My coworker! She is racking up my list this week and it’s only Tuesday. I have been dealing with a family emergency all weekend—my husband’s grandfather fell and fractured his neck and is in the hospital/had to have an emergency surgery. So that along with just being stressed/exhausted I am easily irritable. But the past two days she has left work early bc her dog got neutered so I have been asked to fill in for her. She is my boss’ assistant so she has to do things like fetch coffee and her lunch. Well along with my work, personal issues, getting some stressful news from my ob yesterday, I’m having to fetch lunch and help all while she’s leaving the office by noon. So annoying! I’m all for taking care of your pets but I feel like she’s taking advantage of the situation.
I had to go to the post office today (the last of many errands today). I walked in and asked the lady if she had baby stamps and she said no and then promptly asked me what I was having. I was confused because I was buying stamps for my friend’s baby shower invites so I wasn’t thinking about me and just said, oh idk. She then went on to ask me a bunch of questions about finding out and how far along I was, and telling me stories about her family too. She was flabbergasted that I was only 18 weeks and oh I must be having twins to be showing so much already.
Thanks random stranger. I’m fat too, so most of this “bump” is pudge.
My coworker! He decided to mess around in my cube while I was away from my desk and knocked over my heater. It was on and it stayed knocked over so long it burned the motor out and it won’t turn on now. I’m ALWAYS cold so I’m super annoyed with him right now.
@hillbillywife that’s sooo rude! I’m sorry she was such a cow. I showed really fast with my daughter and I couldn’t believe how many people had the nerve to tell me how huge I was.It’s like they’ve never seen a pregnant person before and blurt our random stuff without thinking how insulting it is. @krystlerr I’m sorry about your husbands grandfather I hope her has a speedy recovery. That’s super annoying you have to do your coworker jobs too. My twatwaffles is 1.) the weather today. It’s finally above 0 but rained and I bailed outside the grocery store. Luckily I was able to land on my leg/knee. Stupid winter! I’m okay just can’t wait to not worry about wiping out. 2.) I have a friend who has a babe under a year and she is always judging everyone and their parenting style . Her son sleeps 12 hours a night and has never really given her much trouble he’s all around an amazing baby. She has no clue what it’s like to have a child that doesn’t sleep or is super finicky. She acts like she has all the answers or is the perfect parent. She’s an amazing mom but she just has no idea how easy it is right now or how good she has it. I never want to wish bad things upon people especially my friends but I can’t wait for her to face toddler years.
I work as a therapist and just got a new position as we moved last week. I am meeting all my new kids and one of them (age 6) kicked me twice in the shin and punched me once on my arm and once on my BELLY!! Luckily he didn’t do it hard at all (the punches). The kicks hurt a little. He spit in another person’s face. Ugh.... If he’s ever in one of those moods again i am not working with him!
My fil. We rely on mil for childcare often. The other night fil purposefully said “we’re just strangling him in here!” As soon as we walked in to pick up DS. I told him how uncomfortable that was (even tho of course lo was fine and safe and he was joking). He apologized to DH the next day and I need to get over it!!
My friend since 4th grade. We told her the name we picked out and she said it is really "vanilla". Yup. Thanks. DH has 2 sisters who have unusual names and they always got picked on in school so he wanted a vanilla name. Plus our last name is impossible to say so we at least wanted an easy first name. But thanks for knocking the name we chose. (it took us like a year to agree on one..)
@Jessicajorden I cannot stand moms that boast about their perfect child. Ugh! Sorry about the weather. I never complain because I'm in California and I am aware of how good I'm having it compare to all the cold states! Lol.
@moguippy, well, I can kinda relate. My best friend ALL OF A SUDDEN started saying that her favorite girl name is one of the ones I had picked if my baby was a girl. Which is such BS because it's a very uncommon name and she literally never brought it up - plus she knew it was on my list. Ultimately it doesn't even go well with my DH last name so even if we have a girl at some point we would not pick it. I think she is secretly bitter because I got pregnant so quickly but it is honestly a bit annoying that she would just fabricate these things. I know it's a small complain and I just need to get over it!
@Jessicajorden ahh I know what you mean! My best friend is a nanny and talks SO much shit about how the parents she works for raise their kids.. But most of her complaints are totally normal things. She’ll be in for a rude awakening when she has kids herself.
@moguippy I was really on the fence about announcing DS’s name before birth for that reason. Everyone has an opinion, but no one wants to hear it.
@kissableviv that’s bogus that she all of a sudden loves the name you had picked out.
@acunamatada I didn’t want to announce but DH did. I’m not really that mad bc she is right it is super vanilla and she’s my bff so she is allowed to give it to me straight lol. Plus she is struggling with infertility and I feel guilty that I got pregnant (which is dumb, I shouldn’t feel guilty especially bc we struggled with infertility and tried for so much longer than she has been but I still feel bad). I was just a little surprised she said it lol. Plus. hormones.
@kissableviv I named my daughter my bff’s favorite girl name ever that she had been dreaming of for many years. I had no idea it was her favorite name and she wasn’t married or expecting when my daughter was born. This might be an UO but names don’t belong to a single person. My daughters name isn’t super common but as soon as she was born a million people came out of the woodwork to tell me about their relative with that name. It’s never quite as unique as you think it is (usually). And it doesn’t belong to you, and if you’ve already admitted that you can’t use it because it doesn’t match then why not have your bff get to use it and love it?
ETA- sorry about the soapbox. It’s been an issue with my friend since my DD was born nearly 3 years ago and I think it’s ridiculous that she got so upset.
@hillbillywife I totally agree with you, I'm not expecting my child to be the only one with his name or everyone else to not "touch" a girl name that I might or might not use. Mind you, last fall my DH mentioned his favorite girl name (not this one) and she said "except you can't use it because that is MY favorite name . So I just know that she tends to drop comments like that out of the blue and it just makes me question how much of it truly comes from her own tastes and opinions.
Ok. So there are already some irritating feeling around names with her. It’s hard to always feel under attack- especially with a friend!
Sorry for jumping down your throat lol.
It took us a long time to name my DD because we have a TON of name associations and I was getting really frustrated trying to find “the perfect name”. When we finally decided, I didn’t want to tell anyone because I loved it and didn’t want to hear anyone’s opinions on it lol.
@moguippy exactly. Idk? I think she’s tried hard not to let her bug her, but her relationship with my daughter is definitely more strained than it is with my son- who she adores.
@hillbillywife you made great points, I'm definitely not offended! These days everyone and their mother is asking about names. I think we've decided, and some people know what we like, but I think once it's set in stone we will not reveal it until birth to keep some minimal elements of surprise! And honestly I'm more focused on the anatomy scan (today) and getting all my classes in order right now, so I haven't thought much about names in a while!
@kissableviv I hope you have a great anatomy scan today, how exciting! Mine is on the 27th, I cannot wait. Also, wow at us on the July BMB hitting or coming up to the half way point!
Everyone keeps asking me about names too. I tell them we don't know yet but we pretty much do. During my scare I talked to the baby a lot using the name, it just works so I think there is no going back now
Re: Twatwaffle Tuesday 2/13
Thanks random stranger. I’m fat too, so most of this “bump” is pudge.
@krystlerr I’m sorry about your husbands grandfather I hope her has a speedy recovery. That’s super annoying you have to do your coworker jobs too.
My twatwaffles is 1.) the weather today. It’s finally above 0 but rained and I bailed outside the grocery store. Luckily I was able to land on my leg/knee. Stupid winter! I’m okay just can’t wait to not worry about wiping out. 2.) I have a friend who has a babe under a year and she is always judging everyone and their parenting style . Her son sleeps 12 hours a night and has never really given her much trouble he’s all around an amazing baby. She has no clue what it’s like to have a child that doesn’t sleep or is super finicky. She acts like she has all the answers or is the perfect parent. She’s an amazing mom but she just has no idea how easy it is right now or how good she has it. I never want to wish bad things upon people especially my friends but I can’t wait for her to face toddler years.
@wildtot I didn’t know that could happen! Ah
@moguippy, well, I can kinda relate. My best friend ALL OF A SUDDEN started saying that her favorite girl name is one of the ones I had picked if my baby was a girl. Which is such BS because it's a very uncommon name and she literally never brought it up - plus she knew it was on my list. Ultimately it doesn't even go well with my DH last name so even if we have a girl at some point we would not pick it. I think she is secretly bitter because I got pregnant so quickly but it is honestly a bit annoying that she would just fabricate these things. I know it's a small complain and I just need to get over it!
@moguippy I was really on the fence about announcing DS’s name before birth for that reason. Everyone has an opinion, but no one wants to hear it.
@acunamatada I didn’t want to announce but DH did. I’m not really that mad bc she is right it is super vanilla and she’s my bff so she is allowed to give it to me straight lol. Plus she is struggling with infertility and I feel guilty that I got pregnant (which is dumb, I shouldn’t feel guilty especially bc we struggled with infertility and tried for so much longer than she has been but I still feel bad). I was just a little surprised she said it lol. Plus. hormones.
ETA- sorry about the soapbox. It’s been an issue with my friend since my DD was born nearly 3 years ago and I think it’s ridiculous that she got so upset.
Sorry for jumping down your throat lol.
It took us a long time to name my DD because we have a TON of name associations and I was getting really frustrated trying to find “the perfect name”. When we finally decided, I didn’t want to tell anyone because I loved it and didn’t want to hear anyone’s opinions on it lol.
Everyone keeps asking me about names too. I tell them we don't know yet but we pretty much do. During my scare I talked to the baby a lot using the name, it just works so I think there is no going back now