Trouble Adulting

Munchie2.0 · July 2016

I just can't adult right now...

Today I stayed in my pj's all day. Was so sleepy that I tried putting my 2.5yr old down for a nap at 11 and insteadof her napping, I fell asleep while she laid in bed with me watching a marathon of Paw Patrol.
DH just got home and is now having to tackle the pile of dishes and make dinner while I try not to puke everywhere.

Anyone else not adulting?

sunshine2417 · July 2016

I am not adulting in the least bit! I'm a teacher on summer break and we also just moved across the country for husband's job. So I literally just lay in bed and on the couch all day to sleep and watch Netflix. I feel like such a bum when DH comes home at the end of the day and I haven't cleaned, cooked, showered, changed, anything. I had a total meltdown the other day to him that I feel like I'm a totally useless person, but every time I wake up I feel like death is truly lurking just around the corner!

jstringfellow19 · July 2016

I have been ready for a nap everyday before I even wake up good. I hate work right now. I wish I had time for a nap each day, but that is just impossible. I think I dozed for 5 minutes at my desk this morning around 9am. My 3 yr old was disgusting from playing outside at school and I almost sent him to bed dirty and there are 2 days of dishes in the sink. I just don't care.

rosannahhh · July 2016

I'm so glad I'm not alone! I'm a teacher on break, too, and my love affair with my couch will be coming to an end soon. I am unable to even reply to emails in a reasonable amount of time. The thought of wearing real clothes every day makes my cry. I'm praying that my second trimester brings more energy and less puke!

MonaLisaRalphio · July 2016

Another teacher on break. I'm setting world records for the number of naps in a single day.

Jlk2016 · July 2016

Had a major meltdown when DH got home today because I was still in my pjs and did absolutely NOTHING for two days in a row. My 2yo has watched endless episodes of Peppa pig, had full rein to the iPad and eaten lunch in bed both days. I just can't pull my shit together enough to function. 4 weeks until 2nd tri and it can't come soon enough!

fourPsinapod · July 2016

Yesssss. This is exactly how I've been feeling as well. I feel like my 2.5 year old is exhausting me to no end but on the other hand. I'm being a sucky mom for not doing fun summer things with her as often. The nausea is overpowering most days and I just feel like a lump.

wineo929 · July 2016

Im so happy to read this- not because I want other people suffering but because I know I'm not alone.

I'm in school for my doctorate in special education so I have the summer off but have conference calls at times. I missed two last week, I can't remember the last time my 3 yo took a bath, and I'm confident that he's watched more Paw Patrol and Dora than recommended...

WinchesterGirl · July 2016

I get maybe two hours of adulting on a good day, and those by necessity have to go to my job. So dinner, dishes, cleaning... nada is happening in those areas. DH is being very sweet about it all, but I just feel bad he is having to do it all.

Let's be honest. Some days I put those two hours into feeding myself, say, chickfila for lunch instead of bunny grahams. Then work gets zilch.

ohstars · July 2016

Pretty much +1 to everything above! My only adulting is going to work. And only because I have to. Monday I took a nap mid morning before going to work. DS has been getting so much Sesame Street time it's ridiculous. He asks to go outside and I tell him it's too hot. DH is covering all household stuff, plus his super stressful job and I feel like a sucky partner.

I can't wait for 2nd tri. I had so much energy last time and I was super into nesting. I just remember it being the perfect time of rainbows and unicorns. We are so close ladies. Hang in there!!

laurenmichael725 · July 2016

Me too to all of this! I'm a teacher on summer break as well and feel like such a bump on a log. If I didn't have two kids to run around after I don't think I'd leave the couch all day. I feel so guilty about the amount of TV my kids have been watching, rather than doing fun summer activities like we normally would. Daniel Tiger, Sofia, and Disney movies pretty much all day, once home from morning camp. No. Energy.

LaurenAshley04 · July 2016

Team No Energy!

I'm adulting to go to work but I'm also here bumping on my phone.

Starfish113 · July 2016

Also a teacher. Right now I'm laying on the couch while my 6 year old is on her iPod watching you tube. And this will go on for hours, sadly

Munchie2.0 · July 2016

Haha! Today my toddler is playing with a 50 pack of red solo cups.
I don't feel so bad because she is playing with the cups instead of watching tv.

momousekee · July 2016

Adulting is so hard. I just need to whine.

My husband sprained his ankle last weekend. Two sprained low ligaments, plus a high ankle sprain and maybe an avulsion fracture. He's in a giant boot and on crutches. I'm in charge of all the meals, all the picking up, fetching and carrying plus driving to work.

I have to drive 3 hours round-trip tomorrow to get the kid to sleep-away camp.

I have a 3D cake that I'm making for a local nonprofit that has to be done on Friday. I'm going to be filmed me working on it today and tomorrow for a promotional video. I've never done this before, it has a million intricate little parts and I'm terrified it's going to fall apart on the way to deliver it.

I'm 90% sure we're cancelling our vacation next week - the last vacation before I'll either be too pregnant to enjoy myself or have a baby that I'll be almost exclusively responsible for on trips. I just want to cry. And sleep. And drink whiskey.

Instead I'll work, wrestle logistics into submission and somehow make this damn cake happen because there's a little girl who won't get a birthday cake if I don't.

Gretchypoo · July 2016

I can't adult either and I'm so glad to hear I'm not alone! Sadly, Hubs works a crazy job with crazy hours so our house is just gross. 3 wks to 2nd tri-- I just hope I have more energy then!

mrs_perfections · July 2016

Today, I ate watermelon and played pokemon go. I am clearly not an adult.

DarkSerendipity · July 2016

Me! I put on a pretty shirt and my yoga dress pants, and that's it. I work from home, so I usually make an effort to look like I'm at work (it's a mental thing, I'm a weirdo). Today...not so much.

MonaLisaRalphio · July 2016

Just woke up from my third nap of the day. I also slept until almost 9:30 today. I am making my husband take me to get ice cream, and then I'm going back to bed. I'm a completely useless human.

Jlk2016 · July 2016

I went into work this afternoon to do the schedule and a couple coworkers just looked at me like I was an alien. One of the guys said, " you don't look good, go home and go back to bed" little does he know, this is the best I've looked and felt in days!!! Thank you zofran!!!!! Ha!

tentacular · July 2016

DarkSerendipity said:

Me! I put on a pretty shirt and my yoga dress pants, and that's it. I work from home, so I usually make an effort to look like I'm at work (it's a mental thing, I'm a weirdo). Today...not so much.

You are an impressive creature. I also work from home and spend all day looking like a walking ball of dirty laundry with a rats nest for a head. It's a mess. I wish I had a weird mental thing that kept me motivated to look like a human being.

DarkSerendipity · July 2016

tentacular said:

DarkSerendipity said:

Me! I put on a pretty shirt and my yoga dress pants, and that's it. I work from home, so I usually make an effort to look like I'm at work (it's a mental thing, I'm a weirdo). Today...not so much.

You are an impressive creature. I also work from home and spend all day looking like a walking ball of dirty laundry with a rats nest for a head. It's a mess. I wish I had a weird mental thing that kept me motivated to look like a human being.

LoL, it's not that impressive. Yesterday I only had jeans and a t-shirt on, and didn't do my hair. But it's a mental thing for me. If I'm going to work, I'm at least going to try and make an effort to look like I'm working. It puts me in the zone.

tentacular · July 2016

@DarkSerendipity -- Maybe you're onto something. Perhaps this is why I never find myself in the zone...

jstringfellow19 · July 2016

DarkSerendipity said:

tentacular said:

DarkSerendipity said:

Me! I put on a pretty shirt and my yoga dress pants, and that's it. I work from home, so I usually make an effort to look like I'm at work (it's a mental thing, I'm a weirdo). Today...not so much.

You are an impressive creature. I also work from home and spend all day looking like a walking ball of dirty laundry with a rats nest for a head. It's a mess. I wish I had a weird mental thing that kept me motivated to look like a human being.

LoL, it's not that impressive. Yesterday I only had jeans and a t-shirt on, and didn't do my hair. But it's a mental thing for me. If I'm going to work, I'm at least going to try and make an effort to look like I'm working. It puts me in the zone.

Note to self: find a work from home job!

tentacular · July 2016

jstringfellow19 said
Note to self: find a work from home job!

Oh man. I dunno if this work at home mom thing is all it's cracked up to be. Sounds ideal (yoga pants? Yes please.), but I feel like I'm a stay at home mom and a working mom at the same time, and it's SO MUCH. I always find myself envying women who get dedicated work time where they leave the house and have nobody bothering them about anything but WORK. Being a WAHM is lonely... You can't have SAHM friends because you've gotta work, but you don't have work friends either. I'm a sad sack and not to be envied. I think @DarkSerendipity is probably a much more appealing example of the WAHM.

sunshine2417 · July 2016

DarkSerendipity · July 2016

tentacular said:

jstringfellow19 said
Note to self: find a work from home job!

Oh man. I dunno if this work at home mom thing is all it's cracked up to be. Sounds ideal (yoga pants? Yes please.), but I feel like I'm a stay at home mom and a working mom at the same time, and it's SO MUCH. I always find myself envying women who get dedicated work time where they leave the house and have nobody bothering them about anything but WORK. Being a WAHM is lonely... You can't have SAHM friends because you've gotta work, but you don't have work friends either. I'm a sad sack and not to be envied. I think @DarkSerendipity is probably a much more appealing example of the WAHM.

It took a LOT of hits and misses to find the right stride. I found that if I followed a routine and schedule and made myself engage in certain practices in the morning, just as though I were going to a job outside the house, I got a lot more done during the working hours. It's good practice for when I actually do get to go back to school, whether online or at the campus.

amotz777 · July 2016

I'm pretty sure my baskets of unfolded laundry are even judging me and my lack of productivity these days. I am so wiped and feel so crummy by the time I get my 9.5 month old to bed and his bottles washed that I go straight to the couch. Working outside the home is the only semblance of being an adult for me these days.

LC12261012 · July 2016

Today I did laundry and cooked dinner. This is the most productive day I've had in weeks. I'm just sitting here like, "wow what a long day. I did SO much today!" Ha

PerraSucia · July 2016

I just look like I rolled out of bed at my office.

amotz777 · July 2016

PerraSucia said:

I just look like I rolled out of bed at my office.

Gosh if my work knew I was pregnant I would rock this look 24/7.

mrslittlemac · July 2016

Not that I really enjoy getting sick (especially at work) but it did have pretty spectacular timing today. Right as I was starting to turn green a particularly needy client came in the door. I ducked into the bathroom and she followed me (yes, that's the kind of person I'm talking about) and came in just in time for my retching, gagging, coughing fest. SHE WAITED FOR ME TO FINISH, then started asking questions (through the stall door, mind you), and I politely had to refer her to the guys at the counter because I was currently occupied. Like I know I'm technically still on the clock but damn... My co-worker was stuck with her for an hour and a half, and I got to go back and actually do my job of fixing things and watching bacon get cooked on youtube.

ETA: words are hard. Sentence structure is harder. Nap time and ice cream, kthxbai.

kelnhonk · July 2016

I'm so happy be to be experiencing the first trimester for the first time while on summer break. It is also great to see so many other teachers. I'm useless. I lay around and nap, when I never napped before. My husband is pretty understanding and just says "remember to do something" when he goes to work. He's the best.

WinchesterGirl · July 2016

@PerraSucia, I'm with you on the 'don't give a crap how I look' train.

I asked my boss to work at home until the first trimester crap passes. It is totally fine, but we're not supposed to do it often (even though I can do my job 100% from home). I had to go in today to pack up my desk for a move... I did nothing to my face or hair, so I looked a mess. Boss comes in, sees me, and says, "Whoa. You really don't feel well." and pats me on the shoulder.

Can't hurt to convince them that I really need to be at home!

GoldenTMama · July 2016

WinchesterGirl said:

I get maybe two hours of adulting on a good day, and those by necessity have to go to my job. So dinner, dishes, cleaning... nada is happening in those areas. DH is being very sweet about it all, but I just feel bad he is having to do it all.

Let's be honest. Some days I put those two hours into feeding myself, say, chickfila for lunch instead of bunny grahams. Then work gets zilch.

This. 100%, this. I have 2-3 good hours of adulting a day and so they are strictly reserved for work. Granted I work full time so 2-3 hours is nowhere near enough, but it's all I have to give. And I'm also so grateful that my DH is being so nice about it, doing all of the dishes and getting everything done around the house because I literally come home put on my PJs, get in bed and watch tv until I fall asleep.

FromAstarael · July 2016

I feel you guys. It takes all of my adulting points for the day to get up from in front of the toilet (it has been named Franklin), get dressed, and drive to work. Then all I do is fantasize about sleeping for the rest of the day. If I'm lucky, dinner gets made. There are two loads of laundry clean in baskets and one in the dryer and every day I'm like...nope. Anyone else need a house elf?

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GoldenTMama · July 2016

@FromAstarael I would like to sign up for the house elf please, especially if it cooks.

foxrosy · July 2016

I'm worthless. I crawl through my work day. Get my son from daycare and collapse on the couch for the next few hours. All I can manage is to warm up some processed foods and give him the iPad. My house disgusts me. Laundry threatens to overthrow me. I don't even know who I am these days. Praying second trimester gives me back some of my normal self.

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