Back in STL after a week in California and the humidity is like a warm hug. What can I say? I'm used to living in a terrarium.
DS has already said he misses it. Unexpected high points were El Matador beach and hilariously the water taxi in Marina Del Rey. We stayed there two nights and it was such a delight to just putter around the marina and look at the sea lions.
@sameoldstory, I am sorry both of your exes are assholes.
jinkies, I'm sorry you are going through something you can't share. I'm always happy to chat via PM, though depending on what it is I may be zero help!
I figured out today that the White House tour my sister scheduled for tomorrow is actually on Wednesday, so that threw our plans for the next 2 days completely upside down! It's not a big deal, we just will go to DC on Wednesday instead, but it meant moving the monument tour we had planned for tomorrow (my H and I are going to use our ticket some time TBD, my sister and BIL are going tonight instead) so that we don't spend half of their visit driving back and forth between DC, Baltimore, and our suburb. I think it actually worked out pretty well but I've spent a lot of mental energy today figuring out plan B for places to eat, changing reservations, logistics, changing the tickets for the monument tour, etc. I am probably going to end up doing a little extra work tonight because of it, but that's ok.
We’ve come to the point in our lives that people aren’t having babies or getting married very often anymore.
Is the next stage death of parents and retirement?
We are in a weird phase. We have so many friends having babies in their 40’s. We have attended a few weddings this year. We are also in everyone is dying. I want off this ride
krystee I am going through the same kind of emotional turmoil on Ozempic. Whenever I’m badgering whichever poor family member gets in my path, I recognize what I’m doing about halfway through and say, “I am so sorry. This is a me problem, not you.”
I’m trying to decide if it’s worth staying on the medicine. 😬
This is concerning. I upped my Ozempic dosage to 1ml about 3 weeks ago and this week I was a blubbery fucking mess. I've been tracking my moods and cycle for my therapist (that I started seeing because I've lost the ability to emotionally regulate), and chalked it up to ovulating. I never considered that the Oz could be the culprit.
krystee I am going through the same kind of emotional turmoil on Ozempic. Whenever I’m badgering whichever poor family member gets in my path, I recognize what I’m doing about halfway through and say, “I am so sorry. This is a me problem, not you.”
I’m trying to decide if it’s worth staying on the medicine. 😬
This is concerning. I upped my Ozempic dosage to 1ml about 3 weeks ago and this week I was a blubbery fucking mess. I've been tracking my moods and cycle for my therapist (that I started seeing because I've lost the ability to emotionally regulate), and chalked it up to ovulating. I never considered that the Oz could be the culprit.
I’m paused at .5mL and have gone off and on it again to see. It’s definitely the big O. I’m just trying to decide if the results are worth the constant policing of my moods.
My poor little dude is still so sick. Paracetamol AND ibuprofen is barely touching his fever. It’s still 39.7 (103.5). So I called the doctor and they will see him. We need to try to somehow catch some pee to test for a UTI. 🙃
I also had a check up today and as I suspected I need to do the GD test again because the baby’s belly was measuring 97%. 😭😭 I hate that test.
Will they let you do glucose monitoring for a week instead of the test? I could do that for 2 of my pregnancies instead of the juice.
Oh great idea. I’ll bring it up with my midwife and see what they say!
Had an emotional therapy session today, not just about the divorce, but all my insecurities that I have regarding school and well, being an adult, which tie to my ADHD. I really want to get my degree. I really want to embark on this journey to become a nurse, but I am terrified of not being able to follow through and not fucking up. I just have not had great experiences.
I don't know if other people with ADHD feel similarly, especially if you found out later in life or just never really had it addressed properly.
Also, I with the starting over or Trouble In Paradise boards were more active.
Back in STL after a week in California and the humidity is like a warm hug. What can I say? I'm used to living in a terrarium.
DS has already said he misses it. Unexpected high points were El Matador beach and hilariously the water taxi in Marina Del Rey. We stayed there two nights and it was such a delight to just putter around the marina and look at the sea lions.
I’m glad you had a good experience at El Matador. We were there yesterday and it took forever to find parking, there was a dog poop smell, which I think was the seaweed, and after about an hour and a half the tide came in and we had no available beach area to move to. It sucked, but normally it’s a very nice beach.
There is a new grocery store near us that opened over the weekend and I’m in love. H and DS1 went opening day because DS1 has been anticipating attending the opening for about a year now and it lived up to his expectations, so I went today and was so excited that I can get a lot of the stuff that I normally drive across town to Whole Foods to get, and their prices are comparable which says a lot in the land of Erewhon.
Had an emotional therapy session today, not just about the divorce, but all my insecurities that I have regarding school and well, being an adult, which tie to my ADHD. I really want to get my degree. I really want to embark on this journey to become a nurse, but I am terrified of not being able to follow through and not fucking up. I just have not had great experiences.
I don't know if other people with ADHD feel similarly, especially if you found out later in life or just never really had it addressed properly.
Also, I with the starting over or Trouble In Paradise boards were more active.
I’m set to retire from the military in two years, and I’m terrified that I won’t be able to do a new job well. Which is kind of ridiculous because I’ve been reassigned to a new job every 1-3 years for the last 20 and have learned them all just fine. But I’m still paralyzed by fear.
Had an emotional therapy session today, not just about the divorce, but all my insecurities that I have regarding school and well, being an adult, which tie to my ADHD. I really want to get my degree. I really want to embark on this journey to become a nurse, but I am terrified of not being able to follow through and not fucking up. I just have not had great experiences.
I don't know if other people with ADHD feel similarly, especially if you found out later in life or just never really had it addressed properly.
Also, I with the starting over or Trouble In Paradise boards were more active.
I’m set to retire from the military in two years, and I’m terrified that I won’t be able to do a new job well. Which is kind of ridiculous because I’ve been reassigned to a new job every 1-3 years for the last 20 and have learned them all just fine. But I’m still paralyzed by fear.
I bet you will be great! BUt fear of the unknown is powerful.
I spent most of the day outside yesterday and was rewarded with a huge big bite right in the crease where my left butt cheek meets my thigh. Let me tell you, NOT A GREAT PLACE to constantly be itching. I might need to go find some of that Burt’s Bees stuff that was posted yesterday.
Tonight FI and I are going to dinner in the city at a restaurant where it is near impossible to get reservations. This was the only thing he wanted for his birthday (which was back in May, so that should tell you how difficult it is, lol) so I really hope he loves it. This place gets great reviews. I feel like I should be looking forward to it more than I am. Philly area ladies, have any of you been to Laser Wolf? I really feel like I’m not the proper levels of pumped that we’re having dinner there tonight.
Get pumped! Laser Wolf is really really good. It's not *quite* as good as Zahav but it is really good.
Pro tip: reservations to Zahav open on the first of the month at 11am. So set an alarm for tomorrow morning and you can go in October
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Had an emotional therapy session today, not just about the divorce, but all my insecurities that I have regarding school and well, being an adult, which tie to my ADHD. I really want to get my degree. I really want to embark on this journey to become a nurse, but I am terrified of not being able to follow through and not fucking up. I just have not had great experiences.
I don't know if other people with ADHD feel similarly, especially if you found out later in life or just never really had it addressed properly.
Also, I with the starting over or Trouble In Paradise boards were more active.
My mom was never formally diagnosed with ADHD, but if you have a conversation with her you'd probably be able to guess that she has it. I do too, and so does my H. Anyway, my mom went back to school in her 40's to become a nurse, and she was able to do it! She got married straight out of HS and just got a full time job to contribute to the household, then was a SAHM, so the nursing degree was her first. I know it was a TON of work for her and she struggled to balance it all, but in the end she graduated and worked for many years as an RN. She ended up retiring a little early due to health issues, but she never regretted going back to school and accomplishing that. Us kids were all really proud of her, too.
Anyway, it sounds like a lot of similarities between the two of you, including you both being smart, sweet people who I can imagine being a wonderful nurse. I think you can do it, and I don't think you will fuck it up. I think for adults diagnosed with ADHD later in life, fear of fucking things up is like 90% of the distress. Most of us are doing better than we feel like we are.
This is concerning. I upped my Ozempic dosage to 1ml about 3 weeks ago and this week I was a blubbery fucking mess. I've been tracking my moods and cycle for my therapist (that I started seeing because I've lost the ability to emotionally regulate), and chalked it up to ovulating. I never considered that the Oz could be the culprit.
I’m paused at .5mL and have gone off and on it again to see. It’s definitely the big O. I’m just trying to decide if the results are worth the constant policing of my moods.
It's actually working very well for me. Once I increased from .5 to 1, the pounds started coming off fast. Right now I'm the lowest weight I've been in about 15 years, and I'm not even trying that hard. Having no hunger response is weird though.
DS and I got home today from a trip to see a relative. DH seems neutral on my being here and downright pissy at DS so why did we even come home? DS is 13 and I wonder whether he and H will have anything left of a relationship at all by the time DS finishes high school; DH is always mad at him about something.
I spent most of the day outside yesterday and was rewarded with a huge big bite right in the crease where my left butt cheek meets my thigh. Let me tell you, NOT A GREAT PLACE to constantly be itching. I might need to go find some of that Burt’s Bees stuff that was posted yesterday.
Tonight FI and I are going to dinner in the city at a restaurant where it is near impossible to get reservations. This was the only thing he wanted for his birthday (which was back in May, so that should tell you how difficult it is, lol) so I really hope he loves it. This place gets great reviews. I feel like I should be looking forward to it more than I am. Philly area ladies, have any of you been to Laser Wolf? I really feel like I’m not the proper levels of pumped that we’re having dinner there tonight.
Get pumped! Laser Wolf is really really good. It's not *quite* as good as Zahav but it is really good.
Pro tip: reservations to Zahav open on the first of the month at 11am. So set an alarm for tomorrow morning and you can go in October
I love Zahov. A friend was a sous chef there when they opened, which conveniently lined up with my friends' dissertation defenses. We had lots of end of grad school celebrations there.