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FFFC....on a Monday
So let me preface this post by saying that H and I are so VERY grateful to all the gifts that we received for our little guy this weekend at my shower this weekend....
That being said, what the frick is the point of a baby registry?? We have blankets, bibs and burp cloths coming out of our ears right now. Oh, and clothes galore. However, the lovely baby registry is sitting there barely looked at with items that we truly need for the baby. Not that we can't buy them ourselves, we certainly can. But let me just say, going forward (and I usually did anyways), I will make darn sure to buy for my expecting friends from their registry anything BUT cloths, blankets, etc.
Sorry, I'm not feeling very well and kinda in a funk, so feel free to completely ignore this post altogether. OR - post your confession and help me not feel like such a scrooge less than 19 days before Christmas 
Re: FFFC....on a Monday
My boss bugs the ever living crap out of me. She does our schedules, and regularly she will schedule me to be in an hour or more before her (fine, whatever), but then she still comes in early. For example, I'll be scheduled to be in at 8am, and she'll be scheduled for 9am, and she still shows up at 8:15!!! Drives me nuts because she knows I hate coming in at 8, and if she was going to come in that early, why does she need me here?
And, we all worked all weekend, a lot of hours. There is nothing going on today, and yet, all three of us are working today. So stupid.
The cold I've been fighting for the last few days has made a stronger attack today. I think I've lost.
that's so annoying heather!
i've never been this stressed out in.my.life. with work, the house, the baby, being sick, christmas coming up... i'm starting to unravel.
Yup...my baby registry pretty much went untouched, too. It's almost pointless to have one - we got so many clothes that JJ only wore half of them before he outgrew them. :P
My confession: I give up trying to get along with Joe's family. His sister pissed me off this weekend because she referred to JJ as JJ the Second - um, no honey. If JJ was a Jr. or a Second, his initials would be JAW, like his daddy. But his initials are JALW because he has TWO middle names - my dad's middle name and Joe's middle name. She said this on Joe's FB status, so I went back and put in JJ's corrected name - I was so irritated. Never mind the fact that they didn't call to wish JJ a Happy Birthday or even send a birthday card [for the second year in a row]...but she expects to see him when she comes back for Christmas?! I don't think so.
Then, my dear MIL wanted us to buy Joe an XBox for Christmas, and she'd give us the money for it in monthly installments. Seriously? You just bought a $500K mini mansion AND A 2011 Cadillac - if you can do that, you can buy an XBox on your own and send it to Joe. I still don't get how he came out so normal...
I was thisclose to sucker punching this woman at the UPS store today.
Over and over she was demanding the UPS employee to remeasure her friggin boxes. 16x12x9. The man KNOWS what he's doing...he's the mgr of that store, and a very nice man at that.
She takes the damn tape and is like "um, it's 15 3/4."
This went on for about 5 minutes (and had been -I could tell- going on before then, also).
She then says, can we ask her...and I look up. I say (may I add in a very snarky I don't give a hoot about you way), "To do what" and she says "to measure the boxes"
I literally laugh and say "No I will not. This is not my business. This gentleman knows what he's doing"
UPS man says " I am uncomfortable with this. You should just go to the US post office"
He then leaves her, helps me.
I leave, and he goes back to her.
OH MY GOD. Most annoying woman ever.
Jackie, I can't believe you didn't punch her. Your restraint impresses me.
Heather, my confession is baby shower related too.
I am so ridiculously stressed out about this baby shower my family is throwing for us on 12/17, it makes me sick. The following things irritate me:
They procrastinated on planning it, so they didn't get it scheduled until the weekend before Christmas. My child will be 2 1/2 months old by then. That is way too long afterward, and way too close to Christmas.
They asked me what weekends worked for me and then chose a Sunday at 10:30, even though I (and MIL, SIL, and DH's grandmas) have to drive three hours. Since the ILs actually go to church (unlike the members of my family, who have been "looking for a church" for 5 years now), they will all have to miss services that day.
My sister put on the invitations (which didn't get sent out until last Thursday) that people who give clothes should make sure to get sizes 3-6 months or bigger. I am horrifyingly embarrassed.
We don't need gifts. I can hardly come up with things for her to get for Christmas. I had MIL get her a play mat for Christmas this past weekend, and came home to take it off my registry only to find out that someone had actually bought it. My fault for not registry stalking but I didn't know invitations had gone out so I figured no one had bought anything (especially since no one bought anything off the registry for the first shower).
My sister's baby shower was scheduled for three weeks after her due date, and this was decided before she had the baby. Invitations were sent out three weeks in advance. They had the shower in the afternoon, in a private room at a nice restaurant. Mine is at my aunt's house. Everything about this feels like a tacky afterthought.
I am all about my relatives seeing the baby, but if we were going to have it this late in the game, we should have just called it a sip and see and had it AFTER the holidays and told people not to bring gifts.
Basically I'm being an ungrateful b!tch, but I'll take not being embarrassed in loo of getting gifts.