We had such a fun weekend! The sunshine and warmth were so good for my soul and mental health. Too bad we might get more snow on Wed night :/ Trying not to think about it though!
DD had a fever again yesterday afternoon. She's had a cough for a couple of weeks now. I'm keeping my phone close by me today, in case daycare calls. I need to put a call in about her cough (she's prone to them b/c of the asthma stuff). Poor nugget.
I want to shop shop shop online and I can't ever find stuff that I like. That is probably a good thing.
mekiakoo, you need one of those bra extenders you can buy at pregnancy stores. It's just extra hooks, you add it to your bra and it adds some breathing room.
I am pondering whether to take a nap now or later.
Post by ElizabethBennet on Apr 29, 2013 8:31:00 GMT -5
DD is in this eating stage of refusing to try anything new. I made steak, mashed potatoes, and broccoli for dinner last night and had cut up a cantaloupe before that. The ONLY thing she would eat was the broccoli (this isn't a brag, it's the only vegetable shell eat now).
Anyway, she refused to try the steak, potatoes, or cantaloupe. I told her the cantaloupe was candy, the potatoes were ice cream, and the steak was cake. She ate it right up lol.
This will probably bite me in the ass at some point.
I got 1 hour of sleep last night and I am sloowwwwww to process stuff this morning. I can't focus, it sucks.
DH and I have found a mediocre place to live for a year until the next attempt to move to Michigan. Its a cute place but the yard backs up to restaurants. I really hope you can't smell the dumpsters from the house in summer. I will punch DH because he promises it won't stink. Its our favorite pizza joint so I will also get fatter....this isn't looking good, guys.
my mom is a horrible gift recipient. she pulls her queen victoria act and never appears to be remotely pleased. she sort of inclines her head in royal fashion with a slight upturn of the corners of her lips. i've tried cheap and expensive. i've tried practical and sentimental. i've tried it ALL. everything gets the same reception. and, ironically, this was THE thing she used to bitch about about her OWN mother (who, i will say, took it to the next level and by the time she as 70 would say shit like "i'll never use this, but nice idea.").
so, anyway, i got her this NPR story corps book with interviews of people talking about their mothers and am sending that with flowers. the book made ME cry, but queen victoria will probably never read it. i'm pre-mad at my mom over mother's day and it's not even for like 2 weeks.
H has a HUGE job interview tonight with a home inspection company. Our Realtor saw my FB status about H finishing school and said that the company he uses was hiring and basically got him this interview and gave him a fantastic recommendation. This is exactly what he wants to do and is an amazing opportunity and I am so excited and nervous for him.
I forgot my breakfast sitting on my counter this morning. And I'm starving.
I'm on a call with a client and sales and the sales guy keeps saying 'I'm going to send you my V-card' to the client and the 15 year old boy in me keeps giggling.
It is too early for me to be this annoyed at work. Tell me who you want at a meeting before you get on my case about scheduling it. Oh, and PS, we have admins who normally handle this and can do it faster because they have access to all of the calendars.
DH invited MIL and GMIL down tomorrow for DS's 2nd birthday and I am grumpy about it. I have to work and not see him all day- and now I have to get crap in order because they are coming. Blah. We are doing pizza and cake and calling it a day. I feel like a crap mom
Today is not going to be a good day. I just know it.
Plus, I have to dig out all of my financial info for our mortgage. Nothing to worry about- just a crap ton of annoying paperwork.
I got my first pp period and combined with reading the puberty thread from the weekend I felt like a 12 year old trying to use a tampon for the first time this morning.
Post by coribelle26 on Apr 29, 2013 9:38:04 GMT -5
The news is out that I'm leaving my job, because it was posted online late last week. Luckily we've got a bunch of gossipers here and I've only had to have two awkward conversations with people about it.
I am super annoyed by a wedding on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. Our city has a parade that completely blocks off my neighborhood from about noon to 4. The wedding is at 4, an hour and a half across town. It's one of H's college friends, and it is "Victorian attire encouraged." (No amount of encouragement will make that happen for us.) Now we have to either park one of our cars across the main street/parade route early in the morning (and everyone blocks off their street spots, so that should be a treat) and pray they let us cross the route on foot, or go stay somewhere else for the night. THIS IS STUPID.
My MIL only dinged me once yesterday! Just a backhanded comment on the fact we had the baby outside during her baptism luncheon without keeping her wrapped up in a heavy blanket. It was at least 80 degrees out and it was warm! At one point, I took off her dress bc MIL had her wrapped up for so long her whole body was hot! She told DH that he needed to keep her completely covered in her carrier when we walked 20 feet into a restaurant and how we will "deal with the consequences later this week when she gets an ear infection from that and being outside during the two hour party uncovered".
The news is out that I'm leaving my job, because it was posted online late last week. Luckily we've got a bunch of gossipers here and I've only had to have two awkward conversations with people about it.
I am super annoyed by a wedding on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. Our city has a parade that completely blocks off my neighborhood from about noon to 4. The wedding is at 4, an hour and a half across town. It's one of H's college friends, and it is "Victorian attire encouraged." (No amount of encouragement will make that happen for us.) Now we have to either park one of our cars across the main street/parade route early in the morning (and everyone blocks off their street spots, so that should be a treat) and pray they let us cross the route on foot, or go stay somewhere else for the night. THIS IS STUPID.
You're so much nicer than I am. I would totally lie and say we tried to go but couldn't get out of the 'hood.
Post by cheeseandcrackers on Apr 29, 2013 9:46:53 GMT -5
I'm still annoyed from my dinner Saturday night with my husbands relatives. His cousin got drunk and asked me what my political views are.. since i know they are die hard republicans i simply stated "Oh, this is not a conversation I want to get into during dinner". Her aunt followed up with "Oh honey, they are one of THOSE people". Ew.
I have a migraine today but I have no where to go to relax and feel better. H and FIL are working on our house (which means drills, hammers, and any other loud ass power tool you can think of) and my mom will have ds today. So here I sit at work, staring at a computer screen in the bright lights instead.
Because I know you all have been waiting with bated breath for a homemade baby food update....ds would screech to high heaven and make the funniest faces when I first started giving it to him. I decided that the food was probably boring and plain so I started putting a little pinch of garlic powder in the veggies and cinnamon in the apples (apples were the only fruit I could get fresh last weekend) and he gobbled that right up without a peep hardly. He can stave off a million vampires now, but he's like his mommy and daddy and LOVES the garlic!
Also, I did find fresh strawberries and blueberries at the store this weekend so I made him those and I made him sweet potatoes yesterday. He ate the sweet potatoes right out of the Ninja blender so I'm thinking those will be a success! I also have frozen cherries I need to make him tonight. I have frozen pineapple too, but I'm still debating whether to make that for him or not.
He's also outgrown all of the pants we have for him except like 2 pairs. And I'm trying to decide if I should buy him some swim trunks or not. I just don't know if we will use them very often. We don't ever go to our community pool, and I don't think we will have anywhere to put a pool in our new yard, so I'm not sure if I should buy him one or not.
I swear, nothing about this house-building process is easy. I just got a call that our granite had come in but that it has more blue in it than is typical of the color, so now H and I have to go look at it.
I can't hold a job and build a house at the same time. lol
But at least you'll have a nice new sparkling house to live in!
The CEP thread about the n-word is the single biggest clusterfuck I've seen on the boards in ages. the entire thing makes me SO uncomfortable. I didn't even comment, because I was too afraid to get into all of it; and that probably says a lot right there, given that I'm very rarely afraid to voice an opinion. lol. Suffice it to say that both sides of the argument strike me as incredibly, horribly wrong.
I feel like I am not reading tone right, or skimmed to much but I do not get the the big fucking deal was. I get there was difference of opinion. I don't get how there were gbcngbcn over it though. I am too lazy to go read it again.
Both H and my mother told me to "get over it" in regards to the m/c last year and being sad that I haven't gotten pregnant yet. H's younger cousin just announced she's 4 months pregnant the other day and it sent me over the edge with the oping and sads and crying.
I know I'm being a big baby. But it hurts to my core. And my people to lean on just aren't very good for leaning on right now.
Post by coribelle26 on Apr 29, 2013 9:48:51 GMT -5
spitforspat that was my suggestion, lol. H is the nicer one.
We weren't even thinking about the parade when we RSVP'ed yes to the wedding. We might have just declined in the first place, but now that we're in the count, we're stuck.
spitforspat that was my suggestion, lol. H is the nicer one.
We weren't even thinking about the parade when we RSVP'ed yes to the wedding. We might have just declined in the first place, but now that we're in the count, we're stuck.
OMG i can hear you coughing ALL THE WAY OVER HERE.
i think you're coming down with something. time to vaguebook about it so your alibi is established.
Both H and my mother told me to "get over it" in regards to the m/c last year and being sad that I haven't gotten pregnant yet. H's younger cousin just announced she's 4 months pregnant the other day and it sent me over the edge with the oping and sads and crying.
I know I'm being a big baby. But it hurts to my core. And my people to lean on just aren't very good for leaning on right now.
They're the ones who are in the wrong right now. It's okay to be sad about this ((hugs))
I feel like I am not reading tone right, or skimmed to much but I do not get the the big fucking deal was. I get there was difference of opinion. I don't get how there were gbcngbcn over it though. I am too lazy to go read it again.
The disagreement seems to be over the degree of insult. Some people said they wouldn't have reacted as strongly as Jermys; some people didn't like that she used profanity. there was some "it takes a village" talk that ended up being an analogy through the entire thread. There was some poster named bugsandbibs or someone who basically said that anyone who didn't think Jermys was right was clearly just suffering under the yoke of white suburban privilege. Habbs GBCN'd because she was pissed that apparently she wasn't "black enough." Cookiemdough and Tef got into it and started just hurling insults, basically. There was a lot of "go sat down" and colloquial references to getting "street."
It was, essentially, a massive fucking trainwreck.
I'm loling this morning though b/c someone posted that they didn't think it was as bad as the ML rape poll post. CEP -- AP of the Nest, still not as bad as ML!
I think I am just surprised because it all seemed tame to me in the world of CEP. Like that thread didn't look much different then other massive threads that get pretty heated.
I am sick of being nice to stupid co-workers who are downright nasty to everybody else. I let a couple of them know this today, probably because I am sick, tired, and pregnant.