FFFC 4/20

chopchop25 · April 2018

Honestly can’t remember if I used this Gif before. Too lazy to go look and find out.

DunkinDecaf · April 2018

I’m so good at justifying my behavior that I never think shitty things I did qualify for this thread.

...does that qualify for this thread?

knottieamusements · April 2018

@DunkinDecaf - Yes, that qualifies.

ETA - I do that too.

krzyriver · April 2018

I’ve seen some thread topics on here that (because of my previous experience on TB) I was like “Hell yeah, let’s get in there and see how hard they’re dragging this chick!” And y’all were totally pleasant. I was so sad. I need more snark in my life apparently

knottieamusements · April 2018

@krzyriver - I almost feel like we need to start a snark for snark thread, but I think it would degenerate into a bunch of gifs of babies dancing interspersed with kittens yawning.

DunkinDecaf · April 2018

@knottieamusements haha good, I figured it might.

oh and I did actually think of one that even I can’t justify. I don’t remember the last time I washed the dishes after dinner. DH does it every single night.

sammierose464 · April 2018

In my laziness last night I left out my plate after dinner, which was covered in pepperonis I took off my pizza (I hate pepperoni, DH loves it). I'm pretty sure my dog ate them (since I don't think DH ate them when he got home hours later). The dog was caged while we were gone, but then is allowed out all night. I totally forgot about it when we had gotten home. I feel worse because he's on a strict prescription diet while we figure out his allergies...

ninji15 · April 2018

@DunkinDecaf same. When I was EPing the trade off was DH had to wash my pump parts because it was my boobs being tortured every 2 hours every day and not his. I never went back to actually doing them, hah. Whoops.

ninji15 · April 2018

I tell DH I am not hungry for dinner (especially with his crap suggestions lately) and then I wake up and eat half the house while he and DD are sleeping. No regrets.

norahkate · April 2018

so...my dh always does the dishes (well, the kids do them sometimes) because i hate doing dishes. i think it stems from doing them for my sister whenever it was her turn growing up because she hated them and i was always trying to keep the peace. i guess i should feel guilty about that...but in my defense i always try to let him know how much i appreciate it and there are other things that i always take care of, so i think we have a pretty good balance!

tinattt23 · April 2018

@DunkinDecaf DH started doing the dishes while I get DS bathed and do bedtime.

Along these lines, I’ve only done DS’s laundry maybe two or three times in the last year. The nanny does it all. And the dishes that DH misses.

sammierose464 · April 2018

I don't mind doing dishes, I hate when the sink gets full. For some reason, I rarely use my dishwasher...it ends up being a drying rack most of the time. It annoys me more when DH tells me he will wash them, and then 2 days later he hasn't touched them, but if I had washed them he'd ask me why I was doing it.

chyvie · April 2018

I cook and DH does dishes. I also do not do his laundry. He wears a suit to work every day so he RARELY does laundry so if we share the responsibility I would never have clean clothes!

kiwi2628 · April 2018

@krzyriver I am with you. There is one from today that I was like 'alright, here we go' and I got in there and was like....is this TB? Where are the normal bump responses?

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/q9/vlib10p59f9v.gif

nasalot188 · April 2018

It weirds me out a bit when ppl name their unborn babies before they are here. Like 100% named and announced to the world.

It's just weird to see a woman rub her belly and say 'hi baby Jessica!' LOL!

No judgement but yeah...I find it weird.

krzyriver · April 2018

@nasalot188 See I think the opposite is weird. Like how do you pop out a baby and don’t have a name finalized yet? I don’t understand people who say they’ll know when they hold the baby. Everyone’s different I guess. Lol

nasalot188 · April 2018

@krzyriver haha I should clarify. I get you. I also find it weird that people still haven't picked a name by the time baby is here. I guess I'm just more, keep it to yourself because what if you change your mind, and you and the world know you've been calling your baby Jessica!

knottieamusements · April 2018

@nasalot188 - I have had people asking me if I’m still going to call baby “Blast” after xe is born. I’m like “maybe? If it fits? Dunno.”

I still don’t know who this baby is. I figure that is something I’ll figure out after xe is born. And maybe Blast will fit, or xe will be Trx if a triceratops, or Mr. Edwin Stinkypants. Dunno.

ETA - Miss Edwina Stinkypants is also a distinct possibility.

RosieMommy2016 · April 2018

I do simple barre exercises during work while we are waiting for the patient to get numb. No shame.

DunkinDecaf · April 2018

@nasalot188 for me it’s part of getting to know my baby. I can’t know much about this one before they’re born, but I do already know I’m having an Ivy or an Issac. I prefer to speak about my kids by their names as soon as I know what their names are, because it makes the baby seem more real to me. Also it discourages others from calling the baby “it” which bugs the crap out of me.

norahkate · April 2018

@nasalot188 @krzyriver i agree with both of you (?!)
while i do not get how waiting to see baby first helps with the naming process (as previously shared in my uo newborn babies look like potatoes post), i also find it odd when people talk about their unborn baby by name. maybe just because even when we have had names picked out, and that baby is totally a real person to dh and i, it makes me uncomfortable for anyone else to call it by a name...i want to say "um, you realize you are talking to parts of my body?" Admittedly there really is very little logic in my thinking, but that's where i am.

spartan4life · April 2018

@kiwi2628 I thought the same thing about one this morning too and nothing!

DH does all the dishes in our house, it’s his chore since I normally do the cooking. My chore is laundry and my FFFC is that I haven’t touched laundry since my BFP. At first he didn’t want me to carry the hampers down two flights of stairs to the laundry room in the basement. Now I just ask him to do it all because “I can’t reach the bottom of the washer without putting too much pressure on the baby”. Which is true, except I could easily get out the one step step stool and do it just fine still (won’t be true in a couple more months I’m sure) I’m just too lazy.

spartan4life · April 2018

@nasalot188 I agree with you on that one! I think it’s annoying when people refer to their baby by name before it’s born. We will choose our name but most likely won’t share it with anyone until the baby is here, and I most definitely will not be referring to the baby as said name until baby is born.

mytrueloves · April 2018

In our household it's supposed to be the person who cooks doesn't have to do the dishes. But that hasn't been the case because DF works until midnight and isn't here when the cooking gets done. So I do both the cooking and the dishes and I do all the laundry too. The laundry is a huge PITA because we have a stupid system where the washer and dryer can't be run at the same time. So if laundry gets backed up, it's backed up forever unless we go to the laundromat.

On the topic of names, with DD I knew her name from first tri and I definitely exclusively called her by her name once I knew. This time around, we have a long list of names and we're waiting to settle on one until we see the baby.

My confession is that I'm about to pop open a can of cherry pie filling and eat it for breakfast. It's the ONLY thing that looks remotely appetizing in my house right now.

chopchop25 · April 2018

I guess my FFFC is that I don't do anything at home aside from cooking once in awhile (we tend to make bulk meals and freeze in parts or just have the same thing for dinner each night for awhile.) There's not much cooking aside from that (except he grills for us most of the summer), but H cleans, does laundry, does dishes, makes coffee, and takes the dogs out 95% of the time.
We both work the same hours-ish, I'm just lazy and he's just awesome.

kiwi2628 · April 2018

@nasalot188 I am with @DunkinDecaf . For me, it helps make it feel like it is real. My H comes home and asks how I am, and then asks how little Henry is doing and my heart literally melts. Before I was calling him 'It' because it seemed weird to call it stuff other than his name and I didn't want to accidentally just starting saying 'baby' when he was born since I was so used to it or something.

chopchop25 · April 2018

Another FFFC...I don't really care about etiquette this time around (I was all about it with my wedding showers/registry/etc.) Something on my registry keeps going in and out of stock so I'm just gonna go buy it since it's back in stock right now. Sorry, not sorry.

tinattt23 · April 2018

@knottieamusements DS was Bubba the entire pregnancy because we couldn’t come up with a name. He stayed Bubba for a few months after he was born. It just was what we were used to calling him. Somehow it must have faded away because I never use it now.

knottieamusements · April 2018

I guess for my FFFC - baby is - Baby, Blast, Dinosaur, Sasquatch, and Parasite, depending on who I talk to. I’ve also been trying out some of the names I have on my short list. Maybe in the next six months I’ll settle on something...

sammierose464 · April 2018

I'm already calling my baby Griffin regularly. Although, I can't bring myself to talk to my belly and call him that. We are also calling him little fox.

KFrob · April 2018

@mytrueloves That sounds amazing and my mouth is watering thinking about it. I made cherry turnoversa couple of weeks ago. I had no self control and was slamming spoonfuls of cherry pie filling into my mouth. mmmmmmm

jengibre_zorro · April 2018

I am screening candidates for a summer intern at work, and i totally judge people who take time off to "find themselves" Like, hey Richie Rich, I'm so glad you can't start until July because you will be backpacking across Europe for a month on your parents dime. I'll be here in the real world. Working. With the other poor people.

(i'm a monster.)

mytrueloves · April 2018

@KFrob Unfortunately my stomach did no tlike the cherries, only the syrup. So I ate two provolone and mustard sandwiches instead. But now I just want pie. A lot of pie.

mariek312 · April 2018

krzyriver said:

I’ve seen some thread topics on here that (because of my previous experience on TB) I was like “Hell yeah, let’s get in there and see how hard they’re dragging this chick!” And y’all were totally pleasant. I was so sad. I need more snark in my life apparently

Kind of dying over this. It's not that I particularly like snark over anything else, but there's part of me that is like alright when is this board going to get a little more real. It always happens it's just a matter of when.

kiwi2628 · April 2018

@chopchop25 I have totally bought stuff off my own registry.

Also- pro-tip that I used (so successfully) for my wedding registry that I assume could be translated to a baby registry. People like to buy 'fun' and 'cute' stuff but often dont like to buy super useful things. Like for my wedding I got a panini machine, a food processor, a fondue pot, a raclette machine- tons of stuff that people think would be great but that I'll use like once a year. You know how many people got me useful things like, I dunno, knives? NO ONE. No one likes to buy useful things. So I registered for a bunch of 'useless thing' (ie fondue pot and panini machine) and then returned them and got store credit and bought myself the knives and silverware and plates and stuff.

#noshame

sliztee · April 2018

That's freaking brilliant, @kiwi2628!

chyvie · April 2018

@kiwi2628 Great idea but what do you do when "Bob and Jane" want to come over for Fondue?!! LOL

kiwi2628 · April 2018

@chyvie oh see, I hate people so that was easy to prevent

Kidding. But really, most of the fun items were over $150 ish, which means either really good friends bought them OR they were from real adults who can afford that- aka friends of my parents or my H's parents which means they are never coming over!

Andplusalso, most people never remember what they bought people for a wedding; too many weddings and too many gifts happen between 27 and 35.

chopchop25 · April 2018

@chyvie I would go with that it broke or that we let a friend borrow it for an event they're doing...

chyvie · April 2018

well in that case you are BRILLIANT!

sliztee · April 2018

@kiwi2628 Was totally with you on the hating people part and then you said you were kidding

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