I have done literally one task this week at work. I only have one database to compile today, and when I'm done with that, I plan to sit in my office, knit and watch Netflix. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@expandcontract looks like some sort of fancy pressurized fire extinguisher thingy, maybe? 🤷🏽♀️ I just looked for firefighting.
My FFFC is that DH earns “special time” by letting me pop his pimples. 😂😂 Not sex, but maybe a HJ. I’m obsessed with popping pimples and he hates it, but he lets me do it because he gets something out of the deal. 😂😂😂
My FFFC is that DH earns “special time” by letting me pop his pimples. 😂😂 Not sex, but maybe a HJ. I’m obsessed with popping pimples and he hates it, but he lets me do it because he gets something out of the deal. 😂😂😂
omg I am cackling at literally every part of this Like I have to say, popping pimples would not put me in the mood whatsoever, and also I do not believe I have given a handjob since high school. Nevertheless, this is wholesome content and I am here for it.
@sleepy33 no flames from me! You have been much more productive than me. I have spent the last 3 days researching furniture for DD's room, making sure I was getting the best price on our new stroller, online shopping, chatting with coworkers, and Bumping. Next week, one of the bosses is back and it will still be slow, so I am sure I will get a bit further on the project I was supposed to tackle this week and next.
My FFFC is that a good friend who has alienated most of our mutual friends via her obnoxious social media posts asked me to dinner/lunch next week and I lied and said we were going out of town this weekend to get out of it. She and her husband married at 39, tried for a year to get pregnant and she decided that she didn't want to pursue any IF treatment (even simple testing) because she doesn't like needles and she didn't want to adopt, so they decided on the childfree life. Completely her prerogative and I applaud her for making the decision that was best for them.
But I am finding that it's getting harder and harder to find things in common with my childfree friends. Back when DH and I had no kids, I swore I would never be like this and now I am. I am tired and I just want to tackle my home projects, hang out with DH and DD, and chill. Going to lunch and pretending to be interesting in every detail of someone's life that I have very little in common with now that she's alienated most of our mutual friends, just sounds exhausting to me.
@chloe97 I feel you on this. It also feels like I always have to leave DD at home or get the husband to watch her when I hang with my child free friends. I'm not even sure they care, but I feel like such a burden when we have to do all this special planning around a nap schedule.
@expandcontract oh yes! Dr Pimple Popper is my guilty pleasure! 😂 I hate looking at massive whiteheads all the time. I’d rather pop them!
@sleepy33 glad I can provide some wholesome content! 🤣 I was going to do this one last week but I forgot it by the time Friday rolled around. I was better prepared this week! DH would kill me if he knew I said this, though! It certainly doesn’t put me in the mood popping pimples but anything to make him happy so I can deal with my guilty pleasure.
@chloe97 I'm right there with you. I seriously have no time for friends. Any time I do ever get, I'd rather take a nap or just simply spend quality time with my daughter.
@mrskoz428 over the past 10 years ive worn DH down into letting me “pick” on him. He doesnt like it but lets me do it instead of listening to me tell him he needs to pop it or pull ingrown hair. 😀 you are not alone!
@mrskoz428 I can't. I deal with poop, pee, blood, but pus and spit send me over the edge. I could NEVER do wound care nursing.
The first time I helped a nurse in my preceptorship change a dressing (I worked on the surgical floor), I was expecting sutures and for it to be nice and clean, but it was actually kept open and packed with gauze. My nurse slowly pulls out the gauze and is looking around at the edges of the wound and is like "this is beautiful!" I should mention I have no control over my face. The patient looks up at me and I'm like: and as soon as I saw her look up I immediately went: luckily, she had an awesome sense of humor and just laughed at me. She said she was wondering if I was used to stuff like that yet. Obviously I need to work on my poker face. (ANYTHING else I'm perfectly fine, but I can't do wounds and pus and blech).
H is not getting his pimples popped and he's certainly not getting sexual favors for me to do it 😂
I've had my phone on airplane mode ever since I got home from work and it feels awesome. I for realz cannot handle any stress right now especially after having to deal with my MIL, this morning. My own mom is still not taking her bipolar medication and has been calling me and texting me over and over saying stupid shit. I blocked her number but it still lets her go to my voicemail and so she leaves me a ton of messages. I never check them, but just receiving those alerts gets me worked up.
Okay, so I have a silly confession. My due date I use on here (and on all my apps) is not my due date according to my doctor. She goes by LMP. I changed my own due date in hopes the pregnancy would go by faster 😂 I changed it based on his first 3 ultrasounds ALL measuring that same timeframe. I have since had 3 more and he's measuring exactly the same in every one. So, she has me due May 15, but he's been measuring May 13. Last night he measured May 12. It doesn't really matter, but now I always have to remember what they have in my charts. He'll come when he feels like it, and being due later according to her allows me to carry longer and give him time, and me having it earlier makes me feel like it's going by faster lol.
@eatinwatermelonseeds I totally feel you on this! Based on my LMP, my due date is May 10, however, the puts the date of conception on the 17th of August. We didn’t have sex that day, we had sex the 12 and 14. I know because I tracked. Despite this, baby girl has consistently measured at May 12 but my body has kicked into full gear prepping for outer motherhood. Now, I just say Mother’s Day weekend because idk! 🤷🏽♀️
@mrskoz428 H graduates on May 11, and I keep joking I'm going to go into labor that day. Joked the whole time last time that DS would be a November baby (he was due October 29, born November 3), so I won't be surprised if I'm right. And MAN would that be convenient. Just early labor, last the whole ceremony and then head to the hospital after 😂 my mom will be there, mil and fil, my sil, my best friend. It would be perfect timing lol.
@eatinwatermelonseeds I keep joking I’m going early because she keeps kicking so low! I feel like she’s trying to bust out already! I wouldn’t mind going a little early. I have the maternity leave in already. 🤷🏽♀️
@eatinwatermelonseeds my due date sort-of isn't my due date either. I fudged my LMP date by a couple of days so that my due date would match up with slightly later ovulation (because I "always" ovulate late), but I wasn't actually temping the month we conceived so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
@mrskoz428 I think you could have had sex the 14th and still conceived the 17th if the 17th is when you ovulated. Sperm can stick around for up to five days after sex and make it to the egg.
I was using OPKs and I'm pretty sure my due date and LMP line up with when I ovulated, and baby's been measuring on track for that too. We gave it a really good try so I have no idea which time made it successful 😂
My doctor didn't seem to care that my cycles are long, and since my dating ultrasound (which matched when I thought I ovulated perfectly) was off my LMP by 6 days instead of 7, he dates me as being due 5/10. I say 5/16. I always go over anyway, so setting my mind on an earlier date would just be frustrating, but it does make me really think when someone asks how many weeks I am.
@fatmonica I had that happen in my first pregnancy, and then I was two days away from being induced when I went into labor (a week late to them, but only a couple of days late according to my ovulation estimate), so with my second and this one, I changed my period date to make my (suspected) ovulation date day 14 so that they wouldn't try to induce me too soon. Ironically, DD2 came one day before my LMP due-date.
We'll see what this baby does. So far, both of my kids have not been born in their due-date months, so I won't be surprised if this one shows up on on April 30.
@eatinwatermelonseeds I was born in Mothers Day, and my mom still wanted to celebrate with my dad and older brother. Her labor started at church and they even went out to a (very) early dinner while she was in labor. My dad did have to tell their server to hurry up the pace because she was in labor 😆 So you could very possibly be in labor at the ceremony lol
Random little confession: I love laying flat on my back even though I’m not supposed to because baby girl moves and kicks a ton every time I do. ❤️ Mean, needy momma! 😂
@imrachellea last time for some reason my husband was super obsessed with bows and arrows, so I actually realized I was in early labor while we were at Cabela's. I let him do his thing and then we went to Applebee's for dinner. I told him mid dinner that I was in labor and we were probably having a baby that night. He asked if I wanted to go to the hospital, but I knew it was still really early so I asked to just go home and go to sleep. Contractions stopped at 9pm and came back active labor at 11pm lol. I'm kind of hoping it's similar to that. I would've totally been able to make it through his ceremony and even maybe a celebratory dinner 😂 then hand off our kid and go have a baby. That's my ideal "going into labor" story 😂
FFSC - I'm kind of dreading starting over. My youngest is 4 and getting pretty independent. I love newborns and I know I will be excited when he gets here, but I was so glad to be done with diapers, middle of the night wakeup, etc.
@fatmonica H and I were just talking about that last night. But this is our second, so we're dreading not only starting all over, but doing it all over again with a 5 year old too. We're afraid he won't feel the love we have for him because we'll be so busy with baby. We're worried about how I'll be with him when I'm sleep deprived from baby. It's just going to be a lot.
@fatmonica I was just thinking something very similar this morning. My kids are self sufficient in so many ways. They got up around 8ish, got themselves breakfast and watched PBS kids while I slept for another hour and half. It was wonderful.
Ivy: July 2010 | Stella: Dec 2012 | BFP#3: MMC at 11Wk's, July 2017 | Wyatt: April 2019 | BFP#5: Twin Girls due Sept 2020
@fatmonica I feel you on this too. My girls play together, sleep well through the night (both 11-12 hours without interruption), take regular naps or have quiet playtime, eat normal food (no special baby friendly food), have chores they are responsible for. My youngest is still under three, but she can do so much without my help. Like go to the bathroom, sit and eat a meal with an open cup and silverware (even if i have to put it together for her still), get whatever toys she wants, tell me with words what she needs.......despite very much wanting and planning for this baby there have been multiple times so far this pregnancy I have a moment of panic and think "I'm too old to do this all over again" (which I know I'm definitely not at only 33) but yeah........I feel this.
@eatinwatermelonseeds lol my due date off of LMP would be late April but my actual due date is May 17th 😂 I'd been temping so my doctor and I looked at my chart. SIL lied by 6 days because she didn't want to be induced which I think is soooo stupid. My brother admits they lied as if it's nothing and they didn't hold back info from their doctor that prevented them from having conversations about the safety of mom and baby if it came to that (refused the dating and 12 week scans but truly believed she WAS due in alignment with her LMP and just said it was 6 days later). This is different than those changing theirs b/c they ovulated late. But also, measuring ahead a few days at the 12 week ultrasound or a week at the A/S is normal and doesn't constitute moving your due date. DD measured 3 days ahead at 12 weeks and 6 at 20 weeks, all within range, and was born a day early.
@kvh22 my only reason for changing it is because I had scans at 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, and now 20 weeks and he's measured exactly the same amount ahead every time. I don't think it means he'll come early, though DS always measured exactly what my lmp said, and he came 4 days late, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was at least on time. And it's not what I tell my doctor, either. I tell her my LMP. I just go by my own dates for my apps so I feel like it's going faster 😂
I also mentally go by a different date. My EDD based on LMP is 6/2 and that is what I tell everyone else, but based on when I ovulated and where baby was measuring, I use 5/28 for the apps and here because I feel it is more "accurate."
@lappymom2019 I do the same thing! My EDD based on the first ultrasound was 6/1, but my charting and subsequent ultrasounds put a due date more at the end of May, so I've been using 5/30 as a due date. I think in the end it doesn't really matter since the baby will come when they're ready and it's only a few days difference, but makes it feel like it's going faster
Also, DH's birthday is 6/2 and his cousin is 6/1, so while I don't mind the baby sharing a birthday, I'd rather they have their own date for now!
@fatmonica I Am feeling the same way- I have a 5 year old who will be 6 shortly after this lo is born. It’s been a long time since I did the diaper and middle of the night wake up.
Re: FFFC 12/28
My FFFC is that DH earns “special time” by letting me pop his pimples. 😂😂 Not sex, but maybe a HJ. I’m obsessed with popping pimples and he hates it, but he lets me do it because he gets something out of the deal. 😂😂😂
My FFFC is that a good friend who has alienated most of our mutual friends via her obnoxious social media posts asked me to dinner/lunch next week and I lied and said we were going out of town this weekend to get out of it. She and her husband married at 39, tried for a year to get pregnant and she decided that she didn't want to pursue any IF treatment (even simple testing) because she doesn't like needles and she didn't want to adopt, so they decided on the childfree life. Completely her prerogative and I applaud her for making the decision that was best for them.
But I am finding that it's getting harder and harder to find things in common with my childfree friends. Back when DH and I had no kids, I swore I would never be like this and now I am. I am tired and I just want to tackle my home projects, hang out with DH and DD, and chill. Going to lunch and pretending to be interesting in every detail of someone's life that I have very little in common with now that she's alienated most of our mutual friends, just sounds exhausting to me.
@chloe97 I feel you on this. It also feels like I always have to leave DD at home or get the husband to watch her when I hang with my child free friends. I'm not even sure they care, but I feel like such a burden when we have to do all this special planning around a nap schedule.
@sleepy33 glad I can provide some wholesome content! 🤣 I was going to do this one last week but I forgot it by the time Friday rolled around. I was better prepared this week! DH would kill me if he knew I said this, though! It certainly doesn’t put me in the mood popping pimples but anything to make him happy so I can deal with my guilty pleasure.
@mrskoz428 you're going to make me barf. 😬😬
BFP: 8/20/2018 - EDD 5/4/2019
The first time I helped a nurse in my preceptorship change a dressing (I worked on the surgical floor), I was expecting sutures and for it to be nice and clean, but it was actually kept open and packed with gauze. My nurse slowly pulls out the gauze and is looking around at the edges of the wound and is like "this is beautiful!" I should mention I have no control over my face. The patient looks up at me and I'm like:
H is not getting his pimples popped and he's certainly not getting sexual favors for me to do it 😂
My own mom is still not taking her bipolar medication and has been calling me and texting me over and over saying stupid shit. I blocked her number but it still lets her go to my voicemail and so she leaves me a ton of messages. I never check them, but just receiving those alerts gets me worked up.
See? Silly.
I was using OPKs and I'm pretty sure my due date and LMP line up with when I ovulated, and baby's been measuring on track for that too. We gave it a really good try so I have no idea which time made it successful 😂
We'll see what this baby does. So far, both of my kids have not been born in their due-date months, so I won't be surprised if this one shows up on on April 30.
Also, DH's birthday is 6/2 and his cousin is 6/1, so while I don't mind the baby sharing a birthday, I'd rather they have their own date for now!