* I've never tried essential oils, but after this cold & flu season, I'll try anything. Seriously if one of you tells me that meth helps with cold symptoms, I'll give it a shot. * I clean most of the poopy diapers, and I kind of enjoy it. It's one of those Stockholm Syndrome things, right? You're stuck with this shit (literally) for years, you might as well learn to somehow make it pleasant? * But no, the joy from mundane things is not the best part of parenting, duh. And there is mundane stuff I don't like, too! * stuff
I totally set myself up for failure here, thinking that would be overlooked. I have tried to be anonymous on here and this might be a tipping point......
Yes, @brie it was you. No need to re-friend, I just enjoyed your wit and funny stories.
I want essential oils and a diffuser to make my house smell pretty and create a nice calming atmosphere, but I need somebody who isn't crazy to tell me what to buy and where to get it. Everybody I know who uses them falls into the "they'll cure ebola!!1!11!!" category.
Here is my flameful....I love glitter, and ruffles, and rhinestones etc. I want everything I own to be sparkly. It's not...not even close. But I have an obsession with Swarovski stuff, anyone close to me knows this. They make floor tiles with Swarovski crystals in them, I legit wanted DH to buy them when he was tiling the bar area in our basement. He didn't.
Also, every time I write flameful, it takes me a minute to figure out if there is 1 or 2 Ls at the end.
* I've never tried essential oils, but after this cold & flu season, I'll try anything. Seriously if one of you tells me that meth helps with cold symptoms, I'll give it a shot. * I clean most of the poopy diapers, and I kind of enjoy it. It's one of those Stockholm Syndrome things, right? You're stuck with this shit (literally) for years, you might as well learn to somehow make it pleasant? * But no, the joy from mundane things is not the best part of parenting, duh. And there is mundane stuff I don't like, too! * someone from MM unfriended me after a flameful/UO/confession thread where she complained about people who post too many kid pictures to FB. Sorry my feed isn't full of interesting things like dog pictures and regular five-figure vacations.
Did I miss anything?
Waving my freak flag even higher, but I've been playing with elderberry syrup this winter. H had a gnarly cold and I started feeling sickish (achy, fuzzy head, etc) and I took a tablespoon of the stuff about every 2 hours for the rest of the day and woke up feeling fine.
I'm embarrassed at myself, holy shit. I can't believe I'm admitting this crap.
I totally set myself up for failure here, thinking that would be overlooked. I have tried to be anonymous on here and this might be a tipping point......
Yes, @brie it was you. No need to re-friend, I just enjoyed your wit and funny stories.
It was nothing personal, I swear. Like I said, I just was deleting some names I didn't recognize in a fit of nesting because I'm far too lazy for a spreadsheet. I hope your feelings weren't hurt and like I said, happy to re-add you. I just suck at remembering.
Post by jackpackage on Jan 26, 2015 14:41:23 GMT -5
Re: gender disappointment-I would cry myself to sleep during 1st tri thinking about having another boy. I am so obsessed with DS right now that I couldn't imagine loving another son. I was scared I'd slip up in a few years and tell DS he's my favorite little boy ever (which I say things like a lot) and ruin kid #2.
A few more: My sex drive is directly correlated to how much money makes lately. I'm not proud of it, but here it is. I am afraid to hold my friends' newborns because I'm paranoid I'll start lactating. H and I regularly pat ourselves on the back about how fucking awesome our kid is. Sure, he's not potty trained yet, but he is so sweet, smart, and funny most of the time.
I totally set myself up for failure here, thinking that would be overlooked. I have tried to be anonymous on here and this might be a tipping point......
Yes, @brie it was you. No need to re-friend, I just enjoyed your wit and funny stories.
FWIW I did predict that you were unfriended because the person may not have remembered your GBCN name and was doing some friends list cleanup, but given that this flameful thread is pretty lame overall I latched onto the first possibly-drama-filled post that was posted.
2) As I approach age 1, honestly, I think the professional pics of babies eating cake but w/o clothes are a little odd. If you're going to spring for pro pics, why not spent a few bucks on clothes to wear in the pics? I just don't get it.
I don't think we're going to do pro pics for their 1st birthday, but we are TOTALLY taking pictures of them eating cake in their tots bots birthday diapers. They eat the majority of their meals in diapers to reduce clean up (our apartment is ungodly hot, out of our control) so why not birthday cake? They'll have birthday dresses too, but not for cake!
I totally set myself up for failure here, thinking that would be overlooked. I have tried to be anonymous on here and this might be a tipping point......
Yes, @brie it was you. No need to re-friend, I just enjoyed your wit and funny stories.
Uhh.
This is (irrationally?) upsetting me bc Brie just had a baby and I feel like you're picking on her. And WTF. You want to be anonymous then you don't get to be sad about a FB deletion.
DH's BFF (a woman) gave us 4 huge trash bags of clothes for soon-to-be DD. I just spent the morning going through them. I know I should be more grateful of free clothes, but I'm donating 3/4 of them. I see no reason to keep clothes I'm never going to put on her. It was all NMS (ruffles, princess slogans, cupcakes). So, flameful that I'm ungrateful and also picky. I'm also disappointed. I am already bummed about having a girl, I really wanted another boy. But now these girl clothes aren't fun?
ETA: I added "these" to the last sentence. Left that out typing too fast. I was really looking forward to going through those clothes, I'm bummed I didn't find much I liked.
Keep some. We always get a few outfits each year that are not anything we like, but we were told (wisely) by a friend to keep them as diaper bag emergency outfits. When your kid poops thru everything an hour from home, you won't care about the cupcakes and ruffles, believe me, you will be thanking your lucky stars you had a backup outfit ready to go.
I hate that though, because then they're in ugly outfits post poop-splosion. I'd much rather load the diaper bag with cute outfits and rotate them out.
Not that we haven't kept some ugly outfits because they were free hand me downs and/or gifts, of course.
Last night I swore I was going to call a therapist because I can't tell if I have a little PPD or it's just been a really shitty year with H. In the light of the day I almost feel silly about it.
Night time is always the worst when you are already feeling down. Maybe talk to someone just to get evaluated for PPD? I didn't think I had it but once I started taking something I felt so much better!
(((hugs))) Let me know if you need to Gtg and talk.
Thank you, and everyone else for the thoughts. I put in a referral request with my EAP, I get 6 free sessions so that is nice. I feel weird telling H this. Not that he will think anything different, just weird to admit.
Post by autumnfire on Jan 26, 2015 14:56:03 GMT -5
On the weekends I will sometimes get out of bed early (6am) so that when DD wakes up H has to wake up to get her. Reasoning is if he doesn't get up with her I normally have to wake him up at 10am. So sometimes when I want to get something done before she gets up and I want him up I won't put on the monitor and let I him get her (She's in her crib in our room, another flameful I suppose).
I totally set myself up for failure here, thinking that would be overlooked. I have tried to be anonymous on here and this might be a tipping point......
Yes, @brie it was you. No need to re-friend, I just enjoyed your wit and funny stories.
Uhh.
This is (irrationally?) upsetting me bc Brie just had a baby and I feel like you're picking on her. And WTF. You want to be anonymous then you don't get to be sad about a FB deletion.
This is a flamefuls, right? FWIW, I didn't plan on saying who. I do not fault her at all because we didn't have any FB interaction, I just enjoyed her posts.
ETA: My post was in no way trying to give anyone a hard time.
My kids have watched probably every Disney movie we own (25+) multiple times this week, not to mention the dozens of hours we've logged on Netflix. I was so incredibly hopeful DD would be better enough to go back to school today because I NEED A BREAK. I now also feel like crap, probably due to the Santa Anas and I want no one to touch me and allow me to sleep 10 uninterrupted hours. DS is still nursing and that's all he wants to do.
I'm waiting for the pediatrician to call back and tell me what the hell to do. We're into round two of Zpaks for the kids, nebulizers every 4 hours and they still sound like crap.
Oh mama, I'm so sorry... I can just imagine. I hope those kids are out of your hair soon and you can rest!! ::: hugs ::; you are a rockstar!!
Comment sections of newspaper articles make me lose my faith in humanity faster than anything. I actively try to avoid them for that reason.
Did anyone listen to This American Life?! I went over to ML to talk about it, but no one is. It was about internet trolls and it was FASCINATING. This random guy was a terrible troll who did a really, really evil thing to this writer and ended up apologizing for it and there was a whole interview with the two of them talking.
Anyway, Ira did an intro about a comment section that was hilarious. Did anyone else listen??
Comment sections of newspaper articles make me lose my faith in humanity faster than anything. I actively try to avoid them for that reason.
Did anyone listen to This American Life?! I went over to ML to talk about it, but no one is. It was about internet trolls and it was FASCINATING. This random guy was a terrible troll who did a really, really evil thing to this writer and ended up apologizing for it and there was a whole interview with the two of them talking.
Anyway, Ira did an intro about a comment section that was hilarious. Did anyone else listen??
Post by MadamePresident on Jan 26, 2015 15:32:42 GMT -5
I really want to troll my fil. When I post anything on Facebook you always have to comment. Usually it's the most inane thing ever.
For example: Everyone in my house except for me is on a gluten free diet. I rarely buy a loaf of bread for myself. A few months ago I posted that I had a loaf of bread and I was excited. My father in law commented that bread is great and started listing some things I could put on it. Thanks I never knew you could put jam on bread.
I an trying to come up with something interesting to use to bait him.
I really want to troll my fil. When I post anything on Facebook you always have to comment. Usually it's the most inane thing ever.
For example: Everyone in my house except for me is on a gluten free diet. I rarely buy a loaf of bread for myself. A few months ago I posted that I had a loaf of bread and I was excited. My father in law commented that bread is great and started listing some things I could put on it. Thanks I never knew you could put jam on bread.
I am trying to come up with something interesting to use to bait him.
Vaxxing/anti-vaxxing?
I don't think he would care. Besides I have two friends who already go back and forth posting pro and anti vaxx articles.
I kind of jokingly complained to my group of "mom friends" (lame, I know) about how I'm over scraping poop (we all CD). They all proceeded to tell me that they really don't mind scraping poop, because it's a thing they can do for their children that no one else will. Um... cool? Good to know I am lacking as a mother for not embracing the shit. I'm so tired of people IRL acting like every single minute and pain in the ass detail of motherhood is so magical and priceless, and it's absolutely not ok to express any complaint. Perhaps this makes me a crappy mother.
These people are known as mommy martyrs, and I like to think they are bat shit crazy, and they should be ignored.
I sat in McD's parking lot with a milkshake and fries in the middle of a snowstorm before going home bc I am pretty sure it's the last time I'm alone at all until Friday's commute. Then when I got home my mom was ready to run out the door to try to beat some of the storm. I felt bad bc if I wasn't so selfish in my want for alone time, she could have left 20 minutes sooner. She called my dad who told her to stay put, that it's been bad there since noon. So looks like McD's was the right choice after all.
I picked a really dumb fight with my husband last night, and then it snowballed into something much worse.
I feel awful. It has been entirely my fault, and I am really angry at myself for being so selfish and self-absorbed. We will get through it, but it's just not great. I didn't say anything I couldn't take back or anything, but it was just dumb.
Now he's making my favorite dinner because we agreed on it earlier yesterday, and it's making me feel even worse.
i said something to h yesterday that, upon reflection, was really, really mean. like, if he said the same thing to me i would have bawled my eyes out and not spoken to him for hours at a minimum. instead, he reflected on the spirit of what i saying instead of the actual words, took it to heart, apologized, and made immediate changes. i married a saint. now i need to apologize to him tonight for being such an ass.
Post by cherry1111 on Jan 26, 2015 16:13:40 GMT -5
I cried watching Snooki and J Woww the other day (which is more flameful, that I cried or that I watch this show?) because those vapid bitches both have young babies that appear to just lay there as content newborns/infants. WTF!? Eff you, colic.
I openly judged the lady who was riding her bike with her very small baby on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD. He also didn't have a helmet on. And then she swerved into the cross walk when I was crossing with my toddler and totally cut me off. Whatabitch.
Ooh, I thought of a confession, not really flameful though. I think my sewing room gives me the shits. Five minutes in there and I'm sprinting to the bathroom. There is no logical explanation.
I have this same problem with Barnes & Noble and Ikea. What's up with that?
YES! B&N does it to me every single time. WTF is up with that??
I don't really get how some people need so much hand-holding for basic purchases. I understand getting recommendations on here for things that are expensive, like cribs or specialized, like wraps, but when people post stuff like, "Rec your toddler utensils!", I just think "Wha...? No, dude, just go buy some"
I don't ask for recs on here usually, but I am a little obsessed with Amazon reviews. H has found me in a tizzy before, debating between two apple slicers or something, saying, "This one has 4.4 stars but only 34 reviews, but THIS one has 4.2 stars and 750 reviews!"
This is so me. Then, I'm so paralyzed by indecision that 3 weeks later I haven't bought my damn paper towel or whatever.
H and I had to institute an impulsive buying strategy for when we get overwhelmed. For our honeymoon, we randomly chose 3 AI resorts in the area and price range (out of 20+) and chose the best of the three. After 2+ hours of reading reviews, lol.
Travel reviews are the worst. I just keep reading and reading and getting more confused but I just can't stop reading them.