Monday Bitchfest/Magnificent Monday 10/30

breezybee · October 2017

I’m running late and can’t gif, but wanted to get this started! And GO!

kln62689 · October 2017

2 magnificent things! I have TB access again

missed you ladies. Also, the person who needed to has finally hired a PM that will be taking over my big program when I go out on leave. Finally! I should have a month or so to train the new person and transition to her. Yay!

I am sure I will be back later with the MBF component of my day.

skc040512 · October 2017

MBF for me is that I have 100% reached the "I'm so done with pregnancy" stage. And I still have 6 weeks. Pretty sure a breakdown is coming later today since I've been hurting so freaking bad lately. It doesn't help that I've got to plan and host 6 events at my apartment before baby gets here, and all the sudden our property manager is micro managing everything. Leave me aloneeeee.

kaymariec · October 2017

MBF my MIL arrives today...she’s staying with us for a month. Last time she was here for a month was for our wedding and she caused so much drama we nearly cancelled it.

elvenchick92686 · October 2017

@skcobb i am right there with you!!! Ive been there a couple weeks actually and i still have four weeks left!!! I had to break down and take a pain reliever i was prescribed for my kidney flares up just so i could sleep some!!!! After a week an half of crying everyday i had enough. I hate being in pain.!!!!! Thankfully i only have two more work days and i am done. I couldn't imagine having to plan and host that many parties!!!! Creepy internet hugs your way!!!!

elvenchick92686 · October 2017

MM----i was able to get the oil changed in my SO truck and reinstalled the car seat for when we head to the hospital. Only two more work days left and i am done till the new year!!!

MBF---i am sooo tired of being in damn pain that i cant do anything around the house!!!! I cry and breakdown when i have to leave my apartment being on the second floor :-(. I wish my mom could come early so i dont have to worry about it much but sadly still have two weeks!!!

elcd458 · October 2017

MBF to my "new" work computer that I am suspicious of its newness due to its sheer bulk. There wasn't really anything wrong with my old one but apparently in govt jobs when you get funding for new stuff, they force you to take it out of sheer fear that they will no longer get $ in the future. "Use it or lose it," as they say.

mdcd44127 · October 2017

MBF: Posted it in the Randoms thread because I wasn't even thinking about what day it is. Re: broken toilet/fallen tree/no sleep/etc. Eyes currently burning from being over-tired.

Also MBF: The 4th temp we interviewed at work last week, who actually seemed rational and capable enough to learn my job in 2 weeks, got a better offer from another company. And there's basically no more time left to screen/interview/hire/orient/onboard someone before I go on leave, so I have no idea what we're going to do and I'm really nervous about things falling to shit while I'm gone.

MM: DH & I went to Lowe's at lunchtime for a new part for the toilet and swung home and installed it. Seems to have (at least temporarily) fixed the problem. So that's at least one win!

elev2017 · October 2017

MBF: Last night around 10 pm I went down to the basement to get some laundry and realized there was a large amount of water leaking from the center of the basement. Our basement has never flooded before and even if it did, flooding generally comes from the walls around the edge of the basement, not the middle of the ceiling. So I went upstairs and looked in the closet above the general area of the leak and there was water leaking from the closet ceiling. At this point I'm panicking and I go upstairs and wake up my husband. He gets up walks out of the bedroom (our bedroom is in the finished half of our attic) and he says "Well, I know where the water's coming from...". We are currently having the unfinished half of our attic renovated and the contractors had left the sky light open on Friday before they left. It had been pouring rain ALL day yesterday so the rain had actually seeped down all the way from the attic to our basement. DH immediately shut the skylight and mopped up all the water. It had poured on a stack of drywall they'd left right under the window and all their electric saws and tools were sitting on the floor that was also drenched in water... I'm praying that there was no serious damage done to our home and that the contractors handle their mistake professionally.

balletnerd · October 2017

Magnificent- took tap class this morning. And I impressed all my friends with what I was doing - I didn’t have to modify anything. I love surprising people with what pregnant people are capable of. This baby is gonna come out dancing! Hahaha

MBF- my toilet broke in our master bathroom. My DH switched the broken mechanism so that it was now the hall that didn’t work. But I was tired this morning and forgot and used the hall bathroom. Now I’m embarrassed to tell him I took a poop in there and can’t flush. Ah!

abcola · October 2017

@leilagphillips Omg I cant even imagine! Thankfully it wasnt a mystery leak but holy moly I would be so angry. I cant imagine the phone call you or DH had to make to the contractors.... I would have been that 'scary, quiet, only speaking very slowly and quietly sort of livid'.... oy. What a pain.

breezybee · October 2017

Omg @leilagphillips!!!! Why can’t anything ever be easy?! Well, it’s their fault, so they’ll have to fix any damage, but I hope it’s not too much of a pain in the ass.

thunderbunnyhunny · October 2017

MBF: had a joint birthday party for my nephews last night and my mom ended up making it completely about her rushing things to fit into her schedule. I am also planning my own baby shower with help of my sister in law because my mom decided she wasn't going to throw one. The baby's room isn't even cleaned out yet so I can't clean the room or anything.

elev2017 · October 2017

@abcola DH emailed the contractor last night and then spoke on the phone with him later today. I didn't see or hear what he said, but from what he told me it actually sounded like DH was pretty patient and civil. The contractor still has a good deal more work to do on our attic, so I think DH didn't want to come off as too hostile so we can maintain a decent working relationship with the guy.

@breezybee Now that the water's dried, it doesn't look like too much damage was done. The contractor will be back tomorrow so he's going to check it all out tomorrow.

kyrwyn · October 2017

MBF: My NSTs and CDE meetings keep getting rescheduled. Seriously, all 3 of my appointments this week (and 3 in a week feels excessive to me to begin with) are now on different days and all require me to leave/be at least 2 hours early/late to work. The scheduler offered me an appointment tomorrow 40-70 min drive away from my normal location at 4p on freaking Halloween like she was doing me a favor. UM NO. She also called me at 445p and asked that I call back before their office closes at 5p.

Disclaimer: I totally get that medical professionals are people and have things come up and sick days and the sort and I'm GLAD that they can rearrange their schedules to accommodate this. That's the way it's supposed to work. I just seem to have horrible luck, and the office never seems to have anyone to cover the scrapped appointments. Grr.

eazybreezy225 · October 2017

My SIL got a part time job a month ago and offered to pay me to watch her two youngest kids, it was going to be 3 days a week for only 5 hours a day. I thought, 'sure, extra cash before baby comes right?'
Then about one week into it she says they changed her schedule to 4 days a week 7 hours a day.
I don't think I can handle this anymore and I'm going off the wall insane! I love my niece and nephew very much, but they are a TON of work. They are twins, age 4, and my nephew has down syndrome. He is fairly high functioning for his age but he still has the mentality of a younger child and has other behaviors such as a constant need to run away, be destructive, etc.
My MIL comes into town next week and she is going to take over until she leaves after the Yule/Christmas holiday. My SIL is expecting me to resume doing it at that time... with a 4 week old baby.
Also, I haven't seen a dime since I started... which was the whole reason I said yes.

skc040512 · October 2017

@eazybreezy225 ummm she still hasn't paid you? Not ok. Although, I do feel like that's a really good segway into telling her you are going to have to either cut back or stop.

More MBF for me - my property manager decided TODAY that he hasn't approved our schedule of events for November (DH and I host events at our complex in exchange for cheap rent). So now he wants us to push back an event a week after he requested we do the event during the first full week of November. So now he wants this thing RIGHT before a giant Thanksgiving event. And he keeps choosing to ignore the fact that I'm going to have a baby at the beginning of December, and keeps wanting us to do these hands on events all month. This comes immediately after he told us to not expect a high turnout for events until February because everyone is traveling. WTF dude?? Leave me alone and let me do the job you hired me for and stop changing my schedules!

clovelyone · October 2017

@leilagphillips Wow! I can't believe they did that! They definitely better make up for their error.

@eazybreezy225 That's a tough predicament to be in, but I think she should understand as long as you give her notice to find another sitter.

MJDsquared · October 2017

I am at my wit’s end with DH. He announces last week that his team at work is dressing as Dalmatians for Halloween, then has me find him a white t-shirt to decorate TONIGHT. Then he asks me, “Do we have that black fabric paint? Where is it? Do we have any sharpies? Where are they?” And then he gets black sharpie on our f&$%ing table because he was being careless and I got really pissed. Then he asked, “Do you know where this other cord is?” If it’s your damn cord, NO. Same with your earbuds you lost and constantly ask me about, then ask if I know where mine are (that I already gave him and I’m sure he lost also).

The pregnancy rage just makes it that much harder to deal with him 1. Not knowing where anything is in his own house and 2. Losing his own crap and expecting me to keep track of it.

He’s pissy now because I snapped at him after he asked about the cord. I need to go to bed before he tries to elicit an apology from me. Ugh.

elev2017 · October 2017

@MJDsquared What is it with husbands losing their stuff and then expecting us to find it? The thing is, I usually do find his lost crap before he does because I swear he looks for stuff with his eyes closed. Although the other day he lost his glasses and both of us searched the whole house and couldn't find them. Finally, that night DH found them... in the refrigerator! Who takes their glasses off and places them in the fridge?! My husband, that's who lol!

failuretofly · October 2017

@MJDsquared Ugh my H does this too... Every time something is missing, or something breaks, or something goes wrong, he looks at me like "What did YOU do?!" as if I am all knowing and can predict all outcomes and know where everything is at all times... It's supremely frustrating

cait5413 · October 2017

Add me to the list of "finders" for my husband. The problem is, most of the time I actually do know where the stuff is or can find it a lot quicker than he can (why can men not SEE anything they look for?), so it creates a sick dependence. The interesting part is that whenever he loses something, I know it will turn up eventually. He lost his wedding ring for 2 weeks, then found it under our bed. He lost his sunglasses for months, then found them under the seat in his car (also where the garage door opener he "lost" was--I found that one).

kyrwyn · October 2017

Tuesday confession: Unless I need the lost thing, I don't help H find things. I make the "oh, well" face, even when I know perfectly well where the "lost" thing is. #meanwife #notmyproblem He usually keeps pretty good track of his stuff, now, so it seems to be working for me.

Amber_Waves · October 2017

@balletnerd You've probably fessed up to the poop by now, but in the future it may help you to know that so long as a toilet isn't clogged you can "flush" it by dumping a gallon or two of water into the bowl.

MJDsquared · October 2017

@leilagphillips @failuretofly @cait5413 99% of the time I know where the stuff is too! He asks and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, it's been in the same place for weeks. I walk by it every day." Or I just have a guess, or I move like one thing and it's RIGHT THERE. I'm just like...how hard is it to keep track of stuff?! I think the only thing he'll actually try hard enough to find on his own is his phone. Most other stuff he'll just give up if I can't tell him exactly where it is or find it.

babybison · October 2017

@MJDsquared "Move like one thing"
Like a piece of paper! Oh you didn't see that hat sticking out from under there?
I asked DH to get out our panini press, and he "searched" the closet where I told him it was and told me it must be somewhere else and he had no idea. It was right where I said, in the manufacturer's box that said panini press all over it. Apparently he wasn't looking for a box. It's so frustrating!

Edit: had to add my own. I answer the phones at work, and my boss will pick up the phone and say his name and start talking while I'm in the middle of my intro spiel. I feel like it makes our office look so unprofessional. Why ask me to answer the phones if you're going to keep doing that?

cait5413 · October 2017

@MJDsquared so true! Though DH does help me find my cell phone a lot. I misplace it all the time now that i am pregnant and chasing DD around. I'll be like, "I just had it..." But, since all you have to do to find it is call it, I feel like that's not really the same!

beaandthebabes · October 2017

I couldn’t get this silly app to let me post for weeks until my phone had an update and now suddenly I can post again.

oldersis · November 2017

@kyrwyn I do the same. I once asked dh why he asks me before he looks for things and he was like, "Well, you usually know, so it's easier for me to just ask you then look on my own." It's totally not fair, he's an adult, so now I miraculously never know where things are anymore.

babybison · November 2017

Just a tiiiiiiny little b*tchfest about accuweather. When I type in my zip code they always ask if I want my town or if I want a town in Italy. Can't you tell from my IP address that I probably mean the town in the US? It's just such an unnecessary step.

kyrwyn · November 2017

Too lazy to make a Wednesday WTF thread...

My Aunt (of the bring the GD mama some cookies fame) apparently just got PNG'd by my dad's side of the family and is barred from Christmas and felt the need to call at work and tell me that "she's being excommunicated by the family". What part of my first kid is due in 30 days implies that I want anything to do with family drama right now?

elvenchick92686 · November 2017

@kyrwyn mine still brings up the delivery room Debate and tries to find out when we will be induced so she can be there. I am only telling two people we are there till day after, if at all, and telling the hospital not to let anybody know we arw there. So i dont have to deal with it.

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