Wednesday randoms? Anyone?

[RoxMonster]

I haven't been feeling well, so I've been just sleeping/sort of sleeping on the couch the last two nights while half-watching bad infomercials at 3 AM.

Roxie has laid by my side the entire time. All night long. She'll sleep next to me or with her head on my lap. Dogs are the fucking best.

[justemily]

I slept like crap last night thanks to a feral cat smack down in my back yard last night at 12:30am. I live in the country - I trap/neuter/return as many as I can, but there always seems to be a new one who comes around to eat and start shit. Anyway, didn't get back to sleep til 2am or so and woke up feeling like ass.

[styme46]

(((puddleofgrace)))

I'm listening to the Legislature again this morning. It's looking pretty likely that we will end up with a new Historic Site to add to our inventory. This one has the potential to be awesome, but it will take at least 4 years to get up and running.

[isabel]

My thighs and ass are killing me. Reverse lunges with a 65 pound bar are no joke. Also, I think I'll pretend it was 95 pounds since I've officially gained 31 pounds so far. It is so weird to see that number on the scale.

[Deleted]

Sounds like typical 4 year old non-sense. I'm sorry @nailbiter101  (hug2)

[sharknado]

Feb 11, 2015 12:28:31 GMT -5 @nailbiter101 said:

My DD was begging all morning to go to her nana's house so she could play with her cousin. The baby finally fell asleep after screaming all morning, so I decided I would get her ready and take them over there when the baby wakes up.

Well now she is refusing to get dressed. So I told her we're not going, and that I didn't want to hear any tantrums later when she realizes we're REALLY not going.

Yesterday it was her not getting in her car seat on when I was trying to take her to do another fun thing. The defiance lately is blowing my mind.

She turned 4 eight days before her dad died (sudden and unexpected) four months ago. I don't know how much of this is just being 4 and how much of it is her grief. And how much of it is me being a crap mom.

I guess we'll all stay home and cry instead. I am trying so hard and feel so defeated. This isn't the life I had planned.

This probably needed to be its own post. Oops.

My DD is almost 7 and STILL pulls this shit. It is probably just being a kid.

[Deleted]

We're going to an outdoorsy thing Friday night. I'm now wondering if I have anything warm enough. Eep. Maybe a new scarf and gloves will help. (Yes, it will be about 40ish degrees and I'm a thin-blooded Floridian).

[dcannie]

After years of shitting on satellite radio (PAYING for radio?!!?) I finally have it and am obsessed. Dr. Laura is SUCH A BITCH! I almost wrote her a strongly worded e-mail the other day when she supported a woman wanting to stay at home and tell her husband to get a second/third job. Back in the day, she said, a man would die before tearing a mother away from her children. I can't stop hate-listening; she is the worst.

[Eagles]

Feb 11, 2015 9:43:33 GMT -5 BaliHai said:

My Mom told me

My uncle remarried last fall, the latest in a string of girlfriends.  She's lovely, but she's not my aunt, and we're all (including his kids) having a hard time with it even though my aunt has been gone over a decade AND even though it's probably none of our business.  Big hugs. 

[Eagles]

Hugs puddle and nailbiter, too.

[Deleted]

puddleofgrace  (hug2)

[beefcheeks]

Someone here said they use Cerave eye cream (in one of the recent make up posts). I tried it and really like it!

[AHappierHour]

I think DS2 looks just like my Mom. I haven't seen my mom since DS1 was a month old, so 16 years.

It's something in his eyes or maybe it's his blonde and and brown eyes (she has the same combo). It's a strange feeling.

[styme46]

((@nailbiter101)))

Again, I'm so sorry for your loss. You are NOT a crap mom. You have been dealt a difficult hand very suddenly. It's a lot for all of you to deal with.

I think a lot of it is being a typical 4 year old, but keep in mind that her little world has been turned upside down, too. Do you talk with her about her feelings about what happened?

[Deleted]

Ugh twostep that is a really tough one.  And hard to talk about.  It's awesome you are so proactive.
I bet she does understand, although maybe doesn't really "get it".

Just keeping talking to her!

[BaliHai]

Feb 11, 2015 12:58:48 GMT -5 Eagles said:

Feb 11, 2015 9:43:33 GMT -5 BaliHai said:

My Mom told me

My uncle...

Big hugs to you, too. I hesitated to post because it sounds really selfish, so it's nice (?) to know someone else is in the same boat. I didn't expect it to be so hard.

ETA: That kind of sounds like I'm calling you selfish - I'm not, FTR!

[BaliHai]

((@nailbiter101)) ((puddleofgrace)) ((twostep))

[malibu]

@nailbiter101 you are not a crap mom. Not at all. Also, I have a four year old. Your child's behavior sounds almost exactly like mine's. It sure sounds like a four year old being a four year old. You're not a crap mom. You're an awesome mom who's powering through a horrible time and still standing, still able to take care of your kids. And that right there is amazing.

(((puddleofgrace))) I hope things get better. N still talking to a therapist? Did she learn the new behaviors through anyone at school?

[Eagles]

Holy fuck, twostep. All you can do is keep reiterating it.

[vicky]

twostep ugh, I would want to fwd all of those texts to his mother. Fucking dirty little boy. How dare he.

[Deleted]

This day is sucking. 

It's the kind of day where I move around a lot and feel like I have accomplished nothing. 

My efforts towards an elegant outfit are slightly stalled.  The shoes were too big, the skirt too small.  I ordered larger sizes of the skirt.  The shoes are unavailable and so I had to order something else.  boo. 

I picked up all the legos.  Why did I do that?  The girls dumped them back onto the floor. 

I have cleaned, not that it accomplished much.  

E is being whiny about lunch.  She's my pickiest eater.  

I can not wait to have them in school full-time.  It will be so nice.  

[sineadorebellion]

I missed the weight loss check in so I'll share here. Since Jan 5th, I'm down 13 pounds. Yusssss, fist pump.

[Serenity9]

I just went into the bathroom at work. The light has a motion sensor and is on a timer. The bathroom was dark. There was a strange smell... not a poop smell, more like herbs or perfume of some sort. There are 2 stalls, I go into the first one, and lean down a bit and see someone's feet in the stall next to me. So... this woman was in the bathroom in the dark. And her feet are facing toward the toilet; she's not sitting on it. The entire time I'm in there she stays perfectly still. No shuffling, no noise of her moving around at all. Just standing facing the toilet.

I wondered if maybe she was smoking something, and that was the reason for the strange smell (it wasn't a pot smell). I didn't see any smoke or vapor, though.

Strange.

[Deleted]

Feb 11, 2015 14:54:41 GMT -5 Serenity9 said:

I just went into the bathroom at work. The light has a motion sensor and is on a timer. The bathroom was dark. There was a strange smell... not a poop smell, more like herbs or perfume of some sort. There are 2 stalls, I go into the first one, and lean down a bit and see someone's feet in the stall next to me. So... this woman was in the bathroom in the dark. And her feet are facing toward the toilet; she's not sitting on it. The entire time I'm in there she stays perfectly still. No shuffling, no noise of her moving around at all. Just standing facing the toilet.

I wondered if maybe she was smoking something, and that was the reason for the strange smell (it wasn't a pot smell). I didn't see any smoke or vapor, though.

Strange.

Maybe she barfed then sprayed perfume?

[Serenity9]

Feb 11, 2015 14:55:49 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Feb 11, 2015 14:54:41 GMT -5 Serenity9 said:

I just went into the bathroom at work. The light has a motion sensor and is on a timer. The bathroom was dark. There was a strange smell... not a poop smell, more like herbs or perfume of some sort. There are 2 stalls, I go into the first one, and lean down a bit and see someone's feet in the stall next to me. So... this woman was in the bathroom in the dark. And her feet are facing toward the toilet; she's not sitting on it. The entire time I'm in there she stays perfectly still. No shuffling, no noise of her moving around at all. Just standing facing the toilet.

I wondered if maybe she was smoking something, and that was the reason for the strange smell (it wasn't a pot smell). I didn't see any smoke or vapor, though.

Strange.

Maybe she barfed then sprayed perfume?

Maybe. I just don't think I'd be that still and quiet if I were sick. I'd probably be getting toilet paper to clean up or blow my nose, digging in my bag for ibuprofen or something like that. What threw me is that her feet didn't move an inch, and she never made a peep.

[Deleted]

Sometimes I think that the couple of days before my period I should get to wear a PMS rules! t-shirt.