity leave, but it's been like this since I started here, long before I ever got pregnant or even started TTC.

I'm at the point that I'm just biding my time until maternity leave. DH and I are hoping that I can be a SAHM anyway, so I'm just going to try to bite my tongue through the summer and fall.

DunkinDecaf · May 2016

I am useless today. My head hurts and I'm exhausted and I feel like hurling. All I want to do is crawl into the blankets in my bed and wake up a week later. Also DD has a horrible cold. We're just a pile of icky blankets on the couch today.

msu_gal · May 2016

@PurpleBrunette good for you for standing up for yourself! That is definitely unprofessional on her part! if she does it again, ask her if she would mind being called Grandma?

I have my first blood draw today since I was 6 years old and ran out of the lab with a needle sticking out of bicep. I'm freaking out. I'm honestly not sure if I can do it. I'm pretty sure when they check my blood pressure it's going to be sky high because my anxiety is off the charts. eeeeeek, let the next 4 hours go really fast please!

PurpleBrunette · May 2016

@msu_gal Thanks! Even my assistant knew that the other girl crossed a line with me today.

And that sounds horrible about the blood draw. I'd offer some tips for getting through it but unfortunately I don't think "Turn your head and study the wall" is going to do much for you. Good luck!

shevaCC · May 2016

Ugh, DS was up last night from 2-4am. I left him with DH and went to DD's room to go back to sleep, but I couldn't fall asleep with him screaming

. Finally I picked him up, put on white noise on my phone, and held him in my arms for 45 minutes until he fell asleep enough to sleep next to me, not on top of me.

zuuls_mom · May 2016

Today is one of the "bad days" where I can't keep anything down. I'm just nervous tomorrow and Wednesday will be the same since I have all day trainings at work. I've been trying to avoid those like the plague since I got KU, but these ones are mandatory for all managers. FX I make it through.

Knottie1458416769 · May 2016

I don't do well with Mondays - I sleep so much all weekend that I seriously considered calling in sick today. Three hours later coworkers annoying me so I hair left early and called it a day. Plus I needed some me time in the shower.

UTAmbs11 · May 2016

@msu_gal whenever I have a blood draw, I go in and tell them immediately that I'm not good at the whole thing and need to be thoroughly distracted. The good nurses know to start talking and asking questions or they have to deal with an upset patient, which is never easy on them. Hopefully it can help you.

I've been especially nauseous today, after feeling great over the weekend, too. Still waiting for the first trimester symptoms to go on their merrily miserable way! Including the crankiness I've had all day!

g8rmama_16 · May 2016

I went to my intake appointment on Thursday and the computer system went down, so the nurse had to wait until it was back up to order all my labs. She was also supposed to put in the NIPT. I had very little confidence she would do it correctly, especially since she kept calling it the Down's syndrome test. She told me to wait until today since I had to be over 10 weeks.
Well, I get to the lab and only the integrated screening is ordered, not even the right one. I didn't know it was the wrong one, so I had it drawn. Then I went upstairs to the OB office and asked them if there were supposed to be more tests and, shocker, there were supposed to be 10 other tests and the midwife was like "you aren't even far along enough for the phase one of the integrated screening, so that was pointless". So I went back down and had 7 vials of blood drawn and then had to drive across town to get the NIPT drawn because it was the only lab with the kit. 4 hours of my life. Each of the three lab visits had a 30-45 minute wait, btw.
I freaking hate Navy medicine. I guess this is a great reminder that I need to be in control of my care, I can't trust the system.

On a freaky side note, the midwife that helped me, and was the highlight of my day, mentioned she had worked in Jacksonville years ago (she is in San Diego now) and I randomly asked her if she knew my mom, who was a midwife in Jax before she passed away in 2008. She not only knew her and met her several times, but she is still very good friends with the other midwife that practiced with her. I feel like mom sent her to help me today, so thanks Mom! What a crazy small world!!

NatashaSprout · May 2016

HeyBooHey said:

I went to my intake appointment on Thursday and the computer system went down, so the nurse had to wait until it was back up to order all my labs. She was also supposed to put in the NIPT. I had very little confidence she would do it correctly, especially since she kept calling it the Down's syndrome test. She told me to wait until today since I had to be over 10 weeks.
Well, I get to the lab and only the integrated screening is ordered, not even the right one. I didn't know it was the wrong one, so I had it drawn. Then I went upstairs to the OB office and asked them if there were supposed to be more tests and, shocker, there were supposed to be 10 other tests and the midwife was like "you aren't even far along enough for the phase one of the integrated screening, so that was pointless". So I went back down and had 7 vials of blood drawn and then had to drive across town to get the NIPT drawn because it was the only lab with the kit. 4 hours of my life. Each of the three lab visits had a 30-45 minute wait, btw.
I freaking hate Navy medicine. I guess this is a great reminder that I need to be in control of my care, I can't trust the system.

On a freaky side note, the midwife that helped me, and was the highlight of my day, mentioned she had worked in Jacksonville years ago (she is in San Diego now) and I randomly asked her if she knew my mom, who was a midwife in Jax before she passed away in 2008. She not only knew her and met her several times, but she is still very good friends with the other midwife that practiced with her. I feel like mom sent her to help me today, so thanks Mom! What a crazy small world!!

Besides the crappy stuff...that's awesome that she knew your mom. Moms will always be watching out for their kids even after they have long left us. I'm so happy that brought something positive to your day.

Caroline351 · May 2016

Works sucks! I'm pregnant and STILL here at 9:08PM. I go to bed at 9. It's a regular 8-5 job but we have events that need coverage. Yeah me. I tried telling my boss (without using the fact I'm knocked up) I don't want to work late, but it was no use. I hate using pregnancy to not do things, but COME ON. All I want to do is sleep right now and I can't and they expect me to be back 7:30AM bright eyed and bushy tailed. UGH. P.S. Why are office chairs like the MOST uncomfortable furniture??

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