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FFFC
Whose got 'em? I've got 3:
It kills me that I signed a confidentiality agreement in my divorce decree. I would have written a tell all book by now and slapped it on the desk of his CEO if not for this stupid agreement.
I hope XH goes off the deep end one day and tries to hurt me valiantly enough that I can get a permanent restraining order. Right now, he is sliding under the protection of the law by making threatening comments but no actual threats.
Now a fun one--I'm juggling conversations with so many guys that I'm thinking about keeping a bio sheet so I can keep them straight! It doesn't help that I met most online and I have to remember screen names too.
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Re: FFFC
Even though I am in NO WAY interested in sex right now, I am forcing DH do me in every position possible this weekend to help induce labor. I am using the poor bastard and he doesn't even know it.
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Ooh, I've got one. I have no sex drive. H and I have done it maybe half a dozen times since getting rpegnant with M. I have zero desire when I'm BFing. But I'm worried it won't come back when I stop. And on that note, I want to stop feeding as much, but M just wants to all the time still and gets so whingy. I'm getting resentful of it, and how much it controls my body - but I get annoyed when H talks about him getting my body back...
Sigh.
I just want to fancy my husband again.
We have our office Christmas night out today, starting in less than 2 hours... and I really, really don't want to go... Don't really fancy sitting for dinner with them all for 2 hours and will look for any excuse to bail once we leave the restaurant... "we're going to what pub? The cold outdoors smoking area? See ya'll Monday!!!"
I know, bah humbug and all that, but I have to listen to their BS during the week and don't want to listen to drunken BS on a Friday night after a 50+ hr working week...
My sister just got engaged and I simply can't be excited because her wedding (date TBD) will be an epic expense, waste of vacation time and pain in my ass with our upcoming move to Oz.
I've voiced my concerns with my mother and was brushed off just as I was expecting to be. Ergo, I'm going to demand my parents pay for my flight home for the wedding, which won't be cheap. Nor do I feel bad about it. They've been paying for said sister's rent for 2 years now so it's about damn time I see a little charity.
I am going to lay down the law when we are home with Dh's family.
SIL and her family are spending Xmas with her DH's. That is their choice and we are fine with that. We told them our plans in August, if my PILs are upset that we are not going to have a lot of time with everyone together as a family then they can take it up with SIL. We are flying thousands of miles and they just saw them at Thanksgiving and are moving to be in their town in a different state.
Their reason is we don't have kids, and SIL shouldn't have to upset her children. We made our plans, informed you and were open about it. I am not changing them to please everyone else. This is why we didn't come home for Christmas, although we were nice and didn't tell you that FIL!
Wow! I only have 1 child, but if I had 2, I think I would try my hardest to be fair about how much I spend on each of them, especially if it came down to something like this. I think a plane ticket would be reasonable for them to offer in this situation. So, no flames from me.
My confession:
I haven't even moved yet and I want to fly home for DD's birthday in May. It's not because I think I'll be homesick, or even because I think she'll be homesick. It's because both my parents and my ILs want to visit us there for the birthday. The idea of dealing with them all at once, staying in my apartment, in a country where my ILs don't speak the language and are also just generally "eeek, foreign is scary, are there flushing toilets there?" and in a situation in which I know for a fact that my tolerance of having my own parents stay with me is 3 days, max, stresses me the heck out and makes me think I might lose it on one or all of them before the week is up.
If, however, we flew home, then my parents could just drive over to see DD on her birthday and drive back home, my ILs could fly to NY and stay for a few days, and I would be able to catch up on stupid things like getting DD's 4-year shots with her regular pediatrician and meeting with some of my editors. It's not essential that I do these things, but it would be a nice perk. And yet it is an ABSURD waste of our time and resources when we're only going to live abroad for a year. All because I am afraid I will choke my own mother or my MIL...
I'm so glad he's improving! I'm sure it will be an adjustment but I'm so, so glad he's coming home to you.
My FFC (Saturday!) is that I tested yesterday and am definitely not pregnant. So I went out to my work xmas lunch and got very, very drunk. I am now figuring out how to cope with my day. Ouch!
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
I'm a day late, but here's mine.
I'm getting gift cards for people this year, $50 dinner/movie gift card for my grandparents & $50 Old Navy gift cards for my mom's birthday/Christmas (she specifically asked for these). FI agreed to buy grandparents cards and moms christmas gift card. I bought a few extra gift cards while I was out shopping and paid for both moms christmas and birthday gifts with his money. When he asked me why I spent $100 I told him it was because he told me I could. When he was confused I said "Remember you said you would take care of grandparents and mom...." and he totally thinks he agreed to it.
I don't feel guilty about it because I've already spent $110 on his Christmas gifts (including $50 worth of Thornton's white chocolate) and have already spent $75 on his Valentines day gift (Pin - up girl shoot ; ) ) and he's admitted he hasn't got me anything for Christmas.
HA!
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Here's a SFFC - I need to get this out.
Stores here almost never open on Sundays. Imagine my surprise to open the newspaper and see that one of the area department stores will be open today for Christmas shopping. "Great!" I think "We've even got a 10 euro discount for there, what a perfect day to go!"
I tell DH we ought to go today since it's the one day of the week when I truly have nothing to do and it'd be a great way to get out of the house. "No. That's anti-socialist. We've fought long and hard for the right to have Sundays off and I refuse to go shopping. I'll take you but I refuse to enter." Realizing how much of a PITA he'd be if I made him take me, I've decided to leave this for another day.
Frickin' eh, dude, it's not like you're going to do the Christmas shopping anyhow. I work all week and you were too hungover yesterday from a work party to take me.
Gosh, I need my driver's license pronto.