Monday vents/randoms/whatevers

[thewop]

I'm pretty sure I had my mp3 player stolen out of my car....at work. I usually put it in my console, but if I'm in a hurry I'll just throw it in the cup holder, and the only time I take it out of my car is to charge it like..once a month and I KNOW I didn't leave it in the house. Work is the only place I leave my car unlocked (I don't always remember to lock it), and I park in front the building where there are large windows to people's offices so I have no idea how someone could have gotten in unseen. I searched every square inch of my car but nada. It wasn't expensive (~$40) or fancy, and there wasn't a ton of music on it as I only used it for workouts, and it's my own fault for not locking my car but I'm still super pissed. This is the second one I've had stolen in 2 years. WTF? I'm mostly annoyed I have to buy another one and bother with putting music on it. The end.

Next.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I'm wearing my third shirt of the morning. Why? Because I spilled coffee on myself. TWICE. In a row. Seriously, this is how it went down:

Brew coffee, get dressed, pour coffee, wander into office, sit down, begin working. Pour coffee down shirt - accompanied by appropriate (or possibly inappropriate) exclamations. Get up from desk, wander into laundry room, take off shirt, spray with spot treater, toss in laundry basket. Go get fresh shirt. Sit down at desk, finish cup of coffee.

Get up to get coffee refill. Fill coffee cup. Walk into office. Sit down. Take sip of scalding hot coffee. Move hand abruptly due to shocking temperature in mouth. Make inappropriate exclamations, look down at shirt. Make MORE inappropriate exclamations. Change shirt/spot treat AGAIN.

Only water for the rest of the day. I'm a freaking HAZARD.

[SusanBAnthony]

DH's car broke down on the way to work this morning. Normally he works five minutes away and I could have just run him to work and had the car towed. Instead today he had to go to a plant in a different town, so I had to give him my car and be carless.

Just got the call that the only thing wrong was corrosion on some cables, so there was a bad connection. All it needed was to be cleaned off. So at least it was not super expensive!

[thewop]

Oh, and I'm super tired. I thought I slept ok, but I'm dragging today.

[emoflamingo]

The baby decided to not sleep very well last night and then projectile spit up at 5:30 this morning. 3 times. All over the bed. H stayed home from work to take care of him and keep him isolated from my nieces and all I want to do is sleep.

Also, bad day to start a diet. Because of all that rukus, I didn't have time to make myself breakfast at home, so my junky breakfast is going to put me way over for the day.

[Deleted]

I'm so freakin' exhausted.
Rubes is teething molars. Hardcore. Like swelled up cheeks, bleeding gums, back draining into her ears, getting a tummy ache from all the saliva, hasn't slept more than 15 minutes at a time since Saturday night hardcore.

Kept her home from daycare. I can do my school paper work from home and she's way too crabby...no one wants to deal with that.

I called the dr. today just to confirm it wasn't ear infection. He said it was probably teeth and he didn't really want to see, as his office is slammed with flu patients and he said that'd be way worse than just dealing with an ear infection. Told me to keep up with the motrin, get her the Hyland's version of orajel and some gas drops.

So we went to Walmart. In yoga pants. I bought the drugs, a bottle of cheap wine and a frozen lasagna for tonight. That's like 4 internet sins all rolled into one, but I did have decent hair and makeup.

I was so tired, I couldn't even remember what I threw in the cart.

I grabbed Subway for lunch on the way home. My bread was stale. I was sad.

Give kid hippie version of orajel and gas drops. Feels so good she practically bites my finger off.

She's now napping peacefully thanks to drugs. I'm mad I didn't just trust my gut and do the damn orajel the other day. Every book, internet source and mom I know in real life is now scared to use it. My pedi was all like, "I had five kids. Don't give her the entire tube and apply your common sense. Mine all lived. Yours will too. Do what you gotta do so she sleeps!"

I need a nap, but I'm too overtired to sleep.

I need to count my stars, because she's been an easy easy child for the last 18 months. Not more than the sniffles. She isn't even really sick. But this is worse than the newborn phase I swear!

[TBM]

The super inexpensive house near DHs office in FL, that I had agreed might make a good place to live while we figure out where we really want to live went under contract over the weekend, as did yet another of the only houses that I have seriously considered so far. We could have afforded the house near DH's office without selling this house, so it would have been a huge relief to know that we were going to have someplace to live.

I had a meltdown this morning when I saw the 'under contract' status updates, and DH made it worse by saying 'It'll be fine...it will work out.' I found it annoying, unsympathetic and somewhat condescending, and wanted to strangle him through the phone, even though he is probably right and I am sure we won't be homeless.lol

[electricmayhem]

I read on Friday (on GOMI) that the GOMI forums might be shut down next month b/c their ad company doesn't want to give them ads anymore--maybe because some of the bloggers they called out complained? When I tried to follow the thread to see what happened, it kept timing out, so I have no idea what happened and if there's been a resolution. I'm bummed about this--the GOMI forums are my second favorite timesuck, following this place!

[thewop]

Aw, dairy that does suck. Big time. I'm sorry I hope she's feeling better tonight/tomorrow.

[Deleted]

Jan 14, 2013 14:00:19 GMT -5 thewop said:

Aw, dairy that does suck. Big time. I'm sorry I hope she's feeling better tonight/tomorrow.

Thanks! What she needs is like a 3 hour, not even move in the crib nap. I hope she gets it now. She had a good nap on the trip to the store and the way home..and laid down without a fuss now. We shall see.

Despite the stress, I laughed so hard last night. She hasn't really eaten in a week. Last night at midnight she was just wailing screaming. I finally said, "Show Mom what you want." She runs to the cupboard where I keep her snacks and pulls out some PB crackers. She ate 4 of those, then pointed to the fridge where she then ate some peas and noodles. At MIDNIGHT. I laughed so hard. We were like having a midnight snack in her high chair. Then I was just happy she ate. I don't think a couple doses of Tylenol and little food in her belly was helping her cause either.

[emoflamingo]

Poor Rubes! Baby W is already teething, PLUS he had some kind of virus giving him a sore throat AND he has bronchoilitis. So when he projectiled this morning, I was not surprised.

Hope Rubes is on the mend soon!

[pickle123]

My son had the stomach flu over the weekend and my hubby is home with it today. I already have sub plans ready for tomorrow just in case. Yuck.

[ssmjlm]

I came in this morning ready to be all productive, first the system won't let me attach a document, second one of the things I need to insert is suddenly missing from the system.

Come on people, I actually have work to do!

[simpsongal]

Found out today I have to buy a new car. Not looking forward to the cost or the research involved. So much for doing any major house projects this year.

[munkii]

Other than the weather and stupid people, the world is magnificent. So, here's my random. WTH buys this crap?

www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?type=finalSale&productId=prod2110085

It's effing hideous and isn't cheap. Maybe someone here can convince me it's worth the money, space, and blood pouring out of my eyes.

[bunnymendelbaum]

I have terrible mood swings today and yesterday. One second I'm all yippee! Family! Mina! Cuteness! And the next I'm feeling really hopeless, helpless, sad & angry about the lack of progress on the bathroom and how quickly March (when we want to list the house) is coming. Like I have to hold back tears.

My parents are coming this weekend and my dad is going to do electrical and hopefully plumbing. DH has promised to have stuff framed & ready for him. But then again, he also promised me a toilet installed at thanksgiving....

Cue bad mood swing.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Jan 14, 2013 14:35:33 GMT -5 munkii said:

Other than the weather and stupid people, the world is magnificent. So, here's my random. WTH buys this crap?

www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?type=finalSale&productId=prod2110085

It's effing hideous and isn't cheap. Maybe someone here can convince me it's worth the money, space, and blood pouring out of my eyes.

That's awful. Developers use that sort of crap down here in the community spaces for their gated communities.

[ktzmoh]

DH is killing me with his 20/20 hindsight nagging. Last year we set aside a significant chunk of his income to an employee stock program. Since our savings was so depleted from our down payment, this money constituted a pretty large chunk of our existing savings. I insisted we sell when the price went up after the new year fiscal cliff uptick in the markets - because I was uncomfortable having such a big part of our savings in a risky asset. He's killing me with his constant checking of the price and reminding me that if we had held onto it until today, we would have xx more.

Dude. I get it. I still think we made a safe and reasonable decision and now that we have a nice secure and not-risky cushion of savings, it's easy to speculate on all the things we could have done

[Deleted]

Man, TBM. Looking around for this long, long-distance would wear on anyone. Hope you find something really soon.

[TBM]

Jan 14, 2013 23:13:17 GMT -5 @juno said:

Man, TBM. Looking around for this long, long-distance would wear on anyone. Hope you find something really soon.

Thanks. One new listing came up today and got added to our 'possible' list, and DH talked to the HR guy in FL today and has a better idea of what the relocation package will be, so that is good...also, one of our neighbors may have found a buyer for our house. Our house was part of a first time buyer program, so he needs to make sure that he meets the qualifications, but it would be amazing if it worked out. Great for us and for our neighbor who says that since she is losing us shewants to pick her new neighbors.lol

[boiler717]

Someone already registered my name over on the new site. Guess that's a hint I should not post.

[emoflamingo]

Boiler, you just hit log in, not register. You should already be registered.

[karenj]

Those Hyland teething tablets are a godsend. When A was teething she would get 2 at a time and it was instant relief for her and me.