Post by Stingyshark on Aug 13, 2013 8:40:45 GMT -5
It's early, but I'm bored.
I'm sitting around waiting for my windows to get tinted on my new <to me> car. I CAN NOT drive around without tinted windows. One day without tint was bad enough. Thankfully H feels the same way & doesn't mind dumping the cash into getting it done.
It took a week, but dd is now officially over her tummy bug. Seriously, Sunday to Saturday to clear up. Fun first week off work (not ML, just holidays)
There's a wasp nest in our neighbours' attic but they keep hovering outside our bedroom window near the air vent. It's driving me mad.
For some reason, I have the most horrific pelvic pain all of a sudden. Was fine this morning, went for a stroll along a local pier before lunch and then called in to ILs to say hi. While there this pain started. We're now home again but I'm lying down in agony after taking paracetamol. Getting up to bed was bad...
Oh, and finally, seeing as I'm lying in bed! Our neighbour's dog (not the wasp people, further along the road) is howling. It's pitiful and annoying. For the second time this week...
Oh. I've made $100 selling furniture on Craigslist so far. Sold a dresser yesterday. I've got a lot of interest in a computer desk and the futon, which would be another $80-100.
Oh, and finally, seeing as I'm lying in bed! Our neighbour's dog (not the wasp people, further along the road) is howling. It's pitiful and annoying. For the second time this week...
Thankfully we have no howling dogs (except mine) on our block. I can't stand to hear my own dogs bark, I don't know how people let their dogs stay out and bark/howl for eons.
I'm calling their asses inside the second they start barking.
Hope your sharp pains cease & glad your DD is feeling better!
Oh. I've made $100 selling furniture on Craigslist so far. Sold a dresser yesterday. I've got a lot of interest in a computer desk and the futon, which would be another $80-100.
I love Craigslist.
Nice! I wish we had some stuff to sell.
I'm a member of a few resale sites on FB, but I don't have time or the patience to sit around and sell crap for $1-$5 , which is what most of the clothes go for. I'd rather make one trip to goodwill & be done.
Oh. I've made $100 selling furniture on Craigslist so far. Sold a dresser yesterday. I've got a lot of interest in a computer desk and the futon, which would be another $80-100.
I love Craigslist.
Nice! I wish we had some stuff to sell.
I'm a member of a few resale sites on FB, but I don't have time or the patience to sit around and sell crap for $1-$5 , which is what most of the clothes go for. I'd rather make one trip to goodwill & be done.
15 years of holding on to my college apartment stuff and accumulating hand-me-down furniture from both sides of our family and a husband who can't say "No" to requests like "Hey. We replaced our living room furniture with all new stuff cause it's ratty as hell. Want it?" and "We purchased this massive plasma tv and custom-built cabinet. Want the old one for your basement?"
IT ALL MUST GO. I'm the dude from "Clean Sweep" who was like "Why are you hanging on to this sentimental shit? What's wrong with you that you need it to cope?" while my H is somewhere on the mild side of "Hoarders" (witness: the TWO old skool Game Boys we apparently have. can't get rid of one. oh no. we must keep BOTH).
Post by cincodemayo on Aug 13, 2013 9:32:39 GMT -5
I def have stuff I should try to sell on Craigslist. I should do that before the baby comes!
yesterday at work I started having my first freakouts about "what if I don't come back tomorrow?" and of course the solution at the end of the day was "i'll just come in a few days after the baby is born and clean stuff up." Uh, or not. So today is operation get my ish together!
Post by catsarecute on Aug 13, 2013 9:45:54 GMT -5
I went to bed at 6:15 last night. I was falling asleep on the couch and my husband said "its okay for you to go to bed this early, you are pregnant!" So I think fatigue has set in!
Post by Alwaysabridesmaidf on Aug 13, 2013 9:45:55 GMT -5
I am so so sick! I called into work today which I hate to do. It's either a terrible cold or a sinus infection. I keep thinking all this coughing is going to hurt the baby which is stupid.
Post by trafficgirl on Aug 13, 2013 9:59:28 GMT -5
Yesterday I was having some cramping - not severe, but enough that I called the nurse line about it. They said to drink water and rest, which I did and they stopped though came back in the afternoon - and again a bunch of water and rest and they slowed down. But the nurse said that if they continue my Dr will likely want me to stop working. I'm only in week 24. I do NOT want to be on bed rest for 3 months. Please let this be a fluke.
Post by simpsongal on Aug 13, 2013 10:37:42 GMT -5
trafficgirl I hope the cramps die down. Can you at least work from home with your feet up?
My random - I got a nosebleed while I was throwing up this morning. So there's a new one. I'm getting ancy to go back to the doc and then get my next ultrasound. I'm still barely showing so I want a sign that the baby is healthy and growing nicely. I have no evidence to suggest otherwise, I guess I'm in that in-between time (no kicks yet either).
Sorry to everyone having a rough day. Further proof that Tuesday is really just an extension of Monday. trafficgirl, I hope your cramps are just growing pains or BH and no big deal!
I'm so tired today. I had my first big pregnant meltdown on Sunday over not getting to see my parents, which was insane, because how old am I? It felt like an out of body experience, lol (we'd been planning on going to their house on our way home from the shore, but H got a work call and there was traffic, so he said it would be easiest for him to take me home and I could go see them next weekend instead. I got upset but brushed it off because it was ridiculous, but then my Mom called like a half hour later and the giant, sobbing floodgates opened - H ended up feeling so bad for me that he took me to their house anyway; thankfully he still made it to his call on time), and then all of us ended up being at my sister's house until after 10, so I used my flex time and stayed home yesterday. I slept until almost 10, then laid on the couch all day and went to bed at 9:30, but I'm STILL exhausted. My head feels like it weighs 100lbs.
I think baby girl recently changed positions, because I have not been feeling her as strongly or frequently lately, and, when I do, it's almost towards my back - the bladder taps are definitely not as forceful as they had been. I already had some extra padding around my middle, so I figure it will be another couple of weeks before I really feel her in there. Sigh. I'll be 23 weeks on Thursday and I'm tired of waiting for consistency!
Post by trafficgirl on Aug 13, 2013 10:47:58 GMT -5
Thanks peeps. I'm feeling kind of off this morning still. I'm hoping it's nothing, but I've got a (non-PG) dr appt in about 2 hours and if I'm still feeling off after that (and chugging a shit ton of water), I think I'm going to call the Dr's office and see about going in.
simpsongal - unfortunately I'm not set up to work from home, so that's a no go. Though if I'm put on bed rest I'm going to try and see if there's any way that would be an option.
I got blood tests done this morning during my hospital appt. iron levels fine (wasn't expecting anything) but LFTs were also within normal range. Was not expecting that...
So now I have ridiculous itching of palms and soles and serious tiredness and not the diagnosis that I was expecting... WTF??!!
Post by winecheery on Aug 13, 2013 11:20:05 GMT -5
irish your morning sounds identical to mine minus the sick toddler! There are wasps too close to us as well and I will flip out if one finds its way inside.
Also the barking dog OMG. Neighbor has been watching her brother's dog for a few weeks now and it's such a nice doggie but the second it's in the backyard it barks its head off! At hours when I could be asleep!
In other news, I slept with a pillow between my legs last night and it seemed to help with the lightening crotch hell of yesterday! HUZZAH!!! It still is happening, but far less painful and not as much.
adlove she is so pretty! I hope mine is that cute!
marie3246 that is a lot of travel, and I might want a break if you're doing all that travel during the holidays to boot. BUT, bonus is it's all during the magical second trimester when typical you feel freaking fantastic. I was super active, high energy, not sick, and not tired most days. When babywine had a growth spurt I'd get extra sleepy but that's it!
And I wore a bikini at 7 and 8 months pregnant so I say rock what you've got at 5.5 months in Jamaica. It's damn cute to see a pregnant lady on the beach. I wasn't even showing at that point.
Got a new game plan from the dr, after my little trip to L&D a couple weeks ago. They are going to keep me on the nifedipine (to stop the contractions, which by the way is decidedly NOT working...) until 34 or 35 weeks, then they are going to let what happens happen.
We'll see if my little drama queen holds out until then though, because I've been having painful contractions this morning and a fair amount of pressure. I'm waiting it out for a bit to see if she's just moving lower and getting settled, but we will see!
Post by trafficgirl on Aug 13, 2013 12:00:26 GMT -5
namasteak - you are brave to be going to movies that close to your EDD. I don't think I'd be able to sit through anything that long without needing to pee 5 million times!
Everyone at work is driving me nuts, and it's only Tuesday!
H heard (read?) something somewhere about making sure to have a hospital bag packed at 32 weeks, and now is in full preparation mode. It's cute that he's so excited, but holy shit - calm down! We have time!
I bashed my elbow against a kitchen cabinet pretty bad last night (don't ask..I don't even know how!). I split it open and bruised it pretty bad, which has made me realize how much I've been using my elbow for leverage to get in and out of bed/the sofa/my chair now that I have this big ole belly! I can't lean on it at all right now without it hurting, so I feel just double awkward today. On well. Elbow be damned, I'm in good spirits anyway!
I cried last night because I burnt grilled cheese. Like full on, uncontrollable sobbing because I was a failure at making grilled cheese. I have not had any emotional outbursts this pregnancy so it took me completely by surprise and then I cried harder because I felt stupid about crying over something so inconsequential.
I cried last night because I burnt grilled cheese. Like full on, uncontrollable sobbing because I was a failure at making grilled cheese. I have not had any emotional outbursts this pregnancy so it took me completely by surprise and then I cried harder because I felt stupid about crying over something so inconsequential.
I can see me doing something similar. In fact I am sure I have. Grilled cheese is serious. Pregnancy can be hard! ((hugs))
My dog (Eddie the pit mix, not Georgie the beagle mix. SHE is an angel.) ate both of the soothie pacifiers we brought home from the hospital. I was hoping to get AJ using one of the other eight zillion ones we have but he refuses to suck on any of them long enough to soothe himself back to sleep so I broke down today and bought four more soothies at BRU. J thinks I'm nuts for caving, but he's not home all day with a baby who won't sleep for more than half an hour otherwise (unless he's on my chest).
Said baby has been asleep for an hour an a half thanks to those damn Soothies. An hour of this has been in his crib. IN HIS CRIB, PEOPLE. (this week's project has been working on napping in the crib. Next week? Sleeping in the crib at night. Maybe.) I've gone in and put the paci back in his mouth a couple of times, and back to sleep he goes. I swear I hear the Hallelujah chorus in my house right now.
Also, video monitors aka the baby spycam are awesome.