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Randoms, Complaints, B*tch fest, anyone?
I'm finally back at a real computer so let's hear them.
Mine:
I feel like adding a fourth kid to the mix has me drowning in a sea of laundry... it's not him that's the problem--he doesn't spit up, he poops every three days so no poop blowouts, etc. I am just SO behind on it... I am an OCD failure right now.
I am back at work PT through Valentine's Day. I am having a hard time adjusting to being back--I don't know if it is because I was on bedrest from September until I had him and it's been that long since making the commute or what but I am so not in the groove of being in the office at 6am, making the commute, etc.
I came back to work to hear about how another coworker who had a baby looks like she never was pregnant--she looks FABULOUS, blah blah blah... Now I totally resent her, petty, I know.
I don't feel "done" having kids....That's flameworthy, I know.
Re: Randoms, Complaints, B*tch fest, anyone?
I wanted a snow day tomorrow instead of the crap on a Saturday as I need a break from my students and hate having my weekend ruined. Ideally, it would have happened on Monday (after the Superbowl) so I could drink a lot on Sunday night knowing I don't have to go to school on Monday!!
*Random: My H and I have decided we are TTC starting in August (after I am a bridesmaid in a wedding) and one of my friend's just had her "last" baby. Would it be weird if I ask if I could buy her maternity clothes? She has an awesome style and I think I would fit in some of her clothes in early stages of pregnancy but c'mon we aren't even trying yet and what if I jinx myself?!?!
R, you will get your groove, you're like me and have a lot of drive and strive for organization, it may take a couple weeks (or a month or so), but it comes.
Selling/buying a house is stressfull. We are in the very early process and just the thought of people walking through our house, stuff that could go wrong in a newer house, what if's, coming up with 20%, etc are all on our minds. Plus, we are getting our house ready to sell (cleaning out closets, adding curb appeal, meeting with financial peeps to make sure we're making the right move, meeting with stagers, meeting with landscaper, getting a new roof, painting, etc) which is all a part-time job.
I just sent in the paper work to test E into Kindergarten. We aren't going to make a decision if she'll go or not until we find out if she is able to go. We also have her signed up for pre-school high 5's this fall just in case we feel she's not ready. I think I am getting more okay with waiting a year. Only time and testing will tell.
Ian is semi-crawling, scooting, army crawling, whatever you want to call it. He's on the go. So far he likes getting into the dog bowls, tries to chew the power cords, goes straight for any E toys that are laying around. Oy. I am not ready for this.
We broke the news to the in-laws this weekend, and since then, MIL has treated me like an infant. She calls all day long, or just stops by. I know she cares, but give me a break!
Tomorrow marks one year since we lost Jackson. I seriously have no idea where this past year has gone, or how I have made it through it. DH has been my rock, and we know that we are blessed knowing that we, plus these 2 little miracles, have an amazing angel watching over us, but I know tomorrow is going to be hard.
I had my first emotional pregnancy breakdown. When DH took my weekly belly pic, he had the camera set on black and white, and I didn't notice it until I uploaded it on the laptop, and I cried for 10 minutes and yelled at him. But, I actually kind of like it now.
If MIL stops by, do you think it would be wrong to pretend I'm not home? My car is in the garage, and luckily she doesn't have a key. But, would it make me a total B*tch to just pretend I'm not here?
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- I have been working overnights for extra income until DH finds a new job. I thought that I could handle it, but I am realizing that it really sucks, and I spend days after trying to catch up on my sleep. I have been up since 8:30 yesterday morning, and I probably won't get to sleep until 9 or so tonight. Then, I get to do it all again tomorrow night.
- My cousin had a really bad experience at BRU. She was given the wrong information about a car seat by an employee, and it made me really angry. I may or may not have called BRU and raised hell.
- I keep going back and forth on whether or not I want another baby. My heart says yes, but my mind says that it would be a logistic nightmare for us. Two is so easy, and Ry is at a really fun age, but I long for a squishy newborn.
- I feel like my house is so cluttered. I need/want to get rid of things, but I get so overwhelmed with all of it. The majority of it being baby stuff, and I can't seem to part with it until I am 100% on board with not having baby #3. Ugh.
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We are moving back to Topeka in 22 days. DH got a job offer we couldn't refuse and it will allow me to finish school full time instead of this one class at a time bs. I am very excited to be back home but sad because we have made this our home in the past 3 years.
Selling our house is so stressful. We have so much to do. I'm working full time at night and here with H during the day while DH is working 65 hours weeks while his other manager is on vacation. All in the week we have to prep the house. It goes on the market Monday and I'm terrified it won't sell. Ugh.
ETA there will be 2 weeks between our last day and DHs first day in KC. I am soo looking forward to this time to relax. We plan on taking a night to stay at a nice hotel near the new casino and be baby free for a night. gambling here I come!
Big hugs! You should do something special to remember him tomorrow. We planted a tree on (well, around) the anniversary of our first loss.
I'm on day 3 of a migraine. Ugh! I did not have these in my other pregnancies. No nausea this time, but I'd almost rather have that!! I have a prescription from my OB and even THAT isn't help. :-(
This weekend is supposed to be my girls weekend in Lincoln, and NOW we get buckets of snow?? The weathermen better be wrong! Grrrrrr.
I feel ya, Haven! And that's why I snuck out of work a bit early the past few days and ran before I picked the kids up from daycare. The weather was absolutely to die for!
I started WW a few weeks back and it's kind of great. I resisted forever since I figured it was just another diet, but I likes!
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I have a pit in my stomach. My dad had surgery last week on his knee and is en route to the doctor for a possible second surgery due to seeping/infection. I hate that he's going through this.
I'm lacking motivation to work today.
I've been eating really good and 3 lbs lost in one week is super motivating. I need to hit the grocery store (with every other nut in town) today because I don't want to be snowed in with no good food options.
I've been cooking a lot and loving it. I wish I had more time during the week to do it and a hubs that would be home at night to enjoy it, but such is life.
Sorry to hear that about your dad...as you know my dad went through a routine knee surgeyr and then had an infeciton develop about 1 1/2 weeks later that required surgery...hope that isn't the case for your dad- definitely not fun!
Ditto. And if you get busted, say you were in the shower.
Try taking Tylenol and slamming a Mt Dew can. That is the advice from my OB and it has helped me tremendously.
I met up with a MM nestie last night for dinner and ice cream (and a drive past Warren Buffett's house - LOL). It was so fun! I'm probably getting together with StJess (MofA) and another MM nestie this weekend, too. I'm on a internet-creeper-meeting-other-creepers roll!
I'm going to attempt to meal plan for the entire month this afternoon....partially to avoid having to do some real work from home.
I saw someone watering their lawn on Tuesday afternoon. WTF.
New co-worker of DH rubs me the wrong way and I don't exactly know why, like I feel like he thinks he's all that, but he's always been very nice to me. We had a fancy shindig last weekend and he wasn't able to get off work early, so we had to go pick up his wife and drive her there. It was 35 minutes for us to drive to get her, then another 20 to get to the location. It would have taken him 40 minutes tops. He was there for the whole social hour and we were there for only like 10 minutes of it. I was having a rough day with all three kids at home by myself and I really felt put out.
I think the nettipot is weird, but only because it looks like a tea pot. I have the sinuSense by waterpick that does the same thing, but it looks different, so it doesn't feel weird to me.
I want to go back to work, but I don't want to at the same time.
I am tempted to sign R up for baseball this summer here. I really don't expect I'll be bringing him back to dbag this summer. The school counselor even told me not to, that consistency is very important for kids with ADHD and that dbag would worsen the situation.He is now 1 year behind in child support and still owes travel expenses for last year's visit.
Dbag has been the source of a lot of drama lately. I don't trust him and think he's up to something.
Lil princess in my tummy appears to like attention. Failing her BPP this am meant going for another NST. Lil stinker!
My dog is driving me crazy since being home on bedrest. He just sits there and stares at me all day. I know he's confused on why I'm home all the time now but its been a week! It needs to stop
I started watching One Tree Hill on netflix. Its such a high school show, but I"m enjoying it. I'm on season 3 of 8 so far.
It sucks that I've basically lost my best friend over the past few years. I feel like I have tried and tried to keep in touch and to no avail. She did not make it to either of my wedding showers or either of my baby showers. I know she's 100 miles away but I call/text her ever time I go home to see if she has time to hang out and she never does. I email her and she doesnt respond. I"ve asked her if there was something I've done and nothing. I just wished I had either my best friend back or someone else I could talk to when I need too. It would be nice to have someone to share things with. My DH is ultimately my best friend and he knows everything and I tell him everything, it would just be nice to confide in a woman is all.
I have been working on getting this house more organized and getting rid of things, but in the process I think that I'm making a bigger mess. Oops! I keep telling my husband that it will get better once I get rid of all of the clothes that don't fit C anymore and all of the boxes of stuff that I have thrown in the closet over the years....blah blah blah...but it is going to take a while.
I'm not at all motivated to get C's stuff tagged for consignment. It is super easy and I have done it for year...I just need to carve out some time and do it.
I have a horse for sale and I have mixed feelings about it. He hasn't been used for well over a year so he really needs to go to a new home where he will get used, but I don't want to sell him. He is like a pet to me...DH views them as livestock...me, it depends on the animal & I'm pretty attached to him. On the other hand....he cost over $7k so that could be money in the bank.
For some strange reason I feel bad for Khloe Kardashian...on the radio they kept referring to her as Kong...in reality she is smaller than average, but larger than the other Kardashian's. I think she is one of my fav of the 3 sisters. (very random, yes)
I saw this last night! It was like 4:45 and one of my neighbors had their sprinkler going. Like your grass really needs watered in f'n January. It was nice out but people act like it was 90 degrees or something.
My BFF is two of the girls' godmother and she lives 12 hours away and had a new baby during their baptisms, I didn't think twice to have a proxy. On the same note, I am the godmother of her second daughter and I had Jude two weeks before her baptism in Western Nebraska--she had a proxy
The way I look at it, she is involved in the girls' lives both physically and spiritually and I am the same with her girls--we still fulfill our roles as godparents even if we weren't at the ceremonies
My DH works at a golf course and had to hand water the greens... He said that a couple courses in Omaha fired up their irrigation systems to water this week. Crazy.
It's so dry that they could be doing it to prevent fire hazard. Grass fires are really common in the winter months because of it being really dry and often windy. One flick of someone's lit cigarette into your yard could be bad.
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Jack & I have been sick since Monday. I've never been sick this long in my life! I still have a frickin' fever. He seems better today, no fever this morn and now he's got a fever again. I'm going totally stir-crazy and I'm just pissed at this sickness.
Boring, I know, but it's all I got.
Oh, and I hope it blizzards like crazy this weekend, but I know I won't get that lucky.
We watered this week - really has nothing to do with temperature. The grass is soooooo dry - it needed it.
We were going to go to Omaha this weekend just to see some friends/family, but are now staying home because of the weather. DSM is only supposed to get about an inch, but....I'm excited for the snow, and excited to stay home.
We went to the local animal shelter in DSM last weekend - and I lost it when I came to a kennel with a Boxer mix. Not sure how I'll ever be ready for another dog.
As much as I'm excited for the snow, I'm really going to miss being able to run outside. I've been home for two weeks, so I finally have my route down, and love it.
I miss the "old" Omaha board.
* I pretty much got a demotion at work, pay is the same, but less duties. I am so happy because I was not cut out for dealing with customers I'm not nice enough to put up with peoples ***.
*a co worker did a report wrong and tried to blame me for not showing her right. I showed her at least three times. I was beyond irritated for having to show her again. as a result of her doing the report wrong she overpaid someone by $7,000. she didn't even get in trouble, if it was me I would have been fired. she must be spending some serious time under the bosses desk.
I think my DH has seasonal affective disorder & he is driving me CRAZY. Plus the impending snow = very crabby DH. I am seriously considering getting him one of those light boxes & trying to get him to sit in front of it in the evenings for a while.
I have to have sinus surgery & I am being a really big wimp about it... I have never had surgery & I'm such a chicken. Such. A. Chicken.
I am already incredibly tired of people (mostly DH, see above) complaining about the coming snowstorm. For crying out loud, it's snow, in February, in Nebraska. Big deal. Stay home or scoop the driveway, either way you're going to be fine.
My 2 yr old told me he was going to have dreams about Puff the Magic Dragon last night, and he & Puff were going to go somewhere on a school bus. Puff was going to be dressed in green jammies and wear blue slippers. This made my evening.
I am frustrated & pissed with the Komen foundation for caving to the anti-abortion right & placing politics ahead of women's healthcare.
I am headed to Whole Foods in a minute to do some work on the computer & buy myself a Kombucha. Woot.
Work is crazy and I have been crabby because of it.
I wonder what I will do when my body is too old to do what I do now (healthcare, like a nurse). I been thinking more and more about mortuary science/funeral director. I haven't mentioned it to anyone else. I just think funerals/services can by such a positive tribute and it would be satisfying to help the family with closure, ect.
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Have you considered chiropractic care? I have been seeing a chiropractor and it has reduced my headaches a ton. I had one for 2 weeks straight. I went to the chiropractor and it was gone after my first adjustment. Crazy. I was totally skeptical but it has worked for me. It might be worth looking into because headaches ruin your life!
Ditto this. I've seen a chiropractor for about six months specifically to get rid of headaches, works wonders. Just cleared it with my OB today that it's safe.
I am so glad to have announced my pregnancy, so that I can freely Pinterest a baby board now.
Holy cow, we're going to have a little sister!!