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December 2016 Moms
penelope4612
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Petty Problem Saturday 10/5
penelope4612
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Re: Petty Problem Saturday 10/5
I am super angry at the people at work. I have been donating my time to a project that I'm not paid to be on because they were short staffed and I was trying to be helpful and it required a minimal amount of time from me. They asked me to help with something next week and I said no because I needed to work on my other projects (you know, the ones that I'm actually paid to work on?) and tie things up before my leave. I then got a very passive aggressive email telling me that I didn't give them "enough notice" that I was "going on leave suddenly" and they "haven't found a replacement yet". Um, I'm sorry, WHAT? You don't pay me, I thought I made it very clear in the beginning that I was only donating time when I had it available. You've had plenty of notice, I'm 9 MONTHS pregnant. I'm also not "going on leave", I'm just not helping you this week.
I've been ruminating about this since it happened and wasn't really able to sleep because of it and now I'm tired.
My petty problem is that my husband is taking a nap and I want him to put stuff in the nursery. We finally got his office furniture moved out, but he decided to get up super early this morning before our dump run and now he's too tired to do it. I'm trying to be as productive as I can on my own but I feel like our time would be better spent moving furniture and getting the nursery in shape. Is this what nesting feels like??
to restate, I'm nearing the end of a healthy pregnancy that was planned with my amazing husband and 5-7 weeks away from the arrival of my daughter whom I can't wait to meet and love and raise to be strong and capable in this complicated world.
But.... the heartburn and insomnia and discomfort.... WAH!
(In writing this post I am feeling like 100000 times more gratitude and less winey wine than 2 minutes ago)
That's not my petty problem though. a couple of weeks ago I mentioned on the why my family is driving me crazy thread that I was semi freaking out because the inlaws mentioned months ago that they wanted to buy the glider for our nursery. I registered for one that I thought would be perfect for in there but MIL tells me that she is wants to help pick one out with us. since they're buying, whatever I'm cool with that. In September though I was at BRU and found this glider combo that I loved that had great reviews and was half the price of the other one we picked out. Awesome! so I took a photo of the floor sample with the standing sign so she could see the info on it and texted it to her. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago and SO and I are reviewing what else we need to get and I ask him if his parents have mentioned anything about the glider, because it should arrive soon. He gives his mom a call and she tells him that they can't afford to get it right now because they wouldn't be able to bring it home in their vehicle and the shipping costs as much as the chair (lies, 1 I saw the box, it would fit and 2 if they ordered it online it would have been free shipping.). It worried me but I'm not going to say anything to them because it's a gift and it would be rude. Buuuuttt.... you've also been planning on purchasing this gift for months and it's half the price of the original one so I would sort of think that they would would have been budgeting for something like this.
Fast forward to today. La-Z-Boy furniture shows up at my house with a furniture delivery. It's a recliner. And it's a gifts from the Inlaws. It's not anything like what we picked out either time and I know immediately it is more expensive. So SO calls his mom and she tells him now that she went to buy the one at BRU and they told her they didn't have the one I wanted. That it wasn't something they carried. Dude? Really?
Meanwhile I go online and type in the item number for the recliner that has been bestowed upon us. It's more than 3x the cost of the one at BRU. Not including shipping.
Not only do I feel conflicted that we were generously gifted a piece of furniture that I find ugly and not fitting for nursing, but I also feel conflicted because 2 weeks ago they told us they could not afford one substantially less than what they've just bought!
I don't feel it's appropriate to accept it at this point. SO feels that they would be offended if we asked to exchange it for something else, so apparently we're keeping it. He wants to put it in our loving room and we'll just go buy the one we want. Whigh is also stressing me out because we didn't budget that expense. Money is already tight and with me being the breadwinner we're trying of save everything possible for when I go on leave.
It's a crap shoot. A real crap shoot.
Eta because spelling is hard and TBs random autocorrect is a pain
I miss sleep. And I'm grumpy. Grouchy. I'm channeling the grouch.
My petty problem is that L became so spoiled at my parents house. He had at least 4 adults to entertain him every evening, plus going to sporting events/shopping/errands every day. He also learned that if his dad isn't in the same room or bathroom that he left for a couple days/weeks. So now he is clinging to H, and a super 'bawl butt' baby. I am at the point of putting him in his crib - that he has never been in- and letting him CIO while I have headphones in, so I can get something accomplished.
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
@DiFazette my ex and I honeymooned in Negril. its absolutely beautiful!
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Long story short, we bought blackberry preserves instead of lighter sugar grape jelly because to us, who neither of us apparently bothered to read, purple means grape. Our dinner was full of those little blackberry seeds. Fail for us. We were both pretty disappointed and had to go out for dinner. I promised him I'd get the right ingredients for next week and we'd try again.