Thursday Rants

[twoplustwo]

Holy mother of God. I pick up the husband tomorrow night. He has been gone for six weeks. That I don't mind.

My rant is I am so flipping tired of taking care of B by myself. My family is close, so I might get a break of someone else watching him while I am at their house for a few hours. I think I am going to let C have him all day Saturday, and not lift a finger.

And, I ask my husband to do things like check with our new landlord to see how much money we need when we sign the lease, or after paying this money how much we have left, or picking a freaking fathers day present for his dad and step dad. He ALWAYS waits until the last minute, and then gets pissy about it. It is not my fault he does not follow through.

Ah. I feel better. Anyone else want to share their rants?

[ilovelamp]

We just moved where Dhs family is a few weeks ago (hundreds of miles from where we were living). He is already saying he wants to stay here forever. I get that it's his hometown and he likes being around his family, but holy shit give me some time to see how I like it here. He agreed he was being unfair and apologized, but it still pissed me off.

[poppet]

Im trying to branch out and meet some other wives in the area to help me survive this deployment. I went to a playgroup meeting with some other military moms and I had to leave early to keep from screaming:

- when one mom asked how DD and I are doing with DH deployed I had FOUR other moms go on and on and on about how they just couldn't imagine it an how they could not handle it....blah blah blah. I get this from non-military friends and understand it (annoying though) but these are military wives!!!! WTH?! Just because your husband is still a resident and not deployable doesn't mean he won't be eventually. Did you not think about that when he signed up?

- we went to a fire station tour with the kids and when they showed us their little gym at the station they mentioned that state law says they must workout at least one hr during a 24ht shift. Later a few women were talking crap about how the fire station had a big screen TV and video games and how "they should have to work out more than an hour since apparently our tax dollars are going towards them just playing". My jaw dropped and I excused myself to leave.

Yeah....I don't think the wives around here are my cup of tea. I'm so ready to move.

[ilovelamp]

Poppet- I would have flipped my shot at the firefight comment. Most people have TV, video games, cards, etc when they deploy during their free time. Maybe we should take that away from them too!

[brandienee]

The only thing I have is that I emailed the lady organizing the dinners for families dealing extended deployments that I didn't need anything like this, since it was only me and we live far from base. She emailed me back saying "Thats fine, I will email you next month." ::headdesk::

[brandienee]

Jun 14, 2012 9:23:06 GMT -5 ilovelamp said:

Poppet- I would have flipped my shot at the firefight comment. Most people have TV, video games, cards, etc when they deploy during their free time. Maybe we should take that away from them too!

Ditto, or that they need to be held more accountable with their spending habits, since the they are being paid through tax money as well.

You don't really NEED cable and an Iphone.

[prettyinpink]

Last year we had NO bugs at our house. None period. NONE. This year I'm ready to start throwing things because I keep finding beetles and crickets and stuff in our half bath that's right off the garage in the house. E killed one on his way out the door this morning and then I found one chilling out on the laundry sitting in the basket in the bathroom after he left. I just looked up the number for a pest control company I had done a price quote a month ago and am going to call them NOW. I'm DONE!!!!

[G22]

Our base has a softball league. I'm playing on the spouses club team. We suck major. But we know this. Last night was our first game and we played the Security Forces team. A couple of the guys were over heard talking about us and how they were going to beat us because we are wives and don't work. Ummmm then what am I doing for 40+ hours a week? I was mildly irritated, but as much as some of the other girls. I know most if the SF guys playing are young and single. Someday they'll figure out a wife does more than "not work". They beat us because we suck, not because of whether we have jobs or not. And we're not all wives. We have a few husbands on the team too.

[crimewatcher]

I want this week over. Like on Monday. Every single thing on my "To Do List" takes 5xs longer than it's suppose to. (ie submitting my background packet online sounds easy enough- but when your H doesn't replace the ink in the printer like he was suppose to before he went TDY makes it hard to print out the signature page).

Today our curtain rod fell off the wall, fixed that.
Dryer duct/hose wont stay on the vent pipe, had to go pick up zip ties to fix that.
Our bedroom dresser was missing some hardware, waiting to finish that.

My list can go on and on. The hardest part about this entire week is all my stuff is falling apart and when I called H he was taking a nap. He has been on TDY for a couple weeks but hasn't been doing anything. Normally, I am happy for him and encourage him to sight see, hang out etc but he is deploying shortly after he gets back and it's wasting our time together.

[Dory1988]

I'm going to start on hour 9 at the hospital in 24 hours soon (7p-7a shift). I'm praying I don't have the ER tonight. I have this feeling that the shit is going to hit the fan tonight just to test me.

[brandienee]

Jun 14, 2012 12:10:22 GMT -5 @ojo said:

Jun 14, 2012 9:28:03 GMT -5 brandienee said:

The only thing I have is that I emailed the lady organizing the dinners for families dealing extended deployments that I didn't need anything like this, since it was only me and we live far from base. She emailed me back saying "Thats fine, I will email you next month." ::headdesk::

My Key Spouse had to contact all of us at least once a month. It's just part of the job, whether we need the call or not.

I haven't been contacted by her yet, just everyone else so far. LOL.

[amaristella]

I got my referral in the mail today and it's entirely wrong. I have the appointment notes from my doctor where he clearly wrote "maternal fetal medicine (perinatology)" but they still referred me to an obstetrician. Gosh, I wouldn't even know what an MFM was if my OB hadn't recommended that I do a consult with one.

Explaining what happened to strangers is like my Achilles heel (I break down into uncontrollable sobbing every time) but unfortunately I'm going to have to do it if I want to see this specialist. Luckily I have a friend who is willing to accompany me to the referral office tomorrow and be my moral support. My mom advised me to write down the details on a piece of paper to hand to the person in case I start crying and can't talk so I'm going to do that as well.

I just wish that stuff like this could go right the first time so that I can get the care I need with the least amount of emotional pain possible.

[twoslicehilly]

Since my H hasn't mowed in almost 3 weeks, ( the yard hasn't *needed* it, really) he has to do the yard before we can leave today. Which means I have to clean the entire house, take care of DD and pack up our stuff by myself in the next few hours. I am considering not packing any thing so I have to buy all new stuff once we get to Oki.

[amaristella]

Thank you Ojo! Hugs are seriously my best friend today.