I'm mourning the last weeknight of my staycation with white russians made with Patron Cafe. Yummy but I'm not the boozehound I was years ago & I will pay for it tomorrow.
business as usual here. Feeding the baby, binge on cookies and ice cream, feed baby again. All while watching Olympics.
I was going to try to be all snuggly and affectionate with dh tonight because he's been starved for affection but then he started correcting me everytime I cussed and now I am very much not in the mood.
SHE IS LESS THAN A MONTH OLD I DON'T NEED TO STOP CUSSING YET!
Post by pierogigirl on Aug 3, 2012 21:57:32 GMT -5
I made two no-bake cheesecakes (shuddup, I know) for tomorrow's block party and I couldn't get the cream cheese mixture smooth enough and now I don't want to serve them.
Olympic soccer is much less annoying to watch than world cup soccer because there's no angry bee/sick cow noisemakers.
H is going to NYC tomorrow for work for the week so he's running around like a mad man packing and getting work shit together. Meanwhile I'm drinking wine and watching project runway.
OMG. My mom came up for some thing downtown and is now trying to get to her hotel. I've been on the phone with her for 45 minutes trying to get there and it's a nightmare. One of the routes was detoured and she couldn't understand the detour route and this she found the exit but didn't take it. I finally got her on the interstate but she's just randomly taking exits! OMG.
OMG. My mom came up for some thing downtown and is now trying to get to her hotel. I've been on the phone with her for 45 minutes trying to get there and it's a nightmare. One of the routes was detoured and she couldn't understand the detour route and this she found the exit but didn't take it. I finally got her on the interstate but she's just randomly taking exits! OMG.
Sounds like the next gift to buy her is a navigation system.
I spent $164 at Target today. $50 of it was on a gift card for my friend's wedding shower, but seriously. I usually avoid Target when I can because I can never get out of there without spending a fortune. At least this time I didn't buy anything I didn't need, but "need" might be a loose term when my list included a new shower caddy system and new shower curtain rings. We probably could have survived without them.
I leave for three weeks out of town on Sunday. Two for work, and one to head to MIL's area to help DH deal with stupid crap, mostly from insane medical screw-ups...
That means figuring out what to pack for three weeks.
And to figure out what hotel room knitting to pack for three whole weeks. Thank god there are decent yarn shops in the first town I'll be going to. I might need to buy emergency yarn while I'm there.
For those who don't want to tell your baby's name until after birth, what are your reasons? You don't want to hear opinions and figure once s/he is officially named you won't hear them? Or you just want to announce it with the announcement of the birth? My BIL and SIL kept it a secret but would try to tease us with the fact that they had one picked out but weren't telling. If you want to keep it to yourself, that's fine, but what they did caused so much eye rolling that by the time the kids were born no one even cared anymore.
I'm still healing from surgery. I'm just happy I'm no longer constipated.
I freaked the heck out when it took me three days to go after my appendectomy. I am normally an every morning kind of girl. I made H go to CVS over and over for new remedies to try until it happened. LOL
For those who don't want to tell your baby's name until after birth, what are your reasons? You don't want to hear opinions and figure once s/he is officially named you won't hear them? Or you just want to announce it with the announcement of the birth? My BIL and SIL kept it a secret but would try to tease us with the fact that they had one picked out but weren't telling. If you want to keep it to yourself, that's fine, but what they did caused so much eye rolling that by the time the kids were born no one even cared anymore.
Ours is mostly because we don't want to hear anyone's opinions on it--my mom and sister are blunt, and if we don't pick the names they want (Colin and Aaron, respectively) they will be passive-aggressive and annoying about it. I figure it will be harder for them to care about the name with a squishy newborn in their face.
I also want to reserve the right to change my mind at the last minute just in case. And, honestly, it feels really weird to me to refer to the baby by his name before he's born. Between the two of us, we still refer to him as "the baby" and not by name.
And the bolded is why we're not telling people we have one picked out.
OMG. My mom came up for some thing downtown and is now trying to get to her hotel. I've been on the phone with her for 45 minutes trying to get there and it's a nightmare. One of the routes was detoured and she couldn't understand the detour route and this she found the exit but didn't take it. I finally got her on the interstate but she's just randomly taking exits! OMG.
Sounds like the next gift to buy her is a navigation system.
We bought both my mom and the ILs GPS units as gifts for this very reason. Neither of them use it. They are both just proud they know how to print directions off Mapquest. :-(
For those who don't want to tell your baby's name until after birth, what are your reasons? You don't want to hear opinions and figure once s/he is officially named you won't hear them? Or you just want to announce it with the announcement of the birth? My BIL and SIL kept it a secret but would try to tease us with the fact that they had one picked out but weren't telling. If you want to keep it to yourself, that's fine, but what they did caused so much eye rolling that by the time the kids were born no one even cared anymore.
Ours is mostly because we don't want to hear anyone's opinions on it--my mom and sister are blunt, and if we don't pick the names they want (Colin and Aaron, respectively) they will be passive-aggressive and annoying about it. I figure it will be harder for them to care about the name with a squishy newborn in their face.
I also want to reserve the right to change my mind at the last minute just in case. And, honestly, it feels really weird to me to refer to the baby by his name before he's born. Between the two of us, we still refer to him as "the baby" and not by name.
And the bolded is why we're not telling people we have one picked out.
Just say you are going to name him Methuselah or something so everyone is relieved with the new name. Another GBCNie did this - I think liveintheville.
For those who don't want to tell your baby's name until after birth, what are your reasons? You don't want to hear opinions and figure once s/he is officially named you won't hear them? Or you just want to announce it with the announcement of the birth? My BIL and SIL kept it a secret but would try to tease us with the fact that they had one picked out but weren't telling. If you want to keep it to yourself, that's fine, but what they did caused so much eye rolling that by the time the kids were born no one even cared anymore.
Ours is mostly because we don't want to hear anyone's opinions on it--my mom and sister are blunt, and if we don't pick the names they want (Colin and Aaron, respectively) they will be passive-aggressive and annoying about it. I figure it will be harder for them to care about the name with a squishy newborn in their face.
I also want to reserve the right to change my mind at the last minute just in case. And, honestly, it feels really weird to me to refer to the baby by his name before he's born. Between the two of us, we still refer to him as "the baby" and not by name.
And the bolded is why we're not telling people we have one picked out.
Makes sense. I think once we've definitely decided on the name we'll tell if asked, but I don't think anyone in our family has a name in mind. Coincidentally we are pretty sure we are going with Colin, so maybe we should just switch families.
Sounds like the next gift to buy her is a navigation system.
We bought both my mom and the ILs GPS units as gifts for this very reason. Neither of them use it. They are both just proud they know how to print directions off Mapquest.
Haha. I have brought it up before but they swear they don't need it. My dad loves maps. On big trips they take my sister's but I really don't know if it would've helped my mom any last night. I think the GPS would've shut itself down from confusion. LOL
Sounds like the next gift to buy her is a navigation system.
We bought both my mom and the ILs GPS units as gifts for this very reason. Neither of them use it. They are both just proud they know how to print directions off Mapquest.
My mom doesn't even know how to do this. She is freaking hopeless. She has a GPS that has never come out of the box because she "doesn't know how to use it." She has called me no fewer than ten times to ask for directions to our house. THE DIRECTIONS NEVER CHANGE!
I'm still healing from surgery. I'm just happy I'm no longer constipated.
I freaked the heck out when it took me three days to go after my appendectomy. I am normally an every morning kind of girl. I made H go to CVS over and over for new remedies to try until it happened. LOL
Congratulations on your GI success!
Thanks! I sent DH to the pharmacy too, but I also cut down the number of Vicodin I'm taking.